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Is Anybody Listening? Evidence That Voters Do Not Respond to European Parties’ Policy Statements During Elections

Although extensive research analyzes the factors that motivate European parties to shift their policy positions, there is little cross-national research that analyzes how voters respond to parties’ policy shifts. We report pooled, time-series analyses of election survey data from several European polities, which suggest that voters do not systematically adjust their perceptions of parties’ posi...

Quranic Statements

“The state of being plain” is one of the features of the Holy Quran, taken as indicative of Quran’s expressiveness and clearness regarding its intentions. However, one of the aspects of Quranic miracles is its expressive miracle based on which verses have been revealed according to suitability and appropriateness of situation in an explicit and succinct form. In order to have a desirable unders...

Reflections on the role of statements on statements in mathematics

Mathematicians reason about abstract objects, or at least they seem to do so. In the course of doing so, they routinely make statements on mathematical statements. In fact, every inference, such as “From equations (5.17) and (6.2) one obtains the following equation.”, is a statement on mathematical statements. Other examples of statements on mathematical statements are: “With the obvious modifi...

Position Statements

Summary of Recommendation Statements

1.3: PREDICTING PROGNOSIS OF CKD 1.3.1: In predicting risk for outcome of CKD, identify the following variables: 1) cause of CKD; 2) GFR category; 3) albuminuria category; 4) other risk factors and comorbid conditions. (Not Graded) Criteria for CKD (either of the following present for 43 months) Markers of kidney damage (one or more) Albuminuria (AER Z30 mg/24 hours; ACR Z30 mg/g [Z3 mg/mmol]) ...