43 research outputs found
Daily Eastern News: October 25, 2005
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2005_oct/1014/thumbnail.jp
Daily Eastern News: October 25, 2005
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2005_oct/1014/thumbnail.jp
Daily Eastern News: October 25, 2005
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/den_2005_oct/1014/thumbnail.jp
Manipulation via information in large elections
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This thesis studies manipulations of equilibria by candidates in two-alternative
elections along with their effects on voter turnout, winner of the election and social
welfare where voters have common values, and both voting and manipulating are costly.
We show that manipulation is not desirable for the society, and the candidates’ incentives
for manipulating can be mitigated by appropriately sequencing the order of
manipulations. We present some results of a manipulation game which may rather
unexpected under the assumption that the candidates have prior beliefs about each others’
manipulations. Finally we determine the set of manipulations which can be prevented by
informed voters for a given composition of society.Sezer, İlhanM.S
Morehead State University Directory 1997
The 1997 Directory of Morehead State University.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/college_histories/1187/thumbnail.jp
Pastors and written culture: on the variations of christian humanism in Estonia and Livonia in the first half of the 17th century
Väitekirja elektrooniline versioon ei sisalda publikatsiooneXVII sajand on Eesti intellektuaalse ajaloo jaoks kõige sügavama mõjuga perioode. Humanistlikus vaimus rajati gümnaasiumid Tallinnasse ja Tartusse, järgnes Tartu ülikooli asutamine 1632. XVII sajandi esimesel poolel hakkas välja kujunema ka eesti kirjakeel, eeskätt tänu kirikukirjanduse arendamisele ja piiblitõlkimisele, mis vajas eesti keele kirjeldamist ja analüüsimist keeleõpikutes. Ent Eesti ajaloo uurimises on XVII sajand saavutanud oma tähendusele vastava mahu ja mitmekülgsuse alles viimase kolmekümne aasta jooksul. Väitekirjas kirjeldatakse ja analüüsitakse, kuidas ja miks on toimunud kõigest ühe inimpõlve jooksul muutused Eesti- ja Liivimaal kirjutatud juhuluule ning esimeste eesti keele grammatikate uurimises. Esimese eestikeelse luuletuse (1637) autori Reiner Brockmanni kirjaliku pärandi koondamine uusväljaandeks „Teosed“ (2000) on võimaldanud tema ladina-, saksa-, kreeka- ja eestikeelseid luuletusi tõlgendada laiemas humanistlikus paradigmas. Esimese lõunaeesti keele grammatika (1648; kirjutatud ladina keeles) autori Johannes Gutslaffi keelelised vaated võimaldavad ka tema paigutada humanistliku keelemõistmise paradigmasse, ent hea filoloogiline ettevalmistus võimaldab tal teha ka originaalseid tähelepanekuid eesti keele kohta, võrreldes talle varem tuntud keeltega. Siiski ei lase humanistlik käsitus haridusest ja tollasest teaduste süsteemist põhjendada kõiki jooni XVII sajandi Eesti- ja Liivimaa vaimuelus. Nii nagu Gutslaffi saab vormiliselt siduda grammatikakirjutuse ajaloo nähtusega, mida nimetatakse misjonilingvistikaks, nii kannab ta oma teoloogilistes vaadetes edasi Martin Lutheri arusaamu keelest ja haridusest. Lutheri keelekäsituses sisaldub immanentselt üldise emakeelse rahvahariduse idee, mida eelnevas humanismis ei leia, aga mis on eesti kultuuri seisukohalt osutunud üheks kõige mõjukamaks ideeks. Sellest lähtuvalt jõutakse väitekirjas seisukohale, et eesti kirjakultuuri rajamist selle erinevates vormides XVII sajandi esimesel poolel on õigustatud vaadelda kristliku humanismi luterlike variatsioonidena.The 17th century was a period of strongest influence on Estonian intellectual history. Gymnasiums were established in Tallinn and Tartu in humanist spirit, the founding of the University of Tartu followed in 1632. Estonian literary language began developing in the first half of the 17th century, mainly due to developments in ecclesiastical literature and Bible translation for which describing and analysing the Estonian language in textbooks became necessary. Nevertheless, it has only been in the last three decades that research on the 17th century has reached the multilayeredness and volume proportional to its importance in Estonian history. The dissertation at hand describes and analyses how and why – over a timespan of only a single generation – considerable changes have occurred in research on occasional poetry written in Estonia and Livonia and first Estonian grammars. Systematising of the literary legacy of Reiner Brockmann, the author of the first known Estonian-language poem (1637) for his published “Opera” (2000) has made it possible to interpret his Latin, German, Greek and Estonian poetry in terms of a wider humanistic paradigm. The linguistic views of Johannes Gutslaff, the author of the first Estonian grammar (1648, written in Latin), have allowed for his placement within the humanistic language paradigm but his wide philological knowledge also allowed him to reach original conclusions regarding the Estonian language in comparison with language familiar to him beforehand. Nonetheless, a humanistic approach to education and the sciences of the time does not properly explain all the traits of the intellectual life in Estonia and Livonia in the 17th century. Much like Gutslaff can formally be associated with a historical phenomenon in grammar writing called missionary linguistics, he was also influenced by Martin Luther concepts of language and education in his theological views. The idea of vernacular education for the people is immanent in Luther’s understanding of language, something which is absent from the humanism of earlier times but has turned out to be one of the most influential ideas when it comes to Estonian culture. Drawing on this, the dissertation comes to a conclusion that it is justified to see the foundation of Estonian written culture in its various forms in the first half of the 17th century as Lutheran variations of Christian humanism
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American Muslim Networks and Neotraditionalism
American Muslims are diverse in many ways, but is it appropriate to imagine American Muslims as one community, or are there really several different communities of American Muslims? If there are several, are there senses in which the social and aesthetic expressions of such communities could be referred to as “American Islam”? What follows is a multifaceted approach to answering these questions. This dissertation demonstrates that several distinct communities of American Muslims can be identified, and introduces one of these communities, which I refer to as the “Neotraditional” Muslim community, in detail. Chapter One, The Paths of Neotraditionalism, introduces several ways the term “neotraditonal” and its variants have been used in scholarship and clarifies how the term will be used in the present work. Chapters Two through Four demonstrate the application of a novel three-part theoretical approach to identifying the center and boundaries of any community through analysis of its social discourse, networks, and aesthetics. This model provides a basis from which to objectively conclude that Neotraditional American Muslims constitute a clearly defined community that is distinct from other communities of American Muslims. In light of this, scholars studying Islam or religions in America are urged to recognize the Neotraditional community and other communities described below as distinct, and to account for the differences between them for the purpose of analysis in all future research relating to American Muslims. In addition to underscoring how this dissertation contributes to scholarship on Islam in America and American religious diversity, the concluding chapter suggests directions for future research and anticipates significant aspects of how the Neotraditional American Muslim community is likely to develop in the coming decades. Although describing core features of the Neotraditional American Muslim community is the primary focus of this dissertation, the three-part theoretical approach it models for identifying a community through analysis of its discourse, networks, and aesthetics offers a programmatic means to identify and describe a community which will be of general interest to any scholar in the Humanities or Social Sciences