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2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
Michelle Trim
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
University System ◽  
Hand Sanitizer ◽  
Toilet Paper ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
President Elect ◽  
Early Fall ◽  
Past Summer ◽  
The U.S

2020 has been a strange year for many reasons. By February of 2020, the Pandemic was already impacting many parts of the world, and by April, a majority of human lives across the globe were well and truly disrupted by the Covid-19 virus. Some might remember this period as that time when hand sanitizer and toilet paper couldn't be obtained, even at gouged prices. Others may remember this past summer as the time when violence against Black people at the hands of the police achieved a visibility that forced all of us in the US, like it or not, to stop and take note. By the end of the summer headlines heralded what some thought might be the end of the modern university system as colleges and universities across the country announced mass lay-offs and even the dismantling of longstanding majors and departments. Even those with tenure found themselves suddenly without a job. By early fall, the death toll in the U.S. had slowed to the point that schools considered reopening, bars and restaurants unshuttered their doors, and house parties reappeared, if they ever disappeared to begin with. As the positive counts began to surge again, the only thing spreading faster than the virus was misinformation on social media. We end the year in the US with a new President Elect, an emergency approved vaccine, and hope. So many tumultuous events have occurred in this single year that it behooves us to pause for a minute or ten and reflect on what we've learned about the role we want computing to play moving forward.

scholarly journals An Overview of the U.S. Bell Pepper Industry

EDIS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trina Biswas ◽  
Zhengfei Guan ◽  
Feng Wu
Keyword(s):  
Resource Economics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Bell Pepper ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Economics Department ◽  
Economic Contribution ◽  
Production Prices ◽  
The U.S

Bell pepper is one of the most widely cultivated vegetable crops in the world; it is widely grown all over the United States, and production of bell pepper has been a major economic contribution to the vegetable industry in Florida and California. This 4-page fact sheet written by Trina Biswas, Zhengfei Guan, and Feng Wu and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department provides an overview of the US bell pepper industry, including production, prices, and trade. http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/fe1028

scholarly journals Study of Search Engine Transaction Logs Shows Little Change in How Users use Search Engines

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
David Hook
Keyword(s):  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Result Page ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

A review of: Jansen, Bernard J., and Amanda Spink. “How Are We Searching the World Wide Web? A Comparison of Nine Search Engine Transaction Logs.” Information Processing & Management 42.1 (2006): 248-263. Objective – To examine the interactions between users and search engines, and how they have changed over time. Design – Comparative analysis of search engine transaction logs. Setting – Nine major analyses of search engine transaction logs. Subjects – Nine web search engine studies (4 European, 5 American) over a seven-year period, covering the search engines Excite, Fireball, AltaVista, BWIE and AllTheWeb. Methods – The results from individual studies are compared by year of study for percentages of single query sessions, one-term queries, operator (and, or, not, etc.) usage and single result page viewing. As well, the authors group the search queries into eleven different topical categories and compare how the breakdown has changed over time. Main Results – Based on the percentage of single query sessions, it does not appear that the complexity of interactions has changed significantly for either the U.S.-based or the European-based search engines. As well, there was little change observed in the percentage of one-term queries over the years of study for either the U.S.-based or the European-based search engines. Few users (generally less than 20%) use Boolean or other operators in their queries, and these percentages have remained relatively stable. One area of noticeable change is in the percentage of users viewing only one results page, which has increased over the years of study. Based on the studies of the U.S.-based search engines, the topical categories of ‘People, Place or Things’ and ‘Commerce, Travel, Employment or Economy’ are becoming more popular, while the categories of ‘Sex and Pornography’ and ‘Entertainment or Recreation’ are declining. Conclusions – The percentage of users viewing only one results page increased during the years of the study, while the percentages of single query sessions, one-term sessions and operator usage remained stable. The increase in single result page viewing implies that users are tending to view fewer results per web query. There was also a significant difference in the percentage of queries using Boolean operators between the US-based and the European-based search engines. One of the study’s findings was that results from a study of a particular search engine cannot necessarily be applied to all search engines. Finally, web search topics show a trend towards information or commerce searching rather than entertainment.

