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

“…This simple and somewhat comprehensive book addresses both fundamental issues of public choice, such as constitutional economics, and the practical topics of public choice, such as privatization. The main conclusion of the book is that in democratic-based political mechanisms, not only does the government (without arranging institutional setting) fail to solve the market problems, but also these failures are more severe than the market failures. …”
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The quintuple helix innovation model: a pathway to sustainable development in marginalized rural communities by Auradian Marta, Rury Febrina, Wan Asrida, Raja Muhammad Amin, Zulfa Harirah. MS

“…The results of this study are based on the quintuple helix model which shows the cooperation of 5 (five) important actors, namely the state (government), private sector, academics, media, and the community as well as support from the natural environment in the village. …”
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“…Wordwall is quite easy”: Students’ perceptions of using online platforms as English learning media by Putri Kurniawan Aprilia, Dwi Fita Heriyawati, M. Galuh Elga Romadhon, Zalsa Febrina Syabilla

“…Data were collected from five private junior high school students in Malang. Data from a semi-structured interview were acquired, and a descriptive-analytic technique was used to analyze the data. …”
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Social Dialogue in Public Sector Reflection about Hungarian and Slovenian approach by Zvone Vodovnik, Aniko Noemi Turi

“…For time being the EU documents regulate some elements of social dialogue in private sector however, the social dialogue in public sector is still outside of the EU regulation. …”
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Annex G of the 2001 Agreement on Succession Issues: Self-executing or Not? by Vesna Crnić-Grotić, Sandra Fabijanić Gagro, Petra Perišić

“…Specifically, Annex G of the Agreement regulated the issue of the protection of private property and acquired rights of citizens and legal persons of ex-Yugoslavia, requiring their protection by the successor States. …”
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Features of economic sectors development in mountain territories of the Republic of Dagestan by A. M. Esetova, I. K. Kerimov

“…Special attention has been paid to the factors affecting economic development of the region such as lack or high degree of wear and tear of infrastructure, insufficiency of both public and private investment, as well as lack of personnel. …”
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Spectral Expansion Method for Cloud Reliability Analysis by K. Kotteswari, A. Bharathi

“…Cloud computing is a computing hypothesis, where a huge group of systems is linked together in private, public, or hybrid network, to offer dynamically amendable infrastructure for data storage, file storage, and application. …”
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Time and The Diary in Captivity, a Case Study: The Diary of Fela Szeps (1942-1944) by Batsheva Ben-Amos

“…When the diarist is free from imminent danger, and has reasonable flexibility in managing a daily routine, clock-and-calendar time helps in organizing the individual’s chosen social roles and responsibilities as well as their private interests, all of which are the building blocks of personal identity. …”
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From Theory to Practice: Viewpoint on Economic Indicators for Trust in Digital Health by Felix Gille, Laura Maaß, Benjamin Ho, Divya Srivastava

“…The common aim of these guidelines aimed at private sector actors and government policy makers is to build trustworthy DHI. …”
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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

“…The setting was Diponegoro the private junior high schools in Sleman Regency. The subjects consisted of case of school established through purposive sampling techniques. …”
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‘Traditional Authorities’ and Community Rights in Contemporary Mozambique: between Activism and Incorporation by Giovanni Battista Martino

“…By analysing ‘traditional authorities’’ specifically elaborated discourse and highlighting their agency within the dynamics emerging from state institutions’ attempts at ‘incorporating’ them in the sense indicated by Zenker and Hoehne, that is, to deny them all political auton-omy, this article aims to clarify ‘traditional’ leaders’ role in defending their own com-munities’ interests and rights vis-à-vis the state, private enterprises, and development actors/donors. …”
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Earnings Management in the hospitality industry: A systematic literature review by Beatriz Gonçalves, Luís Serra Coelho, Patrícia Pinto

“…For instance, little is known about the EM behaviour of multinational hotel chains or private Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs), and we still do not know how such opportunistic behaviour is impacted by different variables. …”
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Arbitration in Administrative Affairs: The Enlargement Scope of Ratione Materiae in Portugal by Marta Portocarrero

“…Although the use of arbitration in conflicts where public entities intervene in private relationships is usually allowed, European legislatures commonly consider administrative disputes as a type of controversy excluded from arbitration. …”
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…e fon sazos/Que per un gan/Er’hom bautz e ioios ! by Isabel de Riquer

“…The Lady delivers the troubadour some of her private belongings: a ring, a brooch, a glove or a cordo, as areward for his faithful service and the adulations expressed in his songs. …”
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Integrated solid waste management in megacities by M.A. Abdoli, M. Rezaee, H. Hasanian

“…Based on the results obtained in this analysis, the main suggestions for future integrated solid waste management of Isfahan are as i) promoting financial sustainability by taking the solid waste fee and reducing the expenses through the promoting source collection of recyclable materials, ii) improving compost quality and also marketing the compost products simultaneously, iii) promoting the private sector involvements throughout the municipal solid waste management system.…”
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The petitions for the recusal of chair Lina Khan: a matter of due process or delaying the process? by Nathalie Nielson

“…The tech giant pressed the authority, in a letter, to recuse the new Assistant Attorney General, Jonathan Kanter, for his past work in private practice representing competitors such as Microsoft or Yelp. …”
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Preserving data privacy in social recommendation by Shu-shu LIU, An LIU, Lei ZHAO, Guan-feng LIU, Zhi-xu LI, Kai ZHENG, Xiao-fang ZHOU

“…Social recommendation is a method which requires the participants of both user’s historical behavior data and social network,which generally belong to different parties,such as recommendation system service provider and social network service provider.Considering the fact that in order to maintain the value of their own data interests and user’s privacy,none of them will provide data information to the other,two privacy preserving protocols are proposed for efficient computation of social recommendation which needs the cooperation of two parties (recommendation system service provider and social network service provider).Both protocols enable two parties to compute the social recommendation without revealing their private data to each other.The protocol based on the well-known oblivious transfer multiplication has a low cost,and is suitable for the application of high efficiency requirements.And the one based on homomorphic cryptosystem has a better privacy preserving,and is more suitable for the application of higher data privacy requirements.Experimental results on the four real datasets show those two protocols are efficient and practical.Users are suggested to choose the appropriate protocol according to their own need.…”
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Occupational health professionals’ and HR specialists’ perceptions of telemental health services in occupational health care settings: A qualitative study by Elina Kervinen, Lauri Vähätalo, Anna Siukola, Tiia Reho, Klas Winell, Riitta Sauni

“…Methods The research, employing a descriptive qualitative approach through interviews ( n  = 42), focused on experiences of professionals from a private OHC service provider in Finland and human resource representatives (HRRs) of OHC client companies. …”
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Prevalence of Lymphatic Filariasis based on Morbidity and Healthcare-seeking Practices of Patients in a Gram Panchayat of Paschim Burdwan District, West Bengal by Indranil Saha, Russoti Das, Ajay K. Mandal, Pinki Darlami, Subhajit Datta, Gautam Ghose, Sanjit Dey

“…Overall, 90.8% consulted from the private healthcare sector and the majority relied on traditional healers. …”
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Cooking with confidence for autistic youth: outcomes from a pilot program evaluation model by Mi-Yeet Wong, Conner Carlton, Shelby Paul, Jonathan Deutsch, Rachel Sherman, Brandy-Joe Milliron, Nicole Farmer, Rachel Hingst, Claire Richardson, Lindsay Shea

“…Recognizing the need for more opportunities for autistic individuals to practice these skills, the program was created through public and private partnerships. A pre-post study design was employed, with participants completing surveys before and after their involvement in the program. …”
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