Legislative Effectiveness: The legislative performance of house representatives of the 16th Philippine Congress by Joanna Marie Baroman

“…The study concluded that the 16th Congress House of Representatives comprises policymakers who are averagely effective in pushing for policy preferences into the legislative process and to laws. …”
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Théorie de la régulation : la perspective oubliée du développement by Noureddine El Aoufi

“…The examination of the research program over thirty years stresses the idea of a western-centered orientation of the recent works and a progressive tendency to a restriction of the field of analysis to the variety of canonic fordism, especially that of Western countries.This self-reference system is more than territorial insofar as it deals with an approach that gives substance to capitalism by looking inside its system for the fundamental laws, whereas peripheries are only ad hoc and over-determined configurations.Second, the development perspective is brought out as a constituent generality of capitalism that declines in specific trajectories of the sub-fordism variety. …”
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Alban Pellegris, Le découplage entre la consommation d’énergie et le PIB. Questionnements théoriques et évaluations empiriques du rôle de l’énergie dans le processus de croissance... by Alban Pellegris

“…It examines the proposal of a part of ecological economics to integrate the laws of thermodynamics into aggregate production functions. …”
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Pre-Evaluation of Industrialization Project of Local Science and Technology Achievements Based on FAHP by Yongzhi Chang, Yu Hang, Tong Liang

“…The research took the smart manufacturing project in Xiqing District of Tianjin as the object of empirical analysis and applied the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) to comprehensively evaluate the project. …”
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Research on the Estimation Model of Electrical Parameters of Silver-Based Contacts Based on Surface Morphology by Chao Wang, Xiancheng Wang, Chengjun Guo

“…After the morphological parameters affecting electrical performance are quantified, the variation laws of single and composite morphological parameters on electrical performance are clarified. …”
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The ethics of DeCSS posting: towards assessing the morality of the Internet posting of DVD copyright circumvention software by K.R. Eschenfelder, R.G. Howard, A.C. Desai

“…</b> The paper draws on empirical findings of actual DeCSS posting to consider the limitations of current frameworks. …”
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Healthcare practitioners as accomplices: a qualitative study of gender affirmation in a context of ambiguous regulation in Indonesia by Benjamin Hegarty, Alegra Wolter, Amalia Puri Handayani, Kevin Marian, Jamee Newland, Dede Oetomo, Ignatius Praptoraharjo, Angela Kelly-Hanku

“…Given that all participants expressed a desire for gender affirmation, but such services were widely unavailable, accomplices played a crucial role in supporting trans people to access healthcare. Conclusions An empirical study based on an “ethics from below” helps to show that arguments grounded in autonomy, or based on biomedical evidence, are unlikely to alter unjust laws or facilitate a change to pathologizing guidelines governing understanding of trans people’s healthcare and legal needs in Indonesia. …”
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A Hybrid Prognostic Approach for Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries by Wen-An Yang, Maohua Xiao, Wei Zhou, Yu Guo, Wenhe Liao

“…This study proposes a hybrid prognostic approach that can predict the RUL of degraded lithium-ion batteries using physical laws and data-driven modeling simultaneously. In this hybrid prognostic approach, the relevant vectors obtained with the selective kernel ensemble-based relevance vector machine (RVM) learning algorithm are fitted to the physical degradation model, which is then extrapolated to failure threshold for estimating the RUL of the lithium-ion battery of interest. …”
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Refugee securitization and the challenges of formal integration: case of Somali refugees in Kenya and Ethiopia by Fred N. Ikanda, Abdirahman A. Muhumad, Jana Kuhnt

“…The article adds a normative empirical dimension to securitization theory by providing a nuanced understanding of the concept as it applies to different refugee groups in similar contexts. …”
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Ethnonational discourse of migrants in social networks on the example of Tajik and Kyrgyz virtual communities on VK by T. N. Yudina, D. A. Besfamilnyi

“…It has become a social space of ethno-national discourse with its own laws and rules of social interaction, including conflictogenic one. …”
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BEING AS A SYMBOLIC REALITY: A SOCIOCULTURAL CROSS-SECTION OF THE ANALYSIS by Юлія БРОДЕЦЬКА

“…It is noted that the world cannot be understood exclusively empirically. It is symbols that can explain everything that cannot be explained by the laws of nature. …”
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Against Futility Judgments for Patients with Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness by William Choi

“…In contrast, futility judgments are made in empirically tenuous confidence in the patient’s inability to survive or recover meaningfully. …”
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