Approval voting — is a single winner voting system used for elections. Each voter may vote for (approve of) as many of the candidates as they wish. The winner is the candidate receiving the most votes. Each voter may vote for any combination of candidates and may… … Wikipedia
Experiment — Experimental redirects here. For the musical classification, see Experimental music. For other uses, see Experiment (disambiguation). Even very young children perform rudimentary experiments in order to learn about the world. An experiment is a… … Wikipedia
experiment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Trial Nouns 1. experiment, experimentation, essay, attempt; venture, adventure, speculation; trial, probation, proof (see demonstration); [acid or litmus] test, check, tryout, assay, ordeal; empiricism,… … English dictionary for students
Approval Voting — Bei einem Wahlzettel einer Wahl durch Zustimmung kann der Wähler seine Stimme beliebig vielen Kandidaten geben. Die Wahl durch Zustimmung (engl. „Approval Voting“) ist ein Wahlverfahren, bei dem der Wähler die Möglichkeit hat, für beliebig viele… … Deutsch Wikipedia
The Experiment — was a documentary series broadcast on BBC television in 2002. It presented the findings of what subsequently became known as The BBC Prison Study (Reicher Haslam, 2006)BackgroundThe genesis of the programme was the 1971 Stanford prison experiment … Wikipedia
Milgram experiment — For Milgram s other well known experiment, see Small world experiment. The experimenter (E) orders the teacher (T), the subject of the experiment, to give what the latter believes are painful electric shocks to a learner (L), who is actually an… … Wikipedia
Minnesota Starvation Experiment — The Minnesota Starvation Experiment, also known as the Minnesota Semi Starvation Experiment, the Minnesota Starvation Recovery Experiment and the Starvation Study, was a clinical study performed at the University of Minnesota between November 19 … Wikipedia
Little Albert experiment — The Little Albert experiment was a case study showing empirical evidence of classical conditioning in humans. This study was also an example of stimulus generalization. It was conducted in 1920 by John B. Watson along with his assistant Rosalie… … Wikipedia
Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment — MSRE plant diagram The Molten Salt Reactor Experiment (MSRE) was an experimental molten salt reactor at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researching this technology through the 1960s; constructed by 1964, it went critical in 1965 and was… … Wikipedia
France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… … Universalium
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium