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Benign Partisanship, Franita Tolson

Notre Dame Law Review

The article focuses on the partisan gerrymandering, a political safeguard of federalism created by the U.S. Constitution to protect the regulatory interests of states and to reflect the partisan affiliation of the electorate. It discusses the judicial standards for the institutional legitimacy and political outcomes of the federalism issues. The article mentions the benefits of partisan gerrymandering that facilitates the state-federal relationship through delegation on national legislation.

Iaims Planning Grant For The, Holly Buchanan, Fred Hashimoto, Sally Bowler-Hill

Historical and Administrative Collection

Since 2000, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center (UNMHSC) has been implementing an IAIMS planning grant (1G08LM06755-01A1) and preparing the next stage of IAIMS development, including submission of an operations grant(s). The original time frame of the grant was February 1, 2000 through January 31, 2002; a no-cost extension was received, and the award period was extended through January 31, 2003. This report details the major aims of the project, as specified by Principal Investigator Holly Shipp Buchanan, EdD, and Co-Investigator Fred Hashimoto, MD, in their original proposal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). This narrative is …

Unm Hslic Strategic Plan For Knowledge Management And Information Technology, Fy2008-Fy2010, Holly Buchanan

HSLIC Strategic Plans

The purpose of this document is to provide the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Centers Knowledge Management and Information Technology (KMIT) councils and committees with near-term and long range operational goals for FY2008 - FY2010 that support the mission of the Health Sciences Center (HSC) and the University of New Mexico (UNM) as a whole. Specifically, they support the development of an IT infrastructure for statewide outreach and the continued development of state-of-theart technology to enhance educational and research programs.

Impact Of Late Payment On Firms' Profitability: Empirical Evidence From Malaysia, S Paul, Ss Devi, Cg Teh

Plymouth Business School

No abstract provided.

Module 2: Greenhouse Gas Effect - Project: Training Educators For The Development Of Educational Activities On Climate Change, Miguel Fernández F., Iris Guzmán O., Tania Vázquez V., Ana María Michel V., Gladys Rojas P., Noelia Cerruto T., Juan Carlos Parra B., Marcelo Torrez S.

Educational Materials on Latin American Energy

This document provides detailed information and an explanation of the Greenhouse Gas Effect and its associated cycles.

Video Hyperlinking: Libraries And Tools For Threading And Visualizing Large Video Collection, Lei Pang, Wei Zhang, Hung-Khoon Tan, Chong-Wah Ngo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

While HTML documents could be effortlessly hyperlinked by markup tags, creation of the hyperlinks for multimedia objects is by no means easy due to the involvement of various visual processing units and intensive computational overhead. This paper introduces an open source, named VIREO-VH, which provides end-to-end support for creating hyperlinks to thread and visualize collections of videos. The software components include video pre-processing, bag-ofwords based inverted file indexing for scalable near-duplicate keyframe search, localization of partial near-duplicate segments, and galaxy visualization of video collection. The open source has been internally used by VIREO research team since 2007, and was evolved …

Predicting Domain Adaptivity: Redo Or Recycle?, Ting Yao, Chong-Wah Ngo, Shiai Zhu

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Over the years, the academic researchers have contributed various visual concept classifiers. Nevertheless, given a new dataset, most researchers still prefer to develop large number of classifiers from scratch despite expensive labeling efforts and limited computing resources. A valid question is why not multimedia community “embrace the green” and recycle off-the-shelf classifiers for new dataset. The difficulty originates from the domain gap that there are many different factors that govern the development of a classifier and eventually drive its performance to emphasize certain aspects of dataset. Reapplying a classifier to an unseen dataset may end up GIGO (garbage in, garbage …

Us Presidential Election 2012 Prediction Using Census Corrected Twitter Model, Junyu Choy, Michelle L. F. Cheong, Nang Laik Ma, Ping Shung Koo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

US Presidential Election 2012 has been a very tight race between the two key candidates. Therewere intense battle between the two key candidates. The election reflects the sentiment of theelectorate towards the achievements of the incumbent President Obama. The campaign lastedseveral months and the effects can be felt in the internet and twitter. The presidential debatesinjected new vigor in the challenger's campaign and successfully captured the electorate of severalstates posing a threat to the incumbent's position. Much of the sentiment in the election has beencaptured in the online discussions. In this paper, we will be using the original model described …

Divad: A Dynamic And Interactive Visual Analytical Dashboard For Exploring And Analyzing Transport Data, Tin Seong Kam, Ketan Barshikar, Shaun Jun Hua Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

The advances in location-based data collection technologies such as GPS, RFID etc. and the rapid reduction of their costs provide us with a huge and continuously increasing amount of data about movement of vehicles, people and goods in an urban area. This explosive growth of geospatially-referenced data has far outpaced the planner’s ability to utilize and transform the data into insightful information thus creating an adverse impact on the return on the investment made to collect and manage this data. Addressing this pressing need, we designed and developed DIVAD, a dynamic and interactive visual analytics dashboard to allow city planners …

