Political Science. This paper benefited greatly from comments from Geof Wood and discussions with J. Allister McGregor at the Centre for Development Studies, University of Bath and later with Eric Worby in Bangladesh. It began life as a report commissioned by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), but the views represented here are those of the author alone. Summary This paper bri...

We re-examined the effect of teaching and learning with technology on student cognitive and affective outcomes using the meta-analytic technique. Screening studies obtained from an electric search of databases such as PsyInfo and ERIC resulted in 58 studies (1997-2011). Overall, effect sizes were small to moderate across the cognitive and affective outcome measures. Specific teaching/learning c...

By a recent result obtained by R. Howlett and the author considerable progress has been made towards a complete solution of the isomorphism problem for Coxeter groups. In this paper we give a survey on the isomorphism problem and explain in particular how the result mentioned above reduces it to its ‘reflection preserving’ version. Furthermore we desrcibe recent developments concerning the solu...

Acknowledgments: We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Swartz Foundation (Old Field, NY) and the National Institutes of Health USA (RO1-NS047293), and the long time collaboration of Jeanne Townsend, under whose project most of the data were collected, and of Eric Courchesne, in whose laboratory they were recorded. We also thank Stefan Debener and Guillaume Rousselet for providing valuabl...

We examine mechanism design with transferable utility and budget balance, using techniques we developed for the study of repeated games. We show that with independent types, budget balance does not limit the set of social choice functions that can be implemented. With correlated types and three or more players, budget balance is again not a constraint if no player has "too many" more possible t...

Miller, India, "In the midst of life we are in death : suicide coverage in the South during the Civil War era" (2015). Honors Theses. Paper 804. 1 1 I would like to acknowledge my parents, Eric and Sarah Miller, and my sister Eliza for proofreading my work, and supporting me throughout the course my research. I would also like to acknowledge the undergraduate summer research fellowship for fund...

We compared the robustness and discriminatory power of the enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting methods for detecting cases of mixed Helicobacter pylori infection in Peruvian shantytown residents. H. pylori isolates from 63 participants were cultured, and five single colonies and a pool of additional colonies from each...

With the evolution of the Internet from a controlled research network to a worldwide social and economic platform, the initial assumptions regarding stakeholder cooperative behavior are no longer valid. Conflicts have emerged in situations where there are opposing interests. Previous work in the literature has termed these conflicts tussles. This article presents the research of the SESERV proj...

A computational approach to uncertainty management requires support for interactive and incremental problem formulation, inference, hypothesis testing, and decision making. Most current uncertainty inference systems concentrate primarily on inference, and provide no sup­ port for the larger issues. We present a computational approach to uncertainty management which provides direct support for t...