After University of Texas-El Paso quar terback Trevor Vittatoe tossed a touchdown pass to give his team a 20-point lead with 14:44 remaining in the fourth quarter of Saturday's game, a large portion of the homecoming crowd headed toward the Rice Stadium exits. But senior defensive lineman George Chukwu blocked the Miners ' extra point attempt, and before you could say "Homecoming Weekend," Rice...

A nurse who claims her 'excessive pillow plumping' led to an unfair police record has won a landmark court ruling.

As with the other presidential elections from this decade, the 2008 election was followed by considerable speculation as to how new efforts to mobilize voters affected the eventual outcome. Although the conventional wisdom implies that “Democrats benefit from higher turnout,” previous research in political science demonstrates that such a conclusion applies to actual election results inconsiste...

This simulation study explores some conditions leading to transitivity within dominance orders. Combinations of three parameters were varied to study their consequences upon hierarchy formation and upon the degree of linearity of resultant structures. The factors studied were (i) the importance of initial Resource Holding Potentials (RHPs) , (ii) changes brought in RHPs by successive victories ...

This paper analyzes a two-alternative voting model with the distinctive feature that voters have preferences over margins of victory. We study voting contests with a finite as well as an infinite number of voters, and with and without mandatory voting. The main result of the paper is the existence and characterization of a unique equilibrium outcome in all those situations. At equilibrium, vote...

This paper wishes to contribute to the ongoing debate on standardization processes by addressing on the economic and social aspects that shape the creation and diffusion of standards. The aim of the paper is to deal with a clear gap in the literature, as evolution of standards over time has not been fully explored. Indeed, mainstream literature tends to treat creation and diffusion as two disti...

Pyongyang, July 27 (KCNA) -A national meeting was held at the Pyongyang Indoor Stadium on Friday to celebrate the 59th anniversary of the victory of the Korean people in the Fatherland Liberation War. Present there were senior party, state and army officials including Kim Yong Nam, Choe Yong Rim, Choe Ryong Hae and Hyon Yong Chol, officials of party, military, power bodies, public organizations...