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Introduction: Critical Studies In Romanticism Today, Diane Hoeveler Nov 2008

Introduction: Critical Studies In Romanticism Today, Diane Hoeveler

English Faculty Research and Publications

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Correlation Between Eut Failure Levels And Esd Generator Parameters, Jayong Koo, Qing Cai, Kai Wang, J. Maas, T. Takahashi, Andrew Martwick, David Pommerenke Nov 2008

Correlation Between Eut Failure Levels And Esd Generator Parameters, Jayong Koo, Qing Cai, Kai Wang, J. Maas, T. Takahashi, Andrew Martwick, David Pommerenke

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Some system-level electrostatic discharge (ESD) tests repeat badly if different ESD generators are used. For improving repeatability, ESD generator specifications have been changed, and modified generators have been compared in a worldwide round robin test. The test showed up to 1 : 3 variations of failure levels. Multiple parameters that characterize ESD generators have been measured. This paper correlates the parameters to test result variations trying to distinguish between important and nonrelevant parameters. The transient fields show large variations among different ESD generators. A correlation has been observed in many equipment under tests (EUTs) between failure levels and the spectral …

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A Shadow Of An Idea, Myung-Chul Jung Nov 2008

A Shadow Of An Idea, Myung-Chul Jung

Theses

This story is about three cavemen’s escape from an active volcanic island. Whenever the island’s volcano begins to act up, they react to run as far away as possible from the volcano. But they cannot go beyond the shoreline to save their life. One day, the main character has had a dream of ship during taking a nap. He explains the ship to his fellow cavemen, however, he is ignored by them because they have never seen ships that float on the water. He is now faced with the additional problem of explaining his vision to them. In entering the …

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Scholarship @ Rit Fall 2008, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center Nov 2008

Scholarship @ Rit Fall 2008, Rit Libraries Publishing And Scholarship Support Center

RIT Digital Archives

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Leaving The House: The Constitutional Status Of Resignation From The House Of Representatives, Josh Chafetz Nov 2008

Leaving The House: The Constitutional Status Of Resignation From The House Of Representatives, Josh Chafetz

Duke Law Journal

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The Development And Failure Of Social Norms In Second Life, Phillip Stoup Nov 2008

The Development And Failure Of Social Norms In Second Life, Phillip Stoup

Duke Law Journal

This Note analyzes the development and efficacy of social norms in maximizing the welfare of participants in the virtual community of Second Life. Although some of these norms developed appropriately in response to the objectives and purposes of this virtual world, Second Life is so thoroughly steeped in conditions that have impeded the development of successful social norms in other communities that any system of social norms in Second Life will ultimately fail. Because social norms will likely,fail to successfully maximize resident welfare, regulatory schemes imposed both by the operators of the virtual world and by real-world governing institutions are …

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Legitimating Criminal Justice Through Community Engagement: Lessons From The Jury Experience, Mark Findlay Nov 2008

Legitimating Criminal Justice Through Community Engagement: Lessons From The Jury Experience, Mark Findlay

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

Fundamentally justifying the jury is the opportunity it provides for community participation in criminal justice and the legitimation function that offers. Indeed, a strong political motivation for the recent introduction of jury trial in several transitional jurisdictions is the public confidence it transfers to the system at large. Recent research on juror comprehension and satisfaction suggests the possibility of interrogating the participation/confidence nexus more intricately. This note argues that it is the quality of the participation and the participant satisfaction which eventuates that predicts juror confidence. Where the legitimacy of criminal justice through juror participation is to be maximised then …

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Bias And Controversy In Evaluation Systems, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ee Peng Lim, Ke Wang Nov 2008

Bias And Controversy In Evaluation Systems, Hady Wirawan Lauw, Ee Peng Lim, Ke Wang

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Evaluation is prevalent in real life. With the advent of Web 2.0, online evaluation has become an important feature in many applications that involve information (e.g., video, photo, and audio) sharing and social networking (e.g., blogging). In these evaluation settings, a set of reviewers assign scores to a set of objects. As part of the evaluation analysis, we want to obtain fair reviews for all the given objects. However, the reality is that reviewers may deviate in their scores assigned to the same object, due to the potential bias of reviewers or controversy of objects. The statistical approach of averaging …

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Profile-Guided Program Simplification For Effective Testing And Analysis, Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su Nov 2008

Profile-Guided Program Simplification For Effective Testing And Analysis, Lingxiao Jiang, Zhendong Su

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Many testing and analysis techniques have been developed for inhouse use. Although they are effective at discovering defects before a program is deployed, these techniques are often limited due to the complexity of real-world code and thus miss program faults. It will be the users of the program who eventually experience failures caused by the undetected faults. To take advantage of the large number of program runs carried by the users, recent work has proposed techniques to collect execution profiles from the users for developers to perform post-deployment failure analysis. However, in order to protect users' privacy and to reduce …

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Connecting The Dots Within: Creative Performance And Identity Integration, Chi-Ying Cheng, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fion Lee Nov 2008

Connecting The Dots Within: Creative Performance And Identity Integration, Chi-Ying Cheng, Jeffrey Sanchez-Burks, Fion Lee

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

In two studies drawing from social identity theory and the creative-cognition approach, we found that higher levels of identity integration - perceived compatibility between two social identities - predict higher levels of creative performance in tasks that draw on both identity-relevant knowledge domains. Study 1 showed that Asian Americans with higher identity integration were more creative in developing new dishes using a given set of ingredients, but only when both Asian and American ingredients were available. Study 2 showed that female engineers with higher identity integration were more creative in designing a product, but only when the product was targeted …

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Vulnerability, Resilience And Well-Being Of Intermarriage: An Ethnographic Approach To Korean Women, Jang-Ae Yang, Kyoung-Ho Shin Nov 2008

Vulnerability, Resilience And Well-Being Of Intermarriage: An Ethnographic Approach To Korean Women, Jang-Ae Yang, Kyoung-Ho Shin

Journal of International Women's Studies

Korean women who immigrate into the U.S. following their American husbands face a harsh reality. A new Korean wife and American husband may find themselves in unfamiliar situations that expose their marital life to vulnerability and cause their marriage to end quickly. This study endeavors to describe the diverse patterns of inequality in the marital life of select couples, and the resilience that Korean women display in their American lives after marital crises, such as divorce. The study also explores the relationship between “social factors,” including financial status, familial relations, age, activities in the community, and the situation of “psychosocial …

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Book Review: Gender And Career In Japan, Cecilia Manrique Nov 2008

Book Review: Gender And Career In Japan, Cecilia Manrique

Journal of International Women's Studies

Review of Gender and Career in Japan, edited by Atsuko Suzuki, translated by Leonie R. Stickland

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The Battle Of Morgarten In 1315: An Essential Incident In The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler Nov 2008

The Battle Of Morgarten In 1315: An Essential Incident In The Founding Of The Swiss State, Albert Winkler

Faculty Publications

In 1315 Leopold I of the Habsburg family led an army invaded the early Swiss states of Uri, Schwyz, and Unterwalden. Leopold’s army was typical feudal force and included many knights on horseback. The Swiss states were largely free peasants who were developing infantry tactics, and the conflict with the Habsburgs was in part a social conflict. In one of the most stunning and lopsided military victories in history, the Swiss overwhelmed and routed Leopold’s army at the Pass at Morgarten. Within days, the victorious Swiss states concluded the Pact of Brunnen which was a major step in cooperation between …

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The Boat Is Full: Swiss Asylum Denied. Markus Imhoof, Director. Switzerland: 1981, Richard Hacken Nov 2008

The Boat Is Full: Swiss Asylum Denied. Markus Imhoof, Director. Switzerland: 1981, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

Das Boot ist voll (sometimes translated as "The Lifeboat is Full"), directed by Markus lmhoof, is a notable accomplishment in Swiss cinema of the late 20111 century. It received the Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Single Achievement in 1981 at the Berlin International Film Festival, and the following year it was nominated for an Academy Award in the category of Best Foreign Film. These honors presumably sprang not merely from recognition of Imhoof' s courage in recalibrating the past, in putting an alternate face on the Holocaust, and in documenting Swiss refugee policies during the Second World War. These are …

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Propositional Knowledge And Know-How, John N. Williams Nov 2008

Propositional Knowledge And Know-How, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper is roughly in two parts. The first deals with whether know-how is constituted by propositional knowledge, as discussed primarily by Gilbert Ryle (1949) The concept of mind. London: Hutchinson, Jason Stanley and Timothy Williamson (2001). Knowing how. Journal of Philosophy, 98, pp. 411-444 as well as Stephen Hetherington (2006). How to know that knowledge-that is knowledge-how. In S. Hetherington (Ed.) Epistemology futures. Oxford: Oxford University Press. The conclusion of this first part is that know-how sometimes does and sometimes does not consist in propositional knowledge. The second part defends an analysis of know-how inspired by Katherine Hawley' (2003). …

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Changes In Women's Choice Of Dress Across The Ovulatory Cycle: Naturalistic And Laboratory Task-Based Evidence, Kristina M. Durante, Norman P. Li, Martie G. Haselton Nov 2008

