We study and characterize axiomatically a class of voting rules, called consent rules, that incorporate aspects of majoritarianism and liberalism. An outcome of the vote specifies who among the voters are eligible to a certain right or qualification. Each outcome serves also as a permissible ballot. Consent rules are parameterized by the weights given to individuals in determining their own qua...

Two diierent factorizations of the Fibonacci innnite word were given independently in 10] and 6]. In a certain sense, these factorizations reveal a self-similarity property of the Fibonacci word. We rst describe the intimate links between these two factorizations. We then propose a generalization to characteristic sturmian words. R esum e. Deux factorisations du mot de Fibonacci ont et e donn e...

This paper presents a novel approach to visualizing the time structure of musical waveforms. The acoustic similarity between any two instants of an audio recording is displayed in a static 2D representation, which makes structural and rhythmic characteristics visible. Unlike practically all prior work, this method characterizes self-similarity rather than specific audio attributes such as pitch...

The X-ray luminosity and temperature of clusters and groups of galaxies do not scale in a self-similar manner. This has often been interpreted as a sign that the intracluster medium has been substantially heated by non-gravitational sources. In this paper, we propose a simple model which, instead, uses the properties of galaxy formation to explain the available observations. Drawing on availabl...

Let us approach our topic by a methodical stab at its component parts, moral tradition and moral revolution, each of which also has their constituents: moral, tradition and revolution. Since tradition appears to be central, I start with an analysis of the term. Then I argue simply that a moral tradition is not self-justifying and certainly not just on account of its longevity. My major issue ho...

We consider the late time behaviour of non–tilted perfect fluid Bianchi VII0 models when the source is a radiation fluid, thereby completing the analysis of the Bianchi VII0 models initiated by Wainwright et al in a recent paper. The models exhibit the phenomena of asymptotic self-similarity breaking and Weyl-curvature dominance at late times. The late time dynamics of the VII0 perfect fluid mo...

We study a coarsening model describing the dynamics of interfaces in the onedimensional Allen-Cahn equation. Given a partition of the real line into intervals of length greater than one, the model consists in constantly eliminating the shortest interval of the partition by merging it with its two neighbors. We show that the mean-field equation for the time-dependent distribution of interval len...

In this article, we evaluate the self-motion curves of a 3R planar manipulator possessing one-degree-ofredundancy, different link lengths and joint limits. We demonstrate that one or two self-motion curves correspond to a given combination of values of primary task coordinates. Because of the manipulator’s mechanical restrictions, the self-motion can at one time be realized within one curve and...

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) are a major family of membrane receptors in eukaryotic cells and play a crucial role in various biological processes. They represent a family of protein targets with significant therapeutic value, and accordingly more than 30% of prescription drugs are GPCR ligands [1]. Extending previous attempts to map the pharmacological space solely based on ligand chemic...