The aim of this research is to study social factors influencing on social consensus. Sampling method was multi-process and included cluster and multistage sampling and sample size based on Cochran's Formula was 380 persons too. Data collection tools was questionnaire. In this research, the methods of data analysis were independent T-Test, Spearman Correlation Coefficient, Multivariate Regressio...

I suggest a revised hypothesis for future testing. The revised hypothesis assumes a threshold effect for bafflegab. That is, prestige is related to complexity up to a certain level, beyond which there is no gain. One possible reason is that simple writing is not representative of what readers perceive as scientific writing. Alternatively, it may be that the reader's inability to understand the ...

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Worker displacement has become a common feature of employment in the "flexible economy." While studies of income losses and the duration of unemployment after displacement abound, and popular accounts argue that workers often lose status, less empirical attention has been paid to the quality or prestige of employment displaced workers are able to secure after a downsizing event. This paper help...

In this paper, we aim to analyse selected structural determinants of workforce participation after retirement in Poland. By structural determinants we mean characteristics of one's socio-economic position that (a) result from the interplay of social conditions (mechanisms of power, differentiated access to resources) and individual agency, and (b) restrict or facilitate individuals' choices. We...

This paper concerns the problem of output consensus in nonlinear non-minimum phase systems. The main contribution of the paper is to guarantee achieving consensus in the presence of unstable zero dynamics. To achieve this goal, an output redefinition method is proposed. The new outputs of agents are functions of original outputs and internal states and defined such that the dynamics of agents a...