Despite considerable theoretical work in social sciences, ready to use resources are very limited compared to digitally available mass media resources. Thus, this project creates a political protest database from online news resources in Brazil that will be used to explain Brazilian welfare state policy changes. In this paper we present the preliminary results of a system that automatically cra...

Social media plays an important role in the process of political engagement, especially in societies where significant constraints over traditional media and participation still exist. Little is known about how social media use is related to these constraints. This study examines how citizens’ perceptions of government control predict social media use and how this use is related to offline part...

The general elections held in 2019 gave Vox enough votes to enter the Spanish Parliament as third most popular political party. growing role of this radical right-wing party has revealed a complex relationship with media. objective study is characterise between and media by analysing party's electoral discourse using quantitative techniques – posts made on Facebook Twitter (n = 224) qualitative...

This article is based on the materials of a non-standardized interview conducted in Ivanovo, St. Petersburg and Makhachkala to reveal public perception following: youth participation protest rallies, low activity North Caucasus, reasons for non-participation older generation rallies. It was found that which younger generations are involved depends age political preferences respondents as well r...

After the 2000 Olympic Games, the Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) modified the scoring system used in beach volleyball from side-out to a rally point system. The goal was to facilitate the comprehension of the game and to stabilize match duration. The purpose of this study was to assess the duration and number of rallies in men's and women's beach volleyball matches (2000-2010 FI...

We study drawdowns and rallies of Brownian motion. A rally is defined as the difference of the present value of the Brownian motion and its historical minimum, while the drawdown is defined as the difference of the historical maximum and its present value. This paper determines the probability that a drawdown of a units precedes a rally of b units. We apply this result to examine stock market c...

In this article we compare the Profit and Loss arising from the delta-neutral dynamic hedging of options, using two possible values for the delta of the option. The first one is the Black– Scholes implied delta, while the second one is the local delta, namely the delta of the option in a generalized Black–Scholes model with a local volatility, recalibrated to the market smile every day. We expl...

This study analysed how the relative positioning of players on court influenced patterns of interpersonal coordination in baseline rallies in tennis. We developed a model (PA index) that assigns a weight to the position of each player on court and determines a positional advantage, based on the relative proportionality between the lateral and longitudinal displacement values during rallies. To ...