York Times Article Research Articles

Perceiving Distances and Construing Targets Based on Communication

Construal level theory states that the psychological distance to events and objects affects their construal level. But how do humans get to the psychological distance in the first place? We argue that language plays a key role. Communicating a distance typically requires a particular measurement unit, and the distance and its resolution affect the perceived psychological distance. There is an important difference between an invitation to a wedding on August 3rd and next summer. To substantiate our claims, we replicate the BIF task (n = 358) and the open-ended activity descriptions (n = 357) from Liberman and Trope (1998), and the concreteness in New York Times articles (n = 15,075) from Bhatia and Walasek (2016). We show the added value in understanding the effect of communicating distances, spotlighting its relevance for academic work that studies construal based on language or uses construal to explain further social situations.

Unbacked Cryptomoney, Fiscal Evasion and Environment Tax: Some Policy Recommendations in Europe

In a 2019 New York Times article, Paul Krugman declared himself a “crypto skeptic” and shared his pessimistic predictions for cryptocurrencies. Nevertheless, unbacked cryptomoney is now very important in our societies and has revolutionized the monetary and financial landscape as exemplified by the increased pressure from competent regulators to monitor and regulate it. Cryptocurrencies are described by their high volatility that permits regulators to define them as non-safe financial assets when it comes to energy consumption. The anonymous property of cryptocurrencies opens the door to tax evasion, making it especially susceptible to avoiding environment-related taxes aimed at tackling negative impact of climate change. Against this background, the paper sets a twofold aim: to demonstrate that unbacked cryptomoney is volatile and it may pose a threat to financial and fiscal stability; and to develop the idea that, given their different degrees of anonymity and their decentralisation nature, cryptocurrencies could actively participate in the process of tax evasion and therefore incur high costs for countries. Given the general ecological condition and ensuing concerns, it is clear that avoiding eco-taxes represents a serious issue since money from eco-taxation could have been invested in environmental social and governance projects. Therefore, a clear and compelling legal framework should be implemented worldwide to reduce the tax evasion phenomena via cryptomoney channels.

The evolutıon of dıgıtal leadershıp: content and sentıment analysıs of the New York Tımes coverage

This research paper examines the evolution of digital leadership as portrayed in The New York Times articles from 2020 to 2022, addressing the growing complexities and strategic roles influenced by digital technologies. The study identifies critical issues in digital leadership, including ethical dilemmas, cybersecurity threats, and the digital divide, which pose significant challenges to effective digital governance and strategy implementation. The objectives of this research were to uncover and analyze the prevailing themes and sentiments associated with digital leadership using advanced Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, specifically Nvivo and Monkeylearn. Our methodology involved a content and sentiment analysis of 318 articles, chosen from an initial pool of 387, resulting in a dataset of 2,428 content blocks. This analysis enabled the identification of major themes: Digital Transformation, Innovation, Remote Working, and Cybersecurity. The results indicate that ‘Digital Transformation’ and ‘Innovation’ were the most prominent themes, with significant discussions around ‘technology adoption’ and ‘AI’. The sentiment analysis quantitatively underscores the public discourse, revealing that 60% of the analyzed content carried a positive tone, reflecting an optimistic view towards digital advancements. Conversely, 29% expressed negative sentiments, emphasizing the urgent need to address associated risks. Significantly, the statistical evaluation of theme prevalence and sentiment ratios provides a nuanced understanding of the digital leadership landscape, suggesting a critical balance is necessary between leveraging opportunities and mitigating risks. These findings contribute to the theoretical and practical discussions on digital leadership by highlighting the importance of strategic adaptability and ethical considerations in shaping policies that are both inclusive and effective. In conclusion, this study offers a detailed, numerical insight into the complexities of digital leadership, providing valuable evidence for policymakers and business leaders aiming to navigate the challenges and opportunities presented by digitalization.

The Brazilian Hymnological Melting Pot: Investigating Ethnoracial Discourses in the Compilation of the Lutheran Hymnal Livro de Canto (2017)

In 1926, a New York Times article described the cultural and ethnic flows in south Brazil as a “Melting Pot”. The report predicted that German Brazilians, tied to their ethnoracial origin, would soon be Brazilianized. The study of congregational song practices offers insight into the relationship between migration, race, culture, and ethnicity. Moreover, investigating Brazilian Lutheran singing practices helps us understand how the New York Times’ prediction unfolded on the ground. This paper examines the Brazilian Lutheran hymnal Livro de Canto, published in 2017, and displays how Brazil’s ethnoracial diversity is manifested and negotiated in the Lutheran context, both musically and theologically. By interviewing members of the hymnal committee and investigating how they dealt with Brazil’s ethnoraciality in the context of the hymnal compilation, this paper demonstrates ways denominations and churchgoers negotiate theological, cultural, musical, and ethnoracial identities through congregational singing. More importantly, it showcases how Brazilian Lutheran church music practices inform broader social conversations around racism, nationalism, Blackness, and Brazilianness.

