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SA election gamers record turnout

Mazel tov! Rice will offer a new minor in Jewish s tud ies beg inn ing this fall. The minor, which was approved by the Faculty Sena te last week, is the start of a long-term effort to bring a ful l-f ledged Jewish s tud ies program to Rice. Professor of Judaic Studies Gregory Kaplan, a long with Professor in Biblical Studies Matthais Henze, both members of the Religious Studies Depar tment , sp...

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*Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; †Centro Latinoamericano de Enfermedades de Transmisión Sexual (CLETS), Department of Health, San Juan, Puerto Rico; ‡Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center, School of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico; §National Development and Research I...

A generalized eigensolver based on smoothed aggregation (GES-SA) for initializing smoothed aggregation (SA) multigrid

Consider the linear system Ax = b, where A is a large, sparse, real, symmetric, and positive definite matrix and b is a known vector. Solving this system for unknown vector x using a smoothed aggregation multigrid (SA) algorithm requires a characterization of the algebraically smooth error, meaning error that is poorly attenuated by the algorithm’s relaxation process. For many common relaxation...

LE'O E PEAU: Towards Cultural and Cognitive Democracy in Development in Pacific Islands Communities

During the past decade, much have been said about, and implemented in the name of, good governance, democracy and human rights in Pacific Islands Nations (PINs). External financial agencies are keen to provide assistance to PINs, and higher educational institutions and consulting agencies are keen to assist donors and island governments implement projects aimed at 'reforms' and 're-structuring'...