Plurality

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Plurality

In an election with three or more choices, the choice that receives the most votes without attaining 50%. For example, in an election in which Candidate A receives 35% of the vote, Candidate B receives 20%, and Candidate C receives 45%, Candidate C wins with a plurality of the vote.

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Micromet AG (Munich, Germany) has patented a (poly)peptide construct consisting of at least two domains of at least two pluralities of domains wherein one of said domains or pluralities of domains comprises a de-immunized autoreactive antigen or (a) fragment(s) thereof specifically recognized by the Ig receptors of an autoreactive B-cells and wherein a/the further domain or plurality of domains comprises an effector molecule capable of interacting with and/or of activating NK-cells, T-cells, macrophages, monocytes and/or granulocytes.

Micromet obtains United States patent

The radical pluralists see little limitation on how the world can be carved up and insist that the existing pluralities are not resolvable.

Stephen Kellert, Helen Longino and Kenneth Waters, eds.: Scientific Pluralism. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIX

of Auckland, New Zealand), these efforts have largely addressed pluralities based on ethical views, interest groups, or minority national cultures, neglecting the extremely important question of identity group membership.