Let C ⊆ P denote the rational normal curve of order d. Its homogeneous defining ideal IC ⊆ Q[a0, . . . , ad] admits an SL2-stable filtration J2 ⊆ J4 ⊆ · · · ⊆ IC by sub-ideals such that the saturation of each J2q equals IC . Hence, one can associate to d a sequence of integers (α1, α2, . . . ) which encodes the degrees in which the successive inclusions in this filtration become trivial. In thi...

Linguistic similarity is multi-faceted. For instance, two words may be similar with respect to semantics, syntax, or morphology inter alia. Continuous word-embeddings have been shown to capture most of these shades of similarity to some degree. This work considers guiding word-embeddings with morphologically annotated data, a form of semisupervised learning, encouraging the vectors to encode a ...

1. What do we mean by "sanitation"? The first challenge for countries seeking to solve the problem of access to sanitation is to define what “sanitation" really means. The second challenge is to decide what aspects are the most important. In other words, what aspect of the problem is going to be dealt with as a priority. This problem is not a simple one and many professionals confuse the two st...

This paper briefly outlines our growing understanding of the relationships between the network structure of ecological networks--both in mathematical models and in the real world--and their consequent dynamical properties. These are interesting, inter alia, because they affect the system's ability to withstand disturbance, whether natural or human-created. The paper also sketches recent interes...

The essays in this volume concentrate heavily on "managed competition," which is merely a particular form of controlling the flow of funds from an insurance pool to the providers of health care. By contrast, this essay emphasizes the funneling of money into the insurance fund. It is argued inter alia that American business has been a quite unreliable partner in the financing of American health ...

Variations in aggregate poverty indices ca be due to differences in average poverty intensity, to changes in the welfare distances between those poor of initially unequal welfare status, and/or to emerging disparities in welfare among those poor of initially similar welfare status. This note uses a general cost-of-inequality approach that decomposes the total change in poverty into a sum of ind...

|As part of its study of the impact of feedback in the global software process on software product evolution, the FEAST/1 project has examined metric data relating to various systems in di erent application areas. High level similarities in the growth trends of the systems studied support the FEAST hypothesis. Inter alia, the results provide evidence compatible with the laws of software evoluti...

An assistant Modelica package is introduced which supports the determination of model frequency responses or describing functions of Modelica models, as the case may be. The result is frequency response data which can be used for further analysis such as stability properties of the system in closed loop control or the derivation of linear time invariant (LTI) model approximations. The paper add...

A hypothesis for coding different combinations of mRNA segments by a novel postulated function of microRNAs (miRNA) is presented. In this hypothesis, miRNA act as both coding adaptors and ligating enzymes. This hypothesis postulates an enzyme-substrate intermediate comprising a RNA triplex structure consisting of a miRNA adaptor and two mRNA configured as two turns of an A-form RNA helix. Postu...

Speakers that utter a sentence like in (1) are usually understood to communicated that they didn’t mean that all of Ann’s friends shared her grim view of the world. In order to explain this scalar implicature, the scalar expression a handful is assumed to evoke a set of alternatives whose members are ordered in terms of informativeness along the lines of (2). A listener reasons that the speaker...