In Western democracies, popular political radicalism declined in the wake of the protest cycle of the 1960s and 1970s. What appeared instead is a ‘‘social movement society,’’ where protest becomes increasingly institutionalized and ‘‘civic’’ rather than disruptive. As the editors of the volume The Social Movement Society put it, ‘‘although disruption appears to be the most effective political t...

research councils and other funding agencies around the world, it has in recent years made headlines by investing record sums in infrastructure projects. In the Joint Infrastructure Fund, the grants given by the trust in partnership with the UK government and its research councils are often used as a lever to make government money available. For instance, the trust might approach the government...

We present PROTEST, a test suite for the evaluation of pronoun translation by MT systems. The test suite comprises 250 hand-selected pronoun tokens and an automatic evaluation method which compares the translations of pronouns in MT output with those in the reference translation. Pronoun translations that do not match the reference are referred for manual evaluation. PROTEST is designed to supp...

BACKGROUND In the face of the dual TB/HIV epidemic, the ProTEST Initiative was one of the first to demonstrate the feasibility of providing collaborative TB/HIV care for people living with HIV (PLWH) in poor settings. The ProTEST Initiative facilitated collaboration between service providers. Voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) acted as the entry point for services including TB screening an...

This paper presents an agent-based model of worker protest. Workers have varying degrees of grievance depending on the difference between their wage and the average of their neighbors. They protest with probabilities proportional to grievance, but are inhibited by the risk of being arrested—which is determined by the ratio of coercive agents to probable rebels in the local area. We explore the ...