Rooted in ideology critique, this dissertation studies the construction of democracy in the coverage of Venezuela during the era of President Hugo Chávez. The aim of this endeavor is twofold. First, the dissertation aims to understand the relationship between ideology and the construction of democracy in journalism on foreign political phenomena. Second, it attempts to explore the ways in which...

Many of us decided to study economics because we were interested in issues such as economic growth, unemployment, poverty, discrimination and social exclusion. And for much of the history of the discipline, economists grappled with explaining such phenomena and, hopefully, helped to improve the development of economic policy. But now the discipline is increasingly dominated by other concerns, s...

The book under review emerged from a curious and provocative episode in a constitutional fiasco. On 8 December 1998, in an “op-ed” article forThe New York Times and in testimony before the House Committee on the Judiciary, Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School, offered a novel argument. If the House were to adopt articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, he ...

We argue that people intuitively distinguish epistemic (knowable) uncertainty from aleatory (random) uncertainty and show that the relative salience of these dimensions is reflected in natural language use. We hypothesize that confidence statements (e.g., “I am fairly confident,” “I am 90% sure,” “I am reasonably certain”) communicate a subjective assessment of primarily epistemic uncertainty, ...

Competition on global markets forces many enterprises to make use of new applications, reduce process times and at the same time cut the costs of their IT-infrastructure. To achieve this, it is necessary to maintain a high degree of flexibility with respect to the IT-infrastructure. Facing this challenge the idea of Cloud computing has been gaining interest lately. Cloud services can be accesse...

The Six Sigma improvement methodology has received considerable attention recently, not only in the quality literature, but also within general business and management literature. For example, a recent book on Six Sigma (Harry and Shroeder, 2000) made the New York Times best-seller list. Today, Six Sigma is arguably the hottest contemporary topic in quality. After all, what company would not be...

Any change in shape of a configuration of landmark points in two or three dimensions includes a uniform component, a component that is a wholly linear (affine) transformation. The formulas for estimating this component have been standardized for two-dimensional data but not for three-dimensional data. We suggest estimating the component by way of the complementarity between the uniform componen...

We have often heard that data is the new oil. In particular, extracting information from semi-structured textual documents on the Web is key to realize the Linked Data vision. Several attempts have been proposed to extract knowledge from textual documents, extracting named entities, classifying them according to pre-defined taxonomies and disambiguating them through URIs identifying real world ...

as iran has adhered to new york convention on recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards since 2003, according to article 9 of iranian civil code, the convention’s provisions are treated as part of iranian laws and regulations. this essay, in order to clarify the enforcement regime provided by new york convention, which is now part of the positive legal system of the country, after ...