A general definition is proposed for the margin of victory of an election contest. That definition is applied to Instant Runoff Voting (IRV)1 and several estimates for the IRV margin of victory are described: two upper bounds and two lower bounds. Given round-by-round vote totals, the time complexity for calculating these bounds does not exceed O(C logC), where C is the number of candidates. It...

In this paper we present a mobile application for the seamless and effective provision of networked multimedia content search and delivery services to users on the move. The VICTORY project had as an outcome a framework enabling users to search and retrieve multimedia objects over a distributed Peer to Peer based network. Building upon the VICTORY framework, a mobile user agent was developed, w...

Covering the face and all body parts, sometimes the only evidence to identify a person is their hand geometry, and not the whole handonly two fingers (the index and the middle fingers) while showing the victory sign, as seen in many terrorists videos. This paper investigates for the first time a new way to identify persons, particularly (terrorists) from their victory sign. We have created a ne...

In the decision-making literature, it is known that preferences between two options can be influenced in different ways by the introduction of a third option. We investigated whether such influences could be demonstrated when making decisions about qualitative aspects of episodic memories. In a baseline condition, participants were asked which of two dissimilar events they remembered more vivid...

The concession and victory speech is a ritual in American politics, described by Corcoran as a “rite of capitulation,” in which both candidates at the end of an election sanction the legitimacy of the process, agree on the outcome, and start the political transition. Concession and victory speeches emerged as a distinct convention in the television era, but as web services like Twitter take on ...

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The health consequences of sand particle inhalation are incompletely understood. This project evaluated the respiratory toxicity of sand particles collected at military bases near Fort Irwin USA, in Iraq (Camp Victory, Taji and Talil), and Khost Afghanistan. Our primary focus was on assessing the role of soluble metals in the respiratory toxicity of the sand particles using in vitro and in vivo...