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Precis: This paper examines the electoral impact of the counting and transfer of lower preference votes on Dail elections since 1922. The relationship between transfers and constituency size is assessed, and it is shown that a constituency size of at least five members is needed before transfers have an even chance of affecting the final result. Only Fine Gael has benefited significantly in net...

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AIIS3’RACT VIGI 1,ANI’E IS an ultrafast smart sensor testbcd for generic Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) applications with a series of capability demonstration focussed on cruise missi le defense (CMIJ). VIG1l.AN’1%’S sensor/processor architecture is based on next-generation lJV/visible/l R semors and a tcraoperations per second sugar-cube processor, as well as supporting airborne vehicle. I...

În prezentul studiu am abordat problema standardului probei în camera preliminară. Mai precis, stabilit că deși a fost deschisă calea unei veritabile cercetări judecătorești preliminară, legiuitorul omis să prescrie un standard al probei. Ulterior, constatat se impune reglementarea unui și că, prin raportare la tradiția common law, acesta ar trebui fie „probe clare convingătoare”. Pe lângă prel...

Temperature extremes can cause disastrous impacts on ecological and social economic systems. China is very sensitive to climate change, as its warming rate exceeds that of the global mean level. This paper focused on the spatial and temporal changes of the temperature extremes characterized by the 95th percentile of maximum temperature (TX95), the 5th percentile of the minimum temperature (TN5)...

The goal is to understand in as much detail as possible the biophysical mechanisms and systems of the human brain that account for our cognitive capacities. In the first chapter of The Cognitive Brain (TCB), I presented a partial list of basic cognitive tasks that confront us in our dayto-day activities and that we are able to perform with apparent natural ease. A credible theoretical model of ...