Reconsidering Shaw: The Miranda of Race-Conscious Districting

Miranda Shaw : Buddhist Goddesses of India

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Reconsidering Legal Regulation of Race, Sex, and Sexual Orientation

Axiomatic districting

In a framework with two parties, deterministic voter preferences and a type of geographical constraints, we propose a set of simple axioms and show that they jointly characterize the districting rule that maximizes the number of districts one party can win, given the distribution of individual votes (the " optimal gerrymandering rule "). As a corollary, we obtain that no districting rule can sa...

Measuring the Compactness of Political Districting Plans

We develop a measure of compactness based on the distance between voters within the same district relative to the minimum distance achievable, which we coin the relative proximity index. Any compactness measure that satisfies three desirable properties (anonymity of voters, efficient clustering, and invariance to scale, population density, and number of districts) ranks districting plans identi...

Pedro Miranda

Abstract This report presents a discussion of modeling dynamics for the forwarder crane located in our department. To formulate dynamics of this system, standard Euler-Lagrange methods are applied, by considering the crane as a multi-body system composed by links and joints. This leads to a set of differential equations that contain various unknown parameters, which are related to the inertias,...