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Zsfassung in niederländ. Sprache

The countries that experienced a 'coloured revolution' between 2000 and 2005 - Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan - were not distinguished by their levels of economic development, as political modernization theory suggested. Nor did they distribute incomes more unequally than other countries at the same level of development, as class analysis would have posited. By contrast, perceptions of the political system, and of its levels of corruption and responsiveness, were more closely associated with a series of irregular regime changes that had generally been precipitated by a 'stolen election'. Adapted from the source document.

The paper discusses the effect of audio sound pattern, intensity and frequency on human visual depth perception and visual discrimination ability. The depth perception ability of fifteen subjects that were used in these experiments was not significantly affected by the experimental variables. Visual discrimination ability was degraded by the experimental variable of 400 cps. sinusoidal sound between 80 and 110 decibels. The degradation was .205 seconds and may have an effect on human performance in situations where activity involving high speeds is present ; http://archive.org/details/effectsofsoundpa00pooc ; Sponsoring military activity: Naval Air Systems Command, Washington, D.C. ; NA

We conducted 2 experiments in which we tested whether situation valence moderates the psychological consequences of lacking control. Participants who lacked control in negative circumstances were more likely to perceive illusory patterns. However, participants who lacked control in
positive circumstances saw many fewer images compared to those in the full-control condition. Our results indicated that situation valence is an effective moderator of the psychological consequences of lacking control.

Three historic patterns can be discerned in the relations America has established with the outside world. America has offered itself as a model to the world, it has entered the world as a missionary, and it has confronted the world as a crusader. In recent years a fourth pattern has been added: America bestrides the world as an imperial power with global responsibilities. In the Spring of 1965, when I endeavored to define this new pattern of American foreign policy under the heading of "globalism," a national newspaper refused to print my article with the explanation that there was no such tiling. In the meantime the ideologues of the Johnson Administration, such as Professors Brzezinski and Rostow, have confirmed my view. They have proclaimed "the American decade," "a decade of opportunity and responsibility for the United States."