Tag: GENERAL

Because the self emerges in social interaction within the context of a complex, organized, differentiated society, it has been argued…

The Church Struggle is a very extensive and multifaceted situation that occurred in Germany during the supremacy of Adolf Hitler…

The Church Struggle has been one of the most controversial issues since World War II ended. Theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and…

In this paper we set out to examine by means of microsimulation the effect of patterns of divorce — specifically…

We try to capture in the microsimulation model both these behavioural processes and the rates at which various behaviours, events,…

A sociological approach to self and identity begins with the assumption that there is a reciprocal relationship between the self…

A source of data from this effort would be a collection of experts on terrorism, known collectively as a red…

The prevalence of HIV infection varies with age and marital status with infection rates being influenced by the age- and…

Sources of behavioural data In 1998 the Malawi Diffusion and Ideational Change Project (MDICP) interviewed 1541 ever-married women of childbearing…

Path models are a way of relating theoretical knowledge about a data-set to correlation-based data analysis (such as PLS) in…

We can now describe the methodology used in the work reported on in this paper. The methodology can be applied…

Using  publicly  available  biographical  information  on  55 Hamas suicide attacks from 2001-2004, the first round of data has been acquired…

The fundamental unit of data collection is a questionnaire for both the biographical sources and the expert survey. For each…

One possible source of data about a suicide bomber is that individual’s background and personal history. If sufficiently detailed, a…

Partial Least Squares (PLS) is a structural equation technique, which is an iterative numerical causal modeling technique for multivariate analysis….

Over the course of the last twenty-five years, suicide attacks have emerged as one of the most effective methods used…

On 4 February 2003, the new state of Serbia and Montenegro was proclaimed after its Constitutional Charter had been approved…

It is time for new policies and new approaches on Montenegro. International engagement with that republic in recent years has…

To the international community, in particular the European Union: 1. The EU should discontinue its policy of pressuring Montenegro to…

The EU’s heavy engagement has been essential in shaping the new relationship between Serbia and Montenegro. However, there has not…

This research adopts a methodology developed for questions of knowledge management and generalizes it to help decision makers integrate and…

The International Crisis Group (ICG) is an independent, non-profit, multinational organisation, with over 90 staff members on five continents, working…

Unlike pressure to adopt a particular model of relationship, international pressure for reforms is wholly appropriate. It is not just…

The very difficulty of reaching agreement on the Constitutional Charter suggests the problems that it will face in providing the…