The US Election in 2024 and the Trend of the Ukraine Crisis

The crisis in Ukraine,which has dragged on for more than two years,and whether military aid to Ukraine should continue are major issues debated and fought over by the two parties in the United States prior to the 2024 election.Regarding whether to continue to aid Ukraine,various political forces in the United States have chosen sides in the election campaign,which can be roughly divided into the“aid camp”and the“stop-aid camp”according to their positions.

Improving Sentiment Analysis in Election-Based Conversations on Twitter with ElecBERT Language Model

Sentiment analysis plays a vital role in understanding public opinions and sentiments toward various topics.In recent years,the rise of social media platforms(SMPs)has provided a rich source of data for analyzing public opinions,particularly in the context of election-related conversations.Nevertheless,sentiment analysis of electionrelated tweets presents unique challenges due to the complex language used,including figurative expressions,sarcasm,and the spread of misinformation.To address these challenges,this paper proposes Election-focused Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(ElecBERT),a new model for sentiment analysis in the context of election-related tweets.Election-related tweets pose unique challenges for sentiment analysis due to their complex language,sarcasm,andmisinformation.ElecBERT is based on the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT)language model and is fine-tuned on two datasets:Election-Related Sentiment-Annotated Tweets(ElecSent)-Multi-Languages,containing 5.31 million labeled tweets in multiple languages,and ElecSent-English,containing 4.75million labeled tweets in English.Themodel outperforms othermachine learning models such as Support Vector Machines(SVM),Na飗e Bayes(NB),and eXtreme Gradient Boosting(XGBoost),with an accuracy of 0.9905 and F1-score of 0.9816 on ElecSent-Multi-Languages,and an accuracy of 0.9930 and F1-score of 0.9899 on ElecSent-English.The performance of differentmodels was compared using the 2020 United States(US)Presidential Election as a case study.The ElecBERT-English and ElecBERT-Multi-Languages models outperformed BERTweet,with the ElecBERT-English model achieving aMean Absolute Error(MAE)of 6.13.This paper presents a valuable contribution to sentiment analysis in the context of election-related tweets,with potential applications in political analysis,social media management,and policymaking.

From Social Media to Ballot Box:Leveraging Location-Aware Sentiment Analysis for Election Predictions

Predicting election outcomes is a crucial undertaking,and various methods are employed for this purpose,such as traditional opinion polling,and social media analysis.However,traditional polling approaches often struggle to capture the intricate nuances of voter sentiment at local levels,resulting in a limited depth of analysis and understanding.In light of this challenge,this study focuses on predicting elections at the state/regional level along with the country level,intending to offer a comprehensive analysis and deeper insights into the electoral process.To achieve this,the study introduces the Location-Based Election Prediction Model(LEPM),which utilizes social media data,specifically Twitter,and integrates location-aware sentiment analysis techniques at both the state/region and country levels.LEPM predicts the support and opposing strength of each political party/candidate.To determine the location of users/voters who have not disclosed their location information in tweets,the model utilizes a Voter Location Detection(VotLocaDetect)approach,which leverages recent tweets/posts.The sentiment analysis techniques employed in this study include rule-based sentiment analysis,Valence Aware Dictionary and Sentiment Reasoner(VADER)as well as transformers-based sentiment analysis such as Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers(BERT),BERTweet,and Election based BERT(ElecBERT).This study uses the 2020 United States(US)Presidential Election as a case study.By applying the LEPM model to the election,the study demonstrates its ability to accurately predict outcomes in forty-one states,achieving an 0.84 accuracy rate at the state level.Moreover,at the country level,the LEPM model outperforms traditional polling results.With a low Mean Absolute Error(MAE)of 0.87,the model exhibits more precise predictions and serves as a successful alternative to conventional polls and other methodologies.Leveraging the extensive social media data,the LEPM model provides nuanced insights into voter behavior,enabling policymakers to make informed decisions and facilitating in-depth analyses of elections.The study emphasizes the importance of using social media data for reliable election prediction and offers implications for enhancing prediction accuracy and understanding voter sentiment and behavior.

浅谈英语中词性的活用

在英语学习中,背单词一直是同学们头疼的问题,层出不穷的单词大大打击了学习英语的积极性和成就感。其实,语言是融会贯通的,如果我们能够灵活巧妙的使用已掌握的常用词汇,常常回收到意想不到的效果。所以,灵活使用单词是英语学习中十分重要的环节。举例如下:

Elections in the United States

惊奇常常是在箱子里出现:包在彩色包装纸里面的生日礼物,朋友寄来牛皮纸包的包裹。不论是怎样的箱子,人们都喜欢打开来看看里面是什么。在美国以及其它许多国家,有一个特殊的箱子关系着未来。

Quantum election scheme based on anonymous quantum key distribution

An unconditionally secure authority-certified anonymous quantum key distribution scheme using conjugate coding is presented, based on which we construct a quantum election scheme without the help of an entanglement state. We show that this election scheme ensures the completeness, soundness, privacy, eligibility, unreusability, fairness, and verifiability of a large-scale election in which the administrator and counter are semi-honest. This election scheme can work even if there exist loss and errors in quantum channels. In addition, any irregularity in this scheme is sensible.

