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Lecture: Author Susan Orlean
No full textShaker Library and the Shaker Schools Foundation present Susan Orlean, SHHS grad and author of The Library Book, who will speak about her love of libraries and the impact of books on her life.
Susan Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights and graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1973, where she was editor in chief of the school’s yearbook, The Gristmill. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976. She has written for the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York
Letter to Lupe from Susan - Thank you!
No full textSusan Jordan writes a thank you letter to Lupe Anguiano for her supporting her campaign
Prioritizing the risk of plant pests by clustering methods : self-organising maps, k-means and hierarchical clustering
No full textFor greater preparedness, pest risk assessors are required to prioritise long lists of pest species with potential to establish and cause significant impact in an endangered area. Such prioritization is often qualitative, subjective, and sometimes biased, relying mostly on expert and stakeholder consultation. In recent years, cluster based analyses have been used to investigate regional pest species assemblages or pest profiles to indicate the risk of new organism establishment. Such an approach is based on the premise that the cooccurrence of well-known global invasive pest species in a region is not random, and that the pest species profile or assemblage integrates complex functional relationships that are difficult to tease apart. In other words, the assemblage can help identify and prioritise species that pose a threat in a target region. A computational intelligence method called a Kohonen self-organizing map (SOM), a type of artificial neural network, was the first clustering method applied to analyse assemblages of invasive pests. The SOM is a well known dimension reduction and visualization method especially useful for high dimensional data that more conventional clustering methods may not analyse suitably. Like all clustering algorithms, the SOM can give details of clusters that identify regions with similar pest assemblages, possible donor and recipient regions. More important, however SOM connection weights that result from the analysis can be used to rank the strength of association of each species within each regional assemblage. Species with high weights that are not already established in the target region are identified as high risk. However, the SOM analysis is only the first step in a process to assess risk to be used alongside or incorporated within other measures. Here we illustrate the application of SOM analyses in a range of contexts in invasive species risk assessment, and discuss other clustering methods such as k-means, hierarchical clustering and the incorporation of the SOM analysis into criteria based approaches to assess pest risk
Invitation for Campaign Party for Supporters of Susan Jordan
No full textCampaign party invitation for Susan Jordan (for assembly) supporters held on election night of June 8, 2010
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings," January 30-March 27, 1994, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings," January 30-March 27, 1994, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings," January 30-March 27, 1994, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings," January 30-March 27, 1994, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings
No full textPhotograph of the exhibition "Susan Rothenberg: Paintings and Drawings," January 30-March 27, 1994, held at the Dallas Museum of Art
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