In his article, "Analyzing East/West Power Politics in Comparative Cultural Studies," William H. Thornton acknowledges culture as a central force on the geopolitical map and undertakes at once to preserve the strategic potency of political realism and to move beyond the "billiard ball" externality of both neoand traditional realisms. Although Huntington and Fukuyama are taken seriously on the q...

and Applied Analysis 3 Table 1: Dynamic behaviors of historical Lorentz system for different signs of parameters.

The question of abusing the opportunity of participatory online journalism through the use of offensive speech has generally been neglected in scholarly research. This study tries to fill this research gap by uncovering the characteristics of offensive speech in comments under online news items as well as journalists’ and editors’ opinions on offensive speech. A textual analysis of comments con...

The main realism/anti-realism issue in the philosophy of science is the issue of scientific realism, concerned with the unobservable entities of science. However, there is also a more general issue, often known as “realism about the external world,” concerned primarily with the observable entities of common sense, but which spreads to scientific entities, both observable and unobservable. The i...

Let G = (V , E) be a simple graph. For a nonempty set X ⊂ V , and a vertex v ∈ V , δX (v) denotes the number of neighbors v has in X . A nonempty set S ⊂ V is an offensive r-alliance in G if δS(v) ≥ δS̄(v)+ r,∀v ∈ ∂(S), where ∂(S) denotes the boundary of S. An offensive ralliance S is called global if it forms a dominating set. The global offensive r-alliance number of G, denoted by γ o r (G), i...