The Student Senate unanimously p a sse d a r e so lu t io n W ednesday allowing the College Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians to use University-allocated funds to support the nominated candidates of their respective parties. While the groups cannot directly donate to any candidate and any appearance by a political speaker m ust follow the guidelines which apply to all speakers, the new re...

The objective of this work is to develop systems, models and algorithms that help distinguish signatures of dangerous radiation material from background and other (e.g. medical) sources of radiation. The challenge is to do so rapidly and with an extremely low probability of false alarms. Radiological detection architectures will be deployed in a variety of settings such as monitoring political ...

A theory of collective behavior must be able to account for simple and common collective phenomena such as arcs and rings. Using a computer simulator designed according to the principles of Perceptual Control Theory, based on a model how a human being, as a living control system, engages in movement alone and with others in temporary gatherings we produced a highly symmetrical ring that remotel...

Campaign costs have risen in Africa. I ask: what has driven this cost inflation? Studies of Western parties attribute it to campaign modernization as mediatization. African do not recognize advancement. They these another cause: spiraling clientelism. argue that there is a third, hitherto overlooked driver such inflation and adaptation: the hybridization rallies with capital-intensive practices...

The COVID-19 pandemic saw the implementation of public health measures that caused significant disruption to daily life. Consequently, these were met with widespread resistance. It was argued this resistance driven by anti-scientific attitudes, as individuals refused comply mask mandates and lockdowns, later resisted vaccination efforts. This article asks whether is an accurate characterisation...

In this paper, we demonstrate a score based indexing approach for tennis videos. Given a broadcast tennis video (btv), we index all the video segments with their scores to create a navigable and searchable match. Our approach temporally segments the rallies in the video and then recognizes the scores from each of the segments, before refining the scores using the knowledge of the tennis scoring...

The rise of the Internet and social media has allowed individuals with different backgrounds, experiences, opinions to communicate one another in an open largely unstructured way. One important question is whether nature online engagements between groups relates encounters these real world. We analyzed conversations that occurred members protest from opposite sides political spectrum, obtained ...

The relationship of symbol and ritual to the 'world-view' of National Socialism has rarely been discussed. In this article however, it is argued that for Nazism, symbol and ritual were essential forms of ideological presentation and reinforcement. The NSDAP reduced political relationships to the workings of an eschatology, constructed upon symbols relating either to the German Volksgemeinschaft...

We present a simple agent-based model to study how the proximate triggering factor of a crash or a rally might relate to its fundamental mechanism, and vice versa. Our agents form opinions and invest, based on three sources of information, (i) public information, i.e. news, (ii) information from their “friendship” network, promoting imitation and (iii) private information. Agents use Bayesian l...