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An Investigation Into Feature Selection For Oncological Survival Prediction, Dmitry Strunkin, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher Jan 2012

An Investigation Into Feature Selection For Oncological Survival Prediction, Dmitry Strunkin, Brian Mac Namee, John D. Kelleher

Conference papers

In machine learning based clinical decision support (CDS) systems the features used to train prediction models are of paramount importance. Strong features will lead to accurate models, whereas as weak features will have the opposite effect. Feature sets can either be designed by domain experts, or automatically extracted for unstructured data that happens to be available from some process other than a CDS system. This paper compares the usefulness of structured expert-designed features to features extracted from unstructured data sources in an oncological survival prediction application scenario.

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Software Architectural Support For Tangible User Interfaces In Distributed, Heterogeneous Computing Environments, Cornelius Toole Jan 2012

Software Architectural Support For Tangible User Interfaces In Distributed, Heterogeneous Computing Environments, Cornelius Toole

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This research focuses on tools that support the development of tangible interaction-based applications for distributed computing environments. Applications built with these tools are capable of utilizing heterogeneous resources for tangible interaction and can be reconfigured for different contexts with minimal code changes. Current trends in computing, especially in areas such as computational science, scientific visualization and computer supported collaborative work, foreshadow increasing complexity, distribution and remoteness of computation and data. These trends imply that tangible interface developers must address concerns of both tangible interaction design and networked distributed computing. In this dissertation, we present a software architecture that supports separation …

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Discipline And Discharge Of Public-Sector Employees: An Empirical Study Of Arbitration Awards, Laura J. Cooper Jan 2012

Discipline And Discharge Of Public-Sector Employees: An Empirical Study Of Arbitration Awards, Laura J. Cooper

Articles

Commentators frequently assert that government employees enjoy a level of protection from discharge far greater than privatesector employees, and, indeed, that government employers are actually unable to fire public employees who perform poorly or engage in misconduct. For example, author Mortimer B. Zuckerman maintained in a 2010 U.S. News & World Report article that there were "two Americas" with a division that "affronts a sense of fairness" between the protections afforded public-sector workers and those available to workers in the private sector.1 He stated, "it is almost impossible to fire government workers except after a long process and only for …

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Applying International Human Rights Standards To The Restraint And Seclusion Of Students With Disabilities, David Weissbrodt, Willy Madeira, Daniel Stewart, William Dikel Jan 2012

Applying International Human Rights Standards To The Restraint And Seclusion Of Students With Disabilities, David Weissbrodt, Willy Madeira, Daniel Stewart, William Dikel

Articles

No federal law in the United States prohibits school administrators from physically restraining or secluding students. 1 State laws diverge widely. 2 Unlike in medical, psychiatric, and law enforcement settings, where strict national standards govern the use of physical restraint and seclusion, many schools may have no, or inconsistent, guidelines to follow in deciding when the use of force upon students is appropriate. 3 This lack of industry-approved protocol and standardized training of school personnel makes restraint and seclusion susceptible to misapplication and abuse. 4

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Advancing Feminist Positioning In The Field Of Transitional Justice, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin Jan 2012

Advancing Feminist Positioning In The Field Of Transitional Justice, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

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Families Now: What We Don't Know Is Hurting Us, Judith T. Younger Jan 2012

Families Now: What We Don't Know Is Hurting Us, Judith T. Younger

Articles

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Public-Sector Employment Under Siege, Stephen F. Befort Jan 2012

Public-Sector Employment Under Siege, Stephen F. Befort

Articles

This article was prepared for a symposium at Indiana University Maurer School of Law on Labor and Employment Law under the Obama Administration. The article analyzes the current spate of attacks on public employees with particular reference to three sub-topics: teacher tenure and evaluation “reform,” the periodic cycles of public sector fiscal crises, and the unilateral modification of public sector collective bargaining agreements. The article concludes with the assessment that cyclical attacks on public sector workers reflect a skewed viewpoint that public employees owe first-class obligations but possess only second-class rights.

