Facing Down Diabetes: Are We Putting Our Best Foot Forward?

Adaptive recommendation: putting the best foot forward

Information is becoming more increasingly available in digital formats such as Web Pages, MP3 files and many others. This puts more emphasis on the need for reliable information filtering techniques. New recommendation algorithms are being developed frequently to deal with the problem of information overload. In this paper we present a new, regression-based approach to the application of recomm...

Putting Your Best Foot Forward: Movement & Mathematics in College

This 90-minute workshop shares several aspects of an innovative interdisciplinary college course, Pattern Play, that links mathematics and dance to meet creative arts and quantitative literacy requirements. Participants will: 1) Engage in two open-ended movement activities – Giant Tangrams and Hustling Graph – that introduce geometry, algebra, and dance concepts as well as the broader theme of ...

Putting Their Best Foot Forward: Emotional Disclosure on Facebook

Facebook has become a widely used online self-representation and communication platform. In this research, we focus on emotional disclosure on Facebook. We conducted two studies, and results from both self-report and observer rating show that individuals are more likely to express positive relative to negative emotions and present better emotional well-being on Facebook than in real life. Our s...

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Putting Our Best Boots Forward: US Military Deployments and Host-Country Crime

The deployment of military forces abroad has been a major component of the United States’ grand strategy since the beginning of the Cold War. However, some scholars have argued that the presence of US military personnel abroad creates a series of negative externalities afflicting local communities. We put some of these claims to the test by looking at the effect of United States military deploy...