Governmental Responses to Terrorism in Autocracies: Evidence from China

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-23
Author(s):  
Philip B. K. Potter ◽  
Chen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Information Strategies ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
Public Approval ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Free Media ◽  
Political Leverage ◽  
Terrorist Violence

Abstract Autocracies are widely assumed to have a counterterrorism advantage because they can censor media and are insulated from public opinion, thereby depriving terrorists of both their audience and political leverage. However, institutionalized autocracies such as China draw legitimacy from public approval and feature partially free media environments, meaning that their information strategies must be much more sophisticated than simple censorship. To better understand the strategic considerations that govern decisions about transparency in this context, this article explores the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) treatment of domestic terrorist incidents in the official party mouthpiece – the People's Daily. Drawing on original, comprehensive datasets of all known Uyghur terrorist violence in China and the official coverage of that violence, the findings demonstrate that the CCP promptly acknowledges terrorist violence only when both domestic and international conditions are favorable. The authors attribute this pattern to the entrenched prioritization of short-term social stability over longer-term legitimacy.

scholarly journals Selective and Irreversible Induction of Necroptotic Cell Death in Lung Tumorspheres by Short-Term Exposure to Verapamil in Combination with Sorafenib

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Sebastian Yakisich ◽  
Yogesh Kulkarni ◽  
Neelam Azad ◽  
Anand Krishnan V. Iyer
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Cells ◽  
Culture Conditions ◽  
Serum Starvation ◽  
Adherent Cells ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Short Term Exposure ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Free Media ◽  
Drug Free

The presence of highly resistant cancer cells and the toxicity to normal cells are key factors that limit chemotherapy. Here, we used two models of highly resistant lung cancer cells: (1) adherent cells growing under prolonged periods of serum starvation (PPSS) and (2) cells growing as floating tumorspheres (FTs) to evaluate the effect of Verapamil (VP) in combination with Sorafenib (SF). Compared to cells growing under routine culture conditions (RCCs), PPPS cells or FTs were highly sensitive to short-term exposure (24 h) to VP 100 μM + SF 5 μM (VP100 + SF5). Recovery experiments exposing cells to VP100 + SF5 for 24 h followed by incubation in drug-free media for 48 h demonstrated that while PPSS as well as FT cells were unable to recover, cancer cells and the noncancerous cell line Beas-2B growing under RCCs were less sensitive and were also able to recover significantly. VP100 + SF5 induced significant changes in the expression of protein associated with apoptosis, autophagy, and to a lesser extent necroptosis. Coincubation experiments with z-VAD-FMK, necrostatin 1, or chloroquine showed evidence that necroptosis played a central role. Our data demonstrates that highly resistant cancer cells can be selectively eliminated by VP + SF and that necroptosis plays a central role.

The Algorithm Study of Support Vector Machine Based on Social Network of Public Opinions

2014 ◽  
Vol 513-517 ◽  
pp. 2394-2397
Author(s):  
Hong Biao Xie ◽  
Hong Jun Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Text Classification ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Classification Problem ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Svm Algorithm ◽  
Network Link

Public opinion refers to the certain social groups subjective reflection of certain social phenomena and reality within a period of time. The important measures to maintain social stability and the ruling party's ruling safety are to instantly master the dynamic public opinion and to actively guide social public opinion. In this paper, the author found the model of social network public opinion hotspot issues. The SVM algorithm is adopted to improve the information processing and analysis testing, effectively resolving the text classification problem. It verifies that this method plays an important role in the hot issues analyses of the network link.

scholarly journals COVID-19 pandemic. Effects of stress

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-24
Author(s):  
Elena S. Akarachkova ◽  
◽  
Anton A. Beliaev ◽  
Dmitrii V. Blinov ◽  
Evgenii V. Bugorskii ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Preventive Health ◽  
World Health ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Health Organization

World Health Organization declared COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Fear of illness, self-isolation/quarantine, and reduced quality of life dramatically increased the prevalence of stress-related disorders in the population. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the preventive health-care measures aimed at short-term and long-term COVID-19 pandemic consequences reduction and promotion of social stability.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Timothy Grose
Keyword(s):  
Social Stability ◽  
Autonomous Region ◽  
People’S Daily ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

