Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…Taking recourse to the conceptions of political order put forward by Weber, Fukuyama and North, Wallis and Weingast, I explain how regular patterns of social exchange and interaction - involving public and private, and state and non-state actors - that span an assumed divide between the realms of legality (“legitimate upper world”) and criminality (“illegitimate underworld”) influence the character, shape and evolution of political order. …”
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Mathematical Modeling of the Propagation of Democratic Support of Extreme Ideologies in Spain: Causes, Effects, and Recommendations for Its Stop by E. De la Poza, L. Jódar, A. Pricop

“…By considering the dynamic subpopulations transits built throughout data obtained from public and private prestigious institutions and sociopolitical analysis, a system of difference equations models the electoral population behavior in Spain allowing us to compute the expected electoral support in the time horizon of January 2016. …”
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Parenting Styles and the Development of Socio-Emotional Regulation Skills in Preschool Children by Rahmatallahi Taiye Ojibara

“…Two hundred (200) Preschool respondents were randomly selected from ten (10) pre-primary schools; five (5) public and five (5) private schools. Parenting Styles Questionnaire (PSQ) and a self-Constructed Rating Scale for preschool Children's Socio-Emotional Rating Scale (PCSRS) were used to elicit information about the preschool parents' parenting styles and the rate scale for evaluation about their Socio-Emotional Skills displayed in the classroom. …”
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Pouvoir et opposition en Algérie : vers une transition prolongée ? by Louisa Dris-Aït Hamadouche, Yahia H. Zoubir

“…The opening initiated by the authorities between 1989 and 1991 resulted in the emergence of a pluralistic and dynamic opposition, able to express itself through sixty “political associations” and dozens of private and public newspapers. In practice, often intense and conflicting political debates were conveyed through demonstrations and rallies, thus providing an assessment of public opinion. …”
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Blockchain-Based Anonymous Reputation System for Performance Appraisal by Hye Jin Lee, Duc Anh Luong, Jong Hwan Park, Hyoseung Kim

“…Although blockchain-based anonymous reputation systems have been discussed, permissioned blockchains are susceptible to Sybil attack vulnerabilities, while permissionless private blockchains do not provide full anonymity. …”
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Efficient Privacy-Preserving Protocol for k-NN Search over Encrypted Data in Location-Based Service by Huijuan Lian, Weidong Qiu, Di Yan, Zheng Huang, Jie Guo

“…In this paper, we propose an efficient private circular query protocol (EPCQP) with high accuracy rate and low computation and communication cost. …”
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Integrating Logistics and Information Systems in Urban Waste Management: The Road to a Sustainable Smart City by Koman Gabriel, Krúpová Silvia

“…This article also highlights the need for coordinated cooperation between the public and private sectors, as well as the importance of a legislative framework that promotes technological innovation and environmental sustainability. …”
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Human rights to Internet access and its safe use by V. V. Popov, P. I. Moskalenko, S. V. Cherkasova

“…The methodological and theoretical basis of the research are private and general scientific approaches to the study of this topic. …”
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Du sol foncier au sol vivant by Atelier Georges, Thibault Barbier, Mathieu Delorme, Charles Rives

“…This article is based on our practice of urban planning and landscape projects with public and private sector clients. We start by proposing a new representation of the soil as a tool in landscape architecture: the "land" becomes "living soil". …”
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FEATURE EXTRACTION AND ESTABLISHMENT BASED ON PUMPING UNIT WORKING CONDITIONS AND GLOBAL FAULT IDENTIFICATION by REN Taizhu, FAN Jun, JIANG Xiaxin

“…The characteristic indexes of different fault conditions were evaluated, and the private rule database of each working condition was obtained. …”
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Issue ownership in the online campaign for Dutch general elections by Joren Vrancken, Tom Dobber, Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius

“…Our findings show that issue owners are not the biggest advertisers on their issues and reveal that private gifts enable some political campaigns to claim ownership of many issues.…”
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Innovative Technologies for Improved Water Productivity and Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Resilience: A Review by E. Oiganji, H. Igbadun, P. S. Amaza, R. Z. Lenka

“…The study concludes by emphasizing the need for increased investment in water-saving technologies, capacity building, public-private partnerships, and policy reforms to advance water security and climate resilience. …”
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THE PREVALENCE OF ORTHOREXIA IN TOURISM EDUCATION ASSOCIATE DEGREE STUDENTS by Nevin Şanlıer, Ümit Sormaz

“…The research population consists of tourism students in associate degree programs (from junior colleges) at various public and private universities and the sample group consists of 581 volunteers. …”
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Theoretical and Legal Approaches on Determining the Content of the Notion of “Health Tourism” by A. O. Podzirov

“…The author has developed propositions to improve the regulatory acts regulating the circulation of medical tourist services (health and medical) in Ukraine, namely: the Tax Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine “On Public and Private Partnership”, the Law of Ukraine “On Licensing of Economic Activities”. …”
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Contradictions Around the Stoic Sage. Chapter Twenty of Plutarch’s On Stoic Self-Contradictions by Anna Aklan

“…Plutarch exposes the contradictions which center mainly around the mutually exclusive precepts of the private versus public life of the sage and secondly, around his money-earning occupations that both entail further contradictory corollaries. …”
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Prevalence of Oral Lesions Biopsies Among Different Laboratories by Layla Muhamad

“…Method: The data were collected from the private laboratories in Erbil city during a period from January 2018 to January 2023. …”
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Investment neutrality in resource rent taxation – revealed preferences of Norwegian oil & gas companies by Julide Ceren Ahi, Atle Blomgren, Atle Guttormsen, Bård Misund, Ragnar Tveterås

“…Ideally, to ascertain the degree of investment distortion, one would need to conduct an empirical analysis of the private investment decision information of oil and gas companies that is not publicly available. …”
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The 'Rush Hour' of Life: Insecurities and Strains in Early Life Phases as a Challenge for a Life Course-Oriented, Sustainable Social Policy by Ute Klammer

“…If uncertain labour market attachment occurs in the stage of family planning, the resulting insecurity and uncertainty can lead to special challenges where professional and private demands have to be reconciled (the ‘rush hour’ of life). …”
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Value and risks of morphing technology into strategy and business model by A. L. Denisova, A. N. Lopatnikov

“…Digital technologies became the primary source of innovation in the private and public sectors. The Internet profoundly changed the way businesses are run catapulting “most digital” industries and companies to the top of the S&P500. …”
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Traceability of Blood Transfusions and Reporting of Adverse Reactions in Developing Countries: A Six-Year Postpilot Phase Experience in Burkina Faso by Salam Sawadogo, Koumpingnin Nebie, Tieba Millogo, Sonia Sontie, Ashmed Nana, Honorine Dahourou, Dieudonné Yentema Yonli, Jean-Baptiste Tapko, Jean-Claude Faber, Eléonore Kafando, Véronique Deneys

“…A cross-sectional study including all blood units ordered between 2010 and 2015 has been conducted in public and private health care facilities supplied with blood products by the transfusion center of Bobo-Dioulasso. …”
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