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Report on Pepperdine College receiving the George Washington Medal of Honor by the Freedoms Foundation located in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. (Southwest Wave, Los Angeles, California) ; x1967

In a continent with relatively low rates of literacy, radio is the most effective means of communication. At a time when democracy is putting down tentative roots in Africa, this report looks at the independent radio stations which have emerged over the last 15 years, and examines the extent to which they have contributed to the plurality of voices within their respective countries

Radio is the most effective means of communication in Africa, which in most places was controlled by the government until several years ago. Zimbabwe was the last African country to open radio to private competition in 1994. Independent radio stations offer guidelines for pluralism in their respective countries, but do not yet challenge the state monopoly. There is a need for a politically impartial body to regulate access to broadcasting frequencies, since the airwaves in some countries, eg, Rwanda & South Africa, have been used to incite violence & racial hatred. In Zambia, licenses have been granted by the government only to Christian groups, which serves the government's purpose. Independent radio stations tend to be based in capital cities because of advertising revenues, but such placement has political consequences. Examples of manipulation of independent radio stations by the government in the areas of election coverage, censorship, & community radio are cited for Kenya, Namibia, Uganda & Malawi. A crucial struggle remains to open up the airwaves to public funded national networks. 8 Photographs. M. Pflum

Abstract. Extreme waves play a crucial role in marine inundation hazards and coastal erosion. Prediction of non-linear wave–wave interactions is crucial in assessing the propagation of shallow water extreme waves in coastal regions. In this article, we experimentally study non-linear wave–wave interactions of large-amplitude focused wave groups propagating in a two-dimensional wave flume over a mild slope (β=1:25). The influence of the frequency spectrum and the steepness on the non-linear interactions of focused waves are examined. The generated wave trains correspond to Pierson–Moskowitz and JONSWAP (γ=3.3 or γ=7) spectra. Subsequently, we experimentally approach this problem by the use of a bispectral analysis applied on short time series, via the wavelet-based bicoherence parameter, which identifies and quantifies the phase coupling resulting from non-resonant or bound triad interactions with the peak frequency. The bispectral analysis shows that the phase coupling increases gradually and approaches 1 just prior to breaking, accordingly with the spectrum broadening and the energy increase in high-frequency components. Downstream breaking, the values of phase coupling between the peak frequency and its higher harmonics decrease drastically, and the bicoherence spectrum becomes less structured.

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project's goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed. ; The target population is defined as: individuals aged 18 (16/17 is acceptable in the countries with such voting age) or older (with no upper age limit), regardless of their nationality, citizenship or language, that have been residing in the [country] within private households for the past 6 months prior to the date of beginning of fieldwork (or in the date of the first visit to the household, in case of random-route selection). ; The sampling procedures differ from country to country; probability Sample: Multistage Sample Probability Sample, Simple Random Sample. Representative single stage or multi-stage sampling of the adult population of the country 18 (16) years old and older was used for the WVS 2005-2009. Sample size was set as effective sample size of 1000 respondents or more. Countries with great population size and diversity are requirred to reach an effective sample of N=1200 or larger. ; Study on values realized in the countries of Europe by EVS research network in the 1981-2008 period is not included into the current data-set and is avaliable for both downloading and online-analysis at: http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu. ; Face-to-face interview ; Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview)