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Cercla, State Law, And Federalism In The 21st Century, Alexandra B. Klass Jan 2012

Cercla, State Law, And Federalism In The 21st Century, Alexandra B. Klass

Articles

This essay discusses the continuing role of state statutory and common law remedies for remediating contaminated property at a time where federal liability under the Comprehensive Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) has, after thirty years, become an established part of the legal and business landscape. In recent years, a growing number of courts have struggled with the extent to which CERCLA does or should preempt or displace state statutory or common law governing claims for recovering costs associated with contaminated property. This essay begins with the premise that the language of CERCLA as well as general principles of federalism …

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Bankers Behaving Badly? The Limits Of Regulatory Reform, Claire Hill Jan 2012

Bankers Behaving Badly? The Limits Of Regulatory Reform, Claire Hill

Articles

We may finally be emerging from a "Great Recession." But the economy remains quite fragile. What bankers did was an important cause of the recession. They structured, sold and bought "toxic" securities, taking excessive risks with other people's money. Sometimes they did so recklessly, because they did not sufficiently understand the securities. Other times, they did understand the securities, and sold them to those who didn't, sometimes omitting much relevant information. Some evidence suggests that bankers knew the quality of mortgages being securitized was plummeting; indeed, given the dramatically increasing volume of mortgages being securitized, they had to at least …

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Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities For Small And Nimble Cities Participating In State, Regional, National, And International Networks, Hari M. Osofsky Jan 2012

Suburban Climate Change Efforts: Possibilities For Small And Nimble Cities Participating In State, Regional, National, And International Networks, Hari M. Osofsky

Articles

This Article provides a novel analysis of the capacity of suburbs to play a constructive role in addressing climate change. Small suburban cities represent the majority of metropolitan populations and emissions; encouraging their mitigation efforts, in addition to those of large center cities, is critical. In contrast to the conventional critique of suburbs as an undifferentiated group of sprawling emitters, the Article analyzes pathways for different types of small, nimble, suburban governments to learn from other localities and find cost-effective approaches to reducing emissions. It intertwines scholarship on (1) cities, suburbs, and climate change, (2) the complex demography of suburbs, …

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Theories Of Contract Law And Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments On Charles Fried, Brian H. Bix Jan 2012

Theories Of Contract Law And Enforcing Promissory Morality: Comments On Charles Fried, Brian H. Bix

Articles

This article considers two important themes connected with Charles Fried’s great work, "Contract as Promise": first, the nature of the theoretical claims in that book; and second, the question of whether contract law, especially when this area is equated with the enforcement of promises, is in tension with John Stuart Mill’s “Harm Principle.” While in the end I do not think that Fried's book makes out its apparent ambition of a promissory theory of contract law (or of American contract law), this is largely because the book's claims, when more carefully scrutinized, were never that ambitious to begin with. What …

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Can Recidivism Be Influenced By Architecture?, Kelly Sager Jan 2012

Can Recidivism Be Influenced By Architecture?, Kelly Sager

Architecture Theses

This thesis will focus on an investigation of the question, can recidivism be influenced by architecture? The typology for this examination will be a large 113,460 sq. ft. multi-county correctional facility for convicted criminals, located 7 miles south of Devils Lake, ND, on Highway 57. Theoretical Premise that guides the research is, the ability to influence the rehabilitation of the inmates, a mechanism to change the environment in which prisoners live to lower the level of violence while providing a safe work environment for the law officers that supervise the rehabilitation while inmates are incarcerated. The Project Justification use the …

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Place Of Origin: Searching For A Current Vernacular For The St. Croix River Valley, Daniel Schommer Jan 2012

Place Of Origin: Searching For A Current Vernacular For The St. Croix River Valley, Daniel Schommer

Architecture Theses

Cultures entrench themselves in the environment. Their histories are defined by it and their people are at one with it. Current architecture at times is so universally tuned out of unique regional qualities that it begs the question about regionalism and its place today. Understanding a region is best done on its own specific terms, which is why it’s paramount, in all aspects of design from development to construction, to integrate region into a built work. This thesis attempts to incorporate present-day design construction and insight into an interpretation center based on it’s natural and historically rich setting.

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Sustainability: A Holistic Approach, Ankit Rauniyar Jan 2012

Sustainability: A Holistic Approach, Ankit Rauniyar

Architecture Theses

Man’s relationship with nature started as a mutual relationship which slowly developed into man vs. nature. This altering ideology has developed humans to believe they are superior to nature. Rather than living in harmony with nature, man is now challenging nature. Man has become so self-centered that he has forgotten that he is nature, and by exploiting nature he is ultimately destroying himself.

