Jing Ma, Wei Gao, Prasenjit Mitra, Sejeong Kwon, Bernard J. Jansen, Kam-Fai Wong, Meeyoung Cha The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Graduate School of Culture Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea 1{majing,kfwong}@se.cuhk.edu.hk, 2{wgao,pmitra,bjansen}@qf.org.qa, 3{gsj1029,meeyo...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2014.04.048 0950-7051/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Tel.: +1 8149542802. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P. Biyani), [email protected] (S. Bhatia), [email protected] (C. Caragea), [email protected]...

This paper provides evidence concerning political participation (turnout, awareness, attendance at meetings, campaign involvement, voting) and its relation to local governance in a developing country, based on a rural household survey in West Bengal, India. With the exception of education and immigrant status, we find that reported participation rates varied remarkably little with socio-economi...

The former monotypic genus Oligoneuria Pictet was known solely by a female subimago of the type-species Oligoneuria anomala Pictet. A new species of the genus Oligoneuria from the Atlantic rainforest of Macaé, Rio de Janeiro is described. The description was based in males and females imagos of Oligoneuria macabaiba sp. nov. caught with light traps. This species presents similar wing venation, ...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It has been a great privilege to be a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the Texas Tech University and work closely with my advisor Prof. Dr. Kwong S. Chao. His keen insight into system and integrated circuit design is the key factor in the success of this research. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Sunanda Mitra, for her willingness...

ive Meeting Summarization Using Dependency Graph Fusion Siddhartha Banerjee The Pennsylvania State University University Park PA, USA 16802 [email protected] Prasenjit Mitra Qatar Computing Research Institute Tornado Tower, 18th floor Doha, Qatar [email protected] Kazunari Sugiyama National University of Singapore 13 Computing Drive Singapore 117417 [email protected]