This year is the 100th anniversary of one of the most famous (or infamous depending on perspective) statutes in U.S. history: the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. This law banned business arrangements in restraint of trade (Section 1) and prohibited attempts to monopolize (Section 2). While much emphasis in this centennial year will be placed on the law’s application, the origin and intent of the...

In their 1993 paper, “Statistical Techniques for Language Recognition: An Introduction and Guide for Cryptanalysts,” Ganesan and Sherman present several statistical formulae useful for language recognition based on using a finite stationary Markov as a model to represent language. In my project, I verify the effectiveness of two of these formulae by examining the results when they are applied t...

Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 Caregivers are negatively affected by the overwhelming demands of caregiving for their stroke survivor. Although caregivers may be confident in skills and abilities to assist survivor, many report a high level anxiety feelings being overwhelmed. need help so that they can provide best quality care themselves Primary Author Speaker: Gordon Washington Additional...

Abstract. In this paper block approximate inverse preconditioners to solve sparse nonsymmetric linear systems with iterative Krylov subspace methods are studied. The computation of the preconditioners involves consecutive updates of variable rank of an initial and nonsingular matrix A0 and the application of the Sherman-MorrisonWoodbury formula to compute an approximate inverse decomposition of...

An active set strategy is applied to the dual of a simple reformulation of the standard quadratic program of a linear support vector machine. This application generates a fast new dual algorithm that consists of solving a finite number of linear equations, with a typically large dimensionality equal to the number of points to be classified. However, by making novel use of the Sherman-MorrisonWo...

In a recent study, Kahn, Morrison and Wright showed that for exponentially distributed interpurchase times (of individuals), the household choice process approaches a zero-order process as the number of individuals in the household increases, even though the purchasing behavior of each individual is first order. We show that their result holds for any arbitrary interpurchase-time distribution t...