We consider a society confronting the decision of accepting or rejecting a list of (at least two) proposals. Assuming separability of preferences, we show the impossibility of guaranteeing Pareto optimal outcomes through anonymous referendum voting, except for the case of an odd number of voters confronting precisely two proposals. In this special case, majority voting is the only anonymous soc...

one of the most important playwrights who had a great influence and control on post-war american drama was arthur miller. in his plays, miller shows the contrasting values in american capitalistic society. in all my sons, he shows that how materialistic values become much more important in a society where people are alienated from each other and are fragmented. he also portrays a society which ...

several practical problems of hypotheses testing can be under a general linear model analysis of variance which would be examined. in analysis of variance, when the response random variable y , has linear relationship with several random variables x, another important model as analysis of covariance can be used. in this paper, assuming that y is fuzzy and using dlr metric, a method for testing ...

BACKGROUND Although the Netherlands currently has its own procedure for evaluating chemical compounds and setting occupational exposure limits (OELs), most of these limits were originally adopted in the 1970s from threshold limit values (TLVs) set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH). However, beginning in the late 1980s, criticism about non-scientific consid...