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Lookahead and Piloting Strategies for Variable Selection
(International Chinese Statistical Association, 2007)The traditional variable selection problem has attracted renewed atten- tion from statistical researchers due to the recent advances in data collection, es- pecially in fields such as bioinformatics and marketing. In this ... -
Lookahead Strategies for Sequential Monte Carlo
(Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2013)Based on the principles of importance sampling and resampling, sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) encompasses a large set of powerful techniques dealing with complex stochastic dynamic systems. Many of these systems possess ... -
Looking
(2024-05-14)“Looking” is a suspenseful, literary memoir following Christina Veta, a young, female journalist who learns the shocking truth of who she is and what has happened to her by men in positions of power. At age nineteen, ... -
Looking Ahead: Racial Trends in the United States
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Looking Anthropologically at the Peoples of the Khumbu Valley and Rwanda
(2018-03-10)This paper looks anthropologically at the indigenous peoples of the Khumbu Valley and Rwanda. Specifically, my research examines the Sherpa, Twa, Tutsi, and Hutu peoples through the complex anthropological lenses of social ... -
Looking at Ourselves: Thoughts on Process and Product in Applied Systems Analysis
(International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1975-09)This paper raises some issues concerning the practice and utilization of applied systems analysis (ASA). Our present concept of good ASA necessarily implies two assumptions: (1) It is socially desirable to make decisions ... -
Looking Back
(Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2003)Some of the organizers of this workshop advised me to write an autobiographical essay for this issue of the journal. First, I was not excited about this idea. I did not think that any details of my personal biography would ... -
Looking Back and Looking Forward on the Iran Deal
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Looking back at Social Knowledge in the Making
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Looking Back on the First Year of Neural Systems & Circuits
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Looking Backward, Thinking Forward: The Roots of Hospital Crisis
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Looking for "Persons" in the Law
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Looking for Development in Leadership Development: Impacts of Experiential and Constructivist Methods on Graduate Students and Graduate Schools
(2016-05-17)Nearly every graduate school, especially professional schools, claims to train, educate, and develop leaders. However, the leader-development literature offers little evidence of how a graduate level leader-development ... -
Looking for Ligurinus: An Italian Poet in the Nineteenth Century
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Looking for references to Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings: preliminary comments
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-10-30)In this essay, I am not looking for references to the text of Sappho’s songs in Athenian vase paintings. Instead, I look merely for traces of pictorial references to the contents of these songs, especially as performed in ... -
Looking Inward and Back: Real-Time Monitoring of Visual Working Memories.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2017-04)Confidence in our memories is influenced by many factors, including beliefs about the perceptibility or memorability of certain kinds of objects and events, as well as knowledge about our skill sets, habits, and experiences. ... -
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for Implementation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2012-06)In many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term ... -
Looking like an Industry: Supporting Commercial Agriculture in Africa
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-09)It has long been known that countries only converge conditionally i.e. poor countries catch up with richer ones only if they adopt policies and institutions that are conducive to economic growth. Recently, Dani Rodrik ... -
Looking through rose-colored glasses while sailing on a sacred journey
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2015-09-03)After Theseus dives into the depths of the sea, the sea goddess Amphitrite welcomes him, enveloping the hero in a purple robe (line 112) and crowning his head of hair with a garland made of roses (line 116: ῥόδοις)—a ... -
Looking towards India: Nativism and Orientalism in the Literature of Wales, 1300-1600
(2014-06-06)After the conquest of 1282, Wales increasingly fell under the dominion of England and in 1535, the first Laws in Wales Act officially annexed the country. During this period of political and legal instability, Welsh men ...