Digging up Colonial Roots

Post-Colonial Journeys: Historical Roots of Immigration and Integration

The effect of Italian colonialism on migration to Italy differed according to the pre-colonial social structure, a factor previously neglected by immigration theories. In Eritrea, precolonial Christianity, sharp class distinctions, and a strong state promoted interaction between colonizers and colonized. Eritrean nationalism emerged against Ethiopia; thus, no sharp break between Eritreans and I...

Up From the Roots

Digging up the Dirt on User Generated Content Consumption

Knowledge-sharing online social networks are becoming increasingly pervasive and popular. However, consumption of user generated content in these networks has not been studied extensively despite its significant influence on many social network behaviors. In this work, we study data gathered from digg.com and ireport.com for studying the creation and consumption behavior. We build on our prior ...

Quarry: Digging Up the Gems of Your Data Treasury

The design lifecycle of a data warehousing (DW) system is primarily led by requirements of its end-users and the complexity of underlying data sources. The process of designing a multidimensional (MD) schema and back-end extracttransform-load (ETL) processes, is a long-term and mostly manual task. As enterprises shift to more real-time and ’onthe-fly’ decision making, business intelligence (BI)...

Tangled roots: digging deeper into astrocyte or interneuron dysfunction in temporal lobe epilepsy.