Outlooks toward Democracy in Quebec

Is Kurdistan heading toward democracy?

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Changing Outlooks in Preventive Medicine

EVERYONE wvill agree that the outlook in the practice of medicine has undergone a markedl change since the coming into operation of the Health Services Act on the 5th Julv of this vear (1948). This date will be recorde(d in history as an eventful one, for, in it, the story of the evolution of medicine has opened a new chapter. I shall not attempt to express an opinion on the merits or demerits ...

Learning from Multiple Outlooks

We propose a novel problem formulation of learning a single task when the data are provided in different feature spaces. Each such space is called an outlook, and is assumed to contain both labeled and unlabeled data. The objective is to take advantage of the data from all the outlooks to better classify each of the outlooks. We devise an algorithm that computes optimal affine mappings from dif...

Toward Delegated Democracy: Vote by Yourself, or Trust Your Network

The recent development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables new ways of "democratic" decision-making such as a page-ranking system, which estimates the importance of a web page based on indirect trust on that page shared by diverse group of unorganized individuals. These kinds of "democracy" have not been acclaimed yet in the world of real politics. On the other hand, a lar...

Toward a substantial configuration of the living (e)democracy