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Employment policies of Bosnia’s new security service trigger suspicions of political favoritism.
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A handful of elderly people is all that remains of the long heritage of German culture in the Moravian capital.
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Romania has a new government--and its first government crisis.
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Russia has been humiliated by a minnow. Time, then, for Russia and Georgia to think again about their policies toward Abkhazia.
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An expert on the economic side of transition offers his observations on some of the lessons learned in Central Europe for the rest of the region.
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The Belarusian opposition and Washington loudly decry the guilty verdict against former diplomat and minister Mikhail Marynich.
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Poland’s fashion for media-inspired parliamentary investigations continues, this time into the privatization of the country’s largest insurance company.
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After his victory in Ukraine’s presidential elections comes the hard part for Viktor Yushchenko.
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When decisions are made sequentially in a group, Bayesian players aiming to maximize individual payoffs often need to ignore their private information and imitate choices of earlier decision makers. This results in information cascades. Once formed, information cascades can be harmful to information aggregation and average payoffs in the group. Therefore, there is a potential dilemma facing players in such situations. They can reveal private information and risk lower immediate payoffs but benefit the group in the long run, or join an information cascade. It has been shown that reciprocity (i.e., paying a cost at one time while being compensated at another) can lead to optimal solutions in such dilemmas. We hypothesized that it would be so for the present one, as well. This hypothesis was tested in an experiment in which we manipulated two factors: the stability of players' positions in a sequence that determined whether reciprocity was possible, and the decision payoff structure that constrained to what extent revealing private information was beneficial to the group. The results show that both factors influenced the probabilities of private information revealing and the group payoffs in ways consistent with our predictions.
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In the paper we present an introduction to the theory of judgment aggregation and discuss its relation to the theory of preference aggregation. We compare the formal model of judgment aggregation, based on logic, with the formal model of preference aggregation. Finally, we present a theorem in judgment aggregation which is an exact analogue of Arrow's theorem for strict preferences.
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Enrolment is a complex process. There is a number of games that can be distinguished and analysed: universities and faculties compete for applicants, applicants compete to become students, etc. The purpose of this paper was to analyse process of applicants' decision-making. In the first part of this article a model of applicants' decision-making strategies is described. In the second part consequences of applicants' strategic behaviour are examined. According to the presented model secondary school raduates with lower final exams results should avoid choosing the most popular faculties
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In der Arbeit werden vier in Kanižlićs Poem Die heilige Rosalia eingebaute, sich vers- und strophenmäßig von dem durch den Alexandriner gekennzeichneten Kontext unterscheidende Gedichte analysiert. Es wird versucht, die Frage zu beantworten, warum der Autor einen Teil der Dichtung metrisch anders gestaltet hat, ob in den drei Sestinen und einem Quatrain eine zusätzliche Bedeutung enthalten ist und was diese uns über Die heilige Rosalia, aber auch uber die gesamte in Gebetbüchern und Katechismen verstreute Lyrik des Dichters Kanižlić zu sagen hat. Schließlich wird aufgrund der vier Gedichte auf Kanižlićs Auffassung des zweifach gereimten Alexandriners sowie auf seine Einstellung zur Funktion der Literatur in Slawonien des achtzehnten lahrhunderts und zur Frage der Unabhängigkeit des Dichters hingewiesen.
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In the second part of his review of ancient rhetoric the author deals mainly with Roman rhetoricians from Cicero, Quintilian to Tacitus (in his Dialogue on Orators). Most of these rhetoricians emphasize that the orator must be a person of wide knowledge, that the principle of propriety and urbanity is of supreme importance and, above all, that the orator must be a man of absolute integrity.
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The paper presents a few selected morphological features of utterances addressed to children. The author is interested in two grammatical categories: ‘person’ and ‘number’ used in verbal forms. The article answers some questions connected with the discussed categories, for example: 1. Why (when we talk to children) do we use verbs in the third person, i.e. Mummy is preparing dinner for you? 2. Why do we use plural forms of verbs (even if the co-situation is totally inadequate), i.e. And now we are changing the nappy. The analysis is based on the linguistic material collected during the so-called participating observation – all the analyzed utterances represent texts created by adults and addressed to infants and toddlers.
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