Editorial 2016 Vol. 11 No.1

Editorial OJPHI Vol 8, No 3 (2016)

The current issue consists of interesting topics ranging from the design of visualizations for big health data; formulating an ontological framework for analyzing health policy; development of near real-time surveillance models using social media; asthma exacerbation risk predictions; deployment of analytics in community health centers; using Google reviews to assess the risk of elder abuse; th...

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, Vol. 11, 2016

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, Vol. 11, 2016

The present paper proposes neutrosophic soft multi-attribute decision making based on grey relational projection method. Neutrosophic soft sets is a combination of neutrosophic sets and soft sets and it is a new mathematical apparatus to deal with realistic problems in the fields of medical sciences, economics, engineering, etc. The rating of alternatives with respect to choice parameters is re...

European journal of American studies, Vol 11, no 2 | 2016

This article uses Jacques Lacan’s reading of the Freudian fort-dagame to analyze that most American of cultural constructs, the cowboy, at the time of that figure’s fading from theAmerican landscape: the immediate postwar years. With John Grady Cole, the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy provides a suitably situated subject for this criticalendeavor, one whose...

European journal of American studies, Vol 11, no 2 | 2016

Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks hasconcentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns andquest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks isinterested in questioning the former constructed racial boundaries of blackness andrevolutionary ideologies of the ...