THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN DEEPENING DEMOCRACY SHEILA S. CORONEL EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since the 17th century‚ the role of the press as Fourth Estate and as a forum for public discussion and debate has been recognized. Today‚ despite the mass media’s propensity for sleaze‚ sensationalism and superficiality‚ the notion of the media as watchdog‚ as guardian of the public interest‚ and as a conduit between governors and the governed remains deeply ingrained. The reality‚ however‚ is that the media in
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Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Computers & Industrial Engineering 54 (2008) 513–525 www.elsevier.com/locate/dsw An integrated AHP–DEA methodology for bridge risk assessment q Ying-Ming Wang a b a‚* ‚ Jun Liu b‚ Taha M.S. Elhag c c Institute of Soft Science‚ Fuzhou University‚ Fuzhou 350002‚ PR China School of Computing and Mathematics‚ Faculty of Engineering‚ University of Ulster at Jordanstown‚ Shore Road‚ Newtownabbey‚ Co. Antrim BT37 0QB‚ Northern Ireland‚ UK
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All the Mathematics You Missed Beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects are expected to have a daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge‚ but few have such a background. This book will help students see the broad outline of mathematics and to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. The author explains the basic points and a few key results of the most important undergraduate topics in mathematics‚ emphasizing the intuitions behind the subject. The topics include linear
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Transportation Research Part E 45 (2009) 321–334 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Transportation Research Part E journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/tre Evaluating competitiveness of air cargo express services Yonghwa Park a‚*‚ Jung Kyu Choi b‚ Anming Zhang c a b c Asia Pacific School of Logistics‚ Inha University‚ Incheon 402-751‚ Republic of Korea Department of Aviation‚ The University of New South Wales‚ Sydney‚ Australia Sauder School of Business‚ University of British Columbia
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www.jntuworld.com www.jwjobs.net NEURAL NETWORKS Ivan F Wilde Mathematics Department King’s College London London‚ WC2R 2LS‚ UK ivan.wilde@kcl.ac.uk www.jntuworld.com www.jntuworld.com www.jwjobs.net Contents 1 Matrix Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 Adaptive Linear Combiner .................... 21 3 Artificial Neural Networks .................... 35 .......................... 45 5 Multilayer Feedforward Networks
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INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT CALCUTTA WORKING PAPER SERIES WPS No. 677/ August 2011 JUGAAD- Not just “Making do” but a Low Cost Survival & Coping Strategy at the Bottom of the Pyramids. by Ramendra Singh Assistant Professor‚ Indian Institute of Management Calcutta‚ Joka‚ Kolkata 700104 Vaibhav Gupta B.Tech Student‚ Department of Applied physics‚ Delhi Technological University‚ Delhi‚ India & Akash Mondal B.Tech Student‚ Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
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( ) Let y*=1‚000‚000 and y=999‚996; then the error is Ey =|y*-y|=|1000000-999996|=4 Chapter 1: ( and the relative error is RE y y* y y 4 1000000 0.000004 ) Let z*=0.000012 and z=0.000009; then the error is Ez =|z*-z|=|0.000012-0.000009|=0.000003 and the relative error is Error Analysis 1 REz z* z z 0.000003 0.000012 4 0.25 In the practice of numerical analysis it is important to be aware that computed solutions are not exact mathematical solutions
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Mahmoud A. Al-Khatib and Enaq H. Sabbah Language Choice in Mobile Text Messages among Jordanian University Students Abstract This paper examines the linguistic structure and sociolinguistic functions of ArabicEnglish code-switching in mobile text messages as used by a group of Jordanian university students. It also aims at investigating the distribution of the switched elements by syntactic category. The corpus was collected from 46 male and female undergraduate and post-graduate students. Qualitative
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RECAPITULARE De acum inainte yom incepe lectiile cu prezentate 1. cuno~tintele 0 scurta recapitulare a materialului anterior. Tot aici vor fi de gramatica din lectia urmatoare. Articolul hotiirat the: the tower the school the train the table the car the time the office the apple Daca euvantul care urmeaza dupa artieolul hotiirat ineepe eu articolului hotarat este [DZi]: 2. the applc > [IYi Epl] the eye > rlYi ail 0 voeala‚ atunei pronuntia De cCIe l1111i Illllite ori 1(1I"nHII1l
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LP (2003) 1 OPERATIONS RESEARCH: 343 1. LINEAR PROGRAMMING 2. INTEGER PROGRAMMING 3. GAMES Books: Ð3Ñ IntroÞ to OR ÐF.Hillier & J. LiebermanÑ; Ð33Ñ OR ÐH. TahaÑ; Ð333Ñ IntroÞ to Mathematical Prog ÐF.Hillier & J. LiebermanÑ; Ð3@Ñ IntroÞ to OR ÐJ.Eckert & M. KupferschmidÑÞ LP (2003) 2 LINEAR PROGRAMMING (LP) LP is an optimal decision making tool in which the objective is a linear function and the constraints on the decision problem are linear equalities and inequalities. It is a very
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