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 ...

Hunting was an elite social pastime accessible to both men and women, of the correct class, throughout period 1860-1914. Female involvement in this sport preceded their widespread other sports pastimes such as tennis cycling. This article explores contradictions inherent women’s masculine sport. The demanded that participants display contemporary characteristics bravery, strength, independence,...

The Albany State soccer team, long the laughing stock of SUNY soccer, won the State University Center Championships in a ha rd fought overt ime Final this pas t weekend. The win thereby pu ts Albany in a strong position for a post-season tournament bid. The Danes opened the tou rna ment against Buffalo. Buffalo scored first,aflcronly fourminutes of play, bui as things turned ou t , that was the...

Path-Breakers: How Does Women’s Political Participation Respond to Electoral Success? This paper analyzes the effect of a woman’s electoral victory on women’s subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India’s state elections, we find that a woman winning office leads to a large and significant increase in the shar...

This series of three lecture will deal with two basic notions that are encountered in many different soft matter systems; geometric frustration and handedness. The first two lectures will focus on geometric frustration. We will introduce different kinds of geometric frustration, and discuss different possible strategies of resolving the resulting frustration, emphasizing differences between loc...

The experience of women firefighters involved in the disaster response to the 1994 NSW bushfires is explored using an eclectic feminist perspective. Accounts of non-stereotypic behaviour such as assertiveness, bravery and the leadership of men suggest a form of women's liberation which is anomalous to radical feminist prescriptions for improving women's social position. Using egalitarian rhetor...