Fake News and Indifference to Scientific Fact: President Trump's Confused Tweets on Global Warming, Climate Change and Weather

A set of 115 tweets on climate change by President Trump, from 2011 to 2015, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments of the messages contained the degree to which they differ, and their implications about his understanding of climate change. The results suggest a predominantly negative emotion in relation to tweets on climate change, but they appear to lack a clear logical framework, and confuse short term variations in localised weather with long term global average climate change

Fake News and Indifference to Truth

State of the Union Addresses (SOUA) by two recent US Presidents, President Obama (2016) and President Trump (2018), and a series of recent of tweets by President Trump, are analysed by means of the data mining technique, sentiment analysis. The intention is to explore the contents and sentiments of the messages contained, the degree to which they dier, and their potential implications for the national mood and state of the economy. President Trump's 2018 SOUA and his sample tweets are identied as being more positive in sentiment than President Obama's 2016 SOUA. This is conrmed by bootstrapped t tests and non-parametric sign tests on components of the respective sentiment scores. The issue of whether overly positive pronouncements amount to self-promotion, rather than intrinsic merit or sentiment, is a topic for future research

Analysis of attitudes of Turkish citizens towards the effect of European Union membership on the economic, political, and cultural environment

Author's OriginalPrevious studies on Turkey’s possible accession to the European Union have mostly focused on the level of support for membership as expressed by Turkish citizens. The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on the specific expectations and perceptions of the Turks about the EU membership process, focusing on economic development, democratic progress, economic and political stability, and cultural influence. In both the focus group studies and the final survey, the authors targeted people who have some knowledge about the EU accession process and EU membership, namely, academics and business people.Aybar, C., Mergen, A., Perotti, V., & Reid, D. (2007). Analysis of Attitudes of Turkish Citizens towards the Effect of European Union Membership on the Economic, Political, and Cultural Environment. Turkish Studies, 8(3), 329-348. doi:10.1080/1468384070148908

Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

Transport modelling of Joint European Torus (JET) dimensionless collisionality scaling experiments in various operational scenarios is presented. Interpretative simulations at a fixed radial position are combined with predictive JETTO simulations of temperatures and densities, using the TGLF transport model. The model includes electromagnetic effects and collisions as well as □(→┬E ) X □(→┬B ) shear in Miller geometry. Focus is on particle transport and the role of the neutral beam injection (NBI) particle source for the density peaking. The experimental 3-point collisionality scans include L-mode, and H-mode (D and H and higher beta D plasma) plasmas in a total of 12 discharges. Experimental results presented in (Tala et al 2017 44th EPS Conf.) indicate that for the H-mode scans, the NBI particle source plays an important role for the density peaking, whereas for the L-mode scan, the influence of the particle source is small. In general, both the interpretative and predictive transport simulations support the experimental conclusions on the role of the NBI particle source for the 12 JET discharges

Intellectual property rights: a comparative perspective on Asia, the EU, and North America

Este artículo explora algunas de las diferencias fundamentales en las condiciones, procedimientos e intereses entre los bloques comerciales más importantes y algunos países que forman parte de éstos. Se centra principalmente en los desafíos que enfrenta el régimen de la propiedad intelectual (pi), particularmente en lo que concierne a su protección. En el contexto asiático se considera la situación y el desafío que representa la protección de la pi en Indonesia, en comparación con Japón, con su historia única respecto a la adquisición de pi, o bien de Hong Kong, una región administrativa especial de China, la cual se ve de manera independiente, aunque sea parte de la República Popular de China. Además, se aborda la situación de la Unión Europea y de Estados Unidos, así como la diferencia de intereses entre las economías consumidoras de tecnología (ntces, por sus siglas en inglés) y las productoras de tecnología (ntpes, por sus siglas en inglés).This article explores some of the key differences in conditions, procedures, and interests among major trading blocs and selected countries within them. Its primary focus is on the challenges faced by an intellectual property (ip) regime, especially related to ip protection. In the Asian context, consideration is given to the status and challenge of ip protection in Indonesia, and, for contrast, Japan, with its singular history of ip acquisition. Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of China, is considered separately as is part of the People�s Republic of China. Then the EU and the United States are addressed. In addition, the divergence of interests between net technology-consuming economies (ntces) and net technology-producing economies (ntpes) are considered

Wars without ends : a theorisation of relations between power, modernity and strategy

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