This paper presents a Web-based user evaluation of a system for classifying and presenting political viewpoints of blog posts. The system is based on a classification model trained using a supervised learning algorithm, and the data set consists of recent posts from blogs that are self

an agenda for children: the role of data in linking policy, politics and outcomes

Abstract This study aims to identify the fundamentals that drive the academic tutorship of the

A scarcity of studies One of the more surprising features of the literature on public health and on health policy research in Europe and North America is the scarcity of refer-ences on the impact of political variables on health policy and on health out-comes. One can find in this literature a

: • Declining student enrollment, while growth continues in law, medicine, biology, economics, and business; the decline among women is particularly alarming; • Reduced government and industry support for basic research; • Low public interest, even antipathy; and • An unsympathetic political climate, typified by the

agricultural biotechnology to enhance global food security. Where appropriate, we also review other agricultural technologies and the broader political, social, and economic contexts in which these technologies have been introduced. Finally, we offer recommendations for how multiple stakeholder groups

provided the original work is properly cited. Since the start of the HIV pandemic, epidemiology has pro-vided critical insights into the natural history of HIV infection, HIV prevalence and trends, and individual risk factors asso-ciated with infection. Epidemiology has also contributed to the evaluation of antiretroviral medicines and the develop-ment and assessment of public health interventions. Less often, epidemiology has focussed upon understanding the influence of macro-social and economic factors that affect HIV prevalence, such as poverty, gender inequality, population mobility and conflict. Social epidemiology, examining the social and structural determinants of HIV vulnerability, has unques-tionably contributed to advancing HIV understanding [1,2], yet dissatisfaction with what is construed as an overly biomedical approach to the HIV epidemic (and epidemiology)

Exposure to conflicting political viewpoints is widely assumed to benefit the citizens of a democratic polity. Nonetheless, the benefits of exposure to heterogeneous political viewpoints have yet to be demonstrated empirically. Drawing on national survey data that tap characteristics of people

. In the past 4 years, largely under the auspices of the current Labour government, the question of ethnic minority representation in the public services has become a major political issue and focus of attention. As the government has sought to assess the state of race relations and the extent of racial

Efforts to export democracy and liberty through military intervention have often been ineffective and have resulted in unintended and undesirable consequences. Countries are free because of belief systems, and institutions that follow from those beliefs, which support and reinforce political