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Information Asymmetries and Their Challenge to International Broadcasting
Media and Communication, 2016 Dramatic symmetries in strategies and techniques of persuasion create challenges to the functioning of established actors in the global media ecology, including international broadcasters. This essay articulates an adaptation of the concept of asymmetric
Monroe Edwin Price
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Caught in the fire: An accidental ethnography of discomfort in researching sex work
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on fifteen years of engagement with researching Israel's sex industry, this article uses accidental ethnography to propose discomfort‐as‐method for feminist anthropology. I argue that discomfort is not a by‐product of fieldwork but a constitutive condition that disciplines researchers and shapes what can be known.
Yeela Lahav‐Raz
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A Novel Approach to Regionalize Country‐Level GDP Projections
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Socioeconomic projections are policy support tools that are often limited to country‐level data, making them insufficient for policy areas that require a more nuanced, sub‐national perspective. For granular geographical analyses in a multicountry setting, international organizations often rely on straightforward regionalization techniques ...
Riccardo Curtale +2 more
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RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE STRATEGY IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE MODERN INFORMATION WARFARE
RUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2016 Despite rather volume scientific knowledge of information warfares and methods of their maintaining, the general understanding of information warfare is still not present. And this circumstance does very difficult counteraction to this threat.
Elena S Alexeyeva
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A Fuzzy Framework for Realized Volatility Prediction: Empirical Evidence From Equity Markets
Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study introduces a realized volatility fuzzy time series (RV‐FTS) model that applies a fuzzy c‐means clustering algorithm to estimate time‐varying c$$ c $$ latent volatility states and their corresponding membership degrees. These memberships are used to construct a fuzzified volatility estimate as a weighted average of cluster centroids.
Shafqat Iqbal, Štefan Lyócsa
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Digging Into Israel: The Sophisticated Tunneling Network of Hamas
Journal of Strategic Security, 2016 By the end of Operation Protective Edge in August 2014, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) claimed to have discovered and destroyed more than 30 tunnels spanning from beneath Gaza into Israeli territory.
Nicole J. Watkins, Alena M. James
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The Impact of Geopolitical Risk on Trade Credit
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In light of escalating global geopolitical tensions, understanding how firms respond to external shocks has become a critical issue for policymakers, corporate managers, and investors. This study investigates the impact of geopolitical risk (GPR) on firms' reliance on trade credit (TC)—an essential form of short‐term financing, particularly ...
Wafa'a B. Al‐Yafei, Hamdi Bennasr
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The threat of IS proxy warfare on Indonesian Millennial Muslims
Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, 2018 So far, terrorism tends to be considered using asymmetric warfare methods rather than proxy warfare methods. Even though some terror attacks around the world carried out by people inspired by terrorism indicate that terrorist groups such as IS are ...
M Affan
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Impact of a Modular Escape Game on Undergraduate and Continuing Dental Education
Journal of Dental Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose This study aimed to assess the educational impact and perceived relevance of a pedagogical escape game designed to reinforce key concepts related to dental biomaterials. Methods In 2023, a modular escape game comprising four mandatory stations and one bonus station was developed and integrated into two pedagogical settings: a ...
Sara Bergman +24 more
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Concept of an asymmetric conflict. Global powers vs. islamist warriors in Iraq since 2003
Wiedza Obronna, 2019 Modern times and the post-Soviet era, especially the post-9/11 period, has brought a significant change in the nature of conflict – more and more non-state actors have been entering the stage of war. As the character of such actors has changed throughout
Ewa Fronczak
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