In this paper, we study the likelihood of Bernie Sanders supporters voting for Donald Trump instead of Hillary Clinton. Building from a unique time-series dataset of the three candidates’ Twitter followers, which we make public here, we first study the proportion of Sanders followers who simultaneously follow Trump (but not Clinton) and how this evolves over time. Then we train a convolutional ...

United States power in Persian Gulf has risen since the end of Second World War. Dividing U.S. presence in the Region into the Cold war and post-Cold war era, the principle policy in first period was narrowing the impact of Soviet Union in the Region and in latter, Access to Persian Gulf region’s oil and controlling the major threats which can disrupt the flow of oil to global energy market. Fo...

The 2016 candidacy of Donald Trump has drawn considerable interest among social scientists. Long-standing interests in the role of authoritarianism, populism, race, and class as determinants of political preferences and behavior have resurfaced. In this paper, we rely upon a unique survey panel to explore changing support for Republican presidential candidates over the primary season, test comp...

In attempting to identify antigens that are differentially expressed on tumor cells following transformation from follicular small cleaved cell lymphoma (FSC) to immunoblastic lymphoma (IL), we identified a unique epitope of the transferrin receptor (TfR). The epitope is available for binding in aggressive lymphomas but not in indolent lymphomas or normal cells. An immunoglobulin G2a (IgG2a) an...

In this article we present our exploratory research into the occurrence of ageist attitudes within the discussion related to the US 2016 presidential election. We use natural processing techniques to analyze the content tweets related to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Content analysis shows that although ageist attitudes are scarce in the discussion, they are mostly focused on Hillary Clinto...

Donald Trump was elected president of the United States on 8 November 2016. Within hours, TV pundits were declaring, “Data is dead.” Is this a case of water everywhere but not a drop to drink? It appears so on the surface. More than 250 nationally representative voter-preference surveys were done after the Republicans selected Trump for president and Mike Pence for vice president and the Democr...

In a tumultuous and unpredictable election year, Americans selected Donald Trump as our 45th president. Mr Trump’s approach to policymaking is still unknown, and his positions on certain issues do not follow the typical partisan patterns within American politics. However, Mr Trump has expressed support for family-oriented policies, including paid family leave and child care subsidies. His admin...

The candidacy of Donald Trump has drawn considerable social science interest as a way to understand the interplay between attitudinal explanations, covariates, and momentum. In particular, arguments about the working class, personality, race, populism and Trump’s domination of the media serve as competing (but not mutually exclusive) explanations for Trump’s electoral success. In this paper we ...

The U.S. presidential election of Donald Trump in 2016 was interpreted by many as a repudiation of the social and economic status quo. Others suggested that support for Trump reflected opposition to social change, as exemplified by the nostalgic slogan “Make America Great Again.” We consider the possibility that many American voters were indeed frustrated by the consequences of global competiti...

Civic engagement in the United States has increased since the election of President Trump. This increase is evident online as people are using Twitter to assert their digital citizenship by voicing their opinions regarding President Donald J. Trump and demonstrating solidarity with various civic movements. President Trump’s election has caused many people to recognize how policies impact their ...