The matter of war

Lovecidal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Keyword(s):  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
American Media ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
Commander In Chief

This chapter focuses on other major themes that surfaced in the conflicts that took place during the Bush presidency: oil, info-wars, the “Us versus Them” mentality, and imprisonment. It criticizes U.S. attitudes regarding its approach to war during this period, particularly in the ways American media chooses to perceive and portray the violence. Political analysts have widely commented on the danger of having a victor commander-in-chief who sought glory in war with little consideration for the long-term human costs involved. But the chapter remarks on the greater danger of recasting the world according to his and his surrogates' small-minded view, which continues fatally today to bleed America—economically, politically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

At a Glance … The world economy

2012 ◽  
Vol 222 ◽  
pp. F2-F2
Keyword(s):  
Euro Area ◽  
World Economy ◽  
List Type ◽  
Advanced Economies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Depression Era ◽  
The Impact ◽  
India And China

World growth is expected to remain below trend at 3.1 per cent in 2012 and 3.4 per cent in 2013.The Euro Area is forecast to contract by 0.5 per cent this year and grow only marginally next year with unemployment reaching ‘depression-era’ rates in some periphery economies. The US is likely to grow by 2 per cent in each year.Growth in Brazil, Russia, India and China will be below long-term potential next year, although ‘hard-landings’ will be avoided; the impact on advanced economies will be offset by a large gain in competitiveness.Debt to GDP ratios in OECD countries will, on average, be higher in 2014 than at present.

scholarly journals Social Media, Networked Protest, and the March for Science

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630511879340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Ley ◽  
Paul R. Brewer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

Recent studies have explored how the US public responded to the March for Science protests that took place around the world on April 22, 2017, as well as why individuals participated in these protests. Yet, little research has examined how participants used social media and other channels to learn, communicate, and form behavioral intentions regarding the movement. In addressing these questions, the present study conceptualizes the March for Science as a “networked protest.” It then analyzes data from two surveys: one distributed through social media in the month preceding the March for Science events, and one conducted at the Washington, DC event. The results suggest that social media—particularly Facebook—played key roles in how respondents learned and communicated about the protest. At the same time, respondents also learned and communicated about it through other channels, including texting, email, and face-to-face conversations. Both social media respondents and in-person respondents reported that their experiences with the March had increased their likelihood of undertaking future online and offline actions. Furthermore, communicating through Facebook and Twitter predicted a range of self-reported effects of March experiences on intentions to undertake future actions, whereas learning through social media largely failed to do so. Thus, some—but not all—social media uses may have encouraged participants to sustain both online and offline engagement. Taken together, the findings carry potential implications for how the March for Science and other networked protests can use social media and other communication forms to mobilize supporters and facilitate long-term engagement.

Porcine Left Atrial Wall Stress After Ventricular Tachypacing Mimicking the Effects of Early Atrial Fibrillation

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena S. Di Martino ◽  
Chiara Bellini ◽  
Dale J. Ward ◽  
Nicolas Brown ◽  
David Schwartzman
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Wall Stress ◽  
High Impact ◽  
Atrial Wall ◽  
Left Atrial Wall ◽  
The Us ◽  
Human Costs ◽  
Care Costs ◽  
Annual Mortality

Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the cardiac arrhythmia most commonly encountered in clinical practice. Current statistics referring to the US population indicate a prevalence of AF up to 2.2 million people, projected to increase to 2.66 million by the end of 2010. AF has a high impact on society in terms of human costs, with an annual mortality rate of 11,438 patients. AF also increases the risk of ischemic stroke at least by a factor of 4 and it is responsible for at least 15% of all ischemic strokes, which represent the main cause of long-term disability and one of the main contributors to health care costs [1]. AF results from the synergic action of electrophysiological, biochemical and structural remodeling. Ventricular tachypacing (VTP) has been successfully used in animal models to reproduce relevant features observed in patients suffering from AF, such as ion-channel alterations, fibrosis development and atrial dilatation [2] [3].

The Development of Chinese Nuclear Forces: Start of a Deep Transformation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-93
Author(s):  
V. B. Kashin
Keyword(s):  
Nuclear Potential ◽  
Nuclear Forces ◽  
Missile Defense ◽  
Defense Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
Un Security Council ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
Prevailing View

China is currently the only member of the UN Security Council that is actively increasing the quality and quantity of its nuclear potential. Exactly how far China is willing to go in developing its nuclear forces remains a subject of discussion. The prevailing view is that China is seeking to implement a limited increase in its nuclear arsenal in order to secure the potential for a guaranteed re taliation in the face of the US continuously improving its missile defense systems. Since late 1990s, the development of air and naval forces of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been a subject of increased attention both in Asia and in the world at large. Nuclear potential was not perceived as a priority for China’s development of its military power and remained in the background. However, the events of recent years have shown that the world does not quite realize the true scale of China’s efforts in creating strategic nuclear forces. At this point, it can be perceived as a fait accompli that China has managed to implement most of its long-term program for the modernization of its nuclear forces without attracting too much attention from other major countries and, above all, from the world’s sole superpower.

scholarly journals Anattempt to rebuild the world "in the American way"

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
A. D. Bogaturov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Latin America ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
National Power ◽  
Ukrainian Crisis ◽  
The Persian Gulf

