Historically, issues of gender, race and the environment have received little attention in mainstream International Relations (IR) scholarship. Great strides have been made, however, in interrogating the inadequacies of the field in these areas and, similarly, in demonstrating the necessity of expanded definitions of security and violence in IR. Despite these strides, mainstream environmental s...

We present an approach to personal disaster recovery, e.g. after a hard-disk crash, based not on an explicitly ex-ante defined recovery plan with a rigid backup regime, but rather on naturally accumulated and distributed sources of personal data, such as e-mails and their attachments. We aim to restore as much data as possible, and to provide means to organise it in a meaningful folder structur...

The state plays a central position in theoretical debates in International Relations (IR). Both Realists and Liberals see the state as the central actor in the international system and thereby follow a Western understanding of the state as the holder of the monopoly of force. In the IRsub discipline of security studies new categories such as weak state, quasi state or state failure have created...

The authors used an event-contingent daily recording strategy, the Rochester Interaction Record (RIR), to examine the motivational dynamics of interpersonal relations. Using hierarchical linear modeling, the authors demonstrated that social interactions were more pleasant when participants felt autonomous, competent, and related. Autonomy, competence, and relatedness consistently predicted inte...

Recent rhetoric surrounding the contemporary aid relationship between donors and African states is couched in terms of a high level consensus between western and African political leaderships, a central pillar of which is adherence to liberal principles of governance and economic management. The paper argues that an analysis of the nature of this consensus and its prospects requires that we nee...

We study distributions which have both fractal and non-fractal scale regions by introducing a typical scale into a scale invariant system. As one of models in which distributions follow power law in the large scale region and deviate further from the power law in the smaller scale region, we employ 2-dim quantum gravity modified by the R 2 term. As examples of distributions in the real world wh...

Brand identity is relevant not just for companies, but also for individuals. Some advocate complex strategies for personal brand creation, but we assert that social network interactions in Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter implicitly define a personal brand. We posit that the chain of people and entities with whom the individual interacts both explicitly and implicitly as well as the topics of tho...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to measure the level of job satisfaction and the work factors associated with it among practicing dentists in Suez Canal governorates hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four hundred forty nine dentists were contacted, and 277 agreed to participate (response rate 61.7%). They were surveyed through a self-administered questionnaire based on items from the Dent...

Research on the negative effects of student cynicism has been limited, especially regarding its relation to student burnout. This study examined the relations among student cynicism (policy cynicism, academic cynicism, social cynicism, and institutional cynicism) and student burnout, as evidenced by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment, in a sample of 276...

During our constant interaction with computers, we generate large amounts of personal information. However, it is often hard to find a certain item we are looking for, since our data is spread throughout several places and applications. Nevertheless, a meaningful visualization technique may be the solution to this problem. We present VisMe, an interactive integrated visualization system for per...