Executive Summary This paper discusses impediments to female candidate success in national elections in the Western Melanesian country of Solomon Islands. Increased female representation in parliaments is desirable both for reasons of gender equity and because evidence suggests such increases come coupled with development benefits. Yet, while numbers of women members of parliament (MPs) are inc...

Reed-Solomon codes and Gabidulin codes have maximum Hamming distance and maximum rank distance, respectively. A general construction using skew polynomials, called skew Reed-Solomon codes, has already been introduced in the literature. In this work, we introduce a linearized version of such codes, called linearized Reed-Solomon codes. We prove that they have maximum sum-rank distance. Such dist...

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The quality of online multimedia is required higher and higher, yet the uncertainty of network, such as interference, connection failure, still exists. In order to ensure the quality of service in multimedia transmission, we incorporate erasure code with video code together, and present a collaborative coding framework of Reed-Solomon code (RS) and H.264. First of all, we analyze the common cod...

In this paper we argue that managers confront a paradox in selecting strategy. On the one hand, capital markets systematically discount uniqueness in the investment strategy choices of firms. Uniqueness in strategy heightens the cost of collecting and analyzing information to evaluate a firm’s future value. These greater costs in strategy evaluation discourage the collection and analysis of inf...