THREE WISCONSIN SNOWSTORMS

Of Snowstorms and Bushy Trees

Many workloads for analytical processing in commercial RDBMSs are dominated by snowstorm queries, which are characterized by references to multiple large fact tables and their associated smaller dimension tables. This paper describes a technique for bushy join tree optimization for snowstorm queries in Oracle database system. This technique generates bushy join trees containing subtrees that pr...

Three Practical Tests for Gerrymandering: Application to Maryland and Wisconsin

Partisan gerrymandering arises when many single-district gerrymanders are combined to obtain an overall advantage. The Supreme Court has held that partisan gerrymandering is recognizable by its asymmetry: for a given distribution of popular votes, if the parties switch places in popular vote, the numbers of seats would change in an unequal fashion. However, the asymmetry standard is only a broa...

Wisconsin Environmental Health Network--a new resource for Wisconsin physicians.

WISCONSIN HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (HSIP) EVALUATION Year-Three Support Final Report

Research on the Translation and Implementation of Stepping On in Three Wisconsin Communities

OBJECTIVE Falls are a leading cause of injury death. Stepping On is a fall prevention program developed in Australia and shown to reduce falls by up to 31%. The original program was implemented in a community setting, by an occupational therapist, and included a home visit. The purpose of this study was to examine aspects of the translation and implementation of Stepping On in three community s...