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A Diverse World of Dining
While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield University write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Evan Kern describes observations during their study abroad program at L\u27Ecole Supérieure d\u27Agricultures in Angers, France
Letter to Pam Williams regarding SEAALL committee assignment, October 21, 1993
A letter from Betty Kern to Pam Williams expressing Kern\u27s interest in being assigned to a SEAALL committee
A note on the lower bound for online strip packing
This note presents a lower bound of on the competitive ratio for online strip packing. The instance construction we use to obtain the lower bound was first coined by Brown, Baker and Katseff (1980). Recently this instance construction is used to improve the lower bound in computer aided proofs. We derive the best possible lower bound that can be obtained with this instance construction
Raiders of the Lost Architecture: Kernels for Bayesian Optimization in Conditional Parameter Spaces
In practical Bayesian optimization, we must often search over structures with
differing numbers of parameters. For instance, we may wish to search over
neural network architectures with an unknown number of layers. To relate
performance data gathered for different architectures, we define a new kernel
for conditional parameter spaces that explicitly includes information about
which parameters are relevant in a given structure. We show that this kernel
improves model quality and Bayesian optimization results over several simpler
baseline kernels.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Appeared in the NIPS 2013 workshop on Bayesian
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An improved local search algorithm for 3-SAT
We slightly improve the pruning technique presented in Dantsin et. al. (2002) to obtain an algorithm for 3-SAT
KEEN Mindset
The Kern Family Foundation honored Eddy Rojas, dean of the University of Dayton School of Engineering, with its 2015 Outstanding Dean Award for his exemplary work within the Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN)
The Elder Economic Security Standard(TM) Index for California, 2007: County Amounts, Comparisons and Components
Provides county-by-county data on how much income retirees need to make ends meet, how it compares with the Federal Poverty Line, and by how much the maximum Supplemental Security Income payment and average Social Security payment each fall short
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