purpose: popular tv series and sitcoms have received different reactions from people of different   classes. the present study was conducted to measure the positive and negative attitudes of   psychologists, psychiatrists, chronic psychiatric patients and ordinary healthy viewers toward an   iranian tv series entitled ‘the physicians’ building’ whose main character was a psychologist.   materia...

The death last month of Superman actor Christopher Reeve, aged 52, attracted enormous media coverage. While his fame originally lay with his acting, his efforts in support of stem-cell research since the horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him quadraplegic have deeply affected friends and commentators. Reeve became a vocal advocate for this research field. In stem cells, he saw a powerful t...

Conventional wisdom suggests that the president’s standing with the public affects his success in Congress. Electoral self-interest is the primary reason to expect a relationship between presidential popularity and the behavior of members of Congress. Although numerous studies have analyzed the effects of presidential popularity, the lack of presidential approval data at the congressional const...

In this work, we tackle the problem of predicting entity popularity on Twitter based on the news cycle. We apply a supervised learning approach and extract four types of features: (i) signal, (ii) textual, (iii) sentiment and (iv) semantic, which we use to predict whether the popularity of a given entity will be high or low in the following hours. We run several experiments on six different ent...

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This paper describes the first speech recognition system capable of transcribing a wide range of spoken broadcast programs in Czech language with the OOV rate being below 3 per cent. To achieve that level we had to a) create an optimized 200k word vocabulary with multiple text and pronunciation forms, b) extract an appropriate language model from a 300M word text corpus and c) develop an own de...

The 2020 Democratic presidential primaries involved the largest and most diverse slate of candidates in modern era party nominee selection, a diversity that allowed some to reject neoliberal discourses endemic American politics. In this essay, we analyze primary debates demonstrate emergence an alternative political economy stands opposition standard economic orthodoxy. Candidates organized the...

Nowadays, despite the Internet, social networks are the main competitors of mass networks, and the number of their users is increasing day to day. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to provide a cultural model to understand the process of attracting TV audiences. This research is a practical research, and a descriptive-survey research in terms of data collection. The research orientation t...