a Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, No. 1 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 4, Taipei, Taiwan b Ruentex Group, 14F., No. 308, Section 2, Bade Road, Taipei, 104, Taiwan c Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu, 30050, Taiwan d Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University, 1001 Ta-Hsieu Road, Hsinchu,30050, Tai...

Baboo Odoy Chund Dutt, Pooreo Assistant-Surgeon K. MeLeod, M.D., Civil Surgeon, Jessore Assistant-Surgeon J. McL. Cameron, M.D., Civil Surgeon, Monghyr Assistant-Surgeon R. Hervey, M.B., Bhurtpoor Political Agency Dr. J. AV. Tyler, Civil surgeon, Mynpoori Assistant-Surgeon J. M. Coates, M.D., in charge of Central Jail, Hazareebaugh G. D. McReddie, Esq., Civil Surgeon, Hurdui, Oudh Assistant-Sur...

To learn more about the effect of economic conditions on civil war, we examine whether Sub-Saharan civil wars are more likely to start following downturns in the international price of countries’ main export commodities. The data show a robust effect of commodity price downturns on the outbreak of civil wars. We also find that Sub-Saharan countries are more likely to see civil wars following ec...

This work presents a prototype system that enables electronic integration of civil status records of the International Commission on Civil Status (ICCS) member states; the pursued issues are involving civil status matters for citizens of member states through their respective Registrars’ Offices organization. Phase 1 of the prototype system is presented together with the technical feasibility s...

Letendre, Fincher & Thornhill (2010) argue that pathogen intensity provides the ultimate explanation for why some countries are more prone to civil war than others. They argue that the economic and political factors highlighted in previous research on civil war are largely caused by underlying differences in pathogen intensity, and contend that disease proneness increases the risk of civil war ...

Whilst existing civil society studies generally fail to systematically examine the way that contextual factors shape women’s representation in the civil sphere, political science has predominantly focused on legislative settings. This article responds to the resultant knowledge-gap by examining the hitherto underexplored role of civil society as a political space integral to the substantive rep...

While the issue of civil aviation safety has attracted serious public concern, notably few studies have investigated civil aviation safety efficiency. In this paper, a definition of civil aviation safety efficiency is proposed for the first time. Inputs to the proposed civil aviation safety efficiency model are labor, capital, fund and technology. The outputs are the percent of the passenger tu...

This paper explores the causes of displacement during civil wars. Recent scholarship has shown that conventional civil wars – those in which forces are relatively balanced – and irregular civil wars – those in which one side is substantially stronger than the other – exhibit different patterns of violence. We hypothesize that, while the mode of violence differs, the form of displacement should ...