n = Student Award Winner | * = Presenter n = Student Award Winner | * = Presenter 1 20 12 S P R IN G M E E T IN G A P R IL 1 –4 Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill – Washington, DC WITH IMS AND SECTIONS OF ASA Abstracts

The Saint Mary’s Board o f Gover­ nance last night discussed the possi­ b ility o f p rov id ing students w ith course evaluation booklets sim iliar to those sponsored by Notre Dame’s student government. Julie Strazzabosco, vice president for academic affairs, said the board’s interest in such a plan stems from a survey by the Student Academic Council to question the present means o f course ev...

N ewly-elected studen t body president and vice-president, Lloyd Burke and Bob Yonchak, believe the poor tu rnout at the recen t student elections reflects the problem of com m unication betw een student governm ent and the students. In an interview yesterday, they said the 42 percen t tu rnou t is a signal to them that studen t governm ent needs m ore con tac t w ith the studen t body. Burke c...

A policy statement on the A Tax Exemption bill was u .hh lueljlo was affirmed by passed to allow anyone "who central Council which "implores wishes to become a candidate in uie 1 res ident lo end the any clecition requiring a student c i r c u m s t a n c e s of t h e tax card shall be permitted to run imprisonment of the men of for election upon the submission ueb io ; Ihese circumstances of a...

The tic k e ts o f F ra n k Flynn/Nikki Wellman and David R e in ke /L a ra D ickey earned spots in a Wednesday ru n -o ff fo r Notre Dame student body p res ident and vice p res ident a fte r no t ic k e t c a p tu re d a m a jo rity in M onday’s general election. Flynn/Wellman received 35.1 p e rcen t (1,451 votes) o f the electorate, while Reinke/Dickey received 32.5 percent (1,343) — and th...

the aim of this research is to study the amount of student's interest in political participation in governmental universities of tehran, and its effective factors. this research has been done with measurement method using the questionnaire tool, and the date of 667 questionnaires from a total of 700 questionnaires distributed among the students of governmental universities are analyzed in ...

The four tickets in this year’s student body presidential race disagreed on the issue of open­ ness in student government, but a g r e e d on th e n eed to tak e stronger action again st crim e during last night’s student body presidential debate. Both the Greg Butrus/M olly O’Neill ticket and the Rich Delevan/Joe Wilson ticket said they supported the closing of student g o v ern m en t m e e t...

C R E D IT : C H R IS S C H M ID T /I S T O C K P H O T O .C O M Response ZAITSEV RAISES A VALID ARGUMENT FOR increasing student support services. It is good to see faculty understanding of the obstacles that community college students face. I certainly agree that more resources should be devoted to student guidance, tutoring services, and fi nancial aid, and I strongly advocate for the importa...

Computational models of visual cortex, and in particular those based on sparse coding, have enjoyed much recent attention. Despite this currency, the question of how sparse or how over-complete a sparse representation should be, has gone without principled answer. Here, we use Bayesian model-selection methods to address these questions for a sparse-coding model based on a Student-t prior. Havin...