Mapping deviant democracy

Measuring deviant eye tracking.

The two indices that have been proposed for quantifying the accuracy of smooth-following eye movements are shown to be interchangeable. This algebraic fact will permit comparability of values between laboratories only if workers who employ the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) as their index measure S and N as the total signal and noise power, respectively, in the eye movement record.

Socially Deviant Behavior

(Author) A. self-administered questionnaire was used to'compare Tselected driving, personality, and psychosocial variables 'of 306 convicted male drunk drivers with those of 289 alcoholics and 269 controls. She drunk driver group fell between the other,groups on many parameters but resembled the control groUp on as many others. While some 40% of the drunk drivers appeareA to be alcoholics, they...

Are Lexical Subjects Deviant?

0 Introduction The canonical word order of English is generally taken to be SVO, where S and O are assumed to be lexical, i.e., non-pronominal (cf. Lambrecht 1987), as in (1) below. 2 (1) The news coverage showed all the, you know, the guys who didn't get hurt coming home. In the example in 1 we see that the lexical NP the news coverage is the subject of the sentence. While this sentence looks ...

Survival of the Deviant

Does democracy assistance promote democracy?

1 Democracy assistance may contribute to democratisation in a number of ways. It can channel support for elections, it can strengthen legislatures and judiciaries by creating checks and balances on the executive and other bodies, and it can promote democratic participation by strengthening civil society organisations, among others. Against a background of growing concern for democracy worldwide...