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University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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About: University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a education organization based out in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 8772 authors who have published 22239 publications receiving 562529 citations. The organization is also known as: UNC Charlotte & UNCC.
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TL;DR: The findings suggest that the values of the pedophile culture support and encourage emotional and, in some cases, sexual relationships with boys and girls in virtual and real settings.
Abstract: The development of the Internet and computer-mediated communications has fostered the growth of a wide range of deviant sexual behaviors along with deviant subcultures that support and approve of these behaviors. Some of these practices pose little risk to public safety, though acts such as pedophilia and the creation and distribution of child pornography have significant negative ramifications for victims. A growing literature has examined the function of the Internet for child pornography distribution, social networks of pedophiles, and tactics of child solicitation. Few, however, have explored the utility of the Internet to develop a subculture of pedophiles and its role in fostering attitudes and justifications for relationships with children. This study will explore the subcultural norms and enculturation of the pedophile community using a qualitative analysis of five Web forums run by and for pedophiles. The findings suggest that the values of the pedophile culture support and encourage emotional and, in some cases, sexual relationships with boys and girls in virtual and real settings. Implications for the study of pedophiles and the role of the Internet are explored.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a series of pooled, time-series negative binomial statistical regression models on 19 countries from 1972 to 2003 was used to evaluate the question of whether or not the promotion of democracy in the Middle East will reduce terrorism.
Abstract: This study empirically evaluates the question of whether or not the promotion of democracy in the Middle East will reduce terrorism, both in terms of terrorist attacks sustained by Middle Eastern countries and in terms of attacks perpetrated by terrorist groups based in Middle Eastern countries. Using a series of pooled, time-series negative binomial statistical regression models on 19 countries from 1972 to 2003 the analysis demonstrates that the more politically liberal Middle Eastern states—measured both in terms of democratic processes and in terms of civil liberties protections—are actually more prone to terrorist activity than are Middle Eastern dictatorships. The study demonstrates, furthermore, that an even more significant predictor of Middle Eastern terrorist attacks is the intensity of state failures, or episodes of severe political instability that limit central government projection of domestic authority, suffered by states in the region. States that are unable to respond to fundamental chall...
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework to examine signaling mechanisms firms can use to effectively signal the value of their knowledge to two key stakeholder groups, the capital and labor markets, while avoiding associated transfer problems.
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TL;DR: The authors examined public service motivation among private and public sector lawyers and found that while PSM may not clearly predict the employment sector of a respondent's first job, it does increase the likelihood that a respondents subsequent job is in the public sector.
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TL;DR: Overall, the results indicate email requests were more polite than voicemail requests, which are consistent with the hyperpersonal model (Walther, 1996).
Abstract: This study analyzes requests made via email and voicemail for properties of politeness (Brown & Levinson, 1987). Voicemail users have less control over planning, composing, editing, and executing messages, and must manage more nonverbal cues than email users. Thus, it is predicted that email will enable users to create more polite speech than voicemail. A 2 (communication medium: email or voicemail) x 2 (imposition: low or high) factorial design was implemented to test this hypothesis. One hundred fifty-one participants created request messages that were subsequently analyzed for properties of politeness. Overall, the results indicate email requests were more polite than voicemail requests. These results are consistent with the hyperpersonal model (Walther, 1996).
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Chao Zhang | 127 | 3119 | 84711 |
E. Magnus Ohman | 124 | 622 | 68976 |
Staffan Kjelleberg | 114 | 425 | 44414 |
Kenneth L. Davis | 113 | 622 | 61120 |
David Wilson | 102 | 757 | 49388 |
Michael Bauer | 100 | 1052 | 56841 |
David A. B. Miller | 96 | 702 | 38717 |
Ashutosh Chilkoti | 95 | 414 | 32241 |
Chi-Wang Shu | 93 | 529 | 56205 |
Gang Li | 93 | 486 | 68181 |
Tiefu Zhao | 90 | 593 | 36856 |
Juan Carlos García-Pagán | 90 | 348 | 25573 |
Denise C. Park | 88 | 267 | 33158 |
Santosh Kumar | 80 | 1196 | 29391 |
Chen Chen | 76 | 853 | 24974 |