the aim of this paper was to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of talent identification in championship sport of i.r. iran and to examine its bottlenecks and challenges. for data collection, the documents and related literature were reviewed, council meetings were held and a researcher-made questionnaire and swot analysis were used. 256 subjects including 13 managers...

There is a considerable body of work suggesting that economic news has significant political and economic implications. Most work in political science assumes that responses to this news are symmetrical, however; indeed, this work also assumes that responses to the economy itself are symmetrical. This is most likely not true. There is, rather, reason to believe that negative economic informatio...

I investigate why a political leader (manager) may be reluctant to abandon her chosen project, when she is concerned both about social welfare and the electorate’s (shareholders’) beliefs about her ability. The quality of the project is correlated with her ability, and there is ex ante symmetric information. However, news regarding the project arrives gradually over time and is privately observ...

At its foundation in Moscow on 23 June 1921, the International Union of Red Sports and Gymnastics Associations, better known as Red Sport International (RSI), defined its mission as “the creation and amalgamation of revolutionary proletarian sports and gymnastics organizations in all countries of the world and their transformation into support centers for the proletariat in its class struggle.”...

It is widely recognized that every media outlet has its own ”spin” on news, and this bias has been described in many ways and at many levels. In political news for example, the bias can be liberal, conservative, moderate, corporate, etc. In addition, recent research has focused on the ’sentiment dimension’ to further identify and categorize news bias. This is achieved through analysis of the ad...

Since the birth of the nation, concepts about the political duties of citizens have changed drastically to keep pace with growth and development. The information needs have changed as well, as have the institutions that supply this information. In this essay I analyze the interrelation between citizenship in the twenty-first century and the information supply that nourishes it. I focus on studi...

Opinion mining, which aims the automatic processing of subjective information, has become a key field. In the political context, the awareness of people’s sentiment towards their representatives, public organizations, political parties or politicians, can support political decisions, campaign moves, government policies, marketing strategies, etc. This paper describes a case study over opinions ...

Automatically generated political event data is an important part of the social science data ecosystem. The approaches for generating this data, though, have remained largely the same for two decades. During this time, the field of computational linguistics has progressed tremendously. This paper presents an overview of political event data, including methods and ontologies, and a set of experi...

This study used the concepts of comparison credibility and magnitude credibility to assess perceived news media credibility in China. It also investigated which sources people trusted more when they encountered conflicting reports regarding different kinds of stories including entertainment news, disaster news and political news. A random sample from three major metropolises (n = 1,844) were te...