The paper presents the problem of choosing the representatives in an assembly when the whole electoral region is subdivided into electoral districts. Because of the two dimensions, geographical (districts) and political (parties), the problem is called bi-apportionment. Often the allocation of seats to districts is pre-determined and furthermore distorted —meaning that the ratios of the number ...

A set of standard technologies already developed or under development by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) promises to bring back to authors the control of their works. The technologies are those of Content Representation, Digital Item Declaration, Interoperable Intellectual Property Management and Protection, and Metadata.

In an increasingly connected world where solving complex problems is not possible by solitary experts, educators and learners need opportunities to develop ways of thinking that allow them to engage with the dynamic and complex situations that arise in the world. The development of graduate attributes has been suggested as one way in which students can be prepared as active agents of social goo...

Experts have better information about the appropriate quality of treatment or surplus from trade than their customers. Providing both diagnosis and treatment, this leaves scope for fraud. In a credence good set-up, we experimentally investigate how intensity of price competition and the level of customer information about past expert behavior in uence an expert's incentive to defraud his custom...