Is electronic approval appropriate?

Is Approval Voting Optimal Given Approval Votes?

Some crowdsourcing platforms ask workers to express their opinions by approving a set of k good alternatives. It seems that the only reasonable way to aggregate these k-approval votes is the approval voting rule, which simply counts the number of times each alternative was approved. We challenge this assertion by proposing a probabilistic framework of noisy voting, and asking whether approval v...

Which stage of mouse embryos is more appropriate for vitrification?

Objective Vitrification has been shown as one of the most effective methods of cryopreservation for mammalian embryos. However, there is no consensus which stage of embryonic development is the most appropriate for vitrification with subsequent maximal development after thawing. This study was carried out to explore and compare the effect(s) of vitrification on mouse 2-cell, 4-cell, 8-cell, mor...

Which Metric Is More Appropriate to Evaluate Researchers?

Iranian medical universities choose their best researchers in each field annually. The protocols of this process have been modified quite often, but the changes were not fundamental and did not lead to all-inclusive evaluation tools. The recent article in Asia Pacific Journal of Medical Toxicology, which proposes a scoring scale for evaluation of scientist's impact called "360-degree researcher...

Is GIS appropriate technology

Department of geography, Pennsylvania State University. University Park, Pennsylvania 16802. USA Abstract. Appropriate technology(AT) has become an integral part if the programmes for decentralized regional development in the third world appropriate techniques are usually low in capital coststhey can be maintained without a high level of expertise, and they do not involve patents, expensive cop...

when appropriate statistical analysis is dismissed