Why Union Law Can and Should Protect Stateless Persons

Why averaging classifiers can protect against overfitting

We study a simple learning algorithm for binary classification. Instead of predicting with the best hypothesis in the hypothesis class, this algorithm predicts with a weighted average of all hypotheses, weighted exponentially with respect to their training error. We show that the prediction of this algorithm is much more stable than the prediction of an algorithm that predicts with the best hyp...

Why the European Union Should Talk with the Eurasian Economic Union

Convention Relating to the Status of Stateless Persons.

The government of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya ratified this UN Convention on on the status of refugees on May 16, 1989.

The Scope of Strong Marks: Should Trademark Law Protect the Strong More than the Weak?

In this article, we challenge this conventional wisdom. We argue that as a mark achieves very high levels of strength, the relation between strength and confusion turns negative. The very strength of such a superstrong mark operates to ensure that consumers will not mistake other marks for it. Thus, the scope of protection for such marks ought to be narrower compared to merely strong marks. If ...

They Not Only CAN But They SHOULD: Why Undergraduates Should Provide Basic IL Instruction

Introduction Academic libraries are behind the curve in leveraging the advantages of peer learning dynamics for basic information literacy instruction.1 With a handful of documented exceptions, librarians have chosen to cling jealously to the lectern instead of seizing optimal pedagogical opportunities of letting peers teach peers. This, in spite of decades of research on the cognitive and affe...