Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data

This paper explores the costs and benefits of four avenues for achieving open Form 990 data: a mandate for e-filing, an IRS initiative to turn Form 990 data into open data, a third-party platform that would create an open database for Form 990 data, and a priori electronic filing. Sections also discuss the life and usage of 990 data. With bibliographical references

CHORUS Deliverable 2.1: State of the Art on Multimedia Search Engines

Based on the information provided by European projects and national initiatives related to multimedia search as well as domains experts that participated in the CHORUS Think-thanks and workshops, this document reports on the state of the art related to multimedia content search from, a technical, and socio-economic perspective. The technical perspective includes an up to date view on content based indexing and retrieval technologies, multimedia search in the context of mobile devices and peer-to-peer networks, and an overview of current evaluation and benchmark inititiatives to measure the performance of multimedia search engines. From a socio-economic perspective we inventorize the impact and legal consequences of these technical advances and point out future directions of research

Analysis of Fire Safety Applications in Morocco

This report is a documentation of our teams process in analyzing the fire safety systems present in the aviation, commercial, and industrial environments in Morocco. Our project also includes a comparison of Moroccan and international fire codes (mainly United States National Fire Protection Association codes) as well as a testimony to the current social problems in Morocco regarding the transition from Moroccan to international fire codes. We presented the results of our analysis as recommendations both to FirePRO Engineering as well as to future project teams looking to improve the non-fire safety application side of fire safety development in Morocco

Prospects for Skills-Based Export Growth in a Labour-Abundant, Resource-Rich Economy: Indonesia in Comparative Perspective

In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labour-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition for labourintensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the 'curse' of resource wealth. This diminishes prospects for more diversified growth based on renewable resources like human capital. Using an international panel data set we explore the influence of resource wealth, foreign direct investment, and human capital on the share of skill-intensive products in total exports. FDI and human capital increase this share; resource wealth diminishes it. We use the results to compare Indonesia with Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia's reliance on skill-intensive exports would have been higher had it achieved higher levels of FDI and skills. Indonesia's performance in accumulating these endowments, and its relative resource abundance, impede diversification in production and trade. Finally, we discuss policy lessons and options.

A framework for detecting financial statement fraud through multiple data sources

This project deals with how to detect fraud and non-compliance in financial statements in the present day in one of the biggest economies in the world, the U.S. Since it is mainly public companies that release detailed financial infor-mation, they are the focus. This project focuses on the top five market sectors where fraud is most common. It focuses on a variety of fraud types, but not on cases of deception that do not constitute fraud. A framework will be proposed which ac-counts for both structured data (the numbers in the balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement) and unstruc-tured data (the footnotes in these financial statements). It uses ontology-driven data mining techniques to do so

Volume-aware design of composite molds

© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery. We propose a novel technique for the automatic design of molds to cast highly complex shapes. The technique generates composite, two-piece molds. Each mold piece is made up of a hard plastic shell and a flexible silicone part. Thanks to the thin, soft, and smartly shaped silicone part, which is kept in place by a hard plastic shell, we can cast objects of unprecedented complexity. An innovative algorithm based on a volumetric analysis defines the layout of the internal cuts in the silicone mold part. Our approach can robustly handle thin protruding features and intertwined topologies that have caused previous methods to fail. We compare our results with state of the art techniques, and we demonstrate the casting of shapes with extremely complex geometry

A Proposed Taxonomy for the Systems Statistical Engineering Body of Knowledge

In the ASEM-IAC 2012, Cotter (2012) identified the gaps in knowledge that statistical engineering needs to address, explored additional gaps in knowledge not addressed in the prior works, and set forth a working definition of and body of knowledge for statistical engineering. In the ASEM-IAC 2015, Cotter (2015) proposed a systemic causal Bayesian hierarchical model that addressed the knowledge gap needed to integrate deterministic mathematical engineering causal models within a stochastic framework. Missing, however, is the framework for specifying the hierarchical qualitative systems structures necessary and sufficient for specifying systemic causal Bayesian hierarchical models. In the ASEM-IAC 2016, Cotter (2016) specified the modeling methodology through which statistical engineering models could be developed, diagnosed, and applied to predict systemic mission performance. In the last research update, Cotter (2017) proposed revisions to and integration of IDEF0 as the framework for developing hierarchical qualitative systems models. In that work, Cotter noted that a hierarchical causal Bayesian socio-technical modeling body of knowledge was yet to be developed, validated, and peer reviewed. This paper reports research into development of a core taxonomy for the systems statistical engineering causal Bayesian socio-technical modeling body of knowledge