Lo, Q

Q Lo is a 45 year old transgender man, the son of two Chinese immigrants who grew up in New York. Q discusses growing up as a queer person of color, how his gender and sexual identity was impacted by the lack of representation he saw around him, how his upbringing in Chinatown influenced his view of the world, and how his immigrant parents influenced his relationship with school, work and creativity. Q talks about attending college, dropping out of college, and his experiences going to MECA in Portland Maine while grappling with the classism and privilege he was experiencing from other students. Q reflects on the Michigan Women’s Festival, a festival controversial for its decision to bar transgender women from participating, and how he still reflects fondly on that time despite the controversy. Additionally, Q also talks about his current employment, and the various ways that performative actions have directly impacted his life, both in queer spaces and outside of them.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/querying_ohproject/1091/thumbnail.jp

Online contention resolution schemes for matchings and matroids

We investigate the problem of designing (preferably optimal) online contention resolution schemes (OCRSs). They are a powerful framework for optimization under various combinatorial constraints such as matroids, matchings, knapsacks and their intersections. OCRSs immediately imply prophet inequalities in Bayesian online selection problem. They also have other important applications such as stochastic probing and oblivious posted price mechanisms. We present several novel OCRSs which improve the current state-of-the-art algorithms. We design an optimal 0.5-selectable OCRS over matroids with rank 2, and another optimal 0.5-selectable OCRS over transversal matroids. Previously the best result applicable to these types of matroids was a 0.25-selectable OCRS. Furthermore, we design a 1/(k+1)-selectable OCRS over matchings in k-partite hypergraphs.Science, Faculty ofComputer Science, Department ofGraduat

A study of the Iliad in translation,

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The story of Troy,

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The Civil War.

Vol. 1 published in 1947 under title: The American Iliad; the epic story of the Civil War as narrated by eyewitnesses and contemporaries, by Otto Eisenschiml and Ralph Newman.Issued in a case.Includes bibliographical references and index.v. 1. The American Iliad, as told by those who lived it, by O. Eisenschiml and R. Newman.--v. 2. The picture chronicle of the events, leaders, and battlefields of the war, by R. Newman and E.B. Long.Mode of access: Internet.