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Title: Korea's Environmental Sustainability Leadership in East Asia and Beyond
Creator: Shapiro, Matthew A.
Date: 2013, 2009

Title: “I’d have to vote against you”: Issue Campaigning via Twitter
Creator: Roback, Andrew, Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2012-12-03, 2013
Description: Using tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when...
Show moreUsing tweets posted with #SOPA and #PIPA hashtags and directed at members of Congress, we identify six strategies constituents employ when using Twitter to lobby their elected officials. In contrast to earlier research, we found that constituents do use Twitter to try to engage their officials and not just as a “soapbox” to express their opinions.
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Title: Challenge to the Pollution Haven Hypothesis: A Study of Northeast Asia and China
Creator: Shapiro, Matthew A.
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: This paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that...
Show moreThis paper explores the phenomena of environmental coordination within Northeast Asia. I initially frame the discussion around claims that China is a pollution haven for its neighboring countries, and I look for evidence in the domestic and regional environmental institutions which challenge China’s pollution haven status. I find that that there is a science and technology-based epistemic community in Northeast Asia which provides an important theoretical response to counter the pollution haven hypothesis. As well, given its strong science and technological output, Japan is poised to assume leadership of the Northeast Asian environmental regime for at least the short- to medium-term.
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Title: Emotional reactions to variations in contract language
Creator: Menches, Cindy L., Dorn, Lawrence
Date: 2012-07-20, 2012-07-25
Description: This article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the...
Show moreThis article introduces a theory of emotion-driven behavior in construction contracting and provides support for this theory by presenting the quantitative results of a study on the emotional reaction of individuals to the language in contract clauses. Four different versions of the standard Delay Clause found in most construction contracts were extracted from four different contracts and were presented to a group of 27 individuals. Participants rank ordered the clause versions from 1 (most negative) to 4 (most positive). Overall, Clause Version 2 was ranked as having the most negative contract language, with nearly 75% of the participants ranking it as most negative. In contrast, Clause Version 4 was ranked as having the most positive contract language, with over 50% of the participants ranking it as most positive. Participants likewise selected negative emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 2 and positive emotion words to describe their reaction to Clause Version 4. The findings suggest that contract clauses that contain negative language do tend to generate negative emotional reactions while positive contract language do tend to generate positive emotional reactions.
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Title: Tweet Acts: How Constituents Lobby Congress via Twitter
Creator: Hemphill, Libby, Roback, Andrew
Date: 2014, 2014
Description: Twitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that...
Show moreTwitter is increasingly becoming a medium through which constituents can lobby their elected representatives in Congress about issues that matter to them. Past research has focused on how citizens communicate with each other or how members of Congress (MOCs) use social media in general; our research examines how citizens communicate with MOCs. We contribute to existing literature through the careful examination of hundreds of citizen-authored tweets and the development of a categorization scheme to describe common strategies of lobbying on Twitter. Our findings show that contrary to past research that assumed citizens used Twitter to merely shout out their opinions on issues, citizens utilize a variety of sophisticated techniques to impact political outcomes.
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Title: What's Congress Doing on Twitter?
Creator: Hemphill, Libby, Otterbacher, Jahna, Shapiro, Matthew A.
Date: 2013-10-23, 2012-10-23
Description: As Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand how...
Show moreAs Twitter becomes a more common means for officials to communicate with their constituents, it becomes more important that we understand how officials use these communication tools. Using data from 380 members of Congress’ Twitter activity during the winter of 2012, we find that officials frequently use Twitter to advertise their political positions and to provide information but rarely to request political action from their constituents or to recognize the good work of others. We highlight a number of differences in communication frequency between men and women, Senators and Representatives, Republicans and Democrats. We provide groundwork for future research examining the behavior of public officials online and testing the predictive power of officials’ social media behavior.
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Title: Tweeting Vertically? Elected Officials’ Interactions with Citizens on Twitter
Creator: Otterbacher, Jahna, Shapiro, Matthew A., Hemphill, Libby
Date: 2012-12-05, 2012
Description: Enthusiasts propose that social media promotes vertical political communication, giving citizens the opportunity to interact directly with...
Show moreEnthusiasts propose that social media promotes vertical political communication, giving citizens the opportunity to interact directly with their representatives. However, skeptics claim that politicians avoid direct engagement with constituents, using technology to present a façade of interactivity instead. This study explores if and how elected officials in three regions of the world are using Twitter to interact with the public. We examine the Twitter activity of 15 officials over a period of six months. We show that in addition to the structural features of Twitter that are designed to promote interaction, officials rely on language to foster or to avoid engagement. It also provides yet more evidence that the existence of interactive features does not guarantee interactivity.
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Title: A Toolkit for Reframing Services for a Diverse Group: a research study of international students at Illinois Institutions
Creator: Han, Yi, Piotrowski, Pattie
Date: 2015-11-06, 2015-11-06

