DESIRABLE PORK: DO VOTERS REWARD FOR EARMARK ACQUISITION?

Desirable pork: do voters reward for earmark acquisition?

The overwhelming majority of Congresspersons engage in the acquisition of pork projects, also known as earmarks.In the aggregate, the general public overwhelming opposes pork-barrel Ceramic spending, yet scholars and Members of Congress both contend that earmarked projects make for grateful constituents.This work attempts to explain this discrepanc

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An extensible mathematical model of glucose metabolism. Part I: the basic glucose-insulin-glucagon model, basal conditions and basic dynamics

A basic model highlighting the counter-regulatory roles of insulin and glucagon is proposed to start a series of models designed to explore continuous rein control and major aspects of glucose metabolism.The three-by-three dynamical system uses black boxes to model unit Wall Hanging Patterns processes such as the dependencies of insulin secretion r

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