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Already Doin' it for Ourselves?:Skeptical Notes on Feminism and Institutionalism
Get PDFLet us first lay our cards on the table: We are both invested in the “feminist institutionalist project” and have highlighted the potential benefits of such a synthesis in earlier interventions (Kenny 2007; Lovenduski 1998; Mackay and Meier 2003; see also Lovenduski 1998). However, in this essay we sound a cautionary note and urge a more skeptical approach. We pose the questions: Why does feminism need new institutionalism? What do neoinstitutionalist approaches contribute to feminist scholarship on political institutions, broadly defined? When considering the potential for intellectual “borrowing” between feminism and new institutionalism, it is important to consider whether new institutional theory is “an enabling framework—or an intellectual strait-jacket” for feminist scholarship (Mackay and Meier 2003, 6). The question, then, is not only what the new institutionalism can contribute to feminist research but also what scope there is to “gender” the new institutionalism
An Author Profiling Approach Based on Language-dependent Content and Stylometric Features
Get PDFWe describe the approach that we submitted to the 2015 PAN competition for the author profiling task. The task consists in predicting some attributes of an author analyzing a set of his/her Twitter tweets.
We consider several sets of stylometric and content features, and different decision algorithms: we use a different combination of features and decision algorithm for each language-attribute pair, hence treating it as an individual problem
An Author Verification Approach Based on Differential Features
Get PDFWe describe the approach that we submitted to the 2015 PAN competition for the author identification task. The task consists in determining if an unknown document was authored by the same author of a set of documents with the same author.
We propose a machine learning approach based on a number of different features that characterize documents from widely different points of view. We construct non-overlapping groups of homogeneous features, use a random forest regressor for each features group, and combine the output of all regressors by their arithmetic mean. We train a different regressor for each language.
Our approach achieved the first position in the final rank for the Spanish language
New Insights on the (Non-)Hardness of Circuit Minimization and Related Problems
No full textThe Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP) and a related problem (MKTP) that deals with time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity are prominent candidates for NP-intermediate status. We show that, under very modest cryptographic assumptions (such as the existence of one-way functions), the problem of approximating the minimum circuit size (or time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity) within a factor of n1−o(1) is indeed NP-intermediate. To the best of our knowledge, these problems are the first natural NP-intermediate problems under the existence of an arbitrary one-way function.
We also prove that MKTP is hard for the complexity class DET under non-uniform NC0 reductions.
This is surprising, since prior work on MCSP and MKTP had highlighted weaknesses of “local” reductions such as NC0-many-one reductions. We exploit this local reduction to obtain several new consequences:
* MKTP is not in AC0[p].
* Circuit size lower bounds are equivalent to hardness of a relativized version MKTPA of MKTP under a class of uniform AC0 reductions, for a large class of sets A.
* Hardness of MCSPA implies hardness of MKTPA for a wide class of sets A. This is the first result directly relating the complexity of MCSPA and MKTPA, for any A.Paper presented at the 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, August 21-25, 2017, Aalborg, Denmark. This is the Author’s Original, a longer and more complete version of the paper published in: Larsen, K.G., Bodlaender, H.L., & Raskin, J.-F. (Eds.). (2017). Proceedings from 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)). DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.54.Peer reviewed
Regional pressure response to large-scale carbon storage in the bunter sandstone formation, Silverpit Basin (Southern North Sea, UK)
No full textCarbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies play a pivotal role in mitigating anthropogenic carbon emissions by enabling the long-term subsurface sequestration of CO2. These are essential for achieving international climate targets and supporting short- to mid-term mitigation strategies. Among potential storage sites, the extensive saline aquifer of the Bunter Sandstone in the Silverpit Basin has been identified as a high-capacity reservoir suitable for CCS deployment. With more CO2 injection projects planned, understanding the broader aquifer sensitivity is essential.This study investigates the influence of geological settings and boundary transmissibility on the aquifer response to large-scale CO2 injection.A regional model of the Silverpit was developed to simulate CO2 injection at a rate of 1 Mt/yr/well over 50 years across 14 wells, followed by a 5000-year post-injection observation period to assess plume migration and pressure behaviour.The findings indicate that the reservoir can safely accommodate approximately 700 Mt of supercritical CO2. However, pressure footprint extends over tens of kilometres, underscoring the necessity of accurately characterising regional boundaries. Moreover, the latter significantly influences inter-regional flow dynamics, with observed inversions in flow direction. The structural setting of the Silverpit ensures effective CO2 containment within four-way dip closures. A thorough understanding of these interactions is crucial for evaluating the potential need for brine production to manage reservoir pressure and mitigate pressure interference between storage licenses