Title: Doing What Others Do: Norms, Science, and Collective Action on Global Warming
Creator: Shapiro, Matthew A.
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: Does rhetoric highlighting social norms or mentioning science in a communication affect individuals’ beliefs about global warming and / or...
Show moreDoes rhetoric highlighting social norms or mentioning science in a communication affect individuals’ beliefs about global warming and / or willingness to take action? We draw from framing theory and collective-interest models of action to motivate hypotheses that are tested in two large web-based survey-experiments using convenience samples. Our results show that attitudes about global warming, support for policies that would reduce carbon emissions, and behavioral intentions to take voluntary action are strongly affected by norm-based and science-based interventions. This has implications for information campaigns targeting voluntary efforts to promote lifestyle changes that would reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Title: They Aren't Like Me, They are Bad, and They are to Blame: A Theoretically-Informed Study of Stigma of Hoarding Disorder and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Creator: Chasson, Gregory S., Guy, Arryn A., Bates, Sage, Corrigan, Patrick W.
Date: 2018, 2018
Publisher: Elsevier

Title: How to Plan and Analyze the Process Opportunity?
Creator: Palan,Dheemant
Date: 2021
Description: Organizations are organically grown, and it can be very satisfying to see them thrive under the right conditions and treatment just like their...
Show moreOrganizations are organically grown, and it can be very satisfying to see them thrive under the right conditions and treatment just like their botanical equivalents. But, at some stage, if you're not cautious, they can uncontrollably sprout and spread out until one day they've begun strangling themselves and even others. Organizations are strangling by not responding to development. As new people enter, procedures that worked perfectly in the beginning with only one participant often get unsuccessful, sometimes painful. It's easy to spot the signs of stressful processes; increased stress, constant yet insufficient coordination, low levels of effort and resources, bottlenecks, e-mail congestion, repeated progress updates, expired tabs, dysfunctional rules, low productivity the list continues. With Business Improvement it becomes very critical on how we plan & what are the facts which we have derived from the initial analysis. In this article, we will try to cover different tools that can be used for analyzing & planning.
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Title: How to gather & understand requirements
Creator: Palan,Dheemant
Date: 2021
Description: Effective use of the Requirement gathering is our greatest and most critical role. We need to communicate with stakeholders to make the best...
Show moreEffective use of the Requirement gathering is our greatest and most critical role. We need to communicate with stakeholders to make the best of it. The techniques mentioned here are mixed and for each project, the mix shall be different. This technique for gathering requirements is perhaps the most common way to obtain requirements from all the required techniques. This article also looks at how to run a Delphi session, Creating Affinity Diagram & Mind maps.
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Title: Process Engineering
Creator: Palan,Dheemant
Date: 2021
Description: As a futuristic approach in order to increase their productivity and efficiency while being agile and quick to adapt to the new dynamic...
Show moreAs a futuristic approach in order to increase their productivity and efficiency while being agile and quick to adapt to the new dynamic environment, companies must undergo business process reengineering as a potential trend. The digitizing period is followed by an accelerating IT cycle, often linking reengineering with tech or IT revolution. The article discusses what is a Business Process, what are the opportunities for Improvements, how to measure the success criteria, what are different process flow & the value for an organization to achieve the objective of business process improvement
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Title: Which should you be the flowchart for your Process?
Creator: Palan,Dheemant
Date: 2021
Description: A flowchart or Process Flow is a powerful business tool. With proper design and construction, it communicates the steps in a process very...
Show moreA flowchart or Process Flow is a powerful business tool. With proper design and construction, it communicates the steps in a process very effectively and efficiently. There are a variety of ways to make a flowchart. Initially, flowcharts were made by hand using a pencil and paper. Until the advent of a personal computer, drawing models made of plastic flowchart form outlines helped flowchart designers work faster and gave their diagrams a more detailed look. Flowcharts were initially used by industrial engineers to organize work processes such as assembly line output. Today, flowcharts are used for several purposes in manufacturing, architecture, engineering, industry, technology, education, research, medicine, government, administration, and many other fields. In this article, we will be looking at different types of Flowchart & their usages
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Title: Understanding Requirement & the necessary tools
Creator: Palan,Dheemant
Date: 2021
Description: Effective use of the Requirement gathering is our greatest and most critical role. We need to communicate with stakeholders to make the best...
Show moreEffective use of the Requirement gathering is our greatest and most critical role. We need to communicate with stakeholders to make the best of it. The techniques mentioned here are mixed and for each project, the mix shall be different. This technique for gathering requirements is perhaps the most common way to obtain requirements from all the required techniques. This article also looks at how to run a Delphi session, Creating Affinity Diagram & Mind maps.
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Title: Binary hidden Markov models and varieties, AS2012 Special Volume, part 2: This issue includes a second series of papers from talks, posters and collaborations resulting from and inspired by the Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies Conference at Penn State, which took place in July 2012.
Creator: Critch, Andrew
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: This paper closely examines HMMs in which all the hidden random variables are...
Show moreThis paper closely examines HMMs in which all the hidden random variables are binary. Its main contributions are (1) a birational parametrization for every such HMM, with an explicit inverse for recovering the hidden parameters in terms of observables, (2) a semialgebraic model membership test for every such HMM, and (3) minimal dening equations for the 4-node fully binary model, comprising 21 quadrics and 29 cubics, which were computed using Grobner bases in the cumulant coordinates of Sturmfels and Zwiernik. The new model parameters in (1) are rationally identiable in the sense of Sullivant, Garcia-Puente, and Spielvogel, and each model's Zariski closure is therefore a rational projective variety of dimension 5. Grobner basis computations for the model and its graph are found to be considerably faster using these parameters. In the case of two hidden states, item (2) supersedes a previous algorithm of Schonhuth which is only generically dened, and the dening equations (3) yield new invariants for HMMs of all lengths 4. Such invariants have been used successfully in model selection problems in phylogenetics, and one can hope for similar applications in the case of HMMs.
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Collection: Journal of Algebraic Statistics

