https://law.temple.edu/aer/publication/trial-advocacy-basics-3rd-edition-nita/
March 16, 2022 In December 2016, when reviewing the second edition of BASIC TRIAL ADVOCACY, I wrote the following: NITA – the National Institute for Trial Advocacy – deserves great credit for providing [advocacy lessons] in a concise, reader-friendly form in TRIAL ADVOCACY BASICS (NITA, 2016) by Molly Townes O’Brien and Gary S. Gildin. BASICS is an effective resource, whether the reader ...
https://sites.temple.edu/dwolf/files/2020/06/Plato-on-Pain.pdf
In various passages of his corpus Plato’s dramatic characters discuss pain. With respect to what pain is, including what kinds of pain there are, the most incisive discussions occur at Republic 583-587, Philebus 31-55, and Timaeus 64-65.1 The foci of these passages dif-fer from one another and do so in several ways. First the Republic and Philebus passages focus on pleasure. However Plato ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~ingargio/cis587/readings/wumpus.shtml
A variety of "worlds" are being used as examples for Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, and Planning. Among them the Vacuum World, the Block World, and the Wumpus World. We will examine the Wumpus World and in this context introduce the Situation Calculus, the Frame Problem, and a variety of axioms.
https://cis.temple.edu/~latecki/Courses/CIS2166-Fall16/Lectures/MatrixAlg1.pdf
A matrix is a rectangular array of numbers or other mathematical objects, for which operations such as addition and multiplication are defined. Most of this article focuses on real matrices, i.e., matrices whose elements are real numbers. For instance, this is a real matrix: The numbers, symbols or expressions in the matrix are called its entries or its elements. The horizontal and vertical ...
https://sites.temple.edu/trail/files/2021/11/XieXinDamesIROS2021.pdf
Zhanteng Xie, Pujie Xin, and Philip Dames Abstract—This paper proposes a novel neural network-based control policy to enable a mobile robot to navigate safety through environments filled with both static obstacles, such as tables and chairs, and dense crowds of pedestrians. The network architecture uses early fusion to combine a short history of lidar data with kinematic data about nearby ...
https://cis.temple.edu/~wu/research/publications/Publication_files/ICDE2024_Xu.pdf
To circumvent the above challenges, we introduce the Mean-Field Game (MFG) theory [29] to reduce a one-to-many game to a one-to-one game and further propose a joint MFG framework for mobile edge Caching and Pricing, namely MFG-CP, where each EDP can optimize its own utility in a distributed manner.
https://cis.temple.edu/~wu/research/publications/Publication_files/10_bare_jrnl_compsoc.pdf
1.1 Motivation and Challenges Service provisioning and updating refers to the decision-making process of the locations of services within a specific edge computing network to balance the interests of service providers and consumers to achieve the greatest eficiency possible [7]. Numerous mobile devices and sensors in edge networks need to interface with services and exchange data in real-time ...
https://community.mis.temple.edu/mis5206sec001fall2021/files/2017/08/ISACA_Risk-IT-Framework_fmk_Eng_0610.pdf
The table’s intent is to provide a one-page overview of the main communication flows on IT risk that should exist in one form or another in any enterprise. More detailed information, e.g., source and destination of information, can be found in the Risk IT process descriptions, in the input and output tables.
https://www.fox.temple.edu/sites/fox/files/documents/Cummins%20Conference%202022/RILA_Moenig_JRI_final.pdf
Registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) are increasingly popular equity-based re-tirement savings products o ered by U.S. life insurance companies. They combine features of xed-index annuities and traditional variable annuities (TVAs), o ering in-vestors equity exposure with downside protection in a tax-deferred setting. This article introduces RILAs to the academic literature by describing ...
https://sites.temple.edu/nickerson/files/2017/07/Bennion_Nickerson.2011.pdf
The use of one-tailed hypothesis tests is strong evidence of this assumption (e.g., Arceneaux and Nickerson 2010; Green, Gerber, and Nickerson 2003; McNulty 2005), as is the concept of attributable effects (Hansen and Bowers 2009).