Rational Kernel Research Articles

Пошатнулась ли криминалистика (судебная экспертиза)?

Scientifi c and technological progress is always accompanied with hasty sensational declarations of certain researchers that are picked up by mass media. This sometimes results in distortion of reality and loss of the rational kernel of hyped developments. The article analyzes poorly-grounded ideas about yet another "collapse" of criminalistics (criminalistic examination). The authors show the baselessness of statements about the "scientifi c judge" in the form of artifi cial intelligence. The important thing in automation of jurisdictional processes is not the deployment of smart systems as such but the development of algorithms of systematization of regulations and technical standards considering their content.

Algorithms for Fractional Dynamical Behaviors Modelling Using Non-Singular Rational Kernels

This paper proposes algorithms to model fractional (dynamical) behaviors using non-singular rational kernels whose interest is first demonstrated on a pure power law function. Two algorithms are then proposed to find a non-singular rational kernel that allows the input-output data to be fitted. The first one derives the impulse response of the modeled system from the data. The second one finds the interlaced poles and zeros of the rational function that fits the impulse response found using the first algorithm. Several applications show the efficiency of the proposed work.

Glucose diagnosis system combining machine learning and NIR photoacoustic multispectral using a low power CW laser.

Non-invasive, portable, economical, dynamic blood glucose monitoring device has become a functional requirement for diabetes in his regulating entire life. In a photoacoustic (PA) multispectral near-infrared diagnosis system, the glucose in aqueous solutions was excited by low power (order of milliwatts) CW laser whose wavelengths were from 1500 to 1630 nm. The glucose in aqueous solutions to be analyzed was contained within the photoacoustic cell (PAC). The PA multispectral signals were measured using a piezoelectric detector, and then the voltage signals from the piezoelectric detector were amplified with a precision Lock-in Amplifier (MFLI500K). The continuously tunable lasers were used to verify the various influencing factors of the PA signal, and the PA spectrum of the glucose solution was examined. Subsequently, six wavelengths with high power were selected at approximately equal intervals from 1500 to 1630 nm, and the gaussian process regression of the quadratic rational kernel was used to collect data through these wavelengths to predict the glucose concentration. The experimental results showed that the near-infrared PA multispectral diagnosis system could be engineered for the prediction of the glucose level (more than 92%, zone A of Clarke Error Grid). Subsequently, the model trained with glucose solution was used to predict serum glucose. With the increase of serum glucose content, the prediction results of the model also showed a high linear relationship, indicating that the photoacoustic method was sensitive to the detection of glucose concentration changes. The results of our study have the potential to not only better develop the PA blood glucose meter but also extend the viability into the detection of otherwise blood components.

The “Rational Kernel” of Natural Teleology: Dialectical Interaction as the Concrete-Universal’s Form of Development

It is often believed that the only alternative to an idealist conception of natural phenomena excludes both the presence of objective universal forms and their progression towards higher forms as the finality of processes in the natural world. Realism regarding the universal and teleological approaches regarding processes are signs of idealism. Therefore, materialism, it would seem, must conform to a nominalist and mechanical view of nature. However, an intelligent materialist reading of idealism’s classics reveals a more complex scenario. A real fact is expressed in a mystical fashion in idealism’s conceptions of objective universals and teleology. This article attempts to show such a real fact in its authentic (materialist) form. With that goal in mind, the present article discusses the notion of nature’s alienation, the distinction between abstract and concrete universals, and the concept of dialectical interaction. The natural-historical emergence of a higher form of matter’s organization assimilates, as its organs, the conditions that preceded it in time, transforming itself into an active producer of such conditions. That is the secret glimpsed but not correctly understood by idealism that a consistent materialist should not ignore.

