Thing In Common Research Articles

In Afghanistan: Western and Soviet Methods of Counterinsurgency

The two-decade-long U.S.-led military mission in Afghanistan ended in August 2021 after a chaotic departure of the NATO troops. Power in Kabul transferred back to the Taliban, the political force the United States and its allies tried to defeat. In its failure to achieve a lasting change, the Western mission in Afghanistan is similar to that of the Soviet Union in the 1980s. These two missions in Afghanistan had many things in common, specifically their unsuccessful counterinsurgency efforts. However, both managed to achieve limited success in their attempts to impose their style of governance on Afghanistan as well. The current study compares and contrasts some of the crucial aspects of counterinsurgency operations conducted by the Soviet and Western forces during their respective missions, such as special forces actions, propaganda activities, and dealing with crucial social issues. Interestingly, when the Soviets withdrew in 1988, they left Afghanistan worse off, but the US-backed opposition forces subsequently made the situation even worse. On the other hand, the Western mission left the country better off in 2021, and violence subsided when power in the country was captured by the Taliban, which the United States has opposed.

Displaying things in common to encourage friendship formation: A large randomized field experiment

Friendship formation is of central importance to online social network sites and to society, but can suffer from significant and unequal frictions. In this study, we demonstrate that social networks and policy makers may use an IT-facilitated intervention – displaying things in common (TIC) between users (mutual hometown, interest, education, work, city) – to encourage friendship formation, especially among people who are different from each other. Displaying TIC may update an individual’s belief about the shared similarity with another and reduce information friction that may be hard to overcome in offline communication. In collaboration with an online social network, we design and implement a randomized field experiment, which randomly varies the prominence of different types of things in common information when a user (viewer) is browsing a non-friend’s profile. The dyad-level exogenous variation, orthogonal to any (un)observed structural factors in viewer-profile’s network, allows us to cleanly isolate the role of individuals’ preference for TIC in driving network formation and homophily. We find that displaying TIC to viewers may significantly increase their probability of sending a friend request and forming a friendship, and is especially effective for pairs of people who have little in common. Such findings suggest that information intervention is a very effective and zero-cost approach to encourage the formation of weak ties, and also provide the first experimental evidence on the crucial role of individuals’ preference (versus structural embeddedness) in network formation. We further demonstrate that displaying TIC could improve friendship formation for a wide range of viewers with different demographics and friendship status, and is more effective when the TIC information is more surprising to the viewer. Our study offers actionable insights to social networks and policy makers on the design of information intervention to encourage friendship formation and improve the diversity of the friendship, at both an aggregate and an individual level.

Deep and Superficial Closure.

All operative interventions in plastic surgery have one thing in common: closure of an incision or wound at the conclusion of the procedure. For many years, the only option to accomplish this task was the use of sutures. Today's surgeon, however, has many more options available, ranging from smooth to barbed suture, external to internal staples, internal to external adhesive glues, and incisional negative-pressure wound therapy. These devices are designed with the goal of making wound closure more rapid and secure, and decreasing postoperative sequelae. This paper reviews methods available to perform incisional closure and the published clinical data regarding their use.

EDUCATIONAL POLICIES: THE BIG GAP BETWEEN THE HAVES AND THE HAVE NOTS: A REFLECTION FROM FINLAND AND SOUTH EAST ASIA

This article reflects on the giants stride made in Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences. This is a qualitative study, with data collected through individual and group interviews. Some of the data collected were from questionnaires for Mathematics, Physical and Life Sciences students and teachers as well as from classroom observations. These observations were done by recording the lessons taught by these teachers. The findings were transcribed and interpreted in the form of Cultural Historic Activity Theory (CHAT) (Engestrom, 1987). Results obtained from primary data were collected from South Africa. Results from secondary data, extensive literature on South East Asia and Finland, reflected one thing in common: educational policies are performing excellently. The Haves as used in this article are the countries with good educational policies while the Have nots are the countries with poor performance. The limitation in this research article was the use of qualitative research for the data collection of data as it may have been a limited means of data collection for research of this magnitude. However, because of this approach, this research article serves as a lens to reflect on nuances present amongst the Have nots a result of their educational policies. Article visualizations:

O Judiciário Brasileiro como Superego da Sociedade: Uma Crítica Sobre a Usurpação da Compreensão dos Valores de uma Sociedade

The main idea of this paper is to raise questions on the democratic character of “con- temporary constitutionalism”. In this sense, we present the ideas of four renowned scholars and the core of their theses, whose influence – especially in the “Latin world” – is undenia- ble. They are Manuel Atienza, Luigi Ferrajoli, Luis Prieto Sanchis and Gustavo Zagrebel- sky. Among the many differences that characterize them, their accounts have at least one thing in common: enthusiasm for the constitutional project. To that extent, they stress the normativity of the Constitution and the “civilizing feature” of constitutional values. We address several objections to this understanding, taking into consideration the fundamen- tal right to participate on political affairs, including issues related to substantive rights, which require political and moral developments. To do so, we must take seriously the fact of disagreement and the fact of pluralism as elements of the process of protection and realization of fundamental rights. These rights are also subject to a decision-making process.

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