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What drives the legalization of immigrants?: evidence from IRCA by Casarico, Alessandra, Facchini, Giovanni, Frattini, Tommaso

“…Empirical evidence based on the voting behavior of U.S. Congressmen on the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 provides strong support for the predictions of our theoretical model.…”
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Bringing to Light the Cuisine of Hercules Posey, George Washington’s Enslaved Chef by Ganeshram, Ramin

“…In the six years before his self-emancipation, Posey had worked daily to create what would become the first American diplomatic cuisine, cooking elaborate meals for a variety of events: the President’s weekly congressional dinners, socials given by Martha Washington for the ladies of political society, executive office entertainments and meetings, and Washington’s birthday celebrations.…”
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The legacy of Vietnam and the Powell doctrine: four case studies by Middup, Luke Foster

“…The elements of the Doctrine are as follows: the need for “overwhelming” force; the need for public and Congressional support; the need for clear objectives; the need for a clear “exit strategy”; and force should only be used in the “vital national interest.” …”
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‘Do we still need the CIA?’ Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the Central Intelligence Agency and US foreign policy by McGarr, Paul M.

“…To date, Moynihan's evangelical fervour in championing a more open intelligence paradigm, which came to incorporate the drafting of congressional bills, the chairmanship of a bipartisan commission on government secrecy, the publication of a book, and innumerable speeches and articles, has been interpreted in a narrow personal and political context. …”
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Applying geomorphological principles and engineering science to develop a phased sediment management plan for Mount St Helens, Washington by Sclafani, Paul, Nygaard, Chris, Thorne, Colin R.

“…The Portland District, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently revised its long-term plan for sediment management (originally published in 1985), in order to maintain the LoP above the Congressionally-authorised level, while reducing impacts on fish currently listed under the Endangered Species Act, and minimising the overall cost of managing sediment derived from erosion at Mount St Helens. …”
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Deficit-Spending in Modern America: President Obama’s First Budget by Borges, William G.

“…That is, it is much easier to garner a congressional majority by giving in to spending Projects than by agreeing to cut projects. …”
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Hegemony, Pan-Americanism, and national security: the meaning and application of the Monroe Doctrine in the early twentieth century by Bryne, Alex

“…Drawing upon a collection of archival material and published primary sources, including governmental documentation, personal papers, congressional debates, academic publications and conference papers, and literary-political magazines and newspapers, this thesis addresses the complicated relationship between notions of hegemony and cooperation in the conduct and formation of United States foreign relations. …”
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A comparative study between rough and decision tree classifiers by Mohamad Mohsin, Mohamad Farhan

“…Theoretically, a good set of knowledge should provide good accuracy when dealing with new cases.Besides accuracy, a good rule set must also has a minimum number of rules and each rule should be short as possible.It is often that a rule set contains smaller quantity of rules but they usually have more conditions.An ideal model should be able to produces fewer, shorter rule and classify new data with good accuracy.Consequently, the quality and compact knowledge will contribute manager with a good decision model.Because of that, the search for appropriate data mining approach which can provide quality knowledge is important.Rough classifier (RC) and decision tree classifier (DTC) are categorized as RBC.The purpose of this study is to investigate the capability of RC and DTC in generating quality knowledge which leads to the good accuracy.To achieve that, both classifiers are compared based on four measurements that are accuracy of the classification, the number of rule, the length of rule, and the coverage of rule.Five dataset from UCI Machine Learning namely United States Congressional Voting Records, Credit Approval, Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer, Pima Indians Diabetes Database, and Vehicle Silhouettes are chosen as data experiment.All datasets were mined using RC toolkit namely ROSETTA while C4.5 algorithm in WEKA application was chosen as DTC rule generator.The experimental results indicated that both classifiers produced good classification result and had generated quality rule in different types of model – higher accuracy, fewer rule, shorter rule, and higher coverage.In term of accuracy, RC obtained higher accuracy in average while DTC significantly generated lower number of rule than RC.In term of rule length, RC produced compact and shorter rule than DTC and the length is not significantly different.Meanwhile, RC has better coverage than DTC.Final conclusion can be decided as follows “If the user interested at a variety of rule pattern with a good accuracy and the number of rule is not important, RC is the best solution whereas if the user looks for fewer nr, DTC might be the best choice”…”
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Essays on development and international economics by Brey, Björn

“…First, there is evidence that policy makers who represent congressional districts with a higher share of manual employment are more likely to support restricting low-skill immigration. …”
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