Second-order election research clearly reveals that national incumbency impacts on European outcomes but despite the increasing importance of regions few studies explore impact regional politics. I theorize governmental status at level, authority, and relative timing affects vote share swings between previously held elections. Based an analysis including 12,545 for 468 parties compete elections...

Semantic models are presented for two simple imperative languages with higher order constructs. In the rst language the interesting notion is that of second order assignment x := s, for x a procedure variable and s a statement. The second language extends this idea by a form of higher order communication, with statements c ! s and c ? x, for c a channel. We develop operational and denotational ...

We present a new analysis of the relative rate of growth or shrinkage of grains in a two-dimensional network, based on the classical von Neumann-Mullins (VN-M) analysis. We find that an analysis of the stability of the grain shape during shrinkage or growth shows that any change in the regular 2D grain leads to changes in the shape. We also re-examine a recent analysis that claims to have inval...

Many applications that aim at enhancing sustainability rely on some sort of spatio-temporal model. The task can be monitoring or prediction in traffic networks, power grids, building energy management, river flow volume, and sea level – to mention just a few. The positive effect on the environment is achieved by a better control, better planning of processes or better disaster management. Spati...

We compute the transgressed forms of some modularly invariant characteristic forms, which are related to the twisted elliptic genera. We study the modularity properties of these secondary characteristic forms and relations among them. We also get some twisted anomaly cancellation formulas on some odd dimensional manifolds. Subj. Class.: Differential geometry; Algebraic topology MSC: 58C20; 57R2...

The authors use techniques and results from the theory of generalized metric spaces to give a new, short proof that every connected, linearly ordered topological space that is a cancellative topological semigroup is metrizable, and hence embeddable in R. They also prove that every separable, linearly ordered topological space that is a cancellative topological semigroup is metrizable, so embedd...