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Replication Data for: Early Closing of Ballot Box, Voter Turnout, and Vote Shares
No full textThis is a replication file for Fukumoto, Kentaro and Kyosuke Kikuta. 2021. "Early Closing of Ballot Box, Voter Turnout, and Vote Shares." Japanese Journal of Electoral Studies. Vol. 37, No. 1. Japanese. The replication files are saved as a zip file. Please unzip the file and follow the instruction in the readme file. The PDF file of the online appendix is also available. Note that the article, online appendix, and most of the replication materials are written in Japanese
Assigning Robust Default Values in Building Performance Simulation Software for Improved Decision-Making in the Initial Stages of Building Design
No full textApplying data mining techniques on a database of BIM models could provide valuable insights in key design patterns implicitly present in these BIM models. The architectural designer would then be able to use previous data from existing building projects as default values in building performance simulation software for the early phases of building design. The author has proposed the method to minimize the magnitude of the variation in these default values in subsequent design stages. This approach maintains the accuracy of the simulation results in the initial stages of building design. In this study, a more convincing argument is presented to demonstrate the significance of the new method. The variation in the ideal default values for different building design conditions is assessed first. Next, the influence of each condition on these variations is investigated. The space depth is found to have a large impact on the ideal default value of the window to wall ratio. In addition, the presence or absence of lighting control and natural ventilation has a significant influence on the ideal default value. These effects can be used to identify the types of building conditions that should be considered to determine the ideal default values
The Manchurian Incident and the Soviet Reserves Policies
No full text紀要類（bulletin）Russia and Japan : a historical survey : joint symposium of the SB RAS and the CNEAS TU / edited by Kyosuke Terayamadepartmental bulletin pape
Accuracy verification of the urban meteorological LES model (City-LES) developed at the University of Tsukuba
No full textIn this presentation, the performance of the urban meteorological LES model "City-LES" developed by Hiroyuki Kusaka Laboratory, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, in cooperation with Taisuke Park Laboratory, Tsukuba University, and Satoru Iizuka Laboratory, Nagoya University, is verified. The validation focuses on how well the distribution of thermal indices calculated by the model reproduces observations. City-LES was found to be able to represent the severe heat environment within the built-up area of central Tokyo that emerges during the hottest days of summer in Tokyo, with an error margin of approximately 0.5°C in WBGT
Replication Data for: The Environmental Costs of Civil War: A Synthetic Comparison of the Congolese Forests with and without the Great War of Africa
No full textPlease download and open the 7z file with 7-zip (https://www.7-zip.org/), and then carefully read the readme.txt file and follow its instruction. I used the 7z file format as Dataverse returns "Upload unsuccessful (504: GATEWAY_TIMEOUT)" error when I tried to upload the file in a zip file format
Replication Data for: Do Politically Irrelevant Events Cause Conflict? The Cross-continental Effects of European Professional Football on Protests in Africa
No full textThis contains all the files needed to replicate the tables and figures in the text and appendix of the article
Replication Data for: Rainy Friday: Religious Participation and Protests
No full textThis contains all the files needed to replicate the tables and figures in the text and appendix of the article
Replication Data for: "The Drowning-out Effect: Voter Turnout and Protests"
No full textConventional wisdom suggests that a high turnout in a free and fair election would be laudable; it might signify proper representation and hence facilitate democratic conflict resolution. This paper presents a game-theoretic model and demonstrates that this intuition does not necessarily hold. With large voting costs, only people of intense preferences turn out, and thus the electoral results represent their opinions. In contrast, small voting costs allow people of lukewarm preferences to turn out. Because such lukewarm voters usually constitute a majority, the results of the election represent the opinions of the lukewarm majority and drown out the voices of the intense minority. This incentivizes the intense minority to raise their voices via outside options such as protests. Thus, rather counterintuitively, high turnout increases protests. I test this hypothesis using election-day rainfall as an instrumental variable for turnout and apply it to Indian State Assembly elections. The results indicate that higher turnout increases the likelihood of protests. The analyses on the causal mechanisms and robustness provide further credence to the finding
WZONE: Zones of Armed Conflicts
No full textUpdate (2024-7-26): The dataset is updated to UCDPGED 24.1. The updated dataset includes;
- Conflict zones in 2022 and 2023.
WZONE is a dataset of conflict zones. The conflict zones are created from the UCDPGED event data (version 24.1) with a machine learning method, so-called a one-class support vector machine, which is detailed here. The technical details, such as hyper-parameter selection, are also detailed in the appendix of the article. The dataset is available in the ESRI Shapefile format for each conflict dyad at a daily level. A Youtube video is also available at here.
There is a separate zip file for each year (1989-2023). Each zip file contains shape files (365 or 366 files; daily). The shape files have three columns; "dyad_id" (new dyad IDs in the UCDPGED), "conf_id" (new conflict IDs in the UCDPGED) and "date" (date of the conflict zone). The static.zip contains time-invariant estimates of conflict zones and their lower and upper confidence intervals. Finally, ged_summary.csv provides basic information of each conflict dyad, which can be merged to the conflict zone data by using dyad_id variable. For details of the variables in the summary data, refer to the codebook of the UCDPGED
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