Meanings of pluralism in different disciplines – Meaning in jurisprudence, esp. European Court of Human Rights – Feature of society and idea of society – Individual freedom v. group existence – Politics, religion, education – Pluralism as expression of rights and as guarantee of rights – Rejection of legal pluralism – Contradiction of elitist theory – State protection of pluralism and its limits

Citizens increasingly turn to social media for information, where they often rely on cues judge the credibility of news messages. In these environments, populist politicians use “fake news” and “anti-elitist” attacks undermine This article argues that truly understand impact criticism cues, one must simultaneously consider additional contextual as well individual-level moderators. a factorial s...

We present a multiobjective genetic algorithm that incorporates various genetic algorithm techniques that have been proven to be efficient and robust in their problem domain. More specifically, we integrate rank based selection, adaptive niching through coevolutionary sharing, elitist recombination, and non-dominated sorting into a multiobjective genetic algorithm called ERMOCS. As a proof of c...

We present an analysis of the performance of an elitist Evolutionary algorithm using a recombination operator known as 1-Bit-Swap on the Royal Roads test function based on a population. We derive complete, approximate and asymptotic convergence rates for the algorithm. The complete model shows the benefit of the size of the population and recombination pool.

An industrial ethane thermal cracking reactor was modeled assuming a molecular mechanism for the reaction kinetics coupled with material, energy, and momentum balances of the reactant-product flow along the reactor. To carry out the multi-objective optimization for two objectives such as conversion and ethylene selectivity, the elitist non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm was used. The Paret...

Everyone agrees that the purpose of the copyright system is to promote progress.1 At the same time, though, skepticism about the law’s ability to define the substance of progress runs deep within copyright case law and theory. Legal decisionmakers and scholars have quite properly doubted their own ability to evaluate artistic or literary merit, and have worried that efforts to do so would resul...