Using the concept of the geometric measures of redundance and irrelevancetradeoff exponent (RITE), we present a new method to determine suitable delay times for continuous systems. After applying the RITE algorithm to both simulation and experimental observations, we find the results obtained are close to those obtained from the criterion of the average mutual information (AMI), while the RITE ...

The PhD confirmation, or upgrade stage, is a key requirement and rite of passage for most doctoral students. Yet despite its significance high-stakes nature, little attention has been paid to students’ experiences this stage the journey how it influences development their researcher identity. Through semi-structured interviews with students from range disciplines who had recently successfully c...

Building on the work of Mbembe (2019) and Silva (2007), we theorise how obstetric institution can still be considered fundamentally modern, that is, entangled with colonialism, slavery, bio- necropolitics patriarchal subjectivity. We argue modern subject (doctor or midwife) representing engulfs (m)other in a typically way as othered, racialised, affectable outer-determined, order to constitute ...

This article seeks to explore the Komba traditional rites practised by the VaRemba people of the Shona-Karanga ethnic group in Zimbabwe. The “Komba rite” is intended to move a mature girl (mhandra) from the state of girlhood to that of womanhood. It is also meant to initiate vashenji (uncircumcised non-VaRemba) women who marry VaRemba men into their female traditions and customs. While Christia...

In his classic study of the collective representation of death, Robert Hertz suggested that death is best understood as a rite of passage in which the deceased makes a transition from the visible “here and now” to an invisible hereafter.1 Death is thus the ultimate experience of passage; it is a threshold through which one passes beyond the house of life to some unknown place. As the terminatio...

This paper describes an overview of RITE-2 (Recognizing Inference in TExt) task in NTCIR-10. We evaluated systems that automatically recognize semantic relations between sentences such as paraphrase, entailment, contradiction in Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The tasks in RITE-2 are Binary Classification of entailment (BC Subtask), Multi-Class Classification including par...

This paper describes an overview of Recognizing Inference in TExt and Validation (RITE-VAL) task in NTCIR-11. We evaluated systems that automatically recognize semantic relations between sentences such as entailment, contradiction and independence in Japanese (JA), English (EN), Simplified Chinese (CS) and Traditional Chinese (CT). RITE-VAL task has the following two subtasks: Fact Validation s...

Cultural value system is a very important and significant issue in the life of Ogonis in Nigeria. This is because it is the compendium of their entire life. In this study the first of its kind, the process of ethnic identity formation among the Ogoni adolescents is explored. Sixteen participants (8males and 8 females) completed the semi structured interviews and the qualitative data collected w...

A "white coat" ceremony functions as a rite of passage for students entering medical school. This comment provides a second option in response to the earlier, more enthusiastic, discussion of the ceremony by Raanan Gillon. While these ceremonies may serve important sociological functions, they raise three serious problems: whether the professional oath or "affirmation of professional commitment...