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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Deliberative democracy aims at reaching collective decisions through mechanisms that involve flexible opinions, variable alternative sets and information gathering in the process of decision making as opposed to exogenously fixed alternative sets and ...
Hannu Nurmi
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The Inverse Shapley Value Problem [PDF]
, 2012 For $f$ a weighted voting scheme used by $n$ voters to choose between two candidates, the $n$ \emph{Shapley-Shubik Indices} (or {\em Shapley values}) of $f$ provide a measure of how much control each voter can exert over the overall outcome of the vote ...
I. Benjamini +7 more
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U.S. Consumer Preferences for Cage‐Free Eggs and Hen Housing Policies
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Farm animal welfare (FAW) continues to be a divisive issue in the egg industry. In the United States, 10 states and most major retailers have implemented policies or voluntary pledges to transition to 100% cage‐free egg sales. We use best‐worst scaling and discrete choice experiments to evaluate U.S.
Vincenzina Caputo +3 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The US hemp market is a new and nascent industry that has been devoid of research for about half a century. This study examined the effects of exogenous shock on price at each phase of the value chain—Farm (hemp biomass), and its impact on prices at other phases of the value chain—Intermediary Processor (crude cannabidiol hemp) and Final ...
Solomon Odiase +2 more
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On infinite generativeness of quinary fractions in a class of probability transformers
Известия высших учебных заведений. Поволжский регион: Физико-математические науки, 2021 Background. The object of the research is the expressibility of rational probabilities by transforming random variables with distributions from some initial set by Boolean functions.
E.E. Trifonova
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Crossing the Line: Evidence for the Categorization Theory of Spatial Voting [PDF]
, 2023 Mark Pickup +2 more
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Inverse problems in voting theory [PDF]
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2019 In this paper we deal with certain inverse problems arising in the use of bi-proportional apportionment systems. These are highly sensitive integer problems and their solution allows to determine approximately the number of regional party seats in different electoral regions on the base of representative nation-wide predictions for the total number of ...
Konstantinov M. +3 more
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Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Combining machine learning and probabilistic statistical learning is a powerful way to discover and design new materials. A variety of machine learning approaches can be used to identify promising candidates for target applications, and causal inference can help identify potential ways to make them a reality.
Jonathan Y. C. Ting, Amanda S. Barnard
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Consensus-based methods for distributed systems, blockchain, and voting: a survey
Journal of Information and TelecommunicationCondorcet and Borda first introduced the consensus theory in the eighteenth century when they studied voting systems. Consensus problems have been investigated for a long time in many fields such as economics, sociology, computer science, bioinformatics,
Dai Tho Dang, Dosam Hwang
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When the Heat Is On: The Effect of Temperature on Voter Behavior in Presidential Elections
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Hot temperatures lead to heightened arousal. According to excitation transfer theory, arousal can increase both antisocial and prosocial behavior, depending on the context.
Jasper Van Assche +5 more
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