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Ana Lucic

Other affiliations: DePaul University
Bio: Ana Lucic is an academic researcher from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The author has contributed to research in topics: Machine learning & Noun. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 16 publications receiving 56 citations. Previous affiliations of Ana Lucic include DePaul University.

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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: Comparison circulation data is reported for three recent OBOC choices that are Chicagocentered and three that are not Chicago-centered.
Abstract: Since fall 2001, the Chicago Public Library (CPL) has chosen fiction and nonfiction around which to organize city-wide public events, book discussions, and other creative programming. This “One Book One Chicago” (OBOC) program has been a successful ongoing civic initiative with great public visibility, with participants ranging from the Mayor of Chicago to countless book group volunteers across the city. Our “Reading Chicago Reading” project—supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities and Microsoft—works to discover how text characteristics, library branch demographics, and promotional activities are linked variables that can be used to predict patron response to future OBOC titles. The OBOC program acts as a recurring experiment in data capture, for each chosen work represents a probe into library usage and, by extension, a window onto the elective reading behavior of the diverse patrons of a major American city. This paper will report comparative circulation data for three recent OBOC choices that are Chicagocentered and three that are not Chicago-centered. The three Chicago-centered books are:

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19 Jun 2017
TL;DR: It is shown that, over six recent offerings of the ``One Book'' program, the books vary widely in their uptake by library patrons at different branches, and these differences cannot be entirely explained by demographics or the library's promotional strategies.
Abstract: Community reading initiatives, in which a book is selected for system-wide reading and discussion, have become common in many library systems. This paper describes the initial findings in a demographic study of the ``One Book, One Chicago'' initiative by the Chicago Public Library. Using a multilevel linear model, we show that, over six recent offerings of the ``One Book'' program, the books vary widely in their uptake by library patrons at different branches, and these differences cannot be entirely explained by demographics or the library's promotional strategies. We thus motivate the next stage of our project, which is to incorporate representations of book content and reader response into the model.
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06 Nov 2015
TL;DR: A situated case study in plant science is conducted and four new domain‐specific relations that are of interest to domain scientists but have not been explored in information science are introduced.
Abstract: Although methods exist to identify well-defined relations, such as is_a or part_of, existing tools rarely support a user who wants to define new, domain-specific relations. We conducted a situated case study in plant science and introduce four new domain-specific relations that are of interest to domain scientists but have not been explored in information science. Results show that precision varies between relations and ranges from 0.73 to 0.91 for the manufacturer location category, 0.89 and 0.93 for the seed donor-bank relation, 0.29 and 0.67 for the seed origin location, and 0.32 and 0.77 for the field experiment location. The manufacturer location category recall varies from 0.91 to 0.94, the seed bank-donor location recall ranges between 0.93 and 1, the seed origin relation from 0.33 to 0.82 while the field experiment location from 0.67 to 0.83 depending on the classifier and using a combination of lexical and syntactic features in the background.

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TL;DR: In this paper, Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism are discussed. And the history of European ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 721-722.

13,842 citations

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TL;DR: Sampson, Robert J. as mentioned in this paper, The Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. pp. 552, $27.50 cloth.
Abstract: Sampson, Robert J. 2012. Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN-13: 9780226734569. pp. 552, $27.50 cloth. Robert J. Sampson’s ...

1,089 citations

Proceedings Article
16 May 2014
TL;DR: The EPFL-CONF-203561 study highlights the need to understand more fully the role of social media in the decision-making process and the role that media outlets play in this process.
Abstract: Keywords: Crisis Informatics ; Social Media Collection ; Social Media Analysis Reference EPFL-CONF-203561 Record created on 2014-11-26, modified on 2017-05-12

339 citations

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TL;DR: The authors reviewed the book "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert and found it to be a good book to read for any history book reader, regardless of genre.
Abstract: The article reviews the book "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" by Elizabeth Kolbert.

220 citations

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TL;DR: Overall, progress on the 20-year transition plan laid out by the US NRC in 2007 has been substantial and government agencies within the United States and internationally are beginning to incorporate the new approach methodologies envisaged in the original TT21C vision into regulatory practice.
Abstract: Advances in the biological sciences have led to an ongoing paradigm shift in toxicity testing based on expanded application of high-throughput in vitro screening and in silico methods to assess potential health risks of environmental agents. This review examines progress on the vision for toxicity testing elaborated by the US National Research Council (NRC) during the decade that has passed since the 2007 NRC report on Toxicity Testing in the 21st Century (TT21C). Concomitant advances in exposure assessment, including computational approaches and high-throughput exposomics, are also documented. A vision for the next generation of risk science, incorporating risk assessment methodologies suitable for the analysis of new toxicological and exposure data, resulting in human exposure guidelines is described. Case study prototypes indicating how these new approaches to toxicity testing, exposure measurement, and risk assessment are beginning to be applied in practice are presented. Overall, progress on the 20-year transition plan laid out by the US NRC in 2007 has been substantial. Importantly, government agencies within the United States and internationally are beginning to incorporate the new approach methodologies envisaged in the original TT21C vision into regulatory practice. Future perspectives on the continued evolution of toxicity testing to strengthen regulatory risk assessment are provided.

177 citations