We explore Debatepedia, a communityauthored encyclopedia of sociopolitical debates, as evidence for inferring a lowdimensional, human-interpretable representation in the domain of issues and positions. We introduce a generative model positing latent topics and cross-cutting positions that gives special treatment to person mentions and opinion words. We evaluate the resulting representation’s us...

The paper describes the structure and properties of a large linguistic ontology – a new kind of information retrieval thesaurus Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life for Conceptual Indexing. The thesaurus is used in various realscale information-retrieval applications in the legal domain. At present one of the main applications of the Thesaurus is knowledge-based text categorization. Categories are ...

Select at random an issue of American Antiquity from the past 15 years. Chances are good that you will find at least one article or report in the table of contents that focuses on the archaeology of California. Recent research in the Golden State and adjacent regions has been highly influential in two main areas: the archaeology of prehistoric hunter-gatherers and innovative historic archaeolog...

Abstract Intergovernmental conflicts, in Latin America’s centralism and the recentralization Peru, have been more acute over last 30 years, producing sociopolitical, economic, cultural problems at subnational levels. Based on design of grounded theory Glasser Strauss, this sociopolitical phenomenon is analyzed from perspective local governments Puno region to account for emerging categories sub...

A cross polarization could be indispensable in certain applications when scanning and digitizing highly reflective materials or couldn’t afford following the recommended imaging geometry 0<sup>0</sup>/45<sup>0</sup> | 45<sup>o</sup>/0<sup>o</sup> for some technical reasons. However, that puts very much color fidelity question, to which exte...

Many comparative and developmental psychologists believe that we are Homo imitans; humans are more skilled and prolific imitators than other animals, because we have a special, inborn ‘intermodal matching’ mechanism that integrates representations of others with representations of the self. In contrast, the associative sequence learning (ASL) model suggests that human infants learn to imitate u...

The historical relationship between population and agricultural resources is at the core of many key and long-standing anthropological debates (e.g., Boserup 1965; Brookfield 1972; Brown and Podolefsky 1976; Cohen 1977; Grigg 1979; Johnson and Earle 1987; Morrison 1996, with CA comments; Netting 1993; Turner et al. 1977; Turner et al. 1993). In Mesoamerica, the arguments have focused on the dis...

Human Chagas disease originated in Latin America, being spread around the world in relation with multiple bioecological, sociocultural, and political factors. The process of the disease production and dispersion is discussed, emphasizing the human migration and correlated aspects, in the context of globalization. Positive and negative consequences concern the future of this trypanosomiasis, mai...