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Weather Report [solo exhibition]
No full textOn display at Haverford\u27s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery from September 6 - October 11, 2024, and the Gross McCleaf Gallery, November 15 - December 21, 2024
Statistical properties of the Department of Commerce\u27s antidumping duty calculation method with implications for current trade cases
No full textThe Department of Commerce (DOC) uses differential pricing analysis in order to detect whether a foreign exporter dumps goods in the U.S. market at prices lower than the exporter sells the goods for in its domestic market. A dumping duty is then levied on the exporter, the amount of which depends on the dumping margin. Several recent cases at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals have challenged the DOC’s methodology on statistical grounds. In this article, the DOC’s procedure for calculating the dumping margin is described in detail, including the rules for the controversial zeroing policy. Several statistical issues with the DOC’s approach are identified and some potential improvements are proposed
Weiwen Miao, \u3cem\u3eProfessor of Mathematics and Statistics\u3c/em\u3e
No full textVanDerwerken, D. N., Pan, Q., Miao, W., & Gastwirth, J. L. (2024). Statistical properties of the Department of Commerce\u27s antidumping duty calculation method with implications for current trade cases. Statistics and Public Policy, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2330443X.2024.2362722https://scholarship.haverford.edu/featuredfac/1190/thumbnail.jp
Cosmology from cross-correlation of ACT-DR4 CMB lensing and DES-Y3 cosmic shear
No full textCross-correlation between weak lensing of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and weak lensing of galaxies offers a way to place robust constraints on cosmological and astrophysical parameters with reduced sensitivity to certain systematic effects affecting individual surveys. We measure the angular cross-power spectrum between the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) DR4 CMB lensing and the galaxy weak lensing measured by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Y3 data. Our baseline analysis uses the CMB convergence map derived from ACT-DR4 and Planck data, where most of the contamination due to the thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect is removed, thus avoiding important systematics in the cross-correlation. In our modelling, we consider the nuisance parameters of the photometric uncertainty, multiplicative shear bias and intrinsic alignment of galaxies. The resulting cross-power spectrum has a signal-to-noise ratio = 7.1 and passes a set of null tests. We use it to infer the amplitude of the fluctuations in the matter distribution (S8 ≡ σ8(Ωm/0.3)0.5 = 0.782 ± 0.059) with informative but well-motivated priors on the nuisance parameters. We also investigate the validity of these priors by significantly relaxing them and checking the consistency of the resulting posteriors, finding them consistent, albeit only with relatively weak constraints. This cross-correlation measurement will improve significantly with the new ACT-DR6 lensing map and form a key component of the joint 6×2pt analysis between DES and ACT
Jerusalem Mythologies: Pilgrims and the Dome of the Rock: Naser-e Khosraw’s Reflections on Jerusalem from his Book of Travels, the Safarnama
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Parallel Modernism: Koga Harue and Avant-Garde Art in Modern Japan, by Chinghsin Wu [book review]
No full textRevisiting The Tesettür Question In Muslim West Africa: Racial And Affective Topography Of The Veil In Turkish Discourses
No full textThis article studies the discourses about West African Muslim women’s veiling practices that do not conform to social expectations around tesettür (veil/veiling) in Turkey. It combines ethnographic research on the Islamic schools run by Turkish Naqshbandi communities in Dakar, Senegal in 2017 with the analysis of humanitarian discourses circulated by the members of the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH İnsani Yardım Vakfı) in the context of Muslim West Africa. The paper historicises the tesettür question by situating it within the broader women question of the late Ottoman and Turkish modernisation, and by unravelling its entanglements with the colonial library in West Africa. Genealogically, it traces the affects of male puzzlement stemming from West African Muslim women’s perceived non-conformity to tesettür to Ibn Battuta’s travel writings. Having mapped this complex discursive topography, the article explores the tailoring training program developed by a Konya-based Muslim NGO and the intimate technologies adopted by a Turkish female teacher for the transmission of the affect of shame to her Senegalese students. Despite their common gender politics, Sufi pedagogies differ from humanitarian and development projects in their approach to the tesettür question and strategies to address it. The difference lies in their affective registers and processes