Book Review [Understanding] Democracy: An Introduction to Public Choice by Hadi Amiri, Vaheed Moghadam

“…Although not well known in English, this book has an acceptable status among the few Persian books in the field of public choice, which might be the reason beyond the two different translations of the book. …”
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Badania nad liczebnością wyspowej populacji nornicy rudej (Clethrionomys glareolus, Schreber 1780) i ich znaczenie dla teorii by Gabriela Bujalska

“…The number of sexually mature females, that is those able to reproduce, has been relatively stable and independent of the population size or of the immature female numbers (Fig. 4). The reason is the territoriality of mature females: the female territory (part of the female home range) cannot be visited by other mature females. …”
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Evolution of dispersal and the ideal free distribution by Robert Stephen Cantrell, Chris Cosner, Yuan Lou

“…A general question in the study of the evolution of dispersalis what kind of dispersal strategies can conveycompetitive advantages and thus will evolve.We consider a two species competition modelin which the species are assumed to have the same population dynamics but different dispersal strategies.Both species disperse by random diffusion and advection along certaingradients, with the same random dispersal rates but different advectioncoefficients.We found a conditional dispersal strategy which results in the ideal free distribution of species,and show that it is a localevolutionarily stable strategy.We further show that this strategyis also a global convergent stable strategyunder suitable assumptions, and our resultsillustrate how the evolution of conditional dispersal can lead to an ideal free distribution.The underlying biological reason is thatthe species with this particular dispersal strategy can perfectly match the environmentalresource, which leads to its fitness being equilibrated across the habitats.…”
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Vertical Line Extension Decisions in a Competitive Market with Consumers’ Need for Product Uniqueness by Jie Wang, Qin Su, Canyou Wang

“…One important reason for offering customized products is to satisfy consumers’ need for product uniqueness. …”
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An Analytic-Critical Reading of the Book of the Nature of Islamic Art (A Collection of Essays and Lectures) by Ali asghar kalantar, Sadeq Rashidi

“…The importance and critical importance of a critical look at Islamic art textbooks for a more detailed analysis as well as explaining the mechanisms and characteristics of the various approaches to Islamic art discourse analysis seem significant. For this reason, it is necessary to demonstrate the importance of the book in question by revealing its analytical functions aimed at guiding audiences and students concerned with Islamic art studies.…”
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Boredom and Addiction: An exploratory view at university students' digital game playing processes in leisure time by Nazlı Deniz Öz, Abdil Arı

“…The rapidly developing technology has brought with it many innovations such as computers and the internet, which have become an inseparable part of our lives. For this reason, technology, which has been developing rapidly in recent years, has brought many innovations such as computers and the internet, which have become an inseparable part of our lives. …”
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EFFECT OF PROJECTILE NOSE SHAPE ON BALLISTIC RESISTANCE OF THIN POLYCARBONATE PLATE (MT) by HU Jing, ZHANG HanZhe, TIAN Rui, WEI Gang, HU Jian Qiang, DAI FuHong

“…It is found that the energy consumption by crack propagation of PC thin plate is less, and the main reason for the great difference of ballistic performance is the difficulty in producing initial damage of PC plate for different projectiles.…”
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Dynamics of deforestation in the northwest of the Chaco between 1995 and 2018 by Fernando Bonfanti, Matías Sánchez

“…The actual concern is that the state of deforestation in the Chaco province is influenced by the deficiencies and irregularities in the implementation of the Law of minimum budgets of territorial planning of native forests (ley 26331). For this reason, this work could be a valuable contribution for those organisms that are dedicated to the management of our forests and contribute to stop the advance of deforestation, leaving aside the economic interests and admitting the serious consequences that this entails in environmental material.…”
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Study on Courage Perceptions of Athletes Participating in Eastern Anatolia Turkish Senior boxing Championship Natıonal Team Selections by Serkan Zengin

“…As a result of normality tests, it was determined that the data were not distributed normally. Because of this reason, while non-parametric Kruskal Wallis H test was used in the study, Mann Whitney U test was used to compare sub-dimension scores of scale according to mother's educational status. …”
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Dynamic additional loads influencing the fatigue life of gears in an electric vehicle transmission by G. Belingardi, V. Cuffaro, F. Curà

