Czech Green politics after two decades: the May 2010 general election

On Leader Green Election

In Jacquet et al. (2013) Philippe Jacquet, Dimitris Milioris and Paul Mühlethaler introduced a novel energy efficient broadcast leader election algorithm, which they called, in accordance with the popular fashion in those years, a Leader Green Election (LGE). This algorithm was also presented by P. Jacquet at the conference AofA’13. We will use the same model as in Jacquet et al. (2013), namely...

Improved mortality after STEMI over two decades

Results A total of 335 patients in 1986, 351 in 1996 and 178 patients in 2006 comprise the total study population of 864 STEMI patients. In addition 25 (6,9%) patients died within the first 24 hours of hospital admission in 1986, 33(15,6%) in 1996 and 5 (2,7%) in 2006. One-year mortality decreased from 26.3% in 1986 and 19.7% in 1996 to 12.9% in 2006 (p = 0.001). Cox proportional hazard analysi...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

2010 Failures in English - Czech

The paper describes our experiments with English-Czech machine translation for WMT101 in 2010. Focusing primarily on the translation to Czech, our additions to the standard Moses phrase-based MT pipeline include two-step translation to overcome target-side data sparseness and optimization towards SemPOS, a metric better suited for evaluating Czech. Unfortunately, none of the approaches bring a ...

Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case

Candidate Ballot Information and Election Outcomes: The Czech Case We measure the importance of candidate characteristics listed on ballots for a candidate’s position on a slate, for preferential votes received by a candidate, and, ultimately, for getting elected. We focus on the effects of gender, various types of academic titles, and also several novel properties of candidates’ names. Using d...