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Body Image And Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Among University Students, Tracy L. Wright Jan 2012

Body Image And Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Among University Students, Tracy L. Wright

UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Children develop beliefs about ideal body image and carry these perceptions into adulthood. Consequences of poor body image may include decreased self-esteem, depression, unhealthy lifestyle, and eating disorders. Understanding healthy lifestyle behaviors and the relationship between body image and these behaviors can empower individuals to engage in behaviors to improve health. Pender’s health promotion model provided the theoretical framework for this study. The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between body image and healthy lifestyle behaviors among undergraduate university students. An email was sent to undergraduate students, providing a link to the survey that included: demographic, body …

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In Tribute: Frank I. Michelman, Judge Guido Calabrese, Judge Dennis Davis, Rosalind Dixon, Dieter Grimm, Patrick O. Gudridge, Martha Minnow, Margaret Jane Radin Jan 2012

In Tribute: Frank I. Michelman, Judge Guido Calabrese, Judge Dennis Davis, Rosalind Dixon, Dieter Grimm, Patrick O. Gudridge, Martha Minnow, Margaret Jane Radin

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Predictive Modeling For Navigating Social Media, Meiqun Hu Jan 2012

Predictive Modeling For Navigating Social Media, Meiqun Hu

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Social media changes the way people use the Web. It has transformed ordinary Web users from information consumers to content contributors. One popular form of content contribution is social tagging, in which users assign tags to Web resources. By the collective efforts of the social tagging community, a new information space has been created for information navigation. Navigation allows serendipitous discovery of information by examining the information objects linked to one another in the social tagging space. In this dissertation, we study prediction tasks that facilitate navigation in social tagging systems. For social tagging systems to meet complex navigation needs …

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Forecasting Inflation In Asian Economies, Freddy Chian Fatt Liew Jan 2012

Forecasting Inflation In Asian Economies, Freddy Chian Fatt Liew

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

This paper surveys the recent literature on inflation forecasting and conducts an extensive empirical analysis on forecasting inflation in Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong paying particular attention to whether the inflation-markup theory can help to forecast inflation. We first review the relative performance of different predictors in forecasting h-quarter ahead inflation using single equations. These models include the autoregressive model and bivariate Philips curve models. The predictors are selected from business activity, financial activity, trade activity, labour market, interest rate market, money market, exchange rate market and global commodity market variables. We then evaluate a vector autoregressive inflation-markup …

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Novel Techniques Of Using Diversity In Software Security And Information Hiding, Jin Han Jan 2012

Novel Techniques Of Using Diversity In Software Security And Information Hiding, Jin Han

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Diversity is an important and valuable concept that has been adopted in many fields to reduce correlated risks and to increase survivability. In information security, diversity also helps to increase both defense capability and fault tolerance for information systems and communication networks, where diversity can be adopted from many different perspectives. This dissertation, in particular, focuses mainly on two aspects of diversity – the application software diversity and the diversity in data interpretation. Software diversity has many advantages over mono-culture in improving system security. A number of previous researches focused on utilizing existing off-theshelf diverse software for network protection and …

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Testing Overreaction And Under-Reaction In The Commodity Futures Market, Jingyu Dai Jan 2012

Testing Overreaction And Under-Reaction In The Commodity Futures Market, Jingyu Dai

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Results from previous studies testing for under-reaction and overreaction in the commodity futures market are mixed and inconclusive. Using a data of more than 20 categories of future contacts ranging from agricultural, metal and energy, we have found significant evidence of under-reaction in food and agricultural commodities but not in the energy and metal sector. It is also found that those relatively inactive commodity future contracts tend to have a stronger tendency to under-react than commodity future contracts are very actively traded. The result also agrees with the behavioral hypothesis that under-reaction is caused by gradual incorporation of information among …

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Technical Analysis: An Asian Perspective, Siqin Liaw Jan 2012

Technical Analysis: An Asian Perspective, Siqin Liaw

Dissertations and Theses Collection (Open Access)

Technical analysis, namely the moving average rule and the channel rule, is applied to the currency of an Asian managed floating exchange rate regime (USD/SGD) to see if opportunities for profitable trading exist. Instead of using only daily or monthly data, higher frequency time frames of 10, 15, 30 and 60 minutes are analyzed. Profitable strategies (if any) will be broken down and analyzed within smaller time frames to see if the profits are specifically in sample.

