Carbon emissions reduction in shipping based on four-party evolutionary game by Suyong Zhang, Xiyan Song

“…In order to realize a win-win situation between economic development and environmental benefits, this paper constructs a four-party evolutionary game model including the government, two homogeneous ports and shipping companies based on evolutionary game theory. …”
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The Last Word Political posters: communicators or decorations? by Lynette Fourie

“…They estimate the cost of a poster at about R10,00 per poster, excluding the logistical costs of putting posters up and taking them down. It is against this background that I will comment on the poster campaigns of the major political parties. …”
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How to Alleviate Rent-Seeking Behaviour in Performance Appraisal of Government-Paid PPP Projects? Tripartite Evolutionary Game Approach by Junna Lv, Tong An, Xi-ya Tan, Qing Zou

“…The findings reveal that the public sector can slow down the rent-seeking behaviour of the private sector by setting up a reasonable reward and punishment mechanism. …”
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La gauche marocaine, défenseure du trône. Sur les métamorphoses d’une opposition institutionnelle by Abderrahim El Maslouhi

“…The gains produced as a result of such “rational choices” have produced unexpected results inversely proportional in terms of the “collective opposition capital” as well as the party’s ability to mobilize the left.…”
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Competing Partisan Regimes and the Transformation of the Voting Rights Act, 1965-2015 by Jesse H. Rhodes

“…On June 26, 2013, the Supreme Court struck down the coverage formula enabling federal preclearance of proposed voting changes in jurisdictions with documented histories of racial discrimination. …”
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A MULTICRITERIA DESCRIPTION OF RULES FOR PUBLIC PROCUREMENT by MALIŠA ŽIŽOVIĆ, MILUTIN ŽIVKOVIĆ

“…Methods of decision-making come down to selecting the best bids, because mistakes in the selection should be excluded. …”
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A listening advantage for native speech is reflected by attention-related activity in auditory cortex by Meng Liang, Johannes Gerwien, Alexander Gutschalk

“…We interpret the findings to show that the stronger activity for native speech could be related to better top-down prediction of the native speech streams.…”
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Regulation of the Employment Status of Seafarers by Boris Jerman

“…Regardless of the above, the position of seafarers is still far from desirable as shipowners are trying to reduce their operating costs by cutting down on the number of crew members and their benefits. …”
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FEATURES OF DECENTRALIZATION IN THE UK: EXPERIENCE OF INTERACTION BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND CIVIL SOCIETY FOR UKRAINE by Olha Andrieieva, Nataliia Larina, Yurii Ruban

“…Thus, the vertical scaling up to the EU and down to the subnational level largely coincided. …”
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Explore the Conflict and Resolution of Pollution NIMBY Facility Construction in the Context of New Media: An Evolutionary Game Theoretical Approach by Jie Yu, Changzheng Zhang, Dechun Huang, Yujia Shao, Hong Ren

“…Based on the stakeholder theory, this paper constructs a three-party evolutionary game model of the local government, the new media, and the local people and carries out numerical simulation on the evolutionary model using MATLAB. …”
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THE TRANSFORMATION PERIODS IN THE RUSSIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS (1991-2016) by D. G. Bdoyan

“…Even so, the economic relations and cooperation in the energy and trade spheres continued to develop, up to the tragic events related to the shoot-down of the Russian bomber aircraft SU-24 in November 2015. …”
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Is it Time to Recognize Political Anxiety as a Social Determinant of Health? by Brandon Ambrosino

“…So, even though you might be sitting down with your family to watch an anodyne program like Jeopardy, you’ll likely see some sort of “attack ad” — the very name of which tells you that it’s been created to foster hostility.  …”
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POLITIK ISLAM MAHATHIR MOHAMMAD DI MALAYSIA DAN SOEHARTO DI INDONESIA by M. Zaki Mubarak, Mohamad Zaini Abu Baka

“…Due to the monetary crisis and democratic reforms in 1998 affected the Soeharto regime to step down and make an end to all of the political projects he has designed. …”
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War crimes and spirituality: to prosecute or to forgive and reconcile by Goran Šimić

“…Can and should the victims forgive their torturers, the ones who burned down their homes, killed their beloved ones, destroyed their lives and burdened them with memories that do not fade away? …”
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Atatürk Dönemi Dış Politikasında Barış İlkesinin Uygulanmasına Bir Örnek: İspanya İç Savaşı by Gültekin K. BİRLİK

“…In this context, Turkey forbid selling weapons to the parties in the Civil War and the Turkish civilains to join the war. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…In other words, while she underlines the top-down nature of policies and transformation of German nation, she also gives hints about how inevitable this change was by focusing on the industrial and economic dynamics of the time. …”
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Security and religion in democratizing Tunisia: re-enacting surveillance through religious narratives and gendered dynamics by Fabrizio Leonardo Cuccu, Alessandra Bonci

“…While security policies and practices are often understood as a top-down and strongly hierarchical process, analyzing security practices at the micro level entails an understanding of the social construction of security as a horizontal process. …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…An offer of research enrollment extended to this population has not been manipulated to favor one party over the other, but rather appropriately considers the interests of both parties.…”
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Strategi Komunikasi Hadapi Penolakan Pemanfaatan Energi Nuklir sebagai Pembangkit Listrik di Indonesia by Syahdino Pratama, Satriani Aga Pasma, Mokhamad Hendayun, Isroil Samihardjo

“…The results showed that public acceptance of the nuclear power plant development plan experienced ups and downs depending on the time and events behind it. …”
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