Why did democratization occur in Taiwan in the 1980s and 1990s? What can Taiwan’s democratization experience tell us about
Mainland China’s prospect of democratization? This paper introduces an original version of ...
Social media micro-influencer marketing is a booming, multi-billion-dollar industry, and Instagram is, far and away, the platform of
choice for marketers. Central to narratives advanced in popular media and advertising ...
This paper identifies three interactional resources that supported and continue to support four men in enacting non-violent
masculinities both during and after a period of incarceration. These include discursive ...
While other countries such as Canada and Portugal have embraced safe injection facilities (SIFs), establishments that permit people
to inject drugs under the supervision of medical personnel in order to prevent ...
In this thesis, I explore the relationship between play and socialization in Michel de Montaigne’s work. I argue that for Montaigne,
certain forms of play can help socialize an individual into courtly society, due ...
Reinforcement Learning is concerned with developing machine learning approaches to answer the question: "What should I do?" Transfer Learning attempts to use previously trained Reinforcement Learning models to achieve ...
We present two versions of "shatter functions" and show that they are upper-bounded by the same polynomial, known as the Sauer-Shelah dichotomy. Then, we analyze a third setting due to Chase and Freitag [3], the $(n, ...
This thesis reviews several challenges in the use and implementation of faceted execution, a programming-language mechanism for enforcing privacy policies. I present a proof-of-concept of a module-rewriting technique for ...
Reversible computing is the paradigm in which every computation is physically and easily reversible in an unambiguous way. For a reversible machine, this would apply to programs, gates, memory, and everything in between. ...
Authorship attribution is the process of identifying the author of a given work. This thesis surveys the history and foundations of authorship attribution, and then analyzes multiple machine learning methods that are used ...
For my thesis, I analyzed the COMPAS recidivism prediction tool made by Equivant which aims to see how likely a defendant charged with a crime will re-offending given a score from 1-10 where 1 indicating lowest risk and ...
Faceted execution is a technique for dynamic information flow control that allows programmers to program in a policy-agnostic manner. Racets uses macros to extend Racket with support for faceted execution. We present the ...
This thesis explores the many methods of Grapheme to Phoneme Conversion (G2P) including dictionary look-up, rule-based approaches, and probabilistic approaches such as Joint Sequence Models (JSM), Recurrent Neural Networks ...
Recommendation systems exist in almost every aspect of online business. Whether the system is recommending books, movies, clothes, etc., an algorithm is running behind the scenes. These algorithms are hard to acquire in ...
Reasoning about information flow is essential when creating a secure system, and faceted execution is one way to ensure that data is only being accessed and modified by processes that have permission to do so. Faceted ...
Machine learning has become a popular tool for decision making. As these algorithms continue to make more of our decisions, the question arises of whether they are sound and just. Seeking the answer to this question is a ...
The success of the American Quaker response to World War I through the creation of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) facilitated a shift in the Quaker peace testimony from a passive anti-war stance to an active, ...
American religious scholarship in the late 20th century identified a supposed cultural shift away from communal authority and towards individual interpretation when it came to religious identity. This thesis examines the ...
In this thesis, I analyze the claim that April DeConick makes in The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion From Antiquity to Today that the New Age was inspired by ancient Gnosis. ...
The tradition of Sufi poetry has been analyzed extensively through the well known works of Rumi, Hafiz, Ibn ‘Arabi, Ibn Farid, Al- Ghazali, Farid al-Din ‘Attar, and Sa’adi—among many others. These well-known figures of ...