Online social media influence the flow of news and other information, potentially altering collective social action while generating a large volume of data useful to researchers. Mapping these networks may make it possible to predict the course of social and political movements, technology adoption, and economic behavior. Here we map the network formed by Twitter users sharing British Broadcast...

Modern media have used the novel as a source for drama from the beginning. The production companies responsible for reproducing 'classic novels' have been attracted not just by the ready-made plots and characters, but also, perhaps especially in British film and television, 1 by the status of canonical texts that have a virtually unassailable currency in terms of cultural value. Indeed these tw...

If you haven't gone through it yet, you almost certainly will: that spine-chilling moment when you realise that the comfy postdoc life is over, and you've got to get a career. One of three things will happen to you: you'll either land your dream research job, you'll make a seamless career change and do something else instead, or you'll go into a fully fledged 'oh no, what am I going to do next'...

Although news stories target the general public and are sometimes inaccurate, they can serve as sources of real-world information for researchers. This article investigates the extent to which academics exploit journalism using content and citation analyses of online BBC News stories cited by Scopus articles. A total of 27,234 Scopus-indexed publications have cited at least one BBC News story, ...

In the early part of the rainy season in 1988, an outbreak of beriberi occurred in free-living adults in a relatively small area in the North Bank region of The Gambia. In 1995 we selected two compounds in a village called Chilla situated within the affected district to retrospectively examine dietary factors potentially contributing to the outbreak. There had previously been cases of beriberi ...

Cross-Validation (CV), and out-of-sample performance-estimation protocols in general, are often employed both for (a) selecting the optimal combination of algorithms and values of hyper-parameters (called a configuration) for producing the final predictive model, and (b) estimating the predictive performance of the final model. However, the cross-validated performance of the best configuration ...

The aim of our study was to characterize the dynamics of heart rate variability (HRV) during sleep in healthy subjects and in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS). Present results were compared with earlier data obtained in healthy subjects (1) performing intermittent voluntary apneas. Power spectra in low (LF) and high (HF) frequency band and non linear indices: correlation di...

This article analyses BBC News Online’s reporting of the Bolivarian revolution in Venezuela, using a sample from a broader selection of 304 articles published on BBC News Online between 1998 and 2008. Against the BBC’s stated commitment to professional values, we find that the BBC’s organizational culture is underpinned by a liberal nationalist worldview, which limits its interpretive capacitie...

David Waine was the Head of Network Production, and subsequently, Broadcasting at BBC Pebble Mill from 1983 to 1994. He held top job during a period great significance for Nations Regions, with competition independent production becoming established privatisation beginning affect working culture within BBC. focussed attention on four key areas television programming, which are explored in this ...