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Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
Examines trends in which media youth use, for how much time, how new media platforms have affected media consumption, what role mobile and online media play, what media environment youth live in, and how patterns vary by gender, age, and race/ethnicity
Zero to Six: Electronic Media in the Lives of Infants, Toddlers and Preschoolers
Presents the findings of a national study of more than 1,000 parents of children ages six months through six years, conducted from April 11 to June 9, 2003. Includes the impact of TV on reading, and parent's views on the educational value of media
So What\u27s in a Name? A Rhetorical Reading of Washington\u27s Sexually Violent Predators Act
In this Article, I will examine this socially constitutive function of narratives in the enactment of Washington State\u27s Sexually Violent Predators Act.\u270 This Act is a prime recent example of how social narratives-in this case, narratives of violence, pain, and outrage-lie behind the official language of the law. As Winter would point out, narrative was the vehicle that prompted legal change. The question for this Article, however, is what happens once the story has been recast into another form, here that of a statute? How well do the immediacy of the details and the authorial voice of the story lend themselves to the generalized and categorizing language of a rule
So What\u27s in a Name? A Rhetorical Reading of Washington\u27s Sexually Violent Predators Act
In this Article, I will examine this socially constitutive function of narratives in the enactment of Washington State\u27s Sexually Violent Predators Act.\u270 This Act is a prime recent example of how social narratives-in this case, narratives of violence, pain, and outrage-lie behind the official language of the law. As Winter would point out, narrative was the vehicle that prompted legal change. The question for this Article, however, is what happens once the story has been recast into another form, here that of a statute? How well do the immediacy of the details and the authorial voice of the story lend themselves to the generalized and categorizing language of a rule
e-Health and the Elderly: How Seniors Use the Internet for Health
Presents findings from a survey that examines how seniors use the Internet to look for information on doctors, research prescription drugs, find providers, manage their weight, follow health policy news, or look up the latest cancer treatments
Statistical framework for estimating GNSS bias
We present a statistical framework for estimating global navigation satellite
system (GNSS) non-ionospheric differential time delay bias. The biases are
estimated by examining differences of measured line integrated electron
densities (TEC) that are scaled to equivalent vertical integrated densities.
The spatio-temporal variability, instrumentation dependent errors, and errors
due to inaccurate ionospheric altitude profile assumptions are modeled as
structure functions. These structure functions determine how the TEC
differences are weighted in the linear least-squares minimization procedure,
which is used to produce the bias estimates. A method for automatic detection
and removal of outlier measurements that do not fit into a model of receiver
bias is also described. The same statistical framework can be used for a single
receiver station, but it also scales to a large global network of receivers. In
addition to the Global Positioning System (GPS), the method is also applicable
to other dual frequency GNSS systems, such as GLONASS (Globalnaya
Navigazionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema). The use of the framework is demonstrated
in practice through several examples. A specific implementation of the methods
presented here are used to compute GPS receiver biases for measurements in the
MIT Haystack Madrigal distributed database system. Results of the new algorithm
are compared with the current MIT Haystack Observatory MAPGPS bias
determination algorithm. The new method is found to produce estimates of
receiver bias that have reduced day-to-day variability and more consistent
coincident vertical TEC values.Comment: 18 pages, 5 figures, submitted to AM
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