Falling Short or Rising above the Fray? Rising Powers and Security Force Assistance to Africa

The U.s. and Rising Powers

In 1999, in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the meltdown of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund spooking the markets and economic crises in Russia and Brazil, the cover of Time magazine featured “The Committee to Save the World”: the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve and the secretary and deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury. With the cold war over and with what U.S. Secreta...

Finding Rising and Falling Words

We examine two different methods for finding rising words (among which neologisms) and falling words (among which archaisms) in decades of magazine texts (millions of words) and in years of tweets (billions of words): one based on correlation coefficients of relative frequencies and time, and one based on comparing initial and final word frequencies of time intervals. We find that smoothing fre...

Rising Above Principle

Does falling smoking lead to rising obesity?

The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced smoking is increasing weight gain in the U.S. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Chou et al. [Chou, S.-Y., Grossman, M., Saffer, H., 2004. An economic analysis of adult obesity: results from the behavioral risk factor surveillance system. Journal of Health Economics 23,...

Comparison of Phonetic Naturalness between Rising-Falling and Falling-Rising Tonal Patterns in Taiwan Mandarin

The new tonal pattern, a falling-rising pitch sequence, emerges from nominal reduplications produced by young children, teenagers, and motherese in Taiwan Mandarin. The pattern implies a child-like speech style and an intimate relationship between speakers and addressees, so application of the pattern usually denotes innocence, ingeniousness, and coyness. The morphophonological pattern sounds l...