The paper highlights the methodological framework of an ongoing research focused on two issues of actuality in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D): the role of ICTs in cultivating collective capabilities and the role of the participants in the different phases of a new design project in relation to development. A design-based research approach, rooted in exploratory...

We show that the addition of name induction to the theory EETJ + (LEM-IN) of explicit elementary types with join yields a theory proof-theoretically equivalent to ID1.

This study was partly presented as refresher course to the Congress of Euroanaesthesia 2012, 9-12 June 2012, Paris, France. Bu çalışma kısmen, Euroanaesthesia 2012 Paris Kongresinde tazeleme kursu olarak sunulmuştur, 9-12 Haziran 2012. Address for Correspondence/Yazışma Adresi: Dr. Zeynep Kayhan, Department of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey Phone: +90 3...

We present a general formulation for solving frequency or time domain electromagnetic data using an all-at-once approach. In this ∗Currently at EMI Schlumberger, Richmond, California, USA 94804.

In this article, the authors investigate the effects of economic conditions on support for an incumbent regime in a newAfrican democracy. Drawing on two unique data sources fromZambia—the results of a 1,200-respondent postelection survey and a pair of 10,000-household poverty surveys conducted in the same years as that country’s first two posttransition general elections—the authors find eviden...

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing country to a wealthy developed country. In the process most countries change from an authoritarian to a democratic political system. This is shown by using the Gastil democracy index from Freedom House. First, the basic pattern of correlations reveals that a good ...

Should Lebanon abandon the consociational democratic system? This paper attempts to answer the question by examining the pathologies of the current system and then evaluating its strengths, weaknesses, and potential for reform. Theories of consociational democracy and of conflict regulation are used in this analysis. This paper concludes that there is potential for limited reforms that will mak...

This paper is based on a research aimed at investigating celebrity politics using the emerging theories on celebrity capital in the context of an emerging democracy or third wave democracy, Ghana. The research focuses on the role of celebrity endorsement in the 2008 and 2012 election campaigns in Ghana to explore the mechanism of celebrity politics and capital in Ghana. The main aim of this pap...