Colony before Party

Partying before the party: examining prepartying behavior among college students.

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the phenomenon known to college students as prepartying, which is the consumption of alcohol prior to attending an event or activity (eg, party, bar, concert) at which more alcohol may be consumed. PARTICIPANTS To explore the extent of this behavior, the authors surveyed 227 college students about each drinking event over a 1-month period. RESULTS Principal re...

How to Cut a Cake Before the Party Ends

For decades researchers have struggled with the problem of envy-free cake cutting: how to divide a divisible good between multiple agents so that each agent likes his own allocation best. Although an envy-free cake cutting protocol was ultimately devised, it is unbounded, in the sense that the number of operations can be arbitrarily large, depending on the preferences of the agents. We ask whet...

Colony Collapse Disorder : Have We Seen This Before ?

the pan-iranist party vs jebheye melli before the overthrow of dr. mosaddeq

the relation of pan-iranist party and the national front of iran until 1953 iranian coup d'état is of great importance in its periods of activity. this relation can be examined at two different levels: the obvious and pervasive support, and the opposition and separation. in the first period, the pan-iranist party supported the objectives and activities of the national front party, particul...

Party Cohesion, Party Factions and Legislative Party Discipline in Italy

Moving beyond a unitary actor assumption that models members of a self-evidently collective entity such as a political party “as if” they all shared a single brain, this paper explores the cohesion and discipline of party legislators in multi-party systems operating under the constitutional rules of parliamentary government. We do this in the context of Italian politics, for which a consistent ...