Party System Compactness: Measurement and Consequences

The niche party concept and its measurement

The concept of the niche party has become increasingly popular in analyses of party competition. Yet, existing approaches vary in their definitions and their measurement approaches. We propose using a minimal definition that allows us to compare political parties in terms of their 'nicheness'. We argue that the conceptual core of the niche party concept is based on issue emphasis and that a nic...

Some consequences of compactness in Lukasiewicz Predicate Logic

The Loś-Tarski Theorem and the ChangLoś-Susko Theorem, two classical results in Model Theory, are extended to the infinitevalued Lukasiewicz logic. The latter is used to settle a characterisation of the class of generic structures introduced in the framework of model theoretic forcing for Lukasiewicz logic [1]. Key-words: First Order Many-Valued Logic, Lukasiewicz logic, Model Theory.

the juridical consequences of third party obligation to pay dowry

dowry or marriage portion is a property that a wife owns after marriage and the spouse is obliged to pay to his wife. since marriage portion rules are not explicitly stipulated in iranian civil law, the writer article makes an attempt to answer whether a third party other than the husband can be in doubted to undertake the responsibility of paying the dowry. therefore, in case of divorce if the...

Ideology and Party System Development

Measurement Study of Multi-party Video Conferencing

More and more free multi-party video conferencing applications are readily available over the Internet and both Server-to-Client (S/C) or Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technologies are used. Investigating their mechanisms, analyzing their system performance, and measuring their quality are important objectives for researchers, developers and end users. In this paper, we take four representative video conf...