This article analyses salient trade-offs in the design of democracy.It grounds this analysis in a distinction between two basic models of democracy: simple and complex majoritarianism.These models differ not only in their electoral and party systems, but also in the style of Shakes coalition-building.Simple majoritarianism concentrates executive po
How microbial cells leverage their phenotypic potential to survive in a changing environment is a complex biological problem, with important implications for pathogenesis and species evolution.Stochastic phenotype switching, a particularly fascinating adaptive approach observed in numerous species across the tree of life, introduces phenotypic dive
Languages continue to develop, modify, and reshape during unprecedented situations (Paton, 2020).Language fluidity and its flexible nature tend to be weapons in the hands of linguists and artists to cope with unprecedented difficult times.The current situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is posing significant socio-cultural challenges globally
Beanies In this article, we study the planar cubic differential systems with invariant affine straight lines of total parallel multiplicity seven.We classify these system according to their geometric properties encoded in the configurations of invariant straight lines.We show that there are only 17 different topological phase portraits in the Poinc