Multiple Characters Research Articles

Synthesis of a hydrogen-bridged tetraborane(6): a substituent effect of a diaminoboryl group toward the B-B multiple bond character.

A hydrogen-bridging tetraborane(6) was synthesized from boryllithium, a boron nucleophile, in three steps. The structural and spectroscopic analyses of the tetraborane(6) revealed σ-donor and π-acceptor effects of diaminoboryl substituents toward the central B-B moiety having a multiple bond character. DFT calculations also supported the experimentally observed substituent effect of the boryl group.

Memristor TCAMs Accelerate Regular Expression Matching for Network Intrusion Detection

We propose memristor-based TCAMs (Ternary Content Addressable Memory) circuits to accelerate Regular Expression (RegEx) matching through in memory processing of finite automata. RegEx matching is a key function in network security to find malicious actors. However, RegEx matching latency and power can be incredibly high and current proposals are challenged to perform wire-speed matching for large rulesets. Our approach dramatically decreases operating power, enables high throughput, and the use of nanoscale memristor TCAM circuits (mTCAMs) enables compression techniques to expand rulesets. We fabricated and demonstrated nanoscale memristor TCAM cells. SPICE simulations investigate performance at scale and a mTCAM dynamic power model using 16 nm layout parameters demonstrates ~0.2 fJ/bit/search energy for a 36 × 250 mTCAM array. A tiled architecture is proposed to implement a Snort ruleset and assess application performance. Compared to a state-of-the-art FPGA approach (2 Gbps, ~1 W), we show ×4 throughput (8 Gbps) at 55% the power (0.55 W) without standard TCAM power-saving techniques. Our performance comparison improves further when striding (searching multiple characters at once) is considered, resulting in 47.2 Gbps at 1.2 W for our approach compared to 3.9 Gbps at 630 mW for strided FPGA NFA, demonstrating a promising path to wire-speed RegEx matching on large scale rulesets.

Struktura i dinamika ilegalnih tržišta u spektru organizovanog kriminala

Illegal market, similar to the legal one, is the field of social relations in which production, exchange, sale and consumption of goods and services are carried out, the difference being that products/services that are exchanged or the exchange itself violate the established legal provisions. The significance of their research arises from the fact that huge financial assets are accumulated in illegal markets, while ignoring their existence to say the least means ignoring the problem of organized crime and makes understanding of even legal markets more difficult. The approach to explain organized crime by the analysis of structure and functioning of illegal markets is based on the fact that the illegal markets are the dominant social setting where this kind of crime is generated and developed. Multiple character of the phenomenon of illegal market conduct in general makes it impossible to distinguish legal from illegal markets based on the character of products being exchanged. The focus should instead be on identifying various forms, i.e. types of illegal markets. Also, normal functioning of the market requires transparency and anticipation of market transactions, as well as adaptability of market participants. The three main factors whose disbalance leads to market instability and disturbance of coordination of activity of market participants are the problems of assessment of value, competition and cooperation.

Simultaneous non-vanishing for Dirichlet $L$-functions

We extend the work of Fouvry, Kowalski and Michel on correlation between Hecke eigenvalues of modular forms and algebraic trace functions in order to establish an asymptotic formula for a generalized cubic moment of modular L-functions at the central point s = 1/2 and for prime moduli q. As an application, we exploit our recent result on the mollification of the fourth moment of Dirichlet L-functions to derive that for any pair $(\omega_1,\omega_2)$ of multiplicative characters modulo q, there is a positive proportion of $\chi$ (mod q) such that $L(\chi, 1/2 ), L(\chi\omega_1, 1/2 )$ and $L(\chi\omega_2, 1/2)$ are simultaneously not too small.

