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Evaluating Probabilistic Queries Over Imprecise Data, Reynold Cheng, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabhakar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- The Book Is Dead And It's A Good Thing, Too, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Evaluating Ther Capaility Of Information Technology To Prevent Adverse Drug Events: A Computer Simulation Approach, James G. Anderson, Stephen Jay, Marilyn Anderson, Thaddeus Hunt

RCHE Publications

Background: The annual cost of morbidity and mortality due to medication errors‎ in the U.S. has been estimated at $76.6 billion. Information technology implemented systematically has the potential to significantly reduce medication errors that result in adverse drug events ‎(ADEs).‎ Objective: To develop a computer simulation model that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness‎ of information technology applications designed to detect and prevent medication errors that result in adverse drug effects.‎ Methods: A computer simulation model was constructed representing the medication delivery‎ system in a hospital. STELLA, a continuous simulation software package, was used to construct the model. Parameters …

Synthesizing Distributed Controllers For The Safe Operation Of Connectedspaces, Baskar Sridharan, Aditya P. Mathur, Kai-Yuan Cai

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Synthesizing A Safety Controller For Connectedspaces Using Supervisory Control, Baskar Sridharan, Aditya P. Mathur, Kai-Yuan Cai

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Similarity Joins For Low-And-High Dimensional Data, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabhakar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Development Of An Infrastructure For The Management Of Smart Homes, Ramkumar Natarajan, Aditya P. Mathur

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Cost Efficiency In Arl Academic Libraries, E. Stewart Saunders

Libraries Research Publications

ABSTRACT Eighty eight academic member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) are examined to determine their relative cost efficiency. Two frontier methods are used to measure overall cost efficiency and the results from the two methods are compared. The two methods are stochastic frontier regression and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The DEA method used assumes variable returns to scale. Both of the methods give average ARL cost efficiencies of around 80%. This places academic ARL libraries in the same range of efficiency as other institutions, including for-profit and non-profit institutions. Many libraries are above 80% efficiency. For those …

In Conversation With Itamar Even-Zohar About Literary And Culture Theory, Dora Sales Salvador

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Dora Sales Salvador presents, in "In Conversation with Itamar Even-Zohar about Literary and Culture Theory," the text of an interview with literary and culture theoretician Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv University). In the interview, Sales Salvador discusses with Even-Zohar his polysystem theory, a framework that emerges from the wish to foster open dialogue between different trends in culture research. The discussion suggests that there are assumptions shared by practitioners of cultural studies and Even-Zohar's culture research framework he has been developing since 1993. At the same time, the discussion reveals that it is also necessary and perhaps much more important to …

Poe Translated By Baudelaire: The Reconstruction Of An Identity, Anne Garrait-Bourrier

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "Poe Translated by Baudelaire: The Reconstruction of an Identity," Anne Garrait-Bourrier argues that Poe and Baudelaire seem to have developed what could be described as a father-son or teacher-student relationship. Baudelaire devoted half of his life to the translation into his mother tongue of Edgar Allan Poe's tales and the other half to the creation of poetry which was inspired, to say the least, by the American writer. Garrait-Bourrier proposes that the influence Poe exerted is undeniable and particularly manifest in Les Fleurs du Mal, so akin to Poe's spirit of "spleen" and the systematic deconstruction of …

Op Ed -- Imhbco (In My Humble But Correct Opinion) -- Lj And The Nra: Separated At Birth? Or, Knee-Jerk Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows, Rick Anderson

Against the Grain

No abstract provided.

Nolan's Memento, Memory, And Recognition, Adrian Gargett

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Adrian Gargett, in his paper "Nolan's Memento, Memory, and Recognition," analyses Christopher Nolan's film Memento. Gargett employs Deleuzian film theory in a general consideration of the relationship between thought and film. Gargett proposes that Memento acts as a type of intellectual stimulant that has the viewer deciphering a puzzle in process: what is identified in Memento is the way in which memory and the work of memory are presented in the film's narrative construct. In his analysis Gargett argues that memory is not added on; rather, it is already present, and that the Deleuzian abstract quality does not lie in …

Similarity Join For Low- And High-Dimensional Data, Dmitri V. Kalashnikov, Sunil Prabhakar

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

On Efficient On-Line Grouping Of Flows With Shared Bottlenecks At Loaded Servers, Ossama Younis, Sonia Fahmy

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

The Villain At The Center: Infrapolitical Borges, Alberto Moreiras

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In "The Villain at the Center: Infrapolitical Borges," Alberto Moreiras revisits the Argentinian ideology of "emancipation of the fatherland" on the basis of a re-reading of Jorge Luis Borges's short-story "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero." Moreiras begins by referring to Paul de Man's comment that Borges's essays were like PMLA essays. Moreiras suggests that, concerning essays, the more deceptive the more honest and less devious they are; and, therefore, the less devious the more devious. He then considers this notion as he surveys recent work on "The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero" by Josefina Ludmer, …

Latin American And Comparative Literature, Roberto González Echevarría

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his paper, "Latin American and Comparative Literature," Roberto González Echevarría asks whether comparative literature, a literary discipline dedicated to the proposition that linguistic boundaries must be transcended, can overcome the "cultural arrogance" of the "Eurocentrism" that he believes pervades it currently. González Echevarría argues that if it is to endure, comparative literature will have to undergo "a truly pitiless redefinition," one that effectively displaces "the hegemonic powers of nineteenth-century Europe" and that Latin American literature, by the nature of its historical development on the margins of these "hegemonic" texts and traditions, could -- and should -- play a central …

