Two Approaches to Analyze Whether Citizens’ National Identity Is Affected by Country, Age, and Political Orientation—A Fuzzy Eco-Apostle Model

New Approaches to Analyze Gasoline Rationing

In this paper, the relation among factors in the road transportation sector from March, 2005 to March, 2011 is analyzed. Most of the previous studies have economical point of view on gasoline consumption. Here, a new approach is proposed in which different data mining techniques are used to extract meaningful relations between the aforementioned factors. The main and dependent factor is gasolin...

American Patriotism, National Identity, and Political Involvement

Researchers disagree over the definition, measurement, and expected political consequences of American patriotism, a situation that is fueled by the absence of a strong theoretical research foundation. We develop and evaluate a new measure of national attachment that is grounded in social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner 1979), drawing on data from three distinct sources: two studies of under...

whether age of menarche is influenced by body mass index and lipoproteins profile? a retrospective study

background: menarche, a milestone in the reproductive life span of a woman, is influenced by several genetics and environmental factors. there is no consensus regarding the impact of body mass index (bmi) and lipid profiles on the age of menarche, as the results of various studies demonstrate. objective: to investigate the correlation between age of menarche and bmi/lipoprotein profile in a com...

Debt Sustainability: How to Assess Whether a Country is Insolvent by Nouriel

National identity and the political economy of small states

Building on insights from Katzenstein and Gellner, the authors theorize that small, culturally homogeneous countries with a strong national identity have institutional advantages that tend to enhance their long-term socioeconomic performance. They can coordinate policy in ways that help them respond successfully to external vulnerabilities by building institutional capacities for cooperation, s...