In the past twenty-five years, egalitarian political philosophers have acknowledged the importance of injecting personal responsibility into egalitarian theory. In brief, the ethically attractive objective is to equalize opportunities for desirable conditions, such as health and earning capacity, rather than equalizing health status or earning capacities, across the members of a society. I prop...

FUTURE WORK Document the code and make it publically available. Automatic initialization, test different tracker and detector, eliminate planarity assumption, explicitly handle out-of-plane rotation, track multiple targets, learn shape. Our goal is long-term, real-time tracking of arbitrary objects. The object is defined by a region of interest in a single frame. The video sequence is unconstra...

We develop techniques for learning the meanings of unknown words in context. Working within a com-positional semantics framework, we write down equations in which a sentence's meaning is some combination function of the meaning of its words. When one of the words is unknown, we ask for a paraphrase of the sentence. We then compute the meaning of the unknown word by inverting parts of the semant...

PURPOSE This preliminary study compared clinical evaluations for guardianship in three states with varying levels of statutory reform. DESIGN AND METHODS Case files for 298 cases of adult guardianship were reviewed in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, three states with varying degrees of statutory reform. The quality and content of the written clinical evidence for guardianship and t...