40 research outputs found
A Graphical, Functional-Dependency Preserving Normalization Algorithm for Relational Databases
No full textThe normalization of relational databases is a topic of ongoing interest. We present a graphical normalization algorithm for relational databases that is lossless, functional-dependency preserving, and able to normalize relations with multiple candidate keys. Applications of this algorithm and future research directions are discussed
Pattern Classification with Polynomial Learning
No full textWe present a new kind of pattern classifier, the Polynomial Learning Machine (PLM). The PLM is derived, and its construction detailed. We compare the performance of the PLM to that of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) in classifying binary-classed data sets, and find that the PLM consistently trains and tests in a shorter time than the SVM while maintaining comparable classification accuracy; in the case of very large data sets, the PLM training and testing times are shorter by orders of magnitude. We conclude that the PLM is a useful tool for pattern classification, and worthy of further investigation
A translation of the one-to-one relationship for introductory relational database courses
No full textVery Fast Intrusion Detection by Multivariate Linear Regression
No full textMultivariate regression is used in a wide variety of fields as a modeling and classification tool. In this paper we investigate its potential as means of intrusion detection. We demonstrate that intrusion detectors constructed by multivariate linear regression can achieve high accuracy with very short training and testing times, and conclude with a discussion of future research directions
Improved Data-Filtering for Linear Systems by Means of Normalized Centroid Vectors
No full textIn linear systems it is desirable that the effects of noise be eliminated to the greatest extent possible. In previous work an algorithm adapted from techniques intended to ensure the quality of positions obtained from the Global Positioning System was found to produce substantial reductions in solution error over unfiltered data; in this paper, we present an improved version of this algorithm The modified algorithm is demonstrated using a problem from robot tracking, and simulation results are presented verifying the improvement in performance
Seeing Queerness in Ibsen’s Pillars of Society
No full textThis article presents a queer reading of Henrik Ibsen’s Pillars of Society (1877). This reading of the “gender trouble” in the play arises out of what might be called its “genre trouble”; the author claims that Ibsen makes use of the ambiguities of the lystspill genre in order to satirize idealist discourses regarding patriarchy and capitalism. Building on reflections on queerness in Judith Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure (2011) and Sara Ahmed’s The Promise of Happiness (2010), the article then explores forms of resistance to heteronormativity visible in the characters Lona Hessel, Marta Bernick, and Hilmar Tønnesen
There Is Something That Our Constitution Just Is
No full textHistorian Jonathan Gienapp has launched a collection of widely celebrated attacks on originalism. He charges originalists with culpable neglect of the legal and political context in which the Constitution was framed and claims that the idea of a written Constitution was not prevalent in 1787 or 1788. Indeed, he goes so far as to call it a myth.
This Article critiques Gienapp\u27s arguments, contending that he is perpetuating myths of his own. It is not true that originalists haven\u27t seriously investigated what sort of thing the Constitution is. It is not true that there was widespread, fundamental disagreement during the Founding Era concerning just what the Constitution was. Finally, it is not true that the idea of a written Constitution emerged only after ratification.
Gienapp does raise important questions about how constitutional theory should address morality, present day customs, and history. We begin to answer them by investigating officeholders\u27 promises to obey this Constitution and then propose a research program dedicated to determining what people today think that the Constitution is and how it binds public officials. We hope that this program will yield insight into contemporary understandings of constitutional obligation, which Gienapp neglects almost entirely
Jane Crow Constitutionalism
No full textOn June 24, 2022 The United States Supreme Court issued its decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; overturning Roe v. Wade, and destroying fifty years of precedent to protect the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. This overturning sets a dangerous, new precedent that reinforces the State’s control of reproduction, and criminalizes a woman’s right to choose, with very few exceptions. In states like Mississippi, Black women are already experiencing the highest rates of maternal mortality, incarceration, and poverty.
This article posits that Dobbs operates to maintain a racialized and gendered underclass, and names this phenomenon “The New Jane Crow.” Though provocative, the phrase fits the phenomenon, given substantive and functional continuities between state control of reproduction past and present. Dobbs celebrates the demise of Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the constitutionality of “separate but equal,” as an example of the importance of overruling egregiously wrong precedents. But Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the Court in Dobbs has more in common with Plessy than its author recognizes. This article details the how and the why
Jane Crow Constitutionalism
No full textOn June 24, 2022 The United States Supreme Court issued its decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization; overturning Roe v. Wade, and destroying fifty years of precedent to protect the constitutional right to abortion in the United States. This overturning sets a dangerous, new precedent that reinforces the State’s control of reproduction, and criminalizes a woman’s right to choose, with very few exceptions. In states like Mississippi, Black women are already experiencing the highest rates of maternal mortality, incarceration, and poverty.
This article posits that Dobbs operates to maintain a racialized and gendered underclass, and names this phenomenon “The New Jane Crow.” Though provocative, the phrase fits the phenomenon, given substantive and functional continuities between state control of reproduction past and present. Dobbs celebrates the demise of Plessy v. Ferguson, upholding the constitutionality of “separate but equal,” as an example of the importance of overruling egregiously wrong precedents. But Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion for the Court in Dobbs has more in common with Plessy than its author recognizes. This article details the how and the why
