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2019-05-16: Eco-innovation in transportation industry: A double frontier common weights analysis with ideal point method for Malmquist productivity index

Kiani Mavi, Reza;Fathi, Amirali;Saen, Reza Farzipoor;Kiani Mavi, Neda

Transportation industry is one of the major contributors to the environmental pollution. Analyzing efficiency of this industry helps people and societies to enhance their awareness of its performance and develop managerial strategies. The need for su...

2019-05-16: Optimism and attribution about uncertain events: What happened to missing flight MH370?

Grover, Steven L.;Hyde, Abbe;Lux, Andrei A.;O'Kane, Paula;Walton, Sara

This study examines how individual optimism affects attributions about uncertain phenomena. Using a motivated reasoning lens, we theorize that optimism drives people to overestimate the effectiveness of measures meant to prevent accidents. We tested ...

2019-05-21: Staring Down the Mukhabarat: Rhizomatic Social Movements and the Egyptian and Syrian Arab Spring

Strenges, Stephen Michael

Unable to enact change through the existing political institutions of their authoritarian regimes, and consistently repressed by state security forces (the mukhabarat), activists in Egypt and Syria relied on street activism to challenge their conditi...