A large body of recent studies—from both inside and outside of China—are devoted to the understanding of China’s regional inequality. The current study introduces “the spatial field model” to achieve comprehensive evaluation and multi-scale analysis of regional inequality. The model is based on the growth pole theory, regional interaction theory, and energy space theory. The spatial field is an...

How do children infer the meaning of a word? Current accounts of word learning assume that children expect a word to map onto exactly one concept whose members form a coherent category. If this assumption was strictly true, children should infer that a homophone, such as ”bat”, refers to a single superordinate category that encompasses both animal-bats and baseball-bats. The current study explo...

This paper describes an intelligent algorithm for traffic sign recognition which converges quickly, is accurate in its segmentation and adaptive in its behaviour. The proposed approach can segment images of traffic signs in different lighting and environmental conditions and in different countries. It is based on using Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Maps (SOM) as a clustering tool and it is develope...

has been intriguing algebraic and symplectic geometers since the beginning of the decade. The first proof of this formula was given two years ago in the extensive paper [9] among a number of other theorems on equivariant Gromov – Witten theory. Several authors managed to adjust the approach of that paper to complete intersections in homogeneous Kähler spaces [13, 2, 14], in toric manifolds [11,...

Several studies have investigated the relation between information structure and intonation structure. Few studies however have investigated this relationship empirically using natural face-to-face conversations. The current study explores this relation using a large corpus of face-to-face conversations on a map navigation task. In this task dialogue partners sometimes do and sometimes do not h...

In the conformal field theory arising from the compactification of strings on a Calabi-Yau threefold X, there naturally arise fields correspond to harmonic forms of types (2,1) and (1,1) on X [4]. The uncorrected Yukawa couplings in H and H are cubic forms that can be constructed by techniques of algebraic geometry — [20] contains a nice survey of this in a general context in a language written...

Geographic information is becoming more important everyday at all levels of society. It has a central role in supporting economies, improving business effectiveness in the private sector, enabling more efficient decision-making and increasing citizens’ involvement in governance. The need to share becomes apparent when individuals and organisations cannot produce all datasets they need. Identify...

An anatomic pathology diagnostic error may be secondary to a number of active and latent technical and/or cognitive components, which may occur anywhere along the total testing process in clinical and/or laboratory domains. For the pathologist interpretive steps of diagnosis, we examine Kahneman’s framework of slow and fast thinking to explain different causes of error in precision (agreement) ...

We performed a qualitative study (n=39) mapping the health information needs of stakeholders involved with malaria prevention and treatment in rural Ghana as part of a larger effort to develop integrated, scalable eHealth tools. Initial results can be categorized into four areas: health care delivery, data quality, technical problems and workforce‐related problems. This comprehensive review of ...