1,720,963 research outputs found
Recommended from our members
Distracted by Revisionists: The Causes and Consequences of Extrastate War
Get PDFWhile international relations has long studied interstate and civil wars, another type of war has been largely ignored. Wars between states and non-state actors outside the state’s territory, or extrastate wars, have not been well studied. This omission is striking given their destructiveness, global importance, and increasing frequency. In this three-paper dissertation, I study the causes and consequences of noncolonial extrastate war. In the chapter, “World Police: How International Order Can Increase Extrastate War” I argue that the international order, and rebel threats to it, can increase a state’s likelihood to fight extrastate wars. In the next chapter, “Is War Declining or Changing? The Consequences of Extrastate War” I focus on the consequences of these wars and how they affect the frequency of interstate wars. Surprisingly, I find that they increase interstate war. Finally, in the chapter, “Attack of the Drones: Drone Possession and Extrastate Conflict” I return to causes but of extrastate conflict, which can include lower-intensity conflicts. I find that acquiring military drones increases extrastate conflict. These chapters use statistical methods, including causal identification strategies, to test these theories. Given the importance of extrastate wars, it is imperative that we better understand them. 
Recommended from our members
Why Do Leaders Matter?: Exploring Leaders' Risk Propensities and Nuclear Proliferation
Get PDFThe purpose of this dissertation is to identify what motivates leaders to seek to possess nuclear weapons. I argue that individual leaders’ risk propensities are associated with their behaviors in regard to nuclear proliferation. To test my theory, I aim to create a new dataset of leaders’ risk propensities on approximately 1,700 leaders from 1945 to 2000. My risk propensity index draws on insights from psychology and business management, which suggest that leaders’ age, socioeconomic backgrounds, college major, military experience, and international experience contribute to his or her risk tolerance. I build on data from the Leader Experience and Attribute Descriptions (LEAD) dataset. I supplement this data with my own in-depth coding of the demographic backgrounds of leaders, including childhood wealth, college major, and international experience. I find that certain demographic characteristics of leaders that are used as proxies for examining their risk propensity significantly influence their risk-taking behaviors with respect to nuclear weapons pursuit. I conclude that leaders possessing relatively higher levels of risk propensity are more likely to pursue nuclear weapons than leaders with lower levels of risk propensity. These statistical results are further confirmed by more in-depth case studies on South Korea and India
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
- …
