The Rawlsian perspective on social policy pays particular attention to the least advantaged members of society, but how should “the least advantaged” be identified? The concept of deprivation dominance operationalizes in part the Rawlsian evaluation of the welfare of the least advantaged members of society, but a statistical procedure for testing deprivation dominance is needed. In this paper, ...

The equality of genders has always remained a contentious issue. Every sphere of life is characterized by differential status ascribed to men and women. It has been argued that women have long been the disadvantaged gender in leisure. Taking specifically the case of travel for leisure, this study is an attempt to explore if socio-demographic factors like family responsibilities, dominance of sp...

We study a dominance relation for comparing outcomes based on unconditional qualitative preferences and compare it with its unconditional counterparts for TCP-nets and their variants. Dominance testing based on this relation can be carried out in polynomial time by evaluating the satisfiability of a logic formula.

The paper analyzes the signals of dominance in different modalities displayed during TV talk shows and debates. Dominance is defined, according to a model in terms of goals and beliefs, as a person’s having more power than others. A scheme is presented for the annotation of signals of dominance in political debates: based on the analysis of videotaped data, a typology is proposed of strategies ...

This study examined students’ grade expectations over the course of a semester. Students provided their expectations at 3 times: within the first week of the semester, midway through the semester, and within the week just prior to the final exam. Results demonstrate that expected grades decreased over the semester and that the rate of change interacted with students’ cumulative grade point aver...

Genetic Dominance & Cellular Processes Understanding that dominance is not a mechanism, but rather a consequence of underlying cellular processes Robert D. Seager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576 Available online at . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . http://www.nabt....

Soil on the dolomites of Samobor and Zumberak hills developed as a consequence of interaction of specific pedogenetic factors. The zone of saccharoidal Triassic dolomites is characterized by heavily dissected relief with tent-like crests with steep sloping sides and cut in "V"-shaped valleys, displaying a great density of valley network. Dolomite parent rock is poorly permeable with a shallow, ...

The most natural way of ordering portfolios is by comparing their payoffs. If a port­ folio has a payoff higher than the payoff of another portfolio, then it is greater than the other portfolio. This order is called the portfolio dominance order. An important property that a portfolio dominance order may have is the lattice property. It requires that the supremum and the infimum of any two port...

This paper analyze the strategic aspect of a popular matching mechanism, the Boston mechanism, in the school choice problem. It is known that participants may not submit the true preferences when the Boston mechanism is used. This paper analyzes how participants submit their preferences in this popular mechanism by looking at the (iteratively) undominated strategies. I show that any (iterativel...