There are several different types of legal competence, such as competence to waive Miranda rights, competence to confess, and competence to stand trial. Although it can be surmised that many of the underlying factors that influence the different legal competencies are similar, little research has been conducted to empirically test this hypothesis. In the present study, juveniles' and young adul...

For vectors $X, Yin mathbb{R}^{n}$, we say $X$ is left matrix majorized by $Y$ and write $X prec_{ell} Y$ if for some row stochastic matrix $R, ~X=RY.$ Also, we write $Xsim_{ell}Y,$ when $Xprec_{ell}Yprec_{ell}X.$ A linear operator $Tcolon mathbb{R}^{p}to mathbb{R}^{n}$ is said to be a linear preserver of a given relation $prec$ if $Xprec Y$ on $mathbb{R}^{p}$ implies that $TXprec TY$ on $mathb...

New digital musical instruments : control and interaction beyond the keyboard / by Eduardo Miranda and Marcelo Wanderley. p. cm.-(Computer music and digital audio series)

The glmnet package by [1] is an extremely fast implementation of the standard coordinate descent algorithm for solving l1 penalized learning problems. In this paper, we consider a family of coordinate majorization descent algorithms for solving the l1 penalized learning problems by replacing each coordinate descent step with a coordinate-wise majorization descent operation. Numerical experiment...

To minimize the primal support vector machine (SVM) problem, we propose to use iterative majorization. To do so, we propose to use iterative majorization. To allow for nonlinearity of the predictors, we use (non)monotone spline transformations. An advantage over the usual kernel approach in the dual problem is that the variables can be easily interpreted. We illustrate this with an example from...

This paper summarizes key themes from my Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing (OUP, 2007); and it gives replies to commentators.

This article reviews the literature on empowerment and situates empowerment within the context of a multi-year participatory action research study with young women and girls who were formerly associated with fighting forces and armed groups in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and northern Uganda and had children of their own during the conflict and with young mothers considered by their community to be e...

One of the most popular graph drawing methods is based of achieving graphtheoretic target ditsances. This method was used by Kamada and Kawai [15], who formulated it as an energy optimization problem. Their energy is known in the multidimensional scaling (MDS) community as the stress function. In this work, we show how to draw graphs by stress majorization, adapting a technique known in the MDS...