identity and ir theoretical concepts

Terror management theory: Theoretical concepts, experimental research and Critics

Terror management theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski & Solomon, 1986) considers the desire for survival as the underlying motivation for human behavior. Given his cognitive capacity and ability to think abstractly about the future, man realizes that his death is inevitable, which causes Paralysing terror. Man has developed certain psychological structures to protect himself from this terror. A cult...

Basic Theoretical Concepts

Digital Identity Protection - Concepts and Issues

Tools and techniques for digital identity management represent an important technology for enabling transactions and interactions across the Internet. Because identity information is often privacy sensitive, it is important that suitable privacy and security techniques be adopted for its protection. In this paper we discuss relevant concepts and issues and survey an approach based on the notion...

Moving beyond is Identity: Concepts and Discourses

The ongoing debate about the identity of the Information Systems (IS) discipline is examined from a new perspective. Two recent studies are contrasted to demonstrate the limits of retrospective analysis for defining the discipline of IS. A new model for discovery transdisciplinary IS research, based on concepts and discourses is suggested. Latent Semantic Analysis is proposed as an approach to ...

Graph-theoretical concepts and physicochemical data

Graph theoretical concepts have been used to model the molecular polarizabilities of fifty-four organic derivatives, and the induced dipole moment of a set of fifty-seven organic compounds divided into three subsets. The starting point of these modeling strategies is the hydrogen-suppressed chemical graph and pseudograph of a molecule, which works very well for second row atoms. From these type...

Superstatistics: Theoretical concepts and physical applications

A review of the superstatistics concept is provided, including various recent applications to complex systems.