Every Island Is Not Haiti

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Friedland
Keyword(s):  
Common Factor ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Racial Tension ◽  
Windward Islands ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Caribbean

Between 1794 and 1796, Britain faced a series of rebellions in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean. In most present-day narratives, the common factor in all of these rebellions would seem to be the fact that each rebellion involved people of color rising up against white rule. In other words, these rebellions were essentially a war between the races, with the abolition of slavery a primary goal. The surviving textual evidence suggests a startlingly different picture. The rebels of the Windward Islands did not see themselves as fighting in separate, local rebellions in which one race took up arms against another; rather, they imagined themselves to be participating in a worldwide revolution in support of the universal rights of man. Individuals of all races were involved on both sides of the struggle, and very far from fanning the flames of racial tension, the rebels studiously avoided all references to race.

Underlying Common Factors of Adolescent Problem Behaviors

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lening Zhang ◽  
John W. Welte ◽  
William F. Wieczorek
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behaviors ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
First Order ◽  
Adolescent Problem Behaviors ◽  
The Common ◽  
Order Factor ◽  
Second Order Factor Analysis

The Buffalo Longitudinal Study of Young Men was used to address the possibility of a common factor underlying adolescent problem behaviors. First, a measurement model with a single first-order factor was compared to a model with three separate correlated first-order factors. The three-factor model was better supported, making it logical to conduct a second-order factor analysis, which confirmed the logic. Second, a substantive model was estimated in each of two waves with psychopathic state as the common factor predicting drinking, drug use, and delinquency. Psychopathic state was stable across waves. The theory that a single latent variable accounts for large covariance among adolescent problem behaviors was supported.

Studies on the Toxicity of Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Chorella Vulgaris by 3D-QSAR Using CoMFA and CoMSIA Methods

2012 ◽  
Vol 610-613 ◽  
pp. 3574-3579
Author(s):  
Cui Hua Wang ◽  
Sheng Long Yang ◽  
Chao Lu ◽  
Hong Xia Yu ◽  
Lian Shen Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Benzene Ring ◽  
Aromatic Hydrocarbons ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
3D Qsar ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contour Maps ◽  
Substituent Group ◽  
Donor And Acceptor ◽  
The Common ◽  
Insight Into

By using CoMFA and CoMSIA methods, the new quantitative structures of 25 aromatic hydrocarbons and the 96 hr-EC50 data with C. vulgaris have been investigated to obtain more detailed insight into the relationships between molecular structure and bioactivity. Compared to CoMFA (the average Q2LOO option =0.610), CoMSIA (the average Q2LOO =0.736) has the better results with robustness and stability. CoMSIA analysis using steric, electrostatic, hydrophobic, and H-bond donor and acceptor descriptors show H-bond donor is the common factor for influencing the toxicity, the steric and electrostatic descriptors are next and the hydrophobic descriptor was last. From the contour maps, the number of benzene ring is more crucial for the compound toxicity and the compounds with more benzene ring make toxicity increased. Under the same number of benzene ring, the kind of substituent group and the formed ability of H-bond are the other parameters to influencing the aromatic hydrocarbons toxicity.

Dimensions of Jewish-American Identity

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-900 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itai Zak
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Test Scores ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Jewish American ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
The Common ◽  
High Degree

The main problem posed in this study is: What are the content and structure of Jewish and American identity? The Jewish-American Identity Scale, which was adapted and refined for this study, was administered in 1971 to four samples, totaling 1006 Jewish-American college students from various parts of the United States. Initially, factor analysis was applied to the separate samples. Intersample comparisons of factor structures indicated a high degree of congruency; consequently, the samples were combined for subsequent analyses. Factor analysis of the test scores demonstrated that most of the common factor variance was appropriated by two relatively orthogonal factors. Items dealing with American identity and those dealing with Jewish identity had medium to high loadings on the two respective factors. These findings supported the hypothesis of the duality and the orthogonality of dimensions of Jewish and American identity, and cast doubt on the notion forwarded by some researchers that Jewish-American identity forms a bipolar continuum.

