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The Shape of Gravity
In a nontrivial background geometry with extra dimensions, gravitational
effects will depend on the shape of the Kaluza-Klein excitations of the
graviton. We investigate a consistent scenario of this type with two positive
tension three-branes separated in a five-dimensional Anti-de Sitter geometry.
The graviton is localized on the ``Planck'' brane, while a gapless continuum of
additional gravity eigenmodes probe the {\it infinitely} large fifth dimension.
Despite the background five-dimensional geometry, an observer confined to
either brane sees gravity as essentially four-dimensional up to a
position-dependent strong coupling scale, no matter where the brane is located.
We apply this scenario to generate the TeV scale as a hierarchically suppressed
mass scale. Arbitrarily light gravitational modes appear in this scenario, but
with suppressed couplings. Real emission of these modes is observable at future
colliders; the effects are similar to those produced by {\it six} large
toroidal dimensions.Comment: 8 pages, 1 figur
Blueprint Buffalo Action Plan: Regional Strategies for Reclaiming Vacant Properties in the City and Suburbs of Buffalo
Over a period of about nine months, the NVPC team conducted interviews and gathered insights that have resulted in this report. During the study period, Buffalo–Niagara emerged as a region broadly challenged by decades of disinvestment and population loss, but also as a close network of communities singularly blessed with a wealth of historic, transit-friendly, and affordable neighborhoods and commercial areas. Building on the City of Buffalo’s “asset management” strategy first proposed in 2004 by the Cornell Cooperative Extension Association—and now formally adopted by the Buffalo Common Council as part of its comprehensive 20-year plan for the city—the NVPC team sought to reexamine how the revitalization of Buffalo’s vacant properties could actually serve as a catalyst to address the region’s other most pressing problems: population loss, a weak real estate market in the inner city, signs of incipient economic instability in older suburbs, quality-of-life issues, school quality, and suburban sprawl
Pseudo-scheduling: A New Approach to the Broadcast Scheduling Problem
The broadcast scheduling problem asks how a multihop network of broadcast
transceivers operating on a shared medium may share the medium in such a way
that communication over the entire network is possible. This can be naturally
modeled as a graph coloring problem via distance-2 coloring (L(1,1)-labeling,
strict scheduling). This coloring is difficult to compute and may require a
number of colors quadratic in the graph degree. This paper introduces
pseudo-scheduling, a relaxation of distance-2 coloring. Centralized and
decentralized algorithms that compute pseudo-schedules with colors linear in
the graph degree are given and proved.Comment: 8th International Symposium on Algorithms for Sensor Systems,
Wireless Ad Hoc Networks and Autonomous Mobile Entities (ALGOSENSORS 2012),
13-14 September 2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 12 page
Implementation Choices for the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
Synthesizes policy analyses and discussions with experts of provisions in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act to strengthen outreach and enrollment and improve quality of care. Recommends steps to ensure effective implementation
ConStance: Modeling Annotation Contexts to Improve Stance Classification
Manual annotations are a prerequisite for many applications of machine
learning. However, weaknesses in the annotation process itself are easy to
overlook. In particular, scholars often choose what information to give to
annotators without examining these decisions empirically. For subjective tasks
such as sentiment analysis, sarcasm, and stance detection, such choices can
impact results. Here, for the task of political stance detection on Twitter, we
show that providing too little context can result in noisy and uncertain
annotations, whereas providing too strong a context may cause it to outweigh
other signals. To characterize and reduce these biases, we develop ConStance, a
general model for reasoning about annotations across information conditions.
Given conflicting labels produced by multiple annotators seeing the same
instances with different contexts, ConStance simultaneously estimates gold
standard labels and also learns a classifier for new instances. We show that
the classifier learned by ConStance outperforms a variety of baselines at
predicting political stance, while the model's interpretable parameters shed
light on the effects of each context.Comment: To appear at EMNLP 201
THE BIG PICTURE: PRODUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF REDUCED US OBESITY
This paper assesses how successfully reducing the incidence of overweight and obesity in the US to meet public health objectives might influence agricultural production. We also examine the consequent agri-environmental effects of the production changes. Our estimates show that a reduction in aggregate consumption by between 2 and 6 percent, associated with public health goals being met, would lead to reduced production of primary agricultural commodities, increased exports, and reduced discharge of agricultural pollutants. In both cases, neither the estimated changes in commodity production nor the subsequent environmental impacts would be uniform across the landscape. Results indicate that in value terms, the largest changes (either positive or negative) in agricultural producer net returns would occur in the Corn Belt and the Lake States; conversely, the largest impacts on consumer surplus would occur in the Northeast and Pacific regions.Health Economics and Policy,
2008-2009 New Music Festival
Third Annual New Music Festival Joseph Turrin, Composer-in-Residence Lisa Leonard, Director
Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 7:30 pm Opening Night Faculty Concert Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Friday, April 24, 2009 at 7:30 pm Forum (Panel: Kenneth Amis, Thomas McKinley, Joseph Turrin ; Mediator: Lisa Leonard) Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm Young Composers Venue: Amarnick-Goldstein Concert Hall
Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:30 pm Joseph Turrin Spotlight Venue: Louis and Anne Green Center for the Expressive Arts
Commissioned Work
Joseph Turrin, the composer-in-residence, composed a musical work called, Chamber Symphony, for this festival. In 2016, Turrin revised the work and named it, Symphony Celestium. The full score is displayed in the Creative Works collection.https://spiral.lynn.edu/conservatory_newmusicfest/1008/thumbnail.jp
Curing Television\u27s Ills: The Portrayal of Health Care
Content analysis of TV programming across day- and night-time genres shows drugs and machines as the ubiquitous modes of healing, with doctors diagnosing incorrectly only three percent of the time
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