Boyer’s Recognition Project

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fanning
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
West Indies ◽  
Black People ◽  
African Descent ◽  
The West ◽  
Slave Revolt ◽  
The World ◽  
Negative Publicity ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
The U.S

This chapter discusses the issues that Jean-Pierre Boyer and his supporters grappled with as they pushed for American acknowledgement of Haiti's independence. Boyer understood that recognizing his state would put the U.S. on the record as accepting a black people as equals—unacceptable for southern politicians. Indeed, to recognize Haiti as a nation would be to recognize at least some people of African descent as equals and would be proclaiming as much to the world. This is precisely why the plantation class in the South objected so strongly. As Boyer made traction toward support for opening up diplomatic ties, Haiti experienced unprecedented negative publicity, including rumors of its involvement in the infamous Vesey Conspiracy Trials in South Carolina and two other slave-revolt scandals in the West Indies.

scholarly journals Good Questions 11 Where are governments’ plans for dealing with food system disruptions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
George Kent
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Food System ◽  
National Guard ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
News Agencies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Large Farms ◽  
The U.S

In April 2020, when most businesses in the United States were shut down because of Covid-19, many people became unemployed and their incomes vanished. They lined up at the charitable food banks in their neighborhoods, but the shelves were quickly emptied. At the same time, many large farms buried their crops because the restaurants and hotels they served had closed. Some news agencies said the obvious solution was for government to organize transport of those farms’ produce to food banks or to idle restaurants for distribution to people in need. Only the federal government could make that work at a large scale, perhaps with the help of the National Guard and the U.S. army’s logistic capacities. It didn’t happen. Where are governments’ plans for dealing with food system disruptions, in the US and throughout the world?

scholarly journals The Influence of Covid-19 on Subprime in the U.S.

2021 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 01063
Author(s):  
Haoyang Li
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Subprime Lending ◽  
Subprime Mortgage ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Government ◽  
The 2008 Financial Crisis ◽  
The U.S

Subprime lending in the United States was a major concern after the 2008 financial crisis. While Covid-19 is sweeping the world, how will the US government and financial institutions deal with the potential crisis of subprime mortgage will be discussed in this study. Financial market institutions and the US government should both change their strategies to deal with the crisis. In addition to controlling the spread of the epidemic, the US government should temporarily lower the minimum wage and provide a series of quantitative financial subsidies. Financial institutions should also update loan data and use better monitoring and regulation to reduce subprime risk to cope with this potential crisis.

scholarly journals Impacts of the U.S. subsidy to soybeans on World prices, production and exports

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 631-676 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antônio Salazar P. Brandão ◽  
Elcyon Caiado Rocha Lima
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Econometric Model ◽  
The United States ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Net Exports ◽  
The Us ◽  
International Prices ◽  
The World ◽  
Domestic Support ◽  
The U.S

This paper specifies and estimates an econometric model of the soybean market (grain, oil and meal) to assess the effects of U.S. domestic support to soybeans on world soybean prices, production and exports. The model divides the world into five regions (modules): Argentina, Brazil, the European Union, the United States (US) and the Rest of the World (ROW). There are interactions between the modules through the international prices and the net exports of each soybean product. The international prices of grain, oil and meal are endogenous and are determined equating net exports of the first four modules (Argentina, Brazil, European Union and the U.S.) to net imports of the ROW. The analysis is conducted eliminating the U.S. domestic support to soybeans and simulating the impacts on the variables of interest. The simulations show a significant impact of the US subsidy to soybeans on world prices and net exports of the four selected regions.

scholarly journals Digital Technologies, Dysfunctional Movement-Party Dynamics and the Threat to Democracy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deana Rohlinger
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Information Studies ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

On January 6, 2021, the world watched as Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol. However, in this paper, I argue that social scientists should not simply focus on Trump or the Republicans who have supported his false claims that the presidency was stolen from him. Instead, researchers need to leverage the insights provided by sociology, political science and information studies and communication to unpack the increasingly dysfunctional movement-party dynamics in the U.S., which not only made the January 6th riots possible but continue to erode democratic processes. Here, I outline four developments over the last thirty years that help account for the contemporary political moment and underscore the role of digital technologies in these developments.

scholarly journals Contagion In MENA Countries During The 2008 Financial Meltdown

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Loujaina El Sayed ◽  
Nourhan Hegazi
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Garch Model ◽  
Equity Markets ◽  
Correlation Model ◽  
Mena Countries ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The U.S

