Animals that live together in groups often face difficult choices, such as which food resource to exploit, or which direction to flee in response to a predator. When there are costs associated with deadlock or group fragmentation, it is essential that the group achieves a consensus decision. Here, we study consensus formation in emigrating ant colonies faced with a binary choice between two ide...

As many as 5 ice giants—Neptune-mass planets composed of ∼90% ice and rock and ∼10% hydrogen—are thought to form at heliocentric distances of ∼10–25 AU on closely packed orbits spaced ∼5 Hill radii apart. Such oligarchies are ultimately unstable. Once the parent disk of planetesimals is sufficiently depleted, oligarchs perturb one another onto crossing orbits. We explore both the onset and the ...

Abstract It often has been an illusion that Filipinos lack indigeneity due to the ties with United States since 1898. Lost in these mists were indigenous agendas lay underneath official narratives. The article presents a background and then examines administration of Elpidio Quirino, president Philippines from 1948 1953, particularly his neutralist Pacific Pact initiative failed use military fo...

As an introductory framework to the dossier, this essay analyzes Chilean political process based on images that (re)emerged with 2019 revolt and were deployed in constitutional channeled into a Constitutional Convention (2020–22). It shows how old ghosts of class, gender, nation appear these “mental images,” same have historically operated defeat transformative projects contributed reproduction...

As a regulatory tool, spatial planning is important as it directs socio-economic development and prevents environmental social damage by commercial public projects. There should be an integrated management to ensure the effective use of restricted resources, balancing infrastructural, industrial business with available including land, forest, marine. However, fragmented approach has been thrive...

Binarizing belief aggregation addresses how to rationally aggregate individual probabilistic beliefs into collective binary beliefs. Similar the development of judgment theory, formulating axiomatic requirements, proving impossibility theorems, and identifying exact agenda conditions theorems are natural important research topics in binarizing aggregation. Building on our previous we use an age...

How the Gilets Jaunes (Yellow Vests) faced electoral dilemma? Despite their rejection of political institutions, French municipal elections 2020 led some participants to embrace conventional politics. Under which circumstances can a social movement lead participation and eventually obtain success? Relying on quantitative qualitative data, this article provides an explanation activists different...