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Business
Dec 31, 2014
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Page 7 - News tagged with terrorist
The faithless side of suicide bombing
Terrorist groups bend the rules of 'true' Islam to justify the use of female suicide bombers, according to Margaret Gonzalez-Perez from Southeastern Louisiana University in the US. Her paper traces the development of radical ...
Social Sciences
Jun 6, 2011
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Study: Terrorist organizations have shifted Internet activity to social networks
Hackers invading databases is just the tip of the iceberg in online terrorist activity: International terrorist organizations have shifted their Internet activity focus to social networks and today a number of Facebook groups ...
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2012
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Materialism makes bad events even worse
In addition to its already well-documented negative direct effects on a person's well-being, materialism also wields an indirect negative effect by making bad events even worse, according to a paper co-written by a University ...
Social Sciences
Nov 25, 2013
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Hate speech dominates social media platform when users want answers on terrorism
People often resort to using hate speech when searching about terrorism on a community social media platform, a study has found.Community question answering sites (CQAs) are social media platforms where users ask questions, ...
Social Sciences
Feb 20, 2020
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Reintegrating extremist into society
The UK government's increasingly punitive response to those involved in terrorism risks undermining efforts to successfully reintegrate former extremists, according to research by the University of St Andrews.
Social Sciences
Jan 30, 2015
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'Risks of nuclear terrorism are high and growing.' New tools, alliances, renewed focus needed, experts say
For roughly 80 years, the United States has managed the threat of nuclear terrorism through nonproliferation treaties, agency programs, intelligence activities, international monitoring support and more, withstanding the ...
Social Sciences
Jun 19, 2024
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Conservatives visualize Syrian refugees as small, but also threatening, study finds
Building upon previous research, a new UCLA-led study found that people who hold more conservative beliefs are more likely to perceive foreigners such as Syrian refugees as threatening, yet visualize them as physically smaller. ...
Social Sciences
Nov 23, 2016
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Wikipedia pays more attention to events in richer countries, say data scientists
A trio of data scientists, two with Graz University, in Germany, the other with the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has found that Wikipedia gives more attention to events that happen in richer countries than ...
Report: Discovery networks hostage-taking a rare terror event
A new report by terrorism researchers at the University of Maryland concludes that the deadly hostage-taking incident at the Discovery Communications headquarters in suburban Washington, D.C. meets the criteria of a terrorist ...
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Sep 2, 2010
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