Marginal Spaces Research Articles

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This study aims to understand night markets as informal educational spaces through an analysis of the concept of deterritorialization from Deleuze and Guattari. As dynamic spaces, night markets are not only an arena for economic transactions, but also a space for cultural interaction, knowledge exchange, and the formation of community identity. This study uses a qualitative approach with participatory observation methods and in-depth interviews with visitors to night markets. The data obtained are then analyzed using a deterritorialization framework to describe how night markets go beyond the formal boundaries of education, creating a fluid and creative learning space. The results of the study show that night markets are an arena for deterritorialization of education, where local values and knowledge, negotiation skills, and cultural adaptation are distributed organically. Night markets show the blurring of the boundaries between economic space and educational space, making them an alternative learning locus that is not bound by formal institutions. In addition, the process of deterritorialization in night markets goes beyond traditional understandings of education by showing that knowledge and learning can thrive in marginal and temporary spaces. This study contributes to the discourse on informal education and marginal spaces, and opens up opportunities for further exploration of the role of non-formal spaces in building a learning society. The night market, as a site of deterritorialization, serves as a concrete example of how education can occur outside institutional control, offering an inclusive and flexible alternative for the dissemination of knowledge.

Mad Studies, Inclusive Education and Higher Education Participation – Critiquing Fitness to Teach

This article focuses on a critique of the UK’s policy directive related to fitness to teach particularly in relation to the experiences of disabled people attending teacher education. It utilises Mad Studies to raise a different set of questions in relation to teacher education and higher education participation. As ‘madness’ is ‘beginning to be reclaimed by the user/survivor movement’ (Spandler et al., 2015, p.6), and in conjunction with the struggle for an inclusive higher education system, this article drawing upon experiential knowledge, explores issues of access to support, disclosure, and recounts the coercive power relations that position mad students – students experiencing distress and anxiety aspiring to be teachers in disadvantaged and marginal spaces. It recognises that there are tensions in using various terminological descriptors that shape and reshape discourses of power/knowledge. Given the increasing number of students being and becoming identified as having mental health difficulties (an official term in the higher education lexicon of name-calling) the university is coming under increasing scrutiny. Policy directives such as ‘fit to study’, and ‘fitness to teach’ pose specific barriers and challenges. Alternatively, the disciplinary fields of Mad Studies, (Critical) Disability Studies, and Inclusive Education, offer different insights and questions about how institutions can disrupt traditional ableist/disablist structures of normalcy and systems of discrimination. Rather than typical ‘curative’ policy directives related to ‘self-help’, ‘self-improvement’, ‘self-confidence’, ‘self-efficacy’ and notions of ‘well-being’, this article argues that such discovery/recovery policies are inherently discriminatory and deficient. This article builds upon the findings from a postgraduate research study which explored the experiences of Post Graduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) trainee students in terms of their interactions with different staff whilst on school placements (Pattinson, 2021). This previous small-scale study specifically utilised the use of questionnaires and interviews with university tutors, school teachers and students situated within the Southwest of England. Alongside drawing upon the lived experiences of trainee students and university teachers, it includes a personal narrative of one of the authors, Sarah, who shares her own previous teacher training experiences which are situated alongside emerging concerns with ableist/disablist policy directives. Within this context, this article examines these interactions in context of the so-called ‘fitness to teach’ policy, a current disciplinary requirement under legislative duties.

Intra-Institutional Collaborations to Promote Research and Scholarship: Examples from the Field

ABSTRACT Expectations for and rates of scholarly productivity have increased substantively across academic fields, including physical education and sport pedagogy. Concurrent with higher scholarly output has been an increase in collaborative, team approaches to science and fewer sole authored publications. This has led to the development and propagation of different types of intra- and trans-institutional research arrangements. While research laboratories are traditionally associated with the natural or hard sciences, social science researchers can also develop meaningful and collaborative spaces. This can be the case even in environments with limited faculty affiliates or graduate students or minimal or marginal physical space. The purpose of this paper is to overview examples of intra-institutional arrangements that promote scholarship and education while collaborating with outside groups. We ground the conversation in sense of community theory and key tenets of collaboration. Four intra-institutional collaborative groups are overviewed and discussed as illustrative examples and linked to best practices in collaboration. More specifically, we highlight connections to the four components of SoC (i.e. membership, influence, integration of needs, shared emotional connection), highlight the teaching and learning mission of each unit, connect to four pillars of collaborative work (i.e. shared purpose, ethic of contribution, development of independent processes, value and reward collaboration), and highlight trans-institutional collaborations with other researchers and groups. We conclude with encouragement for others to use the examples provided as inspiration for creating or further developing collaborative scholarly groups.