THE REPRESENTATION OF INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN MEDIA: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

Mr. Prabowo Subianto is often regarded as a controversial figure, both in his military and political career. This research aims to find out Mr. Prabowo Subianto’s representation in one of The New York Times articles entitled “Indonesian General Accused of Kidnapping Is Named Defense Minister”, which was written by Richard C. Paddock in 2019. The article mainly discusses the controversial issue regarding Mr. Joko Widodo’s, the re-elected President of Indonesia, decision to appoint Mr. Subianto, his rival in the presidential election, to be one of his cabinet ministers. In analyzing the topic, van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis, is utilized. Despite the fact that in van Dijk’s CDA there are three levels of analysis, namely the macro, meso, and micro levels, this paper is limited to the micro level only, as this focuses more on unveiling a more specific and detailed portrayal of Mr. Subianto’s representation in the newspaper article. In the microstructure analysis, three linguistics tools are employed, namely actor description, level of description, and rhetoric. The research applies the descriptive qualitative method as well as the library research method. The findings consistently show the negative representation of Mr. Subianto in the macrostructure, microstructure and superstructure analyses.

MR. PRABOWO SUBIANTO’S REPRESENTATION IN THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE “INDONESIAN GENERAL ACCUSED OF KIDNAPPING IS NAMED DEFENSE MINISTER”

Mr. Prabowo Subianto is often regarded as a controversial figure, both in his military and political career. This research aims to find out Mr. Prabowo Subianto’s representation in one of The New York Times articles entitled “Indonesian General Accused of Kidnapping Is Named Defense Minister”, which was written by Richard C. Paddock in 2019. The article mainly discusses the controversial issue regarding Mr. Joko Widodo, the re-elected President of Indonesia, decision to appoint Mr. Subianto, his rival in the presidential election, to be one of his cabinet ministers. In analyzing the topic, van Dijk’s Critical Discourse Analysis is utilized. Even though in van Dijk’s CDA there are three levels of analysis, namely the macro, meso, and micro levels, this paper is limited to the micro level only, as this focuses more on unveiling a more specific and detailed portrayal of Mr. Subianto’s representation in the newspaper article. In the microstructure analysis, three linguistics tools are employed, namely actor description, level of description, and rhetoric. The research applies the descriptive qualitative method as well as the library research method. The findings consistently show the negative representation of Mr. Subianto in the macrostructure, microstructure, and superstructure analyses.

Evaluating the New York Times: Content Analysis of Student Responses to Open-Ended Tutorial Questions

This study involves student responses to open-ended questions regarding the credibility of a New York Times news article after viewing library instructional materials. The authors present the use of content analysis as a means of assessing students’ source evaluations. The analysis revealed that all students were able to correctly list three factors that contribute to a source’s credibility, and nearly all students (96.5%) were able to define bias. Interestingly, 42.6% of students evaluated the New York Times article as not credible, for a variety of categorical reasons. These findings led to actionable changes to library instruction content.

Misunderstanding Flight Part 2: Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science

Flight has become a common everyday occurrence. We have engineered ever more efficient and reliable aircraft, facilitating safe transportation around the world. However, from the education literature on the topic of lift, online discussions, and YouTube, it becomes apparent that there are underlying pedagogical issues. The 2003 New York Times article by Chang and the 2020 Scientific American article by Regis conclude that no one really understands flight. These claims are made without regard for the underpinning science and engineering responsible for the modern aviation industry. Although, it does beg the question, why is there confusion about how wings work? Several factors have conspired together, resulting in this confusion. Fluid mechanics is a complex topic that stumped legends of physics and mathematics for centuries. It also contains paradoxes, exacerbating the complexity. However, the central thesis of this work is that knowledge about aerodynamics is not easy to construct due to two main factors. First, there are epistemological traps that directly lead to fallacious conclusions. Second, representativeness heuristics incorrectly apply behaviors of visible water to invisible air. While many assume they know how wings work, if they do not understand why there is confusion, rather than dismissing it, confusion will endure.

Use of Social Media Platforms to Address Addiction and Psychosis in a New Age of Online College Gamblers

As gambling companies expand into the digital world, they have begun to approach the next generation in novel ways. Most recently, gambling companies have partnered with academic institutions to reach younger and more impressionable adults. Per a recent New York Times Articles titled, “How College and Sports Betting Companies “Ceasarized” Campus Life”, over eight universities have already partnered with online sports betting companies [1]. These academic institutions direct students, irrespective of age, to betting websites with promo codes which provide “free” funds to gamble [1]. While the full extent of the repercussions of such actions are not yet clear, to hand-wave these endorsements as “harmless” and “free” is sorely naïve.

