BACKGROUND Uganda is one of the 57 countries with a critical shortage of health workers. The aim of this study was to determine how the human resources and health service crisis was covered in Ugandan newspapers and, in particular, how the newspapers attributed accountability for problems in the health services. METHODS We collected all articles related to health workers and health services f...

The Articles of Association /Budget a Political Partyor commonly referred to as the AD/ADR Party, are binding rules entirety Party.arising,. nature AD/ART is almost samewith Rules invitations, everything must be subdued AD/ART. Lately, what happened before party, who should resolve it, Supreme Court (MA) or Constitutional (MK) two State Higher Institutions, both have authority review (Yudicial ...

In the paper we describe development, means of evaluation and applications of Russian–English Sociopolitical Thesaurus specially developed as a linguistic resource for automatic text processing applications. The Sociopolitical domain is not a domain of social research but a broad domain of social relations including economic, political, military, cultural, sports and other subdomains. The knowl...

Through a qualitative content analysis of newspaper articles that have appeared in the New York Times over the last one hundred and fifty years (1855-2005), this study recounts historical trends in the coverage of absence by politicians. By focusing on this occupational group, the study demonstrates the special social expectations that politicians are subject to concerning attendance, the impor...

Categorization with a very high missing data rate is seldom studied, especially from a non-probabilistic point of view. This paper proposes a new algorithm called default clustering that relies on default reasoning and uses the local search paradigm. Two kinds of experiments are considered: the first one presents the results obtained on artificial data sets, the second uses an original and real...

Introduction That the present economic and political problems in Indonesia are well worth studying goes without saying. An ever-increasing number of edited volumes, books, and articles in newspapers and learned journals, bears testimony to this. It may appear less self-evident that valuable insights can also be gained from the study of economic crises in Indonesia’s past, but I would like to ar...

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The Nonproliferation Review/Fall 1997 40 Ronald B. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon. His book Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance, published in 1994 by The MIT Press, received the 1995 International Studies Association Sprout Award for best book on international environmental politics. He has...

Given the number of online sources for news, the volumes of news generated are so daunting that gaining insight from these collections become impossible without some aid to link them. Semantic linking of news articles facilitates grouping of similar or relevant news stories together for ease of human consumption. For example, a political analyst may like to have a single view of all news articl...