Data intensive analysis on the gordon high performance data and compute system

Sinkovits, Robert S.; Cicotti, Pietro; Strande, Shawn; Tatineni, Mahidhar; Rodriguez, Paul; Wolter, Nicole; Balac, Natasha

doi:10.1145/2020408.2020526

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“…This assumption is made implicitly in other projects that aggregate information about repression into one scale (Cingranelli and Richards 2012a, b; Gibney, Cornett and Wood 2012; Landman and Larizza 2009). 28 Each model compared in this article is estimated with two MCMC chains, which are run 100,000 iterations using JAGS (Plummer 2010) on the Gordon Supercomputer (Sinkovits et al 2011). More importantly however, different repressive tactics can be related to one another in theoretically important but noncausal ways.…”

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Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability

2014

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A ccording to indicators of political repression currently used by scholars, human rights practices have not improved over the past 35 years, despite the spread of human rights norms, better monitoring, and the increasing prevalence of electoral democracy. I argue that this empirical pattern is not an indication of stagnating human rights practices. Instead, it reflects a systematic change in the way monitors, like Amnesty International and the U.S. State Department, encounter and interpret information about abuses. The standard of accountability used to assess state behaviors becomes more stringent as monitors look harder for abuse, look in more places for abuse, and classify more acts as abuse. In this article, I present a new, theoretically informed measurement model, which generates unbiased estimates of repression using existing data. I then show that respect for human rights has improved over time and that the relationship between human rights respect and ratification of the UN Convention Against Torture is positive, which contradicts findings from existing research.Notes: Proportions closer to 1 indicate that the dynamic standard model outperforms the constant standard model at predicting the original repression variables. Proportions closer to 0 indicate the opposite. Proportions at 0.50 indicate that both models are predicting the items with about the same amount of error relative to each other. The dynamic standard model does a much better job of predicting the original repression variables, especially the event-based variables.

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“… 28 Each model compared in this article is estimated with two MCMC chains, which are run 100,000 iterations using JAGS (Plummer 2010) on the Gordon Supercomputer (Sinkovits et al 2011). The first 50,000 iterations were thrown away as burn-in and the rest were used for inference.…”

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Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability

2014

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“…For more information on identification problems in IRT models, see Jackman (2009). The latent treaty model is estimated with two MCMC chains, which are run for 100,000 iterations using JAGS (Plummer 2010) on the Gordon Supercomputer (Sinkovits et al 2011). The first 50,000 iterations were thrown away as burn-in and the rest were used for inference.…”

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The Changing Standard of Accountability and the Positive Relationship between Human Rights Treaty Ratification and Compliance

Fariss

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Researchers have puzzled over the finding that countries that ratify UN human rights treaties such as the Convention Against Torture are more likely to abuse human rights than non-ratifiers over time. This article presents evidence that the changing standard of accountability – the set of expectations that monitoring agencies use to hold states responsible for repressive actions – conceals real improvements to the level of respect for human rights in data derived from monitoring reports. Using a novel dataset that accounts for systematic changes to human rights reports, it is demonstrated that the ratification of human rights treaties is associated with higher levels of respect for human rights. This positive relationship is robust to a variety of measurement strategies and model specifications.

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DR-Update: A Dual-Level Relay Scheme in Erasure-Coded Storage Systems for Balanced Updates

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2017 IEEE 15th Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 15th Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing,

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Data intensive analysis on the gordon high performance data and compute system

Cited by 8 publications

References 6 publications

Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability

Respect for Human Rights has Improved Over Time: Modeling the Changing Standard of Accountability

The Changing Standard of Accountability and the Positive Relationship between Human Rights Treaty Ratification and Compliance

DR-Update: A Dual-Level Relay Scheme in Erasure-Coded Storage Systems for Balanced Updates

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