President’s Column (2015) 51 Page 131

It is not the critic who counts; nor the one who points out how the strong person stumbled, or where the doer of a deed could have been better. The credit belongs to the person who is actually in the arena; . . . who strives valiantly; . . . who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he or she fails, at least fails while daring greatly.”—Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena: Citizenship in a Republic. I am humbled and thankful that our fellow AJA members have elected me to be your “Man in the Arena” this year. In a sense, the minute we take our oath of office as judges, all of us are immediately “in the arena” of public scrutiny. Our motto at AJA is “Making Better Judges®,” and we hope that this year we can help you better withstand that public scrutiny as we help each other shine and sparkle while toiling in the “arena” of our courtrooms and chambers. Many times our decisions require great courage, other times we are required to exercise great patience; sometimes compassion is called for, and at other times, we must stand firm. But at all times, we must treat all who appear in the judicial “arena” with fairness and dignity to better serve the ends of justice

President’s Column (2016) 52 Page 95

Thank you, again, for affording me the high honor and great privilege of serving as your AJA president, your “man in the arena” this year. Time is flying by, and soon I’ll be “passing the gavel” to president-elect Russ Otter at our annual conference in Toronto, September 25-30. Judge Otter, Judge Catherine Carlson, Judge Richard Kayne, and the entire conference committee have been working hard on conference planning. Yet again, our AJA members have produced a highquality educational program and combined it with just the right mix of social activities to create many opportunities for networking with AJA colleagues and our Canadian judges. If you haven’t already signed up, please visit our website, http://www.amjudges.org/conferences/, download the educational program, and see for yourself! You can also register for the conference online and take advantage of the favorable exchange rate! AJA welcomes one and all to join us in Toronto for a unique judicial learning experience at a beautiful venue

President’s Column (2016) 53 Page 3

In the last issue of Court Review, I challenged our members, as Theodore Roosevelt challenged everyone in his speech, “The Man in the Arena,” to “strive valiantly” to realize the “triumph of high achievement” as you serve in the arena of public service. In this issue, I’m asking those who can to take a step back from the public arena and join your fellow AJA members for our midyear conference in a historic, relaxing, and beautiful setting: Santa Fe, New Mexico. Those who do the hard work of judging know all too well the toll stress takes on those who toil in the “judicial arena.” Past President Brian MacKenzie highlighted the importance of recognizing and properly dealing with the health risks inherent in our stressful occupation by dedicating a column in Court Review (Vol. 51, Issue 1) and last year’s midyear conference in Fort Meyers, Florida, to the issue of “Judicial Stress.” The great programs presented at that conference can be accessed through our website, www.amjudges.org

President’s Column: THANK YOU, SANTA FE! ON TO TORONTO!

Our 2016 midyear in Santa Fe exceeded all expectations! The Chamber of Commerce “arranged” perfect weather conditions, sunny and cool. The hotel went out of its way to accommodate us, offering complimentary breakfast and complimentary evening cocktails with food. The rooms were spacious and the service top-notch, as was the location near historic Santa Fe Plaza. Our educational programs were a “bang,” as Gene Lucci and Richard Kayne had a tutorial on gun safety followed by hands-on practice at the Santa Fe Sheriff’s gun range. Everyone survived without a scratch, thanks in no small part to our safety conscious instructors from the Sheriff’s office

Aligning Sequences by Minimum Description Length

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The AND/OR process model for parallel interpretation of logic programs

Current techniques for interpretation of logic programs involve a sequential search of a global tree of procedure invocations. This dissertation introduces the AND/OR Process Model, a method for interpretation by a system of asychronous, independent processes that communicate only by messages. The method makes it possible to exploit two distinct forms of parallelism. OR parallelism is obtained from evaluating nondeterministic choices in parallel. AND parallelism arises in the execution of deterministic fuctions, such as matrix multiplication of divide and conquer algorithms, that are inherently parallel. The two forms of parallelism can be exploited at the same time. This means AND parallelism can be applied to clauses that are composed of several nondeterministic components, and it can recover from incorrect choices in the solution of these components. In addition to defining parallel computations, the model provides a more defined procedural semantics for logic programs; that is, parallel interpreters based on this model are able to generate answers to queries that cause standard interpreters to go into an infinite loop. The interpretation method is intended to form the theoretical framework of a highly parallel non von Neumann computer architecture; the dissertation concludes with a discussion of issues involved in implementing the abstract interpreter on a multiprocessor

