U.S.-Vietnam security cooperation deserves scrutiny as tensions in the South China Sea continue to grow, especially with China’s growing aggressiveness and Sino-American intensified rivalry. With a view studying maritime ties between Hanoi Washington, article focuses on increased defense U.S. Vietnam, particular emphasis issue under three consecutive presidents, namely Barack Obama (2009–2017),...

ABSTRACT The construction of threats and enemies is a constant in international politics, presidential rhetoric plays an important role this process. In article, we show how recent US speeches articulate narratives representations enemies. We will focus on the State Union addresses given by Bill Clinton (1993-2001), George W. Bush (2001-2009), Barack Obama (2009-2013), thus encompassing 20 year...

In this article, I examine how political and media discourses of multiraciality are deployed to justify guilt innocence. trace the deployment determine who is deserving life or death in coverage, rhetoric, court records during Obama’s presidency, George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal, 2021 killing Daunte Wright. weaponization multiracial identities as tools white supremacy anti-Blackness. Through s...

CMAJ • JANUARY 6, 2009 • 180(1) © 2009 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 26 I t is election day in Chicago, Illinois, and Harold Jackson, 63, sits on a park bench in Hyde Park — just a few minutes’ walk from Barack Obama’s home — surveying those who have shown up in swarms to cast their ballots. As the sun glints through the trees, Jackson speaks about his recent bout with testicula...

We use an association analysis-based strategy for exploration of multi-attribute spatial datasets possessing naturally arising classification. In this demonstration, we present a prototype system, ESTATE (Exploring Spatial daTa Association patTErns), inverting such classification by interpreting different classes found in the dataset in terms of sets of discriminative patterns of its attributes...

0022-1031/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Inc. A doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2009.12.003 * Corresponding author. Fax: +1 434 982 4766. E-mail address: [email protected] (B.A. Nosek). As a high-status, omnipresent Black exemplar, Barack Obama and his rise to the presidency of the United States may have induced a cultural shift in implicit racial attitudes, much like controlled exposures to positive Bla...

When video is shot in noisy environment, the voice of a speaker seen in the video can be enhanced using the visible mouth movements, reducing background noise. While most existing methods use audio-only inputs, improved performance is obtained with our visual speech enhancement, based on an audio-visual neural network. We add to the training data videos with synthetic background noise taken fro...

We propose a neural reranking system for named entity recognition (NER), leverages recurrent neural network models to learn sentence-level patterns that involve named entity mentions. In particular, given an output sentence produced by a baseline NER model, we replace all entity mentions, such as Barack Obama, into their entity types, such as PER. The resulting sentence patterns contain direct ...

Spatial relations of our environment are represented in cognitive maps. These cognitive maps are prone to various distortions (e.g., alignment and hierarchical effects) caused by basic cognitive factors (such as perceptual and conceptual reorganization) but also by affectively loaded and attitudinal influences. Here we show that even differences in attitude towards a single person representing ...