Regular Soldiers, Irregular War

Regular Soldiers, Irregular War
Author: Devorah S. Manekin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501750445

What explains differences in soldier participation in violence during irregular war? How do ordinary men become professional wielders of force, and when does this transformation falter or fail? Regular Soldiers, Irregular War presents a theoretical framework for understanding the various forms of behavior in which soldiers engage during counterinsurgency campaigns—compliance and shirking, abuse and restraint, as well as the creation of new violent practices. Through an in-depth study of the Israeli Defense Forces' repression of the Second Palestinian Intifada of 2000–2005, including in-depth interviews with and a survey of former combatants, Devorah Manekin examines how soldiers come both to unleash and to curb violence against civilians in a counterinsurgency campaign. Manekin argues that variation in soldiers' behavior is best explained by the effectiveness of the control mechanisms put in place to ensure combatant violence reflects the strategies and preferences of military elites, primarily at the small-unit level. Furthermore, she develops and analyzes soldier participation in three categories of violence: strategic violence authorized by military elites; opportunistic or unauthorized violence; and "entrepreneurial violence"—violence initiated from below to advance organizational aims when leaders are ambiguous about what will best serve those aims. By going inside military field units and exploring their patterns of command and control, Regular Soldiers, Irregular War, sheds new light on the dynamics of violence and restraint in counterinsurgency.

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
Author: Lester Kaufman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-04-16
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1119652847

The bestselling workbook and grammar guide, revised and updated! Hailed as one of the best books around for teaching grammar, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation includes easy-to-understand rules, abundant examples, dozens of reproducible quizzes, and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar to middle and high schoolers, college students, ESL students, homeschoolers, and more. This concise, entertaining workbook makes learning English grammar and usage simple and fun. This updated 12th edition reflects the latest updates to English usage and grammar, and includes answers to all reproducible quizzes to facilitate self-assessment and learning. Clear and concise, with easy-to-follow explanations, offering "just the facts" on English grammar, punctuation, and usage Fully updated to reflect the latest rules, along with even more quizzes and pre- and post-tests to help teach grammar Ideal for students from seventh grade through adulthood in the US and abroad For anyone who wants to understand the major rules and subtle guidelines of English grammar and usage, The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation offers comprehensive, straightforward instruction.

Irregular Discharge

Irregular Discharge
Author: United States. Veterans Administration
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1948
Genre: Tuberculosis
ISBN:

Regular and Irregular Verbs: English Verb Forms

Regular and Irregular Verbs: English Verb Forms
Author: Manik Joshi
Publisher: Manik Joshi
Total Pages: 90
Release: 2016-10-14
Genre: Education
ISBN:

More than 2500 Regular and 275 Irregular Verbs in English This Book Covers the Following Topics: 01. Regular Verbs 01A. Regular Verbs -- Pattern - 1 01B. Regular Verbs -- Pattern - 2 01C. Regular Verbs -- Pattern - 3 01D. Regular Verbs -- Pattern - 4 02. Irregular Verbs 02A. Irregular Verbs -- Pattern - 1 02B. Irregular Verbs -- Pattern - 2 02C. Irregular Verbs -- Pattern - 3 02D. Irregular Verbs -- Important Notes Sample This: 01. Regular Verbs Regular verbs form their past tense and the past participle by adding “-ed” in the base (simple present) form. There are the following patterns for making regular Verbs: A: Base form (simple present) doesn’t end in “e”. We add “-ed” in base form to make the past tense and past participle. Example: abandon -- abandoned -- abandoned B: Base form (simple present) ends in “e”. We add “-d” in base form to make the past tense and past participle. Example: abase -- abased -- abased C: We repeat the last letter of the base form (simple present) in the past tense and past participle before adding “-ed”. Example: rag -- ragged -- ragged D: Base form (simple present) ends in “y” (and there is a consonant before “y”). We replace “y” with “i” in the past tense and past participle before adding “-ed”. Example: accompany -- accompanied -- accompanied 01A. Regular Verbs -- Pattern - 1 Base form (simple present) doesn’t end in “e”. We add “-ed” in base form to make the past tense and past participle. 001. abandon -- abandoned -- abandoned 002. abolish -- abolished -- abolished 003. abscond -- absconded -- absconded 004. abseil -- abseiled -- abseiled 005. absorb -- absorbed -- absorbed 006. abstain -- abstained -- abstained 007. accept -- accepted -- accepted 008. acclaim -- acclaimed -- acclaimed 009. accord -- accorded -- accorded 010. accost -- accosted -- accosted 011. account -- accounted -- accounted 012. accredit -- accredited -- accredited 013. act -- acted -- acted 014. adapt -- adapted -- adapted 015. add -- added -- added 016. address -- addressed -- addressed 017. adjust -- adjusted -- adjusted 018. admonish -- admonished -- admonished 019. adopt -- adopted -- adopted 020. adorn -- adorned -- adorned 021. afflict -- afflicted -- afflicted 022. affront -- affronted -- affronted 023. ail -- ailed -- ailed 024. alight -- alighted -- alighted 025. allay -- allayed -- allayed 026. annex -- annexed -- annexed 027. annoy -- annoyed -- annoyed 028. anoint -- anointed -- anointed 029. answer -- answered -- answered 030. appeal -- appealed -- appealed 031. appear -- appeared -- appeared 032. append -- appended -- appended 033. applaud -- applauded -- applauded 034. appoint -- appointed -- appointed 035. apportion -- apportioned -- apportioned 036. approach -- approached -- approached 037. arraign -- arraigned -- arraigned 038. arrest -- arrested -- arrested 039. ascend -- ascended -- ascended 040. ask -- asked -- asked 041. assail -- assailed -- assailed 042. assault -- assaulted -- assaulted 043. assent -- assented -- assented 044. assign -- assigned -- assigned 045. assist -- assisted -- assisted 046. astonish -- astonished -- astonished 047. astound -- astounded -- astounded 048. attach -- attached -- attached 049. attack -- attacked -- attacked 050. attempt -- attempted -- attempted 051. attend -- attended -- attended 052. attract -- attracted -- attracted 053. augment -- augmented -- augmented 054. augur -- augured -- augured 055. avert -- averted -- averted 056. avoid -- avoided -- avoided 057. avow -- avowed -- avowed 058. award -- awarded -- awarded 059. badger -- badgered -- badgered 060. bait -- baited -- baited 061. banish -- banished -- banished 062. bankroll -- bankrolled -- bankrolled 063. banter -- bantered -- bantered 064. barrack -- barracked -- barracked 065. barter -- bartered -- bartered 066. bash -- bashed -- bashed 067. batter -- battered -- battered 068. baulk -- baulked -- baulked 069. bawl -- bawled -- bawled 070. beckon -- beckoned -- beckoned

Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation

Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation
Author: Peter Nyers
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2018-12-14
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0429809875

Deportation has again taken a prominent place within the immigration policies of nation-states. Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation addresses the social responses to deportation, in particular the growing movements against deportation and detention, and for freedom of movement and the regularization of status. The book brings deportation and anti-deportation together with the aim of understanding the political subjects that emerge in this contested field of governance and control, freedom and struggle. However, rather than focusing on the typical subjects of removal – refugees, the undocumented, and irregular migrants – Irregular Citizenship, Immigration, and Deportation looks at the ways that citizens get caught up in the deportation apparatus and must struggle to remain in or return to their country of citizenship. The transformation of ‘regular’ citizens into deportable ‘irregular’ citizens involves the removal of the rights, duties, and obligations of citizenship. This includes unmaking citizenship through official revocation or denationalization, as well as through informal, extra-legal, and unofficial means. The book features stories about struggles over removal and return, deportation and repatriation, rescue and abandonment. The book features eleven ‘acts of citizenship’ that occur in the context of deportation and anti-deportation, arguing that these struggles for rights, recognition, and return are fundamentally struggles over political subjectivity – of citizenship. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of citizenship, migration and security studies.

The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality

The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality
Author: Markus Werning
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 765
Release: 2012-02-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0191633291

In this book leading scholars from every relevant field report on all aspects of compositionality, the notion that the meaning of an expression can be derived from its parts. Understanding how compositionality works is a central element of syntactic and semantic analysis and a challenge for models of cognition. It is a key concept in linguistics and philosophy and in the cognitive sciences more generally, and is without question one of the most exciting fields in the study of language and mind. The authors of this book report critically on lines of research in different disciplines, revealing the connections between them and highlighting current problems and opportunities. The force and justification of compositionality have long been contentious. First proposed by Frege as the notion that the meaning of an expression is generally determined by the meaning and syntax of its components, it has since been deployed as a constraint on the relation between theories of syntax and semantics, as a means of analysis, and more recently as underlying the structures of representational systems, such as computer programs and neural architectures. The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality explores these and many other dimensions of this challenging field. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in linguistics and philosophy and to everyone concerned with the study of language and cognition including those working in neuroscience, computational science, and bio-informatics.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author: Iowa Engineering Experiment Station
Publisher:
Total Pages: 610
Release: 1918
Genre: Engineering
ISBN:

At the doors of lexical access: The importance of the first 250 milliseconds in reading

At the doors of lexical access: The importance of the first 250 milliseconds in reading
Author: Jon Andoni Dunabeitia
Publisher: Frontiers E-books
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 2889192601

Correct word identification and processing is a prerequisite for accurate reading, and decades of psycholinguistic and neuroscientific research have shown that the magical moments of visual word recognition are short-lived and markedly fast. The time window in which a given letter string passes from being a mere sequence of printed curves and strokes to acquiring the word status takes around one third of a second. In a few hundred milliseconds, a skilled reader recognizes an isolated word and carries out a number of underlying processes, such as the encoding of letter position and letter identity, and lexico-semantic information retrieval. However, the precise manner (and order) in which these processes occur (or co-occur) is a matter of contention subject to empirical research. There’s no agreement regarding the precise timing of some of the essential processes that guide visual word processing, such as precise letter identification, letter position assignment or sub-word unit processing (bigrams, trigrams, syllables, morphemes), among others. Which is the sequence of processes that lead to lexical access? How do these and other processes interact with each other during the early moments of word processing? Do these processes occur in a serial fashion or do they take place in parallel? Are these processes subject to mutual interaction principles? Is feedback allowed for within the earliest stages of word identification? And ultimately, when does the reader’s brain effectively identify a given word? A vast number of questions remain open, and this Research Topic will cover some of them, giving the readership the opportunity to understand how the scientific community faces the problem of modeling the early stages of word identification according to the latest neuroscientific findings. The present Research Topic aimed to combine recent experimental evidence on early word processing from different techniques together with comprehensive reviews of the current work directions, in order to create a landmark forum in which experts in the field defined the state of the art and future directions. We were willing to receive submissions of empirical as well as theoretical and review articles based on different computational and neuroscience-oriented methodologies. We especially encouraged researchers primarily using electrophysiological or magnetoencephalographic techniques as well as eye-tracking to participate, given that these techniques provide us with the opportunity to uncover the mysteries of lexical access allowing for a fine-grained time-course analysis. The main focus of interest concerned the processes that are held within the initial 250-300 milliseconds after word presentation, covering areas that link basic visuo-attentional systems with linguistic mechanisms.