ARLSSMM: an effective fault diagnosis method for roller bearing under strong noise

ABSTRACT Support matrix machine (SMM) is a matrix classification method that effectively utilises information between rows and columns in matrix-form data. However, the presence of abnormal data in the feature matrix fed into the model can result in model non-convergence and hyperplane shift, greatly affecting classification accuracy. To address this issue, this paper introduces a matrix classification method, called asymmetric robust least squares support matrix machine (ARLSSMM). To construct ARLSSMM, a novel optimisation model based on a matrix with asymmetric constraints is designed to obtain the hyperplane, which can not only use the data set to dynamically determine the position of the hyperplane to obtain the maximum margin space but also reduce the influence of abnormal data on the model classification performance. Two different roller bearing types of test data are used for experimental validation, and the results show that ARLSSMM demonstrates excellent classification performance.

The State of Post-Industriality: The “Power of Factories”

Post-industrial and industrial today are present in both small and medium-sized Russian towns. In some of them, they continue to operate, but can no longer provide employment for all citizens due to automation and other processes. In some others, businesses have ceased to exist, but abandoned factory spaces are viewed by residents as places where a new factory should appear, that is, exclusively in the context of industrialism. The post-industrial is manifested in the increasing demands of the population for a variety of places of work and leisure, for job security, for the environmental situation, for the comfort of life, and for access to a wide variety of resources. As a result, urban space acquires marginal characteristics: new factories do not appear, plots of land remain abandoned, tourism and creative projects are present, but are not yet decisive for such settlements.We use the theoretical frame of space production by A. Lefebvre and the approach of marginal space characteristics. For ten years we have been researching small Russian cities; the article uses materials from 2018 — 2023, obtained through semi-formalized mobile and stationary interviews, group discussions, observation and photo mapping, mental maps, as well as the “time capsule” technique. The purpose of the article is to present observations about the combination of the following phenomena, such as the continuing “power of factories” and the sprouts of creativity and tourism appearing here and there as signs of post-industriality.

The power of sisterhood: graduate students’ dialogic exploration at the margins of a Midwest university

In this duoethnography we, a Latina and Filipina, write letters to each other reflecting on a video discussing our graduate student lives and shared journal entries during COVID-19. After revisiting the reflections, we share what makes the marginal space of a Midwest university unique and transformative. By analyzing our experiences, as Women of Color graduate students in a predominately white institution, common themes of spirit injury and healing emerged. We learned to make space for authentic relationships. We shared examples of our teaching experiences as Brown women in white spaces. We integrated voices and wisdom of Women of Color Scholars when talking to one another. We shared cautionary tales and stories of resilience to combat the taxing space of higher education on our Brown bodies. Consistent with this dialogic method, our writing and formatting choices invite the reader to be the third partner in our conversation.

The mirage of the alleged Chinese new left

ABSTRACT This paper clarifies the mysteries surrounding the alleged Chinese New Left as an intellectual movement since the 1990s and explains why the term Chinese New Left mismatches with what it seemingly refers to. In fact, as an intellectual movement, the alleged Chinese New Left is an artificial construction of distorted and incoherent referentiality, which has no commonality with the New Left in its original sense. Notwithstanding, as possible and marginal space in the political spectrum and public sphere, a New Left could exist in China, though illegally by far.

Racialized Railway Mobilities: Repression and Resistance in the Anglophone South African Short Story During the Drum Decade

ABSTRACT South Africa has a complex history of racialized (im)mobilities. During the social engineering of apartheid, the city became a racialized white space that was dependent on black migrant workers who were forced to live in the marginal spaces on the edge of the city. This daily commute was enabled through the construction of public transportation systems and commuter railways. This mundane and banal form of mobility became a key site of both repression and resistance during the apartheid era. The present article explores how these racialized railway mobilities were represented during the ‘Drum decade’ of the 1950s in South Africa. It explores how the short story, as a liminal genre positioned within local and transnational literary cultures, is mobilized to narrate railway mobilities during this transitional decade. Texts analyzed include the news reports and short stories by Can Themba, Es’kia Mphahlele, and Nat Nakasa. This article explores how the mobile public spaces of the railways and the mobile figures of railway passengers were mobilized in the Anglophone South African short story as a form of resistance to the repression of the apartheid era.

