Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. However, it remains unproven whether psychological factors have an influence on breast cancer incidence. In our earlier study, subjects possessing two personality traits, decisiveness and "ikigai" (a Japanese word meaning something that makes one's life worth living), showed a significantly lower risk of developing breast cancer, although no psy...

Pattanaik and Peleg (1986) imposed regularity, ex-post Pareto optimality and independence of irrelevant alternatives on a probabilistic voting procedure and showed that: (i) the distribution of coalitional power for decisiveness in two-alternative feasible sets is subadditive in general, but additive if the universal set has at least four alternatives; and (ii) the distribution of coalitional p...

The aim of the present study was to investigate collaborative memory in adolescents with intellectual disabilities when collaborating with an assistant, and also the extent to which decisiveness is related to individual memory performance. Nineteen students with intellectual disabilities (mean age=18.5, SD=0.9) each collaborated with a teaching assistant (mean age 40.3, SD=12.1) familiar from e...

Let us consider that somebody is extremely interested in increasing the probability of a proposal to be approved by a certain committee and let us assume that for achieving this goal he/she is prepared to pay off one member of the committee. In a situation like this one, and assuming that vote-buying is allowed and free of stigma, which voter should be offered a bribe? The potential decisivenes...

Overregularization seen in child language learning, for example, verb tense constructs, involves abandoning correct behaviours for incorrect ones and later reverting to correct behaviours. Quite a number of other child development phenomena also follow this U-shaped form of learning, unlearning and relearning. A decisive learner does not do this and, more generally, never abandons an hypothesis...

a r t i c l e i n f o We explore the relationship between indecisiveness and impulsivity using a variety of individual difference measures for each construct. We observe a positive, rather than negative, correlation between traditional measures of indecisiveness and impulsivity. Further analysis demonstrates that standard measures of indecisiveness are positively correlated specifically with dy...

Abstract The Brexit process has shattered the foundations of British politics, with prime ministerial resignations, government defeats, continuous rebellions and floor-crossings. These phenomena seem at odds usual decisiveness Westminster systems. However, aforementioned departures from tradition could be interpreted as compatible typical distance any empirical reality theoretical models, excep...

Many applications deal with data that is uncertain. Some examples are applications dealing with sensor information, data integration applications and healthcare applications. Instead of these applications having to deal with the uncertainty, it should be the responsibility of the DBMS to manage all data including uncertain data. Several projects do research on this topic. In this paper, we intr...

Roberts (1979) showed that every social choice function that is ex-post implementable in private value settings must be weighted VCG, i.e. it maximizes the weighted social welfare. This paper provides two simplified proofs for this. The first proof uses the same underlying key-point, but significantly simplifies the technical construction around it, thus helps to shed light on it. The second pr...