СИСТЕМАТИЗАЦІЯНАУКОВИХПІДХОДІВДОПРОБЛЕМИПОЛІТИКО-АДМІНІСТРАТИВНОГО РЕФОРМУВАННЯ СИСТЕМИ ПУБЛІЧНОГО УПРАВЛІННЯ

Reforms relate to such forms of social transformations, which may have an imperative multiplicative character. So the reform, which begins with radical changes in one sphere of social activity, but there are imperatives of reforming other systemically related spheres, which in turn can lead to feedback in connection with the need to correct the initiated reformation of the primitive sphere. That is, we deal with the so-called multiplier of feedback reforms. Scientists analyzed the following types of reforms: administrative reform, which is considered as a form of structural adjustment, improvement and development of the structure of state authorities as an integral system of the state, which arose on the basis of the integration of human, financial and material resources, institutions, organizations and enterprises under the conditions of interaction based on the principles of the distribution of power in within the limits of the current legislation, which guarantees the fulfillment of the state's purpose and functions; is a continuous process in the time-spatial format of the improvement of the institutional foundations of state-building mechanisms and state apparatus, which is the result of the country's socio-economic development; decentralization of public administration: firstly, it is a model of conditions aimed at democratizing the organization in the society and transferring management functions to the places; secondly, it is aimed at extending the powers of local self-government bodies and local government bodies of executive power; Thirdly, it refers to the activities carried out by the state on behalf of the authorized bodies, on the basis of legal norms, in order to increase the powers of local self-government bodies in the direction of providing public goods to the population within the territorial unit; Fourth, it implements the legal regulation of administrative relations between local self-government bodies and executive authorities in the field of administrative and legal support; reforming the civil service and service system in local self-government bodies is a systemic reorganization and modernization of the professional corps of officials working in the system of state power and local self-government; judicial reform - involves the planned development of the judicial system through the updating of courts, as well as the introduction of active participation and control of the public in the process (the activities of the Public Council of Integrity). It is created with the purpose of assisting the High Qualifications Commission of Judges of Ukraine in determining the compliance of a judge (candidate for a position of a judge) with criteria of professional ethics and integrity for the purposes of qualification evaluation. Political and administrative reform is the realization of mechanisms of state management in order to modernize and develop the system of public administration bodies, to professionalize the system of public administration, aimed at the formation of an effective and efficient system of public administration. Political and administrative reform has the following features: firstly, systemic, covering all major spheres of public life; secondly, the universality of the specially organized by the state authorities on a legislative basis is an interconnected transformation of social activity in its various spheres (administrative, economic, educational, social); thirdly, planning that changes only one social sphere of activity (for example, economic, innovative, scientific and technical); fourth, the direction that transforms individual social subsystems or industries (industrial, pharmaceutical, and others); fifth, the elementarily that changes the individual elements of a particular social subsystem (for example, a particular production complex or a system of scientific institutions in a particular industry).

Principle of work in the process of digitization and reconstruction of model of belt buckle by photogrammetry and 3D computer design

Bulgarian female folk costume is rich in multiple characters, elements and details. One of the most characteristic is the belt buckles. As well as specially designed symbolism, the belt buckle - with their unique identity belong to the national - historical heritage of Bulgaria. In the present study a model of a belt buckle is digitized and reconstructed, and possessing grace and beauty. The realization of the completed three-dimensional computer model goes through stages of photogrammetry and computer design with special sculpting tools.

Integrating multilocus DNA data and 3D geometric morphometrics to elucidate species boundaries in the case of Pyrenaearia (Pulmonata: Hygromiidae)

To accurately delimit species the use of multiple character types is essential as all speciation processes are not equally reflected in different data (e.g. morphological, molecular or ecological characters). With the introduction of geometric morphometrics methods and advances in 3D technology, a comprehensive combination of molecular and morphological data has been enabled in groups where exhaustively quantifying and measuring morphological shape change was not possible before such as gastropod shells. In this study, we combined multilocus coalescent species delimitation methods with 3D geometric morphometrics of shell shape to delimit species within the land snail genus Pyrenaearia. A new taxonomic scheme was constructed for the genus identifying ten species. Two nominal species were synonymized and a hitherto unrecognized cryptic species was identified. Our findings support the importance of combining multiple lines of evidence as molecular and morphological data on their own do not yield the same information. Further, the integration of morphological and molecular data shows the importance of allometry in shell shape and suggests a combined effect of population history and selection in different environments on shells morphological variation. Our new taxonomy and phylogenetic reconstruction suggest that, besides the glacial cycles of the Pleistocene, passive dispersal and rock substrate complexity could also have been involved in the speciation of the genus.

Narrative Engagement and Vicarious Interaction with Multiple Characters

This study investigates how audience members relate to and vicariously interact with multiple characters while viewing a narrative. Under the framework of the theory of situation models, we applied a real-time thought-listing technique that incorporated Twitter and focused on three debuting TV dramas to explore how the participants followed multiple characters while watching prime-time television dramas. We examined 3,274 tweets across the three TV series and found that monitoring a greater diversity of characters is associated with an increased number of questions asked and more accurate predictions of future events. The participants who made more accurate predictions had higher narrative engagement. In addition, the participants who had more thoughts about the self tracked a greater diversity of characters and made more accurate predictions about the plot. The results are discussed in terms of the developing literature on narratives in mass communication and entertainment research.

A regulator for smooth manifolds and an index theorem

For a smooth manifold $X$ and an integer $d$ > dim$(X)$ we construct and investigate a natural map $$ \sigma\_{d}\colon K\_{d}(C^{\infty}(X))\to \mathbf {ku}\mathbb C/\mathbb Z^{-d-1}(X)\ . $$ Here $K\_{d}(C^{\infty}(X))$ is the algebraic $K$-theory group of the algebra of complex valued smooth functions on $X$, and $\mathbf {ku}\mathbb C/\mathbb Z^{\*}$ is the generalized cohomology theory called connective complex $K$-theory with coefficients in $\mathbb C/\mathbb Z$. If the manifold $X$ is closed of odd dimension $d-1$ and equipped with a Dirac operator, then we state and partially prove the conjecture stating that the following two maps $$ K\_{d}(C^{\infty}(X))\to \mathbb C/\mathbb Z $$ coincide: 1. Pair the result of $\sigma\_{d}$ with the $K$-homology class of the Dirac operator. 2. Compose the Connes–Karoubi multiplicative character with the classifying map of the $d$-summable Fredholm module of the Dirac operator.

Interactive character animation by learning multi-objective control

We present an approach that learns to act from raw motion data for interactive character animation. Our motion generator takes a continuous stream of control inputs and generates the character's motion in an online manner. The key insight is modeling rich connections between a multitude of control objectives and a large repertoire of actions. The model is trained using Recurrent Neural Network conditioned to deal with spatiotemporal constraints and structural variabilities in human motion. We also present a new data augmentation method that allows the model to be learned even from a small to moderate amount of training data. The learning process is fully automatic if it learns the motion of a single character, and requires minimal user intervention if it deals with props and interaction between multiple characters.

What can multi-sited and digital ethnography contribute to innovation studies in the global South?

Innovation studies research is at the forefront of recent theoretical and interdisciplinary debates. However, it also faces at least three methodological challenges, namely: the need for empirical strategies to analyze inclusive innovations, the need to conduct symmetrical cutting-edge research in both theory and methods rather than giving lopsided emphasis to one or the other, and the need to adequately grasp the multiple, multi-sited and mobile character of social phenomena as well as the diverse impacts of digital culture in our lives stemming from globalization. This article aims to analyze the potentialities that ethnographical approaches have in facing these challenges, and multi-sited and digital ethnographical approaches in particular. Ethnography will be explored here not only as a flexible research strategy to grasp phenomena but also to develop theories closer to local actors and their different types of knowledge in the global South. These reflections about methods in innovation studies are also an opportunity to take part in a renewed discussion about how to conduct research in a more collaborative and inclusive way.

Complex and Ambiguous

Stickers, though similar in appearance to emoji, have distinct characteristics because they often contain animation, diverse gestures, and multiple characters and objects. Stickers can convey richer meaning than emoji, but their complexity and placement constraint may result in miscommunication. In this paper, we aim to understand how people perceive emotion in stickers, as well as how miscommunication related to sticker occurs in actual chat contexts. Toward this goal, we conducted an online survey (n = 87) and in-depth interviews (n = 28) in South Korea. We found emotional and contextual aspects of sticker misinterpretation. In particular, emotion misinterpretation mostly happened due to stickers' ambiguous (multiple) facial/bodily expressions and different perception of dynamism in gestures. In real chat settings, there were also contextual misinterpretations where senders and receivers differently interpret stickers' visual representation/reference, or/and corresponding textual messages. Based on these findings, we provide several practical design implications such as context awareness support in sticker interaction.