Overcoming Fractures of Cross-Cultural Understanding: Modern Chinese Knowledge Production on the Arab World

Despite the long history of Chinese-Arab interactions since the seventh century, modern Chinese scholarship on the Arab world has a much shorter story. The global historical context that led to such a situation is the Western dominance in knowledge production. Most Chinese scholars research on issues related to the West and/or China-Western interactions. Only a small proportion of researchers cast their eyes on the “other East”—the Arab world. Consequently, Arab/Arabic studies occupies a marginal space in Chinese academies. In addition, although Edward Said had fiercely argued more than forty years ago in Orientalism that subtle but persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arab-Islamic peoples and their culture perpetrates Western misunderstanding about the region, such biased representations were sometimes uncritically transferred by Chinese scholars when they were acquiring knowledge about the region via translations of Orientalist accounts written in English. Another major obstacle is the inherent linguistic and orthographic difficulties involved. Although some researchers have made great endeavors to overcome such challenges, most publish only in Chinese. As a result, their findings are not widely known. This article, therefore, scrutinizes and contextualizes modern Chinese scholarship on the Arab world in order to introduce it to a wider international audience, especially for those who are keenly observing the increasing Chinese-Arab engagements in the twenty-first century. In addition to providing synoptic overviews of major institutions, scholars, and their representative works, the article also critically analyzes the historical contexts that led to the initial formation, subsequent divergent developments in Chinese-language academies on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and the present challenges of the respective state of the fields. I argue that due to bigger population, larger geographical size, and more government funding, Arab/Arabic studies in mainland China is more developed than that in Taiwan, though scholars based on the mainland are facing more pressure on censorship and self-censorship. Both fields, however, were pioneered by the same group of Chinese Hui Muslim scholars who went to study at al-Azhar University in Egypt in the 1930s and the 1940s, not unlike cosmopolitan Muslims around the world at the time who traveled to Cairo for multiple and complex reasons. When they returned, institutionalizing Arab/Arabic-Islamic studies in Chinese academies became one of their most visible and long-lasting legacies. Contingencies in their lives, mainly job opportunities upon graduation, played an important role in their later bifurcated career trajectories. The process during which these Hui Azharites ceased to be “cosmopolitan Muslims” and instead became “Chinese Arabists” reflects an important transformation in Chinese-Arab interactions during the Cold War politics. Later generations of scholars developed systematic pedagogies on teaching Arabic to native Chinese speakers by publishing Arabic-Chinese dictionaries as well as textbooks and grammar books. Their role as cross-cultural intermediaries is significant and widely impactful. These little-known scholars deserve to be recognized for their intellectual pursuits.

Difficult past, cultural trauma and national identity: The commemorations of the Armenian Genocide in Istanbul

AbstractIn Turkey, for at least three decades, a plurality of actors has been producing counter narratives of the Armenian Genocide. These have challenged the official discourse, revealing the old taboo that underpinned the national republican identity and reconceiving it as a contested history that interrogates the country's democratic status. Here, it is argued that this recent history of counter narratives has constituted a trauma process aimed at transforming public memory and national identity. In particular, various commemoration ceremonies were held in Istanbul between 2005 and 2023, with counter ceremonies and a revised official narrative expressed through ceremony that was developed in response. Given that these commemorations occupy a marginal space in the literature on the Armenian question and the Genocide, the first aim of this article is to reconstruct them through the perspective of cultural performance. Then, it is argued that the commemorations not only have an opaque status in the cultural trauma literature but also contribute to the trauma process through their creation of specific trauma narratives of the Genocide. Finally, the paper uses the example of commemorative performances in Istanbul to contribute to the debate on the reasons for the success or failure of a trauma process. Methodologically, an analysis of journal archives and materials produced by carrier groups is extended by ten in‐depth interviews and notes taken during participant observation in Istanbul between 2010 and 2022.

