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Majority influence in negotiation
A social identity model of majority influence in negotiations is presented, which considers the effects of various social identifications on the processes of integrative and distributive bargaining. Two-faction negotiations were examined in a laboratory experiment: negotiation configuration was …
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Algorithms on Majority Problem
… main idea of the paper to give solutions to the majority problem where we are counting the number of occurrences of the majority element more than half of the total number of the elements in the input set and also for the number of occurrences of the element at least half of the total number of …
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Majority Influence in Infancy
Majority influence is an integral aspect of many human societies; it is an important catalyst of learning and promotes transmission of cultural knowledge. Given the importance that majorities play in human societies, it is not surprising that young children are sensitive to information gleaned from …
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Majority vote process on general sructures
The majority vote process (MVP) was one of the earliest interacting particle systems (IPS) to be explored, but little progress has been made except on Z and the d-ary regular trees Td, with d ≥ 5. This thesis considers the majority vote process defined on more general structures (S, N ), where S …
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Upset Paths and 2-Majority Tournaments
… et al. proved that tournaments arising from majority voting scenarios have minimum dominating sets that are bounded by a constant that depends only on the notion of what is meant by a majority. Moreover, they proved that when a majority means that Candidate A beats Candidate B when Candidate …
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On Efficient Majority-Logic Decodable Codes
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T19:07:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7500463.pdf: 2670944 bytes, checksum: 25ddd0a11e01a1058d37391fce8f3bbe (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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REALIZING TOURNAMENTS AS MODELS FOR K-MAJORITY VOTING
<p>A <em>k</em>-majority tournament is a directed graph that models a <em>k</em>-majority voting scenario, which is realized by 2<em>k</em> - 1 rankings, called linear orderings, of the vertices in the tournament. Every <em>k</em>-majority voting scenario can be modeled by a tournament, but not …
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Synchronous Byzantine Broadcast algorithms for a dishonest majority
… is tight, specically when f >/= n/2 (a dishonest majority). This thesis explores ways to improve the eciency of Byzantine Broadcast algorithms for a dishonest majority. In particular, we present an expected 10 round protocol for f = n/2, which works by constructing a hierarchy of quorums, to …
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Authoritarianism, Social Dominance Orientation, and Behavior in Majority and Minority Groups
… investigated in this study. Possible effects of majority and minority group size interactions with these constructs were also examined. It has been previously shown that right-wing authoritarianism (Altemeyer, 1981) and social dominance orientation (Pratto, Sidanius, Stallworth, & Malle, 1994) …
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Between Majority Power and Minority Resistance : Kurdish Linguistic Rights in Turkey
As the most figurative asset of membership in a majority or minority and the most symbolic aspect of national authority, language is a major site of struggle for majority power and minority resistance. For the purposes of this study, which focuses on the question of Kurdish linguistic rights in …
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Representing the MAJORITY WORLD famine, photojournalism and the Changing Visual Economy
… this in terms of the ‘Minority World’ and the ‘Majority World’ in order to challenge the assumptions of superiority and inferiority associated with traditional representations of ‘First World/Third World’ or ‘developed/underdeveloped’. Central to the discussion is the notion of a specific …
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3PC honest-majority PRAM computation with perfect security and low overhead
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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“The Majority They Don't Like Answering”: Classroom Discourse In Kenyan Primary Schools
This research addresses the role of classroom discourse in supporting children’s learning in Kenyan primary schools. Using a triangulated research approach, I explored the teachers’ practice and perceptions of their discourse strategies. This study involved the development of a classroom …
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Spatial and Cultural Dimensions of Social Service Access in Majority Black Neighborhoods
… access through a comparative study of two majority Black neighborhoods in Houston, Texas which are demographically similar but have different levels of organizational infrastructure. Drawing on 15 months of ethnographic observation, 60 interviews with organization members and service …
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Some multivariate problems of a spatial model of voting under majority rule
… foundation for a spatial model of voting under majority rule, and, building upon that foundation, we make three contributions to the formal theory of public choice. First, we formulate a spatial model in which voters are heterogeneous both with respect to their most preferred social states and …
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Exploring how global majority psychological therapists manage racial microaggressions in therapy with white clients
… not typically centred research concerning Global Majority psychological therapists. The aim of the current study aims to explore how racial microaggressions are managed by Global Majority psychological therapists in therapy with white clients. Method: The current study utilises a mixed methods …
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Radical Religious Rebels: The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell and the Moral Majority.
<p>In this thesis, I intend to illustrate the impact that Jerry Falwell had upon the rise of religious fundamentalism within the United States during the latter part of the 20th century. By elucidating the various factors that led Jerry Falwell from a little-known minister from Lynchburg, Virginia …
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