TheWar of the Worldsradio broadcast discussed in the introduction was a hoax concerning a Martian invasion. The stunt made Orson Wells famous and caused a short-term panic across the country. Nearly ...a hundred years later, that broadcast exemplifies the media’s ability to create and even distort reality. In many respects, the hyperbolic radio broadcast about Martian invaders parallels today’s vitriolic attacks against immigrant workers.¹ Perhaps the recent incarnations of theWar of the Worldsbroadcast will bring fame to alarmists like Tom Tancredo and Lou Dobbs, but history will likely portray this era as more akin to the
Anti-immigrant discourse, ranging from factually incorrect assertions to inflammatory rhetoric, has a significant impact on public perceptions and the implementation of public policy. As we have seen ...in chapter 2, there are well known cases in which those who make offensively antiblack or misogynistic comments face strong public condemnation. For example, in 2007 Don Imus was fired from his radio talk show after his disgusting slur against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. In 2012 there was a national outcry against Rush Limbaugh for his sexist insults of a law student, Sandra Fluke, who had testified before Congress concerning contraception. Limbaugh’s
Although the United States is often described as a “nation of immigrants,”¹ this country’s treatment of Latin American immigrants is largely a tale of inclusion and assistance on one hand, and ...exclusion and mistreatment on the other. As Kevin Johnson succinctly describes it,
U.S. immigration law is famous for its cyclical, turbulent, and ambivalent nature. At times, the nation has embraced some of the most liberal immigration admission laws and policies in the world…. At other times in U.S. history, however, the nation has capitulated to the nativist impulse and embraced immigration laws and policies that, in retrospect, make us
Web based decision aids, embedded in modern telemedicine systems, are a tool to improve the skills of general practitioners and patients in sharing decision making. The aim of this paper is to ...present a new method based on data quality and fuzzy prototypes to provide a better and improved knowledge management framework for web-based decision aids. The proposed model is able to manage data quality dimensions on the decision-making process, moreover, the set of possible recommendations is not fixed over time to address dynamic scenarios. To illustrate the advantage of this mechanism, a preliminary experiment is carried out.
Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is a rare but important cause of congestive heart failure in infancy and of sudden death at all ages. Diagnosis is often missed ...when based solely on physical examination and noninvasive methods. A 4 year old patient is presented in whom mitral regurgitation was noted by a referring physician and an anomalous left coronary artery was found by Doppler color flow mapping upon referal and verified at cardiac catheterization. Doppler color Row mapping was also used intraoperatively using a gas-sterilized transducer to further clarify the hemodynamics and assess the surgical result.
After creation of an intrapulmonary artery tunnel from the ostium of the left coronary artery to the aorta, anterograde coronary artery flow and absence of a residual left to right pulmonary artery shunt were verified during surgery by Doppler flow mapping. Postoperatively, residual mitral regurgitation and patency of the left coronary artery graft have been followed up serially by Doppler flow mapping. Therefore, Doppler color flow mapping is useful in the diagnosis and intraoperative and postoperative management of this important and potentially life-threatening abnormality.
Although the topic of atmospheric aerosols is not a well known by general population and it is only well know by experts, their effects could increase the consequences of climate change Moreover, the ...mechanisms of atmospheric aerosol formation and their evolution are not well established nowadays. An application of Zadeh's prototype theory in the knowledge discovery process is presented in this paper, and as a practical example, a method for classifying and analyzing data collected in a meteorological station is defined. This classification and analysis will allow to study and consequently to improve both our knowledge of mechanism of atmospheric aerosol formation and improve current atmospheric models PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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