Begging for bags: BAG-raising and prescriptive ideologies in Spokane Washington

Testing the metals hypothesis in Spokane, Washington.

A >7-year, time-series, epidemiologic study is ongoing in Spokane, Washington, to examine the associations between ambient particulate constituents or sources and health outcomes such as emergency department (ED) visits for asthma or respiratory problems. One of the hypotheses being tested is that particulate toxic metals are associated with these health outcomes. Spokane is a desirable city in...

Operations for Real-Valued Bags and Bag Relations

A generalization of bags is proposed and fundamental operations are described. That is, a real-valued bag is proposed which is a straightforward generalization of the traditional bags, but is necessary for complementation, and s-norm and t-norm operations. We mainly describe how complementation and s-norms are related. As a result a duality theorem between s-norm and t-norm is obtained. R-bag r...

Bag of Words Meets Bags of Popcorn

‘ This problem is selected from one of the Kaggle’s competitions [2]. In this problem, we dig a little ”deeper” into sentiment analysis. Word2Vec is a deep-learning inspired method that focuses on the meaning of words. Word2Vec [3] attempts to understand meaning and semantic relationships among words. It works in a way that is similar to deep approaches, such as recurrent neural nets or deep ne...

Smart Bag: Managing Home and Raising Children

Dual-income families experience stress as they attempt to manage the conflicting responsibilities of work, school, home, and enrichment activities. Opportunities exist for technology to provide support in managing their children’s activities, helping parents feel more in control of their lives. In this paper, we explore opportunities to support children’s activities. Based on our contextual fie...

Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Spokane County, Washington and Kootenai County, Idaho