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project's goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed. ; The target population is defined as: individuals aged 18 (16/17 is acceptable in the countries with such voting age) or older (with no upper age limit), regardless of their nationality, citizenship or language, that have been residing in the [country] within private households for the past 6 months prior to the date of beginning of fieldwork (or in the date of the first visit to the household, in case of random-route selection). ; The sampling procedures differ from country to country; probability Sample: Multistage Sample Probability Sample, Simple Random Sample. Representative single stage or multi-stage sampling of the adult population of the country 18 (16) years old and older was used for the WVS 2010-2014. Sample size was set as effective sample size of minimum 1000 respondents or more. Countries with great population size and diversity are requirred to reach an effective sample of N=1200 or larger. ; Use Integrated version compatible with WVS/EVS to merge with old logitudinal 1981-2009 aggregates. Use Integrated version compatible with WVS/EVS to merge with old logitudinal 1981-2009 aggregates. Study on values realized in the countries of Europe by EVS research network in the 1981-2008 period is not included into the current data-set and is avaliable for both downloading and online-analysis at: http://www.europeanvaluesstudy.eu. ; Interview ; Mode of collection: mixed modeFace-to-face interview: CAPI (Computer Assisted Personal Interview)Face-to-face interview: PAPI (Paper and Pencil Interview)Self-administered questionnaire: CAWI (Computer-Assisted Web Interview)Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Abstract. The purpose of this study was to enhance the accuracy of numerical wave forecasts through data assimilation during typhoon periods. A sequential data assimilation scheme was modified to enable its use with partitions of directional wave spectra. The performance of the system was investigated with respect to operational applications, specifically for typhoon waves. Two typhoons that occurred in 2006 around Taiwan (Kaemi and Shanshan) were used for this case study. The proposed data assimilation method increased the forecast accuracy in terms of wave parameters, such as wave height and period. After assimilation, the shapes of directional spectra were much closer to those reported from independent observations.

Many studies have underlined the detrimental impact of local political risk on foreign direct investment inflows. In this paper, we argue that that relationship depends on the global volume of FDI. After providing a simple model and theoretical arguments suggesting that the relationship should be weaker when there is more FDI worldwide, we observe, in a large sample of countries, that the sensitivity of the distribution of FDI inflows to local political risk is indeed a decreasing function of the world FDI to GDP ratio in a given year. This finding survives a battery of robustness checks. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Report on the scheduled keynote speakers at the 1967 Pepperdine College Freedom Forum, focusing on Lieutenant-Governor Robert Finch, and the ideas that will be discussed at the program. (Southwest Wave, Los Angeles, California) ; x1967

Since the start of the new millennium in the UK, a range of new feminist activities - national networks, issue-specific campaigns, local groups, festivals, magazines and blogs - have been formed by a new constituency of mostly younger women and men. These new feminist activities, which we term 'third-wave' feminism, have emerged in a 'post-feminist' context, in which feminism is considered dead or unnecessary, and where younger feminists, if represented at all, are often dismissed as insufficiently political. Representations of North American third-wave feminism are brought into play in these criticisms of the UK third wave, and insufficient attention has been paid to the distinctiveness of the UK contexts. Drawing on data from a survey of 1,265 people involved in post-2000 forms of feminism and semi-structured interviews with 30 feminist activists, the article sketches out the contours of the contemporary feminist movement and its activists, activism and priorities. It attends to differences and similarities between second and third waves, and situates contemporary UK feminism in its distinctive UK context. Arguing that feminism is both alive and relevant for significant numbers of people in the UK today, the paper interrogates younger feminists' reluctance to use the term 'third-wave feminism' to describe themselves, attributing this reluctance to ambivalent and cynical representations of the third wave in academic literature and the popular media.

As the country that has been experiencing several changes of governmental system, especially after the coup of 1960, made Turkey as an attractive country to look at how they implement democracy. Democracy, which is the most widely used system in the world, has ups and downs in its application especially within Turkey that has long been ruled under the monarchy of Ottoman empire and republic party system, that considered as authoritarian before it leads to the coup of military. These cases refer to the development of democratization's implementation within the country, and this paper will discuss how the waves and reverse waves of Turkey's democratization in the context of political parties' participation in Turkish state's political stage, after the military coup in 1960 by implementing the theory of world's democratization waves by Samuel P. Huntington. This paper also aims to analyze the development of Turkey democratization by observing several events that happened started after the military coup in 1960 and the rest until the it comes to contemporary issues by the rise of AKP party in 2002.