This paper concerns randomized leader election in synchronous distributed networks. A distributed leader election algorithm is presented for complete n-node networks that runs in O(1) rounds and (with high probability) uses only O( √ n log n) messages to elect a unique leader (with high probability). When considering the “explicit” variant of leader election where eventually every node knows th...

This little work contains the cream of the reports which during the last four years have been made in the journal of the American Medical Association by the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry of the Association. It should be in the hands of every one of our readers, for not only does it afford valuable information regarding the composition of many much vaunted proprietary medicines, thus supplem...

Sellers often make explicit or implicit product claims without providing evidence. Even when such “puffery” is pure cheap talk, we find it can be credible and help buyers make a better decision. Talking up one attribute of a product leads rational buyers to have a better impression of the product on that attribute, but also to have a worse impression of the product on other attributes. Such upd...

This study examines the proposition that political business cycle theory is relevant to private foreign lenders to developing countries. We find that: credit rating agencies downgrade developing country ratings more often in election years, and do so by approximately one rating level; bond spreads are higher in the 60 days before an election compared to spreads in the 60 days after an election;...

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The ‘propaganda model’ of news production in capitalist democracies elaborated by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1988 was met with initial hostile criticism and then more or less complete neglect. In the last five years, there has been a renewal of interest, although opinion remains seriously divided. This article adopts a sympathetic stance towards the main ideas of the model, but sugges...

Der Terrorismus nutzt das Internet und insbesondere soziale Medien bereits seit einiger Zeit zur Rekrutierung neuer Mitglieder und zur Verbreitung ihrer Ideologie. Aber auch deren Gegner nutzen das Internet zur Terrorbekämpfung. Auch wenn es zum Einsatz sozialer Medien in Krisen bereits zahlreiche Veröffentlichungen gibt, wurde deren Einsatz im Terrorismus, einer besonderen Art der Krise, insbe...

This study examines the relationships between the 2016 presidential election, indirect sexism and women’s self-perceptions, attitudes and psychological well-being. Specifically, this study employs a two by two factorial design with between-subject factors of salient indirect sexism (salient indirect sexism manipulation or control) and the election (before or after) and investigates whether thos...

This study examines the proposition that political business cycle theory is relevant to private foreign lenders to developing countries. We find that: credit rating agencies downgrade developing country ratings more often in election years, and do so by approximately one rating level; bond spreads are higher in the 60 days before an election compared to spreads in the 60 days after an election;...