SHAKESPEARE’S MARGINAL CHARACTERS: AN ALTERNATIVE TO DOMINANT TUDOR IDEOLOGY

Ideology and Competence in Alternative Electoral Systems . ∗

We develop a model of elections in proportional (PR) and majoritarian (FPTP) electoral systems. The model allows an endogenous number of candidates, differentiation in a private value dimension, or ideology, and in a common value dimension, which we interpret broadly as quality or competence. Voters are fully rational and strategic. We show that the quality of candidates running for office in P...

An effort to produce a homozygous dominant male-sterile cotton

An alternative marginal likelihood estimator for phylogenetic models

Bayesian phylogenetic methods are generating noticeable enthusiasm in the field of molecular systematics. Many phylogenetic models are often at stake and different approaches are used to compare them within a Bayesian framework. The Bayes factor, defined as the ratio of the marginal likelihoods of two competing models, plays a key role in Bayesian model selection. We focus on an alternative est...

Structural-Functional Dynamism: An Alternative Approach to Spatial

Spatial planning approaches along with complication of societies are being changed. These changes and transformations have reflected themselves in increasing diversification of economic patterns, people, group, organization, and institution’s mobility. While in less developed network societies some of the concepts including “distance” and “movement “are relatively losing their importance , some...

Garlic: An Alternative to Antibiotics in Poultry Production, A Review

In last decade, the uncontrolled use of antibiotics as growth promoter for livestock has led to the appearance of antibiotic-resistant pathogens and increased risk of infectious diseases. This situation has triggered intensive research efforts to find safe alternative strategies. Certainly, the plants and vegetables and their derivatives as natural safe substances could be good candidates in th...