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  2. Quota Borda system - Wikipedia

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    The threshold used is the Droop quota; in a single-seat constituency, the quota is an absolute majority, i.e., more than half of the valid vote; in a 2-seat constituency, it is the smallest number more than a third; in a 3-seat, it's the smallest number more than one fourth; and in a 4-seat constituency, it is the smallest number greater than ...

  3. Quotaism - Wikipedia

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    Quotaism [1] [2] [3] is the concept of organizing society by a quota system, whether by racial, gender, language or another demographic attribute. Examples of quotas include gender quotas, racial quota, and reservations. The basic premise is to have demographics represented at all levels and aspects of the civilization according to national ...

  4. Quota method - Wikipedia

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    A somewhat counterintuitive result of this is that a larger quota will always be more favorable to smaller parties. [6] A party hoping to win multiple seats sees fewer votes captured by a single popular candidate when the quota is small. The two most common quotas are the Hare quota and the Droop quota. The use of a particular quota with one of ...

  5. Quota system - Wikipedia

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    Quota System can refer to: Quota System (Royal Navy), a system in place from 1791 to 1815 for manning British naval ships; Reservation in India, quota systems in India favoring lower castes, women, religious minorities, indigenous peoples, and others; Quota Borda system; Racial quota, in hiring minorities; Quotaism; Import quota, in trade ...

  6. Boosting (machine learning) - Wikipedia

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    Another application of boosting for binary categorization is a system that detects pedestrians using patterns of motion and appearance. [16] This work is the first to combine both motion information and appearance information as features to detect a walking person. It takes a similar approach to the Viola-Jones object detection framework.

  7. Dairy and poultry supply management in Canada - Wikipedia

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    A quota system controls production volume, through the Market Sharing Quota (MSQ), for example. Through tariff-rate quotas (TRQs), the volume of imported product is limited. Pricing mechanisms that control the farm gate price that producers receive based on cost of production, are coordinated through provincial marketing boards and national ...

  8. 5 killed and dozens injured in Bangladesh in violent clashes ...

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    The quota system had temporarily been halted following a court order after mass student protests in 2018. But last month, Bangladesh’s High Court nullified that decision, reinstating the quota ...

  9. Affirmative action - Wikipedia

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    Some countries use a quota system, reserving a certain percentage of government jobs, political positions, and school vacancies for members of a certain group; an example of this is the reservation system in India. In some other jurisdictions where quotas are not used, minority-group members are given preference or special consideration in ...