Conciliation, Counterterrorism, and Patterns of Terrorist Violence

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

The terrorist rhetorical style and its consequences for understanding terrorist violence

Patterns of injury in hospitalized terrorist victims.

Acts of terror increase the demand for acute care. This article describes the pattern of injury of terror victims hospitalized at 9 acute-care hospitals in Israel during a 15-month period of terrorism. To characterize patients hospitalized as a result of terror injuries, we compared terror casualties with other injuries regarding severity, outcome, and service utilization. Using data from the N...

Conciliation through Iterated Belief Merging

Two families of conciliation processes for intelligent agents based on an iterated merge-then-revise change function for belief profiles are introduced and studied. The processes from the first family are skeptical in the sense that at any revision step, each agent considers that her current beliefs are more important than the current beliefs of the group, while the processes from the other fam...

Conciliation and Consensus in Iterated Belief Merging

Two conciliation processes for intelligent agents based on an iterated mergethen-revise change function for belief profiles are introduced and studied. The first approach is skeptical in the sense that at any revision step, each agent considers that her current beliefs are more important than the current beliefs of the group, while the other case is considered in the second, credulous approach....