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Storer, Timothy W. "Practical pollsterless remote electronic voting." Thesis, St Andrews, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/223.
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Reynolds, Miron R. "Political knowledge and voter turnout." Muncie, Ind. : Ball State University, 2009. http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/441.
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Quint, Ryan David. "Practical Implementation of a Security-Dependability Adaptive Voting Scheme Using Decision Trees." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35667.
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Todayâ s electric power system is operated under increasingly stressed conditions. As electrical demand increases, the existing grid is operated closer to its stable operating limits while maintaining high reliability of electric power delivery to its customers. Protective schemes are designed to account for pressures towards unstable operation, but there is always a tradeoff between security and dependability of this protection.
Adaptive relaying schemes that can change or modify their operation based on prevailing system conditions are an example of a protective scheme increasing reliability of the power system. The purpose of this thesis is to validate and analyze implementation of the Security-Dependability Adaptive Voting Scheme. It is demonstrated that this scheme can be implemented with a select few Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) reporting positive sequence currents to a Phasor Data Concentrator (PDC). At the PDC, the state of the power system is defined as Stressed or Safe and a set of relays either vote or perform normal operation, respectively.
The Adaptive Voting Scheme was implemented using two configurations: hardware- and software-based PDC solutions. Each was shown to be functional, effective, and practical for implementation. Practicality was based on the latency of Wide Area Measurement (WAM) devices and the added latency of relay voting operation during Stressed conditions. Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs), Phasor Data Concentrators (PDCs), and relay operation delays were quantified to determine the benefits and limitations of WAMS protection and implementation of the voting scheme. It is proposed that the delays injected into the existing protection schemes would have minimal effect on the voting scheme but must be accounted for when implementing power system controls due to the real-time requirements of the data.Master of Science
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Boulding, Carew Elizabeth. "Protest, voting and political change the effects of NGOs on politics in developing democracies /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2007. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3258708.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2007.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 4, 2007). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-197).
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Goodwin, Joy Noel. "KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTIONS OF AGRICULTURE PRACTICES AND LEGISLATION RELATED TO SOCIAL INFLUENCES AS PREDICTORS OF VOTING ON AGRICULTURE POLICY." The Ohio State University, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1274705418.
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Crowe, Peggy A. "Development and fundraising practices in divisions of student affairs at 4-year, public universities." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1294342953.
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Atherton, Stephanie. "An investigation of the post-mortem status and mummification practices of avian votive mummies in ancient Egypt." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:194645.
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Animals were viewed in ancient Egypt as pets and food; and as religious avatars,divided into cult and votive types (Ikram, 2005a). Research indicated that votivemummies were constructed in two types: true, those which contained skeletalremains; and pseudo, and those which contained non-skeletal remains. Avianremains were particularly prevalent as votive offerings, although no focus on thefollowing aims had previously been ventured: 1) mummification materials andmethods used; 2) how these may indicate status; 3) how to predict which mummies contain true or pseudo remains based on their external appearance. A study group of 120 mummies identified as containing avian remains weresubjected to radiography (115) and light microscopy (5) to understand the aboveresearch aims. Variables were designed to understand the treatment of avian remainsin three stages: prior to and during mummification, and as a mummy bundle; andwere statistically tested against the external appearance of the bundle, to determine the connection between the contents and its container. The first two variables demonstrated much information regarding the thought-processes applied to the avian remains to create ‘complete’ skeletal remains in the mummy bundles, although were shown to not be statistically significant when tested against external appearance. However, the final variable demonstrated a predictive nature in that as the external appearance became more stylised, the appearance of pseudo remains was more apparent, and was found to work in reverse for true remains. The future path of such research will require larger sample numbers of provenanced materials, both chronological and geographical, to understand if museum collections are an unbiased representation of avian mummies from ancient Egypt.
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Hubbard, J. R. "Roman votive inscriptions in their societal framework : religious practice on the frontier : the societal framework of votive inscriptions on the frontiers of Upper Germany and Britain in the second and third centuries A.D." Thesis, Swansea University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637327.