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A Study Of Marine Benthic Algae Along A Natural Carbon Dioxide Gradient, Vivienne R Johnson Jan 2012

A Study Of Marine Benthic Algae Along A Natural Carbon Dioxide Gradient, Vivienne R Johnson

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Increasing atmospheric CO2 is causing unprecedented changes in seawater chemistry, yet the uncertainty of the ecological response to these projected changes, termed ‘ocean acidification’, remains considerable at present. To predict the effects of these changes, we need to improve our understanding of the responses of marine primary producers since these drive biogeochemical cycles and determine the structure and function of benthic habitats. The majority of experiments on the effects of ocean acidification on photoautrophs to date have mainly focused on oceanic microalgae, leaving benthic assemblages largely overlooked. Carbon dioxide vents are providing a means for examining and predicting the impacts …

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The Effects Of Manufactured Nanoparticles On Fish Physiology, Reproduction And Behaviour, Christopher Ramsden Jan 2012

The Effects Of Manufactured Nanoparticles On Fish Physiology, Reproduction And Behaviour, Christopher Ramsden

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

Over the last decade the development and use of nanomaterials (NMs) and nanoparticles (NPs) has increased at a great rate. As a result there is an ever increasing risk of exposing humans and wildlife to these potentially harmful materials. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are two of the most widely used NMs at present. Their potentially harmful effects on organisms and physicochemical properties have been investigated in a growing number of scientific studies. However understanding the level of risk they may pose is far from satisfactory. The present body of work has addressed various aspects of …

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Molecular Studies Of Karenia Mikimotoi (Dinophyceae) From The Celtic Sea Region, Manal A. Al-Kandari Jan 2012

Molecular Studies Of Karenia Mikimotoi (Dinophyceae) From The Celtic Sea Region, Manal A. Al-Kandari

School of Biological and Marine Sciences Theses

K. mikimotoi has been classified under many names and has been mis-assigned to different species and genera in the North Atlantic and Pacific because of its morphological similarities to other Gymnodinoid species. It is now known to be widely distributed, but there remain unresolved questions about whether K. mikimotoi was introduced into the North Sea from Japanese waters, or whether it has always inhabited this region and been erroneously classified as Gymnodinium spp. or has been a part of the hidden flora prior to be recognised in a bloom off the Norwegian coast in 1966. To address questions about geographical …

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Vol. 89, No. 2: Table Of Contents, Denver University Law Review Jan 2012

Vol. 89, No. 2: Table Of Contents, Denver University Law Review

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

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A New Take On The Top Ten Rules For Court And Professional Life, Mimi E. Tsankov, Jessica L. Grimes Jan 2012

A New Take On The Top Ten Rules For Court And Professional Life, Mimi E. Tsankov, Jessica L. Grimes

Denver Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Prost V. Anderson And The Enigmatic Savings Clause Of Sec. 2255: When Is A Remedy By Motion Inadequate Or Ineffective, Bryan Florendo Jan 2012

Prost V. Anderson And The Enigmatic Savings Clause Of Sec. 2255: When Is A Remedy By Motion Inadequate Or Ineffective, Bryan Florendo

Denver Law Review

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Thomas V. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: Semantics, Fiduciary Duty, And An Outdated Distinction, Jeremy Liles Jan 2012

Thomas V. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.: Semantics, Fiduciary Duty, And An Outdated Distinction, Jeremy Liles

Denver Law Review

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United States V. Washington: Why Counsel's Advice And Presence At Presentence Interviews Is Necessary To Prevent Sentencing Suicide, Elizabeth Phillips Jan 2012

United States V. Washington: Why Counsel's Advice And Presence At Presentence Interviews Is Necessary To Prevent Sentencing Suicide, Elizabeth Phillips

Denver Law Review

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Policing The Police: Protecting Civil Remedies In Cases Of Retaliatory Arrest, Randolph A. Robinson Ii Jan 2012

Policing The Police: Protecting Civil Remedies In Cases Of Retaliatory Arrest, Randolph A. Robinson Ii

Denver Law Review

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