This is the final report by the organizers of the workshop on Interactions between noncommutative algebra and algebraic geometry, held at the Banff International Research Station September 10 15, 2005. The workshop was attended by 36 mathematicians from eight different countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Israel, Norway, and the United States). This report is subdivided i...

I dedicate this paper to a man who throughout his career has exemplified the power of conceptual thought in math: Bob Moody. In 1978, John McKay made an intriguing observation: 196 884 ≈ 196 883. Monstrous Moonshine is the collection of questions (and a few answers) inspired by this observation. In this paper we provide a few snapshots of what we call the underlying theory. But first we digress...

The increasing number of methods available for schema matching/ontology integration suggests the need to establish a consensus for evaluation of these methods. The Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative1 is now a coordinated international initiative that has been set up for organising evaluation of ontology matching algorithms. After the two events organized in 2004 (namely, the Information I...

This special issue represents the first proceedings of the 8th International Workshop Series on Nanomechanical Sensing (http://www.nmc2011.org/), which was hosted by the CRANN Institute of the Trinity College, Pearse street, Dublin 2, Ireland, from May 11th to May 13th 2011. This meeting was a followup of workshops held in Madrid (2004), Knoxville (2005), Copenhagen (2006), Montréal (2007), Mai...

This report describes the 1993 SRC Algorithm Animation Festival. The festival continues an experiment in developing algorithm animations by non-experts, started the previous year, and described in SRC Research Report #98. This year nineteen researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation’s Systems Research Center worked for two weeks on animating algorithms. Most of the participants had little (if...

Festival is a popular open-source development and execution environment for speech synthesis. It has been well-integrated within many environments, particularly Unix ones, but so far has not been easy to integrate natively into Windows. We present two solutions to this: an MSAPI interface, which allows Festival voices to work with a range of speech-enabled Windows applications, and SpeechServer...

This paper expounds that relying on the “Mathematics Culture Festival”, mathematics culture is integrated into education and teaching to help growth of young teachers cultivation applied talents, “professional association” platform, integrate application innovation skill training, broaden professional knowledge, improve skills, 
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A system--bath (SB) model is considered to examine the Jarzynski equality in fully quantum regime. In our previous paper [J. Chem. Phys. 153 (2020) 234107], we carried out "exact" numerical experiments using hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) which demonstrated that SB describes behavior consistent with first and second laws thermodynamics dynamics total system are time irreversible. The d...

Whether type of written corrective feedback (WCF) impacts L2 learning has been investigated for decades. While many product-oriented studies report conflicting findings, the paucity adopting both a process-oriented and curricular approach (e.g., Caras, 2019) underscores call further research on: a) processing dimension writers’ engagement with WCF in this instructed setting (Manchón & Leow,...

INTRODUCTION The Suwa Onbashira Festival is held every six years and draws approximately one million spectators from across Japan. Men ride the Onbashira pillars (logs) down steep slopes. At each festival, several people are crushed under the heavy log. During the 2004 festival, for the first time, a medical care system that coordinated a medical team, an emergency medical service, related agen...