Science news and contemporary politic scene

Scene 1—News

Science in the News

Background: Life expectancy in China has been improving markedly but health gains have been uneven and there is inequality in survival chances between regions and in rural as against urban areas. This paper applies a statistical modelling approach to mortality data collected in conjunction with the 2000 Census to formally assess spatial mortality contrasts in China. The modelling approach provi...

News Product ion in Contemporary Russia

j This article offers a new approach to power relations in the sphere of mass media production in Russia. The analysis focuses on television news – an object of the fiercest struggle among various agents of power (including news producers themselves). Unlike previous works, mostly done as institutional analysis, the proposed approach emphasizes the informal and dynamic character of these power ...

Broadcast news LM adaptation using contemporary texts

This paper investigates the problem of dynamically updating the language model (LM) of a broadcast news speech recognition system, in order to cope with language and topic changes, typical of the news domain. Statistical adaptation methods are proposed that exploit written news sources which are daily available on the Internet, i.e. newswires and newspapers. Specifically, LM adaptation is perfo...

Scene Signatures for Unconstrained News Video Stories

We propose a novel video signature called scene signature which is defined as a collection of SIFT descriptors. A scene signature represents the visual cues from a video scene in a compact and comprehensive manner. We detect Near Duplicate Keyframe clusters within a news story and then for each of them we generate an initial scene signature including most informative mutual and distinctive visu...