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Ay 2013/2014 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-10-02, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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The Role Of Courts In "Making" Law In Japan: The Communitarian Conservatism Of Japanese Judges, John O. Haley

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

Professor Haley is an outstanding international and comparative law scholars, widely credited with having popularized Japanese legal studies in the United States. In 1969, Haley received a fellowship from the University of Washington and was in one of the first classes to graduate from the Asian Law Program, now, the Asian Law Center. After working for several years in law firms in Japan, he joined the law faculty at the University of Washington, where he remained for nearly twenty-six years during which time he directed the Asian and Comparative Law Program. In June 2012, Professor Haley was awarded The Order …

Ay 2013/2014 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-10-30, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Ay 2013/2014 Sec Meeting Minutes, 2013-12-04, Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Archives

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Introduction To The Symposium, Lawrence M. Solan, Ph.D., J.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Stylometry And Immigration: A Case Study, Patrick Juola, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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A Systemic Functional Approach To Automated Authorship Analysis, Shlomo Argamon, Ph.D, Moshe Koppel, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Authorship Attribution: What's Easy And What's Hard?, Moshe Koppel, Ph.D., Jonathan Schler, Ph.D., Shlomo Argamon, Ph.D

Journal of Law and Policy

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Best Practices And Admissibility Of Forensic Author Identification, Carole Chaski, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Attribution Of Mutual Understanding, Carl Vogel, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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On The Robustness Of Authorship Attribution Based On Character N-Gram Features, Efstathios Stamatatos, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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On Admissible Linguistic Evidence, Malcolm Coulthard, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Txt 4n6: Method, Consistency, And Distinctiveness In The Analysis Of Sms Text Messages, Tim Grant, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Towards An Index Of Idiolectal Similitude (Or Distance) In Forensic Authorship Analysis, M. Teresa Turell, Ph.D., Nuria Gavalda

Journal of Law and Policy

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Linguistic Confusion In Court: Evidence From The Forensic Sciences, Jonathan J. Koehler, Ph.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Being Pragmatic About Forensic Linguistics, Edward K. Cheng, J.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Intuition Versus Algorithm: The Case Of Forensic Authorship Attribution, Lawrence M. Solan, Ph.D., J.D.

Journal of Law and Policy

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Codifying Common Law: The Self-Critical Analysis Privilege And The New Jersey Patient Safety Act, Adam Blander

Journal of Law and Policy

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Implied Preemption And Its Effect On Local Hydrofracking Bans In New York, David Giller

Journal of Law and Policy

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Is Litigation Your Final Answer? Why The Healthy Workplace Bill Should Include An Adr Provision, Florence Z. Mao

Journal of Law and Policy

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"Eye See You": How Criminal Defendents Have Utilized The Nerd Defense To Influence Jurors' Perceptions, Sarah Merry

Journal of Law and Policy

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Iterative Unbiased Fir State Estimation: A Review Of Algorithms, Yuriy S. Shmaliy, Daniel J. Simon

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, we develop in part and review various iterative unbiased finite impulse response (UFIR) algorithms (both direct and two-stage) for the filtering, smoothing, and prediction of time-varying and time-invariant discrete state-space models in white Gaussian noise environments. The distinctive property of UFIR algorithms is that noise statistics are completely ignored. Instead, an optimal window size is required for optimal performance. We show that the optimal window size can be determined via measurements with no reference. UFIR algorithms are computationally more demanding than Kalman filters, but this extra computational effort can be alleviated with parallel computing, and the extra …

Biogeography-Based Optimization For Hydraulic Prosthetic Knee Control, Tim Wilmot, George Thomas, Berney Montavon, Rick Rarick, Antonie J. Van Den Bogert, Steve Szatmary, Daniel J. Simon, William Smith, Sergey Samorezov

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

We discuss open-loop control development and simulation results for a newly-developed cyber-physical system (CPS) used as a semi-active, above-knee prosthesis. The control signal of our CPS consists of two hydraulic valve settings that control a linear cylinder actuator and provide torque to the prosthetic knee. We develop open-loop control using biogeography-based optimization (BBO), which is a recently developed evolutionary algorithm. The research contributes to the field of cyber-physical systems by showing that it is possible to find effective open-loop control signals for our newly proposed semi-active hydraulic knee prosthesis through a dual-system optimization process which includes both human and robot …