Changes In Women's Choice Of Dress Across The Ovulatory Cycle: Naturalistic And Laboratory Task-Based Evidence, Kristina M. Durante, Norman P. Li, Martie G. Haselton

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The authors tested the prediction that women prefer clothing that is more revealing and sexy when fertility is highest within the ovulatory cycle. Eighty-eight women reported to the lab twice: once on a low-fertility day of the cycle and once on a high-fertility day (confirmed using hormone tests). In each session, participants posed for full-body photographs in the clothing they wore to the lab, and they drew illustrations to indicate an outfit they would wear to a social event that evening. Although each data source supported the prediction, the authors found the most dramatic changes in clothing choice in the …

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Beware Of Radical Change: China’S Agrarian Revolution, John A. Donaldson, Forrest Q. Zhang Nov 2008

Beware Of Radical Change: China’S Agrarian Revolution, John A. Donaldson, Forrest Q. Zhang

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

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Interactive Effects Of Multicultural Experiences And Openness To Experience On Creativity, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Chi-Yue Chiu Nov 2008

Interactive Effects Of Multicultural Experiences And Openness To Experience On Creativity, Angela K.-Y. Leung, Chi-Yue Chiu

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Extensiveness of multicultural experiences and Openness to Experience were used to predict European American undergraduates' performance on two measures of creative potential: (a) generation of unusual uses of garbage bags and (b) retrieval of nonprototypical or normatively inaccessible exemplars in the conceptual domain of occupation. The results showed that having extensive multicultural experiences predicted better performance on both measures of creative potential only among participants who were open to experience. Among those who were not open, having more extensive multicultural experiences was associated with a lower level of creative potential. Implications of these findings for promoting creativity in schools are …

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Growth Is Good For Whom, When, How? Economic Growth And Poverty Reduction In Exceptional Cases, John A. Donaldson Nov 2008

Growth Is Good For Whom, When, How? Economic Growth And Poverty Reduction In Exceptional Cases, John A. Donaldson

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Economic growth and liberal economic policies often help the poor, but what about the numerous cases in which they do not? This article analyzes two types of cases: those in which income growth of the poor was significantly lower than expectations (negative exceptions) and those in which income growth of the poor significantly exceeded expectations (positive exceptions). Insights from these cases inform our theoretical understanding of poverty reduction. In addition, this article contributes a typology of strategies used in these cases, including alternative pathways to economic growth and neoliberal prescriptions for poverty reduction.

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Originalism's Expiration Date, Adam M. Samaha Nov 2008

Originalism's Expiration Date, Adam M. Samaha

Public Law and Legal Theory Working Papers

The Constitution of the United States declares itself supreme law, but even the amended document is ancient. By 2008, the predicted age of a randomly selected word in this text reached 178 years. The judiciary, for its part, might not interpret the text until decades after ratification. For Article V amendments, the average lag between ratification and Supreme Court interpretation has been about 40 years. The question is how these features of our supreme law might influence the choice of interpretive method and, ultimately, constitutional decision-making. In particular, some scholars indicate that originalism may be a strong force in adjudication …

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Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 19, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited Nov 2008

Revista Digital Amigos - Vol 19, Número 3, Aspectos Culturales, Semos Unlimited

Amigos Revista Digital

Cover 1
Contenido 2
Día de Dar Gracias 1
Aprender a Dar Gracias por Lunay 3
Fiestas Mexicanas, Día de la Revolución 4,5
Nuevo México: A New Mexico History Anthology 1
más de Dos Billones de Años de la Historia Geológica en Nuevo México por el Dr. Spencer Lucas 6
Genealogía 1
Genealogy of Kenneth Salazar by Dr. Ronald Maestas et al 7
Líderes 3
Nivel Nacional: Kenneth Salazar 8
Nivel Estatal: Patrick Lyons: Comisionado de Terrenos Públicos 9
Funds Generated by State Trust Lands 10
Gobierno 1
Comités de la Legislatura en Nuevo México 11
Juegos/Idioma 1
Juegos para …

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Beyond Semantic Search: What You Observe May Not Be What You Think, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xiaoyong Wei, Wanlei Zhao, Feng Wang, Xiao Wu, Hung-Khoon Tan Nov 2008

Beyond Semantic Search: What You Observe May Not Be What You Think, Chong-Wah Ngo, Yu-Gang Jiang, Xiaoyong Wei, Wanlei Zhao, Feng Wang, Xiao Wu, Hung-Khoon Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

This paper presents our approaches and results of the four TRECVID 2008 tasks we participated in: high-level feature extraction, automatic video search, video copy detection, and rushes summarization

