Figure: Assurance Game Payoffs. (Source: Author) It is puzzling that an unpopular authoritarian regime, e.g., North Korea, is able to rule for a long time despite being way outnumbered by its opponents (Human Rights Watch, 2017). This paradox can be explained by thinking of rebellion as a collective action problem. While it is best for …
Figure: High Density Housing (Source: Geograph Britain and Ireland, Author: ad acta) Housing for the poor and efforts to mitigate climate change are important sociological and humanitarian concerns that, normatively speaking, ought to be addressed immediately. Unfortunately, California’s efforts in this direction have suffered a setback (Dougherty, 2020). To combat the housing crisis, two years …
Figure: A Social Network (Wikimedia Commons, Author Zigomitros Athanasios – Thor4bp) What is common between our social circles, the internet, and food webs? They can be modeled as a bunch of interconnected nodes—a network. As simple as the definition of a network sounds, this diagram of nodes connected with edges contains more information than meets …
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Figure 1 President Tsai Ing-wen inspects the Central Epidemic Command Center on April 2, 2020 (Source: Flickr, 總統府) (A previous version of this article that describes the situation in the pre-Omicron wave can be found here) Recently, an article in The Lancet medical journal article measured the biological, economic, demographic, and socio-political correlates of COVID-19 …
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This page is a historical record of past and present ICJS writers and writing projects From the Fall of 2020 to the Spring of 2022, ICJS writing revolved around the work of individual staff writers writing solo articles. Each ICJS staff writer is listed below and a page with their individual work is linked. Since …
What is our mission? We are the International Collegiate Journal of Science (ICJS), a collaborative initiative started by students from the the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (DUJS) from Dartmouth College and the Journal of Undergraduate Science and Technology (JUST) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the Summer of 2020. ICJS was brought into fruition …