This paper analyzes peer-based learning and the concept of Scaffolding represented in ethnographic case studies of ten female informants aged 20-25 participating in the cosplay community. Cosplay is a female-dominated niche subculture of extreme fans...
Hypertoric varieties are determined by hyperplane arrangements. In this paper, we use stacky hyperplane arrangements to define the notion of hypertoric Deligne-Mumford stacks. Their orbifold Chow rings are computed. As an application, some examples...
The goal is to show how a 1978 paper of Richard Wood on monoidal comonads and exponentiation relates to more recent publications such as Pastro-Street (2009) and Bruguiéres-Lack-Virelizier (2011). In the process, we mildly extend the ideas to procom...
This paper presents NetWorks (NW), an interactive music generation system that uses a hierarchically clustered scale free network to generate music that ranges from orderly to chaotic. NW was inspired by the Honing Theory of creativity, according to...
This paper describes the process of developing a shared instrument for music-dance performance, with a particular focus on exploring the boundaries between standstill vs motion, and silence vs sound. The piece Vrengt grew from the idea of enabling a...
The languages accepted by finite automata are precisely the languages denoted by regular expressions. In contrast, finite automata may exhibit behaviours that cannot be described by regular expressions up to bisimilarity. In this paper, we consider e...
The paper by K. Sengupta et al. (Opt. Express 32, 40150-40164, 2024) explores quantum illumination using polarization-entangled photon pairs for object detection in noisy environments. In this comment, we highlight fundamental flaws in the mathematic...
This paper considers the textual plan (guidelines) proposed by People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) to manage earthquake and tsunami, and try to represent it in a more formal way, in order to provide means to simulate, analyse and adapt i...
This paper describes Ubiqus' submission to the WMT20 English-Inuktitut shared news translation task. Our main system, and only submission, is based on a multilingual approach, jointly training a Transformer model on several agglutinative languages. T...
In this paper, we describe our system for the AAAI 2021 shared task of COVID-19 Fake News Detection in English, where we achieved the 3rd position with the weighted F1 score of 0.9859 on the test set. Specifically, we proposed an ensemble method of d...
1. Competitor Comparison: Depth Over Breadth ●Hearthstone: A typical design based on "content stacking." Although it possesses a massive pool of over 5,000 cards, the standard competitive meta often...
Whispering is a ubiquitous mode of communication that humans use daily. Despite this, whispered speech has been poorly served by existing speech technology due to a shortage of resources and processing methodology. To remedy this, this paper provides...
The obstruction set for graphs with knotless embeddings is not known, but a recent paper of Goldberg, Mattman, and Naimi indicates that it is quite large. Almost all known obstructions fall into four Triangle-Y families and they ask if there is an ef...
In this paper, we present a new construction for strong separating hash families by using hypergraphs and obtain some optimal separating hash families. We also improve some previously known bounds of separating hash families....
In this paper we revisit the results of Loynes (1962) on stability of queues for ergodic arrivals and services, and show examples when the arrivals are bounded and ergodic, the service rate is constant, and under stability the limit distribution ha...
This paper explores tracking and privacy risks on pornography websites. Our analysis of 22,484 pornography websites indicated that 93% leak user data to a third party. Tracking on these sites is highly concentrated by a handful of major companies, wh...
In our research, we focus on the response to the non-consensual distribution of intimate or sexually explicit digital images of adults, also referred as revenge porn, from the point of view of the victims. In this paper, we present a preliminary expe...
Neuronal mechanisms underlying addiction have been attracting attention in neurobiology, economics, neuropsychiatry, and neuroeconomics. This paper proposes a possible link between economic theory of addiction (Becker and Murphy, 1988) and neurobiolo...
This paper introduces time-based addiction, which refers to excessive engagement in an activity that results in negative outcomes due to the misallocation of time. This type of addiction is often seen in media-related activities such as video games,...
In this paper, we use the technique of Finslerian submersion to deduce a flag curvature formula for homogeneous Finsler spaces. Based on this formula, we give a complete classification of even-dimensional smooth coset spaces $G/H$ admitting $G$-invar...