Immigrants and their residential outcomes are of great interest to urban researchers and policymakers. The literature, however, provides little knowledge about the residential status of immigrants with publicly subsidized housing assistance. In this article, we draw on three streams of literature—assimilation, neighborhood effects, and housing policy—to investigate the residential choices and o...

The normative role of journalism in democracy is well established: Democracy depends on news media to facilitate self-government. But theories of the press point to structural limitations that inhibit the democratic ideal. To examine this contradiction, this article offers a comparative analysis of online news coverage by CNN and BBC of Colin Powell’s speech to the United Nations Security Counc...

This paper deals with the problem of clustering a data−set. In particular, the bisecting divisive partitioning approach is here considered. We focus on two algorithms: the celebrated K−means algorithm, and the recently proposed Principal Direction Divisive Partitioning (PDDP) algorithm. A comparison of the two algorithms is given, under the assumption that the data set is uniformly distributed ...

nowadays, advertising companies and firms try to establish a trade name which is superior to similar ones. in order to overcome their competitors in advertising campaigns, the firms have adopted new approaches. they use the best and newest marketing and commercial advertising methods to attract potential customers and consumers. some advertisers use their competitors' trademarks, trade name, et...

Comparison is a common research method with outstanding merits and with widespread application. The aim of this article is to discuss systematically some of the methodological strategies of using this mode of research in social science. To do so a few typologies regarding the functions and leverages of comparative analysis are presented first. In the next step various ways in which comparative ...