Contemporary debates on decolonisation have reluctantly forced social scientists to engage with neglected race and epistemology. This article recasts these through methodological reflections that compare South African Brazilian policies by centring the interpellations of racial capitalism, poverty, inequality, exclusion. I conducted forty- five in-depth interviews beneficiaries assistance progr...

We study empirical Bayes estimation of the effect sizes N units from K noisy observations on each unit. show that it is possible to achieve near-Bayes optimal mean squared error, without any assumptions or knowledge about size distribution noise. The noise can be heteroscedastic and vary arbitrarily unit Our proposal, which we call Aurora, leverages replication inherent in per recasts problem a...

A large body of prior research on coreference resolution recasts the problem as a two-class classification problem. However, standard supervised machine learning algorithms that minimize classification errors on the training instances do not always lead to maximizing the F-measure of the chosen evaluation metric for coreference resolution. In this paper, we propose a novel approach comprising t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a conversation intervention including 500 min of linguistically and cognitively complex talk on the expressive vocabulary growth of prekindergarten children. METHOD Children (N = 73) were randomly assigned to control or a 10-week experimental intervention condition. Twice weekly, children in the intervention condition rec...

Coordination failure, or agents’ uncertainty about the action of other agents, may be an important source of congestion in large decentralized systems. The El Farol problem provides a simple paradigm for congestion and coordination problems that may arise with over utilization of the Internet. This paper reviews the El Farol problem and surveys previous approaches, which typically involve compl...

We propose an extension of the path integral formulation amenable to the expression of volumetric light transport with photon beam estimates. Our main contribution is a generalization of Hachisuka et al.’s extended path space formulation [HPJ12] to light transport in participating media. Our formulation supports various pointand beam-based volumetric density estimators, unifying them with path ...

Engineered calmodulins (CaMs), rendered Ca2+-insensitive by mutations, function as dominant negatives in heterologous systems, and have revealed mechanisms of ion channel modulation by Ca2+/CaM. The use of these CaMs in native mammalian cells now emerges as a strategy to unmask the biology of such Ca2+ feedback. Here, we developed recombinant adenoviruses bearing engineered CaMs to facilitate t...

The object of this paper is to introduce the new family of cracked sets which yields a compactness result in the W 1,p-topology associated with the oriented distance function and to give an original application to the celebrated image segmentation problem formulated by Mumford and Shah [21]. The originality of the approach is that it does not require a penalization term on the length of the seg...

Quadratic pencils arising from applications are often inherently structured. Factors contributing to the structure include the connectivity of elements within the underlying physical system and the mandatory nonnegativity of physical parameters. For physical feasibility, structural constraints must be respected. Consequently, they impose additional challenges on the inverse eigenvalue problems ...