Foundation salaries: Internal conflict

Globalization and Internal Conflict

The paper outlines and compares two models of how globalization is likely to affect the risk of civil war – a liberal model and structuralist model. Overall, we find considerably more support for the liberal model than for the structuralist, anti-globalist model. Trade does appear to have a capacity for increasing internal peace – not directly, but via trade’s beneficial effects on growth and i...

Clinical trial registration: internal conflict?

To the Editor: To assure transparency and reporting of all conducted clinical trials, in 2004, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) announced its statement on clinical trial registration (1). According to this statement, any clinical trial should be registered before its beginning in certain registries, so that researchers can be aware of its progress and results at di...

2. Ambivalence as Internal Conflict

Political scientists and psychologists recognize the presence of ambivalence in our attitudes, but conceptions of ambivalence are widely varied. Is ambivalence common or rare? Is it a subjective feeling that can only be measured by asking the individual, or is it an objective property of an attitude that can be measured without the respondent’s knowledge? Answers to this question may depend on ...

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The Internal Conflict of a Belief Function

In this paper we define and derive an internal conflict of a belief function. We decompose the belief function in question into a set of generalized simple support functions (GSSFs). Removing the single GSSF supporting the empty set we obtain the base of the belief function as the remaining GSSFs. Combining all GSSFs of the base set, we obtain a base belief function by definition. We define the...