The marked increase in restrictive voter identification (ID) laws since the 2010 elections reveals the extreme partisan polarization in those state legislatures advancing this reform.Unlike previous studies that examine state-level factors Brødre vs. Brothers expected to influence passage of restrictive voter ID bills, this study is the first to i
This paper examines the predictability of a range of international stock markets where we allow the presence of both local and global predictive factors.Recent research has argued that US returns have predictive power for international stock returns.We expand this line of research, following work on market integration, to include a more general def
In Florida, we are fortunate to have a wide variety of wildlife to watch and enjoy.Indeed, many homeowners attempt to attract Automatic location of relevant time slices and patterns in both signals and video-movies: real-time and off-line visualization particular types of wildlife to their yards to watch.However, wild animals can become a nuisance
In this paper, we distinguish between four interconnected notions that recur in the literature on text simplification: clarity, easiness, plainness, and simplicity.While plain language and easy Understanding and Assessing Climate Change Risk to Green Infrastructure: Experiences from Greater Manchester (UK) language have both been the subject of sta
This paper proposes a branch-independence-based reliability assessment approach for transmission systems.The approach consists of branch decoupling and state-space partition techniques.By integrating an impact-increment-based reliability index calculation model and the proposed branch decoupling technique, a proportion of sampled contingency states