Tag: Sharing

The Burden-Sharing Dilemma Coercive Diplomacy in US Alliance Politics


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English | ISBN: 1501772473 | 2023 | 210 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The Burden-Sharing Dilemma examines the conditions under which the United States is willing and able to pressure its allies to assume more responsibility for their own defense. The United States has a mixed track record of encouraging allied burden-sharing―while it has succeeded or failed in some cases, it has declined to do so at all in others. This variation, Brian D. Blankenship argues, is because the United States tailors its burden-sharing pressure in accordance with two competing priorities: conserving its own resources and preserving influence in its alliances. Although burden-sharing enables great power patrons like the United States to lower alliance costs, it also empowers allies to resist patron influence.

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Sharing Our Knowledge The Tlingit and Their Coastal Neighbors


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English | 2023 | pages: 542 | ISBN: 1496236882, 0803240562 | PDF | 140,8 mb
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors. These interdisciplinary, collaborative essays present Tlingit culture, as well as the culture of their coastal neighbors, not as an object of study but rather as a living heritage that continues to inspire and guide the lives of communities and individuals throughout southeast Alaska and northwest British Columbia.

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Sharing your work An open source toolchain for creating and sharing data products


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English | 2019 | ISBN: n/a | 117 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 29 MB
This text covers a toolchain for creating data products with RStudio, Git, and Github. Through a single case study (the 2019 democratic presidential debates), we describe how to use Git (via the command line) to track changes to files, how to create beautifully formatted reproducible reports with Rmarkdown, and how to turn your data project into a website using Github pages.

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Code Based Secret Sharing Schemes Applied Combinatorial Coding Theory


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English | April 11, 2022 | ISBN: 981124832X | 216 pages | MOBI | 3.44 Mb
Secret sharing schemes form one of the most important topic in Cryptography. These protocols are used in many areas, applied mathematics, computer science, electrical engineering. A secret is divided into several pieces called shares. Each share is given to a user of the system. Each user has no information about the secret, but the secret can be retrieved by certain authorized coalition of users.

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