Whether Russia’s military and diplomatic commitments to Venezuela will change because of the Russia-Ukraine war poses a series of pressing questions for the sanctioned and isolated regime in Caracas. ...Carlos Solar argues that years of propaganda have allowed Caracas to control and execute a disinformation campaign that does not cast Moscow as the aggressor in the 2014 Crimea annexation or the current invasion of Ukraine. Given Russia’s and Venezuela’s previous records of global norms defiance, the war in Ukraine solidifies Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s anti-Western discourse, moving Caracas closer to other autocratic regimes and ultimately aiding their efforts in establishing a trilateral world order together with the US and China, in which the Kremlin has a leading role. ◼
We revisit some ideas from our previous article on social norms by conceptualizing norms as dynamic entities that both affect and are affected by human action; elaborating on the distinction between ...collective and perceived norms; summarizing key findings from studies that have adopted the theory of normative social behavior (TNSB) and thereby proposing guidelines for further expanding the purview of the TNSB; discussing the attribute‐centered approach as a framework for focusing on behavioral characteristics; and highlighting areas for further inquiry into social norms.
On Ƶ p -Norms of Random Vectors Latała, R
Journal of mathematical sciences (New York, N.Y.),
04/2019, Volume:
238, Issue:
4
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
To any n-dimensional random vector X we may associate its Lp-centroid body Ƶp (X) and the corresponding norm. We formulate a conjecture concerning the bound on the Ƶp (X)-norm of X and show that it ...holds under some additional symmetry assumptions. We also relate our conjecture to estimates of covering numbers and Sudakov-type minoration bounds.
This paper finds some lower and upper bounds for the essential norm of the weighted composition operator from α -Bloch spaces to the weighted-type space superscriptHμ∞/superscript on the unit ball ...for the case α≥1 .
Social norms have been found to be an important factor in individuals’ health and risk behaviors. Past research has typically addressed which social norms individuals perceive in their social ...environments (e.g., in their peer group). The present article explores normative social influences beyond such perceptions by applying a multilevel approach and differentiating between perceived norms at the individual level and collective norms at the group level. Data on norms and three road traffic risk behaviors (speeding, driving after drinking, and texting while driving) were obtained from a representative survey among young German car drivers (N = 311 anchor respondents) and their peer groups (overall N = 1,244). Multilevel modeling (MLM) revealed that beyond individual normative perceptions of peers’ behavior and approval, actual collective norms (peers’ actual risk behavior and attitudes) affect individuals’ risk behaviors. Findings are discussed with regard to theorizing normative influences on risk behavior and practical implications.
(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae and/or non-USASCII text omitted; see image) We established the existence of weak solutions of the fourth-order elliptic equation of the form ...where ... is a positive ...parameter, ... and ... are positive functions, while ... is sublinear at infinity and superlinear at the origin. In particular, by using Ricceri's recent three critical points theorem, we show that the problem has at least three solutions.PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Summary
Although overweight and obesity are widespread across most of the developed world, a considerable body of research has now accumulated, which suggests that adiposity often goes undetected. A ...substantial proportion of individuals with overweight or obesity do not identify they are overweight, and large numbers of parents of children with overweight or obesity fail to identify their child as being overweight. Lay people and medical practitioners are also now poor at identifying overweight and obesity in others. A visual normalization theory of the under‐detection of overweight and obesity is proposed. This theory is based on the notion that weight status is judged relative to visual body size norms. Because larger body sizes are now common, this has caused a recalibration to the range of body sizes that are perceived as being ‘normal’ and increased the visual threshold for what constitutes ‘overweight’. Evidence is reviewed that indicates this process has played a significant role in the under‐detection of overweight and obesity. The public health relevance of the under‐detection of overweight and obesity is also discussed.
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