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Fighting Violent Gang Crime with Math

By Guest PostOctober 28, 2011Culture, Scienceactivity on social networks, alexey stomakhin, algorithm, andrea bertozzi, anthropology, applied mathematics, crime patterns, crime patterns of the hollenbeck gang network, criminal activity between gangs, east los angeles police district, gang crimes, hollenbeck, jeffrey brantingham, lapd, los angeles police department, martin short, mathematical algorithm, missing information, police, set of simulated data, sophisticated methods, street gangs, the best job in the world, ucla mathematicians, victim or perpetrator, violent crimes

UCLA mathematicians working with the Los Angeles Police Department to analyze crime patterns have designed a mathematical algorithm to identify street gangs involved in unsolved violent crimes. Their research is based on patterns of known criminal activity between gangs, and represents the first scholarly study of gang violence of its kind.

The research appears today on the website of the peer-reviewed mathematical journal Inverse Problems and will be published in a future print edition. (more…)

How Beliefs Shape Effort and Learning

By Guest PostApril 24, 2011Sciencebagasi, bridgid finn, columbia university, daniel c. molden, david b. miele, entity theorists, incremental theorists, indonesian, intelligence, learning, level of intelligence, luggage, motivation to learn, pembalut bandage, police, polisi, theories

If it was easy to learn, it will be easy to remember. Psychological scientists have maintained that nearly everyone uses this simple rule to assess their own learning.

Now a study published in an upcoming issue Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests otherwise: “Individuals with different theories about the nature of intelligence tend to evaluate their learning in different ways,” says David B. Miele of Columbia University, who conducted the study with Bridgid Finn of Washington University in St. Louis and Daniel C. Molden of Northwestern University. (more…)