A preliminary reading of Sean Bonney’s ‘What Teargas is For’

This essay supplements Sean Bonney’s note-taking and note-playing practice by discussing the role of mysticism in his later work, roughly ranging from 2011 to 2019, in order to offer a preliminary reading of the poem ‘What Teargas is For’. I’m going to begin with a gloss on Bonney’s ‘Notes on Militant Poetics’ in order to explicate his understanding of ‘esoteric poetry’ and ‘poetic mysticism’. Those ‘Notes on Militant Poetics’ suggest that for Walter Benjamin the political crisis of the 1930s would ‘reveal the rational kernel of poetic mysticism’.  What is poetic mysticism, and how would crisis crack it open to reveal its kernel? Those forms of art which currently rally under no particular banner, but which have been variously termed ‘avant-garde’ and ‘innovative’, have often had terms like mysticism and esotericism and degeneration and decadence and nonsense applied to them as slurs. I am interested in how these terms of denigration, with all their baggage, become raw material for Bonney’s thinking. Changing the valence and meaning of words and phrases and sentences is a frequent topic as well as tactic in Bonney’s work, and this is dramatized in the poem ‘What Teargas is For’ through references to the mystical text The Cloud of Unknowing, as well as the work of Lou Reed, Arthur Rimbaud, and William Blake. ‘What Teargas is For’ and ‘Further Notes on Teargas’ invoke mysticism in order to explore the relationship between protests, how protests are policed, and the continued privileging of the rich and powerful in the contemporary era. I want to highlight a wider dynamic in Bonney’s work which goes beyond ‘What Teargas if For’, a dynamic in which words and their definitions are shown to be sites of conflict. In doing so, I also want to illustrate how mysticism and esotericism are extremely important to Bonney’s poetic and critical vocabulary. 

Rethinking materialism and Asia: Miki Kiyoshi and Hiromatsu Wataru

AbstractThis paper argues that the interwar Japanese Marxists Miki Kiyoshi and more contemporary Hiromatsu Wataru each moved towards developing this perspective beyond simple distinctions between idealism, which is confined to concepts, and materialism, conceived as presupposing that ideas are determined by matter. Japanese Marxism was in a unique place to affect such a synthesis because of the existence of Kyoto School philosophy, with whom both Miki and Hiromatsu were associated. The proponents of the Kyoto School combined Eastern and Western philosophical perspectives, which had the aim of criticizing modernity. Miki Kiyoshi and other members of the Kyoto School eventually supported Japan's wartime effort, which delegitimized their concerns about modernity during the postwar. However, in postwar Japan, Hiromatsu developed a creative reading of Marx's materialism and in the 1994 surprised everyone by advocating a pan-Asianist critique of modernity. Hiromatsu suggested that despite problems that Miki and the Kyoto School represented, one had to grasp the rational kernel, which could save Marxism from slipping into an equally dangerous modernization theory. This task remains for us today when the dystopia of globalized capitalism seems to have become a reality that threatens the survival of our planet.

The Rational Kernel of Hegel’s Dialectic

ABSTRACT What is the rational kernel of Hegel’s dialectic that Marx famously speaks of? How can it be extracted from the mystical shell in which it is embedded in Hegel’s philosophy? Hegel sets out the general principles of his dialectic in the opening sections of his Logic. Starting from pure abstract “Being,” he claims to derive the concepts of “Becoming” and “Determinate Being” by a purely logical process. These arguments are fallacious. However, there is a rational kernel in them. Following Marx, I show how this can be extracted by inverting Hegel’s argument. To understand things concretely, we must see them as in relation to other things within a larger totality and as changing. I show how these fundamental tenets of dialectic are implied in Hegel’s claims, and I defend them against opposing empiricist ideas.

Robust registration algorithm based on rational quadratic kernel for point sets with outliers and noise

This paper proposes a new rigid registration algorithm based on the rational quadratic kernel to align point sets with outliers and noise. First of all, the multi-source point sets may contain a lot of outliers and noise and the traditional registration algorithm cannot handle the outliers and noise efficiently, this paper introduces the rational quadratic kernel to the rigid registration problem, which can resist outliers and suppress noise to improve the registration accuracy. Secondly, based on the new registration model, we present an iterative closest point (ICP) algorithm and use Lagrange multiplier and the singular value decomposition (SVD) to compute the rigid transformation. Moreover, the effect of the parameter is discussed detailly and a useful parameter control method is introduced to increase the accuracy and robustness of registration. A series of experiments on simulations and real data demonstrate that the proposed algorithm is more precise and robust than other algorithms.

