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I Remember column in which author Wendy Anderson describes a Christmas Eve in
No full textI Remember column in which author Wendy Anderson describes a Christmas Eve in the 1960s when her family waited anxiously for her father, Arvid, to return home to Monson during a snowstorm. Her father arrived safely on Christmas afternoon, after digging his car out from nearly three feet of snow
Cross-domain ranking via latent space learning
No full textWe study the problem of cross-domain ranking, which addresses learning to rank objects from multiple interrelated domains. In many applications, we may have multiple interrelated domains, some of them with a large amount of training data and others with very little. We often wish to utilize the training data from all these related domains to help improve ranking performance. In this paper, we present a unified model: BayCDR for cross-domain ranking. BayCDR uses a latent space to measure the correlation between different domains, and learns the ranking functions from the interrelated domains via the latent space by a Bayesian model, where each ranking function is based on a weighted average model. An efficient learning algorithm based on variational inference and a generalization bound has been developed. To scale up to handle real large data, we also present a learning algorithm under the Map-Reduce programming model. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of BayCDR on large datasets
Author\u27s Rights for Dissertations and Journal Articles
No full textLibrarian Wendy Highby discusses your rights as an author
Data-Adaptive Hierarchical Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks and Health Monitoring Systems
No full text130 pg.Recent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, wireless communications, and digital electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor nodes that are small in size and communicate untethered over short distances. Networking together hundreds or thousands of wireless sensor nodes allows users to accurately monitor a remote environment by intelligently combining data from the individual nodes. Such networks require robust wireless communication protocols that are energy efficient, data transmission efficient and support long network lifetime. In this Ph.D. dissertation, we analyzed and implemented the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol, a leading protocol architecture for wireless sensor networks. LEACH combines the ideas of energy-efficient cluster-based routing and media access together with application-specific data aggregation to achieve a desired performance. In an effort to improve the power consumption and network lifetime, we proposed Dynamic LEACH, or D-LEACH, a data-adaptive hierarchical protocol based on LEACH. The main idea of D-LEACH is to dynamically change the likelihood for each node to send data to the base station, based on the similarity of the data within each node cluster. We implemented D-LEACH and LEACH on the TinyOS platform on hardware motes, ran experiments to analyze D-LEACH performance, and compared against other major protocols. The analysis shows that in many cases D-LEACH achieves a superior performance when compared to LEACH and XMesh protocols, in terms of power consumption, total data received, and network lifetime. In the second part of this dissertation, we proposed and implemented a vital sign monitoring system based on wireless sensor network hardware. Our system combines wireless sensor network, vital sign monitoring technologies to monitor users' vital signs and notify relatives and medical personnel of users' status during life threatening situations. The use of wireless sensor network technologies makes it possible to deploy our system in all types of homes and facilities.Advisor(s): Tang, Wendy K.. Committee Member(s): Tang, Wendy K.Robertazzi, Thomas G.Yu, Dantong ; Deng, Yuefan ; Noel, EricStony Brook University Libraries. SBU Graduate School in Department of Electrical Engineering. Charles Taber (Dean of Graduate School)
Wendy Brenner
No full textWendy Brenner visited The College at Brockport in October 1996. She is an author and professor of Creative Writing.Archived web contentSUNY BrockportWriters Forum Author Photo
Wendy Brenner
No full textWendy Brenner visited The College at Brockport in October 1996. She is an author and professor of Creative Writing.https://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/writers_photos/1007/thumbnail.jp
Wendy Noel’s Story of Doris
No full textAlzheimer’s/dementiamental illnessNorth Vancouvernursingoriginalsecond loveVietnam War1920’sCanad
Sectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s
No full textThe recent restructuring of Latin American economies has renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization, on labor markets, and on the gender division of labor. The author does not attempt to establish casuality between economic reforms, and the types of jobs that men and women hold. Instead, she provides a detailed description of the trends in male, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica. The author first compares the gender composition of the formal, informal wage, and self-employment sectors in a year before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage sector, there is no trend of"masculinization"or"feminization"of the informal sector, or any other. Instead, in Argentina men have overtaken women as the most prevalent workers in the informal wage sector, while in Brazil, the opposite has occurred (as men move into self-employment). In Costa Rica there have been no statistical, observable changes. The author then considers the distribution across sectors within each gender group, to identify whether men, and women are more likely to select different sectors in the post-reform period relative to the pre-reform period. Among both men, and women in all three countries (except Brazilian men), workers have become more likely to hold informal wage jobs, and less likely to hold formal sector jobs. Trends in human capital accumulation explain these changes for both men, and women, while changes in gender roles, primarily in homecare and marriage, do not seem to have an effect.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Labor Policies,Population&Development,Public Health Promotion,Environmental Economics&Policies,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Environmental Economics&Policies,Population&Development,Banks&Banking Reform,Work&Working Conditions
The Ever Evolving Web: the Power of Networks
No full textIn this paper we consider the Web as a network of networks and reflect on its evolution, firstly by analyzing the reasons why it became the first truly ubiquitous hypertext system against all competitors and secondly by looking at how it has evolved from a network of linked documents to a system that facilitates social networking on a scale previously unimaginable and how it will evolve in the future as a network of linked data and beyond. The study of the Web—its evolution and its impact on society, on business and on government—is referred to as Web Science. We consider some of the major challenges of Web Science and discuss possible Web worlds of the future
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