It is a longstanding debate whether members of parliament (MPs) should be allowed to follow sideline jobs in addition to their mandate. Critics claim that politicians already face binding time constraints and that moonlighting might lead to a neglect of inner-parliamentary duties. The purpose of this study is therefore to investigate whether politicians with more sideline jobs show less effort ...

Researchers say the complaint filed against Elisabeth Bik could have a ‘chilling effect’ on scholarly criticism.

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems require large amounts of transcribed speech data, for training state-of-theart deep neural network (DNN) acoustic models. Transcribed speech is a scarce and expensive resource, and ASR systems are prone to underperform in domains where there is not a lot of training data available. In this work, we open up a vast and previously unused resource of trans...

London‘s eighteenth-century expansion required the reorganization of rights for large tracts of land. This property previously lay within equitable estates and agricultural villages. Removing property from these restrictive property-rights regimes proved problematic. Parliament catalyzed the process by passing acts reorganizing rights to land and resources. Two theories characterize Parliament‘...

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