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Data As Ensembles Of Records: Representation And Comparison, Nicholas Howe

Computer Science: Faculty Publications

Many collections of data do not come packaged in a form amenable to the ready application of machine learning techniques. Nevertheless, there has been only limited research on the problem of preparing raw data for learning, perhaps because widespread differences between domains make generalization difficult. This paper focuses on one common class of raw data, in which the entities of interest actually comprise collections of (smaller pieces of) homologous data. We present a technique for processing such collections into high-dimensional vectors, suitable for the application of many learning algorithms including clustering, nearestneighbors, and boosting. We demonstrate the abilities of the …

The End Of Innocence: Rethinking Noncombatancy In The Post-Kosovo Era, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

The protection of civilians and their property in war is an accepted norm of international law - even where the putatively "noncombatant" populace openly supports the immoral use of force by its military. NATO's Kosovo operation suggests, however, that the imposition of hardship on the sentient, adult "noncombatant" population through property loss can erode a society's appetite for malevolence. While civilians should not be targeted, a new paradigm for noncombatancy that allows the destruction of certain property currently protected by international law but not absolutely indispensable to civilian survival may well help shorten conflict and effect necessary societal change.

The Law And The Human Target In Information Warfare: Cautions And Opportunities, Charles J. Dunlap Jr.

Faculty Scholarship

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Standing While Black: Distinguishing Lyons In Racial Profiling Cases, Brandon L. Garrett

Faculty Scholarship

Plaintiffs challenging racial profiling must contend with the Supreme Court's decision in City of Los Angeles v. Lyons, which restricted standing for injunctive relief against government officials. This Note articulates a framework for assessing standing for injunctive relief based on case law following Lyons: Plaintiff must demonstrate a sufficiently "credible threat" of future harm where government conduct was authorized by a policy, practice, or custom and where plaintiff was law-abiding. Lyons analysis focuses exclusively on an individual's likelihood of future harm because the Court was reluctant to let the grievance of one individual support city-wide injunctive relief. Where racial profiling …

A Survey Of Iowa High School Band Directors And Their Students On The Occurrences Of Performing On A Musical Instrument While Experiencing Pain, Crystal M. Franzen Halverson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Learning to play a musical instrument is a challenging and exciting venture for many children. Lessons are the primary means for children to learn to play a musical instrument. Some begin studying an instrument through private lessons and others through a Suzuki program. Many other children begin their study of a musical instrument in the public school system with a music teacher in elementary, junior high, or middle school. Regardless of how one begins to learn to play a musical instrument, by the time high school is reached, it is conceivable that he or she will have had at least …

Effects Of The Spiral Grain On Some Physical Properties Of Calabrian Pine (Pinus Brutiaten.) Wood, Yener Göker, Nusret As, Turgay Akbulut, Türker Dündar

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

In this study, the effects of spiral grain on some physical properties of the Calabrian pine (Pinus brutia Ten.) wood were investigated. For this purpose, 17 sample trees with various spiral grain angles, were taken from the Çakirlar region, Antalya district. The selected trees were divided into five groups according to grain angles. Tests were carried out for oven dry density, density values in volume, shrinkage, fiber saturated point (FSP) and maximal moisture content. The results led to a number of conclusions; In general, density increased in relation to the spiral grain increase. Density (oven dry weight/green volume) increased after …

Effects Of Wheel Traffic Porosity And Compaction Of Soil Profile, Cevdet Şeker, A. Ali̇ Işildar

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The aim of this experimental study was to determine the effect on soil porosity and compaction of the number of the tractor passes on the soil surface. The soil has a sandy loam texture. A tractor passed once, twice, and four times while the water content of soil was near field capacity. Numbers of tractings increased soil bulk density and compaction, and decreased total porosity, void ratio, air porosity and drainage porosity. One and two tractor passes did not markedly affect the percentage of porosity kept at field capacity porosity, but four tractor passes improved it.

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Exploring The Concept Of A Forest Landscape Management Paradigm, Emi̇n Zeki̇ Başkent, Haci̇ Ahmet Yolasiğmaz

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

The concept of forest management planning has rapidly progressed towards a more holistic approach in the last decade. Considering the whole landscape of ecosystems is the focus of landscape management. This paper examines the evolutionary process of forest management and compares and contrasts the landscape management planning concept to its predecessor, the conventional forest resource management approach. It explains the conceptual framework, provides the principles and the improvements over the conventional management planning, and discusses different approaches towards the landscape management concept. However, the paper stresses the fact that the evolutionary process of forest management provides the basis for what …

Characterization Of Some Regosols In The Bursa Plain, Cumhur Aydinalp

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

In the Bursa plain, Regosols are extensively cultivated soils for horticultural crops and irrigated by water from aquifers. These soils are quite widespread on the west side of the plain and developed on different types of parent materials. This research was carried out to determinate genesis and classification of the Regosols developed on calcareous colluvium material. Five soil profiles were examined in this research and their characterization included field morphology and physico-chemical analysis. The soils were classified according to the systems of FAO/Unesco (1990), FitzPatrick (1988), and USDA Soil Taxonomy (1994). The soils show high sand and calcium carbonate contents …

Transfer Of A \Beta-Glucuronidase Reporter Gene To Sugarbeet (Beta Vulgaris L.) Via Microprojectile Bombardment, Sertaç Önde, Melahat Bi̇rsi̇n, Mustafa Yildiz, Cengi̇z Sancak, Murat Özgen

Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

For the transfer of a \beta -Glucuronidase (GUS) reporter gene to sugarbeet (Beta vulgaris L.) callus and leaf explants by microprojectile bombardment, various rupture disk pressures and sample plate distances were tested. By coating the pBI221.23 DNA construct over the gold particles, bombardments were carried out by the DuPont PDS-1000/He system and the results clearly indicated the superiority of leaf explants over the callus structures as targets. The sample plate distances affected the distribution pattern of the particles and the cells expressing the GUS reporter gene were noted to be aggregated in short distances whereas longer distance shots yielded better …

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Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry

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Painted Slang: The Caricatural Aspects Of French Painting, 1850–1880, Melina V. Kervandjian

Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects

A complicated relationship between painting and caricature emerged in France in the 1850s and 1860s when writers like Baudelaire and Champfleury, who were known for their work on painting and painters, produced a number of texts focusing on caricature and caricaturists. Such writings legitimized imagery previously relegated to the realm of "low art" by declaring caricature integral to the aesthetic discourses of the nineteenth century.

The legitimization of caricature also involved a concurrent effort by artists like Honore Daumier, Gustave Courbet, and Paul Cezanne, who incorporated caricatural elements within their painted works. Rather than adopting the traditional strategy of marginalizing …

The Perils Of Public Opinion, Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

Justice, Liability, and Blame: Community Views and the Criminal Law (“Justice”) is a rich, creative, and intriguing book with an ambitious goal: to examine the extent to which laypersons' views of justice (their “moral intuitions”) are reflected in current criminal codes. This Article discusses the significance of Justice's approach to understanding law and why the book is an excellent springboard for further research comparing community standards and legal codes. However, this Article particularly emphasizes the perils of incorporating public opinion into the law based upon three major sources: (1) this Article's own study of national and New Jersey demographic and …

Adieu To Electrocution, Deborah W. Denno

Faculty Scholarship

This Article contends that there is no moral or legal reason to retain electrocution, particularly because other execution methods are available. It is clear that at some point soon, electrocution will no longer exist in this country and, as a result, throughout the world. By eliminating this perplexing vestige, the other problems with the death penalty may appear all that more offensive.

The Changing Complexion Of Workplace Law: Labor And Employment Decisions Of The Supreme Court's 1999-2000 Term , James J. Brudney

Faculty Scholarship

At the dawn of a new century of Supreme Court workplace law, it seems especially appropriate to offer some perspective on the recent and relatively recent past. Before addressing the seven cases involving labor and employment issues decided by the Supreme Court in the Term just ended, I want briefly to describe (in what I hope are not mechanical terms) how the Court's interests in labor and employment law have evolved from the start of the Burger Era in 1969 to the current, mature stage of the Rehnquist Court.

Report To The United States Independence Standards Board: Research Into Perceptions Of Auditor Independence And Objectivity - Phase Ii, July 2000, Earnscliffe Research & Communications, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Comment Letters On Discussion Memorandum Dm 99-2: Evolving Forms Of Firm Structure And Organization, Independence Standards Board

Association Sections, Divisions, Boards, Teams

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Discrimination Cases In The Supreme Court’S 1998 Term, Eileen Kaufman

Scholarly Works

In the Supreme Court's 1997 Term, the Supreme Court had decided a record number of statutory discrimination cases. However, that record was exceeded in the Supreme Court's 1998 Term with the Court addressing issues arising under Title VII, which covers discrimination in employment; Title IX, which covers discrimination in schools; and most significantly, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which prohibits discrimination based on disability. Overall, the term scored significant victories for employers who were given considerable latitude to set their own physical characteristic standards and who were, to a large extent, immunized from liability for punitive damages. There was an …

Life And Evolution In Computers, Melanie Mitchell

Computer Science Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper argues for the possibility of 'artificial life' and computational evolution, first by discussing (via a highly simplified version) John von Neumann's self-reproducing automaton and then by presenting some recent work focusing on computational evolution, in which 'cellular automata', a form of parallel and decentralized computing system, are evolved via 'genetic algorithms'. It is argued that such in silico experiments can help to make sense of the question of whether we can eventually build computers that are intelligent and alive.

The Regulation And Characterization Of Store-Operated Ion Channels In Immune Cells., Zhengchang Su

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The Influence On Quality Of Life Of Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (Csii) Therapy., Luanne Aline Turrentine

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Family Environment And Sexual Risk Behaviors Among African American Adolescent Females., Shandowyn L. Parker

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An Assessment Of Special Education Services Provided For Juvenile Offenders With Disabilities In Alabama., Rebecca Ann Wilson Seales

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Teacher Tenure Law In Alabama: Issues And Application., Heather Snow Gibbons

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Examining The Role Of Naturalistic Factors Of Agitation In Nursing Home Residents., David Eugene Vance

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An Investigation Of The Role Of Negative Affectivity On Abnormal Pain Perception And Functional Brain Activity In The Limbic System Of Women With Fibromyalgia (Fm)., Kristin Renee Alberts

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School Security Officers In Alabama Public Schools: The Current Status And Perception Of Role Expectations., Floyd Stancil Bennett

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Estimating The Probability For Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation In Medicare Recipients After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery., Judy Lynea Bezanson

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Formulation And Characterization Of Acrylic Bone Cement., Lujia Bu

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