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OPINIONS ABOUT MILITARY LOGISTICS IN A TURBULENT MEDIUM SECURITY [PDF]

Annals: Series on Military Sciences, 2013
In the natural world, turbulence involves violent demonstrations, random appearances, unpredictability. Scientists have developed chaos theory to explain some possible variants of development of events that have a given initial state and a number of ...
Mircea UDRESCU, Eugen SITEANU
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Imagining interventions for collective sex environments [PDF]

, 2018
Frank’s (2018) article provides an excellent summary of transdisciplinary research concerned with collective sex environments, synthesizing highly diverse studies spanning five decades. The contributing papers utilize a broad range of methods and reflect
Flowers, Paul, Frankis, Jamie
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The Challenge of Invisible Enemies and Risk Mitigation for Parents in Educating Children in the Modern Era

Mu'adalah
This study explores the hidden challenges faced by parents in educating children in the modern era, referred to as “invisible enemies”, focusing on digital technology, individualism, academic pressure, peer influence and consumerist culture.
Arif Sugitanata, Sarah Aqila, Siti Aminah, Muhammad Hasyied Abdurrasyied   +3 more
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An Item Response Theory Model of Inter-Regional Collaboration for Transportation Planning in the United States

Land, 2021
Regional governments and regional intergovernmental organizations play an increasingly important role in land use and transportation planning in many countries.
Soyoung Kim, Woo-Je Kim, Richard Clark Feiock   +2 more
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Horizontal Inequalities and Ethnonationalist Civil War: A Global Comparison [PDF]

, 2011
Contemporary research on civil war has largely dismissed the role of political and economic grievances, focusing instead on opportunities for conflict. However, these strong claims rest on questionable theoretical and empirical grounds.
Collier, Gamson, Gellner, Gurr, Gurr, Gurr, Hechter, Hogg, Horowitz, Kate, KRISTIAN SKREDE GLEDITSCH, LARS-ERIK CEDERMAN, Moore, NILS B. WEIDMANN, Ross, Sambanis, Scott, Stewart, Tajfel, Tilly, Tilly, Turner, Woodward   +22 more
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Cooperative climate action under background risk

Scientific Reports
Addressing climate change requires collective action, yet individuals face a collective-risk social dilemma: we must invest in mitigation efforts at a personal cost, with no guarantee that others will contribute, while the benefits are shared globally ...
Hao Luo, Hanna de Boer, Oliver Musshoff, Daniel Hermann   +3 more
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Cultivating Doxastic Responsibility

Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2021
This paper addresses some of the contours of an ethics of knowledge in the context of ameliorative epistemology, where this term describes epistemological projects aimed at redressing epistemic injustices, improving collective epistemic practices, and ...
Guy Axtell
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Credibility Theory and Kalman Filtering with Extensions [PDF]

, 1975
In this paper it is shown that the estimate and prediction problems considered in credibility theory are similar to those considered in Kalman filtering theory.
Mehra, R.K.
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On the computation of upper approximations to ultimate ruin probabilities in case of DFR claimsize distributions

Statistica, 2007
In the present note we consider the classical continuous time model of the collective theory of risk under the assumption that the claimsize distribution is DFR (decreasing failure rate) so that, according to well known queueing results, the ultimate ...
Luca Barzanti, Corrado Corradi
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The Collective Risk of Inequality: a Social Dilemma calling for a Solution? [PDF]

, 2011
In the aftermath of the financial crisis, attention concerning inequality as a risk factor has risen. Nevertheless studies, focusing on the implications of inequality as a collective risk, remain seldom.
Poppitz, Philipp
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