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The purpose of this thesis was to examine religion on the western frontier as expressed through votive inscriptions with a view to understanding the context of religious practice in these areas. Specifically, it was hoped to discover the extent to which religion reflected societal structures and inter-personal relationships. The sites chosen were Stockstadt, Mogontiacum (Mainz) and Nida-Heddernheim in Germany and Eboracum (York), Isca (Caerleon) and Deva (Chester) in Britain. These sites represent, respectively, a front-line fort, a legionary and provincial capital, a garrison town which reverted to quasi-civilian status and the three British legionary centres. Selection was dictated by the need to avoid local anomalies, the wish to examine both legionary and auxiliary sites and the basic requirements of a statistically valid number of inscriptions at each location. The relative poverty of epigraphic evidence at British auxiliary forts, in comparison with Germany, eliminated them from consideration as primary data. However, the conclusions drawn from the selected sites may justifiably be applied to any other fort; that at Magnis (Carvoran) is taken as an example in the Conclusion. Analysis of the inscriptions demonstrates that religious practice as expressed in epigraphic form illustrates a number of the features by which frontier society was defined. They are, firstly, evidence of the importance of rank, status and wealth. On a more complex conceptual level they reveal the existence of associative networks of social power (as described by Mann, in The Sources of Social Power); implied or explicit matrices of influence linking groups and individuals with common interests or positions. They also illustrate a dichotomy between groups which is analogous to Tonnies' concept of Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft ('community and association').
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Hill, Timothy G. "Interest-ing candidates the electoral impact of interest group endorsements /." Columbus, OH : Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1061393728.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2003.Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xv, 219 p. : ill. Includes abstract and vita. Advisor: Herbert F. Weisberg, Dept. of Political Science. Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-219).
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Yordanova, Lilyana. "Commande et donation pieuses en Bulgarie médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles) : arts, économie et société." Thesis, Université Paris sciences et lettres, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPSLP008.
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La commande et la donation de biens destinés à l’Église conditionnent le fonctionnement de la société médiévale. Grâce à une approche holistique et interdisciplinaire, une première étude globale de la pratique, des mécanismes et des effets du patronage pieux sur la société bulgare des XIIe-XVe siècles est proposée. Depuis la refondation de l’Empire bulgare en 1185, en passant par les périodes de conflits avec Byzance, la Serbie et les États latins, jusqu’à l’établissement des Ottomans en 1396 et même au-delà, les dons servent à définir le territoire, à négocier le pouvoir et à forger la cohésion entre les groupes sociaux. L’identification de nouvelles formes de générosité et le réexamen d’œuvres et de sources narratives et juridiques, parfois méconnues, permettent d’élaborer un modèle de fonctionnement horizontal et vertical du patronage et de contribuer par cet éclairage nouveau à l’étude de ce phénomène social complexe à l’échelle plus large du monde médiévalCommissions and donations of goods and property to the Church are at the core of medieval society. Through a holistic and interdisciplinary approach, this dissertation aims to provide the first global study of the practice, mechanisms and role of pious patronage within Bulgarian society during the 12th-15th century. From the re-foundation of the Bulgarian Empire in 1185, through the intermediate periods of conflict with Byzantium, Serbia and the Latin States, until the establishment of the Ottomans in 1396 but also beyond, pious donations have been used to define territory, negotiate power and maintain the cohesion of social groups. The identification of new forms of generosity and the re-examination of artworks, narrative and legal sources, some of which hitherto neglected, lead to elaborate a new model of horizontal and vertical social patronage and shed new light for the study of this complex social phenomenon on the broader scale of the medieval world
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Evans, Glynn Williams. "Proportional Representation in Theory and Practice: The Australian Experience." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/121601.
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While all houses of Australian parliaments using proportional representation use the Single Transferable Vote arrangement, district magnitudes (the numbers of members elected per division) and requirements for casting a formal vote vary considerably. Early chapters of this thesis analyse election results in search for distinct patterns of proportionality, the numbers of effective parties and partisan advantage under different conditions. This thesis argues that while district magnitude remains the decisive factor in determining proportionality (the higher the magnitude, the more proportional the system), ballot paper numbering requirements play a more important role in determining the number of (especially) parliamentary parties. The general pattern is that, somewhat paradoxically, the more freedom voters have to choose their own preference allocations, or lack of them, the smaller the number of parliamentary parties. Even numbered magnitudes in general, and six member divisions in particular, provide some advantage to the Liberal and National Parties, while the Greens are disadvantaged in five member divisions as compared to six or seven member divisions. The latter number appears to be the lowest at which no major party group has a particular advantage over the others. Later chapters of the thesis examine rates of independent and female representation in PR-elected houses in comparison to the corresponding house in the same jurisdiction elected via a majoritarian system. It is argued that, contrary to the arguments of some observers; independent candidates have a better success record in single-member houses. Women tend to succeed more in PR-elected houses, (as feminist writers in particular have argued was likely to occur) but in some cases the differences become miniscule once the ability of PR systems to facilitate the election of minor parties (such as the Greens) that are more likely to select women is factored out of the equation.Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Social Sciences, 2019
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Shah, Syed Naveed Ul Hassan. "An Empirical Study of Shareholders Rights in Australia: Theory and Practice." Thesis, 2020. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42039/.
