With the abundance of publicly available data registering the judgements at supreme courts and parliamentary votes, we can employ various data mining techniques to identify interesting patterns. For example, we can identify explicit and implicit voting blocs, which may or may not agree with official party affiliations. We can assess the political strength of those blocs. We can examine the vote...

Research on the role of the family in political socialization has often assumed that intergenerational continuity and conflict are opposing models of political development. In a longitudinal design, cross-lagged correlational analysis and path analysis were used to examine the causal relations among parental political ideology, parent-student interpersonal relations, and student political ideol...

This paper identifies the risks of CN Group which is working at software outsourcing projects between HongKong and Guangdong, discovers the causal relationships among the risk factors, and constructs corresponding risk structure model with Interpretive Structural Modeling. Five original risk factors are identified, including contracts risk, requirements definition and change, lack of communicat...

With the abundance of publicly available data registering the judgements at supreme courts and parliamentary votes, we can employ various data mining techniques to identify interesting patterns. For example, we can identify explicit and implicit voting blocs, which may or may not agree with official party affiliations. We can assess the political strength of those blocs. We can examine the vote...

This study investigated the role of character strengths and virtues in moderating relations between conflict exposure and psychiatric symptoms among 1078 adolescents aged 13-15 living in southern Israel, who were exposed to lengthy periods of war, terrorism and political conflict. Adolescents were assessed for character strengths and virtues, political violence exposure using the Political Life...