PHENOMENON OF SOCIOBIOLOGICAL CRISIS: VERSION OF ESSENTIAL EXPLANATION

the crisis of identity in jhumpa lahiris fiction: interpreter of maladies and the namesake

شکل گیری هویت(identity) مقوله مهمی در ادبیات پراکنده مردم(diasporan literature) می باشد. آثار جومپا لاهیری(jhumpa lahiri) ، نویسنده هندی آمریکایی، در سالهای اخیر تحسین منتقدین را به خود معطوف کرده است. وی در این آثار زندگی مهاجران و تلاش آنان برای پیدا کردن جایگاهشان در یک فرهنگ بیگانه را به تصویر کشیده است. این تجربه همواره با احساساتی نظیر دلتنگی برای گذشته، بیگانگی و دوری همراه است. با این ح...

Explanation of the "virtual input" phenomenon

We write this letter to comment on the "virtual input" phenomenon reported by Thaler (Neural Networks, 8(1) (1995) 55-65). The author attributed the phenomenon to the network's ability to perform pattern classification and completion, and reported that pruning probability affects the number of virtual inputs observed. Our independent study of Thaler's results, however, reveals a simpler explana...

Boiling crisis as a critical phenomenon.

We present the first experimental study of intermittency and avalanche distribution during a boiling crisis. To understand the emergence of power law statistics we propose a simple spin model capturing the measured critical exponent. The model suggests that behind the critical heat flux is a percolation phenomenon involving drying-rewetting competition close to the hot surface.

Testing sociobiological hypotheses ethnographically

A simple algorithmic explanation for the concentration of measure phenomenon

We give an elementary algorithmic argument that sheds light on the concentration of measure phenomenon observed in the sum of independent random variables. Roughly speaking, we observe that without concentration of measure, it would be possible to predict the outcome of a fair coin toss with probability greater than 1/2. We use this idea to derive an alternative proof for a particular case of t...