On the 2002 U. S. Mid-Term Election Zhang Yanyu and Wang Wenfeng are both assistant research professors at the Division for American Studies in China Institute of Contemporary International Relations

The first mid-term election of the U. S. in the new century took place on November 5, 2002. One third of the senators from the 107th Congress (34 out of 100), all representatives (435), 36 state governors, and numerous local officials and legislators were to be elected or reelected. The resounding victory of the GOP in the congressional elections and the fact that the Democrats only got three more.

美国政治百年大变局与2020年大选

American politics is currently undergoing great changes unseen in a century,which has been predominately manifested in the following hree aspects:first,the rampant COVID-19 pandemic has caused the US tosuffer its worst economic recession since the Great Depression in 1929;second,social division and political polarization are besetting the US as evidenced in its wide partisan divide between the supporters of its two major parties on a range of critical issues;and third,the US is caught in anational identity crisis,while China's rise is believed to intensify such a crisis.These three factors are bound to exert great impacts on the 2020 presidential election of the United States:the COVID-19 pandemic will have certain influence on voter turnout and the approval rating of the two parties;in the context of the aforementioned serious social divide and highly polarized political landscape,the basic constituencies of the two parties are likely to show an extraordinary degree of party loyalty,which could result in the possibility that a few voters in a handful of key states will determine the results of the election;and as China's peaceful rise ismistaken as a serious threat to the national identity of the US.China will be one of the key topics in the coming US presidential election,hence further worsening the relations between China and the United States.

Election Spin Resonance Studies of Free Radical Formation and Oxygen Consumption of Lens Epithelium During Ultraviolet Exposure

A long life election spin resonance (ESR) signal at g=2.0006 was observed in the normal lens epithelium and cortical fibers. During ultraviolet (UV) exposure, a new ESR signal at g = 2.0060 was found in the lens epithelium. But this specific signal was not detected in the lens cortical fibers. This suggested that lens epithelial cells were more susceptible to the free radical formation which was induced by UV light. By means of ESR spin probe oxymetry, the oxygen uptake of lens epithelial cells was meas...

Clinical Observation on 80 Cases of Anal Edema after Mixed Hemorrhoids Operation with Chinese Medicine Hot Election Package

The subjects of this study were 80 patients who underwent mixed hemorrhoids surgery in our hospital from January to October 2020 (mixed hemorrhoids external and internal ligation, internal hemorrhoids ligation or Xiaozhiling injection) and developed anal edge edema after surgery. According to the order of hospitalization, the patients were randomly divided into treatment group and control group, with 40 cases each. In the control group, blank hot pack was applied on the basis of anorectal No. 1 lotion for prevention and treatment of anal edge edema after operation;in the treatment group, hot pack of Traditional Chinese medicine was applied on the basis of anorectal No. 1 lotion for prevention and treatment of anal edge edema. The course of treatment was 7 days. The edema subsidence and postoperative pain scores were observed in both groups. Results: The scores of anal edema and pain in the treatment group were significantly lower than those in the control group (P < 0.05), and the significant efficiency and total effective rate in the treatment group were significantly better than those in the control group, with statistical difference (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Chinese medicine hot election package is effective in treating postoperative anal edema of mixed hemorrhoids, and the method is simple and suitable for clinical promotion.

“recall election”是什么意思?

[问] [427]2003年10月7日美国加州州长、民主党人戴维斯(Gray Davis)由于争取竞选连任而谎报预算赤字遭到指责,为此加州选民举行了“recallelection”。在这次选举活动中,Davis被迫下台把州长宝座让给好莱坞动作明星、共和党人施瓦辛格(Arnold Schwarzenegger)。那么,请问“:recallelection”是什么意思? [答] 根据加州法律,选民有权通过选举对在任的不称职州长进行罢免,这种决定其是否能继续留任的选举被称为“recall election”,即罢免选举。

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF (July 11-25,1994)

Former prime minister of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma won Ukraine’s presidential election on July 11. Kuchma favours economic union with Moscow. He became the second president of Ukraine. Kuchma took the oath of office on July 19.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF(August11-25,1994)