Wellness 911

Wellness 911

Sexual Slavery in Islam and through the Islamic State

The paper is inspired by Edward Said’s Orientalism, where it is emphasized that the Occident feels the need to liberate the Orient. The reasonings of why Islam is perceived as the Orient today will be discussed, which will lead to a discussion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS’) oppression of the Yezidi women in Iraq and Syria. In a New York Times article, “ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape,” Rukmini Callimachi reports several accounts of Yezidi women who successfully escaped the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, where they were raped in the name of religion. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria claim that sexual slavery is supported by the Quran, the holy book of Islam. Based on their claims of Quranic support, “the Islamic State [of Iraq and Syria] codifie[d] sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria” (Callimachi, 2015). Therefore, ISIS’ claim that Islam allows such an inhumane behavior towards females will be questioned while exploring Islam’s actual stance on the subject of sexual slavery. First, the Islamic stance on sexual slavery will be explored, the emergence of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria will be examined, followed by a thorough investigation of the perception of sexual slavery in Islam by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ending with a comparison and contrast among the two stances.

Morphosemantic Study Of Compound Words In The New York Times Articles

The New York Times is USA’s most popular digital news platform which can be accessed easier by people around the world. Due to many new words that can be combined to become compound words, it is interesting to see the compound words that are applied on the New York Times website. This study looked at the different the types and meanings of compound words used in the New York Times articles. The study describes the types of compound words with the theory proposed by Katamba (1993). Then, to analyze the meanings of compound words, the theory by Palmer (1991) was used. To achieve the objectives, descriptive qualitative methods were used in the study. The data were taken from the New York Times website. In collecting data, the documentation method with note-taking techniques was applied. From 58 data collected, the results showed that compound nouns become the most common types of compound words used in the articles with 33 compound words, followed by compound verbs with 13 compound words, and compound adjectives with 12 compound words. Referring to the meaning of compound words, there are 34 compound words with opaque meanings and 24 compound words with transparent meanings.

Gunnison Sage-Grouse and Mapping Pi

Enriching BioScience’s role as a forum for integrating the life sciences, Arts in Science provides an occasional venue for poems, visual art, and other forms of artistic expression that explore and enliven our understanding of life. Through the contributions in this section, we hope to share with our readers the passion for nature that science inspires. These paintings are from Isa Catto (https://isacatto.com), an artist based near Aspen, Colorado, in the United States. Her description of “Gunnison Sage-Grouse” and “Mapping Pi” are below. A 2019 New York Times article on global avian decline inspired me to paint a series of endangered bird portraits to raise awareness of vulnerable birds. The Gunnison sage-grouse is often confused with the greater sage-grouse, but this bird has been accepted as its own species due to its smaller stature and restricted range. It resides only in Western Colorado and Utah. Habitat encroachment has diminished their numbers to around 4600.

Domain-Specific Word Embeddings with Structure Prediction

Abstract Complementary to finding good general word embeddings, an important question for representation learning is to find dynamic word embeddings, for example, across time or domain. Current methods do not offer a way to use or predict information on structure between sub-corpora, time or domain and dynamic embeddings can only be compared after post-alignment. We propose novel word embedding methods that provide general word representations for the whole corpus, domain- specific representations for each sub-corpus, sub-corpus structure, and embedding alignment simultaneously. We present an empirical evaluation on New York Times articles and two English Wikipedia datasets with articles on science and philosophy. Our method, called Word2Vec with Structure Prediction (W2VPred), provides better performance than baselines in terms of the general analogy tests, domain-specific analogy tests, and multiple specific word embedding evaluations as well as structure prediction performance when no structure is given a priori. As a use case in the field of Digital Humanities we demonstrate how to raise novel research questions for high literature from the German Text Archive.

Christopher C De Santis (ed.). Let America Be America Again: Conversations with Langston Hughes

Even mildly intrigued readers will soon become deeply informed by this remarkable book. This overdue edition compiles and frames essential materials from Hughes’s public appearances from 1926 to 1962 with remarkable aplomb and confidence. Hughes’s proletariat speeches from the 1930s, his Windy City Press Club address of 1957 in Chicago, Hughes’s talk in Ghana in 1962 (quietly sponsored by the United States Information Agency), and his revealing interview on race with Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin in 1961—they are all here, in one place, for the very first time. The discerning scholar will find a treasure of Hughes’s uncollected speeches, articles, and interviews contextualized with succinct headnotes and meticulously selected endnotes. As just one of many examples, when an obscure figure is alluded to by Hughes, the editor provides not only a summary of William Klunder but also an exact citation to The New York Times article that covered his death in 1964. An established Hughes scholar who has already defined the field, De Santis is also a great sleuth.

