This paper studies strict preference relations on product sets induced by “ordinal aggregation methods”. Such methods are interpreted here as performing paired comparisons of alternatives based on the “importance” of attributes favoring each element of the pair: alternative x will be preferred to alternative y if the attributes for which x is better than y are “more important” than the attribut...

A classic issue in the theory of rational choice is whether individuals’ preferences should and can be measured. This paper suggests that studies of altruistic behavior will benefit from trying to measure altruistic preferences. Such an effort would enable scholars to test the separate effect of preferences and situational factors on action. The above suggestions are applied to the case of the ...

We investigate the problem of selecting a committee consisting of k members from a list of m candidates. The selection of each candidate consumes a certain weight (or cost). Hence, the choice of the k-committee has to satisfy a weight (or budget) constraint: The sum of the weights of all selected committee members must not exceed a given value W . While the former part of the problem is a typic...

This communication describes the influence of β-aminobenzenesulfonic acid ((S)Ant) on the conformational preferences of hetero foldamers. The designed (Aib-(S)Ant-Aib)n and (Aib-(S)Ant-Pro)n oligomers display a well-defined folded conformation featuring intramolecular mixed hydrogen bonding (7/11) and intra-residual (6/5) H-bonding interactions, respectively.

ISPSID ISPS dataset ID (Dublin Core: Identifier) D024 Title Title of study or dataset (Dublin Core: Title) Economics and Policy Preferences: Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals Author(S) Author(s) or PI(s); Persons or organizations responsible for data collection (Dublin Core: Creator) Eric Brunner, Stephen L. Ross, Ebony...