The Arab Spring: Finding Common Ground through Values

Finding Common Ground

For more than two decades, capacitive sensing has played a prominent role in human-computer interaction research. Capacitive sensing has become ubiquitous on mobile, wearable, and stationary devices—enabling fundamentally new interaction techniques on, above, and around them. The research community has also enabled human position estimation and whole-body gestural interaction in instrumented en...

Demystifying the Arab Spring

In Tunisia, protesters escalated calls for the restoration of the country's suspended constitution. Meanwhile, Egyptians rose in revolt as strikes across the country brought daily life to a halt and toppled the government. In Libya, provincial leaders worked feverishly to strengthen their newly independent republic. It was 1919. That year's events demonstrate that the global diffusion of inform...

Records Management and Archives : Finding Common Ground

The United States and the Arab Spring

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that could be hostile to the US oil interests. This way the US economic and strategic security interests hav...

Finding common ground: integrating the eagle-i and VIVO ontologies

This paper describes the approach and strategies we have been ap-­‐ plying during the process of integrating and modularizing the eagle-­‐i and VIVO ontologies into the Integrated Semantic Framework. As this effort is yet on going, we will subsequently provide an evaluation...