E-mail: [email protected] With polarization in Congress persistent, with staggering issues and international threats facing the nation, and with fi scal stress an enduring fact of life, presidents have for decades turned to the tools of the administrative presidency to advance and implement their policy agendas. As the Barack Obama administration completed its fi rst six months in offi ce ami...

ade, China’s rise has generated much attention, admiration, and concern. Whether China can rise peacefully remains a heavily debated issue, with political scientists worrying about the dangers of power transitions, aspiring regional hegemons, and growing nationalism.1 In response to China’s economic and military growth, the administration of Barack Obama has rebalanced U.S. foreign and security...

San Francisco's straight and icono­ clastic mayor Gavin Newsom presided over the wedding of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84. Partners for more than half a century, Martin and Lyon were the first same-sex cou­ ple to be married under the California Supreme Court's landmark ruling In re Marriage Cases. In addition to the joy that normally accompanies a wedding, Martin and Lyon's ceremony was...

The collection, storage and use of genomic and clinical data from patients and healthy individuals is a key component of personalised medicine enterprises such as the Precision Medicine Initiative, the Cancer Moonshot and the 100,000 Genomes Project. In order to maximise the value of this data, it is important to embed a culture within the scientific, medical and patient communities that suppor...

We apply charismatic leadership theory to the historic 2008 United States presidential election, in hopes of inspiring dialogue around how leadership theory can inform the critical process of evaluating and electing public leaders. While numerous leadership theories are relevant to understanding the 2008 election, charismatic leadership theory highlights aspects of the leader, followers, and th...

We demonstrate EKG, a collection of tools and back-end infrastructure for creating custom, domain specific knowledge graphs. The toolkit is geared toward enterprises and government organizations where domain specific knowledge graphs are often not available. During the demo, audience members will be able to ingest their own documents and instantiate their own knowledge graphs and update them in...

In 2008, Barack Obama revolutionized the digital campaign with Twitter and blogs. Now, in 2012, Twitter is a powerful venue for politicians, and Republican candidate Mitt Romney has used Twitter in an effort to disseminate effective messages to voters. For this study, I analyzed Romney’s tweets. From February 1 to May 31, 2012, his tweets build his credibility (ethos), express his reasoning (lo...

I n 2004, President George W. Bush called for interoperable electronic health records (EHRs) for the majority of Americans within 10 years and established the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (HIT), directed by Dr. David Brailer, whose Framework for Strategic Action (1) envisioned a consumer-centric, informationrich health care system through adoption of HIT....