Multiple Linear Regression Applications in Real Estate Pricing

In this paper, we attempt to predict the price of a real estate individual homes sold in North West Indiana based on the individual homes sold in 2014. The data/information is collected from realtor.com. The purpose of this paper is to predict the price of individual homes sold based on multiple regression model and also utilize SAS forecasting model and software. We also determine the factors influencing housing prices and to what extent they affect the price. Independent variables such square footage, number of bathrooms, and whether there is a finished basement,. and whether there is brick front or not and the type of home: Colonial, Contemporary or Tudor. How much does each type of home (Colonial, Contemporary, Tudor) add to the price of the real estate

in defense of Grass Grows: a play about mental illness

My mission as a mentally ill theatre artist is to challenge the commonly-perpetuated fictions that restrict public perception of mentally ill persons [MIPs]. A meta-analysis of plays from the Greek, Medieval, Victorian, Melodramatic, Naturalist, and Post- Naturalist eras reflected just how little progress has been made at exposing and eliminating popular myths about mental illness. While the theatrical canon offers evidence for the inadequacy of current representations of MIPs, the psychological literature offers steps forward for the artists telling these stories. Efforts to improve artist sensitivity to the complex realities of mental illness fail to educate with fact alone (Dale, Richards, Bradburn, Tadros, & Salama, 2014); positive change in public representations of mental illness only occurs in response to local, personally meaningful testimonies from MIPs themselves (Corrgian, 2012; Ciszek & Gallicano, 2013). It is no longer enough to credit pathology as real; we must give credit to the expertise of she within whom it manifests. Grass Grows is my response to the call for a new Theatre of Sanity that promotes pragmatic but hopeful stories about encountering the world through the lens of mental illness

A component-based middleware framework for configurable and reconfigurable Grid computing

Significant progress has been made in the design and development of Grid middleware which, in its present form, is founded on Web services technologies. However, we argue that present-day Grid middleware is severely limited in supporting projected next-generation applications which will involve pervasive and heterogeneous networked infrastructures, and advanced services such as collaborative distributed visualization. In this paper we discuss a new Grid middleware framework that features (i) support for advanced network services based on the novel concept of pluggable overlay networks, (ii) an architectural framework for constructing bespoke Grid middleware platforms in terms of 'middleware domains' such as extensible interaction types and resource discovery. We believe that such features will become increasingly essential with the emergence of next-generation e-Science applications. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

F**k ups in social research: learning from what goes ‘wrong’

What happens when research goes wrong, or at least, is perceived to go wrong? How do researchers manage, or indeed fail to manage, the unexpected, and what new intellectual developments might be made possible through engagement with ‘failures’? Jason Hughes, Anna Tarrant, Kahryn Hughes and Grace Sykes discuss these questions, as part of a forthcoming edited collection, called F**k Ups in Social Research: What to do when Research Goes Wrong. Here they explore the value of failure in research and the importance of crafting a critical and reflexive space for learning when social research doesn’t go to plan

Multiple Linear Regression Applications in Real Estate Pricing

In this paper, we attempt to predict the price of a real estate individual homes sold in North West Indiana based on the individual homes sold in 2014. The data/information is collected from realtor.com. The purpose of this paper is to predict the price of individual homes sold based on multiple regression model and also utilize SAS forecasting model and software. We also determine the factors influencing housing prices and to what extent they affect the price. Independent variables such square footage, number of bathrooms, and whether there is a finished basement,. and whether there is brick front or not and the type of home: Colonial, Contemporary or Tudor. How much does each type of home (Colonial, Contemporary, Tudor) add to the price of the real estate

Ice Core Water Isotope Records: Analysis of High-Resolution Greenland Ice Cores and Experimental Determination of Post-Depositional Effects on Surface Snow

Polar ice cores contain multiple proxies which record vast amounts of climate information over hundreds of thousands of years. Water isotopes in ice cores can be used to infer past temperature and atmospheric circulation patterns, and with recent advances in technology can be measured at very high resolution. Here, I present analyses of continuous water isotope records from two new Greenland ice cores, and use snow surface experiments to work towards improving our interpretation of ice core records.The Renland Ice Cap is located in East-Central Greenland, and an ice core drilled in 2015 contains a seasonally-resolved water isotope signal through 2.6 ka and sub-decadal signals through 8 ka. Using spectral analysis, I find that decadal (i.e. 15-20 year) isotope variability at Renland co-varies with North Atlantic sediment core indicators of ocean circulation patterns throughout the Holocene. Furthermore, analysis of the seasonal signal reveals that a decreasing trend in the winter isotope signal may correspond to an increase in Arctic sea ice cover and a decrease in total annual insolation over the last 2.6 ka. Together, these findings show that coastal Greenland climate may be closely tied to regional sea surface conditions.The East Greenland Ice Core Project (EastGRIP) is an ongoing drilling campaign in Northeast Greenland, with a record currently extending to 50 ka. EastGRIP has sub-decadal isotope signals preserved through the Glacial period, and for the first time we have a continuous Glacial record for multiple isotope parameters (i.e. δ18O and deuterium excess). Through comparison to a North-Central Greenland ice core record, I demonstrate the importance of high-resolution sampling and expand on our understanding of spatial variability in Greenland climate. Additionally, an analysis of abrupt climate events throughout the Glacial period indicates that rapid warming is preceded by a shift in North Atlantic atmospheric circulation patterns; this has important implications for our understanding of mechanisms occurring during abrupt climate changes.Many aspects of the isotope-climate relationships are well constrained through decades of research; however, there remain gaps in our understanding of processes taking place at the surface of the ice sheet between depositional precipitation events, and how they influence the recorded climate signal. To address this I use a series of laboratory experiments to show that in a controlled environment the snow isotopic composition changes rapidly due to sublimation, with this finding supported by model results. Complementary field experiments demonstrate that in a natural setting, the top 4 cm of the snow surface evolves on an hourly timescale due to sublimation and exchange with atmospheric vapor. These results suggest that water isotopes may effectively integrate across multiple parameters to record a more continuous climate signal, which may improve isotope-enabled climate models and inform our interpretation of ice core water isotope records

Grace Hughes: 1918 & 2020 Pandemic Poster

Mixed-media digital collage 18 inches wide, 24 inches highhttps://ecommons.udayton.edu/stu_vad_covidcollage/1013/thumbnail.jp