ECAUSE Marcuse did not surface as a semi-popular social critic till the 1960s during the time of mounting and, for awhile, hopeful social protest, he is often assumed to be a spokesman for the protestors. Indeed, some of his writings in the sixties (most notably his Essay on Liberation) directly addressed the protest movement. Moreover, as protest in the U.S. subsided in the seventies, Marcuse ...

Design Principles Meet the Real World The main reason, IAB argued, that it favored CLNP was that it was necessary for the Internet to ® nd a solution very soon (IAB, 1992a, p. 14). CLNP is a protocol that a is already speci® ed, and several implementations existo so it a will avoid design of a new protocol from scratch, a process that would consume valuable time and delay testing and deployment...

BACKGROUND Traffic Injuries are a major public health problem, especially among young people. However, we have not found any useful questionnaire designed in our country for the epidemiological research in this field. The objective of this study was to design and validate an easy and quickly-to-fill questionnaire aimed to collect information on how frequently university car drivers report to be...

OBJECTIVE We examined the associations between the density of alcohol establishments and five types of nonviolent crime across urban neighborhoods. METHOD Data from the city of Minneapolis, MN, in 2009 were aggregated and analyzed at the neighborhood level. We examined the association between alcohol establishment density and five categories of nonviolent crime: vandalism, nuisance crime, pub...

India had earned the dubious distinction of having more number of fatalities due to road accidents in the world. Road safety is emerging as a major social concern around the world especially in India. Drinking and driving is already a serious public health problem, which is likely to emerge as one of the most significant problems in the near future. The role of alcohol in traffic safety has pro...

Diffusion-weighted and diffusion tensor imaging (DWI/DTI) has revolutionized clinical neuroimaging. Pathology may be detected earlier and with greater specificity than with conventional magnetic resonance imaging sequences. In addition, DWI/DTI allows exploring the microarchitecture of the brain. A detailed knowledge of the basics of DWI/DTI is mandatory to better understand pathology encounter...

Alcohol availability, measured in terms of geographic density of alcohol­sales outlets, is linked to specific patterns of alcohol­related motor vehicle crashes in communities. To curb alcohol­related problems such as violence, traffic crashes, and drinking and driving, community advocates often focus on reducing alcohol availability through modifications of zoning laws and licensing requirement...

This study combines extended Kalman filters (EKFs) and support vector machines (SVMs) to implement a fast online predictor for option prices. The EKF is used to infer latent variables and makes a prediction based on the Black-Scholes formula, while the SVM is employed to capture the nonlinear residuals between the actual option prices and the EKF predictions. Taking option data traded in Taiwan...

One popular alternative to using either A or F as the denominator is to take an average of the two: (A+F)/2. Calculated over multiple forecast periods, this measure is most commonly called the symmetric MAPE (sMAPE) and has been used in recent forecasting competitions to compare the accuracy of forecasts from different methods. See, for example, www. neural-forecasting-competition.com/index.htm...

A marketplace is defined where the private data of suppliers (e.g., prosumers) are protected, so that neither their identity nor their level of stock is made known to end customers, while they can sell their products at a reduced price. A broker acts as an intermediary, which takes care of providing the items missing to meet the customers’ demand and allows end customers to take advantages of r...