Facebook algorithm changes may have amplified local republican parties

Utilizing Facebook pages of the political parties to automatically predict the political orientation of Facebook users

Purpose – Social network sites have been widely adopted by politicians in the last election campaigns. To increase the effectiveness of these campaigns the potential electorate is to be identified, as targeted ads are much more effective than non-targeted ads. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose and implement a new methodology for automatic prediction of political orientation of ...

Optiscope® may have less stimulation on hemodynamic changes

This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC Ko et al. [1] described that the Optiscope for tracheal intubation did not reduce the ...

Edge-clique graphs of cocktail parties have unbounded rankwidth

In an attempt to find a polynomial-time algorithm for the edgeclique cover problem on cographs we tried to prove that the edge-clique graphs of cographs have bounded rankwidth. However, this is not the case. In this note we show that the edge-clique graphs of cocktail party graphs have unbounded rankwidth.

Continuities and Changes in Party Positions Towards Europe in Italian Parties: An Examination of Parties’ Manifestos

Israeli Parties and Party Leaders on Facebook during the 2013 Election Campaign

During the 2013 elections in Israel one of the major methods of interaction of the political parties and their leaders with potential voters was through their Facebook pages. These pages were followed for 50 days preceding the elections. For each page, 30% of the posts on the page were analyzed in terms of their rhetoric and subject. The largest number of the analyzed posts was intended for bon...