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Showing 1 to 20 of 93 for “"Polling"”.
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Polling and political behavior : explaining inaccuracy in Italian polling
… has the greatest impact on inaccuracy in Italian polling between the house effect and voters sentiment change. To do that, we firstly revise the well-established accuracy measures used so far in order to fit the Italian case and the new accuracy measure proposed for multi-party systems (Bw). Then, …
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Interactive Voice Response Polling in Election Campaigns
… rates in IVR surveys. It did so by comparing polling in 2010 U.S. gubernatorial and U.S. Senate elections that was conducted using both live interviewers and IVR. The findings suggest that in general elections, IVR polls find fewer undecided voters compared to surveys conducted using live …
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Achieving predictable timing and fairness through cooperative polling
… application model called cooperative polling with a fair-share scheduler. Cooperative polling allows sharing of timing or priority information across applications via the kernel thus providing good timeliness, and the fair-share scheduler provides fairness and full utilization. Our …
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The Optimal Weighting of Pre-Election Polling Data
… to specify the relative value of historical polling data. An optimal weight function is estimated by minimizing the discrepancy function between estimates from weighted polls and the election outcomes.
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Barracuda: The power of l-polling in proof of stake blockchains
Blockchain is a database of storing sequential events as a chain of blocks consistently across a distributed set of nodes. A fundamental problem in doing so is to decide where to put the next block and who should do it in a Sybil-resistant manner. To solve this problem, typically, a node is elected …
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High performance and provably safe polling-systems-based control algorithms of all-autonomous intersections
… The proposed algorithms are inspired by polling systems. In fact, the problem studied in this thesis leads to a new polling system where customers are subject to differential constraints, which may be interesting in its own right.
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Performance analysis of star architecture packet-switched VSAT network using roll-call polling multiple access scheme
… star network. The network uses roll-call polling as its multiple access scheme, High-level Data Link Control or HDLC, and go-back-N Automatic Repeat Request, for error control. The network is a VSAT packet-switched network, that carries out its communications task on a Time Division …
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Origins and Use of Presidential Polling in Mexico, Presidential Approval in Mexico, Government Spending and Public Opinion in Mexico
… of the origins and use of presidential polling, its role in the policy activity of the president, and the dynamics of presidential approval between 1989 and 2011. The dissertation draws upon the presidential polling, opinion-policy and approval research done in the United States. The …
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A deliberáció hatása a kaposvári deliberatív közvélemény-kutatás tapasztalatai = The impact of deliberation experiences of the deliberative polling in Kaposvár
Dolgozatom az empirikus szociológia olyan területével foglalkozik, amelyre eddig viszonylag kevés figyelmet fordítottak. Magyarországon a deliberatív közvélemény-kutatásnak nincsen nagy hagyománya, az elmúlt évtizedben alig néhány készült csak. Éppen ezért bízom abban, hogy doktori disszertációm az …
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Reducing Client-Server Communication for Efficient Real-Time Web Applications: The Use of Adaptive Polling as A Case Study for Multi-User Web Applications
… consistently on all browsers. Second, ‘Adaptive Polling’ is a pull-based real-time web technique to overcome bandwidth issues of the reverse AJAX method of ‘Polling’ by controlling the frequency of requesting updates from the server based on the last server response. This approach is implemented …
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Trending in the Right Direction: Using Google Trends Data as a Measure of Public Opinion During a Presidential Election
… question the accuracy of modern public opinion polling. Fielding a representative sample, convoluted and opaque methodologies, the sheer amount of polls, and both the media's and general public's inability to interpret poll results are among the flaws of the polling industry. An alternative or …
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Assessing sentiment in conflict zones through social media
While it is widely accepted that polling can assess levels of popular support in a geographic area by surveying a cross-segment of its population, it is less well accepted that analysts can use social media analysis to assess sentiment or popular support within the same space. We examine this …
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The role of polls for election forecasting in German state elections
… thesis is to forecast state elections based on polling data from different institutes. Despite occurring errors in polls like measurement or sampling errors - which are also discussed in this work - forecasting is made with aggregate models depending on short term polling data. Irregular polling …
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Battery-Sensing Intrusion Protection System (B-SIPS)
… to investigate static and dynamic smart battery polling. These analytical models are employed to examine smart battery characteristics to support the theoretical intrusion detection limits and capabilities of B-SIPS. Fourth, a new genre of attack, known as a Battery Polling Cycle Timing Attack, …
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Essays in empirical political economy
… except for their assignment to different polling locations. The discontinuous assignment to polling places produces sharp changes in the travel distance voters face to cast their ballots. In a sample of nine municipalities in Massachusetts and Minnesota, I find that a 1-standard deviation …
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Dynamics of Individual Attitude Change During Discussion ((Markov)
… of Markov models precisely described changes in polling and stimulated recall measures of attitudes during discussion, in groups interacting with or without a consensus requirement. Different stationary, first-order Markov processes fit each set of measures, but a consensus requirement had no …
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When Politicians Misread the Public: Experimental Evidence that Politicians Underestimate Climate Policy Support and Norm-Based Solutions
… reduced by a norm-based intervention presenting polling data evidence, polling data combined with dynamic norm evidence, or evidence of existing perceptual biases within politicians. Chapter 3 examines whether in a study with 617 participants from the UK public, such underestimation exists among …
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A One-shot Deal on the Spot: How Vote Buying Affects Electoral Behaviour. Experimental Evidence from Mexico
… begin to target voters long time before polling days by knocking on doors, proffering rewards as an exchange for votes and compiling lists of electors. Near and during polling days, activists conduct the second mobilisation strategy to monitor voters and ensure compliance by distributing …
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Access to the vote in the 2006 midterm election : evidence from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study
… show photo IDs in order to vote and on whether polling stations were well operated in this election is also examined. The data shows that while significant percentages of CCES respondents experienced registration problems when voting and/or were asked to show photo ID before voting almost no …
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