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Shareholders are important because they provide finance to companies by investing in the share market. Shareholder voting rights are attached to the shares. The rights are defined by a company’s constitution, shareholders agreement, the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) and ASX Listing Rules. The exercise of the rights is significant for the growth and trustworthiness of capital markets. Previous research has focused on evaluation of the strength of shareholders rights, shareholders activism and shareholders engagement but lacked evaluation of the ways in which shareholders exercised their rights. This thesis addresses this issue. In particular, it explores shareholders economic rights, which are divided into control and decision making rights, and how shareholders exercised these rights by voting on resolutions proposed at Annual General Meetings.
The aim of this study was to empirically and legally evaluate shareholders rights in practice in ASX 200 companies during 2014-2018. The research question was: To what extent do shareholders exercise their rights in Australian listed companies, and how and to what extent does shareholders engagement with a listed company impact on corporate decision makings at AGMs?
The mixed-method methodology included both empirical quantitative and black-letter law research methodologies. The research included development of a data base of voting behaviour at the AGMs of 122 companies; 3382 AGMs resolutions including 3214 ordinary resolutions 168 special resolution were studied over the period of 5 years.
The results showed that on average 64% shareholders exercised control and decision making rights in 2014 which increased by on average 4.0633% in 2018. Moreover, on average around 30% of shareholders have not attended AGMs and have never appointed proxies. The appointment of proxy trend consistently increased since 2014 to 2018 by on average 4.7514%. The attendance of shareholders in person was on average around 2% during 2014-2018.
The top 20 shareholders hold on average 77.5865% of voting rights in 2018 which is 3.3634% higher than 2014. Further, on average 9% of top 20 shareholders have never attended AGMs and have never appointed proxies. The blockholders voting power lay between 58% and 63% during study period. The presence of top 20 shareholders and blockholders did not have any significant influence on the voting turnouts at AGMs.
The financial benefits from the issue of dividends did not have any impact on shareholders engagement and AGMs voting turnout. The relationships of shareholders engagement with election and re-election of directors were statistically significant with shareholders voting against resolutions, but the results confirm that shareholders cannot hold directors accountable at AGMs through their voting powers.
The current study supports the application of stewardship theory instead of agency theory at AGMs of ASX 200.
The policy recommendations were developed on the basis of empirical confirmations established from this study. In Australia, shareholders are powerful in theory and powerless in practice.
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Kao, Yi-Chun, and 高翊鈞. "Factors of Split-Ticket Voting in Taiwan’s First Practice of Single-Member Districts and Two Votes System in 2008." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11037669864400490396.
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Pikkov, Deanna. "The Practice of Voting: Immigrant Turnout, the Persistence of Origin Effects, and the Nature, Formation and Transmission of Political Habit." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31900.
