Presidents, Vice Presidents, and Death: Closing the Constitution's Succession Gap

A Discourse-Historical Analysis of Two Iranian Presidents’ Speeches at the UN General Assembly

The present study compared speeches by Iranian President Rouhani, following a moderate political ideology, and his predecessor Ahmadinejad, a seemingly conservative/ principalist president, at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly. The discourse-historical approach was employed to analyze the two corpora. Other discoursal features such as the representation of self and identity were also inc...

Integrative Complexity of 41 U.S. Presidents

Although U.S. presidents are one of the most studied groups of political figures and integrative complexity is one of the most widely used constructs in political psychology, no study to date has fully examined the integrative complexity of all U.S. presidents. The present study helps fill in that gap by scoring 41 U.S. presidents’ first four State of the Union speeches for integrative complexi...

Kasturi Voted 2007 Computer Society President-Elect: Board of Governors Members and New Vice Presidents also Named

Disorganization Theory and Disorganizational Behavior: towards an Etiology of Messes

This article develops a theory of messes, defined as disorderly accumulations of varied entities. More specifically, it examines disorder caused by individual, or collective human agents, in hierarchically-ordered and complex systems – systems composed of sub-systems that, in turn, have their own subsystems, and so on. Such hierarchical-complex systems include filing systems (filing cabinet, dr...

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The officers of the third International Congress of the History of Medicine are : President of honour, Sir Norman Moore, Bt., M.D. ; president, Dr. Charles Singer; treasurer, Mr. W. G. Spencer, O.B.E., M.S. ; general secretary, Dr. J. D. Rolleston ; vice-presidents, Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E., F.R.C.S., Dr. Tricot-Royer of Antwerp, president of the first International Congress, and Drs. Jeanselme...