The paper discusses two types of exclusive (dis)harmonies in Mandarin. Exclusive-(dis)harmony-A—only is compatible with few but not many, and exclusive-(dis)harmony-B—only is compatible with less than n but not more than n. We suggest Exclusive-(dis)harmony-A can be explained along the lines of Chen 2005. We further propose that Exclusive-disharmony-B can be explained by Maximization failure (F...

We investigate possible search strategies for QCD-instanton induced processes at HERA in the deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) regime. Our study is based on the Monte Carlo generator QCDINS for instanton-induced events and the standard generators for normal DIS events. It appears possible to isolate an instanton enriched data sample via an optimized multi-dimensional cut scenario for a set of six...

Vector representation of sentences is important for many text processing tasks that involve clustering, classifying, or ranking sentences. Recently, distributed representation of sentences learned by neural models from unlabeled data has been shown to outperform the traditional bag-of-words representation. However, most of these learning methods consider only the content of a sentence and disre...

I review some of the results presented in the working group on diffraction at DIS97, with a particular emphasis on the theory of diffractive hard scattering.

Including the effects of the O(& 1 GeV) masses of the charm quark, τ lepton and target nucleon in DIS phenomenology is discussed with applications to CC neutrino DIS: Neutrino data for F2 are revisited within the global analysis framework. A fully differential calculation refines the CC charm production process as a gate to extract {s(x), s̄(x)}. New results are presented for a ”heavy quark” ver...

Any rational pricing phenomenon in the cross section of equity returns must also show up in the corresponding corporate bond returns. We use this powerful insight to investigate whether the equity and corporate bond markets are integrated with respect to risk premia associated with anomalies. We find that the two markets are not integrated through factors suggested by structural credit risk mod...

This paper details our work towards designing a system for crowd-sourcing responses on thermal comfort in naturally ventilated office buildings. We provide preliminary qualitative findings on the deployment of this system. Specifically, we explore the different human factors that led to our system being used as something akin to a digital complaints box and how we intend to adapt and leverage t...

The voting rule considered in this paper belongs to a large class of voting systems, called “range voting” or “utilitarian voting”, where each voter rates each candidate with the help of a given evaluation scale and the winner is the candidate with the highest total score. In approval voting the evaluation scale only consists of two levels: 1 (approval) and 0 (non approval). However non approva...

A brief review of the modern QCD theory of diffractive DIS is given. The recent progress has been remarkably rapid, all the principal predictions from the color dipole approach to diffraction-the (Q 2 +m 2 V) scaling, the pattern of SCHNC, shrinkage of the diffraction cone in hard diffractive DIS, the strong impact of longitudinal gluons in inclusive J/Ψ production at Tevatron-, have been confi...