Indiana University Kokomo

Weaponising insecurity: farmer-herder conflicts, electoral campaigns, and the limits on electoral outcomes in Nigeria’s 2019 general elections

Conflicts between farmers and herders in Nigeria have had a profound impact on the country’s economy, politics, security, and humanitarian issues. Using instrumentalist theory, this paper, however, examines how the conflicts were used during the 2019 general elections campaigns,...

The role of regulatory focus disposition and trust in hotel booking decisions across different online review websites

Purposes This study aims to examine how customers’ regulatory focus disposition (RFD) and attitudes toward online review websites (ORWs) influence multi-dimensional trust beliefs (ability, benevolence, integrity and informativeness) and hotel booking intention. Design/methodology...

Relation Before Relata: A Relational-Primitivist Ontology of Individuation, Perspective, and Presence

A persistent assumption holds that things exist first and relations obtain between them. This paper develops the alternative — relational primitivism — on which relational organization is prior to the entities within it, and a thing is a pattern in a relational structure stable e...

A Covariant, Completely Positive Channel from an Exact Sp(3) Relational Construction, Trace-Preserving and Action-Determined Under an Explicit Convention Premise

We ask whether a construction’s invariances can be derived from the defined structure of a relational object rather than imposed on it, and whether the physical action such an object induces is determined within the stated convention rather than chosen among admissible placements...

A Covariant, Completely Positive Channel from an Exact Sp(3) Relational Construction, Trace-Preserving and Action-Determined Under an Explicit Convention Premise

We ask whether a construction’s invariances can be derived from the defined structure of a relational object rather than imposed on it, and whether the physical action such an object induces is determined within the stated convention rather than chosen among admissible placements...

Relation Before Relata: A Relational-Primitivist Ontology of Individuation, Perspective, and Presence

A persistent assumption holds that things exist first and relations obtain between them. This paper develops the alternative — relational primitivism — on which relational organization is prior to the entities within it, and a thing is a pattern in a relational structure stable e...