The paradox of in/exclusion: Special education schools as transient spaces of marginality and relationality in contemporary China

AbstractWhile China embraces disability inclusion rhetorically, segregated special schools continue to proliferate in recent decades. What kind of space are special education schools? How do actors in such spaces negotiate stigma and marginality for a better future? This research pairs historical, policy and ethnographic research to examine special education schools as transient spaces of marginality and potentiality in China. It illustrates how inclusion needs to go beyond the entanglement with place towards relationality and being.

Postmodern Feminist Amnesia: De-centering Trauma and Re-defining Subalternity in Elizabeth Nunez’s Bruised Hibiscus

In most subaltern narratives, trauma occupies a central position. The subaltern consciousness is often limited to marginal spaces within the hegemonic agency of trauma inflictors. Gendered subalternity, ergo, imposes a further peripheral status for subaltern women. In Bruised Hibiscus (2000), Elizabeth Nunez promotes the voicing of the silent subaltern woman to step ahead of her traumatic confines. This article challenges the essentialized definitions of trauma and subalternity by subverting the totalizing enterprise of dominant centers and highlighting the ‘slippage’ between theory and practice. This movement from centers and back to centers grants the ‘new’ subaltern female characters in Bruised Hibiscus a re-locatable agency that heals neurosis through deliberate amnesiac and mnemonic practices both simultaneously and interchangeably. The women in the novel under study, Rosa and Zuela, become at once the victims and the perpetrators of trauma within a postmodern redefining and de-essentializing narrative of memory and forgetting. Keywords: Trauma, New subalternity, Amnesia, Postmodernism, Elizabeth Nunez

“There’s not much I can do about it”: violence and control in marginal(izing) spaces

ABSTRACT People's experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress. Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where violence thrives. Due to shelter shortages, Australia is using backpacker hostels and boarding houses to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, but how violence manifests in these settings is not well understood. We draw on ethnographic research in an Australian urban center to examine the dynamics of violence and space among people experiencing homelessness who are living in different forms of accommodation. The findings show that marginality and socio-spatial inequalities are experienced beyond “marginal spaces.” We demonstrate that a lack of control over living space is a key factor contributing to the violence and continued marginalization experienced by individuals. Our findings highlight how policy failings limit people's opportunities to escape violent and distressing living arrangements, which further entrench their socio-spatial disadvantage.

Exploring the Temporary Appropriation of Marginal Open Spaces in Urban Residential Neighbourhoods

Open spaces are essential to the liveability of urban residential neighbourhoods. While formal open spaces, including neighbourhood parks, have been extensively studied for their environmental and social values, there is scanty research on marginal open spaces’ potential uses and benefits. By drawing on an empirical study of residential neighbourhoods in a Nigerian urban centre, this study explores the temporary appropriation of marginal open spaces. The study adopts a mixed-method approach using a questionnaire survey, photographic recordings, observations, open space measurements and interviews with local planning authorities. Findings showed that marginal spaces exist in various types and forms, including open areas along neighbourhood streets and stream corridors. The three major types of temporary appropriation in the residential neighbourhoods were “Informal commerce”, “Leisure/social pursuit” and “Sacralisation (religious activity)”. The most critical concerns regarding open space appropriation, measured on a five-point Likert scale, were “Lack of safety”, “Absence of tree cover/shade” and “Stench from uncollected waste”, with scales of 4.92, 4.68 and 4.42, respectively. Information gathered from the local planning authorities also showed that the users violated the planning regulations guiding the marginal spaces. The study concluded that although the temporary use of open spaces in residential neighbourhoods is essential for improving the residents’ livelihoods and socio-cultural lives, the practice is fraught with several challenges. Consequently, practical policy recommendations were proffered to ensure that marginal spaces are produced as desirable areas for everyday life while maintaining hygiene, safety, cleanliness and comfort.

