Memorandum from Jimmy O\u27Leary (a member of John Joseph Moakley\u27s staff) to Amy regarding Possible statement on South Boston High School, circa 1975

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An experimental study of the effectiveness of two methods of improving vocabulary in average and above average eighth grade pupils in the classroom reading program

The purpose of this study was to evaluate a direct teaching method and a wide reading method of expanding and enriching vocabularies of eighth grade students of average and above-average ability. The writer hoped to determine which of the methods would effect more improvement during a seven month period. A further desired outcome was to discover which method was more effective with the higher and lower ability groups within the experimental groups. The specific objectives of this study are: 1. To determine which method will bring about more improvement in vocabulary. 2. To determine which ability group will meet with more success in each experimental group

Alien Registration- O\u27Leary, James E. (Portland, Cumberland County)

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Fibonacci Series, Golden Proportions, and the Human Biology

Pythagoras, Plato and Euclid’s paved the way for Classical Geometry. The idea of shapes that can be mathematically defined by equations led to the creation of great structures of modern and ancient civilizations, and milestones in mathematics and science. However, classical geometry fails to explain the complexity of non-linear shapes replete in nature such as the curvature of a flower or the wings of a Butterfly. Such non-linearity can be explained by fractal geometry which creates shapes that emulate those found in nature with remarkable accuracy. Such phenomenon begs the question of architectural origin for biological existence within the universe. While the concept of a unifying equation of life has yet to be discovered, the Fibonacci sequence may establish an origin for such a development. The observation of the Fibonacci sequence is existent in almost all aspects of life ranging from the leaves of a fern tree, architecture, and even paintings, makes it highly unlikely to be a stochastic phenomenon. Despite its wide-spread occurrence and existence, the Fibonacci series and the Rule of Golden Proportions has not been widely documented in the human body. This paper serves to review the observed documentation of the Fibonacci sequence in the human body

North Carolina\u27s Unemployment Insurance System: A Simulation and Policy Analysis

The W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (Upjohn) in partnership with the Center for Employment Security Education and Research (CESER) in the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) has been contracted by the North Carolina Department of Commerce (Department) to develop options for improving the North Carolina unemployment insurance (UI) benefit financing system. The work will also review alternative financial management strategies to regain and maintain solvency of the North Carolina account in the Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) and to service debt to the federal government under Title XII of the US Social Security Act

Graph-Based Mutations for Music Generation

Our study aims to compare the effects of direct mutation and graphbased mutation on representations of music domain. We focus on short tunes from the Irish folk tradition, represented as integer sequences, and use a graph-based representation based on Pathway Assembly (a directed acyclic graph) and the Sequitur algorithm. We define multiple mutation operators to work directly on the sequences or on the graphs, hypothesizing that graph-based mutations will tend to preserve the pattern used per tune, while direct mutation of sequences will tend to destroy patterns, resulting in new generated tunes that are more complex. We perform experiments on a corpus of tunes and apply the mutation operators many times consecutively to analyze their effects