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Abstract The absence of young adults in elected legislative assemblies is a democratic deficit with potentially severe repercussions. Yet, research rarely able to address the issue age group representation systematically because we are lacking empirical information on distribution parliaments. Worldwide Age Representation Parliaments (WARP) data set remedies this dearth data. It provides about ...

Agents in reinforcement learning tasks may learn slowly in large or complex tasks — transfer learning is one technique to speed up learning by providing an informative prior. How to best enable transfer between tasks with different state representations and/or actions is currently an open question. This paper introduces the concept of a common task subspace, which is used to autonomously learn ...

Trust can be viewed at the same time as an instrument both for an agent selecting the right partners in order to achieve its own goals, and for an agent of being selected from other potential partners in order to establish with them a cooperation/collaboration and to take advantage from the accumulated trust. In this paper we will analyze trust as the agents’ relational capital. Starting from t...

National parliaments play an important role in the European integration process. Parliaments are main law-making bodies defining policies, and on other hand, parliament oversights implementation of these policies by government. This article discusses practice the Georgian Parliament's legislative activity EU issues, forms of government oversight on i...

Abstract This introduction leads into the Special Issue “Parliaments in Middle East and North Africa: A Struggle for Relevance.” Parliaments Arab world have hardly been considered to be relevant institutions during decades of authoritarianism post-independence era. If at all, they were importance as a strategic element power-saving strategies regimes. The “Arab Spring” ten years ago, with its l...

We suggest that the conventional need for overwhelming amounts of astrophysical dark matter should be regarded as a warning to standard gravity rather than as merely a challenge to it, and show that the systematics of galactic rotation curve data can just as readily point in the direction of the equally covariant conformal gravity alternative. In particular we identify an apparent imprint of th...

In analysing a well-known hash-coding method, Knuth gave an exact expression for the average number of rejections encountered by players of a variant of musical chairs. We study a variant more closely related to musical chairs itself and deduce the same expression by a purely combinatorial approach. In an analysis of the average time to insert an item when using openaddress hash-coding, Knuth [...