ijur_873 291..313 Despite decades of government reform, the American housing credit system continues to mirror long-standing patterns of racial segregation and inequality. Consistent with this trend, the current housing crisis reveals an unusually high concentration of subprime mortgage activity and property foreclosures in non-white residential settlements across the nation. Given the generall...

We estimated ideological preferences of 3.8 million Twitter users and, using a data set of nearly 150 million tweets concerning 12 political and nonpolitical issues, explored whether online communication resembles an "echo chamber" (as a result of selective exposure and ideological segregation) or a "national conversation." We observed that information was exchanged primarily among individuals ...

iranian popular films, as a type of national culture, are consumed vastly iran. although they are neglegted in common cultural studies is iran, according to recent culture theories , they are some cultural texts including the ideological cods that they have an important role in the constrution of collective social perception. therefore, a quastion that can be addressed is what the narrative and...

in this paper, tender problems in an automobile company for procuring needed items from potential suppliers have been resolved by the learning algorithm q. in this case the purchaser with respect to proposals received from potential providers, including price and delivery time is proposed; order the needed parts to suppliers assigns. the buyer’s objective is minimizing the procurement costs thr...

Background and Objectives: Action recognition, as the processes of labeling an unknown action of a query video, is a challenging problem, due to the event complexity, variations in imaging conditions, and intra- and inter-individual action-variability. A number of solutions proposed to solve action recognition problem. Many of these frameworks suppose that each video sequence includes only one ...

Australia 2 ABSTRACT The paper explores an attempt by a small team of staff within the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to transform the only postgraduate third sector management program offered in Australia, in response to powerful external pressures for change. After analysing the nature of these contextual imperatives for the transformation of the program, th...