In recent years, it has become common for discussions about managing and analyzing information to reference “data scientists” using “the cloud” to analyze “big data.” Indeed these terms have become so ubiquitous in discussions of data processing that they are covered in popular comic strips like Dilbert and the terms are tracked on Gartner’s Hype cycle. The Harvard Business Review even labeled ...

the principal objective of this paper is to describe and analyze the process of democratization in the egypt after mubarak regime. the article continues to give an overview over the current situation inside egypt after the revolution and collects some evidence for a changed relationship between democracy and stability inside the country. the egyptian revolution created a situation of transition...

Drawing on survey data from Taiwan and South Korea, this essay examines the electoral sources and democratic implications of vote shifting in these two young East Asian democracies. First, I complement the conventional Asian identity voting literature by demonstrating that vote shifting is a form of rational voting involving critical evaluations of government performance and careful weighing of...

The identification of novel, oncogenic gene rearrangements in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor demonstrates the potential of next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms for the detection of therapeutically relevant oncogenes across multiple tumor types, but raises significant questions relating to the investigation of targeted therapies in this new era of widespread NGS testing.

the following study aims to present an innovative approach for design. participatory design is the model of direct involvement of different social groups in the design from functional tools to environments, social institutions and businesses. diverse collection of practices has been developed to support this direct involvement by participatory design. people are invited to participate during di...