Multiview Semi-Supervised Learning With Consensus, Guangxia Li, Kuiyu Chang, Steven C. H. Hoi

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Obtaining high-quality and up-to-date labeled data can be difficult in many real-world machine learning applications. Semi-supervised learning aims to improve the performance of a classifier trained with limited number of labeled data by utilizing the unlabeled ones. This paper demonstrates a way to improve the transductive SVM, which is an existing semi-supervised learning algorithm, by employing a multiview learning paradigm. Multiview learning is based on the fact that for some problems, there may exist multiple perspectives, so called views, of each data sample. For example, in text classification, the typical view contains a large number of raw content features such …

A Unified Learning Framework For Auto Face Annotation By Mining Web Facial Images, Dayong Wang, Steven C. H. Hoi, Ying He

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Auto face annotation plays an important role in many real-world multimedia information and knowledge management systems. Recently there is a surge of research interests in mining weakly-labeled facial images on the internet to tackle this long-standing research challenge in computer vision and image understanding. In this paper, we present a novel unified learning framework for face annotation by mining weakly labeled web facial images through interdisciplinary efforts of combining sparse feature representation, content-based image retrieval, transductive learning and inductive learning techniques. In particular, we first introduce a new search-based face annotation paradigm using transductive learning, and then propose an effective …

Reading The Tea Leaves: Proto-Insurgency In Honduras, John D. Waghelstein

CIWAG Case Studies

(IWS/04 - Irregular Warfare Studies, book 4)

This case is about an insurgency that apparently had all the essentials for success but never transitioned beyond Phase One, the proto-insurgency phase. According to Daniel Byman, the success or failure of a proto-insurgency depends in large part on the reaction of the state. This case examines a wide range of issues that worked against the Honduran governments success at extirpating the insurgency, including institutional indifference and preoccupation with external threats on the part of the Honduran Army, bureaucratic inertia on the part of the American in- country entities, and turf sensitivity by …

Chapman Percussion Ensemble, Chapman Percussion Ensemble

Printed Performance Programs (PDF Format)

No abstract provided.

High Prevalence Of Subclinical Atherosclerosis By Carotid Ultrasound Among Mexican Americans: Discordance With 10-Year Risk Assessment Using The Framingham Risk Score, Susan T. Laing, Beverly Smulevitz, Kristina Vatcheva, Anne R. Rentfro, David D. Mcpherson, Susan P. Fisher-Hoch, Joseph B. Mccormick

School of Mathematical & Statistical Sciences Faculty Publications

Background: Framingham risk scores (FRS) were validated in a mostly Caucasian population. Evaluation of subclinical atherosclerosis by carotid ultrasound may improve ascertainment of risk in nonwhite populations. This study aimed to evaluate carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) and carotid plaquing among Mexican Americans, and to correlate these markers with coronary risk factors and the FRS.

Methods/results: Participants (n = 141) were drawn from the Cameron County Hispanic Cohort. Carotid artery ultrasound was performed and cIMT measured. Carotid plaque was defined as areas of thickening >50% of the thickness of the surrounding walls. Mean age was 53.1 ± 11.7 years (73.8% female). …

Tenuous Bridges Over The Iron Curtain: Mennonite Central Committee Work In Eastern Europe From 1966 To 1991, Mark Jantzen

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Ree And Caree: A Retrospective, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

No abstract provided.

Law Deans In Jail , Morgan Cloud, George Shepherd

Missouri Law Review

A most unlikely collection of suspects – law schools, their deans, U.S. News & World Report and its employees – may have committed felonies by publishing false information as part of U.S. News’ ranking of law schools. The possible federal felonies include mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, and making false statements. Employees of law schools and U.S. News who committed these crimes can be punished as individuals, and under federal law the schools and U.S. News would likely be criminally liable for their agents’ crimes. Some law schools and their deans submitted false information about the schools’ expenditures and …

What's It To You: The First Amendment And Matters Of Public Concern , Mark Strasser

Missouri Law Review

This Article traces the development of the “matters of public concern” doctrine, explaining the role that the concept has played in cases ranging from defamation3 to employment termination to publication of (allegedly) private facts.4 The Article discusses various inconsistencies in the Court’s jurisprudence, both with respect to what counts as a matter of public concern5 and with respect to the relative importance of the protection of such matters. 6 It concludes that the current jurisprudence cannot help but cause confusion and inconsistent results in the lower courts and must be clarified at the earliest opportunity. 7

Tennessee Farm Bureau News - November 2012, Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation

Tennessee Farm Bureau News

No abstract provided.

