Approval voting is designed to be "insensitive to numbers" of voters, and likely to elect a Condorcet candidate. However, the result of an election among one group of candidates gives no information about the results of elections among any other groups, even if every voter follows the recommended utilitymaximizing strategy, which places strong restrictions on the individual voter's subset ballo...

The UNCCD has been ratified by over 190 countries. It is the attempt by nations, both rich and poor to control the scourge of desertification. The definition of which is “land degradation in arid, semiarid, and dry subhumid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities. It is now widely accepted that desertification is not the relentless advance of des...

Election officials are frequently locked into a single vendor’s product line by decisions made years and decades ago in their jurisdiction when the needs were different. The cost of converting the jurisdiction’s entire product line to another vendor and the top to bottom change in procedures often required is prohibitive. Election officials don’t have an opportunity to shop for the best product...

The refractory period may be shortened to one-fifth or one-sixth the normal, although vagus action is a necessary accompaniment of such high-grade shortening. This change makes rapid reexcitation possible and the formation of circuits having diameters of but a few millimetres. Since the refractory phase does not occur simultaneously in all fibers, the circuits must be formed in different and sh...

The Single Transferable Vote (STV) is a system of preferential voting employed in multi-seat elections. Each vote cast by a voter is a (potentially partial) ranking over a set of candidates. No techniques currently exist for computing the margin of victory (MOV) in STV elections. The MOV is the smallest number of vote manipulations (changes, additions, and deletions) required to bring about a c...

This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB). This is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration with the T1 Family File (T1FF) of income tax returns from the Canada Revenue Agency. As this database n...

The behaviour of a viscous drop squeezed between two horizontal planes (a Hele-Shaw cell) is treated by both theory and experiment. When the squeezing force $F$ constant surface tension neglected, predicts ultimate growth radius $a\sim t^{1/8}$ with time $t$ . This first reviewed found to be in excellent agreement Surface at boundary reduces interior pressure, this effect included analysis, alt...