Double Character Sums with Intervals and Arbitrary Sets

We obtain a new bound on certain double sums of multiplicative characters which improves several previous results. This improvement comes from new bounds on the number of collinear triples in finite fields, which is a classical object of study in additive combinatorics.

Some Riemann Hypotheses from random walks over primes

The aim of this paper is to investigate how various Riemann Hypotheses would follow only from properties of the prime numbers. To this end, we consider two classes of [Formula: see text]-functions, namely, non-principal Dirichlet and those based on cusp forms. The simplest example of the latter is based on the Ramanujan tau arithmetic function. For both classes, we prove that if a particular trigonometric series involving sums of multiplicative characters over primes is [Formula: see text], then the Euler product converges in the right half of the critical strip. When this result is combined with the functional equation, the non-trivial zeros are constrained to lie on the critical line. We argue that this [Formula: see text] growth is a consequence of the series behaving like a one-dimensional random walk. Based on these results, we obtain an equation which relates every individual non-trivial zero of the [Formula: see text]-function to a sum involving all the primes. Finally, we briefly mention important differences for principal Dirichlet [Formula: see text]-functions due to the existence of the pole at [Formula: see text], in which the Riemann [Formula: see text]-function is a particular case.

From intertext to outcome: an archeology of classic video game narrative

ABSTRACTIn modern digital games, open worlds, multiple character selection and abilities, and an ever-changing cast of online characters present limitless possibilities for story generation. Classic games from the Golden Age of video games (1977–1984) offer far fewer possibilities—most often a singular character, and a singular, inevitable outcome. The player loses after expending multiple lives to linearly conquer levels and achieve a high score. This is the in-game narrative, driven by the economic necessity of maximizing returns from arcade machines; console games in the same period were not bound by the same design goals and constraints. Classic games have rich, contextual narrative connections, including intertextual relations, transmedia storytelling, and transfictional expansions. The immersive engagement (twitch) of the player in the arcade game is both immediate and performative, as is the discourse of play, and it produces an outcome narrative, focused on level achievements, duration, and/or score, as well as key gameplay events. This is complemented by the individual situational narrative (including business and technical aspects) regarding the circumstances of play. Both formal narrative analysis (for contextual and in-game narratives) and anecdotal interviewing (for individual situational and outcome narratives) are used to construct a narratological archeology analysis model with examples.

Determinants of representations of Coxeter groups

In Ayyer et al. (J Comb Theory Ser A 150:208–232, 2017), the authors characterize the partitions of n whose corresponding representations of $$S_n$$ have nontrivial determinant. The present paper extends this work to all irreducible finite Coxeter groups W. Namely, given a nontrivial multiplicative character $$\omega $$ of W, we give a closed formula for the number of irreducible representations of W with determinant $$\omega $$ . For Coxeter groups of type $$B_n$$ and $$D_n$$ , this is accomplished by characterizing the bipartitions associated to such representations.

Academic degrees in the Polish People’s Republic. Part 1. Lower academic degrees

In the period researched in this article (1947–1990) the principles of awarding academic degrees were far from stable (or uniform). What is more, difference between individual degrees were of multiple character. In the initial years shortly after the Polish People’s Republic was formed, a lower academic degree was award ed to every higher school graduate. From 1951on this term referred to degrees awarded to science candidates, and as of 1958 to a degree of a doctor. Secondly, the requirements needed to be satisfied in order to qualify for individual degrees differed and were changing. Thirdly, on and off there were instances where ex emptions were made from the generally binding principles governing awarding of academic degrees, especially in the case of a science candidate and a doctor. Those exemptions, or exceptional treatment, was justified by a reference to an exceptional case. Fourthly, lower academic degrees could not always be obtained in every discipline, and the list of the discipline that qualified candidates for a degree was neither closed nor stable. Fifthly, the rights granted to scientific councils of institutions of higher education, and later to scientific councils of units operating within the Polish Academy of Sciences as well, were also changing, mostly to meet the conditions and requirements which those unites were obliged to fulfil. Sixthly, depending on the role and position of other bodies or organs involved in the process (the minister competent for schools of higher education, the Main Council of Higher Education, or the Central Qualifications Committee) their say and role was also changing. For the sake of a certain simplification, it may be stated that solutions adopted as a result of the reforms of 1947 and 1951were comparable, while those implemented in subsequent years, particularly by acts on higher education of 1958, 1982 and 1985 and the act of 1965 on academic degrees and scientific titles as later amended, differed considerably from earlier solutions. The assessment, from a legal point of view, of the conditions of awarding lower academic degrees in the period researched would, however, have been incom- plete if the organisation of doctoral studies as well as the manner of their delivery leading to the preparation and submission of a doctoral dissertation by a degree candidate, had been examined as well. This issue will be the subject of the second part of this article.

