Charismatic revival and the mission of the church

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The Ecology of Terrorist Organizations

Research project funded in academic years 2007-08 and 2008-09The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.How do terrorist organizations act as agents of change? Since Sept. 11 there has been enormous interest in terrorist groups. Large amounts of data have been collected about the terrorists and their attacks. However systematic, empirical data on terrorist organizations, along with data on political groups that choose not to use terrorism, have never been collected and analyzed. Edward Crenshaw and J. Craig Jenkins, along with a multidisciplinary team, will examine data collected by the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) project at University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management. These data will be analyzed to study the birth and death of terrorist organizations as part of a larger social ecology.Mershon Center for International Security Studie

The Etiology of Terror

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.The project initiates a research program to sort out the various explanations of international terrorism by creating a cross-national analysis of national participation in international terrorism from 1990-2001.Mershon Center for International Security Studiesproject summar

Jump-Starting the Internet Revolution: How Structural Conduciveness and Global Connections Help Diffuse the Internet

The growing perception that the Internet is becoming an engine of global economic and social change has inspired both governments and intergovernmental agencies to accelerate the diffusion of the Internet around the globe via multimillion dollar programs and initiatives. Unfortunately, few empirical studies guide these initiatives. The purpose of this research is to investigate the causes that drive Internet capacity, with special emphasis on diffusion theory. Global diffusion of IT requires some degree of structural conduciveness (similarities between developed and developing countries in economic, political, and social structures) as well as contact with developed countries. In our pooled time-series models of 58 developing nations over the 1995-2000 time period, we find that both structural conduciveness (i.e., teledensity, service economies, political openness, and global urban share) and globalization (i.e., aid share, tourist share, foreign investment share, and trade share) shape the distribution and growth of Internet usage

Rentier States and International Terrorism in Ecological Focus

Research project funded in academic years 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Preliminary evidence shows that rentier states are prone to producing international terrorism. Using OPEC nations as a rough proxy for rentier states, one can compare the number of terrorist casualties caused by perpetrators from OPEC and non-OPEC nations

Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research

The University Archives has determined that this item is of continuing value to OSU's history.Please join a panel of Mershon Center affiliated faculty for an interdisciplinary discussion on the basic ingredients of a good undergraduate research project. Panel members will cite examples of good undergraduate research projects and address such questions as: • How do you develop good research questions? • What types of methodologies should you use in your research? • What foundation do you need to have before undertaking a research project? What theories and facts do you need to know? What classes do you need to take? • How can undergraduates work with the Institutional Review Board? • How can undergraduates make connections with faculty members?Ohio State University. Undergraduate Research OfficeOhio State University. Mershon Center for International Security StudiesEvent webpage, streaming video, event photo

A reverberation-based black hole mass for MCG-06-30-15

We present the results of a reverberation campaign targeting MGC-06-30-15. Spectrophotometric monitoring and broad-band photometric monitoring over the course of 4 months in the spring of 2012 allowed a determination of a time delay in the broad Hβ emission line of τ =5.3 ± 1.8 days in the rest frame of the AGN. Combined with the width of the variable portion of the emission line, we determine a black hole mass of MBH = (1.6 ± 0.4) x 106 M_sun. Both the Hβ time delay and the black hole mass are in good agreement with expectations from the RBLR - L and MBH - σ* relationships for other reverberation-mapped AGNs. The Hβ time delay is also in good agreement with the relationship between H and broad-band near-IR delays, in which the effective BLR size is ∼4-5 times smaller than the inner edge of the dust torus. Additionally, the reverberation-based mass is in good agreement with estimates from the X-ray power spectral density break scaling relationship, and with constraints based on stellar kinematics derived from integral field spectroscopy of the inner ∼ 0.5 kpc of the galaxy.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe