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The secretary problem on an unknown poset [PDF]
Random Structures & Algorithms, 2012 AbstractWe consider generalizations of the classical secretary problem, also known as the problem of optimal choice, to posets where the only information we have is the size of the poset and the number of maximal elements. We show that, given this information, there is an algorithm that is successful with probability at least \documentclass{article ...
Bryn Garrod, Robert Morris 0001
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Secretary Problem: Graphs, Matroids and Greedoids [PDF]
Operations Research Forum, 2021 AbstractIn the paper, the generalisation of the well-known “secretary problem” is considered. The aim of the paper is to give a generalised model in such a way that the chosen set of the possible best k elements have to be independent of all previously rejected elements.
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A man of his time: Joseph Leidy, racial science, and American anatomy
Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Professor Joseph Leidy M.D. was arguably the most influential anatomist in the nineteenth‐century United States, having written over 500 publications and serving as the first President of the Association of American Anatomists. While many of Leidy's diverse contributions to American science and medicine are well‐known, scholars have said much ...
Christopher D. E. Willoughby
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The UN facing Russian-Ukrainian war as a challenge to european security [PDF]
Ante Portas, 2023 The article deals with the problem of insufficient effectiveness of the international organizations, the UN in particular, in preventing hostilities at the global level. The point is that the UN has no effective mechanisms and instruments at its disposal
Natalia L. Yakovenko
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International Journal of Game TheoryAbstract We consider a competitive variant of the secretary problem. We study a two-stage game in which, in the first stage, the employer uses a very simple but natural hiring rule: interview a fixed number of applicants that are all rejected and accept the first applicant that is better than any of the previously seen applicants and, in the ...
Tom McGrath 0001, Marc Schröder 0002
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British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.Aim This study aimed to compare how Norwegian healthcare professionals (HCPs) and consumers reported the same adverse event (AE) following immunization with vaccines against COVID‐19 during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Specifically, we aimed to compare the extent to which HCPs and consumers reported information relevant for assessing the causal relationship ...
Tommy Emil Dzus +4 more
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FOREIGN POLICY OF J. KENNEDY: THE PERSONAL FACTOR IN THE COOPERATION BETWEEN THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY OF STATE D. RUSK [PDF]
Американська історія і політикаThe proposed article is devoted to the figure of Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the presidency of John F. Kennedy in 1961–1963, with special attention to the interpersonal relationship between him and the president.
Tetiana Klynina
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how national education in Hong Kong functions as a contested arena in which state and non‐state actors struggle over the meaning of citizenship, identity and schooling. Using inductive frame analysis of 319 news articles (2020–2025) from five Chinese‐ and English‐language outlets, it identifies diagnostic, prognostic and ...
Jason Cong Lin
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Knowing education in Thailand like a global expert organisation: Politics, context and data
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Global expert organisations play increasingly significant roles in the way that education is understood and governed internationally, including by influencing the discourses through which education is conceptualised and shaping norms of what counts as success, failure, progress and the most desirable visions for the future.
Steve Puttick +6 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract In this paper, we explore how neurodivergent ways of being in early education are often gendered. The intersectionalities of gender and neurodivergence often lead to fixed expectations that perpetuate binary interpretations, pathologisations, missed diagnoses and a lack of curated support.
Ruth Churchill Dower, Hannah Hogarth
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