a r t i c l e i n f o Fully automatic annotation of tennis game using broadcast video is a task with a great potential but with enormous challenges. In this paper we describe our approach to this task, which integrates computer vision, machine listening, and machine learning. At the low level processing, we improve upon our previously proposed state-of-the-art tennis ball tracking algorithm and...

This paper investigates indirect influences of gender diversification on the U.S. Court of Appeals, focusing upon whether and how women influence policy through pathways other than their individual votes. We analyze workplace sexual harassment cases spanning 1977 to 2006. Building upon recent work showing that women influence the votes of male colleagues when serving with them on three-judge pa...

Keane & Beane Wins Major RLUIPA Case The firm obtained a decision in federal court awarding injunctive relief and undetermined damages (likely to exceed $4 million) to a local church that has been prevented by the Town of Greenburgh from building a house of worship and religious school on 6.5 acres of church-owned property. The 206-page decision in Fortress Bible Church v. Feiner, et al., 2010 ...

Department of Pharmacy, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK b Pharmaceutical Science Division, King’s College London, Franklin-Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford Street, London SE1 9NH, UK Department of Pharmaceutics, UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AX, UK MedPharm Ltd, Unit 3 Chancellor Co...

Nic Mullin, Cvetelin Vasilev, Jaimey D. Tucker, C. Neil Hunter, Christa H. M. Weber, and Jamie K. Hobbs Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, The Hicks Building, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S3 7RH, United Kingdom Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield, Firth Court, Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire S10 2TN, Unite...

Speech transcripts often only capture semantic content, omitting disfluencies that can be useful for analyzing social dynamics of a discussion. This work describes steps in building a model that can recover a large fraction of locations where disfluencies were present, by transforming carefully annotated text to match the standard transcription style, introducing a two-stage model for handling ...

The Forensic Psychiatry Clinic is located at the Criminal Courts Building in Manhattan. It serves two agencies: the New York Criminal Court and the New York State Supreme Court. 4000 persons are evaluated annually at the Clinic. Approximately twenty-seven per cent of this group (108S individuals) were seen in the New York State Supreme Court section of the Clinic in 1974. Five major services ar...

In the last decade, a number of states have expanded the jurisdiction of their juvenile courts by increasing the maximum age of jurisdiction to eighteen. Proponents argue that these expansions reduce crime by increasing access to the beneficial features of the juvenile justice system. Critics counter that these expansions risk increasing crime by reducing deterrence. In 2010, Illinois raised th...

Modeling of economic phenomena principally proceeds on two levels, the microeconomic and the macroeconomic. Microeconomic theory explains economic decisions made at the level of the firm and the individual. Other fields of study also explain these decisions. In particular, organizational theory explains the organizational decisions made by individual participants. Since voluntary organizational...

A Noble Bequest. A former President of the hospital?the late Dr. J. H. Bartlet?left a large residuary estate to the Board of Management for building, equipping and maintaining a Convalescent Home for the benefit only of patients from the hospital. Although the testator has been dead for over six years, the estate, owing to its magnitude and complications, has not yet been finally wound up, but ...