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View article: Technocracy
Technocracy Open
Technocracy refers to any political–social–economic system that is governed and managed using purportedly objective scientific and technical principles, and in which ultimate power and authority rests with technical and scientific experts.…
View article: How “Rational” Is Urban Public Corruption?
How “Rational” Is Urban Public Corruption? Open
This article reviews the literature on both (a) the general theory of public corruption and its evolution over time; and (b) the history of urban public corruption during the modern period into the present. In addition, this article conduc…
View article: How “Rational” Is Corruption in Urban Public Urban Government?
How “Rational” Is Corruption in Urban Public Urban Government? Open
Public corruption has long been a scourge for city governments. Current - and speculative - UN estimates of the costs of corruption of all forms amount to 5% of global GDP, a sizable number. In some places, and in some cities especially, t…
View article: Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy
Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy Open
A key question in the literature of technology in society is the degree to which technology is a product of society and vice versa. A related question is how the differing cross-causal lines between the two change both technological and so…
View article: Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy
Putting the Car Before the Horse: The Diffusion of the Automobile and the Rise of Technocratic Primacy Open
This paper reviews the social dimensions of the rolling out and utilization of the automobile in the United States over the past one hundred years, starting with the early days steeped largely (but not exclusively) in technological idealis…
View article: Efficient Learning With Sine-Activated Low-rank Matrices
Efficient Learning With Sine-Activated Low-rank Matrices Open
Low-rank decomposition has emerged as a vital tool for enhancing parameter efficiency in neural network architectures, gaining traction across diverse applications in machine learning. These techniques significantly lower the number of par…
View article: D'OH: Decoder-Only Random Hypernetworks for Implicit Neural Representations
D'OH: Decoder-Only Random Hypernetworks for Implicit Neural Representations Open
Deep implicit functions have been found to be an effective tool for efficiently encoding all manner of natural signals. Their attractiveness stems from their ability to compactly represent signals with little to no offline training data. I…
View article: Correlating Quantitative and Genomic SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Data with Clinical Metrics in Metropolitan Perth, Western Australia
Correlating Quantitative and Genomic SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Data with Clinical Metrics in Metropolitan Perth, Western Australia Open
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a key method for the continuous monitoring of COVID-19 prevalence including circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. WBE addresses the limitations of traditional clinical COVID-19 surveillance suc…
View article: Correlating Quantitative and Genomic SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Data with Clinical Metrics in Metropolitan Perth, Western Australia
Correlating Quantitative and Genomic SARS-CoV-2 Wastewater Data with Clinical Metrics in Metropolitan Perth, Western Australia Open
Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has emerged as a key method for continuous monitoring of COVID-19 prevalence including circulating SARS-CoV-2 lineages. WBE addresses limitations of traditional clinical COVID-19 surveillance such as cli…
View article: Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection
Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Feature Selection Open
We empirically show that process-based Parallelism speeds up the Genetic Algorithm (GA) for Feature Selection (FS) 2x to 25x, while additionally increasing the Machine Learning (ML) model performance on metrics such as F1-score, Accuracy, …
View article: Can Decentralization and Localism Increase the Effectiveness of Indonesia’s Forest Rehabilitation Effort? Special Case in Customary and Community-Owned Forest in Indonesia
Can Decentralization and Localism Increase the Effectiveness of Indonesia’s Forest Rehabilitation Effort? Special Case in Customary and Community-Owned Forest in Indonesia Open
Decentralization is often seen as an opportunity to bring a localism approach into practice.As Indonesia experiences rapid decentralization, there is hope that localism will help to improve forest management.However, the rapid process of t…
View article: Global Demographic Change
Global Demographic Change Open
For millennia, the general pattern of world population was one of high-mortality and high fertility, i.e. families with large numbers of offspring (on average) paired with high death rates across the population. This is a gross generalisat…
View article: Neoliberalism
Neoliberalism Open
The Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution gave rise to a new philosophy of Political EconomyPolitical Economy called Liberalism. LiberalismLiberalism in its original form reduced politics and economicsEconomics to a simple formula of …
View article: Technology, Innovation and Invention
Technology, Innovation and Invention Open
When people think of the Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution, the part that seems revolutionary is the technical change that accompanied it, especially in EnglandEngland. This chapter considers the role that technology played in ind…
View article: Many Possible Worlds
Many Possible Worlds Open
This book shows how the subsistence economy has transformed into a global complex delivering unprecedented levels of material production and consumption
View article: “2016”
“2016” Open
It is dangerous to put too much importance on the events of a single year. Many "historic" things have come and gone that in hindsight end up not being as significant as they appeared at the time; or they ended up being important in ways q…
View article: The Information Bottleneck Principle in Corporate Hierarchies
The Information Bottleneck Principle in Corporate Hierarchies Open
The hierarchical nature of corporate information processing is a topic of great interest in economic and management literature. Firms are characterised by a need to make complex decisions, often aggregating partial and uncertain informatio…
View article: On Quantizing Implicit Neural Representations
On Quantizing Implicit Neural Representations Open
The role of quantization within implicit/coordinate neural networks is still not fully understood. We note that using a canonical fixed quantization scheme during training produces poor performance at low-rates due to the network weight di…
View article: Whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 links wastewater RNA to individual cases in catchments.
Whole genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 links wastewater RNA to individual cases in catchments. Open
After a limited first wave of community transmission in March 2020, Western Australia has remained largely free of COVID-19, with cases restricted to hotel quarantine, commercial vessels, and small, infrequent community clusters. Despite s…
View article: Incorporating Inter-Firm Social Capital into International Business Theory
Incorporating Inter-Firm Social Capital into International Business Theory Open
Strategies in Accounting and Management Incorporating Inter-Firm Social Capital into International Business Theory Shaun Cheah1 and Cameron Gordon2* 1Lecturer, Faculty of Art and Design, University of Canberra, Australia 2Associate Profess…
View article: Local Government Forestry Expenditure and Forest Land Cover: A Preliminary Lesson from Decentralized Indonesia
Local Government Forestry Expenditure and Forest Land Cover: A Preliminary Lesson from Decentralized Indonesia Open
Even though government of Indonesia invests billions of rupiah to tackle deforestation, its effectiveness has been questionable. This study analyses changes in rates of forest cover in Indonesia and their association with forestry expendit…