Article Jeffrey Mankoff: Russia’s War in Ukraine. Identity, History and Conflict. Washington, D.C.: Center for Strategic International Studies (CSIS), April 2022, was published on December 1, 2022 the journal SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen (volume 6, issue 4).

Following the total raw scores of SB5 testing, scores were divided into two groups and then item difficulty and the discrimination index were calculated within 165 children from the total sample. Besides, the study also sought to perform an age specific (6-16) item analysis from those total students. The adaptation and modification of the items were done based on the difficulty, discriminating ...

There is a well-documented tendency for cognitive tests to underestimate the abilities of older people in black and minority ethnic groups. This gives rise to a substantially higher risk of mistaken diagnosis of dementia. Reasons include differences in extent or focus of formal education, lack of familiarity with English, lack of literacy in own first language, and culture-specific factors rela...

INTRODUCTION Population-based cancer survival data provide insight into the effectiveness of health care delivery. Comparing survival for all cancer sites combined is challenging, because the primary cancer site and age distribution of patients may differ among areas or change over time. Cancer survival indices (CSIs) are summary measures of survival for cancers of all sites combined and are us...

Research suggests that culture influences how people perceive the world, which extends to memory specificity, or how much perceptual detail is remembered. The present study investigated cross-cultural differences (Americans vs East Asians) at the time of encoding in the neural correlates of specific versus general memory formation. Participants encoded photos of everyday items in the scanner an...

The Nonproliferation Review/Winter 1998 44 Robert Johnston is a doctoral candidate at the American University, School of International Service in Washington, D.C., and a political risk analyst at the Parvus International Corporation in Silver Spring, Maryland. Previously, he was a research analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in Washington, D.C. U.S. EXPORT CONT...

In a high-speed moving mobile environment, the channel state information (CSI) in last part of packet is different from actual beginning part. Therefore, estimation accuracy degraded, especially when small number pilot symbols are used to ensure transmission efficiency. For above reasons, it necessary compensate for CSIs achieve reliable communication. Decision feedback (DFCE) has been widely c...

Kültür, kuşaktan kuşağa aktarılarak yaşatılmakta, kültürel kodlar aracılığıyla nesilden nesile iletilmekte ve bu arasında çocuk oyunları da önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Oyunlarında, içinde yaşadıkları toplumun sosyal-kültürel unsurlarını yansıtan çocuklar, sayede hem sosyal ilişkilerinin kuvvetlenmesine de sürekliliğin devamına katkıda bulunurlar. Ancak yaşam koşullarının hızla değiştiği günümüz...