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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Ideal Points"”.
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Essays in political economy
… focusing on estimation of the U.S. legislators' ideal points in multiple meaningful dimensions. The first chapter presents a formal political competition model with differentiated candidates. In this model, the government expenditure must be financed through a proportional income tax, candidates …
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Experimenting With Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Parties, Coalitions, and Policies
… parties' spatial positions, legislators' ideal points, and the formation of pro and anti-pension reform coalitions. While this theoretical argument has been developed based on experiences of Central and Eastern European countries, it is useful for the analysis of pension reform beyond the …
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Do the rich speak louder? : examining whether U.S. Senators differentially respond to their constituents by income across issues
… to a more inclusively defined high-income group. Ideal point estimation is used to generate the dependent variable of senator responsiveness based on roll call votes. The first-stage MRP estimates of state-level income group opinion are then regressed on the corresponding senators' ideal points by …
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A Hybrid Lehmer Code Genetic Algorithm and Its Application on Traveling Salesman Problems
… used the weighted Tchebycheff function with the ideal points as the reference points as the objective function to evaluate solutions, while the local search heuristics, the 2-opt and non-sequential 3-opt heuristics, were guided by a weighted sum function.</p>
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Design of an automatic landing system for twin rotor vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle
… DGPS. With the establishment of concrete target points, a corroborative effort between two systems was required to command vehicle motion between two arbitrary points in space. The first system, a trajectory generator, provides an ideal locus of points based on a time law, paying careful …
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O legislativo e a política externa do Chile (2006-2014)
… analysis, with descriptive roll call dates, ideal points analysis of the legislators and a logistic regression, jointly with a deep analysis of similar voting in both legislature and a literature revision of the Chilean foreign policy. Both of the variables presented relation with the …
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O legislativo e a política externa do Chile (2006-2014)
… analysis, with descriptive roll call dates, ideal points analysis of the legislators and a logistic regression, jointly with a deep analysis of similar voting in both legislature and a literature revision of the Chilean foreign policy. Both of the variables presented relation with the …
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The competitive position of wood products in the residential siding market
… analysis, and preferences were used to locate ideal points. Negative perceptions of all wood products exist in terms of weather resistance and maintenance. Solid wood holds a niche in appearance/status, and remains competitive against brick because of brick's application cost. While solid wood …
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The occult in Rabelais: three supplementary aspects of the Rabelaisian allegory
… 8 The double nature of number (mathematical and ideal) points upward from the material to the divine, and therefore supports the Itinerarium. 9 The true efficacy of the Dive Bouteille as oracle rests in the fact that it is also a Christian mystery. 10 The Temple represents an ideal human body, of …
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The wine industry and the consumer : a study of the production, distribution and consumption of wine in New Zealand : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Ph. D. in Economics at Massey University
… any of the consumer preferences (expressed as ideal points in a multidimensional scaling representation). This indicated that the wines included in the sample did not totally fulfil the requirements of the selected group of regular consumers, either in terns of quality or price. Research …