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In: Motivations for Humanitarian intervention; SpringerBriefs in Ethics, S. 123-132
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In: Motivations for Humanitarian intervention; SpringerBriefs in Ethics, S. 123-132
In: The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability
In: Baltic Region, Heft 1, S. 4-19
The authors propose an empirical analysis of the current situation in monotowns. The study questions the perceived seriousness of the "monotown problem" as well as the actual challenges it presents. The authors use a cluster analysis to divide monotowns into groups for further structural comparison. The structural differences in the available databases limit the possibilities of empirical analysis. Hence, alternative approaches are required. The authors consider possible reasons for the limitations identified. Special attention is paid to the monotowns that were granted the status of advanced development territories. A comparative analysis makes it possible to study their general characteristics and socioeconomic indicators. The authors apply the theory of opportunistic behaviour to describe potential problems caused by the lack of unified criteria for granting monotowns the status of advanced development territories. The article identifies the main stakeholders and the character of their interaction; it desc ribes a conceptual model built on the principal/agent interactions, and identifies the parametric space of mutually beneficial cooperation. The solution to the principal/agent problem suggested in the article contributes to the development of an alternative approach to the current situation and a rational approach to overcoming the "monotown problem".
In: International interactions: empirical and theoretical research in international relations, Band 11, Heft 3-4, S. 381-395
ISSN: 1547-7444
In: The Economic Journal, Band 80, Heft 320, S. 955
In: Economica, Band 38, Heft 151, S. 331
"Ecology is about understanding how organisms interact with other organisms and the environment they inhabit (i.e. fundamental and realised niches). It is easy to imagine an individual organism of any kind as a dot with all sorts of arrows impinging upon it, an arrow can represent abiotic factors (temperature, light, etc.), as well as many arrows for all the other organisms (biotic factors, intra- and inter-specific interactions) that affect it. Ecology aims therefore to determine the magnitude and rate associated with some of the arrows, and which are the most important and why. Each organism also has its own effects on the same list of factors, even if the effects may be small, so we can also imagine arrows going out from the same dot, one to each of the same list of factors (they can be dots too). Again, a challenge is to determine the associated weights and importance for the arrows, some of which are directed toward other organisms. As soon as we consider more than a single organism, even just a few, we immediately have a complex structure of dots and arrows: an ecological network! It is an obvious step to consider ecological systems as ecological networks, and as such to assess how network theory (concepts and methods) might be applied to them. Network theory and the mathematics of graph theory that underlie network analysis provide simple concepts that can applied to systems that are complex both in structure and dynamics. It is those concepts that allow us to provide a sorted set of methods for the quantitative analysis of 10 ecological networks, along with thoughts and advice on how best to proceed. Through the years, the need to take a network analysis framework to study complex system has arisen in many fields (physics, computer science, communication science (transportation, electricity, social), and bio- and ecoinformatics), and there is a challenging diversity of approaches, methods, and measures that should be understood, or at least sorted, before applying them to our own data. The overarching goal of this book is to help ecologists in selecting the appropriate network methods to represent, analyse, and model their ecological system using network theory"--
In: Peace and conflict studies
ISSN: 1082-7307
Islamic fundamentalist movements are inherently anti-system social movements. An anti-system social movement is designed to criticize governmental institutions and the political mainstream while mobilizing disaffected individuals against the existing sociopolitical and socioeconomic institutions. What is lacking in the mindset of many Western politicians, practitioners, the media, and the general public is a basic understanding of Islamic fundamentalism; specifically, the causes. This is the first quantitative analysis of potential causes of Islamic fundamentalism. I have created a unique data set that contains every Islamic fundamentalist group that is or has been in operation from 1970 through 2008. This fundamentalist data set has a total number of 16,072 fundamentalist movements. I will utilize the negative binomial fixed effects regression model and a comparison of each independent variable's effect on the number of fundamentalist movements by looking at each independent variable's minimum, mean, and maximum score.
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In: Springer eBook Collection
General Monographs, Alphabetically Arranged and Consisting of Methods for Quantitative Determination of the Substance, its Salts, and Preparations of Which it is a Principal Con- Stituent -- Synthetic Organic Compounds, Methods for Determination of Substances not Included in the General Monographs -- Essential Oils -- Oils, Fats and Waxes -- Appendices -- I. Determination of Alcohol Content -- II. Complexometric Titrations -- III. Non-aqueous Titrations -- IV. The Oxygen-Flask Combustion Technique -- V. Determination of Water -- VI. Extraneous Matter in Food and Drugs -- VII. Microbiological Assays -- VIII. Tests for Sterility -- IX. Pyrogen Testing -- X. Interpretation of Analytical Results -- XI. Destruction of Organic Matter -- XII. Extraction of Organic Chemicals from Viscera, etc. -- XIII. Electrometric Titrations -- XIV. Flame Photometry -- XV. Gas Chromatography -- XVI. Infra-Red Spectroscopy -- XVII. The Elimination of Emulsions -- XVIII. Lane and Eynon Sugar Titration Tables -- XIX. Hinton and Macara Chloramine Sucrose Corrections -- XX. Specific Gravity of Aqueous Glycerol -- XXI. International Atomic Weights, 1961 -- XXII. Weights and Measures, Conversion Tables -- General Index.
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 157
ISSN: 1520-6688
In: Logistics information management, Band 15, Heft 5/6, S. 400-409
ISSN: 1758-7948
This paper provides interesting insights for anti‐virus research, as it reflects a period of rapid uptake in the application of the Internet and the use of e‐mail for business purposes. The purpose of the research is to provide independent justification of the growing prevalence of computer virus incidents over the past five years, and identify patterns in the frequency and distribution of computer viruses. Specifically, the analysis focuses on examining the claims that computer viruses are increasing in prevalence, that computer viruses follow an evolutionary pattern and that seasonality exists in the distribution of computer viruses.
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Band 23, Heft 1/2, S. 102
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Band 23, Heft 1-2, S. 102-118
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: The review of black political economy: analyzing policy prescriptions designed to reduce inequalities, Band 6, Heft 3, S. 357-361
ISSN: 1936-4814