Friends Of Hearst Castle: Creating A Social Media Plan Using Public Relations Strategies For A Nonprofit, Amy Jean Checho

Journalism

Nonprofits, like Friends of Hearst Castle, understand the importance of social media use such as Facebook. However, many times Facebook messages are inconsistent and the multiple channels of social media are overwhelming. A Social Media Strategy or Plan can help nonprofits communicate their goals effectively and efficiently, with more success than before. This project discusses the best ways nonprofits can maximize their Facebook usage. Facebook is an easy way for nonprofits to communicate with their target audiences and have consistent communication. Friends of Hearst Castle was the nonprofit I worked with to help create and implement a Social Media Plan. …

Acute Stress Influences Neural Circuits Of Reward Processing, Anthony J. Porcelli, Andrea H. Lewis, Mauricio R. Delgado

Psychology Faculty Research and Publications

People often make decisions under aversive conditions such as acute stress. Yet, less is known about the process in which acute stress can influence decision-making. A growing body of research has established that reward-related information associated with the outcomes of decisions exerts a powerful influence over the choices people make and that an extensive network of brain regions, prominently featuring the striatum, is involved in the processing of this reward-related information. Thus, an important step in research on the nature of acute stress’ influence over decision-making is to examine how it may modulate responses to rewards and punishments within reward …

The Grizzly, November 1, 2012, Jessica Orbon, Sara Sherr, Matthew Johnston, Michael D'Amico, Michael Klazas, Vivek Reddy, Larissa Coyne, Olivia Z. Schultz, Rachel Brown, Allen Weaver, Brett Hillsberg, Dave Muoio, John Parry, Anthony Sierzega, Kaitlyn Ott, Jordan Demcher

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Search for Student Activities • Presidential Debate Wrap-Up • Staff Editorial • Homecoming 2012 • 24-Hour Play Set to Begin Friday • Departments Revise Curriculums • Students Prepare for November 6 Election • Campus Radio Grows • Up 'Til Dawn Fights Kids' Cancer • Opinion: Presidential Candidates Head to Head; No Matter Political Affiliation, College Students Need to Vote; Reaction to Sports Opinion Piece • Football Falls to JHU

“I Am An American”: Communicating Refugee Identity And Citizenship, Brett J. Craig

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

This study examines the messages in a citizenship preparation class being utilized by refugees and instructors. Through an ethnographic study of a citizenship class at an urban community center in a Midwestern city, an examination of these messages reveals assimilationist expectations and norms for refugees adjusting to American society. Responses from the refugees reveal how these messages are being either accepted or resisted as they negotiate new identities. A contradiction was found between what the citizenship class teaches and the perceptions of refugees regarding the meanings of American citizenship. In particular, refugees reported to often face a difficult situation in …

Tearing At The Seams Of (In)Visibility: Anti-Counterfeiting, Harper’S Bazaar, And The Project Of Neocolonization, Jessica A. Solyom

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

This essay examines the role of the (counterfeit) fashion industry in shaping democracy, citizenship, and human rights ideals in the United States. Using the Harper's Bazaar “Fakes are Never in Fashion” anti-counterfeiting advertisement campaign as a case study, I explore how race, class, gender, law, and human rights discourse, coalesce to systematically maintain exploited garment workers voiceless/rights-less while simultaneously preserving the material interest(s) of a White, capitalist, patriarchal, hegemonic global order. This study presents important implications for larger discussions of rights and justice. Ultimately, this campaign demonstrates how, through the creation of a self-regulatory system that seeks to control the …

Struggling With The Freshman Fifteen: College Students’ Recollections Of Parents’ Memorable Messages About Weight, Charee M. Thompson, Sarah T. Zaitchik

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

Considering the college years are considered a critical time in one’s life for changes in diet and exercise behavior and an increase in weight gain, this study explored the significant and impactful communication between college students and their parents during this transitional period. Using open-ended responses to an online questionnaire (N = 222), we explored the Memorable Messages (Knapp, Stohl, & Reardon, 1981) college students recall receiving from their parents about overweight and obesity. Students’ responses demonstrate that not only is weight a difficult topic to talk about, but it is also a difficult issue for people to manage on …

Tales Of Gaijin: Health Privacy Perspectives Of Foreign English Teachers In Japan, Nathaniel Simmons

Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research

In order to understand the health experiences of Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) of English in Japan, I conducted ten in-depth interviews with native English-speaking ALTs in Japan. Throughout the interviews, ALTs expressed strong privacy concerns, perceived violations, and ways in which they managed privacy boundaries. Through reflexive thematic analysis (Lindlof & Taylor, 2002), I utilized Petronio’s (1991, 2000, 2002) Communication Privacy Management theory as a lens to make sense of ALTs’ privacy management. ALTs not only identified private information they concealed from their supervisor and coworkers, potential resources of assistance, but they revealed factors that influence their privacy boundary management …

The Elusive Role Of The Specification In Patent Claim Construction, Mohammad Nilforoush

Intellectual Property Brief

No abstract provided.

Response To Richard Bernstein, Michael Simmons Jr.

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Excellence And The Basics, Maxine Greene

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.

Consequences Of The Educational Policies And Program Of The Reagan Administration, Gordon Cawelti

Education and Culture

No abstract provided.