“Hot off the press, congratulations!” my Ph.D. supervisor wrote to me back in August. Our paper—which I had written during lockdown based on labwork completed before pandemic—had just been accepted for publication. “Great!” responded. And that was that. went cleaning apartment and waiting bread bake. My city's made celebrating with co-workers at pub trivia or group drinks impossible. The only p...

I grew up in rural Appalachia, and now live and teach college in a similar area in Pennsylvania, the state in which sport hunting is the most popular. Thus, I have known many hunters, including family members, and have taught more than a few. The first day of buck season on the Monday after Thanksgiving invariably finds me teaching fewer people than usual. When the hunters have returned, buzzin...

Modern data-intensive applications apply statistical analysis algorithms onmassive databases to deliver qualitatively better results in many domains, including science, governance, and business. These applications require low latency, always-on, and cost-effective data management. This places increased demands on today’s database management systems (DBMSs) whose architectures are tailored for t...

A s an ABC (American Born Chinese) growing up in the United States, holidays at home tend to have an East meets West flair. Thanksgiving in particular is Mom’s favorite holiday, as it gives the family the chance to have turkey at noon and then Chinese food in the evening, because she still insists that any meal that doesn’t include rice is not a real meal but simply a snack, and she wants to ma...

Joy Mining Machinery ("Joy") is submitting the following comments in response to the Request for Information for the above proposed Rule, 30 CFR § 75.1732 involving Proximity Detection Systems ("PDS"). In addition to the comments set forth below, we are attaching and incorporating a copy of Joy's previous comments on RIN 1219-AB65, which we submitted on March 29, 2010 in response to MSHA's prio...

Most current XQuery implementations require that all XML data reside in memory in one form or another before they start processing the data. This is unacceptable for large XML documents. The only event-based techniques that do not require the materialization of all data in memory are based on transducers. Transducers use SAX events to evaluate XPath queries using finite state machines. SAX allo...

Gelotophobes (individuals with a fear of being laughed at) have even been found to express less joy and more contempt towards joyfully smiling/laughing faces compared to non-gelotophobes. However, it is unclear whether the lower levels of joy and higher levels of contempt are related to joy per se or only to those elements of joy associated with laughter. Thus, this study investigated the verba...

The semantics of many bulk data models depends on user-defined attributes such as definitions of element equality, ordering, and other domain predicates. While these attributes are an intrinsic part of the data model, they are not normally treated as part of the static type description. This leads to the occurrence of data modelling errors which are not statically detectable, such as a union op...

My teaching experience comes from three semesters as a teaching assistant (TA) of Computer Science at the undergraduate and graduate levels. My rst exposure to teaching came when I served as a TA for the introductory course on programming atWisconsin. This role involved running weekly discussions, grading programming assignments and exams, and assisting students during office hours. I found it ...