Montana Kaimin, October 27, 1994

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Montana Kaimin, October 27, 1994

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/studentnewspaper/9798/thumbnail.jp

The digital self: A qualitative approach to studying female college students\u27 use of social-networking platforms

The purpose of this research was to understand how female college students make use of social networks, specifically how they use the medium to connect with others. Researching socialnetworking use pertaining to the phenomenon of connection will give a richer understanding of female students’ lived experience of social networking. Many quantitative studies have been conducted about social networking, but more qualitative measures are needed to explore social networking. With the continuously changing social-networking platforms, there is little research that sheds light on social-networking use among female college students. My goal was to conduct a qualitative research study that examined female college students’ use of socialnetworking platforms, specifically how they use the medium to connect, by conducting an exploratory instrumental case study, using experience sampling and the VisionsLive qualitative software platform for data collection. My unit of analysis was six female college students attending a comprehensive Midwestern university. I sought to answer five research questions through my research: 1. What social-networking platforms are female college students using? a. Which social-networking platforms are female college students using most often? 2. How do female college students describe their social-networking use? 3. In what ways do college women describe connecting through social networks? a. Who are female college students connecting with through social-networking platforms? 4. How do female college students describe their needs, and how is social networking related to those needs? 5. How do female college students describe their feelings about the use of social-networking platforms and connecting? After synthesis of the data and development of the emergent themes, the core of how female college students are experiencing social networking to connect with others materialized. The emergent themes were: • Connection happens on multiple levels and is used to maintain existing relationships;• Construction of shared meaning through virtual symbols; • Shapes self-value/self-worth; • Evokes feelings, both good and bad;• And wanting to be heard and understood. The essence of social-networking connection for these female participants was as a tool that evoked feelings and met needs, which is understood through the construction of shared meaning through virtual symbols

Stochastic Games on Graphs

Tohoku University田中一之課

Multidisciplinary geological excursion in the open-air laboratory of the Island of Malta. 11-18 November 2010. Field-Trip Guide.

Si tratta della guida all'escursione geologica multidisciplinare tenutasi a Malta dall'11 al 18 novembre 2010, nell'ambito del progetto di internazionalizzazione dell'Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia dal titolo "Multidisciplinary research in the open-air laboratory of the island of Malta: an internazional network for landslide hazard assessment in coastal areas" (2008-2010) finanziato dalla Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena e Reggio Emilia, per i Corsi di Laurea Triennale in Scienze Geologiche e Magistrale in Scienze e Tecnologie Geologiche

The Price of Defense

We consider a game on a graph G= ⟨ V, E⟩ with two confronting classes of randomized players: νattackers, who choose vertices and seek to minimize the probability of getting caught, and a single defender, who chooses edges and seeks to maximize the expected number of attackers it catches. In a Nash equilibrium, no player has an incentive to unilaterally deviate from her randomized strategy. The Price of Defense is the worst-case ratio, over all Nash equilibria, of ν over the expected utility of the defender at a Nash equilibrium. We orchestrate a strong interplay of arguments from Game Theory and Graph Theory to obtain both general and specific results in the considered setting: (1) Via a reduction to a Two-Players, Constant-Sum game, we observe that an arbitrary Nash equilibrium is computable in polynomial time. Further, we prove a general lower bound of |V|2 on the Price of Defense. We derive a characterization of graphs with a Nash equilibrium attaining this lower bound, which reveals a promising connection to Fractional Graph Theory; thereby, it implies an efficient recognition algorithm for such Defense-Optimal graphs. (2) We study some specific classes of Nash equilibria, both for their computational complexity and for their incurred Price of Defense. The classes are defined by imposing structure on the players’ randomized strategies: either graph-theoretic structure on the supports, or symmetry and uniformity structure on the probabilities. We develop novel graph-theoretic techniques to derive trade-offs between computational complexity and the Price of Defense for these classes. Some of the techniques touch upon classical milestones of Graph Theory; for example, we derive the first game-theoretic characterization of König-Egerváry graphs as graphs admitting a Matching Nash equilibrium

Profile: Minority Alumni Mentorship Program gets boost from American Express grant

In these pages: Conversation with...Chancellor David Johnson; 35 Years of Cougar football; Alumni gatheringhttps://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/profile/1060/thumbnail.jp