Voters sometimes vote for seemingly less-qualified candidates. To explain this fact, we develop a political agency model with sequential elections in which voter elects politician among candidates different competence (valence) levels, considering that politicians’ representation of voters’ preferences depends on their levels. We show negative relationship exists between and when future challen...

RESEARCH QUESTION What was the experience of preceptorship like for newly qualified registered nurses in a healthcare trust? METHOD A qualitative approach was used with data collected using semi-structured one-to-one interviews with eight participants who had recently completed their preceptorship period. The data was analysed using Newell and Burnard's (2011) Pragmatic Approach to Qualitativ...

Research on the field of uncertainty in logic programming has evolved during the last 25 years. In a recent paper [13] we have revised a classical approach by van Emden’s to Quantitative Logic Programming [19], generalizing it to a generic scheme QLP(D) for so-called Qualified Logic Programming over a parametrically given domain D, whose elements play the role of generalized truth values and ca...

This is an analysis of strategic voting under the qualified majority rule. Existing formal analyses of the plurality rule predict the complete coordination of strategic voting: A strict interpretation of Duverger’s Law. This conclusion is rejected. Unlike previous models, the popular support for each option is not commonly certain. Agents base their vote on both public and private signals of po...

Since American legislatures began passing bias crime statutes (which set more severe penalties for crimes committed from biased motives) in the 1980s, many legal philosophers have argued that such statutes are unjust on the grounds that they punish character traits and feelings rather than actions and intentions. It is unjust to punish character traits and feelings, these authors have supposed,...

This teaching cases study describes the development and implementation of an enterprise reporting system in a major Australian law firm. The dominant view in professional practice is that business intelligence systems like the one reported in this case should be provided data by an enterprise data warehouse. The case is particularly interesting because the reporting system was not based on a da...

cystic hygroma is a well-recognized lesion in paediatric patients but it is very rare in adults. we report here a case of cervical cystic hygroma in a 45 yr old male. the reasons to present this case are 1) its rarity in adults 2) unusual age of presentation 3) simulates various benign and malignant lesions at this site 4) is a diagnostic challenge and 5) role of histology for definitive postop...

case reports are considered as the lowest level of evidence while at the same time they are frontiers of evidence collection. case reports are professional stories about novel medical events and will worth publication only if they possess complexity, proper data collection, justified diagnosis, and legitimate intervention as well as appropriate language, punctuation, and syntax. a case report m...