Recently, the call to combine land change science (LCS) and political ecology (PE) in the study of human-environment interactions has been widely discussed by scientists from both subfields of geography. In this paper, we use a hybrid ecology framework to examine the effects of conservation policies on the environment and the livelihood of the people of the Korup National Park (KNP). Using tech...

tions that, up until that time, had only received an episodic focus. One drawback of the book is that the authors cover a wide gamut of topics. Consequently, disease-specifi c topics are presented without adequately providing the necessary background on the disease entity to the reader. Not all readers may fully understand the necessary disease-specifi c background that would make the discussio...

Mentions of politicians in news articles can reflect politician interactions on their daily activities. In this work, we present a mathematical model to represent such interactions as a graph, and we use it to predict the political affiliation for a list of deputies of the Republic of Ireland. Our results show that there is a relation between political affiliations and mentions in news reports.

A nonsecular medical anthropology insists on the ways medicine and science have constituted 'the secular' itself through the 'secular self'-how medical knowing has been used to craft the secular political subject. As James Boon noted, too often in social theory, "religion gets safely tucked away-restricted theoretically to 'meaning' rather than power" (1998:245). The authors of the six articles...

Dean Fulgoni, Jordan Carpenter, Lyle Ungar, Daniel Preoţiuc-Pietro Computer and Information Science, 3330 Walnut St.,Philadelphia, PA 19104 Positive Psychology Center, 3701 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 University of Pennsylvania [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Abstract News sources frame issues in different ways in order to appeal...

In this era of fake news and political polarization, it is desirable to have a system to enable users to access balanced news content. Current solutions focus on top down, server based approaches to decide whether a news article is fake or biased, and display only trusted news to the end users. In this paper, we follow a different approach to help the users make informed choices about which new...

This book contains a collection of selected readings on the subject of independent regulation. The articles in the book have appeared in reputed journals including the Journal of Law and Economics, Bell Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Virginia Law Review, Journal of Law, Economics and Organ...

It is widely thought that news organizations exhibit ideological bias, but rigorously quantifying such slant has proven methodologically challenging. Through a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing techniques, we investigate the selection and framing of political issues in 15 major U.S. news outlets. Starting with 803,146 news stories published over 12 months, we first used supervis...

Despite the large amount of research into both media coverage of politics as well as political leadership, surprisingly little research has been devoted to the ways political leaders are discussed in the media. This paper studies whether computer-aided content analysis can be applied in examining political leadership images in Dutch newspaper articles. It, firstly, provides a conceptualization ...