Byzantine Fault Tolerance For Session-Oriented Multi-Tiered Applications, Hua Chai, Wenbing Zhao

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This article presents a lightweight Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) framework for session-oriented multi-tiered applications. We conclude that it is sufficient to use a lightweight BFT algorithm instead of a traditional BFT algorithm, based on a comprehensive study of the threat model to, and the state model of, the session-oriented multi-tiered applications. The lightweight BFT algorithm uses source ordering, rather than total ordering, of incoming requests to achieve Byzantine fault tolerant state-machine replication of such type of applications. The performance of the lightweight BFT framework is evaluated using a shopping cart application prototype built on the web services platform. The same …

Detection Of Prostate Specific Antigen In Serum At The Femto-Gram Per Milliliter Level Using The Intrinsic Amplification Of A Field-Effect Enzymatic Immuno-Sensing System, Jiapeng Wang, Siu-Tung Yau

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Ultrasensitive detection of prostate specific antigen (PSA) has been achieved by applying the field-effectenzymatic detection (FEED) technique to the sandwich immuno-sensing technique. The voltage-controlled intrinsic amplification provided by FEED enabled the detection of PSA contained in serumon the femto-gram/mL level. Two electrochemical approaches used to obtain the amperometric detec-tion signal resulted in similar detection limits and sensitivities. The lowest PSA detection limit achievedwas 27 fg mL-1. The high selectivity of the detection system was reflected in the fact that PSA detectionwas successful on the fg mL-1level, where biological substances other than PSA had a 1-million-foldhigher concentration. Electron transfer through the …

Voltage-Controlled Enzyme-Catalyzed Glucose–Gluconolactone Conversion Using A Field-Effect Enzymatic Detector, Siu-Tung Yau, Yan Xu, Yang Song, Ye Feng, Jiapeng Wanga

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

The field-effect enzymatic detection (FEED) technique was used to control the kinetics of the enzymatic conversion of glucose to gluconolactone. The glucose–gluconolactone conversion occurring at an enzyme-immobilized electrode, a well-studied process, was confirmed using mass spectrometry. Electrochemical studies showed that the glucose oxidation current depends on the gating voltage VG and the ion concentration of the sample solution. Additionally, the depletion of glucose in the sample also showed a dependence on VG. FEED was used to detect H2O2 on the zepto-molar level in order to show the ultrasensitive detection capability of the technique. These results, while providing evidence for the …

Complex System Optimization Using Biogeography-Based Optimization, Dawei Du, Dan Simon

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Complex systems are frequently found in modern industry. But with their multisubsystems, multiobjectives, and multiconstraints, the optimization of complex systems is extremely hard. In this paper, a new algorithm adapted from biogeography-based optimization (BBO) is introduced for complex system optimization. BBO/Complex is the combination of BBO with a multiobjective ranking system, an innovative migration approach, and effective diversity control. Based on comparisons with three complex system optimization algorithms (multidisciplinary feasible (MDF), individual discipline feasible (IDF), and collaborative optimization (CO)) on four real-world benchmark problems, BBO/Complex demonstrates competitive performance. BBO/Complex provides the best performance in three of the benchmark problems and …

A Decade Of Aid: The Increase, Impact And Alternative To Foreign Aid, Ryan Piers

Masters Theses

The first term of George H.W. Bush's presidency saw an increase in governmentally distributed foreign aid unparalleled in United States' history. This increase came at time in which the debate over the practicality of foreign aid had never been higher amongst academics. Historically, there are two separate branches of research in the study of foreign aid. The first examines the effects of the practice, while the other investigates the determinants of foreign aid, namely which donors give to which recipients and why. This study is twofold in a sense that it touches on both topics.

This thesis analyzed President George …

Imprisonment, Punishment, And Progress In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Ashley Breanne Waggoner

Masters Theses

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Ideologies Of Literacy, "Academic Literacies," And Composition Studies., Bruce Horner

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

In my contribution to this symposium, I take up the call of this journal in its mission statement for “new interactions between Literacy and Composition Studies.” From the framework of competing ideologies of literacy, I explore points of intersection as well as divergence between strands of what’s known as “composition studies” and what has come to be identified as the “academic literacies” approach to academic literacy. My focus on “academic literacies” rather than the broader area of literacy studies signals at least three of my biases: first, I wish to counter the tendency to allow the cultural norm for academic …