scholarly journals When Bilingualism is the Common Factor: Switch Reference at the Junction of Competence and Performance in Both Second Language and Heritage Language Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 590-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Judy ◽  
Michael T. Putnam ◽  
Jason Rothman
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Adult Learners ◽  
Heritage Language ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Subject Pronouns ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
The Common ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Heritage Language Speakers

In this paper we take a closer look at the oft-touted divide between heritage language speakers and adult second language (L2) learners. Here, we explore whether some properties of language may display general effects across different populations of bilinguals, explaining, at least partially, why these two groups show some common differences when compared with monolinguals. To test this hypothesis, we adduce data from two unique populations of bilinguals: a moribund variety of heritage German spoken in southwestern Kansas (Moundridge Schweitzer German) and L2 adult learners of Spanish. Empirically, we investigate whether the confound of switch reference adds an additional cognitive burden to these bilinguals in licensing object control predicates in the former and referential subject pronouns in the latter. Our preliminary findings support the view that overarching concepts such as incomplete acquisition cannot capture the variability observed in these populations, thus further supporting approaches that interpret findings such as these to be the result of specific variables.

scholarly journals A note on the implications of factorial invariance for common factor variable equivalence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Maraun ◽  
Moritz Heene
Keyword(s):  
Common Factor ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Random Variable ◽  
Factorial Invariance ◽  
Technical Examination ◽  
The Common ◽  
Factor Variable

There has come to exist within the psychometric literature a generalized belief to the effect that a determination of the level of factorial invariance that holds over a set of k populations Δj, j = 1..s, is central to ascertaining whether or not the common factor random variables ξj, j = 1..s, are equivalent. In the current manuscript, a technical examination of this belief is undertaken. The chief conclusion of the work is that, as long as technical, statistical senses of random variable equivalence are adhered to, the belief is unfounded.

scholarly journals Les catastrophes naturelles dans les romans caribéens d’expression française

Il Tolomeo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessia Vignoli
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Natural Hazards ◽  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Common Origin ◽  
Caribbean Region ◽  
Common Features ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Caribbean

The notion of ‘disaster’ pervades the Caribbean thought. The common origin of the Caribbean region, the European colonization, caused two disasters: the extermination of Native Americans and the deportation of African slaves. The union between nature and the oppressed people against the oppressor resulted in the creation of an environmental conscience that the Caribbean literature has often expressed. This essay will investigate the common points shared by some Haitian, Martinican and Guadeloupean authors in the writing of natural hazards. It will show that, despite the diversity that marks the Caribbean, there is a repetition of common features that proves its geopoetic unity.

scholarly journals How Interdependence Explains the World of Teamwork

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-146
Author(s):  
Matthew Johnson ◽  
Jeffrey M. Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Common Factor ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Machine Systems ◽  
Moving Parts

AbstractCurrent attempts to understand human-machine systems are complex and unwieldy. Multiple disciplines throw different concepts and constructs at the problem, but there is no agreed-to framework to assemble these interrelated moving parts into a coherent system. We propose interdependence as the common factor that unifies and explains these moving parts and undergirds the different terms people use to talk about them. In this chapter, we will describe a sound and practical theoretical framework based on interdependence that enables researchers to predict and explain experimental results in terms of interlocking relationships among well-defined operational principles. Our exposition is not intended to be exhaustive, but instead aims to describe the basic principles in a way that allows the gist to be grasped by a broad cross-disciplinary audience through simple illustrations.

scholarly journals The Common Factor in Idiosyncratic Volatility: Quantitative Asset Pricing Implications

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Herskovic ◽  
Bryan Kelly ◽  
Hanno Lustig ◽  
Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Keyword(s):  
Asset Pricing ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
Idiosyncratic Volatility ◽  
The Common
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