Since 1983 the US Central Intelligence Agency has defined terrorism as “premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience.” Compared to the many dangers facing the US today, the threat of terrorism is relatively small. Nonetheless, at nearly all levels of US society the res...

The majority view of cognitive scientists of religion holds that religious concepts are merely byproducts of evolved minds. However, religious concepts exhibit patterned socioecological variation, suggesting that they may be responsive to local selective pressures. Concepts worthy of religious devotion are intriguing, emotion-triggering, and framed in such a way that makes them relevant to one’...

A seemingly new geopolitical term appeared in post-Soviet political discourse during the 90’s of last century: Russkij Mir (Russian Peace). Generally formulated, this stands for a large international community people who share sense belonging to Russian culture and language “devotion values civilization”. The formation concept by elite its implementation into politics can be interpreted as resu...

This paper examines whether the different types of block shareholdings will have a different impact on the extent of Web voluntary disclosure during the differential privatization stages. Prior literature suggests that block ownership may have a substitutive or complementary monitoring effect on corporate disclosure. However, for economies transferring from state endowment to being privately he...

Widely used information diffusion models such as Independent Cascade Model, Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) and others fail to acknowledge that information is constantly subject to modification. Some aspects of information diffusion are best explained by network structural characteristics while in some cases strong influence comes from individual decisions. We introduce reinvention, the ab...

For evolutionary molecular biologist Eugene V. Koonin, science is not just a job or even a career—it is intrinsic to how he experiences the world. “It’s a way of living and thinking,” he says. “It’s effectively a devotion or dedication to creative but rational thinking. These are things that can apply to everything and anything in the world.” Koonin, of the National Center for Biotechnology Inf...

This study, based on the BCC (Beijing Language and Culture University Corpus Center) corpus, systematically analyzed metaphorical reasoning of Reform Opening-up in China. It finds a tendency concentration for sources. The top four sources (Journey: 83.14%; Nature: 8.16%; War: 6.31%; Building (1.15%) contributed 98.76% resonance among all 16 source domains. These highlight two important aspects:...