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Propagation And Provenance Of Probabilistic And Interval Uncertainty In Cyberinfrastructure-Related Data Processing And Data Fusion, Paulo Pinheiro Da Silva, Aaron A. Velasco, Martine Ceberio, Christian Servin, Matthew G. Averill, Nicholas Ricky Del Rio, Luc Longpre, Vladik Kreinovich

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In the past, communications were much slower than computations. As a result, researchers and practitioners collected different data into huge databases located at a single location such as NASA and US Geological Survey. At present, communications are so much faster that it is possible to keep different databases at different locations, and automatically select, transform, and collect relevant data when necessary. The corresponding cyberinfrastructure is actively used in many applications. It drastically enhances scientists' ability to discover, reuse and combine a large number of resources, e.g., data and services.

Because of this importance, it is desirable to be able to …

Statistical Hypothesis Testing Under Interval Uncertainty: An Overview, Vladik Kreinovich, Hung T. Nguyen, Sa-Aat Niwitpong

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

An important part of statistical data analysis is hypothesis testing. For example, we know the probability distribution of the characteristics corresponding to a certain disease, we have the values of the characteristics describing a patient, and we must make a conclusion whether this patient has this disease. Traditional hypothesis testing techniques are based on the assumption that we know the exact values of the characteristic(s) x describing a patient. In practice, the value X comes from measurements and is, thus, only known with uncertainty: X =/= x. In many practical situations, we only know the upper bound D on the …

A Fitness Function To Find Feasible Sequences Of Method Calls For Evolutionary Testing Of Object-Oriented Programs, Myoung Yee Kim, Yoonsik Cheon

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In evolutionary testing of an object-oriented program, the search objective is to find a sequence of method calls that can successfully produce a test object of an interesting state. This is challenging because not all call sequences are feasible; each call of a sequence has to meet the assumption of the called method. The effectiveness of an evolutionary testing thus depends in part on the quality of the so-called fitness function that determines the degree of the fitness of a candidate solution. In this paper, we propose a new fitness function based on assertions such as method preconditions to find …

How To Estimate, Take Into Account, And Improve Travel Time Reliability In Transportation Networks, Ruey L. Cheu, Vladik Kreinovich, Francois Modave, Gang Xiang, Tao Li, Tanja Magoc

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

Many urban areas suffer from traffic congestion. Intuitively, it may seem that a road expansion (e.g., the opening of a new road) should always improve the traffic conditions. However, in reality, a new road can actually worsen traffic congestion. It is therefore extremely important that before we start a road expansion project, we first predict the effect of this project on traffic congestion.

Traditional approach to this prediction is based on the assumption that for any time of the day, we know the exact amount of traffic that needs to go from each origin city zone A to every …

Bill No. 07/F/116, Fhsu Student Government Association

SGA - Legislation

A bill stating that interviews have been conducted for an open seat in the Student Senate. The student interviewed is ratified as a senator for the Student Government Association.

Treasurer's Report 11/1/2007, Fhsu Student Government Association

SGA - Treasurer's Reports

A report documenting the expenses the SGA pays, as well as the total finances they have left in their accounts as of November 2007.

Comparative Analysis Of Bankruptcy Legal Provisions From Mexico And The United States: Which Legal System Is More Attractive?, Jonatan Graham-Canedo

DePaul Business & Commercial Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Rights Groups Urge Haiti Leavetrade Pact With Eu, Mike Leffert

NotiCen

No abstract provided.

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 18, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
New Deal 2
Artistas Hispanos del WPA 3
Otro Edificio del WPA: Curry County Courthouse 4
Autores de Nuevo México 3
"Ranching in New Mexico" by David Roybal 5
"The Smallpox Epidemic of 1780-81" by Robert Tórrez 6
"Carlos Tobías Maes" by Mercedes Roybal 7,8
Otros Escritores 9
Thaddeus Lucero, Gerente del Condado de Bernalillo 10
Pensamientos del Agradecimiento 11
Una Actividad del Diccionario 12
El Idioma Apache 13
Una Leyenda Apache 14
Estaciones Agrícolas de Experimentación 15
Sustainable Energy: Solar 16
La Salud e Hispanos: Accidentes 17
La Historia de la Merced de Atrisco. Traducido …

Why Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblowers Don’T Win, Richard E. Moberly

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

Whistleblowers played a significant role in revealing and disrupting corporate malfeasance at the beginning of the 21st century, as scandals at corporations such as Enron and WorldCom came to public light through the efforts of whistleblowing employees. Subsequently, Congress recognized the importance of whistleblowing and included strong and unprecedented anti-retaliation protection for corporate employees as part of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the Act), the mammoth congressional reaction to these corporate scandals.