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This dissertation is a multi-layered examination of the practice of voting, with a focus on the electoral turnout of immigrants. Chapter Two’s statistical analyses show that pre-migration cultural familiarity with democracy, formalized as levels of democratization in source countries, strongly shapes the likelihood of post-migration voting among Canadian immigrants. These origin effects, comparable in size to the best predictors of turnout that we have, exert a persistent influence – affecting turnout not only among the foreign-born, but also among the native-born second generation. Multilevel models demonstrate that the shifting source country composition of immigrant period-of-arrival cohorts provides an alternate explanation for what have previously been identified as generational, racial, and length of residence or ‘exposure’ effects among immigrant voters. This provides further evidence that voting is in most cases habitual, and raises questions about the acquisition, transmission, and reproduction of a voting practice. Chapter Three’s narratives of political development, gathered through in-depth, semi-structured interviews, confirm the importance of parental influence, and suggest that the ‘stickiness’ of practical capacities like voting may be the result of powerful processes of observational social learning. Providing a new twist on dominant models of political socialization, observation of parental voting appears to be the pivotal event in a path-dependent process of political learning, with acquisition of values and beliefs playing a supporting, rather than a leading role. Chapter Four reviews recent efforts among sociologists to amend action theory to make more room for habit, and these efforts are discussed in reference to contemporary research on turnout. I argue that these theoretical revisions still retain too sharp a focus on the cognitive aspects of practice. There is a lack of appreciation for the ways that action itself – our own previous actions and the actions of those close to us – can directly structure outcomes. Evidence from cognitive neuroscience is used to more precisely delineate habitual behaviour and thought. Where the intergenerational transmission of voting behaviour is concerned, culture is often coded directly into embodied practice. Efforts to encourage electoral participation should be built on a better understanding of voting’s substantial behavioural aspects.
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Nel, Lauren Jessica. "Reasons why the veto should be removed from the United Nations Security Council." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/11023.
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LL.M. (International Law)Syria is currently embroiled in a bitter and bloody conflict which began three years ago, in the prime of what was commonly known as the Arab spring. The Syrian people clamoured for new leadership and greater freedoms. However, the hopes of an Arab spring soon faded into a cold, desolate Arab winter. Instead of acceding to the demands of the citizens, the Syrian president has sought to subdue and eliminate them. Resulting in August 2013 of the government forces reportedly unleashed deadly chemical weapons on opposition forces. The United Nations Security Council failed to embark on any action by this point, due to the first veto by Russia and China on 4 October 20113. The death toll subsequently peaked at over 100 000. Whilst on the 24th of November, 2013 following two days of conflict in the Eastern Ghouta region of Syria 160 people were killed. Could the devastation of Syria and its people have been avoided? Is there any organisation responsible for the safety and protection of the Syrian people? The answer lies in an organisation called the United Nations. The United Nations Security Council however has the primary responsibility to maintain international peace and security but this is not exclusive. Their primary function (as clearly stated in the United Nations Charter) is the responsibility for maintenance of international peace and security.
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Lin, Hong-Dar, and 林宏達. "A Practical Technique for Electronic Voting System." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7a8eja.
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碩士逢甲大學
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In Taiwan, the different voting events usually hold at the same time. For example, the elections of the head of village and borough were held on the same day in 2002. It implies that each voter belonging to different village or borough has the different candidates to be voted simultaneously. When the different voting events hold at the same time, in order to distinguish each different ballot paper by the voting center, each voting event must use its own public key to identify the candidate. However, how to carefully generating the public key is a complicated process. It implies the cost of the public key generation should be more concerned. The second problem is that in a traditional voting, voters register and get blank ballots in polling booth. But in current electronic voting techniques, it seems difficult to simulate to get blank ballots in polling booth. In this paper, a new scheme combining the techniques of "Similar Partially Blind Signature" and "One-Way Hash Function" is proposed to implement the electronic voting system that will be applied on the Internet. In our scheme, the problem for multi-voting activities working at the same time is solved by only one pair of the public key. In addition, our scheme simulates traditional voting to get blank ballots in virtual polling booth and distribute those to voters. The proposed method provides users a secure and convenient environment to determine which candidate will be voted in the polling time.
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Chun-Ming, Ho, and 何俊明. "A Practical Receipt-Free and Uncoercible e-Voting Scheme." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41611391341907529017.
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碩士輔仁大學
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Bribe and coercion are common in traditional voting systems and usually lead to a biased result that imparts the desired democracy. However, these problems become more difficult to solve when using e-voting schemes. In general, e-voting schemes can be divided into two types, one is based on the anonymous channel and the other uses the homomorphic encryption technique. The anonymous channel technique conceals the identity of the voters, while the homomorphism encryption technique conceals the content of votes. Unfortunately, existing e-voting schemes can not effectively provide receipt-freeness and uncoercibility. This thesis first presents a two-way secure e-voting scheme that can be realized with current techniques. By applying simple physical voting booths, bribers and coercers can not monitor the voter while he votes. Additionally, by using smart cards to randomize part of content of the vote, the voter can not construct a receipt. Then, we propose a multi-way e-voting scheme based on the basic two-way e-voting scheme. We show that the performance of the proposed e-voting schemes is optimal in that time and communication complexity for the voter is independent of the number of voting authorities. Particularly, the proposed e-voting schemes are realistic because the assumptions made in them are reasonable.
