Empirical Problems Research Articles

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[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Posrnuli suverenitet? Dva slučaja posrnuća suvereniteta nacije države na primjeru Hrvatske

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Postkolonijalni angolski roman: Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Major Pronin Stories by L. Ovalov – The Beginning of a Mythological Hero

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Negotiating Identity through Travel: Japan through a Bengali Woman’s Lens

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Genre Intersections and Transmediality in Mark Požlep’s Project Stranger than Paradise

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Mrkvaste noge

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Pet minuta

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Doktor i Sunčano kupanje

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Suvremeni neoliberalni diskurs mentalnog zdravlja: ekonomizacija mentalnog zdravlja i konstruiranost osobne patologije

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

Građanin: oda Americi

[sic] – a Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation focuses on theoretical, empirical and artistic research in the fields of culture, literature and literary translation. [sic] thus welcomes the submission of works that focus on various theoretical or empirical problems within the fields listed above, as well as original translations. By publishing research papers, video essays, reviews, literary criticism, interviews and literature in translation, [sic] wishes to offer a wide, interdisciplinary approach to dominant, but also marginal and/or currently unrecognized as well as emerging literary and cultural trends and practices and in this way open a dialogue between proponents of different approaches to the said areas. As such, [sic] is seen as an international platform for scholars, practitioners and artists dealing with culture, literature and literary translation.

The “wrong skewness” problem: Moment constrained maximum likelihood estimation of the stochastic frontier model

Wrong skewness in the stochastic frontier model leads to many empirical and conceptual problems. A variety of approaches have been proposed to deal with this issue. Here we offer a solution based on moment constraints of the assumed density. • Offers alternative approach to wrong skewness. • Moment constrained maximum likelihood estimation. • Find new approach outperforms standard methods. • Application reveals important empirical differences.

Reconstruction Of “Obstruction Of Justice” As A Criminal Act In The Law On Eradicating Corruption In Indonesia

Corruption is a special criminal act, qualified as an ordinary crime but must be eradicated in extraordinary ways. In Indonesia, it is not only an extraordinary method but also an institution with extraordinary authority formed because corruption has become a systemic and systematic disease of society. Criminalizing the act of "obstructing the judicial process" is one way to eradicate corruption extraordinarily. The positive law has already regulated it, but it needs to be strengthened by ratifying UNCAC 2003 so that the norms governing the offense can be universally recognized. This study aims to synchronize and harmonize the norms that have been regulated in positive law with the new norms regulated in UNCAC 2003 to avoid misperceptions in its implementation. The normative method is used by examining philosophically and juridically through principles and theories that develop and are associated with emerging empirical problems. Several legal cases are used to analyze the philosophical and juridical problems and to find weaknesses in the "obstruction of justice" offense norm. It needs to be reconstructed to ensure legal certainty and justice better. In the end, the goal of eradicating corruption can be achieved, without violating the proper criminal procedural law and placing interested parties, both from the perspective of the perpetrators and victims.

Nearly minimax-optimal rates for noisy sparse phase retrieval via early-stopped mirror descent

AbstractThis paper studies early-stopped mirror descent applied to noisy sparse phase retrieval, which is the problem of recovering a $k$-sparse signal $\textbf{x}^\star \in{\mathbb{R}}^n$ from a set of quadratic Gaussian measurements corrupted by sub-exponential noise. We consider the (non-convex) unregularized empirical risk minimization problem and show that early-stopped mirror descent, when equipped with the hypentropy mirror map and proper initialization, achieves a nearly minimax-optimal rate of convergence, provided the sample size is at least of order $k^2$ (modulo logarithmic term) and the minimum (in modulus) non-zero entry of the signal is on the order of $\|\textbf{x}^\star \|_2/\sqrt{k}$. Our theory leads to a simple algorithm that does not rely on explicit regularization or thresholding steps to promote sparsity. More generally, our results establish a connection between mirror descent and sparsity in the non-convex problem of noisy sparse phase retrieval, adding to the literature on early stopping that has mostly focused on non-sparse, Euclidean and convex settings via gradient descent. Our proof combines a potential-based analysis of mirror descent with a quantitative control on a variational coherence property that we establish along the path of mirror descent, up to a prescribed stopping time.

A Hybrid Model for Temperature Prediction in a Sheep House.

Simple SummaryIn intensive sheep farming, the temperature is an important indicator of the healthy growth of sheep. The key to ensuring the healthy growth of sheep in a stress-free environment is to grasp the changing trend in the sheep-house temperature in time and adjust in advance. In order to solve this problem, we use machine learning technology to establish a combined prediction model to accurately predict the temperature of the sheep barn. The result shows that the combined prediction model has good stability and high accuracy. Additionally, it can be extended to the prediction research of other environmental parameters of other animal houses, such as pig houses and cow houses, in the future.Too high or too low temperature in the sheep house will directly threaten the healthy growth of sheep. Prediction and early warning of temperature changes is an important measure to ensure the healthy growth of sheep. Aiming at the randomness and empirical problem of parameter selection of the traditional single Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model, this paper proposes an optimization method based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Then, using the proposed PCA-PSO-XGBoost to predict the temperature in the sheep house. First, PCA is used to screen the key influencing factors of the sheep house temperature. The dimension of the input vector of the model is reduced; PSO-XGBoost is used to build a temperature prediction model, and the PSO optimization algorithm selects the main hyperparameters of XGBoost. We carried out a global search and determined the optimal hyperparameters of the XGBoost model through iterative calculation. Using the data of the Xinjiang Manas intensive sheep breeding base to conduct a simulation experiment, the results show that it is different from the existing ones. Compared with the temperature prediction model, the evaluation indicators of the PCA-PSO-XGBoost model proposed in this paper are root mean square error (RMSE), mean square error (MSE), coefficient of determination (R2), mean absolute error (MAE) , which are 0.0433, 0.0019, 0.9995, 0.0065, respectively. RMSE, MSE, and MAE are improved by 68, 90, and 94% compared with the traditional XGBoost model. The experimental results show that the model established in this paper has higher accuracy and better stability, can effectively provide guiding suggestions for monitoring and regulating temperature changes in intensive housing and can be extended to the prediction research of other environmental parameters of other animal houses such as pig houses and cow houses in the future.

ASSISTANCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ACADEMIC TEXT AND RAPERDASUS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN WEST PAPUA PROVINCE

The empirical problem in assisting the preparation of Academic Papers and the Draft of Special Regional Regulations for the Province of West Papua is that there is no synchronization between previous and current legislation regarding sustainable development. Specifically, in West Papua Province, sustainable development is based on the view that natural resources have a limited capacity to accept the impact of human activities. The objectives of this mentoring activity are (1) to develop a framework for academic texts as the main umbrella for the draft of special regional regulations; (2) to draft a special regional regulation on Sustainable Development in the Province of West Papua; (3) evaluate the implementation of Perdasus No. 10 of 2019 concerning Sustainable Development in West Papua Province; and (4) propose new articles (inserts) as a form of an amendment to the existing special regional regulations. The output of this strengthening activity is expected to contribute to harmonizing, regulating, limiting, considering, and covering the scope of special regional regulations related to Sustainable Development in West Papua Province. Participants in the mentoring activity consisted of (1) Provincial Government Elements, (2) Universities, (3) Customary Institutions, (4) Technical Regional Apparatus Organizations, and (5) Members of the DPR and MRP West Papua, totaling 75 people. This mentoring activity resulted in: (1) changes to the provisions of Articles I and II norms, and (2) Insertions of Articles 5, 6A, 26A, and 49A.

Not Too Distant: Grievance, Opportunity, and the Onset of Civil War

ABSTRACT Grievance and opportunity theories dominate research on the causes of civil war. However, theoretical and empirical problems limit their ability to explain variation in conflict onset. We argue that these problems partly stem from treating them as largely independent explanations. We integrate grievance and opportunity into a unified theory and argue that they are complements that jointly predict conflict. We apply insights from the interstate war literature to develop and test a theory of conflict onset that argues that the probability of civil war increases as the disparity between relative power and the status quo distribution of benefits increases.

IDEALISME DAN REALISME DALAM PARADIGMA FATWA EKONOMI SYARIAH DI INDONESIA

This normative-philosophical research uses the theory of idealism and realism of Islamic law in identifying the epistemological features of the DSN-MUI paradigm. The results of the study show that the epistemological pattern of the paradigm of the formulation of the DSN-MUI integrates the idealism and realism of Islamic law. This integration can be seen from the four DSN-MUI paradigms. First, al-Taysîr al-Manhaji. This paradigm emphasizes the formulation of fatwas to use legal opinions that do not burden legal subjects, but still adhere to the correct methodology of Islamic law. Second, at-Tafriq baina al-Halal wal Haram. This paradigm emphasizes the separation of halal and haram issues, both in terms of capital, product development, and profit. This is because Islamic economic activities cannot be completely separated from the conventional economic system that has been running for a long time. Third, I'adah al-Nazhar. This paradigm emphasizes reviewing the opinions of classical Islamic law when it is seen that it is no longer a solution to the empirical problems of sharia economics in modern society. Fourth, Tahqiq al-Manath. This paradigm emphasizes the evaluation of legal causes (illat law) by considering the reality of the development of the economic system.

Remembering the Causes of Collective Violence and the Role of Propaganda in the Yugoslav Wars

AbstractLegal narratives about collective violence have given an outsized explanatory role to propaganda in conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide and the Yugoslav Wars. While post-conflict ethnographies have examined what Rwandans remember about propaganda and collective violence, similar studies have not been undertaken in territories of the former Yugoslavia. The present ethnographic study fills this gap. After introducing the theoretical and empirical problems that have stemmed from recent speech crime trials in international criminal law, I examine the causes of collective violence in the Yugoslav Wars as remembered by former combatants, survivors, and the greater populations of post-conflict regions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, and Serbia. I show that remembered causes, including the role of propaganda, vary significantly between former combatants and the greater populations. Nevertheless, local perspectives, especially among former combatants and survivors, converge on the effects of populist movements following Yugoslavia’s economic crisis and the rise of ethnic, religious, and nationalist leaders who engaged in inflammatory rhetoric and misinformation to mobilize war efforts. This article thus corroborates key findings from other post-conflict ethnographies which show that propaganda plays a secondary but significant role in the cultural manufacturing of state-sponsored ethnicity and cultural logics of violence.

Raising out of Finite Clauses (Hyperraising)

Classical syntactic theory was designed to permit the type of movement called raising to proceed out of infinitival, but not finite, clauses—a positive result for languages such as English. But crosslinguistic investigation reveals that many languages actually allow raising out of finite clauses (hyperraising), challenging certain commonly assumed locality constraints on movement. This article reviews three types of Minimalist analyses of hyperraising and how they address these challenges, noting the strengths and shortcomings of each. Defectiveness/nonphase analyses commendably tie a clause's ability to launch hyperraising to independent observables, but such analyses struggle to derive the former from the latter. Deactivation analyses boast empirical successes but do not straightforwardly rule out hyperraising in English. Phase-edge analyses also boast empirical successes but face empirical and/or conceptual problems (to which a solution is sketched out) and open questions about learnability. These evaluations are intended to spur syntacticians to develop stronger versions of all three types of analyses, bringing us closer to fully understanding the factors regulating movement, a subcase of the fundamental structure-building operation Merge.