Title: On Polyhedral Approximations of Polytopes for Learning Bayesian Networks, AS2012 Special Volume, part 2: This issue includes a second series of papers from talks, posters and collaborations resulting from and inspired by the Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies Conference at Penn State, which took place in July 2012.
Creator: Studeny, Milan, Haws, David C.
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: The motivation for this paper is the geometric approach to statistical learning Bayesiannetwork (BN) structures. We review three vector...
Show moreThe motivation for this paper is the geometric approach to statistical learning Bayesiannetwork (BN) structures. We review three vector encodings of BN structures. The first one has been used by Jaakkola et al. [9] and also by Cussens [4], the other two use special integral vectors formerly introduced, called imsets [18, 20]. The topic is the comparison of outer polyhedral approximations of the corresponding polytopes. We show how to transform the inequalities suggested by Jaakkola et al. [9] into the framework of imsets. The result of our comparison is the observation that the implicit polyhedral approximation of the standard imset polytope suggested in [21] gives a tighter approximation than the (transformed) explicit polyhedral approximation from [9]. As a consequence, we confirm a conjecture from [21] that the above-mentioned implicit polyhedral approximation of the standard imset polytope is an LP relaxation of that polytope. In the end, we review recent attempts to apply the methods of integer programming to learning BN structures and discuss the task of finding suitable explicit LP relaxation in the imset-based approach.
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Collection: Journal of Algebraic Statistics

Title: Learning Coefficient in Bayesian Estimation of Restricted Boltzmann Machine, AS2012 Special Volume, part 2: This issue includes a second series of papers from talks, posters and collaborations resulting from and inspired by the Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies Conference at Penn State, which took place in July 2012.
Creator: Aoyagi, Miki
Date: 2013, 2013
Description: We consider the real log canonical threshold for the learning model in Bayesian estimation. This threshold corresponds to a learning...
Show moreWe consider the real log canonical threshold for the learning model in Bayesian estimation. This threshold corresponds to a learning coefficient of generalization error in Bayesian estimation, which serves to measure learning efficiency in hierarchical learning models [30, 31, 33]. In this paper, we clarify the ideal which gives the log canonical threshold of the restricted Boltzmann machine and consider the learning coefficients of this model.
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Collection: Journal of Algebraic Statistics

Title: Phylogenetic invariants for group-based models, AS2012 Special Volume, part 1: This issue includes a second series of papers from talks, posters and collaborations resulting from and inspired by the Algebraic Statistics in the Alleghenies Conference at Penn State, which took place in July 2012.
Creator: Donten-Bury, Maria, Michalek, Mateusz
Date: 2012, 2012
Description: In this paper we investigate properties of algebraic varieties representing group-based phylogenetic models. We propose a method of generating...
Show moreIn this paper we investigate properties of algebraic varieties representing group-based phylogenetic models. We propose a method of generating many phylogenetic invariants. We prove that we obtain all invariants for any tree for the two-state Jukes-Cantor model. We conjecture that for a large class of models our method can give all phylogenetic invariants for any tree. We show that for 3-Kimura our conjecture is equivalent to the conjecture of Sturmfels and Sullivant [22, Conjecture 2]. This, combined with the results in [22], would make it possible to determine all phylogenetic invariants for any tree for 3-Kimura model, and also other phylogenetic models. Next we give the (first) examples of non-normal varieties associated to general group-based model for an abelian group. Following Kubjas [17] we prove that for many group-based models varieties associated to trees with the same number of leaves do not have to be deformation equivalent.
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Collection: Journal of Algebraic Statistics

Title: Properties of semi-elementary imsets as sums of elementary imsets
Creator: Kashimura, Takuya, Sei, Tomonari, Takemura, Akimichi, Tanaka, Kentaro
Date: 2011, 2011
Description: We study properties of semi-elementary imsets and elementary imsets introduced by Studeny [10]. The rules of the semi-graphoid axiom ...
Show moreWe study properties of semi-elementary imsets and elementary imsets introduced by Studeny [10]. The rules of the semi-graphoid axiom (decomposition, weak union and contraction) for conditional independence statements can be translated into a simple identity among three semi-elementary imsets. By recursively applying the identity, any semi-elementary imset can be written as a sum of elementary imsets, which we call a representation of the semi-elementary imset. A semi-elementary imset has many representations. We study properties of the set of possible representations of a semi-elementary imset and prove that all representations are connected by relations among four elementary imsets.
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Collection: Journal of Algebraic Statistics

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