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A Neural Network Model For A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Memory, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Luping Shi, Jianming Li, Kian Guan Lim, Zhi Ping Ang, Chong Chong Tow Nov 2008

A Neural Network Model For A Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Memory, Kiruthika Ramanathan, Luping Shi, Jianming Li, Kian Guan Lim, Zhi Ping Ang, Chong Chong Tow

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The architecture of the human cortex is uniform and hierarchical in nature. In this paper, we build upon works on hierarchical classification systems that model the cortex to develop a neural network representation for a hierarchical spatio-temporal memory (HST-M) system. The system implements spatial and temporal processing using neural network architectures. We have tested the algorithms developed against both the MLP and the Hierarchical Temporal Memory algorithms. Our results show definite improvement over MLP and are comparable to the performance of HTM.

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Model-Driven Remote Attestation: Attesting Remote System From Behavioral Aspect, Liang Gu, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Yanzhen Zou, Bing Xie, Weizhong Shao, Hong Mei Nov 2008

Model-Driven Remote Attestation: Attesting Remote System From Behavioral Aspect, Liang Gu, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Yanzhen Zou, Bing Xie, Weizhong Shao, Hong Mei

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Remote attestation was introduced in TCG specifications to determine whether a remote system is trusted to behave in a particular manner for a specific purpose; however, most of the existing approaches attest only the integrity state of a remote system and hence have a long way to go in achieving the above attestation objective. Behavior-based attestation and semantic attestation were recently introduced as solutions to approach the TCG attestation objective. In this paper, we extend behavior-based attestation to a model-driven remote attestation to prove that a remote system is trusted as defined by TCG. Our model-driven remote attestation verifies two …

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2nd Asian Preventive Cardiology And Cardiac Rehabilitation Conference Cum 7th Certificate Course In Cardiac Rehabilitation Nov 2008

2nd Asian Preventive Cardiology And Cardiac Rehabilitation Conference Cum 7th Certificate Course In Cardiac Rehabilitation

Journal of the Hong Kong College of Cardiology

No abstract provided.

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Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 12, Issue 01, November 2008, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program Nov 2008

Otras Perspectivas (Other Perspectives), Volume 12, Issue 01, November 2008, Occupational Therapy Graduate Program

OTras Perspectivas: UNM Occupational Therapy Program Newsletter

Acknowledging that the success of the Occupational Therapy Program hinges on the mutual investment of community and friends beyond the local community, the UNM Occupational Therapy Program faculty and staff have initiated this newsletter. The goal is to provide an additional forum for communication, and provide updates about the program's development, faculty, students, alumni, and friends.

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The 1525 Cromberger Crónica Del Cid: From Press To Lap, Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno Nov 2008

The 1525 Cromberger Crónica Del Cid: From Press To Lap, Anthony Cárdenas-Rotunno

Research Papers

In light of the 800th anniversary and celebration of the Poema de mio Cid, this study takes into consideration the 1525 version of the Cid legend titled Crónica del muy esforçado cavallero el Cid Ruy Díaz Campeador, exemplar R/26575 of the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid. It examines the relationship of woodcuts to text, the relationship of the 1525 version to other versions of the Crónica del Cid as these texts are generally known; and finally discusses notions of diffusion and canonicity as regards this particular work, suggesting that this work, along with other Cidian chronicles may have had more to …

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Spatial Data And Analysis Committee Documents, Long Term Ecological Research Network Nov 2008

Spatial Data And Analysis Committee Documents, Long Term Ecological Research Network

Long Term Ecological Research Network

No abstract provided.

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A Variable-Order Flom Algorithm For Heavy-Tailed Clutter Suppression, Y. Rosa Zheng Nov 2008

A Variable-Order Flom Algorithm For Heavy-Tailed Clutter Suppression, Y. Rosa Zheng

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The normalized fractionally-lower order moment (FLOM) algorithm exhibits fast convergence but high excess mean squared error (MSE) when the order is less than 2. This paper proposes a method using variable order moments to adaptively changing the order during adaptation, thus achieving both fast initial convergence and low excess MSE in the steady state. The algorithm is applied to both Gaussian and heavy-tailed non-Gaussian clutter suppression in phased array applications. The results show better performances of the proposed algorithm over the normalized FLOM and normalized Least Mean Square (NLMS) algorithms. The proposed algorithm also performs well in other adaptive filtering …

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Toska, Nation, And Religion In Russia: An Ethnography Of Three Informants Interested In Religion, Daniel Gavin Washburn Nov 2008

Toska, Nation, And Religion In Russia: An Ethnography Of Three Informants Interested In Religion, Daniel Gavin Washburn

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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