Definition and classification of crime for calculation of its social consequences (cost)

The scientific community still does not have uniformity with regards to the definition of crime, although this concept is crucial in criminology, without which the existence and development of this science is impossible. Crime is a multifaceted phenomenon; thus, its examination within the framework of a single science does not reflect all of the aspects. The author examines various existing approaches towards the definition of crime; analyzes the concepts of natural criminal and the counter-theories. The question of the immanence of crime is explored. However, it does not seem possible to determine the only reasonable viewpoint and deny the rational kernel of other approaches. The analysis of the existing concepts and approaches towards definition of crime once again demonstrates the controversy of the question. Therefore, the analysis of opinions allows concluding on the need for classification crime, including via specific understanding of this concept. Such classification sufficiently reflects the extent of current public awareness of the criminal law, while retaining semantic load from the perspective of criminology. It also prompts the development of research on the social consequences (cost) of crime, since namely this approach seems logical for calculation of the social consequences (cost) of crime.

Althusser’s turn in Marxism and its meaning for the social theory

Rehabilitation of Marxist thought present in Althusser’s compilation of the articles titled by catching appeal “For Marx” is carried out in two directions: general – when theoretical line of understanding of the society and history is derived out of Marxism as political ideology; specific – when revealing the “ rational kernel” of Marxist philosophy of history or society, Althusser extracts dialectical contradiction rooted it his methodology of basis and superstructure. The subject of this research is the hermeneutic project of Althusser aimed at new interpretation of the Marxist philosophy of history, as well as elucidation of the “absence” of dialectical turn in Marx’s continuity of Hegel’s philosophy. The object of this article is the new methodology of social research oriented towards finding additional meanings of the principle of overdetermination, which allows Althusser to reconsider the Marxist method of basis and superstructure in a structuralistic way. The essence of its rehabilitation criticism (criticism of elimination of false understanding of Marxist philosophy) consists in the fact that the latter contributed to neglecting the superstructure and led the research to acknowledgement of its nature as a nonexistent phantom, illusion, behind which lies the only true reality resembled by the determinant of economic formations.

The rational kernel within Samir Amin’s mythological shell: the idea of a democratic and pluralist world political party

ABSTRACTAmin’s Leninist-Maoist vision is unlikely to be persuasive to twenty-first century citizens. Nonetheless, there is a rational kernel in Amin’s call for a new worldwide political organization. Some structures, mechanisms and tendencies of the capitalist world economy are relatively enduring and some patterns recurrent, although the world economy is also fluid, constantly changing and evolving. Although waves of globalization have radically transformed human societies and their economic activities during the past 500 years also in many positive ways, the expansion of the international society and world economy has often been characterized by violence, imperial subjection and colonial expropriation and exclusion. There is a rational kernel also within Amin’s analysis of the current world-political situation. Command over space and time by investors and megacorporations is power. Emancipation aims at freedom from domination. The decline of the World Social Forum indicates that progressive politics must move ‘beyond the concept of a discussion forum’. My argument is that emancipation from unnecessary, unneeded and unwanted sources of determination requires global transformative agency and planetary visions about alternatives.

Novel Circuit Implementation Method for Pulse Signal Finite Rate of Innovation Sparse Sampling Based on an Improved Exponential Reproducing Kernel

Finite rate of innovation sampling is a new signal sparse sampling method based on signal information freedom, which can considerably reduce the amount of sampling data. However, the researches on hardware circuit direct implementation of the method are at an initial stage. Therefore, a novel hardware circuit implementation method based on an exponential reproducing kernel (ERK) was developed with an improved ERK sparse sampling theoretical framework, which comprised an analog rational kernel (ARK) and digital rational kernel (DRK). The parameter constraint conditions and selection method for the improved ERK were analyzed. The performance of the ARK hardware circuit and the DRK algorithm were also examined. The designed sparse sampling system was applied to a pipeline flaw ultrasonic inspection by using the sparse sampling data of the ultrasonic signal obtained directly. The experimental results revealed that the proposed method could directly obtain the signal sparse sampling data and accurately reconstruct the initial signal parameters by using a spectrum estimation algorithm. Moreover, the signal sampling rate and the amount of sampling data were reduced considerably.

