Heat in the Heartland: Climate Change and Economic Risk in the Midwest

This report offers a first step toward defining the range of potential economic consequences to the Midwest if we continue on our current greenhouse gas emissions pathway. The research combines state-of-the-art climate science projections through the year 2100 (and beyond in some cases) with empirically-derived estimates of the impact of projected changes in temperature and precipitation on the Midwest economy. The authors analyze not only those outcomes most likely to occur, but also lower-probability, higher-cost climate futures. These are the "tail risks," most often expressed here as the 1-in-20 chance something will occur. Unlike any other study to date, this report looks at climate impacts at a very geographically granular level, in some cases providing county-level results

MapSnapper: Engineering an Efficient Algorithm for Matching Images of Maps from Mobile Phones

The MapSnapper project aimed to develop a system for robust matching of low-quality images of a paper map taken from a mobile phone against a high quality digital raster representation of the same map. The paper presents a novel methodology for performing content-based image retrieval and object recognition from query images that have been degraded by noise and subjected to transformations through the imaging system. In addition the paper also provides an insight into the evaluation-driven development process that was used to incrementally improve the matching performance until the design specifications were met

Pricing practices on the Peoria hog market

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We lack evidence to call Jatropha invasive

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From Brown to Busing

An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation. This paper uses newly assembled data to document when and how Southern school districts desegregated as well as the extent of court involvement in the desegregation process over the two full decades after Brown. We also examine heterogeneity in the path to desegregation by district characteristics. The results suggest that the existing quantitative literature, which generally either begins in 1968 and focuses on the role of federal courts in larger urban districts or relies on highly aggregated data, often tells an incomplete story of desegregation.

Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity. Not to become slaves of the knowledge of others

Discurso pronunciado en la Universidad Icesi de Cali, en el Tercer Congreso Colombiano de Filosofía, Cali, 21 de octubre de 2010 por Lewis R. Gordon, director del instituto para el Estudio de la Raza y el Pensamiento Social y director del Centro de Estudios Afro-Judios. Profesor de filosofía en la Universidad de Temple y Presidente de la Asociación Filosófica del Caribe.Speech held at the Icesi University in Cali at the Third Colombian Congress of Philosophy, Cali, October 21, 2010 by Gordon Lewis, director of the Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought and director of the Center for Afro-Jews. Professor of Philosophy at the Temple University and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association

Afterword: Living Fanon

Commentary on essays in Forum: Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth, Fifty Years Later

Introduction: Forum on Creolizing Theory

This introduction outlines why the author assembled a community of scholars with the task not of commenting on Jane Anna Gordon’s work on creolizing political theory but instead placing it in dialogue with their own.   The idea is that the value of theory depends also on the extent to which it could be engaged as a communicative practice with other theories dedicated to a shared concern.  In this case, it is scholars committed to thought devoted to concerns of dignity, freedom, and liberation as well as the critical question of the ultimate value of doing theoretical work.