The Paradoxes of Aviation Security and Some Approaches to their Formal Description

AbstractAt the heart of this special issue are partitive elements (i. e., partitive articles, partitive pronouns, and partitive case markers) which can express different “shades” of partitivity, namely true partitivity, pseudopartitivity, or indefiniteness, that is, the absence of a part-whole relation in the meaning, in contrast to (pseudo)partitivity. Since these partitive elements express (at least) two such notions, as they can be truly partitive but often are not, the questions around partitivity are complex, interrelated and challenging. This special issue, with a strong and wide crosslinguistic (typological) coverage, deals with two overarching topics: first, the geographical distribution of partitive elements and the identification of potential instances of language contact, and, second, sometimes in combination with the first topic, the formal description and explanation of different partitive constructions.

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Junk news bubbles modelling the rise and fall of attention in online arenas

New Media & Society ◽

10.1177/1461444820978640 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 146144482097864

Author(s):

Maria Castaldo ◽

Tommaso Venturini ◽

Paolo Frasca ◽

Floriana Gargiulo

Keyword(s):

Empirical Data ◽

Formal Description ◽

Media Attention ◽

Online Platforms ◽

Mathematical Exploration ◽

Public Debates

In this article, we present a type of media disorder which we call ‘junk news bubbles’ and which derives from the effort invested by online platforms and their users to identify and circulate contents with rising popularity. Such emphasis on trending matters, we claim, can have two detrimental effects on public debates: first, it shortens the amount of time available to discuss each matter and second, it increases the ephemeral concentration of media attention. We provide a formal description of the dynamic of junk news bubbles, through a mathematical exploration of the famous ‘public arenas model’ developed by Hilgartner and Bosk in 1988. Our objective is to describe the dynamics of the junk news bubbles as precisely as possible to facilitate its further investigation with empirical data.

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Shock waves in aviation security and safety

Shock Waves ◽

10.1007/s00193-002-0162-1 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 12 (4) ◽

pp. 267-275 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

G.S. Settles ◽

B.T. Keane ◽

B.W. Anderson ◽

J.A. Gatto

Keyword(s):

Shock Waves ◽

Aviation Security

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THE GLOBAL EXPERIENCE GAINED IN THE AREA OF AVIATION SECURITY FINANCING

Aviation ◽

10.3846/16487788.2013.865951 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 91-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valentyn Miziuk

Keyword(s):

Aviation Security ◽

Cost Recovery ◽

Civil Aviation ◽

International Civil Aviation Organization ◽

Basic Principles

The paper discusses the basic principles of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) pertaining to the regulations of airport charges imposed for cost recovery to provide a standardized level of aviation security. The national and global experience gained in the area of aviation security financing is analyzed.

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