The thesis of methodological individualism in social science is commonly divided into two different claims – explanatory individualism and ontological individualism. Ontological individualism is the thesis that facts about individuals exhaustively determine social facts. Initially taken to be a claim about the identity of groups with sets of individuals or their properties, ontological individu...

This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault’s seminars, Soci...

BACKGROUND The stepped wedge cluster randomised trial (SW-CRT) is increasingly being used to evaluate policy or service delivery interventions. However, there is a dearth of trials literature addressing analytical approaches to the SW-CRT. Perhaps as a result, a significant number of published trials have major methodological shortcomings, including failure to adjust for secular trends at the a...

point of the common perpendicular to the two rays (the midpoint method). Perhaps a better choice would be to In this paper, we consider the problem of finding the position of a point in space given its position in two images taken with divide the common perpendicular in proportion to the cameras with known calibration and pose. This process requires distance from the two camera centers, since t...

We consider the following planar maximum weight triangulation (MAT) problem: given a set of n points in the plane, find a triangulation such that the total length of edges in triangulation is maximized. We prove an ( √ n) lower bound on the approximation factor for several heuristics: maximum greedy triangulation, maximum greedy spanning tree triangulation and maximum spanning tree triangulatio...

The paper is the first report on approximation algorithms for computing the maximum weight triangulation of a set of n points in the plane. We prove an Ω( √ n) lower bound on the approximation factor for several heuristics: maximum greedy triangulation, maximum greedy spanning tree triangulation and maximum spanning tree triangulation. We then propose the Spoke Triangulation algorithm, which al...

g0005 bogus empowerment Letting people think they have control over outcomes and the power to act on their own judgments when they actually do not have this control or power; can be the unintended consequence of hyperbole about the democratic nature of a situation. g0010 ethnography A descriptive study of an intact cultural or social group or an individual or individuals within the group, based...

The main objective is the comparative analysis of engagement strategies in AlJazeera channels Arabic and English. Methodological triangulation used through bibliographic review, content analysis, 45 in-depth interviews non-participant observation. policies carried out with two important points are studied 2016 conformation strategy 2018 restructuring television teams. Engagement no longer just ...

Triangulating a given n-vertex simple polygon means to partition the interior of the polygon into n − 2 triangles by adding n − 3 nonintersecting diagonals. Significant theoretical advances have recently been made in finding efficient polygon triangulation algorithms. However, there is substantial effort being made in finding a simple and practical triangulation algorithm. We propose the concep...

PURPOSE Develop an International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Code Set, useful in goal oriented rehabilitation of a study population of children with chronic disabilities. METHOD A triangulation of methods, using an interview to identify the main needs and goals of the study population, and a questionnaire to identify the main problems, with a registration of the...