We study a model in which voters choose between two candidates on the basis of both ideology and competence. While the ideology of the candidates is commonly known, voters are imperfectly informed about competence. Voter preferences, however, are such that it is a dominant strategy to vote according to ideology alone. When voting is compulsory, the candidate of the majority ideology prevails an...

An enzymatic synthesis of sphingomyelin, N-acylsphingosylphosphorylcholine, was demonstrated by Sribney and Kennedy to occur via a reaction between ceramide (Nacylsphingosine) and CDP-choline. They indicated in this study that N-acyl derivatives of fhreo-sphingosine were far superior to the eryfhro derivatives as acceptors for the phosphorylcholine moiety. We have repeated these enzymatic exper...

accounts and narratives of the ancient iranian texts and sources of the islamic period concerning fereydun indicate that this iranian dragon-slayer hero has been known for his three powers, that is “fighting powers,” “medical skills,” and “sorcery arts”. on the other hand, his name, fereydun (middle persian “frēdōn”, avestan “θraētaona-“), seems to mean “the owner of three powers” or “the one w...

The article focuses on a passage from Carl Schmitt?s Ex Captivitate Salus - book famously written in Nurnberg prison 1946 which he draws, memory, story derived Serbian epic poetry, to justify his understanding of historiography, victory, and the figure hero. Analyzing entire poem Schmitt extracts vignette question, we show how text presents significantly more complicated messy picture figures v...

1. Overview China, in its 50 years of communist rule since liberation, has experienced cultural and ideological change on a massive scale. The editorials from the People’s Daily, the typical public discourse representing the Communist ideology of China, encoded these ideological changes in its formulations. This study will present the meaning changes of some political-social keywords in editori...

After creation of an arteriovenous fistula or placement of an arteriovenous graft, several weeks are required for maturation prior to first cannulation. Patients need an alternative way to receive hemodialysis during this time, frequently a catheter. After multiple failed access attempts, patients can run out of options and become catheter dependent. At our institution, we place HeRO grafts in ...

Austen's extraordinary realism in depicting the dynamic internal processes which follow on the heroine's loss in Persuasion becomes clear in the light of a psychoanalytic understanding of mourning. Persuasion dramatizes the effects of a mother's death in adolescence as these come into play at the time of the heroine's separation from her fiancée and her later mourning. The thesis of this paper ...