Digital Evaluation of the Trueness and Fitting Accuracy of a Three-Unit Fixed Zirconium Bridge Fabricated from Different Types of Zirconia and Different Marginal Cement Space Thickness

Abstract Objective The aim of this study was to measure the internal, marginal fitness, and trueness of a three-unit fixed zirconium bridge fabricated using two types of zirconia and different marginal cement space thicknesses. Methods and Materials Thirty-two aluminum master models, constructed by computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines using aluminum rod, representing two prepared aluminum abutments (the upper first premolar and the first molar) were chosen due to differences in shape and dimensions, which may affect adaptation. It may also be considered one of the most common cases in clinical practice and a missing second premolars were used to fabricate a three-unit fixed partial zirconium bridge. A master model was scanned with an intraoral scanner. Fixed dental prostheses (FDPs) were fabricated with two designs (single-layer high-translucent [HT] Katana and ultra-translucent multilayer (UTML] zirconia Katana) and two marginal cement space thicknesses (0 and 25μm for HT and ML). These specimens are divided according to marginal cement space and type of zirconia into four groups, each containing eight samples. Group A: 25-μm marginal cement space with single-layer HT zirconia. Group B: 25-μm marginal gap with UTML zirconia. Group C: 0 μm marginal gap single-layer HT zirconia. Group D: 0 μm marginal gap with UTML zirconia. Fitness and trueness of the fabricated three-unit FDPs were evaluated by scanning the silicone replica of the cement space and analyzing the thickness of the silicone replica in the three-dimensional inspection software (Geomagic Control X, Morrisville, North Carolina, USA). Results Highest mean value of internal gap was recorded at the molar abutment of group D (95.05, ± 3.42 μm), while the lowest was recorded at the premolar abutment of group A (57.12, ± 2.43μm). For marginal gap, the lowest marginal gap was also recorded at the premolar abutment of group A (36.14, ± 3.94μm), and the highest was at the molar abutment of group D (84.74, ± 2.98 μm).For trueness, group A showed the lowest root mean square (RMS) of mean with both abutments compared with group D, which recorded the highest RMS of mean for trueness. Conclusion The marginal cement space thickness affects the FPD internal, marginal fitness, and trueness; single-layer HT (Katana) zirconia shows better fitness and trueness than UTML (Katana).

Robust Data-Driven Automation Based on Relaxed Supervised Hashing With Self-Optimized Labels

Recently, the Visual Internet of Things (VIoT) has been widely used in data-driven automation, where VIoT devices are used to monitor environmental dynamics and to trigger corresponding actuators after examining event signatures (e.g., hashes). Nonetheless, VIoT devices may collect partially observed data, e.g., largely occluded images, which cause biased labeling and oversensitivity during modeling. Moreover, in typical methods, class labels are rigid and fixed categorical variables, where marginal space between different classes is fixed and equal. In fact, margins may be unequally spaced. Such nonflexibility in class labels inevitably causes fitting difficulty. In light of such, this study proposes relaxed robust supervised hashing (Relaxed RSH) for generating reliable signatures that can simultaneously conquer the above problems caused by incomplete data and rigid margins. To accommodate oversensitivity, this study proposes measuring hash learning loss by robust half quadratic (HQ) functions for modeling incomplete data. In the initial label matrix, slack variables are added to relax binary constraints. Such slack variables can be self-optimized during the learning process and can be used to automatically adjust margins between different classes. Decorrelation, balancing, and normalization constraints based on Relaxed RSH are also devised to provide discriminant and compact codes. Experimental results based on open datasets showed that the proposed method yielded higher mAP and F1 than the baselines. <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Note to Practitioners</i> —This work is motivated by the problems caused by incomplete data and rigid class margins during event signature (e.g., hash) learning, where hashes are used to trigger automation systems. In existing hashing methods, incomplete data (e.g., continuous occlusion, missing values, and sample-specific outliers) along with rigid class margins cause fitting biases, thereby challenging data-driven automation. This study proposes Relaxed RSH by designing robust HQ loss, self-optimized label learning, and corresponding constraints for generating discriminant hashes. This prevents actuators from being mistriggered by corrupted data. Experiments were conducted on various data corruption. Future research will address the design for incremental/decentralized hash learning.

