Elizabeth Lowham's research while affiliated with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and other places

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How well do we prepare our graduate students for the diverse careers they pursue in teaching, research, and outside of academia? This is the second time Graduate Education has been a track in the TLC, and this year we have also incorporated topics related to professional development. Despite the diversity of our presentations, we arrived at a unify...
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Terrorism is defined as a premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to influence an audience. There are alternative ways to conceive terrorist typologies or the classification of terrorist groups for analysis and response. Cluster analysis prov...
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This study investigates the subjective perspectives of participants in natural resource management for the purpose of overcoming gridlock and persistent conflict. Our results indicate that participants share many beliefs about the descriptive aspects of science and the contingency of knowledge. However, substantial and real disagreement persists re...

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... Further, notions of sustainable provision of ecosystem services become even more subjective when viewed from the perspectives and goals of an individual. Therefore, complexity, multiplicity and at times the uncer-tainty related to simultaneous production of multiple forest ecosystem services to be delivered to their multiple, and at times very diverse, beneficiaries may result in conflicts of stakeholder interests, and it is important to reduce and/or resolve possible conflicts (Vogel & Lowham 2007). ...
... While network approaches for modelling terrorism have gained a certain degree of success and have tested and experimented techniques focusing on a variety of research questions, it is worth to note how this advancements have not been followed by the consequent combination of network science with unsupervised learning and, more specifically, cluster analysis. In one of the first attempts at using cluster analysis to group terrorist organizations, Chenoweth and Lowham [21] used data on groups which targeted American citizens to explore alternative ways to conceive terrorist typologies. Qi et al. [47] used both social network analysis and unsupervised learning to group extremist web pages using an hierarchical multi-membership clustering algorithm based on the similarity score of these pages. ...