Despite originating in the U.S., the repercussions of the 2008 global financial crisis were spread all over the globe to affect all classes of economies, suggesting the presence of a global contagious effect.MENA countries, which have recently become more integrated into the world economy, were also severely impacted.However, studying the contagious effect of the global financial crisison MENA stock markets was not common in literature despite their importance for international diversification. This paper attempts to test for contagion from the U.S. to MENA equity markets during the 2008 global financial crisis using the change in correlations approach. We employ two models: the adjusted correlation model and the dynamic conditional correlations DCC-GARCH model. Results provide an evidence ofthe existence of contagion from the US to a number of MENA equity markets. The adjusted correlation model was proved tobe biased towards the conclusion of no contagion when compared to the findings of the DCC-GARCH model.

scholarly journals Diskriminasi Ras Dan Hak Asasi Manusia Di Amerika Serikat: Studi Kasus Pembunuhan George Floyd

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Oktoviana Banda Saputri
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Social Stratification ◽  
Black People ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Government

The United States (US) had bad history of racial conflict between whites and blacks people for about three centuries.That happened to a black man named George Flyod in the US has very high attention for the US community and even people of around the world. This is because black people are often becomes victims of discriminatory acts by white people. White American society is difficult to assimilate black people, because the process enter of black people to the US was only as slave labor, so that the mindset of black people as second-class citizens was formed which became an attitude in social stratification in the US. This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of racial discrimination and human rights and the settlement of legal cases that occur in the US. Based on literature review and material analysis from various scientific sources, it can be concluded that the US Government as a state administrator is also still implementing discriminatory policies, even the US, which we know as the originator and main pioneer of human rights in the world, has not ratified several legal policies related to the elimination of discrimination. Racism, racial discrimination and intolerance are serious threats to the social progress of the global community.Amerika Serikat memiliki sejarah kelam mengenai konflik rasial antara orang kulit putih dan orang kulit hitam selama kurang lebih tiga abad lamanya. Kasus yang terjadi terhadap orang kulit hitam bernama George Flyod di Amerika Serikat memiliki atensi yang sangat tinggi untuk masyarakat Amerika Serikat bahkan dunia. Hal tersebut dikarenakan orang kulit hitam sering kali menjadi korban tindakan diskriminatif orang kulit putih. Masyarakat kulit putih Amerika Serikat sulit untuk mengasimilasi orang kulit hitam, dikarenakan awal kedatangan orang kulit hitam ke Amerika Serikat hanya sebagai budak pekerja, sehingga terbentuk pola pikir mengenai orang kulit hitam sebagai warga negara kelas dua yang menjadi sebuah sikap dalam stratifikasi sosial di Amerika Serikat. Penelitian ini ingin menganalisis mengenai fenomena diskriminasi ras dan Hak Asasi Manusia (HAM) serta penyelesaian kasus hukum yang terjadi di Amerika Serikat. Berdasarkan kajian literatur dan analisis materi dari berbagai sumber ilmiah dapat disimpulkan bahwa Pemerintah Amerika Serikat sebagai penyelenggara negara juga ternyata masih menerapkan kebijakan diskriminatif, bahkan Amerika Serikat yang kita kenal sebagai pencetus dan pelopor HAM di dunia belum meratifikasi beberapa kebijakan hukum terkait penghapusan diskriminasi. Rasisme, diskriminasi ras, dan intoleransi merupakan ancaman serius terhadap kemajuan sosial masyarakat global.

scholarly journals Risk Diversification In World Stock Markets

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Christine Hsu ◽  
H. Jeffrey Wei
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Portfolio Risk ◽  
Global Risk ◽  
Risk Diversification ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Reduction Effect ◽  
Highly Correlated ◽  
The U.S

The benefit of risk diversification refers to the reduction in the portfolio risk when different stocks are combined into a portfolio. This risk reduction benefit exists because not all stocks are moving together through time; this is presumably true for stocks from different countries. The smaller the degree of co-movements in the world stock markets (i.e., the less the correlation between the markets), the greater is the risk reduction effect. Thus, it makes sense for a US investor to invest globally as long as the foreign stock markets are not highly correlated with the U.S. market. Nevertheless, recent evidence shows that the correlations between the U.S. and various foreign stock markets are evolving through time due to the integration of world capital markets and international capital flows. Now that we witness the increased interdependence of the world stock markets, does it still make sense to diversify globally? In this paper, we address the question of global risk diversification from the US perspective.

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