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Enabling transition into higher education for students with asperger syndrome
This project report provides an insight into the lives of students with Asperger Syndrome (AS) during their transition into higher education. It details the experiences of eight students with AS. Students were interviewed multiple times at various junctures throughout their first academic year. Although they told stories of everyday disabling barriers, they also shared experiences of academic and social successes. The project was primarily focused on students with AS; however, its findings will hopefully help inform inclusive policy and practice within higher education institutions
Bound States in n Dimensions (Especially n = 1 and n = 2)
We stress that in contradiction with what happens in space dimensions , there is no strict bound on the number of bound states with the same
structure as the semi-classical estimate for large coupling constant and give,
in two dimensions, examples of weak potentials with one or infinitely many
bound states. We derive bounds for one and two dimensions which have the
"right" coupling constant behaviour for large coupling.Comment: Talk given by A. Martin at Les Houches, October 2001, to appear in
"Few-Body Problems
Shrinkage Estimation in Multilevel Normal Models
This review traces the evolution of theory that started when Charles Stein in
1955 [In Proc. 3rd Berkeley Sympos. Math. Statist. Probab. I (1956) 197--206,
Univ. California Press] showed that using each separate sample mean from
Normal populations to estimate its own population mean can be
improved upon uniformly for every possible . The
dominating estimators, referred to here as being "Model-I minimax," can be
found by shrinking the sample means toward any constant vector. Admissible
minimax shrinkage estimators were derived by Stein and others as posterior
means based on a random effects model, "Model-II" here, wherein the
values have their own distributions. Section 2 centers on Figure 2, which
organizes a wide class of priors on the unknown Level-II hyperparameters that
have been proved to yield admissible Model-I minimax shrinkage estimators in
the "equal variance case." Putting a flat prior on the Level-II variance is
unique in this class for its scale-invariance and for its conjugacy, and it
induces Stein's harmonic prior (SHP) on .Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/11-STS363 the Statistical
Science (http://www.imstat.org/sts/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
What Communities Can Do to Rein In Payday Lending: Strategies for Successful Local Ordinance Campaigns through a Texas Lens
Because New Mexico has one of the highest consumer usage rates and highest concentrations of payday and title loan shops in the nation,2 we thought it would be an ideal place to measure the public’s knowledge of and interest in these ubiquitous loans. We also measured knowledge of interest rate caps in the context of credit cards, as a point of comparison. Our data are consistent with that of previous studies showing that the general public overwhelmingly supports interest rate caps both in general and for certain types of loans. More uniquely, we also found that many consumers are unaware that there are no interest rate caps on many forms of consumer loans. These data are useful in explaining why consumers do not do more to change the law on interest rate caps
Fast Fourier Transforms for the Rook Monoid
We define the notion of the Fourier transform for the rook monoid (also
called the symmetric inverse semigroup) and provide two efficient
divide-and-conquer algorithms (fast Fourier transforms, or FFTs) for computing
it. This paper marks the first extension of group FFTs to non-group semigroups
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