Little Amal’s New York Journey: The Big Puppet in the Big Apple

Little Amal’s New York Journey: The Big Puppet in the Big Apple

Lucky Form of Truth

This article explores poet Mark Strand’s facet as an art critic and, more specifically, the way in which the pictorial universe of American painter Edward Hopper influenced his own poetry, both thematically and stylistically. Reading Hopper’s well-known oil on canvas House by the Railroad (1925) in a New York Times article entitled “Crossing the Tracks to Hopper’s World,” published on 17 October 1971, Strand dwells on “Hopper’s fascination with passage” (340). Years later, he would expand his critical exegesis of House by the Railroad and other canvasses by the American painter in a book-length essay titled Hopper (1994) in ways that are expressive of his own poetics. Both Strand and Hopper look at the world with an inquisitive gaze and capture moments in time with utter clarity to show that the self is a mystery and humans are transients yearning for a moment of revelation, a momentary stay against confusion.

Lucky Form of Truth

This article explores poet Mark Strand’s facet as an art critic and, more specifically, the way in which the pictorial universe of American painter Edward Hopper influenced his own poetry, both thematically and stylistically. Reading Hopper’s well-known oil on canvas House by the Railroad (1925) in a New York Times article entitled “Crossing the Tracks to Hopper’s World,” published on 17 October 1971, Strand dwells on “Hopper’s fascination with passage” (340). Years later, he would expand his critical exegesis of House by the Railroad and other canvasses by the American painter in a book-length essay titled Hopper (1994) in ways that are expressive of his own poetics. Both Strand and Hopper look at the world with an inquisitive gaze and capture moments in time with utter clarity to show that the self is a mystery and humans are transients yearning for a moment of revelation, a momentary stay against confusion.

Changing Times

Changing Times

Neurotization during Breast Reconstruction.

Nipple-sparing mastectomy results in injury to sensory nerves that supply the breast and nipple-areolar complex (NAC). This leads to diminished or complete sensory loss, which can negatively impact patients’ quality of life postoperatively.1 In our experience, attempting to restore sensation to the NAC presents relatively minimal risk to patients. We believe that attempts at preservation and restoration of NAC sensation should be offered to women undergoing nipple-sparing mastectomy, where resources permit. ANATOMY AND ADVANTAGES Sensory innervation to the breast is mainly derived from the anterolateral and anteromedial branches of the third, fourth, and fifth intercostal nerves. During removal of breast parenchyma, sensory nerves are transected, resulting in the development of painful neuromas and/or permanent sensory loss. Location of these nerves is predictable, allowing for uncomplicated identification at the time of extirpation. Preservation of sensory nerves should be considered as long as oncologic success is not compromised. In cases where sensory nerves cannot be preserved, coaptation of allograft or autograft from transected nerve endings to the undersurface of the NAC can be performed. In delayed reconstruction, cut nerve ends can be dissected and tagged for localization at a later date. Prior studies have demonstrated that neurotization does not prolong operative time in autologous reconstruction.2 In our experience, this is also true for implant-based reconstruction. Furthermore, attempted reinnervation poses minimal risk, while potentially improving patients’ postoperative quality of life. Reinnervation may incur additional cost; however, patients are unlikely to bear this financial burden as an adjunct to breast reconstruction, and we argue that the potential benefits of reinnervation outweigh the possible risks. SUPPORTING LITERATURE Coaptation of intercostal nerves to the NAC with allograft in implant-based reconstruction has demonstrated satisfactory postoperative sensory outcomes.3 Neurotization of the NAC using autografts has been described using branches of intercostal nerves.4 If the nerve deficit from transected nerve to NAC is minimal, creation of dermatosensory peripheral nerve interfaces may also be considered. ANECDOTAL SUPPORT A New York Times article recently highlighted the decreased quality of life many women experience after mastectomy.5 The physical and psychological impact of injuries, decreased sexual arousal, inability to feel a hug from loved ones, and breast exposure after an unrecognized shift in clothing demonstrate the significant impact that sensory loss has after breast surgery. Therefore, this issue warrants increased attention. CONCLUSIONS If resources are available to perform neurotization, plastic surgeons can advocate for patients by educating their surgical oncology colleagues that it is being offered and include a discussion regarding neurotization in their reconstructive consultation. Additionally, plastic surgeons can undertake further research to better characterize the benefits and potential drawbacks of neurotization. Given that neurotization is a fairly straightforward procedure in patients undergoing nipple-sparing mastectomy and reconstruction, by not studying it further, we risk losing the chance to restore a vital sense of self in this patient population. DISCLOSURE The authors have no financial interest in relation to the content of this article.