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Improving interdisciplinary communication with standardized cyber security terminology: A literature review
(© IEEE, 2016-03-21)The growing demand for computer security, and the cyberization trend, are hallmarks of the 21st century. The rise in cyber-crime, digital currency, and e-governance has been well met by a corresponding recent jump in ... -
Improving National and Homeland Security through a proposed Laboratory for Information Globalization and Harmonization Technologies (LIGHT)
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004-12-10)A recent National Research Council study found that: "Although there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counter terrorism programs, they lack the necessary context ... -
In Line or Online? American Voter Registration in the Digital Era
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2014-02-18)Online voter registration is one of the most recent efforts to stimulate turnout in American elections. Within the past decade, an increasing number of states have begun to allow their residents to register as voters ... -
In search of peace systems: Scandinavia and the Netherlands, 1870-1970
(© Sage Publications, 1972) -
Incumbency advantages in state elections
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The Influence of Initiative Signature Gathering Campaigns on Political Participation
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-03-21)Does direct democracy increase political participation? Rather than focus on state-level effects of the initiative process, this paper studies the effect of signature gathering campaigns on participation within a state. ... -
The Influence of Initiative Signature Gathering Campaigns on Political Participation (II)
(Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, 2005-12-12)Does direct democracy increase political participation? Rather than focus on state-level effects of the initiative process, this paper studies the effect of signature gathering campaigns on participation within a state. ... -
Information integration for counter terrorism activities: The requirement for context mediation
(© IEEE, 2003-11)The National Research Council has noted that "[A]lthough there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counterterrorism programs, they lack the necessary context definitions ... -
Information networking as an instrument of sustainable development : the photovoltaic example
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Information technology and sustainable development : understanding linkages in theory and practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003) -
Institutions for Cyber Security: International Responses and Data Sharing Initiatives
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017-08)Almost everyone recognizes the salience of cyberspace as a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace has become a fundamental feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for ... -
Institutions for cyber security: International responses and global imperatives
(© Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor & Francis Group), 2013-10-22)Almost everyone recognizes the salience of cyberspace as a fact of daily life. Given its ubiquity, scale, and scope, cyberspace has become a fundamental feature of the world we live in and has created a new reality for ... -
Integrating cyberspace and international relations: The co-evolution dilemma
(© Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012-11-06)Cyberspace is a fact of daily life. Until recently cyberspace was considered largely a matter of low politics – the term used to denote background conditions and routine decisions and processes. By contrast high politics ... -
Interactions of economic and political change: The Egyptian case
(© Elsevier B.V., 1979)Partial indicators of economic change in Egypt suggest that the real rate of growth and the rate of inflation have been higher than official statistics. Investment and consumption have both grown rapidly. The private sector ... -
International changes in the world oil market: A simulation perspective
(© International Political Science Association, 1982-10-01)The oil price increases of October 1973 triggered a set of changes in the international system that promise to have continued, long-term effects. This article begins with a review of the major attempts to model the world ... -
International conflict processes: A system view
(© Gütersloher Verl.-Haus Mohn, 1970) -
International energy futures: Petroleum prices, power and payments
(© MIT Press, 1981)This book, with the collaboration of David Scot Ross and Brian Pollins, constructs the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) as a system dynamics model to explore a set of propositions about future price, politics, and ... -
International non–alignment: Quantitative perspectives on the Afro–Asian variant
(© Chandler Pub. Co., 1973)