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Red Light Camera Effectiveness: A comparative analysis from Washington state and Chicago, IL
(2012)This paper analyzes the impact of red light cameras (RLCs) on the rates of crashes at signalized intersections. Crashes are broken into two categories – rear ends and the more severe angle crashes, both of which are directly ... -
SocialLDA:Scalable Topic Modeling in Social Networks
(2012-08-10)Topical categorization of blogs, documents or other objects that can be tagged with text, improves the experience for end users. Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a well studied algorithm that discovers latent topics ... -
Real-Time Traffic Prediction Improvement through Semantic Mining of Social Networks
(2012-09-13)Many years of research have yielded computer modeling techniques that can predict the behavior of complex systems, such as traffic speeds in regional transportation systems, with high accuracy. However, the prediction ... -
Accelerating large-scale simulations of cortical neuronal network development
(2012-09-13)Cultured dissociated cortical cells grown into networks on mult-electrode arrays are used to investigate neuronal network development, activity, plasticity, response to stimuli, the effects of pharmacological agents, etc. ... -
Adaptive Probabilistic Topic Models for Social Networks
(2012-09-13)Online social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook generate tremendous amount of text and social interaction data. On one hand, the increasing amount of available information has motivated computational research ... -
Recommendations of Potential Interventions that Could Motivate Reductions in Residential Energy Use at the Husky Village Housing Complex, UW Bothell
(2013)Husky Village currently has the highest energy consumption per person o n the UWB campus , which has made finding means to reduce energy use in this facility a high priority . T his study was designed to ... -
How Language Use Indicates Acculturation and Enculturation Processes of Native Japanese and Japanese Americans: Examples from the 1946 Issues of Hokubei Hochi
(2013)My research examines literature on immigrant adaptation processes, and how language use in the 1946 Hokubei Hochi, Japanese immigrant newspaper in Seattle, indicates the dialogue of acculturation and enculturation in the ... -
Reproductive Rights on Lockdown: A State-‐by-‐State Prison Policy Analysis of Reproductive Rights, Transparency and Access
(2013)This study reports the normative need for transparency of correctional policy relating to pregnancy during incarceration. Today, anyone with a smartphone can access the Internet; it has become ... -
The Tribal Energy Program: Wind Power and Human Development within Native American Communities
(2013)In the mid-1900s the U.S. Government facilitated unfettered energy-company access to Native American lands for the extraction of natural resources such as uranium and coal. Outcomes were generally characterized by minimal ... -
Campaign Spending in City Council Elections : A Comparison of At - Large and District Contests
(2013)This study seeks to add to the research literature on city council electoral system s by investigating the association between campaign spending and whether councilmembers are elected at - large or by district. ... -
Supply Chain Transparency: Comparative Analysis on Government Policy and NGO Advocacy
(2013)Slavery and Human Trafficking are crimes under state, federal, and international law. Legislative efforts have been made to address the market for goods and products tainted by slavery and trafficking by providing ... -
The Impact of Teacher Perception Regarding Administrative Support and Retention of Behavior Teachers
(2013)Students categorized under the disability category of Emotional/Behavioral Disorder are currently struggling to find success in today’s school system. The current research suggests that current graduation rates for students ...