The Canon Is El Boom, Et. Al., Or The Hispanic Difference, Gene H. Bell-Villada

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article, Gene H. Bell-Villada's "The Canon is el Boom, et. al., or the Hispanic Difference," argues that the rich, globally acclaimed, foundational yet contestatory prose literature produced in Latin America allows teachers and scholars of Spanish to teach what is essentially the "canon" via work that is still fresh, yet historically provocative. Bell-Villada argues that in a time of reconsidering the importance of literature in literature programs, programs of Spanish language and culture should continue to teach this rich cultural legacy. The average U. S. student's condescension toward Spanish and Latin American culture can be transformed to respect …

First Peoples Of The Americas And Their Literature, Gordon Brotherston, Lúcia De Sá

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their paper, "First Peoples of the Americas and Their Literature," Gordon Brotherston and Lúcia de Sá turn their attention to the indigenous literature of the Americas. They point out that concerted attempts to edit, translate, and publish the main examples or "classics" of Native American literature began little more than a century ago. Since that time, more than a dozen major cosmogonies have appeared, some of them in editions, which seriously attempt to trace back to pre-Cortesian antecedents. Outlining key classics and the ways that these texts have been disseminated, Brotherston and Sá elaborate on how this rich tradition …

The Latin American Innovative Novel Of The 1920s: A Comparative Reassessment, Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "The Latin American Innovative Novel of the 1920s: A Comparative Reassessment," Elizabeth Coonrod Martínez examines four early twentieth-century novels from four different Latin American countries. Coonrod Martínez pays particular attention to their innovation and rebellious breaking with tradition in the attempt to create new narrative. The paper includes comparisons of Arqueles Vela, Roberto Arlt, Martín Adán, and Pablo Palacio, and their novels of the 1920s, with works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Carlos Williams, Upton Sinclair, Ernest Hemingway, and Ezra Pound. In the paper, Coonrod Martínez also compares these early novels to celebrated novels of the …

Anxieties Of Impotence: Cuban Americas In New York City, Christina Marie Tourino

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her paper, "Anxieties of Impotence: Cuban Americas in New York City, " Christina Marie Tourino seeks a basis for comparison between Latin American literatures and Latino literatures of the United States. Such groups have rarely been compared in the past because they are considered part of the same literary "family." However, Tourino argues that owing to the flows of capital driven by global pressures, literatures between and among Latin Americans and Latinos hail from such culturally heterogeneous sites and are made over by so many relocations that they do call for comparative projects. Instead of comparing texts across national …

Joining Multiple Data Streams With Window Constraints, Moustafa A. Hammad, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid

Department of Computer Science Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Cdc5 Influences Phosphorylation Of Net1 And Disassembly Of The Rent Complex., Wenying Shou, Ramzi Azzam, Susan L. Chen, Michael J. Huddleston, Christopher Baskerville, Harry Charbonneau, Rolan S. Annan, Steve A. Carr, Raymond J. Deshaies

Department of Biochemistry Faculty Publications

Background

In S. cerevisiae, the mitotic exit network (MEN) proteins, including the Polo-like protein kinase Cdc5 and the protein phosphatase Cdc14, are required for exit from mitosis. In pre-anaphase cells, Cdc14 is sequestered to the nucleolus by Net1 as a part of the RENT complex. When cells are primed to exit mitosis, the RENT complex is disassembled and Cdc14 is released from the nucleolus.

Results

Here, we show that Cdc5 is necessary to free nucleolar Cdc14 in late mitosis, that elevated Cdc5 activity provokes ectopic release of Cdc14 in pre-anaphase cells, and that the phosphorylation state of Net1 is …

The Midas Of The Wabash: A Biography Of John Purdue, Robert C. Kriebel

Purdue University Press Books

A biography of noted businessman John Purdue (1802-1876), whose donations of time and money led to the founding of Indiana's land grant university-Purdue University-in 1869. Purdue also contributed to economically important bridge, railroad, and cemetery construction, the existence of Lafayette Savings Bank and the Battle Ground Collegiate Institute, cattle farming, Lafayette's public school system, and countless other worthy enterprises. To date there has been no published full length study of Mr. Purdue's life and work beyond casual street-talk that portrayed Purdue as a difficult individual with whom to work. This biography incorporates research efforts by previous writers with facts gleaned …

Selected Bibliography For The Study Of Central And East European Culture, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Indiana Street Commisioners Meeting: Ada Requirements For Curb Ramp Programs, Edward Ratulowski

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Strategies For Reducing Pavement Noise: Community Experience With I-275 Road Noice In Michigan, Larry K. Shoup

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Public Utilities' Use Of The Right-Of-Way: Problem Areas: Top 10 Reasons Conflict Arises, Ron Jourdan

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

A Tale Of Three Cities: Analysis Of Bicycle-Motor Vehicle Crashes, Charles Bash

Purdue Road School

No abstract provided.

Constructivism And Comparative Cultural Studies, Steven Tötösy De Zepetnek

CLCWeb Library

No abstract provided.

Courting Desire And The (Al)Lure Of David E. Kelley's Ally Mcbeal, Kathleen Kelly Baum

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article"Courting Desire and the (Al)lure of David E. Kelley's Ally McBeal" Kathleen Kelly Baum compares the tropes of desire and the law in David E. Kelley's television series Ally McBeal with similar motifs extracted from Lacanian theory. In her study, Baum explores the psychological and social implications of thematic characterizations and situations from the television series' five seasons by engaging Lacan's premise that subjective identity results from an economic relation between self and other -- a relation that is continuously mediated by symbolization and governed by social mores and cultural imperatives. In addition, Baum traces ways in which …