Trump’s foreign policy was controversial, resulting in division into its supporters and adversaries both at national and international levels. Donald Trump managed to be flexible in relations with the Legislative, ignoring the democratic majority in the House of Representatives. However, it was possible only before the Covid-19 pandemic. Donald Trump’s foreign policy prioritized American capital that determined US relations with the EU, Canada, and Latin America. As for relations with Russia, they were defined by the Ukrainian crisis. Disarmament is still a cornerstone in Russian American relations. The US has complicated relations with countries in Latin America, the Middle East, and the Persian Gulf despite all efforts. The UN’s reform and the Security Council, where the three great powers primarily make decisions, are still questioned. The US divides Europe into three parts; Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Russia with Belarus. These Europes have different views on US foreign policy. Republican administration aimed at the expansion of the national power and provision of global leadership. However, the implementation methods were questionable and led to some unpleasant consequences for the US allies. Some of them decided to wait, some prepared for the worst, some tried to adapt to Trump’s policy since it reflected the long-term changes of the US standing in the world regardless of the party or the president. As a result, such policy led to the defeat of the Republicans and brought Joe Biden to power.

Synchronized movement between US lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber prices and COVID-19 impacts

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbang Gan ◽  
Nana Tian ◽  
Junyeong Choi ◽  
Matthew Pelkki
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Health ◽  
Southern Pine ◽  
Low Frequencies ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

We analyzed the synchronized movements of lumber futures and southern pine sawtimber stumpage prices in the United States since 2011 and their response to COVID-19 events using wavelet analysis and event study. We found that the sawtimber and lumber prices have followed complex comovement patterns in the time-frequency domain and both reacted to COVID-19 events with a higher response intensity of the lumber price. Although they reacted differently to the early COVID-19 episodes and vaccine news, the sawtimber and lumber prices responded similarly to the COVID-19 pandemic declarations by the World Health Organization and US president, the US Food and Drug Administration panel’s recommendation of the first COVID-19 vaccine, and economic stimulus legislation. The patterns of synchronized movements between the sawtimber and lumber prices varied with time and frequency, but their comovement at low frequencies (>64 weeks) has strengthened since 2014 and been led by the lumber futures price; COVID-19 episodes have not changed this trend. The different magnitude of response of the two prices to the COVID-19 related events, as well as the long-term dominance of the lumber price in the comovement, reveals asymmetric price negotiation power and benefit distributions among the agents of the lumber value chain.

Global Imbalances in the World Economy

2008 ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
A. Apokin
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Trade Deficit ◽  
Global Imbalances ◽  
Sovereign Wealth Funds ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

The paper reviews an evolution of key political and economic hypotheses in the literature from 1993 to 2007 related to emergence, stability and correction mechanisms of the so-called "global imbalances" which are connected to the US trade deficit. The special "counterweighting" role of sovereign wealth funds in possible mechanisms of global imbalances’ correction in medium- and long-term perspective is considered.

The World Economy

2007 ◽  
Vol 201 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Keyword(s):  
Interest Rates ◽  
Return On Investment ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Oil Price ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Stable Growth ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Purchasing Power Parities

In 2006, global output, measured in terms of purchasing power parities, expanded by 5.4 per cent, the fastest rate of growth since 1973. Despite a higher oil price and the recent rise in global long-term interest rates, we expect world growth to remain above 5 per cent this year, with a slowdown in the US offset by the rapidly expanding China and stable growth in the EU and Japan. In this issue we explore the widening divergence between the return on investment and real interest rates in the major economies. This suggests that despite the recent rise in long real rates it remains profitable for firms to invest in many countries.

scholarly journals Security information resources and strategies of the XXI century

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 167-172
Author(s):  
Violeta Ioana Nagat
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Change ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
Security Strategy ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Security Information ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
First Time

National Intelligence is a priority of national security strategies and intelligence to the US security and defence or in the UE States (Strategists/White Books), by which it is proposed, for the first time, achieving an overall, systematic reforms and long term to this area for important strands of which mention: coordination, structural transformations, the formation of a new structureImprove the quality and activity of human resources reform in the intelligence research, technical development capabilities for gathering information. The dynamics of transformations is necessary to streamline the work of intelligence organizations. In Romania there is an older Security Strategy (2006) and no Intelligence strategy, which would need to be developed. Whatever the model and how to design, american or european, for turning his Romanian intelligence is important for their effectiveness by the maximum of the intelligence community and its components. All these directions and actions are required to be prepared for the strategic change in the world and intelligenceul in order to meet the new challenges of the 21st century.

scholarly journals International Real Estate Review

2002 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-39
Author(s):  
Natalya Delcoure ◽  
◽  
Norm G. Miller ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Price Competition ◽  
Information Access ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Residential Real Estate ◽  
Real Estate Brokerage ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Tape

It is commonly understood that residential real estate brokerage fees in the US tend to run 6% or 7% within local markets for existing property resales. Exceptions to these historically uniform going rates are starting to appear, and utilization of the internet will provide new efficiencies that should lead to lower commission rates in the future. One possible indication of where the long term commission rates may head, should price competition increase, is provided by a review of commission rates around the world. This study is a first attempt to gather such data and begin the process of global comparisons. Most industrialized country brokerage rates are significantly below those of the US, although there are clearly differences in the services provided, red tape, and liabilities, as well as information access. An exploratory model attempts to explain variations in fees around the world and deepen our understanding of possible equilibriums for US firms should price competition increase.

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