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A system of preferences — which consists of market opening lists, special cooperation programs ( business rounds, preinvestment, financing, technological support ) and countervailing measures on behalf of the landlocked countries — has been granted to the countries deemed to be less developed ( Bolivia, Ecuador and Paraguay ), to favour their full participation in the integration process.
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A larger theme is found in that the responsiveness, intuitive design and overall usability of a system can influence the users ’ opinions and preferences of systems.
Critics of planned economies argue that planners cannot detect consumer preferences, shortages, and surpluses with sufficient accuracy and therefore cannot efficiently co-ordinate production ( in a market economy, a free price system is intended to serve this purpose ).
Since the two-round system requires more information from each voter than a single ordinal ballot provides, one can't fit the criteria that are formulated expressly for voters with ordinal preferences without making a generalization as to how the voters will behave.
If the voters determine their preferences before the election and always vote directly consistent to them, they will emulate the Contingent vote and get the same results as if they were to use that system.
With respect to the voters ' internal preferences, the two-round system passes the majority criterion in this model, as a majority can always coordinate to elect their preferred candidate.
These maps cannot be used as a useful resource of voter preferences, because General Councils are elected on a two-round system, which drastically limits the chances of fringe parties, for as long as they are not supported on one of the two rounds by a moderate party.
In social choice theory, Arrow ’ s impossibility theorem, the General Possibility Theorem, or Arrow ’ s paradox, states that, when voters have three or more distinct alternatives ( options ), no rank order voting system can convert the ranked preferences of individuals into a community-wide ( complete and transitive ) ranking while also meeting a specific set of criteria.
We are searching for a ranked voting system, called a social welfare function ( preference aggregation rule ), which transforms the set of preferences ( profile of preferences ) into a single global societal preference order.
He needed 12. 5 % of the vote to win a seat in the Senate voting system, but a primary vote of 9. 6 % was insufficient when Labor gave its preferences to the conservative Liberal and National Parties ahead of the NDP.
* cumulative voting, a system in which each voter has " the same number of votes as there are seats or options to vote for, and they can then distribute their votes in any combination to reflect their preferences "-- a system often used on corporate boards in 30 states, as well as by school boards and county commissions.
Thus, preferences will vary from state to state, depending on factors such as culture, economic system or government type.
His theory is called " functionalist " because it says that an event was a function of the preferences of a system and not the preferences of an agent.
In 2006, Netflix held the first Netflix Prize competition to find a better program to predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system, known as Cinematch, by at least 10 %.
Researchers have noted that computer users exhibit preferences towards the first system they learn, then judge other systems by their similarity to that first system.
Some political scientists prefer more explicit statement of the voter's actual tolerances and preferences, and believe that failure to reflect these in ballot design and voting system alternatives causes many problems and leads for calls for electoral reform.
Bourdieu himself believes class distinction and preferences are " most marked in the ordinary choices of everyday existence, such as furniture, clothing or cooking, which are particularly revealing of deep-rooted and long-standing dispositions because, lying outside the scope of the educational system, they have to be confronted, as it were, by naked taste ".
When most of the occupation forces were transferred to Korea in 1950 – 51, the 75, 000 strong National Police Reserve was formed to back up the ordinary police during civil disturbances, and pressure mounted for a centralized system more compatible with Japanese political preferences.
Subsequently, the DLP used the Alternative Vote electoral system to direct electoral preferences away from the ALP at state and federal levels, until its membership and party organisation declined sufficiently to render it electorally impotent in the early seventies.
: The primary reason to have these technical preferences is to replicate the properties of the real number system so the math will work.
In 2006, the on-line movie company Netflix held the first " Netflix Prize " competition to find a program to better predict user preferences and beat its existing Netflix movie recommendation system by at least 10 %.
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The complete prosthesis would consist of the stump attachment system — usually a " socket ", and all the attachment hardware parts all the way down to and including the foot.
While Zhuyin is not used as a mainstream writing system, it is still often used in ways similar to a romanization system — that is, for aiding in pronunciation and as an input method for Chinese characters on computers and cellphones.
A further suggestion is that the widespread use of timber in Chacoan constructions — a resource not locally available — needed a large and easy transportation system.
However, physicists distinguish between atomic physics — which deals with the atom as a system consisting of a nucleus and electrons — and nuclear physics, which considers atomic nuclei alone.
The institutions sketched above — assembly, officeholders, council, courts — are incomplete without the figure that drove the whole system, Ho boulomenos, he who wishes, or anyone who wishes.
The brain is the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals — only a few invertebrates such as sponges, jellyfish, adult sea squirts and starfish do not have one, even if diffuse neural tissue is present.
*** circulatory system — respiration — lung — heart — artery — vein — capillary — blood — blood cell
*** digestive system — stomach — intestine — liver — nutrition — primary nutritional groups metabolism — kidney — excretion
system and which
Our understanding of the solar system has taught us to replace our former elaborate rituals with the appropriate action which, in this case, amounts to doing nothing.
Presupposed in Plato's system is a doctrine of levels of insight, in which a certain kind of detached understanding is alone capable of penetrating to the most sublime wisdom.
For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.
In any social system in which communications have an importance comparable with that of production and other human factors, a point like f in Figure 2 would ( other things being equal ) be the dwelling place for the community leader, while e and h would house the next most important citizens.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
The highway system is an agency of government, and when it grinds up 40,000 Americans every year the government is destroying its own taxpayers, which is obviously a silly thing for any government to do.
Was it the party's intention, for example, to abolish gradually the kolkhoz system and replace it by uniformly wage-earning kolkhozes, i.e., state farms ( which were, moreover, to be progressively `` urbanized '' )??
The problem in the policy officer's mind thus begins to take shape as a galaxy of utterly complicated factors -- political, military, economic, financial, legal, legislative, procedural, administrative -- to be sorted out and handled within a political system which moves by consent in relation to an external environment which cannot be under control.
The transportation system which serves the National Forests is a complex of highways and access roads and trails under various ownerships and jurisdictions.
The long-range objective of this Department is to provide and maintain a system of forest development roads and trails which will adequately service the National Forest System at the levels needed to meet expected needs and optimum production of products and services.
Considering the high cost of the F-108 system -- over $4 billion for the force that had been planned -- and the time period in which it would become operational, it was decided to stop further work on the project.
The cost of developing a major weapon system is now so enormous that the greatest care must be exercised in selecting new systems for development, in determining the most satisfactory rate of development, and in deciding the proper time at which either to place a system into production or to abandon it.
A completely new insight into living cells and their structure will be possible by use of a new technique which replaces visible light with ultraviolet radiation and combines a microscope with a color-TV system to view the results.
) This is the same system as was used in the field-sequential color-TV system which preceded the present simultaneous system.
Consider adopting a system of holidays in which time off is granted with an eye to minimum inconvenience to the operation of the plant.
A system had to be used which did not depend upon the feeding of the fluid into the manometer if measurements of the normal pressure were to be made in a reasonable time.
This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.
The radius is calculated from the mass by assuming spheres of density Af except for the smallest particles, which must have a higher mass density to remain in the solar system in the presence of solar-radiation pressure.
Closely related to this function is the fact that the religious system provides a body of ultimate ends for the society, which are compatible with the supreme eternal ends.
To some extent the system can be considered a Gemeinschaft in which `` social-role occupancies are determined by birth, by attributes such as sex or caste, which are biologically or socially immutable ''.
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