Robust Partially-Observed Data Sensing via ℓ2,p Norms with Flexible Adaptive Label Marginal Space for Visual IoT

Robust Partially-Observed Data Sensing via ℓ2,p Norms with Flexible Adaptive Label Marginal Space for Visual IoT

“Value-Conditioned Interest”: Secularity, Institutional Support, and the Sociology of Religion in Graduate Departments

ABSTRACT Although religion once played a central role in sociological inquiry, today it has fallen from prominence and now occupies a marginal space in the field. Sociologists of religion suggest that this neglect can be explained by the unusual irreligiosity of academia. However, some are hopeful that changes to graduate training and other institutional interventions can overcome this propensity and encourage more sociological engagement with religion, one of the most influential forces in contemporary society. Drawing on a new dataset of 473 sociology graduate students in the top 25 departments in the United States, we assess how personal secularity and departmental support for religious inquiry predict sociological engagement with religion. Personal secularity is a strong predictor of the decision to study religion and of the overall perception of the relevance of religion in contemporary society. Coming from a department where religion is discussed and faculty pursue research on religion predicts the perception of religion’s relevance for the secular majority. Our findings contribute to the understanding of sociological knowledge creation and how individual and institutional proclivities – together – shape what we deem important enough to study.

Application of the virtual-fit method for fixed complete denture cases designed on intraoral scans: Effect of cement spacing

ObjectivesTo validate the virtual-fit alignment, analyze the impact of cement spacing on internal/marginal gaps, and correlate results with conventional trueness measures. MethodsFour dental abutment models were scanned using an industrial reference scanner (one time each), Emerald S (three times each), and Medit i700 (three times each) intraoral scanners (IOS). On each IOS scan (n = 24), three complete-arch fixed frameworks were designed with 70 or 140 µm cement space with no marginal space (groups 70 and 140) and 70 µm with an additional 20 µm space, including the margin (group 70+20). Two types of alignment were performed by GOM Inspect software. The reference and IOS scans were aligned through a conventional iterative closest point algorithm (ICP) where the penetration of the two scans was permitted into each other (conventional trueness method). Second, the computer-aided designs were superimposed with the reference scan also using an ICP, but preventing the design from virtual penetration into the model (virtual-fit method). The virtual-fit algorithm was validated by non-penetration alignment of the designs with the IOS scans. Internal and marginal gap was measured between the design and the abutments. The difference between spacing groups was compared by Friedman's test. A statistical correlation (Spearman's Rho Test) was computed between the measured gaps and the conventional trueness method. A significant difference was accepted at p<0.05 after the Bonferroni correction. ResultsThe gaps deviated from the set cement space by 3–13 µm on IOS scans (validation of virtual-fit algorithm). The internal gap of the design on the reference scan was not affected by cement spacing (Emerald S, p = 0.779; Medit i700, p = 0.205). The marginal gap in groups 70 and 70+20 was significantly lower than in group 140 in Emerald S (p<0.05). In Medit i700, it was lower in the 70+20 group than in the group 70 (p<0.01) and in the group 140 (p<0.05). Some Medit i700 scans exhibited high marginal gaps within group 70 but not in groups 70 and 140. The measured gaps correlated significantly (r = 0.51–0.81, p<0.05–0.001) with the conventional trueness but were 2.6–4.6 times higher (p<0.001). ConclusionVirtual-fit alignment can simulate restoration seating. A 20 µm marginal and 90 µm internal spacing could compensate for scan errors up to several hundred micrometers. However, 140 µm internal spacing is counterproductive. The conventional trueness method could only partially predict framework misfit. Clinical significanceThe virtual-fit method can provide clinically interpretable data for intraoral scanners. Emerald S and Medit i700 intraoral scanners are suitable for fabricating complete-arch fixed tooth-supported prostheses. In addition, a slight elevation of spacing at the margin could compensate for moderate inaccuracies in a scan.

Bounds on Choquet risk measures in finite product spaces with ambiguous marginals

Abstract We investigate the problem of finding upper and lower bounds for a Choquet risk measure of a nonlinear function of two risk factors, when the marginal distributions of the risk factors are ambiguous and represented by nonadditive measures on the marginal spaces and the joint nonadditive distribution on the product space is unknown. We treat this problem as a generalization of the optimal transport problem to the setting of nonadditive measures. We provide explicit characterizations of the optimal solutions for finite marginal spaces, and we investigate some of their properties. We further discuss the connections with linear programming, showing that the optimal transport problems for capacities are linear programs, and we also characterize their duals explicitly. Finally, we investigate a series of numerical examples, including a comparison with the classical optimal transport problem, and applications to counterparty credit risk.