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Exploiting Polyhedral Symmetries in Social Choice

open access: yes, 2012
A large amount of literature in social choice theory deals with quantifying the probability of certain election outcomes. One way of computing the probability of a specific voting situation under the Impartial Anonymous Culture assumption is via counting
A Barvinok   +16 more
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Enhanced Free Fatty Acid Production From Goat and Cow Milk: Conventional and Ultrasound‐Assisted Lipolysis of Whole and Disrupted Fat Globules

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Lipid Science and Technology, Volume 127, Issue 5, May 2025.
The graphical abstract illustrates the combined use of physical pretreatments—high‐shear dispersing (HSD), stirring (ST), and high‐pressure homogenization (HPH)—to reduce fat globule size in goat and cow milk creams, enhancing enzymatic hydrolysis.
Arthur Pompilio da Capela   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional Diversity Effects of Vegetation on Runoff to Design Herbaceous Hedges for Sediment Retention

open access: yesDiversity, 2020
Background: Functional diversity effects on ecosystem processes, like on soil erosion, are not fully understood. Runoff and soil erosion in agricultural landscapes are reduced by the hydraulic roughness (HR) of vegetation patches, which furthers sediment
Léa Kervroëdan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Strong No Show Paradox is a common flaw in Condorcet Voting Correspondences. [PDF]

open access: yes
The No Show Paradox (there is a voter who would rather not vote) is known to affect every Condorcet voting function. This paper analyses a strong version of this paradox (there is a voter whose favorite candidate loses the election if she votes honestly,
Joaquín Pérez
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Dueling Bandits with Qualitative Feedback

open access: yes, 2018
We formulate and study a novel multi-armed bandit problem called the qualitative dueling bandit (QDB) problem, where an agent observes not numeric but qualitative feedback by pulling each arm.
Honda, Junya   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Narrative review on ethical and psychological issues raised by genetic and genomic testing in pediatric oncology care

open access: yesJournal of Genetic Counseling, Volume 34, Issue 2, April 2025.
Abstract In pediatric oncology, genetic and genomic tests are proposed throughout the care pathway for many reasons (e.g., cancer characterization, identification of the most appropriate treatment, patient selection for clinical trials, identification of tissue/organ donors, or risk of relapse prediction). Despite the many different approaches (somatic
Marion Droin‐Mollard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Condorcet Cycles? A Model of Intertemporal Voting [PDF]

open access: yes
An intertemporal voting model is examined where, at each date, there is a pairwise majority vote between the existing chosen state and some other state, chosen randomly.
Kevin Roberts
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Condorcet Completion Methods that Inhibit Manipulation through Exploiting Knowledge of Electorate Preferences

open access: yesGames, 2014
This paper attacks a problem like the one addressed in an earlier work (Potthoff, 2013) but is more mathematical. The setting is one where an election is to choose a single winner from m (> 2) candidates, it is postulated that voters have knowledge ...
Richard F. Potthoff
doaj   +1 more source

Manipulation through political endorsements [PDF]

open access: yes
We study elections with three candidates under plurality voting. A candidate is a Condorcet loser if the majority of the voters place that candidate at the bottom of their preference rankings.
Mehmet Ekmekci
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Are Condorcet and minimax voting systems the best?

open access: yes, 2020
For decades, the minimax voting system was well known to experts on voting systems, but was not widely considered to be one of the best systems. But in recent years, two important experts, Nicolaus Tideman and Andrew Myers, have both recognized minimax ...
Darlington, Richard B.
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