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Setzer, Catherine Renee. "Best practices for getting out the vote on college campuses." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-12-4560.
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Low voter turnout among America’s youngest voters has been a subject of concern and research. Research has shown that education is closely related to participation, making college campuses are a great place to engage America’s youth in the democratic process. This report outlines best practices of Getting Out the Vote on university campuses, as well as addressing the additional challenges of community colleges.text
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Chen, Lih-Woei, and 陳立偉. "A Practical E-Voting System with Collision-Free Anonymous Identity." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24152487991475133653.
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碩士國立雲林科技大學
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In this dissertation, we propose a practical e-voting system consisting of three roles: Voters, Authentication Center, and Tallying Centers and proceeding to three phases: register phase, voting phase, and tallying phase. In the register phase, the voter cooperates with Authentication Center to generate a collision-free anonymous identity instead of voter’s real identity to protect the voter’s privacy and prevent from double-voting. In addition, a simple and efficient way is proposed to encrypt the ballot. Only the designated Tallying Centers can cooperate to restore a ballot to enforce the fairness property that no one can learn the voting outcome before the tally. In summary, we propose a collision-free anonymous identity technique and apply it to an e-voting system. We also implement the system and show that the proposed system satisfies eight properties: eligibility, integrity, anonymity, fairness, un-reusability, mobility, verifiability, and practicability.
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Pallister, Kevin. "Bringing the ballot box to the people: Election administration and the origins of inclusive voting practices." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603131.
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Countries holding competitive elections vary in the extent to which the administrative practices surrounding the voting process facilitate or impede voter participation. Differences in the requirements for voter registration, the distances voters must travel to reach a polling place, the mechanics of casting a ballot, and the provision of voter education, among other factors, pose varying obstacles to participation. This variation poses a puzzle that this dissertation addresses: Why do some democracies adopt election administration practices that lower barriers to voter participation, while others adopt practices that raise prohibitive obstacles to the participation of at least some citizens? More simply, why is it easier to vote in some democracies than in others? This dissertation develops the concept of election administration inclusiveness, consisting of numerous administrative and procedural factors that affect voter access to the ballot. To develop a theory of why election administration inclusiveness varies across countries and over time, the project undertakes an in-depth comparison of three country cases: Guatemala, Nicaragua, and El Salvador. The case studies document and explain the origins of striking differences in election administration inclusiveness across the three countries in their early years of democratic transition, as well as variation in inclusiveness within each case over time. The case studies draw on elite interviews and archival research carried out by the author in each country. The study identifies a number of factors that influence the choice of election administration practices that bear on voter access to the ballot box. Of particular significance are historical legacies of election fraud, patterns of partisan identification among voters, the composition of electoral commissions that conduct elections, and international political pressures.
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Brettell, Rhea C., William H. C. Martin, S. Atherton-Woolham, Ben Stern, and L. McKnight. "Organic residue analysis of Egyptian votive mummies and their research potential." 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/8764.
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YesVast numbers of votive mummies were produced in Egypt during the Late Pharaonic, Ptolemaic, and Roman periods. Although millions remain in situ, many were removed and have ultimately entered museum collections around the world. There they have often languished as uncomfortable reminders of antiquarian practices with little information available to enhance their value as artefacts worthy of conservation or display. A multi-disciplinary research project, based at the University of Manchester, is currently redressing these issues. One recent aspect of this work has been the characterization of natural products employed in the mummification of votive bundles. Using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry and the well-established biomarker approach, analysis of 24 samples from 17 mummy bundles has demonstrated the presence of oils/fats, natural waxes, petroleum products, resinous exudates, and essential oils. These results confirm the range of organic materials employed in embalming and augment our understanding of the treatment of votives. In this first systematic initiative of its kind, initial findings point to possible trends in body treatment practices in relation to chronology, geography, and changes in ideology which will be investigated as the study progresses. Detailed knowledge of the substances used on individual bundles has also served to enhance their value as display items and aid in their conservation.
RCB is supported by a PhD studentship from the Art and Humanities Research Council (43019R00209). L.M. and S.A.W. are supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Project Award (RPG-2013-143).