The Culinary Walt Whitman

Describes three items owned by the article\u27s author (a respected chef from Chicago) related to both Whitman and food: an engraving of what may be Whitman in a Civil War soup line, a previously known but lost letter from Whitman to his sister-in-law Louisa Orr Whitman, and a dinner menu from the Complimentary Dinner given in honor of Whitman\u27s 70th birthday ; includes an authentic recipe for the main entree at the dinner

The Coron System

Coron is a domain and platform independent, multi-purposed data mining toolkit, which incorporates not only a rich collection of data mining algorithms, but also allows a number of auxiliary operations. To the best of our knowledge, a data mining toolkit designed specifically for itemset extraction and association rule generation like Coron does not exist elsewhere. Coron also provides support for preparing and filtering data, and for interpreting the extracted units of knowledge

The Story of the “Mighty Eighth” 1941-1945: Pearl Harbor to Normandy and beyond

My thesis is about the American Eight Air Force, and the role it played in World War II. When the unit was activated in January of 1942, it had only a handful of men, and no aircraft. By the end of the war in 1945, the “Mighty Eighth” was 350,000 strong, stationed across over 100 bases in England, and had lost 26,000 men, more than the United States Marine Corps had lost in all of World WarII. By 1943, the Western Allies planned to open a second front against Nazi Germany, by invading Western Europe. With all of Western Europe under Nazi control or influence, the only way to attack them prior to an invasion, and weaken their ability to repel said invasion, was from the air. The Eighth Air Force, along with the Royal Air Force, were called on to perform this task. This was a new kind of war: a bombing campaign on such a scale had never been done before, and as a result, everything they learned about how to carry out this campaign successfully had to be learned through trial and error. I want to show how the Eighth Air Force had a decisive role in making D-Day possible. Using primary sources, postwar analyses and secondary sources, I intend to analyze how they failed to destroy the German war machine, but succeeded in destroying the Luftwaffe and making the Third Reich’s oil resources run dry. I will also show how the Eighth Air Force, through trial and error, changes in policy, not to mention resources and manpower, went from a failure to a success story

Adaptation Knowledge Discovery from a Case Base

In case-based reasoning, the adaptation step depends in general on domain-dependent knowledge, which motivates studies on adaptation knowledge acquisition (AKA). CABAMAKA is an AKA system based on principles of knowledge discovery from databases. This system explores the variations within the case base to elicit adaptation knowledge. It has been successfully tested in an application of case-based decision support to breast cancer treatment

Case Base Mining for Adaptation Knowledge Acquisition

In case-based reasoning, the adaptation of a source case in order to solve the target problem is at the same time crucial and difficult to implement. The reason for this difficulty is that, in general, adaptation strongly depends on domain-dependent knowledge. This fact motivates research on adaptation knowledge acquisition (AKA). This paper presents an approach to AKA based on the principles and techniques of knowledge discovery from databases and data-mining. It is implemented in CABAMAKA, a system that explores the variations within the case base to elicit adaptation knowledge. This system has been successfully tested in an application of case-based reasoning to decision support in the domain of breast cancer treatment

Problem solving stages in the five square problem

According to the restructuring hypothesis, insight problem solving typically progresses through consecutive stages of search, impasse, insight, and search again for someone, who solves the task. The order of these stages was determined through self-reports of problem solvers and has never been verified behaviorally. We asked whether individual analysis of problem solving attempts of participants revealed the same order of problem solving stages as defined by the theory and whether their subjective feelings corresponded to the problem solving stages they were in. Our participants tried to solve the Five-Square problem in an online task, while we recorded the time and trajectory of their stick movements. After the task they were asked about their feelings related to insight and some of them also had the possibility of reporting impasse while working on the task. We found that the majority of participants did not follow the classic four-stage model of insight, but had more complex sequences of problem solving stages, with search and impasse recurring several times. This means that the classic four-stage model is not sufficient to describe variability on the individual level. We revised the classic model and we provide a new model that can generate all sequences found. Solvers reported insight more often than non-solvers and non-solvers reported impasse more often than solvers, as expected;but participants did not report impasse more often during behaviorally defined impasse stages than during other stages. This shows that impasse reports might be unreliable indicators of impasse. Our study highlights the importance of individual analysis of problem solving behavior to verify insight theory

A proposition for a multi-dimensional classification-based system for corporate knowledge management

Colloque avec actes sans comité de lecture. internationale.International audienceThis paper presents an ongoing research work on knowledge management. The problem is to be able to design a "multidimensional portfolio", in order to organize and to index the different aspects of knowledge in an enterprise. We have chosen an object-oriented view for such a representation. Every piece of knowledge is represented within classes in an object-based representation system. The multidimensional organization is supported by a number of tangled hierarchies of classes, one hierarchy giving a particular point of view on the enterprise knowledge

Identifying the Correlation Between the Flexibility of the Glenohumeral Joint and the Throwing Velocity of a Baseball

Research has been completed discussing flexibility and throwing velocity, but there is a void of literature determining whether these two variables are related. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if there is a correlation between the flexibility of the glenohumeral joint and the throwing velocity of a baseball. Methods: Thirty college males, all above the age of 18 years of age, volunteered to throw a baseball as fast as they could, having three separate trials to reach their maximal throwing velocity. The participants completed the “Back Scratch” test to assess the flexibility of the glenohumeral joint in each arm. Each participant completed three throwing trials and the velocities were recorded into a chart along with their back scratch test results and hand dominance. A Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Analysis was performed to determine if a correlation between glenohumeral joint and the throwing velocity of a baseball existed. An independent t-test was also conducted to determine if there was a difference between hand dominance and glenohumeral joint flexibility. Significance was accepted at p\u3c0.05 Results: It was found that there was no correlation between glenohumeral joint flexibility and average throwing velocity. Left-hand dominant participants had a mean flexibility of 1.3±1.9 inches in the left arm and 2.1±1.9 inches in the right arm. They had an average throwing velocity of 83.2±6.0 mph. Right-hand dominant participants had a mean flexibility of -1.7±2.9 inches in the left arm and 0.5±2.4 inches in the right arm. They had average mean velocity of 77.9±9.9 mph. There was significant difference in left arm flexibility between the left and right hand dominant participants (p=0.005). A difference in right arm flexibility was not significant between left and right hand dominant participants (p=0.076). Conclusion: There was no correlation found between glenohumeral joint flexibility and average throwing velocity. According to these results, coaches should not focus on making their athletes more flexible in hopes to gain a higher throwing velocity