'MLMs often engage in dubious and partially illegal practices due to insufficient anti-pyramid rules and enforcement.' – https://www.acume.org/r/multilevel-marketing-explained-core-insights-from-research-and-social-media/ #academicsky #scipol

'In MLMs recruitment, selection, and socialization of participants is done but formally self-employed high-level distributors who form a distributor net… – https://www.acume.org/r/the-role-of-the-distributor-network-in-the-persistence-of-legal-and-ethical-problems-of-multi-level-marketing-companies/

'MLM companies exert pressure on distributors to buy internal products, contributing to financial losses.' – https://www.acume.org/r/buy-buy-buy-how-multilevel-marketing-companies-pressure-their-participants-to-buy-their-products/ #academicsky #scipol

'Beauty salons operated by South Asian migrants in London serve as diasporic spaces that foster ethnic intimacy and community support.' – https://www.acume.org/r/mapping-the-beauty-salon-as-a-diasporic-space/ #academicsky #scipol

'The EU governs preventive counterterrorism indirectly through local actors' – https://www.acume.org/r/bring-them-into-the-fold-local-actors-and-transnational-governance-of-preventive-counterterrorism-in-the-european-union/ #academicsky #scipol

'The use of probabilistic models and Bayesian methods has improved the accuracy and reliability of population forecasts by incorporating some uncertainties, although not reflecting… – https://www.acume.org/r/forecasting-population-in-an-uncertain-world-approaches-new-uses-and-troubling-limitations/

'AI is framed as both a threat and a solution in terrorism and counter-terrorism discourses, necessitating a critical examination of these narratives.' – www.acume.org/r/a-critical... #academicsky #scipol

'Totalitarian regimes alternated between granting the Dungans limited cultural rights and enforcing harsh assimilation, creating a fluid and unstable ethnic identity.' – https://www.acume.org/r/dungan-ethnicity-in-transformation-from-totalitarian-control-to-contemporary-adaptation/ #academicsky

'Unexpected findings in research, such as the link between ice cream consumption and reduced diabetes risk, often face skepticism and are downplayed.' – https://www.acume.org/r/violent-street-crime-globalization-and-ice-cream/ #academicsky #scipol

'Academic physicians experience a significant impact of bureaucratic demands on the quality of their work lives in providing patient care.' – https://www.acume.org/r/an-exploration-of-the-contemporary-u-s-academic-physician-experience-with-the-formal-rationalization-of-health-care/ #academicsky

'Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and labor market regulation significantly impact NEET rates in CEEC.' – https://www.acume.org/?p=76239