Qualification that a leader should satisfy in managing nonprofit organization (NPO) is revealed by integrating the analysis of questionnaire survey and mailing list archives. Questionnaire survey is applied to 104 members in dot-jp, the specific nonprofit organization in Japan. Mailing list archives are analyzed by applying the IDM (Influence Diffusion Model) that measures the influential and i...

Project Title: Enhanced Coordination and Link Layer Control Algorithms for Improving AHS Capacity Principle Investigator: Professor Roberto Horowitz Mailing Address Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California (include institution) 6193 Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 Telephone, Fax Tel: 510-642-4675, Fax: 510-642-6163 E-mail E-mail: [email protected] Other Investigators...

It is well known now that most real-world complex networks have some properties which make them very different from random networks. In the case of interactions between authors of messages in a mailing-list, however, a multi-level structure may be responsible for some of these properties. We propose here a rigorous but simple formalism to investigate this question, and we apply it to an archive...

Example 2.0. (1) Let M = CP n 2 with the classical Fubini-Study metric and diameter π2 . Let Br(p) be the metric ball of radius r and center p in CP n 2 , and let Sr(p) = ∂Br(p) be the metric sphere of radius r centered at p. It is well-known that Sπ 2 (p) is isometric to CP n 2 . The first author is supported in part by an NSF grant. Mailing Address: Department of Mathematics, University of No...

The study of authorship identification in Japanese has for the most part been restricted to literary texts using basic statistical methods. In the present study, authors of mailing list messages are identified using a machine learning technique (Support Vector Machines). In addition, the classifier trained on the mailing list data is applied to identify the author of Web documents in order to i...

Large-scale linguistic corpora, complete with information about speakers’ social networks as well as demographic and temporal information, allow for empirical validation of complex theories about the social interactions and linguistic properties leading to large-scale language change. We present ongoing work on the diffusion of lexical innovations using a corpus we have compiled from the Gmane ...

BACKGROUND The optimal management of croup--a common respiratory illness in young children--is well established. In particular, treatment with corticosteroids has been shown to significantly reduce the rate and duration of intubation, hospitalization, and return to care for on-going croup symptoms. Furthermore treatment with a single dose of corticosteroids does not appear to result in any sign...

Email has a key role in the explosive growth of the Internet, calling for Mailing List Management Systems (MLMS) that can adapt to, and even foster, new forms of community organization as they emerge. A new MLMS, Mailman, is well suited to such evolution because it has been developed to be versatile and extensible. One factor contributing to these strengths is its implementation in Python. In t...

Purpose A better understanding of the attitudes of audiologists toward teleaudiology and their willingness to use teleaudiology is required to progress the application of teleaudiology technologies and services into clinical practice. Audiologists around the world were surveyed on their attitudes toward teleaudiology and their willingness to use it. Method An online survey was sent to audiolo...

Collecting saliva samples by mail can serve numerous purposes in epidemiologic research. The objectives of this study were to assess what proportion of participants in a mail survey would provide a saliva sample and whether incentives could improve participation. In 1995, 2,994 students, faculty, and staff members of Geneva University, Geneva, Switzerland, were randomized to receive, together w...