I n presenting a "Special Award" to Art Spiegelman's Maus in 1992, the Pulitzer Prize committee decided to finesse the issue of genre. The members were apparently befuddled by a project whose merit hey could not deny but whose medium they could not quite categorize. The obvious rubric (Biography) seemed ill-suited for a comic book in an age when ever-larger tomes and ever-denser scholarship def...

The focus of this research is the N “most popular” (Top-N) news recommender systems (NRS), widely used by media sites (e.g. New York Times, BBC, Wall Street Journal all prominently use this). This common recommendation process is known to have major limitations in terms of creating artificial amplification in the counts of recommended articles and that it is easily susceptible to manipulation. ...

Individuals wishing to get married have made increasing use of matchmakers. This notwithstanding, economists have paid scant attention to the strategies employed by matchmakers and to the likelihood of success arising from the use of these strategies. Consequently, we first specify a “local” and then a “global” strategy for matching male and female clients and then we compute the expected total...

Invariants of topological spaces of dimension three play a major role in many areas, in particular . . . Introduction by the Organisers The workshop Invariants of topological spaces of dimension three, organised by Max Muster (München) and Bill E. Xample (New York) was well attended with over 30 participants with broad geographic representation from all continents. This workshop was a nice blen...

Introduction Peter Dicken (2004) lamented geographers' missing out on globalization and becoming more parochial in terms of research, and called for a revitalization of regional geography. Indeed, I often feel unsettled by the fact that, from time to time, geographers have to defend the position of geography, especially in recent response to the argument that globalization means the end of geog...

y corner of the national security law world is abuzz today reading the outstanding New York Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane, “Secret ‘Kill List’ Proves a Test of Obama’s Principles and Will.” As Ben Wittes says at Lawfare, it is a richly textured, detailed look at how the administration approaches targeted killing (whether with drones or human teams or in combination), and is the mos...

In early 1996 the Bureau of Economic Analysis released data from an extensive revision to its measures of aggregate economic activity in the United States. The new data and methodology, which represent the first comprehensive revision of the National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) since 1991, reflect more substantial changes than have many previous revisions.1 While past revisions have chan...