Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Abstract Esteemed President Roberto Antonelli, Professor Luciano Maiani and Organizers.

in this paper attempts have been made to study the discourses dominating political islam to answer these questions: how can one categorize these diverse political islam discourses? what are the similarities and differences among these discourses in general, and with the islamic revolution discourse in particular? the research methodology employed for this study is historical-comparative and the...

This paper describes the design and implementation of the slot filling system prepared by Stanford’s natural language processing group for the 2010 Knowledge Base Population (KBP) track at the Text Analysis Conference (TAC). Our system relies on a simple distant supervision approach using mainly resources furnished by the track organizers: we used slot examples from the provided knowledge base,...

book Organizers: Jocelyne Demengeot Ivo Marguti Carlos E. Tadokoro Jorge Carneiro Thiago Carvalho Welcome to the XXXVII SPI Annual Meeting! This year's Reunion of the Portuguese immunological community will start with an exceptional session shared with the symposium “Jerne100: a century of Niels K Jerne”, a gathering of the colleagues, associates, and friends of one of the most remarkable and i...

Public health organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, are greatly concerned that a new influenza type A outbreak will result in a rapid spread of infectious disease, overwhelming existing medical response infrastructures. Each of these organizations has published planning guides...

This special issue of the European Journal of Combinatorics collects articles of the participants of the conference “Arithmétique et Combinatoire”, held in Luminy, France, September 23 to 27, 2002. The organizers were Christine Bachoc, from Bordeaux and one of us (PS). The scientific themes comprised coding theory, modular forms, invariant theory, geometry of numbers, association schemes to nam...