in the early stage of the twentieth century, iran passed one of its significant turning point domestically and internationally. during these years, which coincided with the last decades of the qajar dynasty, iran participated in multilateral diplomatic processes in spite of its weak internal and external power position. this research, while cognitive of the centrality of geneva based intergover...

for Communication Yearbook 15. The resourceful reader:Interpreting television characters and narratives The television viewer is an active interpreter, not a passive recipient, of programs. Viewers'interpretations of programs mediate television effects. The 'active viewer' is accepted by bothtraditional and critical mass communication scholars, allowing for a possible convergence<lb...

This paper studies individual incentives to pay to the fixed cost of an impartial contract enforcement institution. If agents do not collect enough resources, they could still enforce their trades through an asymmetric enforcement system, where only resourceful agents are able to punish their encounters for cheating. The main results are: (i) When the impartial system excludes non-contributors,...

We study contextual bandits with ancillary constraints on resources, which are common in realworld applications such as choosing ads or dynamic pricing of items. We design the first algorithm for solving these problems that improves over a trivial reduction to the non-contextual case. We consider very general settings for both contextual bandits (arbitrary policy sets, Dudik et al. (2011)) and ...