Maine Alumnus, Volume 35, Number 9, June 1954

Contents: Graduation and Alumniship --- 101st Commencement --- 79th Reunion --- A Review of S. R. A. (Student Religious Association) --- New Education Program --- Alumni Silver Sabre --- Frederick W. Conlogue Fund --- New Jersey Honors W. H. Martin --- Two-Year Agricultural Graduation --- 1954 Summer Session --- Pulp and Paper Research Dayshttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/alumni_magazines/1459/thumbnail.jp

Rethinking Item Importance in Session-based Recommendation

Session-based recommendation aims to predict users' based on anonymous sessions. Previous work mainly focuses on the transition relationship between items during an ongoing session. They generally fail to pay enough attention to the importance of the items in terms of their relevance to user's main intent. In this paper, we propose a Session-based Recommendation approach with an Importance Extraction Module, i.e., SR-IEM, that considers both a user's long-term and recent behavior in an ongoing session. We employ a modified self-attention mechanism to estimate item importance in a session, which is then used to predict user's long-term preference. Item recommendations are produced by combining the user's long-term preference and current interest as conveyed by the last interacted item. Experiments conducted on two benchmark datasets validate that SR-IEM outperforms the start-of-the-art in terms of Recall and MRR and has a reduced computational complexity

General Report - Session 3

This General Report summarizes the 84 papers accepted for the Session 3 focused on: - 3a. Case Histories on Failure and Remediation of Slopes, Dams, Embankments and Landfills (53 papers), - 3b. Case Histories on Failure and Remediation of Retaining Structures, Slurry Walls, and Deep Excavations, Dewatering, Stability (27 papers), - 3c. Improving the Stability and Maintenance of Monuments (4 papers). The papers originate from 26 countries (11 European countries, 3 American countries, 11 Asian countries and 1 African country). The papers cover a number of relevant topics divided into three different sub - sessions. As for the two papers included in Session 3c, only one deals with maintenance and retrofit of historical monuments. Indeed paper 3.03c is more pertinent to session 3b. On the other hand some papers included in Session 3a could also be considered in Session 3b and vice versa

Annual report 2014–15: auditing in the public interest

The Annual Report 2014–15 provides a summary of the performance of Victorian Auditor-General\u27s Office (VAGO) in 2014–15 in fulfilling our purpose to provide assurance to Parliament on the accountability and performance of Victoria’s public sector. This year, our annual report is divided into two volumes. Volume 1 contains our report on operations and financial statements (including the opinion of the independent external auditor appointed by the Public Accounts and Estimates Committee). It also: reports on our output performance measures as set in State Budget Papers reports on the implementation of our Annual Plan 2014–15 reports on our increasing impact reports on our organisation and people. Volume 2 contains a summary of common findings from the 34 reports on our audits tabled in Parliament in 2014–15

Reply to Rosanna Keefe’s ‘Modelling higher-order vagueness: columns, borderlines and boundaries’

This paper is an expanded written version of my reply to Rosanna Keefe’s paper ‘Modelling higher-order vagueness: columns, borderlines and boundaries’ (Keefe 2015), which in turn is a reply to my paper ‘Columnar higher-order vagueness, or Vagueness is higher-order vagueness’ (Bobzien 2015). Both papers were presented at the Joint Session of the the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association in July, 2015. At the Joint Session meeting, there was insufficient time to present all of my points in response to Keefe’s paper. In addition, the audio of the session, which is available online, becomes inaudible at the beginning of my reply to Keefe’s comments due to a technical defect. The following is a full version of my remarks

Monitoring and management of power transmission dynamics in an industrial smart grid

This article is a position paper whose purpose is to give the context for presentations in a special session at PowerTech 2013. The special session is being proposed by the EU FP7 Real-Smart Consortium, a Marie Curie Industry-Academic Pathways and Partnerships project. The paper gives an overview of topics on modeling, monitoring and management of power transmission dynamics with participation from large industrial loads. © 2013 IEEE

Computing as the 4th “R”: a general education approach to computing education

Computing and computation are increasingly pervading our lives, careers, and societies - a change driving interest in computing education at the secondary level. But what should define a "general education" computing course at this level? That is, what would you want every person to know, assuming they never take another computing course? We identify possible outcomes for such a course through the experience of designing and implementing a general education university course utilizing best-practice pedagogies. Though we nominally taught programming, the design of the course led students to report gaining core, transferable skills and the confidence to employ them in their future. We discuss how various aspects of the course likely contributed to these gains. Finally, we encourage the community to embrace the challenge of teaching general education computing in contrast to and in conjunction with existing curricula designed primarily to interest students in the field

Time-In-Cell 2019: A Snapshot of Restrictive Housing based on a Nationwide Survey of U.S. Prison Systems

This report provides a picture based on 2019 data from thirty-nine jurisdictions about the use of restrictive housing. For this analysis, we defined restrictive housing as holding individuals in a cell for an average of twenty-two hours or more a day for fifteen days or more. Through a nation-wide survey, we have gathered data enabling an understanding of the number of individuals held in solitary confinement, their demographic makeup, the duration of time that they spent in solitary confinement, and aspects of the rules governing that confinement. The collection of this information is a joint undertaking of the Liman Center at Yale Law School and the Correctional Leaders Association (CLA), formerly the Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA). Since 2012, the Liman Center and CLA have worked together on a variety of projects, several of which relate to restrictive housing.https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/amlaw/1025/thumbnail.jp