Working Text: Latinos and Political Interventions

Cost-effectiveness of interventions for depressed Latinos.

CONTEXT Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, but treatment rates are low, particularly for minority patients. OBJECTIVE To estimated societal cost-effectiveness of two interventions to improve care for depression in primary care, examining Latino and white patients separately. METHODS Intent-to-treat analysis of data from a group-level controlled trial, in which matched pr...

Text Classifiers for Political Ideologies

Machine learning techniques have become very popular for a number of text classification tasks, from spam filters to sentiment analysis to topic classification. In this paper, we will apply a number of machine learning techniques to classifying text by the political ideology of the speaker (i.e. Republican or Democrat). This is a potentially useful application of text classification, as when re...

Working Papers in Social and Political Theory

assessing political stability and instability in central asia and caucasus; case study, azerbaijan and kyrgyzstan

منطقه ی آسیای مرکزی وقفقاز به عنوان منطقه ای تاریخی و به دلیل دارا بودن ذخایر عظیم هیدرو کربنی از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. کشورهای این منطقه از عوامل عمده ی بی ثباتی نظیر عوامل جغرافیایی، اقتصادی، امنیتی، اجتماعی و سیاسی رنج می برند. پس از فروپاشی اتحاد جماهیر شوروی کشورهای منطقه از نعمت استقلال ناخواسته ای برخوردار شدند که مشکلات فوق را برای آن ها چندین برابر می کرد. در این روند برخی از این...

A Comprehensive Examination of the Determinants and Consequences of Political Trust among Latinos