Abstract The origin of human language has been a perennial – and perennially controversial topic in linguistics since the nineteenth century. Much this work engaged themes Charles Darwin set out Descent Man , though few authors acknowledge text directly. How might we interpret such neglect? This essay contends that Darwin's reflections on challenged foundational commitments about barrier betwee...

The ambition and proposal for data modeling of myths presented in this paper is to link contemporary technical affordances some canonical projects developed structural anthropology. To articulate the theoretical promise innovation proposal, we present a discrete-event system specification simulation approach order perform generative analysis dynamic visualization selected narratives, aimed at v...

The article offers a theory of how leadership affects the implementation of management reforms. The central premise of this theory is that leadership can have important but easyto-miss indirect effects on organizational factors that shape reform outcomes. To test this question, we examine how transformational leadership influences the implementation of performance reforms, using performance inf...

A GENERATIVE THEORY OF RELEVANCE SEPTEMBER 2004 VICTOR LAVRENKO B.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST M.Sc., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Ph.D., UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST Directed by: Professor W. Bruce Croft and Professor James Allan We present a new theory of relevance for the field of Information Retrieval. Relevance is viewed as a generative process, and we hypothesize...

The convolutional neural network (ConvNet or CNN) is a powerful discriminative learning machine. In this paper, we show that a generative random field model that we call generative ConvNet can be derived from the discriminative ConvNet. The probability distribution of the generative ConvNet model is in the form of exponential tilting of a reference distribution. Assuming re-lu non-linearity and...

The effect of school leadership on educational outcomes has been widely debated in recent decades. Only a small fraction of available studies on school leadership deal with its effects on specific educational outcomes. The paper aims to provide an overview of research on the effects of two contemporary leadership theories (distributed leadership and transformational leadership) on educational o...

Transformational leadership, initiating structure, and selected substitutes for leadership were studied as longitudinal predictors of performance in 118 research and development (R&D) project teams from 5 firms. As hypothesized, transformational leadership predicted 1-year-later technical quality, schedule performance, and cost performance and 5-year-later profitability and speed to market. Ini...

Leonard Bernstein’s Testament — The Unanswered Question in the Light of Conducting Issues In 1973, Bernstein gave a series six lectures at Harvard University, entitled Question: Six talks Harvard. This interdisciplinary course, drawing on Noam Chomsky's theory transformational-generative grammar, presented an original conception music as universal language based tonality and outlined history it...