Unlearning the Arab Muslim Hyphen

Online communities versus offline communities in the Arab/Muslim world

The Internet was introduced in Saudi Arabia1 in late January 1999 after a long period of discussion and consultation within the Saudi authorities. These resulted in a tailored version being made available to the Saudi public. To enable this, a huge filter system was set up in Riyadh in conjunction with an American company. The reason for having such a filter system was that the Saudi authoritie...

Correlates of smoking behavior among Muslim Arab-American adolescents.

OBJECTIVES Although ethnic and gender differences in adolescent smoking have been well documented, factors influencing susceptibility to smoking and experimentation among the ethnic group of Muslim Arab-American youth have received little research attention. This study examines the smoking prevalence, the associations of known smoking risk factors, religious and cultural influences with adolesc...

Unlearning V2

This study investigates how child speakers of a verb second (V2) language acquire the supposedly more basic SVO word order of English. Data comes from approximately 100 Norwegian school children aged 7 to 12 in their acquisition of three related syntactic constructions. The focus of the investigation is the extent of language transfer from the L1, related to questions of markedness. It is shown...

The Nature of Organizational Unlearning

The Margin Perceptron with Unlearning

We introduce into the classical Perceptron algorithm with margin a mechanism of unlearning which in the course of the regular update allows for a reduction of possible contributions from “very well classified” patterns to the weight vector. The resulting incremental classification algorithm, called Margin Perceptron with Unlearning (MPU), provably converges in a finite number of updates to any ...