The purpose of this note is to add some important properties to the results obtained in [2]. Specifically, it is shown that (i) an apportionment for relaxed divisor methods remains unchanged over an interval and (ii) any relaxed divisor method approaches the Webster method as the house size increases.

Abstract Apportionment methods are used in proportional representation systems for the apportionment of parliamentary seats among political parties proportionately to their vote counts, or allocation between geographical districts population figures. From an axiomatic viewpoint ought satisfy six basic principles: anonymity, balancedness, concordance, decency, exactness, and fairness. It is well...

Children's exposure assessment is a key input into epidemiology studies, risk assessment and source apportionment. The goals of this article are to describe a methodology for children's exposure assessment that can be used for these purposes and to apply the methodology to source apportionment for the case study chemical, diethylhexylphthalate (DEHP). A key feature is the comparison of total (a...

Niche apportionment models have only been applied once to parasite communities. Only the random assortment model (RA), which indicates that species abundances are independent from each other and that interspecific competition is unimportant, provided a good fit to 3 out of 6 parasite communities investigated. The generality of this result needs to be validated, however. In this study we apply 5...

In this paper, we describe which roles deep structures of law play in drafting legislation. Deep structures contain a formal description of the intended normative eeects of a new regulation. We will discuss mechanisms that can be used to generate diierent paraphrases of regulations automatically. Since it is possible to test the paraphrases on legal knowledge based systems, we have provided two...

These are years of rapid change in health care. Nurses face many challenges and have many opportunities to participate in and influence the formation of health care policy. Nurse citizens can become very effective in their lobbying efforts, whether on the federal, state, or local level, when they are armed with information about the key players and the processes and their belief in what nursing...

Previous research showed that considerable differences exist in telemedical legislation within different countries. The result points out the existence of major grasp between legislation in the USA, Europe and countries like Croatia. This article deals with analysis of chronological steps of legislation development and enactment. The focus of research is placed on enactment of legislation relat...

We experimentally investigate the Baron-Ferejohn (1989) model of legislative bargaining with two player teams versus individuals. Teams pass minimum winning coalitions (MECs) significantly more often than individuals, meeting or beating the demanding truth wins norm. Teams have significantly more proposer power, and come significantly closer to the SSPE prediction. This results from proposers c...