Revisiting the High Line as sociopolitical project

[Epidemics as a sociopolitical challenge: the Spanish flu in Bahia].

Evaluation of Thesaurus on Sociopolitical Life as Information-Retrieval Tool

In the paper we present description of Thesaurus on Sociopolitical life, which was constructed as a tool for automatic text processing of large text collections. Specific features of the thesaurus in comparison to conventional information-retrieval thesauri for manual indexing are described. Evaluation of thesaurus-based information retrieval for short queries showed considerable improvement of...

AAPL and sociopolitical policy.

It has been part of the role of medical organizations in Western nations to develop position statements on various sociopolitical issues. Both the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association have established position statements related to social policy, including capital punishment. In 2001, AAPL endorsed a moratorium on capital punishment. Recent calls for AAPL to end...

Revisiting the Problem of Searching on a Line

We revisit the problem of searching for a target at an unknown location on a line when given upper and lower bounds on the distance D that separates the initial position of the searcher from the target. Prior to this work, only asymptotic bounds were known for the optimal competitive ratio achievable by any search strategy in the worst case. We present the first tight bounds on the exact optima...

Addressing whiteness in nursing education: the sociopolitical climate project at the University of Washington School of Nursing.

This article describes a project designed to change the climate of whiteness in academic nursing. Using an emancipatory, antiracist perspective from whiteness studies, we describe a project that helped faculty and staff to work together to challenge and begin to change the status quo of unnamed white privilege and racial injustice in nursing education.