It also is highly original, contemporary, topical, ground-breaking, and, I am told, erotic.
Excluded studies were considered eligible for the external validation gold standard set if exclusion was based on methodological, rather than topical, grounds.
As readers will discover in the articles section of this topical collection, ground-breaking technological innovations, societal shifts and climate changes are at the core of the works presented here: new artefacts (like autonomous cars), new fuels, new social attitudes.
And it also means that it can stay fluid enough to encourage more people to write and bring in work that is more topical from those on the ground — the very essence of citizen journalism.
With the editorial process we generate a ground truth of "social" and "topical" groups.
In particular, we annotate a number of Flickr groups as either topical or social and we match this ground truth with the machine-generated labels, showing that the socio-topical metrics, combined with a machine-learning approach, predict the group type with high accuracy.
In this work, we define metrics that can be used to predict if a group is social or topical and testing their effectiveness against a reliable ground truth.
If the "Sinn Féin IRA mur(derers)" graffiti placed outside and the eight pipe bombs within the grounds of Stormont are examples of more topical than political pieces of performance art, then I guess Fallujah was just George's "topical" attempt at Guernica.
We subjected qualitative data to thematic analysis using grounded theory, whereby common themes were identified and topical codes developed and applied to transcripts.
"Traffic," in contrast, is an ensemble piece, a dense weave of stories grounded not in a character but in a charged, topical theme -- the drug war, seen from all sides of the battlefield.
