Science loses cabinet seat after Australian election

Monotonicity of Single-seat Preferential Election Rules

Various properties of preferential election rules are described, including nine forms of monotonicity. It is shown that Condorcet’s principle is incompatible with many of them. Some progress is made towards the task of determining all maximal mutually compatible subsets of these properties. To that end, a survey is given of the monotonicity properties of many known single-seat preferential elec...

Election Reform After the 2000 Election

Science and God in the election.

Space science. Canada eyes front-row seat in Mars program.

As a first step in that campaign, some 120 researchers met late last month in Montreal to kick around ideas ranging from drilling beneath the martian surface to returning samples from one of its moons. “We look at this as the next major space program for Canada,” says Marc Garneau, recently named executive vice president of the Canadian Space Agency. “We want to be involved with Mars in more th...

The seat belt law and after.

We report a retrospective study of 378 perforating eye injuries presenting between August 1981 and July 1984 to four major teaching hospitals. The aetiological groups have been analysed together and by region, and preventive measures for some groups are discussed. We have confirmed the effectiveness of seat belt legislation in reducing serious eye injury.