News websites are one of the most visited destinations on the web. As there are many news portals created on a daily basis, each having its own preference for which news are important, detecting unbiased important news might be useful for users to keep up to date with what is happening in the world. In this work we present a method for identifying top news in the web environment that consists o...

A new paradigm in the way we look at cancer with important implications on how we treat it is about to be published in the British Journal of Cancer 1 by Portuguese, Belgian and American researchers. The group use a mathematical approach to reveal how by changing the dynamics of interaction between the cancer cells and those of the affected tissue it is possible to control and even potentially ...

In this chapter, an interactive framework is developed to enable personalized news video recommendation and allow news seekers to access large-scale news videos more effectively. First, multiple information sources (audio, video and closed captions) are seamlessly integrated and synchronized to achieve more reliable news topic detection, and the inter-topic contextual relationships are extracte...

1 NSContrast:Interface for Contrasting Multiple News Site Today, there is access to large numbers of news sites in different countries, and there are several experimental systems that integrate news articles about a particular event from multiple news sites. These systems enable a good understanding of particular events by using multiple news sites, but they ignore the characteristics of the va...

Media in general and news in particular constitute indispensable parts of modern life. TV news which contains visual elements in addition to the verbal aspects was used as the corpus of this study. In fact, this research culled out the ideologies of Iranian national television in presenting different issues. To be more precise, three internationally-significant pieces of news reports were chose...

Background: Building fires are the most common threatening and distressing hazard in hospitals. Fire is one of the top 10 hazards that threaten Iranian hospitals. Nevertheless, no study has been done on the features of fires in Iran hospitals. So, this study aimed to investigate the characteristics of fires taking place in Iranian hospitals.  Materials and Methods:  In this cross-sectional stu...

news websites’ design quality plays an important role in retention time and increasing visitors’ motivation in order to maintain loyalty and e-wom. therefore, these websites are trying to achieve this competitive advantage through improving their websites’ design quality. the purpose of this research is to examine the effect of design quality of news websites on e-loyalty and e-wom. this articl...

public diplomacy is an idiom that has been noticed increasingly in last decades due to extension of internet and satellite news networks. this type of diplomacy be used related to influence, guidance and mobilization of public opinion for the aims of governmental and non-governmental agents. in this article, the author tried to give analytical answer to this question: in spite of being newest, ...

We formalize the idea that uncertainty is generated by news about future developments in economic conditions which are not perfectly predictable by the agents. With a simple model of limited information we show that uncertainty shocks can be obtained as the square of news shocks. We develop a two-step econometric procedure to estimate the effects of news and we find highly nonlinear effects. La...

The development of the internet has drastically changed the newspaper industry, and the way people read news stories [3]. Newspapers are shifting from print to online version, with some unexpected results [1, 2, 6]. Good news for the newspaper industry? The proliferation of news aggregators such as Google News1 is blamed for killing the “old media”. With these aggregators, people visit a newspa...