We must make fighting separatism our top priority in a bid to safeguard Xinjiang’s social stability and closely guard against and severely crack down on the ‘three evil forces’. —Nur Bekri, Former Chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region People’s Daily, March 6, 2011 Although still boasting the name of an impressive landmark, the International Grand Bazaar in Ürümchi, Xinjiang,...

scholarly journals Can online exemplars trigger a spiral of silence? Examining the effects of exemplar opinions on perceptions of public opinion and speaking out

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. 1034-1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Zerback ◽  
Nayla Fawzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Spiral Of Silence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
The Public Sphere

In modern media environments, social media have fundamentally altered the way how individual opinions find their way into the public sphere. We link spiral of silence theory to exemplification research and investigate the effects of online opinions on peoples’ perceptions of public opinion and willingness to speak out. In an experiment, we can show that a relatively low number of online exemplars considerably influence perceived public support for the eviction of violent immigrants. Moreover, supporters of eviction were less willing to speak out on the issue online and offline when confronted with exemplars contradicting their opinion.

Prospects for free media in South Africa are bleak

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Chief Operating Officer ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Broadcaster ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Nationalist Sentiment ◽  
Free Media

Significance The public broadcaster may appeal the ruling through the courts. Opposition parties have long bemoaned the dire state of the SABC, but recent controversial moves by Chief Operating Officer (COO) Hlaudi Motsoeneng are dividing the ANC itself. Impacts Social media will feature prominently in political parties' communication strategies ahead of municipal elections in August. Motsoeneng's ban on airing footage of demonstrations will not boost ANC support in protest-wrought Pretoria, where the DA has a clear lead. However, his requirement that 90% of music broadcast must be locally produced will stoke nationalist sentiment. Any major shift in SABC policy -- at least in the short term -- would have to be forced on the broadcaster through court orders.

EFFECT OF IONIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE RELEASE OF HUMAN PLACENTAL LACTOGEN IN VITRO

1976 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 349-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. CHOY ◽  
W. B. WATKINS
Keyword(s):  
Placental Tissue ◽  
Placental Lactogen ◽  
Human Placental Lactogen ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Graded Response ◽  
High K ◽  
Human Placental Tissue ◽  
High Concentrations ◽  
Free Media

SUMMARY Short-term incubation of human placental tissue in Krebs–Ringer bicarbonate buffered media with various concentrations of K+ and Ca2+ showed a graded response in human placental lactogen (HPL) release at different Ca2+ concentrations, but no effect at increased K+ concentration. Media with high Ca2+ caused an inhibition of release, while Ca2+-free media caused a stimulation in HPL release. High concentrations of Mg2+ inhibited release minimally, while Ba2+ had no effect. There was no change in HPL release when Na+ concentration was increased. La3+-Locke's solution markedly inhibited release of HPL but the significance of this effect is unknown. These results suggest that Ca2+ is not required for HPL secretion from placental tissue. It seems that HPL secretion in vitro does not follow the usual pattern where a physiological stimulus or high K+ concentration causes inward movement of calcium which couples stimulation to secretion.

Liberal Colonialism? Israel’s 2013 Elections and the “Ethnocratic Bubble”

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oren Yiftachel
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The Other ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
First Time ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls ◽  
Ruling Party

Israel’s 2013 Knesset elections, in which the incumbent ruling party was returned to power for the first time in a quarter-century, were noteworthy in several respects. The basic divisions of Israeli politics into geopolitical and socioeconomic blocs were unchanged, only small electoral shifts being registered. On the other hand, as this report shows, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barely achieved an electoral victory despite his overwhelming preponderance in public-opinion polls. Due to the rise of the new, personality-driven Yesh Atid party and the latter’s unlikely alliance with the settler-based Jewish Home, which together garnered as many Knesset seats as the winning Likud-Yisrael Beitenu list, for the first time in decades ultra-Orthodox parties were excluded from the governing coalition. The elections were marked by the near-invisibility of the Palestinian issue and Palestinian citizens of Israel. The report concludes that the continuing governing consensus in favor of “liberal colonialism” is unsustainable, although exploiting the “cracks” in that consensus is difficult and unlikely in the short term.

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