We study the interplay between parental and peer socialization in shaping criminal behavior among adolescents. develop a simple cultural transmission model where parents affect how society influences their children's decisions. The predicts that are substitutes development of juvenile crime. then take to data using information on representative sample adolescents United States. Using geographic...

While the K-Nearest-Neighbor (KNN) problem is well studied in the traditional wired, disk-based client-server environment, it has not been tackled in a wireless broadcast environment. In this paper, the problem of organizing location dependent data and answering KNN queries on air are investigated. The linear property of wireless broadcast media and power conserving requirement of mobile device...

We present a review of the literature on fast nearest neighbors using the basic approach from Karger and Ruhl [4] and a recent technique called cover trees. A small error in Insert procedure from the original paper on cover trees is corrected and an examination of how query time actually varies with the size of the problem is shown using a Python implementation of the basic cover tree algorithms.

The In s ti tute for the stu dy of Di p l om acy hosted the spring    m eeti n gs of the Sch l e s i n ger Working Group on the topic of Russian forei gn policy tow a rds its nei gh bors in Cen tral Asia and the Ca u c a su s . The po ten tial for furt h er con f l i ct a l ong Ru s s i a’s peri ph ery is re a l . Russia (ex periencing an econ omic upswing and more assertive po l i tical le...

Retrieving the most similar objects in a large-scale database for a given query is a fundamental building block in many application domains, ranging from web searches, visual, cross media, and document retrievals. Stateof-the-art approaches have mainly focused on capturing the underlying geometry of the data manifolds. Graphbased approaches, in particular, define various diffusion processes on ...