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Careful Commitments: Democratic States and Alliance Design
(2015)Evidence suggests that leaders of democratic states experience high costs from violating past commitments. We argue that because democratic leaders foresee the costs of violation, they are careful to design agreements they ... -
Civil Engineering : Does a Realist World Influence the Onset of Civil Wars?
(2010)Recently, the study of civil wars has attracted more and more attention from scholars of international relations. Using a computer simulation called EARTH (Exploring Alternative Realpolitik THeses) that not only simulates ... -
Civil Reality? Simulation Experiments on the Impact of Civil War in a Realist World
(2005)The most widely used theoretical framework in international relations is realism. Realism takes many forms, and there have been hundreds of writings on the topic. In the United States, the two most popular exemplars of ... -
Cloud-based Meta-analysis to Bridge Science and Practice: Welcome to metaBUS
(2015)Although volumes have been written on spanning the science-practice gap in applied psychology, surprisingly few tangible components of that bridge have actually been constructed. We describe the metaBUS platform that ... -
Cognition and Craving During Smoking Cessation: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
(2014)Introduction: Some studies using ecological momentary assessment (EMA) have revealed an association between craving for cigarettes and relapse. It is therefore important to understand the correlates of craving during smoking ... -
Cognition, categorization and language: Cognitive Grammar meets Vantage Theory
(2009-02-11)Cognitive linguistics becomes more credible if it gains support from independent research on cognition. The study juxtaposes a cognitive linguistic model, Ronald W. Langacker's Cognitive Grammar (CG), with a model of ... -
The Cognitive Neuroplasticity of Reading Recovery following Chronic Stroke: A Representational Similarity Analysis Approach
(2017)Damage to certain left hemisphere regions leads to reading impairments, at least acutely, though some individuals eventually recover reading. Previous neuroimaging studies have shown a relationship between reading recovery ... -
Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast
(2012-02)Coinage occupies an unusual position in archaeological research. Thriving scholarship on numismatics and monetary history ensures that the objects themselves are well-studied, often seen as an indication of chronology and ... -
Collective Security and State Survival in the Interstate System
(1994-03)For hundreds of years realists have debated idealists about the nature of the interstate system and the most effective means to promote the endurance of the system and the survival of individual states. ... -
Colloquial Singapore English never
(2013-11)Negation in New Englishes has been a topic of great interest. However, although some general features of negation in New English varieties have been identified, few have investigated specific varieties and accounted for ... -
Competition in Business Taxes and Public Services: Are Production-Based Taxes Superior to Capital Taxes?
(2015)Although most of the tax competition literature focuses on the provision of local public services to households, several papers analyze tax competition when capital taxes are used to finance local public services provided ... -
Complex predicates in Bangla: An event-based analysis
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Conscientiousness in the Classroom: A Process Explanation
(2012-08)Although the research literature has established that Conscientiousness predicts task performance across a variety of achievement contexts (e.g., Barrick & Mount, 1991; OﾒConnor & Paunonen, 2007), comparatively less is ... -
Consequences of Flexibility Stigma Among Academic Scientists and Engineers
(2014)Flexibility stigma, the devaluation of workers who seek or are presumed to need flexible work arrangements, fosters a mismatch between workplace demands and the needs of professionals. The authors survey ﾓideal workersﾔﾗscience, ... -
Context and Political Knowledge: Explaining Cross-National Variation in Partisan Left-Right Knowledge
(2016)We present a theory that links variation in aggregate levels of political knowledge across countries and over time to corresponding differences in the political context in which voters become (or do not become) informed. ... -
A Context-Independent Situational Judgment Test to Measure Prosocial Implicit Trait Policy
(2016)Two studies developed and validated a context-independent situational judgment test (SJT) of prosocial implicit trait policy (ITP). The first study developed an SJT based on critical incidents about the prosocial behavior ... -
Contrastive rhetoric of English and Persian written texts: Metadiscourse in applied linguistics research articles
(2009-02-11)The present study examines a corpus of ninety discussion sections of applied linguistics research articles, with the goal of analyzing different aspects of academic written discourse. Three types of texts were considered: ... -
Cooperation and Co-optation in Transnational Activism
(2010)Cooperation and co-optation, despite their shared prefixes, seem to suggest very different approaches to establishing coalitions, politics and sociality. Where cooperation suggests prioritizing collective knowledge - shared ...
