Abstract Lacking the powers of “purse or sword,” U.S. Supreme Court is particularly dependent upon maintaining “authority” in order to ensure recognition its constitutional rulings. Such authority allows operate against majority and survive as a political institution despite lacking basis popular will. In one understanding Court's position, that sits outside politics, calls pre-existing accepte...

Floods are one of the most devastating types of worldwide disasters in terms of human, economic, and social losses. If authoritative data is scarce, or unavailable for some periods, other sources of information are required to improve streamflow estimation and early flood warnings. Georeferenced social media messages are increasingly being regarded as an alternative source of information for co...

While DNSSEC provides authenticity and integrity to the domain name system (DNS), it also introduces a new vulnerability—zone enumeration [12, 5, 4, 19]—which allows an adversary that asks a small number of targeted DNS queries (one per record in the zone) to discover the full contents of a zone. An enumerated zone can be used as “a source of probable e-mail addresses for spam, or as a key for ...

It is widely accepted that knowledge of certain of one’s own mental states is authoritative in being epistemically more secure than knowledge of the mental states of others, and theories of self-knowledge have largely appealed to one or the other of two sources to explain this special epistemic status. The first, ‘detectivist’, position, appeals to an inner perception-like basis, whereas the se...

This paper studies the problem of public opinion formation and concentrates on the interplays among three factors: individual attributes, environmental influences and information flow. We present a simple model to analyze the dynamics of four types of networks. Our simulations suggest that regular communities establish not only local consensus, but also global diversity in public opinions. Howe...

Teachers’ verbal behavior is a key contributor to provision of appropriate indirect intervention in language learning contexts; however, it is surprising that professionals in ELT, to date, have not proposed a structured oral/verbal framework to deliver intervention and assistance in language learning contexts. To help redress this gap, Heron’s Six-Category Intervention Analysis was adapted to ...

In this paper, we investigate the effectiveness of Citation K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN) learning with noisy training datasets. We devise an authority measure associated with each training instance that changes based on the outcome of Citation KNN classification. The authority is increased when a citer’s classification had been right; and vice versa. We show that by modifying only these authority ...

The World Wide Web (WWW) is becoming the most important system for delivering information. Search services on the WWW are becoming increasing popular among users because of the huge amount of data available and consequently it is difficult to retrieve and filter it. Several works [2, 3] have argued that traditional Term-Based search engines are not very useful since the resulting ranking depend...

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a key enabler to support integration of building data and is an important aspect to support a wide range of use cases, related to building navigation, control, sustainability, etc. Open BIM faces several challenges related to standardization, data interdependency, data access, and security. This means that there is often limited availability of BIM models....