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Racial Conflicts In Schools
That racially motivated conflicts occur in schools is an indisputable fact that becomes evident upon review of both academic literature and popular media. Events such as the Jena 6 incident (Maxwell & Zehr, 2007), school wide racially motivated riots (latimes.com), and court rulings (theithican.org) are distressing examples that racial barriers are real and potentially dangerous for many students in this country. However, little is written about the nature of racial conflicts, including the actual process school leaders engage in when determining how or even whether to intervene in racial conflicts, and the affect those racial conflicts have on the school climate and relevant stakeholders (e.g. directly involved students, other students, and school staff). To address this concern the current study is designed to provide insight into the decision-making process of school counselors in the intervention of racial conflicts that occur between students. The findings of this study will be pertinent and beneficial to all educational professionals as well as students. The following review provides context for understanding racial conflicts in schools, and addresses such issues as prevalence rates, causes, consequences, theories, and interventions to address such conflicts. Finally, the review concludes with a description of limitations in the research and a description of a proposed study
Measuring Quark-Gluon-Plasma Thermalization Time with Dileptons
We calculate the medium dilepton yield from a quark-gluon plasma which has a
time-dependent local momentum-space anisotropy. A phenomenological model for
the hard momentum scale, p_hard(tau), and plasma anisotropy parameter, xi(tau),
is constructed which interpolates between free streaming behavior at early
times (tau >
tau_iso). We show that high-energy dilepton production is sensitive to the
assumed plasma isotropization time, tau_iso, and can therefore be used to
experimentally determine the time of onset for hydrodynamic expansion of a
quark-gluon plasma and the magnitude of expected early-time momentum-space
anisotropies.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures; v3: update to match published versio
Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the Country's Most Vulnerable Youth
Identifies the four groups of youth who are at the highest risk of long-term unemployment, incarceration, and social disconnection. Discusses a number of policy directions for helping these youth make successful transitions into adulthood
Connected by 25: Improving the Life Chances of the Country's Most Vulnerable 14-24 Year Olds
Virtually all youth not connected by age 25 begin the process of disconnection much earlier, usually before age 19. In our society, almost all youth require support until they have connected successfully with the labor force, which generally does not occur until their mid-twenties. Most young adults experience detours on the road to economic independence, including periods of unemployment and periodic interruptions in their education. In this paper, we address several issues relevant to developing such a system of services. We begin by identifying those groups of youth at highest risk of long-term disconnection.This is critical for developing policies and programs and for deciding how to target such rograms. Research indicates that those youth who are unable to make a successful ransition differ in important ways from other out of school/unemployed youth
Constraining the onset of viscous hydrodynamics
We derive two general criteria that can be used to constrain the initial time
of the onset of 2nd-order conformal viscous hydrodynamics in relativistic
heavy-ion collisions. We show this explicitly for 0+1 dimensional viscous
hydrodynamics and discuss how to extend the constraint to higher dimensions.Comment: 2 pages, 2 figures - To appear in the conference proceedings for
Quark Matter 2009, March 30 - April 4, Knoxville, Tennessee. Selected Poster
for the Flash Talk Session at QM09. v3: typos corrected, minor format changes
and updated reference
Reducing the Effects of Detrimental Instances
Not all instances in a data set are equally beneficial for inducing a model
of the data. Some instances (such as outliers or noise) can be detrimental.
However, at least initially, the instances in a data set are generally
considered equally in machine learning algorithms. Many current approaches for
handling noisy and detrimental instances make a binary decision about whether
an instance is detrimental or not. In this paper, we 1) extend this paradigm by
weighting the instances on a continuous scale and 2) present a methodology for
measuring how detrimental an instance may be for inducing a model of the data.
We call our method of identifying and weighting detrimental instances reduced
detrimental instance learning (RDIL). We examine RIDL on a set of 54 data sets
and 5 learning algorithms and compare RIDL with other weighting and filtering
approaches. RDIL is especially useful for learning algorithms where every
instance can affect the classification boundary and the training instances are
considered individually, such as multilayer perceptrons trained with
backpropagation (MLPs). Our results also suggest that a more accurate estimate
of which instances are detrimental can have a significant positive impact for
handling them.Comment: 6 pages, 5 tables, 2 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text
overlap with arXiv:1403.189
Boost-Invariant (2+1)-dimensional Anisotropic Hydrodynamics
We present results of the application of the anisotropic hydrodynamics
(aHydro) framework to (2+1)-dimensional boost invariant systems. The necessary
aHydro dynamical equations are derived by taking moments of the Boltzmann
equation using a momentum-space anisotropic one-particle distribution function.
We present a derivation of the necessary equations and then proceed to
numerical solutions of the resulting partial differential equations using both
realistic smooth Glauber initial conditions and fluctuating Monte-Carlo Glauber
initial conditions. For this purpose we have developed two numerical
implementations: one which is based on straightforward integration of the
resulting partial differential equations supplemented by a two-dimensional
weighted Lax-Friedrichs smoothing in the case of fluctuating initial
conditions; and another that is based on the application of the Kurganov-Tadmor
central scheme. For our final results we compute the collective flow of the
matter via the lab-frame energy-momentum tensor eccentricity as a function of
the assumed shear viscosity to entropy ratio, proper time, and impact
parameter.Comment: 45 pages, 12 figures; v2 published versio
Missing Value Imputation With Unsupervised Backpropagation
Many data mining and data analysis techniques operate on dense matrices or
complete tables of data. Real-world data sets, however, often contain unknown
values. Even many classification algorithms that are designed to operate with
missing values still exhibit deteriorated accuracy. One approach to handling
missing values is to fill in (impute) the missing values. In this paper, we
present a technique for unsupervised learning called Unsupervised
Backpropagation (UBP), which trains a multi-layer perceptron to fit to the
manifold sampled by a set of observed point-vectors. We evaluate UBP with the
task of imputing missing values in datasets, and show that UBP is able to
predict missing values with significantly lower sum-squared error than other
collaborative filtering and imputation techniques. We also demonstrate with 24
datasets and 9 supervised learning algorithms that classification accuracy is
usually higher when randomly-withheld values are imputed using UBP, rather than
with other methods
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