It is often assumed that nondemocratic regimes will control mass media and suppress independent information, but in many autocracies the are partially free imperfectly controlled. We argue partial freedom can increase prospects for nonviolent dissent. develop a theory emphasizing how even less than perfectly outlets ability of individuals to coordinate mobilize, provide an informational endowme...

The paper attempts to provide a conceptual basis for allusions to information processing in discussions about cognition. It de nes the notions of informational medium as a subsystem within a larger dynamical system, the notions of information processing and information management operations, and the notion of informational network a network of informational media. It suggest that situated cogni...

Long-acting reversible contraceptives are highly effective in preventing unintended pregnancies, but take-up remains low. This paper analyzes a randomized controlled trial of interventions addressing two barriers to long-acting contraceptive adoption, credit, and informational constraints. The study offered discounts the clients women’s hospital YaoundA©, Cameroon, cross-randomized counseling...

R ecent literature models leadership as a process of communication in which leaders' rhetorical signals facilitate followers' coordination. While some studies have explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and sub-n...

Recent literature models leadership as the process of communication where the rhetorical signals of leaders facilitate followers’ coordination. While studies exist that explored the effects of leadership in experimental settings, there remains a lack of empirical research on the effectiveness of informational tools in real political environments. Using quantitative text analysis of federal and ...

A substantial and growing share of the population, immigrant children are more likely than children with native-born parents to face a variety of circumstances, such as low family income, low parental education, and language barriers that place them at risk of developmental delay and poor academic performance once they enter school. Lynn Karoly and Gabriella Gonzalez examine the current role of...

This study aimed to describe (1) the prevalence of informational needs in surgically treated women with vulvar neoplasia during the first week after hospital discharge, (2) associations between informational needs and age, type, disease stage and the extent of surgery and (3) additional informational needs. This convergent parallel designed mixed-methods study was conducted in eight hospitals a...

Considering that the movements of complex system entities take place on continuous, but non-differentiable, curves, concepts, like non-differentiable entropy, informational non-differentiable entropy and informational non-differentiable energy, are introduced. First of all, the dynamics equations of the complex system entities (Schrödinger-type or fractal hydrodynamic-type) are obtained. The la...

study of the limit-point concept [16]. Which factors could dictate the introduction of a topology for a given system of informational formulas? In informational cases, different kinds of reasonable topologies, corresponding intuitive ideas what an understanding, interpretation, conception, perception and meaning should be, are coming to the consciousness, that is, into the modeling foreground. ...

This paper examines the effect of hiring migrants on firms' imports using a rich employer–employee dataset from Netherlands for 2010–17. We use an instrumental variables strategy, and find that firms employ high-income country are more likely to import country. Our benchmark specification indicates one standard deviation increase in share migrant workers certain raises their employer's probabil...