People are regularly asked to report on their likelihoods of carrying out consequential future behaviors, including complying with medical advice, completing educational assignments, and voting in upcoming elections. Despite these stated self-predictions being notoriously unreliable, they are used to inform many strategic decisions. We report two studies examining stated self-prediction about w...

We provide a new method to compute the Banzhaf power index for weighted voting games as well as weighted double and triple majority games. We calculate the Banzhaf index in an exact way by generating functions, with a signi...cant decrease in the computational complexity. Moreover, the Banzhaf indices are calculated for the decision rules approved in the Nice summit meeting, which will be used ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Limited studies have indicated that an alternative small color difference formula would be more appropriate for use in dentistry. PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to determine which color difference formula provides a superior degree of fit for judgments of perceptibility and acceptability and to determine if different groups of evaluators have different levels of ...

some applications are critical and must designed Fault Tolerant System. Usually Voting Algorithm is one of the principle elements of a Fault Tolerant System. Two kinds of voting algorithm are used in most applications, they are majority voting algorithm and weighted average algorithm these algorithms have some problems. Majority confronts with the problem of threshold limits and voter of weight...

some applications are critical and must designed Fault Tolerant System. Usually Voting Algorithm is one of the principle elements of a Fault Tolerant System. Two kinds of voting algorithm are used in most applications, they are majority voting algorithm and weighted average algorithm these algorithms have some problems. Majority confronts with the problem of threshold limits and voter of weight...

Voting in national elections from the comfort of one’s home computer may never be practical or secure, but we argue that remote network voting can be both practical and secure. Provisional and postal absentee ballots, which trade some amount of anonymity for the ability to determine the eligibility of a distant voter, serve as a template for how electronic remote voting might proceed. We propos...

In recent years the warning effect of vehicle exterior noise for other road users, especially pedestrians, has been widely recognized. Previously we showed experimental results on perceptibility of different vehicle exterior noises in urban traffic, and demonstrated that a qualitative prediction of perceptibility is possible by just considering noise levels [2]. The present paper aims at extend...

The dual-tree complex wavelet transform (DTCWT) is a relatively recent enhancement to the discrete wavelet transform (DWT), with beneficial properties such as shift invariant, good directionality, perfect reconstruction. These properties are well utilized to obtain improved robustness and perceptibility. Principle component analysis is used as a predictive model and is an excellent technique fo...

"In an age of electronic banking and online college degrees, why hasn't the rest of the nation gone to voting on touchscreen computers? The reason is simple and resonates with the contentious debate that has yet to be resolved after at least 15 years of wrangling over the issue of electronic voting. No one has yet figured out a straightforward method of ensuring that one of the most revered dem...