Consider a set of agents collaboratively solving distributed convex optimization problem asynchronously under stringent communication constraints. When an agent becomes active, it is allowed to communicate with only one its neighbors. We propose new state-dependent gossip algorithms where the maximal dissent average their estimates. prove almost sure convergence max-dissent subgradient methods ...

Student beliefs about classroom culture, instructor behaviors, and their own abilities to learn significantly influence academic engagement. COVID-19 has drastically altered the environment, forcing many students into a virtual learning platform they may not have preferred or felt comfortable with. Whether it is fault of who are dissatisfied engage in instructional dissent. This study examined ...

The French theorists Jacques Rancière and Derrida both produced reflections on the nature of historical archive its relationship to dissent or resistance. notion a ghost, ‘spectre’ (as referenced in Derrida’s Specters Marx), provides this article with means reflecting upon those theoretical positions. It engages briefly civic uprising Carcassonne led by Hélie Patrice 1303, an event ‘haunted’ ea...