Fix a Pareto optimal, strategy proof and non-bossy deterministic matching mechanism and define a random matching mechanism by assigning agents to the roles in the mechanism via a uniform lottery. Given a profile of preferences, the lottery over outcomes that arises under the random matching mechanism is identical to the lottery that arises under random serial dictatorship, where the order of di...

This case study describes the application of modern foresight techniques to the problem of developing a flexible enterprise Research and Development (R&D) strategy. It covers a general, grand scale collaborative technique for selecting focus areas and developing general strategy plus a more tightly focused and rigorous information organizing tool for making deep dives into the selected area. Th...

avian leukosis viruses (alvs) cause different types of tumours in poultry and can affect the health and egg production of the birds. to investigate the presence of the virus in chicken layer flocks in shiraz, 222 egg albumen from local layer breeder (25 eggs), local layer grand parent (30 eggs), broiler breeder (60 eggs), commercial layer (46 eggs) and broiler grand parent (61 eggs) were tested...

Ergodic stationary states of Minority Games with S strategies per agent can be characterised in terms of the asymptotic probabilities φ a with which an agent uses a of his strategies. We propose here a simple and general method to calculate these quantities in batch canonical and grand-canonical models. Known analytic theories are easily recovered as limiting cases and, as a further application...

Abstract This article examines the ideational dimension and political performance of American grand strategy since ‘9/11’ explores to what extent strategic assumptions, ideological dispositions, security practices Bush Doctrine have endured 2001 terrorist attacks. It advances a constructivist understanding as nexus national identity discourses practices. The will first explore significance exce...