Despite Sarbanes-Oxley’s pro-whistleblower provisions and a few early employee victories, however, administrative decisions over the first three years of the Act’s life failed to fulfill these expectations that …

Hexapod Herald - Vol. 19, No. 5, November 2007

Hexapod Herald and Other Entomology Department Newsletters

Contents:
Congratulations
Welcome
Publications
Grants
Student News
Meet a Distance Student
Travel
Blasts from the Pasts
From the Office
An Entomological Halloween

An Administrative "Death Sentence" For Asylum Seekers: Deprivation Of Due Process Under 8 U.S.C. § 1158(D)(6)'S Frivolousness Standard, E. Lea Johnston

Washington Law Review

In 1996, Congress amended the Immigration and Nationality Act by providing a new sanction for asylum seekers: if an immigration judge makes a finding that a noncitizen has knowingly filed a fraudulent asylum application, then that person is permanently ineligible for immigration benefits. For eleven years, immigration judges, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and federal courts have imposed and reviewed this sanction without specifying a burden of proof. When it did act to fill the statutory gap in April 2007, the Board held that the government must prove the elements of the statute by a preponderance of the evidence. This …

What's Happening: November, 2007, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

No abstract provided.

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

Reactivity Of Iso-Diiodomethane And Iso-Iodoform, Isomers Of Ch2i2 And Chi3, Toward The Double Bond Of A Variety Of Cycloalkenes, Alexander N. Tarnovsky, Irmin Pascher, Torbjorn Pascher

Chemistry Faculty Publications

The metastable CH2I-I and CHI2-I isomers formed by UV photolysis of CH2I2, and CHI3 transfer methylene and iodomethylene groups, respectively, to a variety of cycloalkenes, leading to their cyclopropanation. More than a 100-fold increase of the reaction rate with increasing solvent polarity suggests a dipolar transition state. The fastest second-order rates observed were in CH3CN. However, CH2Cl2 will be the more appropriate reaction medium because the isomer thermal stability is greater in CH2Cl2 than in the more polar CH3CN.

Reinventing The Self: Native American Women's Autobiographies, Kristin Lynn Rozzell

English Dissertations - Archive

Native American women's autobiographies are complex writings that stretch the very genre itself. As the genre of autobiography is reinvented by both early and contemporary texts, the nature of self expression through that genre is also reinvented. With Leslie Marmon Silko's inventive 1981 autobiography Storyteller as the guide post for what an autobiography can be, I examine other autobiographies by Native American women that come before and after this work, naming some works autobiographies for the first time. Naming a work an autobiography gives credence to the autobiographer's chosen means of writing her life. Native American women reveal who they …

Frantic Fathers And Misplaced Mothers: Hegemonic Patriarchal Reinforcement Of The Traditional Family In American Film, Teriann Gaston Blaisdell

English Dissertations - Archive

Movies play an integral part in the formation of cultural identity and therefore should be subject to critical examination. This study examines the roles of mothers and fathers in films by looking at several basic techniques used to reinforce patriarchy. The focus will be an examination of post-1990s Hollywood film with relevant background information coming from earlier Hollywood films. Films which ridicule fathers who try to take on traditional female roles are first examined. In these films it is necessary for a woman to come in and rescue the man by embracing the role she was "intended" for. Another popular …

Context-Aware Inference System To Capture Design Rationale From Legacy Mcad, Ganeshram Ramji Iyer

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Dissertations - Archive

There exist numerous design rationale systems that convert captured information into structured design rationale while providing rationale representation and retrieval. These systems woefully neglect the design rationale that is present in legacy CAD such as 2D drawings and 3D models. The dissertation addresses the issues that arise when dealing with the capture, representation and retrieval of design rationale from the 2D legacy CAD data, specifically the non-form related data (e.g. text and symbols). A definition for design rationale in the CAD domain is presented which forms the basis of the proposed approach. The approach uses a unique context-aware inference system …

Patent Coverage In Scientific And Technical Research Databases, Jan Comfort, Leena Lalwani

Publications

Patents play an important role in the research process. Yet, most recent articles about patent searching and sources of patent information focus on tools and techniques used by information professionals, not researchers. This article will compare the features of a number of research databases that provide patent information. The analysis will include a chart listing cost, dates of coverage, search strategies, and the benefits and limitations of each.

