The notion of non-manipulability (or: strategy-proofness) used in the famous Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem is too strong to make useful distinctions between voting rules. We explore alternative definitions and suggest how these can be used to classify voting rules. If A is a finite set of alternatives, with |A| > 2, then an A-ballot is a linear ordering of A. Let {1, . . . , n} be a set of vote...

OBJECTIVE We examined associations between television viewing and prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among a representative sample of Caribbean-origin Hispanic elders living in Massachusetts. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 350 Puerto Rican and 105 Dominican elders (> or = 60 years). Information on television viewing hours was collected by a questionna...

broadcast digitalization with its enormous benefits to the broadcasting industry will improve the quality of content of programs delivered by television stations. africa has a switchover date of june, 2017. for nigerians to have access to television broadcast once the switch over is completed, they must purchase high definition television sets or the set-up box. the awareness among urban dwelle...

According to the standard definition, a Bayesian agent is one who forms his posterior belief by conditioning his prior belief on what he has learned, that is, on facts of which he has become certain. Here it is shown that Bayesianism can be described without assuming that the agent acquires any certain information; an agent is Bayesian if his prior, when conditioned on his posterior belief, agr...

Emergence is seen as the most significant feature discriminating “complex” from “non complex” systems. Nevertheless, no standard definition of emergence is currently available in the literature. This lack of a shared view affects the development of tools to detect and model emergence for both scientific and engineering applications. Here we review some definitions of emergence with the aim to d...

Among the results of this paper are the following: 1. Every Boolean (u1tra)power is the union of an updirected elementary family of direct ultrapowers. 2. Under certain conditions, a finitely iterated Boolean ultrapower is isomorphic to a single Boolean ultrapower. 3. A w-bounded filtral power is an elementary substructure of a filtral power. 4. Let . X be an elementary class closed under updir...

Rigging is the process of setting up a group of controls to operate a 3D model, analogous to the strings of a puppet. It plays a fundamental role in the animation process as it eases the manipulation and editing of expressions, but rigging can be very laborious and cumbersome for an artist. This difficulty arises from the lack of a standard definition of what is a rig and the multitude approach...