Eleanor Lyon has conducted research and evaluation related to domestic violence, violence against women, and criminal justice and social policy for twenty years. The views expressed in this paper, as in all papers disseminated through the Welfare and Domestic Violence Technical Assistance Initiative, are solely those of the author. The author expresses appreciation for the contributions of

We used ALOS InSAR images to study land surface deformation over the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah, which collapsed on 6 August 2007 and killed six miners. The collapse was registered as a ML 3.9 seismic event. An InSAR image spanning the time of the collapse shows 25–30 cm surface subsidence over the mine. We used distributed dislocation sources to model the deformation field, and found that a ...

Vol. XLIX (August 2012), 564–580 *Shikhar Sarin is Kirk and Marsha Smith Professor of Marketing, College of Business and Economics, Boise State University (e-mail: ssarin@ boisestate. edu). Goutam Challagalla is Associate Professor of Marketing (e-mail: goutam. [email protected]), and Ajay K. Kohli is Gary T. and Elizabeth R. Jones Chair (e-mail: [email protected]), College of ...

This paper describes the participation of INSA Lyon and UNI Passau at the PAN 2017 Author Profiling task. Given the language and tweets from an author, the goal is to predict his/her gender and language variety. We consider two strategies : a "loose" classification that learns one predictive model for the gender and another one for the variety, and a "successive" classification that first predi...

Motivation This paper describes a Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE) practitioner’s approach to the design and implementation of a C2 system, focussing on how the CSE approach guided the system’s design features. Originality/Value – The VAPS project was built as a concept demonstrator to investigate the efficacy of a CSE approach to building C2 systems. Research Approach The project team adopt...

The Collatz 3n+ 1 Conjecture states that for each n ∈ N, there exists an m ∈ N such that T (n) = 1, where T (n) is the function T iteratively applied m times to n. As of September 4, 2003, the conjecture has been verified for all positive integers up to 224× 2 ≈ 2.52× 10 (Roosendaal, 2003+). Furthermore, one can give a heuristic probabilistic argument (Crandall, 1978) that since every iterate o...

It is difficult to learn to program. We investigated if it is possible to predict programming aptitude of our students with Dehnadi-Bornat test early in order to give more attention to the students which are identified as less apt for programming. We present the results of the test and the correlation of test results and the final marks of courses of programming in the paper. We found out that ...

In this paper, we study the complexity of solving hard knapsack problems, i.e., knapsacks with a density close to 1 where latticebased low density attacks are not an option. For such knapsacks, the current state-of-the-art is a 31-year old algorithm by Schroeppel and Shamir which is based on birthday paradox techniques and yields a running time of Õ(2) for knapsacks of n elements and uses Õ(2) ...

Syndrome coding has been proposed by Crandall in 1998 as a method to stealthily embed a message in a cover-medium through the use of bounded decoding. In 2005, Fridrich et al. introduced wet paper codes to improve the undetectability of the embedding by enabling the sender to lock some components of the cover-data, according to the nature of the cover-medium and the message. Unfortunately, almo...