An intriguing question for scholars of collective action is how participants of unsuccessful actions become re-engaged in future collective activities. At an individual level, previous research has shown that after negative outcomes counterfactual thoughts ('if only … ') may serve to prepare for future action. In the current research, we investigated whether counterfactuals may also prepare for...

INTRODUCTION: Cost-analysis research can influence healthcare policies and practice patterns. There are three major perspectives in cost analysis research: the third-party payer, the hospital, and societal. Cost-analysis research has inherent bias depending on the chosen cost perspective. Subsequent conclusions based on cost-analysis research can change based on the perspective used.1 These per...

INTRODUCTION Paragraph 2-406 of the Illinois Code of Civil Procedure permits a defendant to join a third party who may be liable to him for all or part of the plaintiffs claim against him. , Although paragraph 2-406 pertains directly to actions that may be initiated by defendants, third-party practice poses significant ramifications for the plaintiff in terms of trial strategy and negotiation, ...

We examine the geography of the Tea Party movement by drawing upon a unique data source that harvested thousands of events from the Meetup.org and Tea Party Patriots websites during the latter half of 2010. The spatial distribution of events strongly suggests that Tea Party activism was borne out of economic grievance, as it corresponds quite closely to the incidence of home foreclosures. The f...

This paper addresses the problem of identifying action items discussed in open-domain conversational speech, and does so in two stages: firstly, detecting the subdialogues in which action items are proposed, discussed and committed to; and secondly, extracting the phrases that accurately capture or summarize the tasks they involve. While the detection problem is hard, we show that we can improv...

CFEM & CTIC workshop: Theory and Practice of Secure Multiparty Computation May 30 to June 3, 2016 Aarhus University, Denmark Title: Cross&Clean: Amortized Garbled Circuits With Constant Overhead Authors: Jesper Buus Nielsen; Claudio Orlandi Garbled circuits (GC) are one of the main tools for secure two-party computation. One of the most promising techniques for efficiently achieving active-secu...