Abstract The News Site Contrast (NSContrast) system analyzes news articles retrieved from multiple news sites based on the concept of contrast set mining. It can extract terms that characterize different topics of interest across news sites, countries, and regions. In this study, we used NSContrast to analyze Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) data by comparing news articles ...

We are all part of di↵erent, often interconnected, socio-technical systems [1]. These provide a set of unprecedented capabilities. The global air transportation network allows to travel between almost any two points on earth within one day. The network of roads and rails consent to reach di↵erent neighbourhoods, regions or even countries in matter of hours. A variety of platforms running over t...

If we judge this book by its cover, or at least title, Civil Society and the State in Democratic East Asia seems to promise a theoretical consideration of well-trodden concept-couplet ci...

Retrieval of forest chlorophyll content using canopy structure parameters derived from multi-angle data: the measurement concept of combining nadir hyperspectral and off-nadir multispectral data Anita Simic a , Jing M. Chen a & Thomas L. Noland b a Department of Geography, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 3G3, Canada b Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Ontario...

Using mtDNA sequencing and allozyme electrophoresis data, we tested the "vicariance followed by dispersal" hypothesis of the Bufo gargarizans species group and re-evaluated the species status in the general lineages species concept. A phylogenetic analysis suggested that dispersal, instead of vicariance, dominated the history of the species group. There was a general trend of west to east dispe...

We develop a competitive equilibrium theory of a market for votes. Before voting on a binary issue, individuals may buy and sell their votes with each other. We define the concept of Ex Ante Vote-Trading Equilibrium, identify weak sufficient conditions for existence, and construct one such equilibrium. We show that this equilibrium must always result in dictatorship and the market generates wel...

Gonorrhoea has always been considered of less interest and importance than syphilis, and because easily treated has received little attention. In the past 10 years physicians have reported cure rates of 95 to 98 per cent. in large series of patients with a single, conservative intra-muscular dose of penicillin (Fiumara, Appel, Hill, and Mescon, 1959; Norgaard, 1956). Recent textbooks and Armed ...

BACKGROUND Progress testing (PT) is used in Western countries to evaluate students' level of functional knowledge, and to enhance meaning-oriented and self-directed learning. However, the use of PT has not been investigated in East Asia, where reproduction-oriented and teacher-centered learning styles prevail. Here, we explored the applicability of PT by focusing on student perceptions. METHO...

The terms of Power, influence and authority could be heard in political world vastly, but using these terms is not leaving only to this realm. Despite its visual simplicity, generally there is not similar and equal perception about term of Power among people. Understanding about by politicians differs from lawyer perception about this term.  What people takes about Power, totally differ from wh...