Saratoga Springs City School District and Saratoga Administrators Association

In the Matter of the Fact-Finding between Saratoga Springs City School District and Saratoga Administrators Association, PERB Case No.: M2009-170. Louis J. Patack, Esq. Fact Finder

When is Enough Good Enough in Gravitational Wave Source Modeling?

A typical approach to developing an analysis algorithm for analyzing gravitational wave data is to assume a particular waveform and use its characteristics to formulate a detection criteria. Once a detection has been made, the algorithm uses those same characteristics to tease out parameter estimates from a given data set. While an obvious starting point, such an approach is initiated by assuming a single, correct model for the waveform regardless of the signal strength, observation length, noise, etc. This paper introduces the method of Bayesian model selection as a way to select the most plausible waveform model from a set of models given the data and prior information. The discussion is done in the scientific context for the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figures, proceedings paper for the Sixth International LISA Symposiu

Ascertaining the correctness of the assigned central 3d transition metal in coordination complexes

A commentary is given on the article by Dittrich et al. [Acta Cryst. (2017), B73, 794–804] in this issue

Jamaica Bay: An Urban Marshland in Transition

This article will briefly examine the environmental problems that affect the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who live adjacent to Jamaica Bay, and the extraordinary opportunities for recreation and enjoyment for which the Bay, freed of sewage, air pollution and aircraft noise, could be employed

Religion: A Mosaic

Can we say of Religion what the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy said of Economics: It is not one homogeneous enterprise? If so, then what is religion as a plural phenomenon? Should we understand religious traditions as carriers of revealed truth in the current age of empirical science? Or should we appreciate the power of the human imagination to satisfy our curiosity? Can human ingenuity reconcile the psychological and historical biases of religious traditions? Can we see them as both individual and communal realities? I propose to understand religious traditions under the rubric of a metaphor. They are mosaics, subtle designs of human experiences-designs that have emerged from the human struggle of coping with the constant impulse to make sense of life. Human ingenuity is capable of creating counter-cultural communities that persist as chains of memory. Their historical function is celebrating relationships that define our destiny and who we are.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1039/thumbnail.jp

Realizability algebras: a program to well order R

The theory of classical realizability is a framework in which we can develop the proof-program correspondence. Using this framework, we show how to transform into programs the proofs in classical analysis with dependent choice and the existence of a well ordering of the real line. The principal tools are: The notion of realizability algebra, which is a three-sorted variant of the well known combinatory algebra of Curry. An adaptation of the method of forcing used in set theory to prove consistency results. Here, it is used in another way, to obtain programs associated with a well ordering of R and the existence of a non trivial ultrafilter on N