Metaphors of Instrumental Computer Use: A Case Study

There are two metaphors for describing instrumental computer use: the computer as a tool, and a more comprehensive package metaphor that emphasizes all aspects of computer use (hardware, software, and social interactions with vendors and other actors in the computing world). Whereas the tool view of computing is concerned with the direct costs of hardware and software, the package view helps one estimate all costs -- social and technical -- of instrumental computer use. Data from a case study of two research laboratories that used computers for data collection provides empirical support for a package metaphor

PENGARUH FAKTOR EKSTERNAL TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN : Studi pada Sepatu JK Collection Cibaduyut Bandung

Beberapa tahun akhir ini banyak indusrti sepatu lokal yang mengalami penurunan dalam penjualannya dan mengakibatkan beberapa industri sepatu lokal yang tidak dapat bertahan. Hal ini dapat terjadi karena banyak sepatu – sepatu impor yang masuk ke Indonesia dan dijual dengan harga yang murah dan produk yang ditawarkan pun begitu kreatif dan inovatif. JK Collection adalah salah satu industri sepatu lokal yang mengalami penurunan dalam penjualannya akibat kalah bersaing dengan produk impor atau produk dari luae negeri. Untuk mengetahui apa yang menjadi kendala perusahaan dan faktor apa yang bisa diteliti untuk bisa mengembangkan penjualan perusahaan, maka penulis meneliti faktor eksternalnya. Faktor – faktor eksternal yang diteliti adalah Kebudayaan, Kelas Sosial, Kelompok Referensi, dan Keluarga. Dari empat faktor ini peneliti mencari faktor mana yang paling mempengaruhi dalam keputusan pembelian. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian deskriptif kuantitatif yaitu penelitian yang bertujuan menjelaskan hubungan antar variabel dengan menganalisis data numeric (angka) menggunakan metode statistik melalui pengujian hipotesa sehingga dapat memberikan fakta yang ada. Data dari 226 kuesioner yang disebarkan kepada para pembeli sepatu JK Collection menjadi sumber data primer. Berdasarkan hasil analisis variabel, tingkat pengaruh Faktor Eksternal yaitu kebudayaan, kelas sosial, kelompok referensi, dan keluarga terhadap Keputusan Pembelian dapat dismpulkan masih tergolong baik terlihat dari tanggapan positif dari setiap responden untuk setiap indikator dari sub variabel Faktor Eksternal. Dengan tingkat keyakinan 95% dihasilkan nilai uji analisis statistik yang menunjukkan bahwa kebudayaan, kelas sosial, kelompok referensi, dan keluarga mempengaruhi keputusan pembelian sebesar 88% dan sisanya sebesar 12% dipengaruhi faktor lain. Kata Kunci : Perilaku Konsumen, Faktor Eksternal, Keputusan Pembelian The past few years many local shoe indusrti decline in sales and resulted in some local shoe industry that can not survive. This can happen because a lot of shoes - shoes imported into Indonesia and sold at low prices and products offered was so creative and innovative. JK Collection is one of the local shoe industry experienced a decline in sales due to not compete with imported products or products of luae country. To find out what the problem is firm and what factors could be studied in order to develop the company's sales, the authors examine the external factors. Factors - external factors studied were the Cultural, Social Class, Reference Group, and Family. Of the four factors which researchers look for factors that most influence the purchase decision. The method used is a method of quantitative descriptive research is research that aims to explain the relationship between variables by analyzing numeric data (numbers) using statistical methods through hypothesis testing so as to provide the facts. Data from 226 questionnaires distributed to the buyers shoes JK Collection became the primary data source. Based on the analysis of variables, the level of influence of external factors, namely culture, social class, reference groups, and families on Purchasing Decisions can dismpulkan still quite good looks of a positive response from any respondent for each indicator of the sub variables External Factors. With a 95% confidence level resulting test value statistical analysis that shows that culture, social class, reference groups, and family influence purchasing decisions by 88% and the balance of 12% influenced by other factors. Keywords: Consumer Behavior, External Factors, Purchase Decisio

Parallel interpretation of logic programs

Logic programs offer many opportunities for parallelism. We present an abstract model that exploits the parallelism due to nondeterministic choices in a logic program. A working interpreter based on this model is described, along with variants of the basic model that are capable of exploiting other sources of parallelism. We conclude with a discussion of our plans for experimenting with the various models, plans which we hope will lead eventually to a multi-processor machine