Elite colleges in the US have seen dramatic increases applications over past few decades, part result of expanded applicant recruiting. However, broadening pool while also maintaining diversity may require encouraging from individuals who little to no chance admission. We shed new light on this behavior using detailed data Harvard University that was made public as SFFA v. lawsuit. show encoura...

The electric discharge of mormyrid fish has an irregular pattern controlled by the electromotor command nucleus in the medulla. Anatomical studies suggest that much of the descending information integrated by the command nucleus comes from the diencephalic precommand nucleus. But field potentials related to the motor command occur later in the precommand nucleus than in the command nucleus, sug...

The performance of a speaker verification (SV) system is normally determined by the false reject (FRR) and false accept (FAR) rates as averages on a population of test speakers. However, information on the FRR distribution is required when estimating the portion of clients that will suffer from an unacceptably high reject rate. This paper studies this distribution in a population using a SV sys...