In order to contribute to solve the personalization/privacy paradox, we propose a privacy-preserving architecture for one of stateof-the-art recommendation algorithm, Slope One. More precisely, we describe SlopPy (for Slope One with Privacy), a privacy-preserving version of Slope One in which a user never releases directly his personal information (i.e, his ratings). Rather, each user first per...

For a wide class of self-gravitating systems, we show that if the density is cusped like r −γ near the center, then the limiting value of the anisotropy parameter β = 1 − v 2 T /(2v 2 r) at the center may not be greater than γ/2. Here, v 2 r and v 2 T are the radial and tangential velocity second moments. This follows from the non-negativity of the phase space density. We compare this theorem t...

Traditional slope stability analysis is limited to the use of single valued parameters to analyze a slope‟s characteristics. Consequently, traditional analysis methods yield single valued estimates for factor of safety of a slope‟s stability. However, the inherent variability of the soil characteristics which affect slope stability indicates that the stability of a slope is a probabilistic rath...

Geocell protective slope is a kind of important ecological protection form, which is widely used in the geotechnical engineering field. Based on the finite element software ABAQUS, and combining with protective slope body’s mechanics performance in shallow soil, the finite element model of geocell slope protection is established under the conditions of rainfall seepage, and then we simulate the...

A water surface slope limiting scheme is tested and compared with the water depth slope limiter for the solution of one dimensional shallow water equations with bottom slope source term. Numerical schemes based on the total variation diminishing RungeKutta discontinuous Galerkin finite element method with slope limiter schemes based on water surface slope and water depth are used to solve one-d...

by Craig Abram Jordan, M.S. Washington State University Chair: Balasingam Muhunthan Landslides constitute a major geological hazard in the world due to their high financial cost and their nondiscriminatory nature. The Olympic Region of Washington State has many potential triggers of landslides, but prolonged periods of high rainfall is the most commonly attributed trigger of landslides. The cur...

'Fear' is used scientifically in two ways, which causes confusion: it refers to conscious feelings and to behavioral and physiological responses. Restricting the use of 'fear' to denote feelings and using 'threat-induced defensive reactions' for the responses would help avoid misunderstandings about the brain mechanisms involved.

We develop a mixture procedure for multi-sensor systems to monitor data streams for a change-point that causes a gradual degradation to a subset of the streams. Observations are assumed to be initially normal random variables with known constant means and variances. After the change-point, observations in the subset will have increasing or decreasing means. The subset and the rate-of-changes ar...

the location of extracellular enzyme activities in soil aggregates can be influenced by slope position. this study aims to determine the effect of slope position on aggregate distribution of organic c and l-glutaminase activity. the soils were collected from different slope positions (shoulder, backslope, footslope and toeslope) at two pasture ecosystems (fereydoonshahr and chelgerd, central ir...