On August 16, Sri Lanka’s opposition People’s Alliance defeated the United National Party that ruled Sri Lanka for 17 years, but it failed to win a majority of seats in Parliament and began to woo political parties to form a coalition government. After winning election, Sri Lanka’S president invited the opposition People’s Alliance to form a new government.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

The Japanese Government dissolved parliament (Diet) on June 18 in the wake of its shock defeat in a confidence vote ovar political corruption. A general election must be held within 40 days. A total of 39 LDP members voted against Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa in protest at his failure to keep a pledge to curb Japan’s pandemic "money politics". Chinese President Jiang Zemin held talks in Beijing on June 19 with Miguel Dos Anjos Trovoada, President of Sao Tome and Principe, two islands in the Gulf of Guinea off west Africa.

A Genetic Based Leader Election Algorithm for IoT Cloud Data Processing

In IoT networks,nodes communicate with each other for computational services,data processing,and resource sharing.Most of the time huge data is generated at the network edge due to extensive communication between IoT devices.So,this tidal data is transferred to the cloud data center(CDC)for efficient processing and effective data storage.In CDC,leader nodes are responsible for higher performance,reliability,deadlock handling,reduced latency,and to provide cost-effective computational services to the users.However,the optimal leader selection is a computationally hard problem as several factors like memory,CPU MIPS,and bandwidth,etc.,are needed to be considered while selecting a leader amongst the set of available nodes.The existing approaches for leader selection are monolithic,as they identify the leader nodes without taking the optimal approach for leader resources.Therefore,for optimal leader node selection,a genetic algorithm(GA)based leader election(GLEA)approach is presented in this paper.The proposed GLEA uses the available resources to evaluate the candidate nodes during the leader election process.In the first phase of the algorithm,the cost of individual nodes,and overall cluster cost is computed on the bases of available resources.In the second phase,the best computational nodes are selected as the leader nodes by applying the genetic operations against a cost function by considering the available resources.The GLEA procedure is then compared against the Bees Life Algorithm(BLA).The experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms BLA in terms of execution time,SLA Violation,and their utilization with state-of-the-art schemes.

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF

(April 1-15, 1991) It was announced on April 1 that in the 12th election of the national assembly, the Albanian Labour Party won 162 of the 250 seats in the people’s assembly in Albania’s first multi-party elections in more than 60 years,but President Ramiz Alia was defeated. On April 3, the UN Security Council adopted, by a vote of

WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF (March 16-31, 1991)

Millions of people of the Soviet Union voted on March 17 in a referendum on the future of the Soviet Union which President Mikhail Gorhachev says could decide whether the vast state survives or breaks up. Six republics had refused to

Donald Trump Administration’s Domestic and Foreign Policy after the Midterm Election

After Democrats recaptured control of the US House at the 2018 midterms,the ramifications for American domestic and foreign policies have included increased partisan checks on President Donald Trump's proposals for immigration,energy,pollution,taxes,healthcare,and social welfare,and on the Republican Party's conservative agenda overall.After the longest government shutdown in US history over funding for a border wall to keep out illegal immigrants,Trump declared a national emergency in February 2019.Under his administration,US trade pacts with China,Mexico,Canada,Japan,the EU and other countries also face uncertainty.The Indo?Pacific Strategy and relations with Russia and Europe will remain,as is.Yet even if Sino-US trade negotiations progress,bilateral friction over high technology and cultural exchange will likely increase,and disputes over Taiwan,the South China Sea and human rights will continue.

New Life, New Hopes

Two diametrically different kind of post-independence fate befell four countriesin Southern Africa:Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe and Namibia. Alarge-scale civil war broke out immediately after the independence of Mozambiqueand Angola in 1975. Thus far, despite a peace agreement, the schduled multi-par-ty democratic election in Mozambique has been postponed again and again

South Africa: Rebirth with a Promising Future Historic Event of Global Relevance

New Chapter opens in the history of South Africa, a nation born anew with theburial of the apartheid and the eventual demise of the white minority racistregime. Over thirty million oppressed blacks finally won their freedom to becomemasters of a new nation born in the firstever all-race election held last April. The African National Congress (ANC), with years of anti-apartheid record,won 252 seats in the election to the 400-seat National Assembly to come out as thelargest party of the country, followed by the original ruling National Party (NP)with 82 seats, the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with 43 seats and others with 23seats. ANC President, world-famous black leader Nelson Mandela, was elected asthe first black State President and the organization’s National Chairman ThaboMbeki as First Deputy President. F.W. de Klerk, former State President andleader of the National Party remained in the new government as the Second DeputyPresident. An ANC-led government of national unity was inaugurated and swornin on May 10.