Analysis of Multiple Characters of Major Character in the Novel Tell Me Your Dreams by Sydney Sheldon, as an Alternate Material to Teaching Prose

This research is purposed to analysis of multiple characters of major character in the novel Tell Me Your Dream by Sidney Sheldon. Like any other Sheldon’s previous novel, this novel tells an interesting mysterious story with a woman as the main character. Reading literature such as novels is interesting and challenging. It requires a different approach than reading a textbook.The writer can apply the knowledge about multiple character presented in the novel that can be used to convey informations.And the last but not least the writer can give contribution to teach prose.Based on background of the topic, writer states the exact problems of this study as follows: (1) What is multiple characters generally? (2) What are multiple characters of main character found in the novel? (3) What does Tell Me Your Dreamscontribute to Teaching Prose? Based on the problem the writer states, the objectives of this study as follows: (1) To explain the multiple characters definition.(2) To explain the multiple characters of main character found in the novel. (3) To explain what Tell Me Your Dreams novel contributes to Teaching Prose. This research uses data collection method with Content-analysis: A review of research in any area, for instance, involves the analysis of the contents of research articles that have been published. The technique of data analysis through some ways such as reading the novel, books and international journal, classifying the data, and analyzing the content of the novel.Based on the analysis, the writer concludes that Tell Me Your Dreams a novel written by Sidney Sheldon in 1998 is one of the media of teaching prose for example analyzing a novel. The contributions of analyzing novel for Teaching Proses are an alternative fun way of studying prose, increasing student interest in the preservation of literature and increasing students’ listening ability reading ability, writing ability, and speaking ability

Critically examining the use of blog-based fanfiction in the advanced language classroom

AbstractThis paper critically examines the integration of online fanfiction practices into an advanced university English language classroom. The fanfiction project, The Blogging Hobbit, was carried out as part of a course in the teacher education program at a Swedish university for students who were specializing in teaching English at the secondary school level. Participants were 122 students who completed the course in 2013 and 2014. In both classes, students were organized into groups of three to six to write collaborative blog-based role-play fanfiction of a missing moment from JRR Tolkien’s fantasy novelThe Hobbit. The 31 resulting pieces of collaborative fanfiction, the online formats they were published in, the 122 reflective essays produced by the two classes, and interviews with a focal group of participants were used to explore how technology and learners’ experience with this technology may have mediated the resulting stories. In addition, the classroom fanfiction texts were compared with comparable online writing published in the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (Ao3) to identify thematic and stylistic differences. The results showed that students’ lack of familiarity with publishing in blogs often posed a challenge that some groups were able to overcome or exploit to facilitate or enhance the readability of their completed stories. Compared to online fanfiction, the classroom fanfiction was less innovative with respect to focal characters yet more collective in its focus, with stories being told from multiple characters’ perspectives.

Electrooptic estimation of texture parameters of precision surfaces

We have developed a method of high-precision texture analysis of machined surfaces. We used the methods of autocorrelative processing of images of rough surfaces and the methods of computer-based optics for the analysis. We carry out the analyzed surface microrelief recognition by comparing the analyzed texture with the reference texture. In this study we determined the variation in the parameters of reflected light flux with respect to its luminous power and the angle of incidence on a rough surface. We detected considerable change in parameters of light flux using video signal. In accordance with the Russian standards, these changes are characterized with the influence function. We determined the following: the influence function has a multiplicative character. To minimize the influence function, we suggest to use a hardware tool that implements the proposed method of texture analysis. The hardware calculates the functional of the analyzed surface and the functional of the reference surface. We suggest to determine the resemblance of the analyzed surface and the reference surface based on the ratio of the said functionals. We believe that this approach allows to simplify the control and measurement instrumentation for texture recognition.