ing from specificities, we can break down pendulum democracy at the local level into ten general characteristics as well:14 Practices

Virtues, or habituated excellences of character, have been understood as having important roles in political regimes since the very beginnings of Western political thought. Across remarkable variation in theorists’ contexts and perspectives, the virtues are considered central to the flourishing of regimes beyond otherwise abstract norms and formal institutions. In Greek thought, for example, et...

Introduction: Frostbite is a common debilitating condition seen in travelers and residents at high altitudes. Emergent on-site management is warranted in the absence of institutionalized care and compromised evacuation facilities. This prospective, observational study assessed the outcome of on-site emergent management in low-resource, high altitude healthcare setups in the fie...

Open letters are seen as a politicized form of climate communication, and the professional roles researchers who engage in these communicative events thereby cast into question. Based on semi-structured interviews with initiators to open letters, this article argues that while communication can be constitutive influencing new emergent identities, there also overlaps continuations already establ...

Experimental studies of interactive language use have shed light on the cognitive and interpersonal processes that shape conversation; corpora are the emergent products of these processes. I will survey studies that focus on under-modelled aspects of interactive language use, including the processing of spontaneous speech and disfluencies; metalinguistic displays such as hedges; interactive pro...

In this work, an interaction model between artificial life agents (creatures) is proposed, which allows studying emergent social behavior of agents. This model describes the environment of artificial life and autonomous creatures in terms of goal-states, rules of behavior based on agents’ goals and actions, initial knowledge and the use of communication instructions. For the case of study, the ...

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713729127 On the session lifetime distribution of Gnutella Kevin Ho a; Jie Wu b; John Sum c a †Department of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Providence University, Taichung, Taiwa...