As tipologias partidarias, que classificam os partidos na perspetiva da sua organizacao, profissionalizacao, filiacao, democracia intrapartidaria, comunicacao politica e estrategias de campanha, lideranca, sao um instrumento teorico empirico para uma variedade projetos investigacao sobre politicos, competicao representacao politica. No artigo apresenta-se proposta analise procure incorporar, fo...

This paper investigates utility maximising bidding heuristics for agents that participate in multiple heterogeneous auctions, in which the auction format and the starting and closing times can be different. Our strategy allows an agent to procure one or more items and to participate in any number of auctions. For this case, forming an optimal bidding strategy by global utility maximisation is c...

The paper identifies trusting problems between autonomous services in the Internet-of-Services (IoS). This scenario vision describes a general computational paradigm, which allows companies to procure computational resources externally. The arising conflicting interests between providers and consumers lead to strategic behaviour of single services. Usually trust and reputation models are propos...

This paper presents evidence on the perverse trade-off that first price auctions induce between low prices at the awarding stage and poor ex post performance when bids are not binding commitments. By exploiting the different timing with which first price auctions were introduced in Italy to procure public works, this study finds that at least half of the cost savings from lower winning prices a...

Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is among the most neglected of the tropical diseases, afflicting the poorest of the poor. In eastern Africa, VL causes at least 4000 deaths annually, a loss of approximately 385,000 disability-adjusted life years. Due to the chronicity of underlying causes, it is likely that the caseload will increase in the foreseeable future. While efforts should be pursued to deve...

interesting manner, that one gains pleasure as well as profit from reading them. Those who are not already acquainted with .the author's views should procure this book, which presents them mcst lucidly, and at moderate length. Professor Janet's work has done much to elucidate hysteria by a process of analysis of the psychical phenomena which lie at its root. We may remind our readers that accor...

Motivated by real life decision problems, we model a boundedly rational choice procedure, called choice by iterative elimination, where an alternative might not be compared by all available alternatives. Our decision maker continues her limited search until she finds an alternative which is optimal within its consideration set. We study properties of this procure and provide a full characteriza...

A new family of distortion risk measures -GlueVaRis proposed in BellesSampera et al. (2013) to procure a risk assessment lying between those provided by common quantile-based risk measures. GlueVaR risk measures may be expressed as a combination of these standard risk measures. We show here that this relationship may be used to obtain approximations of GlueVaR measures for general skewed distri...

Rural health care in India is predominantly served by primary and secondary hospitals. Secondary hospitals that have been running long term usually have a nursing school attached to them to provide a sustainable workforce of nurses. Thus, the nursing school becomes an integral component of a secondary hospital structure. The training of nurses includes a course on basic human anatomy. Although ...

We consider a consumer of a resource, such as electricity, who must pay a per unit charge to procure the resource, as well as a peak demand charge. We will present an efficient linear programming formulation for the demand response of such a consumer who could be a price taker, industrial or commercial user of electricity that has some ability to self-generate. We will establish a monotonicity ...