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Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do people who identify as friendless make sense of their condition in a moment when friendship is extolled for the support and satisfaction it offers? This article draws on interviews with 21 adults in an Atlantic Canadian city. We argue that our interviewees were rarely at ease with their friendlessness and were at pains to recover an honorable ...
Laura Eramian, Peter Mallory
wiley   +1 more source

Financial costs of diabetes mellitus among patients attending outpatient clinics in a military hospital in Sri Lanka. [PDF]

BMJ Mil Health
Samarawickrama MS, Gamage AU, Dissanayake DMAK.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Commerce, markets, and peace: Richard Cobden's enduring lessons [PDF]

Do capitalism and conflicts go hand in hand? Are the military and markets complements? Indeed, many conservative advocates of markets also passionately support the military, and many people who oppose war also oppose markets.
Stringham, Edward
core   +1 more source

Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How do absent others influence our interactions? We argue in this paper that interactions are embedded within networks formed by chains of specific relationships between known third parties. The anticipation of future interactions with external others conditions our interpretation of the current situation and affects our behavior in the interaction. We
Michael Schultz, Leslie DeChurch, Noshir Contractor   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The impacts of war on health, human rights, and the environment-an overview. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Levy BS.
europepmc   +1 more source

Forecasting world military spending

Collection of the scientific papers of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies of the National Defence University of Ukraine
Recent decades have been marked by the intensification of local conflicts, the destruction of the state security institution, accompanied by military operations, the consequences of which are unpredictable. The system of collective security was a kind of guarantor of state security, but time has shown that it is not effective when the guarantor state ...
openaire   +1 more source

Military Expenditure, Threats, and Growth [PDF]

This paper clarifies one of the puzzling results of the economic growth literature: the impact of military expenditure is frequently found to be non-significant or negative, yet most countries spend a large fraction of their GDP on defense and the ...
Joshua Aizenman, Reuven Glick
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Quantifying Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance: An Early Experiment Using Network Design Tasks

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Structural Complexity is perceived as driving cost in system development, yet managing it effectively requires empirical understanding. This study investigates human decision‐making using a toy transportation‐style network design task, focusing on how Structural Complexity, Effort, and Performance interact. Seventy‐four participants (primarily
Alfonso Lanza, Joshua Sutherland, Marc‐Andre Chavy‐Macdonald, Olivier L. de Weck   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mass gathering events underscore serious vulnerabilities in health care capacity in Canada. [PDF]

CMAJ
Varner C.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Systems Engineering Methodology for System of Autonomous Systems: Test and Evaluation

Systems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) have resulted in autonomous systems that reduce operators' workload and involvement in hazardous missions. Integrating these systems into an existing system of systems (SoS) can evolve it into a system of autonomous system (SoAS).
Mohammadreza Torkjazi, Ali K. Raz
wiley   +1 more source