HE QUESTION of Australia becoming a republic has sparked intense and often impassioned debate. This debate revolves around whether such change is necessary or important, and extends to what this symbolic change would entail in practice. The role of an Australian President as Head of State is an essential element of such discourse. It is vital that debate over a desirable role for the President ...

Recent research and theorizing suggest that narcissism may predict both positive and negative leadership behaviors. We tested this hypothesis with data on the 42 U.S. presidents up to and including George W. Bush, using (a) expert-derived narcissism estimates, (b) independent historical surveys of presidential performance, and (c) largely or entirely objective indicators of presidential perform...

Historicizing the development of the Brazilian Nursing Political-Professional Project (PPPEB), at the Brazilian Nursing Association-Parana Division (ABEn-PR), under the optical overview of the ex-presidents during the years 1980 and 2001, identifying future action perspectives. Data information was collected with interviews and documental research with seven ex-presidents. Concluding that the P...

On September 19, 2003, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine signed an agreement in Yalta on “The Concept of a Single Economic Space” (SES). The idea behind this agreement was initially announced by these presidents in Moscow on February 23, 2003. Highlevel groups, led by vice prime ministers, were established to negotiate the draft documents, which were signed on August 17...

The officers of the third International Congress of the History of Medicine are : President of honour, Sir Norman Moore, Bt., M.D. ; president, Dr. Charles Singer; treasurer, Mr. W. G. Spencer, O.B.E., M.S. ; general secretary, Dr. J. D. Rolleston ; vice-presidents, Sir D'Arcy Power, K.B.E., F.R.C.S., Dr. Tricot-Royer of Antwerp, president of the first International Congress, and Drs. Jeanselme...

We compare policy differences across institutions by embedding representations of the entire legal corpus of each institution and the vocabulary shared across all corpora into a continuous vector space. We apply our method, Gov2Vec, to Supreme Court opinions, Presidential actions, and official summaries of Congressional bills. The model discerns meaningful differences between government branche...

What are the different rhetorical approaches presidents used to address minority health inequality? More importantly, how have the efforts of presidents impacted minorities' perceptions of health? I offer a historical perspective that describes the three major periods of presidential engagement in discussions of minority health since the 1960s. I couple this historical overview with an empirica...

Introduction With the gradual promotion and implementation of China’s national innovation-oriented strategy, research universities are playing an irreplaceable role in leading scientific development and technological innovation. Scientific research is one of the basic functions of a research university, which cultivates high-quality innovations and supports research universities in serving thei...