NORTHWEST GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY A regional association of professionals, students & others interested in geology Please browse www.nwgs.org for more about us February 2014 Newsletter Volume 28, Number 2

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• Aviation
• United States
• Pacific Northwest
• University of Washington
• Alaska
• Seattle
• Northwest Airlines

NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR FRIENDS OF MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER SPRINGHis Heart is Mechanical,

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• Georgetown University Medical Center
• Medicine
• Health care
• MedStar Health
• Health
• MedStar Washington Hospital Center
• MedSTAR
• Ventricular assist device
• Heart failure
• MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
• MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital

A Latent Variable Model for Geographic Lexical Variation Jacob Eisenstein Brendan O’Connor Noah A. Smith Eric P. Xing School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University

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• Statistics
• Probability
• Statistical natural language processing
• Probability distributions
• Estimation theory
• Regression analysis
• Dynamic topic model
• Latent Dirichlet allocation
• Variational Bayesian methods
• Mixture model
• Topic model
• Normal distribution

Other Regression Models Raj Jain Washington University in Saint Louis Saint Louis, MO 63130

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• Regression analysis
• Statistics
• Multiple correlation
• Linear regression
• Coefficient of determination
• Jain
• Errors and residuals

Name_________________ How to Escape a Predator Featured scientists: Amy Worthington and John Swallow from Washington State University and University of Colorado, Denver Research Background:

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• Behavior
• Predation
• Ethology
• Flies
• Stalk-eyed fly
• Antipredator adaptations
• Eyestalk
• Sexual selection
• Anti-predator adaptation

The University of the State of New York THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Office of Teaching Initiatives 89 Washington Avenue Albany, New Yorkwww.highered.nysed.gov/tcert

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A campus of The California State University Office of the Academic Senate • One Washington Square • San José, California • • Fax: S01-10

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• Education
• Distance education
• Learning
• Educational television
• San Jose State University
• California State University
• Oregon State University Ecampus
• University of the Philippines Open University

THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT / THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK / ALBANY, NYOffice for Prekindergarten through Grade 12 Education Child Nutrition Program Administration 89 Washington Avenue, Room 375 EBA,

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• School meal programs in the United States
• Food politics
• Economy of the United States
• Food and drink
• National School Lunch Act
• School meal
• Child and Adult Care Food Program
• Reduced-price meal
• Child Nutrition Act
• School Breakfast Program
• Healthy
• Hunger-Free Kids Act

Men set their own cites high: Gender and self-citation across fields and over time Authors: Molly M. King - Department of Sociology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Carl T. Bergstrom - Department of Biology, University

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• Gender studies
• Behavior
• Social constructionism
• Gender
• Social status
• Biology
• Intersex
• Sociology of gender
• Sexism
• Citation

Center for Responsible Travel  Washington, DC and Stanford University    Transforming the Way the World Travels  Tourism: Preventing Conflict, Promoting Peace

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• Types of tourism
• Tourism
• Travel
• Economy
• Ecotourism
• Sustainable tourism
• The International Ecotourism Society
• World Tourism Organization
• Costa Rica
• Geotourism
• Rural tourism