The Internet and Civic Engagement

Based on a survey, analyzes how socioeconomic status and other demographics correlate with online and offline political and civic engagement. Explores suggestions that younger generations' political use of social media may alter such patterns

The Impact of Recent Banking Regulations on the Market for Corporate Control

Part II of this Article briefly discusses the historical development of the regulation of bank capital, focusing on the 1989 risk-based capital adequacy regulations as well as the 1989 highly leveraged transaction guidelines and their impact on the banking industry\u27s involvement in takeover transactions. This section also shows how the perverse incentives created by the present system of federal deposit insurance impact on the takeover market. Part III discusses the role of thrifts in corporate takeovers and the effect of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, including its prohibition on thrifts\u27 purchasing junk bonds. The concluding section speculates as to why these seemingly unwise regulations were adopted

L’élection fédérale de 1993 : le comportement électoral des Québécois

L’article examine la dynamique de la campagne ainsi que les facteurs qui ont influencé le vote chez trois blocs d’électeurs : les non-francophones, les francophones souverainistes et les francophones non souverainistes. L’analyse se fonde sur les données recueillies dans le cadre de l’Étude sur l’élection canadienne de 1993. On montre que la raison première du succès du Bloc québécois réside dans l’appui indéfectible que lui ont accordé les souverainistes. Le Bloc a également réussi à obtenir l’appui d’une fraction des non souverainistes les plus nationalistes, des jeunes qui étaient insatisfaits des partis traditionnels et de ceux dont la situation économique s’était détériorée. Finalement, le Bloc a profité de la popularité personnelle de Lucien Bouchard.The paper examines the dynamics of the campaign as well as the factors that influenced voting behavior among three blocs of voters: non francophones, francophone sovereignists, and francophone non sovereignists. The analysis is based on survey date collected by the 1993 Canadian Election Study. We show that the primary reason for the success of the Bloc québécois lies in the overwhelming support of the sovereignists. The Bloc was also able to get the support of a fraction of the most nationalist non sovereignists, of younger voters who were dissatisfied with traditional parties, and of those whose personal economic situation had deteriorated. Finally, the Bloc was helped by the personal popularity of its leader, Lucien Bouchard

Cultural Education Platform for Tewa Speakers

We worked with a Pueblo in Northern New Mexico that has witnessed a gradual decline in the usage of their Native language and customs. Our Sponsors fear their language and traditions are on the brink of extinction. Our project aimed to assist our sponsors, Honor Our Pueblo Existence and Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute, in supplementing the existing Tewa curriculum by developing a platform through which the people of Hopeville can learn Tewa vocabulary and begin to connect with their heritage. Our team developed a private website containing culturally relevant videos narrated in Tewa. To fully utilize the platform and increase the number of fluent Tewa speakers, the Pueblo might have to consider adapting how language is taught in the community

The Grey Fox, broadside

Broadside for the play, The Grey Fox with Henry Hull and Chrystal Herne, appearing at The Playhouse.https://egrove.olemiss.edu/creekmore/1267/thumbnail.jp

Editorial: Introduction to the Special Issue on Deep Learning for High-Dimensional Sensing

The papers in this special section focus on deep learning for high-dimensional sensing. People live in a high-dimensional world and sensing is the first step to perceive and understand the environment for both human beings and machines. Therefore, high-dimensional sensing (HDS) plays a pivotal role in many fields such as robotics, signal processing, computer vision and surveillance. The recent explosive growth of artificial intelligence has provided new opportunities and tools for HDS, especially for machine vision. In many emerging real applications such as advanced driver assistance systems/autonomous driving systems, large-scale, high-dimensional and diverse types of data need to be captured and processed with high accuracy and in a real-time manner. Bearing this in mind, now is the time to develop new sensing and processing techniques with high performance to capture high-dimensional data by leveraging recent advances in deep learning (DL)

The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society vol. 3 No. 1

1. Notices. 2. Notes and Queries. 3. Irish Quaker Records I. 4. Friends on the Atlantic III. 5. Disused Burial Grounds in South Yorkshire. 6. Honest Margret. 7. Words of Sympathy for New England Sufferers. 8. Extracts from the Bishop of Chester's Visitation, 1665 III. 9. John Woolman to Jane Crossfield. 10. Stephen Grellet at Chelmsford, Essex. 11. Petition to the Commissioners from the Vestry of Newcastle, Pa. 12. Aylesbury Gaol, Bucks. 13. Friends in Current Literature. 14. Friends' Reference Library, Devonshire House