The dominant scienti c methodology for short term forecasting in important elections uses trial-heat polls, in which a sample of respondents report their current electoral preferences. Election markets, where self-selected participants trade shares of candidates at prices predictive of election day results, provide an alternative forecasting method. Because this new forecasting methodology ofte...

introduction: since educational empowerment of the faculty members of universities of medical sciences depends on our understanding of their educational needs. the present study aimed to investigate the educational needs of the faculty members of kermanshah university of medical sciences in 2011 in order to plan the appropriate training workshops. methods: in this descriptive study, the poll wa...

The problem of discipline in classrooms is a substantial element everyday school life. It affects equal ways both teachers and students an important factor affecting not only the effectiveness teaching, but also atmosphere classroom. article shows results research conducted among 529 elementary from podkarpackie voivodship. A diagnostic poll questionnaire were used as method research. have show...

For more than a decade, there has been a significant shift in public attitudes towards abortion in Ireland. Opinion polls and research consistently show increased support for access to abortion within Ireland: In May 2017, an Irish Times/Ipos MRBI poll [1] found that 73% of respondents agreed with abortion up to 12 weeks gestation. Also in May 2017, the results of a Behaviour and Attitudes Poll...

New hierarchical protocols, SRMA-ALOHA and SRMA-Poll, are proposed for multiple random-access in wide area satellite data networks. The stations are grouped and operate in ALOHA or Poll mode, and group master stations access the channel using the SRMA scheme. The performance of protocols has been evaluated using simulations. Throughput and delays are presented for various traffic load condition...

introduction: the internal evaluation is a process to improve the quality of the education using the collection and judgment of data. considering some principles about educational measurement and data collection causes better recognizing of this process. in this study, we conducted the internal evaluation of department of health care management, school of allied medical sciences in tehran unive...

The recent failures of traditional poll models, like the predictions in United Kingdom with the Brexit, or in United States presidential election with the victory of Donald Trump, have been noteworthy. With the decline of traditional poll models and the growth of the social networks, automatic tools are gaining popularity to make predictions in this context. In this paper we present our approxi...

We introduce a new medium access control (MAC) protocol named PDMA (Poll-before-Data Multiple Access). Most prior MAC protocols aimed at avoiding collisions of data packets in networks with hidden terminals are senderinitiated, in that the sender transmits a short request to send (RTS) asking the receiver for permission to transmit. In contrast, in PDMA, when a data packet arrives at the receiv...

Recent polls indicate that atheists are among the least liked people in areas with religious majorities (i.e., in most of the world). The sociofunctional approach to prejudice, combined with a cultural evolutionary theory of religion's effects on cooperation, suggest that anti-atheist prejudice is particularly motivated by distrust. Consistent with this theoretical framework, a broad sample of ...

Arizona State University! !! Introduction! On October 19th, 2015, Canadian citizens will head to the polls in their country’s 42nd general election. The vote offers the choice between the existing right wing government (Stephen Harper’s Conservatives), three largely left-of-center alternatives (the New Democrats, Liberals, and Greens), a regional party (the Bloc Québécois), and several independ...