New Economic Sociology: What Has Been Accomplished, What Is Ahead?

Audio Indexing: What Has Been Accomplished and the Road Ahead

This paper presents an overview of audio indexing, which has emerged very recently as a research topic with the development of Internet. A lot of data, including audio data, are currently not indexed by web search engines, and audio indexing consists in finding good descriptors of audio documents which can be used as indexes for archiving and search. We discuss speech/music segmentation, langua...

What Is Economic Sociology

What has proteomics accomplished?

The Barbados Principles, which emanated from the Barbados Conference in January 2007 and were reported in HUPO News (1), assigned to Ralph Bradshaw and John Bergeron the task of formulating a statement on “What has proteomics accomplished?” as a way of providing a progress report for the discipline and a guideline for future emphases. The amazing expansion in proteomics in the last five years i...

Evaluating the Impacts of Local Economic Development Policies on Local Economic Outcomes: What Has Been Done and What Is Doable?

This paper argues that more rigorous evaluations of local economic development policies are feasible. Programs that aid selected small firms can be rigorously evaluated using an experimental approach, without excluding firms from assistance, by randomly assigning some firms to receive more intense marketing efforts by the program. Programs that aid distressed local areas can be rigorously evalu...

P-value: What is and what is not

The misinterpretation and misuse of p-value have been increasing for decades. In March 2016, the American Statistical Association released a statement to warn about the use and interpretation of p-value. In this study, we provided a definition and discussion of p-value and emphasized the importance of its accurate interpretation.