Dangerous Prescription - Talking Points, Derek Wilmott

Publications

Medications assume ever-larger roles in health care. But what do average Americans know about the FDA process? What happens when a new drug product harms consumers and what roles do the drug companies and the FDA play in approving and monitoring drugs?

Letter To A Law Student Interested In Social Justice, William P. Quigley

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

How A Bill Becomes A Law: The Story Of One Campaign's Struggle For Affordable Housing, Julie Dworkin

DePaul Journal for Social Justice

No abstract provided.

Technical Efficiency In The Indian Textiles Industry: A Nonparametric Analysis Of Firm-Level Data, Anup Kumar Bhandari, Subhash C. Ray

Economics Working Papers

The Indian textiles industry is now at the crossroads with the phasing out of quota regime that prevailed under the Multi-Fiber Agreement (MFA) until the end of 2004. In the face of a full integration of the textiles sector in the WTO, maintaining and enhancing productive efficiency is a precondition for competitiveness of the Indian firms in the new liberalized world market. In this paper we use data obtained from the Annual Survey of Industries for a number of years to measure the levels of technical efficiency in the Indian textiles industry at the firm level. We use both a …

Tax Motivated Takings, Thomas J. Miceli, Kathleen Segerson, C. F. Sirmans

Economics Working Papers

Tax motivated takings are takings by a local government aimed purely at increasing its tax base. Such an action was justified by the Supreme Court's ruling in Kelo v. New London, which allowed the use of eminent domain for a private redevelopment project on the grounds that the project promised spillover public benefits in the form of jobs and taxes. This paper argues that tax motivated takings can lead to inefficient transfers of land for the simple reason that assessed values understate owners' true values. We therefore propose a reassessment scheme that greatly reduces the risk of this sort of …

Asset Pricing With Heterogeneous Agents, Incomplete Markets And Trading Constraints, Tsvetanka Karagyozova

Economics Working Papers

The consumption capital asset pricing model is the standard economic model used to capture stock market behavior. However, empirical tests have pointed out to its inability to account quantitatively for the high average rate of return and volatility of stocks over time for plausible parameter values. Recent research has suggested that the consumption of stockholders is more strongly correlated with the performance of the stock market than the consumption of non-stockholders. We model two types of agents, non-stockholders with standard preferences and stock holders with preferences that incorporate elements of the prospect theory developed by Kahneman and Tversky (1979). In …

Midwest Guardrail System For Long-Span Culvert Application, Robert W. Bielenberg, Ronald K. Faller, John R. Rohde, Dean L. Sicking, James C. Holloway, Karla A. Polivka, John D. Reid, Erin M. Allison

Nebraska Department of Transportation: Research Reports

No abstract provided.

Uniform Particles Of Pure And Silica Coated Cholesterol, Vuk Uskoković, Egon Matijević

Pharmacy Faculty Articles and Research

Uniform crystalline colloidal cholesterol particles of narrow size distribution were obtained by precipitation. The method consisted of adding a miscible non-solvent (water) into cholesterol solutions of different alcohols and acetone, without any additives. The properties of the resulting particles depended in a sensitive way on the concentration of all reactants, temperature, pH, ionic strength, and aging time. The major observed effects were due to the solubility of cholesterol, which was strongly affected by the solvent mixture and temperature. Precipitation in 1-propanol/water system yielded stable dispersions of well-defined particles, which were used to evaluate the effects of different experimental parameters on …

Abraham Lincoln And The Development Of The "War Powers" Of The Presidency, Allen C. Guelzo

Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications

By conferring on the President the title of "commander in chief," the Constitution created an awkward and undefined area of presidential prerogative. The first President to have to confront this ambiguity was Abraham Lincoln, who developed a presidential "war powers" doctrine based on his presidential oath, the Constitution's "republican guarantee," and the necessity imposed by the novelty of a civil war. This doctrine was seriously contested in Lincoln's time by both Congress and the judiciary, and it continues to be an unresolved constitutional question in the present. But Lincoln's use of such war powers is one demonstration of how a …

Global Royalties, Ltd. V. Xcentric Ventures, Llc. Amended Complaint

Section 230 Archives

No abstract provided.

The Tempest Postcard [2007], University Of Southern Maine Department Of Theatre

Posters 2007-2008 Season

No abstract provided.