The paper builds a general model of vote transfer systems on the basis of the current Hungarian electoral rules. It combines single-seat districts and list mandates with three possible compensation rule for ’wasted’ votes in constituencies: no compensation (direct vote transfer, DVT), compensation for votes cast for losing party candidates (positive vote transfer, PVT) and compensation for all ...

Over 50 million humans live in areas of potential exposure to tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV). The disease exhibits an estimated 16,000 cases recorded annually over 30 European and Asian countries. Conventionally, TBEV transmission to Ixodes spp. ticks occurs whilst feeding on viraemic animals. However, an alternative mechanism of non-viraemic transmission (NVT) between infected and uninfe...

One of the high-profile developments in seismology over the past decade has been the observation of episodic tremor and slip (ETS) and nonvolcanic tremor (NVT) as a subset of the phenomenon (Peng and Gomberg, 2010; Vidale and Houston, 2012). Sensitivity of an NVT occurrence to very small, dynamic, low-frequency stress perturbations in the Earth’s crust has been documented. For example, Rubinste...

We analyze the extent of comovement between daily price returns nine major cryptocurrencies from April 2013 to February 2021. assess its evolution using bivariate and multivariate modeling approaches, detect pronounced time variation. Generally, is initially low positive, but increases substantially early 2017 late 2018 stays high until end sample. then adopt a right-tail version Augmented Dick...

Streptococcus pneumoniae has more than 95 serotypes, each of which presumably can cause sepsis, meningitis, pneumonia, and acute otitis media. Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCV) targeted against a limited number of serotypes have nonetheless revealed an impressive impact on each manifestation of pneumococcal disease. At the same time, growing evidence of significant non-vaccine type (NVT) re...