“…The speed of the electric motors is much higher than the combustion engine ones, bringing transmission gears to be subjected to high dynamic loads. For this reason the dynamic effects on fatigue life of these components have be taken into account in a more careful way respect to what is done with the usual gears. …”
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Dynamic Fracture Toughness and Dynamic Tensile Strength of the Rock from Different Depths of Beijing Datai Well by Ke Man, Xiaoli Liu

“…From the rock failure mechanisms, it is pointed out that the essential reason of the rock failure is the microcrack unstable propagation. …”
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Dynamical Analysis of an SE2IR Information Propagation Model in Social Networks by Qian Zhang, Xianyong Li, Yajun Du, Jian Zhu

“…Due to the inequality of users’ (nodes’) status and the influence of external forces in the progress of the information propagation in a social network, the infected nodes hold different levels of propagation capacity. For this reason, the infected nodes are classified into two categories: the high influential infected nodes and the ordinary influential infected nodes which separately account for 20% and 80% by Pareto’s principle. …”
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Autoimmune Diseases and Their Manifestations on Oral Cavity: Diagnosis and Clinical Management by Matteo Saccucci, Gabriele Di Carlo, Maurizio Bossù, Francesca Giovarruscio, Alessandro Salucci, Antonella Polimeni

“…Oral signs are frequently the first manifestation of autoimmune diseases. For this reason, dentists play an important role in the detection of emerging autoimmune pathologies. …”
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Improving Data Privacy in the Internet of Things by Using Artificial Immune System, in Regard with the Internet Limitations by Marzieh Faridi Masouleh, Ali Harounabadi, Asal Sayyad

“…These networks contain important data which is transmitted among the nodes. For this reason, it is very important to pay attention to the concern of data privacy in the Internet of Things. …”
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Cyst Nematode (Heterodera glycines) Problems in Soybean (Glycine max L.) Crops and Its Management by Gebissa Yigezu Wendimu

“…Economically, the damage it caused was highly important because it had a wide host range and lacked adequate management methods. Hence, the reason behind the writing of this chapter is to explore the different published scientific papers related to soybean cyst nematode’s economic importance, distribution, symptoms, biology, life cycle, interaction with other pathogens, different management approaches, and its prospects. …”
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Lobbying of Qatar's Interests in the United States and the Qatar Diplomatic Crisis by D. B. Grafov

“…The White House prefers the “divide and rule” strategy. 2) There is little chance of successful lobbying in the US for any state that cooperates with Iran. 3) The balance-of-power approach in analysing of the development of Qatari-Saudi crisis shows that attempt of the both parties to “buck-pass” by one superpower is uneffisient. The reason is that both Qatar and Saudi coalition act like US's clients. …”
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Saintly animals. A semiotic perspective on changing models of sanctity and personhood by Jenny Ponzo

“…This third case is particularly interesting, because animals are not limited to ancillary roles in relation to a human protagonist, but become themselves the protagonists and embody exemplary models, proposed to the imitation of human beings in reason of their moral superiority. These narratives are representative of the fact that in our age the thresholds of the concept of sanctity are shifting under various and relevant aspects. …”
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Algorithm PSO for maximum coverage of users using drones to find optimal points for deployment by Fariborz Rasouli

“…It is obvious that ground base stations do not have the ability to cover users everywhere and all the time. For this reason, using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, we try to introduce drones as ABS to find the maximum coverage of users in the shortest possible time. …”
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VITALISASI SEKOLAH BERBASIS MODAL SOSIAL (Studi Kasus Penguatan Sekolah melalui Integrasi Modal Sosial dalam Kepemimpinan Sekolah di SMP Diponegoro Depok Sleman) by Suwadi Suwadi, Suwadi Suwadi

“…(c) The integration of social capital in school leadership could be seen from the school integrity in the academic development, human resources, funding system and the local contents. (d) The reason of utilizing the social capital was based on such values as silaturahim and syafaat in school leadership. …”
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Situation of Sectors Financed by Participation Banks: 2015-2019 Period Analysis by Alp Aytaç, Ümit Gücenme Gençoğlu, Süleyman Hakkı Ayhan

“…State-funded participation banks such as Vakıf and Ziraat established in 2015 is the reason why authors examined the 2015-2019 period. …”
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