The paper proposes a unification of the two main frameworks commonly used for the analysis of collective decision-making: the framework of preference aggregation, developed from the seminal work of K. Arrow on social choice theory; and the more recent framework of judgment aggregation. Such unification provides several original insights on collective decision-making problems. The methods used a...

Despite the close affinity between collective memory and urban structures as the relationship between what is hidden and what is visible; rapid changes throughout the city have caused a disconnection between integrated memories and landscape cohesion. As a context for memories, the historical urban landscape proves to be valuable. The present research seeks to identify elements and signs in urb...

There is a paucity of research investigating the relationship of community-level characteristics such as collective efficacy and posttraumatic stress following disasters. We examine the association of collective efficacy with probable posttraumatic stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity in Florida public health workers (n = 2249) exposed to the 2004 hurricane season ...

Instilling resilience in critical infrastructure (CI) such as dams or power grids is a major challenge for tomorrow’s cities and communities. Resilience, here, pertains to CI’s ability adapt rapidly recover from disruptive events. In this paper, the problem of optimizing managing CIs studied. particular, comprehensive two-fold framework proposed improve CI by considering both individual their c...

The mechanism of self-organization resulting in coordinated collective motion has received wide attention from a range of scientists interested in both its technical and biological relevance. Models have been highly influential in highlighting how collective motion can be produced from purely local interactions between individuals. Typical models in this field are termed 'metric' because each i...

This paper aims at contributing to the outline and to the practical addressing of the challenges posed to the study of collective action dynamics by the unprecedented level of embeddedness of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in all domains of human action and, in particular, by the multiplication and the widespread use of social media. It does so in three steps. First, it addre...

The notions of individual and collective ethics were first explicitly defined in the biostatistical literature in 1971 to motivate a mathematical solution to a posed ethical dilemma. This paper reviews key antecedents to these concepts and traces explicit references to them over time, primarily in the biostatistical literature. Following a historical exposition of these texts, a critical themat...

Industrial accidents increasingly threaten society and economy; the increasing exposure and vulnerability of our modern interlaced societies contributes to intensifying their impact. Critical Infrastructures (CIs) have a prominent role, since they are vital for the welfare of the population and essential for the economic growth. As hazards are hard to predict, decision-makers need to implement ...

Several semantic and syntactic distinctions, which have largely been neglected in the Vietnamese linguistic literature, are drawn together in this paper in a comparative context with other better-studied languages in order to indicate that Inner Aspect is projected within the VP shell and independently of the projection of Outer Aspect – a structural proposal originally advanced by Travis (2010...