Better Complexity Bounds for Cost Register Automata
No full textCost register automata (CRAs) are one-way finite automata whose transitions have the side-effect that a register is set to the result of applying a state-dependent semiring operation to a pair of registers. Here it is shown that CRAs over the tropical semiring can simulate polynomial time computation, proving along the way that a naturally dened width-k circuit value problem over the tropical semiring is P-complete. Then the copyless variant of the CRA, requiring that semiring operations be applied to distinct registers, is shown no more powerful than NC1 when the semiring is the integers, or strings with operations max and concat. This relates questions left open in recent work on the complexity of CRA-computable functions to long-standing class separation conjectures in complexity theory, such as NC versus P and NC1 versus GapNC1.Paper presented at the 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, August 21-25, 2017, Aalborg, Denmark. This is the Author’s Original, a longer and more complete version of the paper published in: Larsen, K.G., Bodlaender, H.L., & Raskin, J.-F. (Eds.). (2017). Proceedings from 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017). Dagstuhl, Germany: Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik. (Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)). DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.24.Peer reviewed
Eric J. Hobsbawm, la Historia desde abajo y el análisis de los agentes históricos
Get PDFSe trata de una reflexión que, explícitamente enraizada de forma crítica en la propia tradición historiográfica radical, aborda la evolución que experimentó Eric J. Hobsbawm en su manera de analizar los agentes históricos desde abajo. La interpretación del autor se contextualiza en el desarrollo de la Historia social y cultural entre las décadas de 1950 y 1990, principalmente en el ámbito de la denominada historia radical y desde abajo que, además de Hobsbawm, tuvo entre sus principales cultivadores a E. P. Thompson o G. Rudé.Es tracta d'una reflexió que, explícitament arrelada de forma crítica en la pròpia tradició historiogràfica radical, aborda l'evolució que va experimentar Eric J. Hobsbawm en la seva manera d'analitzar els agents històrics des de baix. La interpretació de l'autor es contextualitza en el desenvolupament de la Història social i cultural entre les dècades de 1950 i 1990, principalment en l'àmbit de la denominada història radical i des de baix que, a més de Hobsbawm, va tenir entre els seus principals conreadors a E. P. Thompson o G. Rudé.Critically based on the radical historiographic tradition, this paper proposes a reflection on the evolution that Eric J. Hobsbawm experienced when analysing the historical agents from below. The author contextualizes his interpretation in the development of the social and cultural History between the 1950s and the 1990s, specially in the field of the so called radical and from below history, a kind of history that, besides Hobsbawm, has in E.P Thompson or G. Rudé some of its main practitioners
Eric J. Hobsbawm, la Historia desde abajo y el análisis de los agentes históricos
No full textSe trata de una reflexión que, explícitamente enraizada de forma crítica en la propia tradición historiográfica radical, aborda la evolución que experimentó Eric J. Hobsbawm en su manera de analizar los agentes históricos desde abajo. La interpretación del autor se contextualiza en el desarrollo de la Historia social y cultural entre las décadas de 1950 y 1990, principalmente en el ámbito de la denominada historia radical y desde abajo que, además de Hobsbawm, tuvo entre sus principales cultivadores a E. P. Thompson o G. Rudé.Es tracta d'una reflexió que, explícitament arrelada de forma crítica en la pròpia tradició historiogràfica radical, aborda l'evolució que va experimentar Eric J. Hobsbawm en la seva manera d'analitzar els agents històrics des de baix. La interpretació de l'autor es contextualitza en el desenvolupament de la Història social i cultural entre les dècades de 1950 i 1990, principalment en l'àmbit de la denominada història radical i des de baix que, a més de Hobsbawm, va tenir entre els seus principals conreadors a E. P. Thompson o G. Rudé.Critically based on the radical historiographic tradition, this paper proposes a reflection on the evolution that Eric J. Hobsbawm experienced when analysing the historical agents from below. The author contextualizes his interpretation in the development of the social and cultural History between the 1950s and the 1990s, specially in the field of the so called radical and from below history, a kind of history that, besides Hobsbawm, has in E.P Thompson or G. Rudé some of its main practitioners
Evaluating Research in Context: Pilot Study at Faculty of Architecture TU Delft
No full textThe vice chancellor of Delft University of Technology, Prof.dr.ir. J. Fokkema, introduced a pilot Evaluating Research in Context (ERiC) at the Faculty of Architecture. The Faculty of Architecture perceives a serious confl ict between the demands and criteria in evaluation procedures and the ambition to be relevant for the practice of architecture, planning and building. The goal of this ERiC pilot is to develop an evaluation method that judges research in the Faculty of Architecture on all its merits and takes into account the specifi c characteristics of architecture research. A second goal is the improvement of the evaluation of research contributions to society. This report presents the full results of this project and gives recommendations how to use these results in an evaluation according to the Standard Evaluation Protocol 2009-2015.Architectur
Software engineering : modern approaches / Eric J. Braude, Michael E. Bernstein.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.xvi, 782 pages
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