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Public expenditure on education has often been perceived as objective and egalitarian, but in reality it is not. Political pressure often results in incidence bias in favor of the rich. This paper argues that the bias in political influence resulting from extreme income inequalities is particularly likely to generate an incidence bias, which we call social exclusion. In this paper it has been argued...
Our model is a dynamic network model to the political districting problem. Firstly, we map counties in the state to points in the county-based network. Using depth first search (DFS) algorithm and breadth-first search (BFS) algorithm, we guarantee the continuity and compactness of each district. Also we introduce and use grid-based method to divide counties. Finally, we illustrate this model by districting...
The crisis response community recognizes the need for a Modeling and Simulation (M&S) approach that is based on a holistic understanding of the complex forces in society that comprise the political, economic, and socio/cultural environment. Comprehension resulting from accurate modeling of this domain could result in improved decision-making and command and control during crisis planning and assessment...
China petroleum corporations have achieved great success in cross-M&A activities, including scale, power and pace, such as the acquisition of PetroKazakhstan by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) in 2005. However, they have also suffered setbacks and difficulties, and failed in the end, especially China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) had to retreat from bidding for Unocal (the...
It has great significance to explore the ideological and political education of the colleges from the Inter-subjectivity theory, it can help us correctly understand the main ideological and political education, the relationship between educator and those received education so as to offer new method and point of view for innovating the methods and models of ideological and political education. The...
Existing current models, means, methods and technologies of psychological impact on conflict situations have rather clearly defined cultural-civilization and nation-state features. Overall, all of their diversity can be combined within the framework of four cultural-civilization models (or orientations): Anglo-Saxon (represented by the USA, Great Britain, and the British Commonwealth), Eastern Asiatic...
The transition to post-industryism has generated a range of new tensions between welfare arrangements and labor market performance, which confront today's welfare states with new challenges for employment-friendly recalibration, such as activation and work-care conciliation. Hence, the question of whether, how and to what extent current welfare states are able to adapt to the conditions and needs...
Despite the fact that the epoch of global confrontation has come to an end, the total number of political conflicts in the world is not only on the decline, but rather continues to be on the rise, and are manifested in new forms, with a low likelihood of responding to stabilizing impacts of traditional instruments of political management. Modern day conflicts have become one of the leading factors...
The paper pleads for a new approach in studying nation-states. Having defined the composite and complex notion of `nation-state', the author groups the main nation-state theories into two categories, and claims that systems science goes far beyond the current attempts to bridge the gap between agency theorists and structuralists.
In this paper, Delphi Method which takes advantage of experts' wisdom and experience is introduced to standardize and quantify The Party member's criterion in the Constitution of the Communist Party of China. With the real situation in colleges, a new framework about evaluation new students who want to take part in the Party is proposed. Then the information management system for the evaluation is...
In the 21 century, the term e-healthcare has become the common buzzword in the world. Its popularity is directly related to the rate of its adoption and benefits that it offers to individuals and governments. Among the common benefits include reduction in medical errors, improvements on physician efficiency, improvement in physician-patient relationship and an increase in the quality of care delivered...
Bulletin board system (BBS) is very popular and provide an asynchronous, text-based environment for users to exchange information and idea. A BBS consists of a number of discussion boards, each of which focuses on a particular subject. A discussion on a topic consists of a seed articles followed by some articles responsive to the seed article or other responsive articles. This paper investigates the...
The urban square form is discussed in this paper. The time from 1949 to 2008 is an important stage for the development of urban square form in China. The study results show that the design of the square form ranges from the simple geometric configuration to the natural configuration based on the geometric form, which is caused by the development of the politics economy as well as the change of the...
Recently, the use of formal methods to specify and verify properties of electronic voting (e-voting) systems, with particular interest in security, verifiability, and anonymity, is getting much attention. Formal specification and verification of such systems can greatly help to better understand the system requirements by thoroughly specifying and analyzing the underlying assumptions and security...
Experimental data sets related to e-voting systems are very demanding in order to improve currently deployed e-voting machines. Unfortunately, the studies of such data about the machines' security, performance and their evolution with respect to the social and technical aspects are still unsatisfactory. During the last four years we have been involved in the development, experimentation, and evaluation...
The following topics were discussed: data security, cryptography, electronic voting system, business management, distributed systems, risk management, software engineering, etc.
This paper examines the hypothesis that the national funding of science is a product of the process of governance. In support of this idea comparative theories of national governance are mustered. A mixed regression model is developed which examines the explanatory power of economic and political variables in determining science funding in an extended sample of OECD nations.
In late-modern societies, knowledge constitutes a major component of any human activity. Knowledge politics-a field of political activities concerned with the production, application, monitoring and control of new knowledge and knowledge-based technoscientific innovations-has gained importance over the last 30 years. A central term in recent knowledge politics is ??interdisciplinarity??. The vagueness...
The necessity of taking into account high-level information has recently been reported by the information fusion community. We previously presented an approach for high-level symbolic fusion that relies on the use of the conceptual graphs model. Domain knowledge is a major point of the fusion process. The use of conceptual graphs for knowledge representation eases the process of expressing domain...
China carried two important fiscal decentralization reforms in 1985 and 1994 respectively. The first one is contract fiscal system and the second one is tax-sharing system. Local government undertakes the responsibility of public goods provision for local areas when they get the financial autonomy after the fiscal decentralization. The criterion of the political evaluation mechanism is economic growth...
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