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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 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 …