A Majority of One
Predictors of Treatment Adherence in Adolescents with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The Role of Age, Body Satisfaction and Prospective Memory in Medication and Diet Behavior
... To test the hypotheses of this paper, an OLS regression will be used. Three different dependent variables will be used in three separate regressions. The data is collected from the 96 th to 101 st Congress. The first ...
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Parallel axiomatizations of majority and unanimity
... relative majority rule and the unanimity rule are characterized for the case in which there are only two ...just one axiom, expressing strategyproofness (unanimity) or group strategyproofness ...
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Not sold here: limited access to legally available syringes at pharmacies in Tijuana, Mexico
... a majority (88.2%) reported selling syringes but only one-third ...the majority of unsuccessful purchases were attributed to being told the pharmacy didn ’ t sell ...
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Majority is Stablest: Discrete and SoS
... Thus, all we are left to bound is the “degree-4” term. We briefly describe why one has to be careful to get a (meaningful) upper bound here. The reason is that the obvious strategy to do this is to break g into ...
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Majority dynamics with one nonconformist
... of majority dynamics have been studied, such as the question of whether a bias in the initial opinions tends to be preserved by this process (Tamuz and Tessler, [15]), and the threshold of initial bias which ...
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Parity helps to compute majority
... computing Majority. The best known upper bound thus far for Majority was the one mentioned in the previous paragraph, which in fact gives constant-depth circuits that don’t use Parity ...
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Why should majority voting be unfair?
... In addition to predictions based on egoism (“Ego”) and FS inequity aversion (“In- eqAv”), we also test a heterogeneous model that considers both types of subjects. This follows Fehr and Schmidt (2010), who postulate that ...
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Decision by majority and the right to vote
... One of the probably most accepted social norms asserts that the default rule to make collective decisions is the (relative) majority rule. The rationale for the acceptance of this norm is even more ...
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The 'new majority' and the academization of journalism
... schools (Bromley and Neal 2011: 56; Ghersetti and Weibull 2009: 196; Grenby et al 2009: 4; Salokangas 2009: 128; Ulmanu 2009: 485; Vatrál 2009: 497-8). To some extent, this has occurred. Starting in the USA in the 1970s, ...
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The (sub )optimality of the majority rule
... qualified majority rules, in (possibly asymmetric and non-neutral) environments without uncertainty about preference intensities, and with stochastically independent utility ...distributions. One ...
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Majority is incompressible by AC0P circuits
... Compression games have been considered before, both to prove unconditional and con- ditional lower bounds. The pioneering work of Dubrov and Ishai [17] showed that Parity n requires AC 0 -compression cost n 1−ε (for any ...
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Preferential votes and minority representation in open list proportional representation systems
... including one minority candidate, party A can attract the votes of the minority and two votes by the ...the majority can assign two preferential votes to three candidates, preventing the election of the ...
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Fair reweighting of the votes in the EU Council of Ministers and the choice of majority requirement for qualified majority voting during successive enlargements
... countries as q increases until it reaches a maximum of 1 when q=100 and all members have a veto. For q=71.3% all members have a substantial power to prevent action: for each of Germany, the UK, France and Italy it is ...
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Time-variable medical education innovation in context
... of one- on-one structured phone interviews with the majority of allopathic medical school Deans in order to determine the overall number of medical schools currently offering 3-year programs (or ...
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SRC RR 46 pdf
... exists. One way to do so is to insist that a master running recovery advance the service and data epochs of the up-to-date replicas before it advances the service epoch of the out-of-date replicas and ...
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A Novel Design of Half and Full Adder using Basic QCA Gates
... If one observe carefully,one will see that the half adder circuit is nothing but a XOR gate which is realized using QCA basic ...two majority gate and an inverter.Majority gate 1 is a five input ...
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Farmers’ perception on new cassava varieties grown in Coastal Kenya
... Majority (56.3 %) of the respondents identified Guzo, Gushe, Karembo, Sagalato and Tajirika as the most bitter cassava varieties (Table 6). Other varieties that some farmers considered bitter included Bwazo, Gogo, ...
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Novel Correction and Detection for Memory Applications
... a majority gate; and 4) an XOR for correcting the codeword bit under ...serial one-step majority logic corrector [6], [12] for (15, 7, 5) EG-LDPC code is shown in Figure ...
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The Split Majority Domination Number of a Graph
... The graphs considered here are finite, undirected, without loops or multiple edges and have at least one component which is not complete or at least two components neither of which are isolated vertices. Unless ...
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Dominant ethnicity: from minority to majority
... ahead, one can spot the vulnerability in minority-dominated societies like Syria, Rwanda and Bahrain, not to mention the precarious economic dominance of Latin American and Caribbean whites, and diaspora Chinese, ...
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