The election methods introduced in 1894–1895 by Phragmén and Thiele, and their somewhat later versions for ordered (ranked) ballots , are discussed in detail. The paper includes definitions and examples and discussion of whether the methods satisfy some properties, including monotonicity, consistency and various proportionality criteria. The relation with STV is also discussed. The paper also c...

background: this paper contributes to further exploration of inequity in access to health research capacity development by examining the representation of different nations in international public health journals.  it also aims to examine the degree of diversity that exists in these journals. methods: this study is a descriptive survey. it was done with objective sampling on 37 isi health journ...

DR. MARK M. RAVITCH (I.), surgeon-in-chief, Baltimore City Hospitals and associate professor in surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital was the guest of Jewish Hospital March 8-10 as the first visiting professor under the J. G. Probstein Visiting Professorship of Surgery, endowed in 1964 by the Leonson Foundation as a tribute to Dr. Probstein, hospital senior surgeon. Dr. Ravitch delivered two major ad...

in this study, the possibility of using canola stem residues for particleboard manufacturing was studied. the ratio of canola straw to the industrial particles was as 25:50, 50:50, 75:25 and 100:00 percents, respectively. urea formaldehyde resin was used as binder at three levels of 8, 10 and 12 percent based on oven dried weight of particles and the press time was at three level of 5, 6 and 7 ...

Abstract. Maximum likelihood (ML) estimation based on bivariate record data is considered as the general inference problem. Assume that the process of observing k records is repeated m times, independently. The asymptotic properties including consistency and asymptotic normality of the Maximum Likelihood (ML) estimates of parameters of the underlying distribution is then established, when m is ...