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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"defectors"”.
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Soviet Defectors: Sexuality, Gender, and the Family in Cold War Propaganda, 1960-1990
… the Soviet Union to discuss American and Soviet defectors from 1960 to 1990. Utilizing previously established historiographies of gender, sexuality and the family as well as statements from Soviet and American government officials, it is shown that the Soviet government linked gender, sexuality …
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Inrteraction between the oral health index and the quality of life related to oral health of North Korean defectors
… of the major settling factors for North Korean defectors. This study was examine the oral health of North Korean defectors and the quality of life related to oral health in order to adapt the South Korean life style. METHODS: This study was conducted on the 110 female from North Korea over the …
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Solving a social dilemma using behaviourally framed text messaging to increase school fees contribution in public schools in South Africa
… pay inconsistently or don't pay any fees at all (Defectors). The results show that parents in the cooperator group, respond positively to both affective and finance framed messages, and they pay between 1% and 5.2% more than parents who received just a reminder or no message. Surprisingly, the …
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Active Drag Reduction of Ground Vehicles Using Air-Jet Wheel Deflectors
… drag reduction potential. Conventional wheel defectors are compared to air-jet wheel defectors on wheel drag and overall drag reduction capabilities. Two parametric studies are conducted on the Fabijanic body at a Reynolds number of 1.6x105: a study on the variation of the size and location of …
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CAPTIVITY AND CONVERSION: AN IN-DEPTH STUDY OF SOVIET POWS IN AFGHANISTAN
… of POWs played an influential role in the defectors’ decisions and why many were afraid to return to their homeland years after the conflict had ended. Psychological trauma resulting from violence against non-combatants seems to have fostered Soviet soldiers’ sympathy and respect for the …
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A comparative analysis of outcome with various psychotherapeutic methods
… group of children and not the problematic defectors extensively used. Inexperienced clinical psychology trainees and experienced registered clinical psychologists conducted therapy for the two experimental groups. A survey of the literature shows that when institutions survey their efficacy …
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The roles of regional organisations in international peace and security in the post-modern era. The case of the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe with the Former Soviet Union Republic States.
… Thus, the organisation is suffering from defectors and free-riders. Knowing the limitation of the organisation, it still has a space for improvement and a useful function which is to provide a long term process to make a non-cooperate actor cooperative.
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Free to be: North Korean migrants and the South Korean evangelical church
… regimes have publicly celebrated North Korean defectors as national heroes and heroines, today it is only the evangelical church that invites them to criticize the North. I argue that North Korean migrants’ conversion to Christianity is a cultural project with considerable political and …
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On several problems regarding the application of opportunistic proximate links in smartphone networks
… and evidence collection risk", "liars", and "defectors" are proposed and evaluated. Based on the widely used Android mobile computing platform, Chapter 6 presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel declarative approach to static binary analysis of Android apps, which …
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On Several Problems Regarding the Application of Opportunistic Proximate Links in Smartphone Networks
… and evidence collection risk,” “liars,” and “defectors” are proposed and evaluated. Based on the widely used Android mobile computing platform, Chapter 6 presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel declarative approach to static binary analysis of Android apps, which …
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Evolution in finite structured populations with group interactions
… cost that slows down their competitors, the defectors. In this case, the dynamics play a less critical role in the evolution of cooperation.
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Spying: A Normative Account of the Second Oldest Profession
… range of agents often thought to be spies - e.g. defectors, moles, and informants - without including agents not often thought of as spies. This challenge is best met, I argue, by drawing on the concept of collective intentionality. Aldrich Ames, for example, although he did not intend to conceal …
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Reputation and cooperation in social dilemma games
… problems and pose a punishment threat to defectors. It is an open question, however, what kind of mechanisms can make gossip honest and credible and reputational information reliable, especially if intense competition for reputations does not exclusively dictate passing on honest …
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Firms and the Evolution of Culture and Cooperation
… required that allows favouring cooperators over defectors. This mechanism is an interaction structure that specifies who interacts with whom in the population (i.e., random v/s structured v/s flexible) and how the agents interact in order to receive payoffs (e.g., what is known by whom, degree of …