Consistent Valuation Across Curves Using Pricing Kernels

The general problem of asset pricing when the discount rate differs from the rate at which an asset’s cash flows accrue is considered. A pricing kernel framework is used to model an economy that is segmented into distinct markets, each identified by a yield curve having its own market, credit and liquidity risk characteristics. The proposed framework precludes arbitrage within each market, while the definition of a curve-conversion factor process links all markets in a consistent arbitrage-free manner. A pricing formula is then derived, referred to as the across-curve pricing formula, which enables consistent valuation and hedging of financial instruments across curves (and markets). As a natural application, a consistent multi-curve framework is formulated for emerging and developed inter-bank swap markets, which highlights an important dual feature of the curve-conversion factor process. Given this multi-curve framework, existing multi-curve approaches based on HJM and rational pricing kernel models are recovered, reviewed and generalised and single-curve models extended. In another application, inflation-linked, currency-based and fixed-income hybrid securities are shown to be consistently valued using the across-curve valuation method.

Thermal dynamics on the lattice with exponentially improved accuracy

We present a novel simulation prescription for thermal quantum fields on a lattice that operates directly in imaginary frequency space. By distinguishing initial conditions from quantum dynamics it provides access to correlation functions also outside of the conventional Matsubara frequencies ωn=2πnT. In particular it resolves their frequency dependence between ω=0 and ω1=2πT, where the thermal physics ω∼T of e.g. transport phenomena is dominantly encoded. Real-time spectral functions are related to these correlators via an integral transform with rational kernel, so that their unfolding from the novel simulation data is exponentially improved compared to standard Euclidean simulations. We demonstrate this improvement within a non-trivial 0+1-dimensional quantum mechanical toy-model and show that spectral features inaccessible in standard Euclidean simulations are quantitatively captured.

Marxism, cosmopolitanism and ‘the’ Jews

Marxists have had a complex and contentious relationship to the question of both cosmopolitanism and antisemitism. The difficulties and problems they have encountered with each may, however, be related. They can be traced back to a repeated failure to take seriously Marx’s initial critique of contemporary antisemites and his simultaneous adoption of a cosmopolitan approach to politics which set him apart from many of his peers. Rather than confronting antisemitism, many Marxists adopted the view that it contained some kind of rational kernel, whilst drifting towards an accommodation with forms of nationalism. Having ignored and largely failed to respond to the mortal threat that a radicalized antisemitism posed for Jews, the self-proclaimed Marxists ruling the Soviet Union then accused Jews of being both nationalists (of the wrong, Zionist sort) and cosmopolitans (now a term of abuse). There is, however, an alternative tradition that may be recovered, albeit on the margins of the Marxist movement, in the later work especially of Horkheimer and Adorno, and in some parallel way also of Hannah Arendt, that sees antisemitism from a cosmopolitan perspective as an inherently reactionary political force which (as it became genocidal) came to threaten both Jews and humanity at large.

Lekcje rewolucjonisty: Lenin czyta Hegla

The essay aims at investigating the mutual, dialectical mediation between Hegelian speculation and Leninist theoretical practice. It was inspired by the anecdote about Lenin who, having seen all European Social Democratic parties adopting the “patriotic line” that condemned proletarians to fratricidal violence after the outbreak of World War I, decided to retreat to countryside to read Hegel‟s Logic. In desperation, during intense theoretical work on Hegel, Lenin was able to recognize the unique chance for revolution (a fact that belied the evolutionary historicism of the Second International). This brings up certain questions: how far did Lenin‟s reading of Hegel influence his own heterodox theory of revolution (“the weakest link in the chain”)? Did this return to Hegel open the way to the Leninist event? The attempt to address these questions will be supplemented with reflections on the other side of the dialectical interaction, namely, on the Lenin‟s lessons for understanding Hegel‟s philosophy. Lenin in the Philosophical Notebooks tried to read Hegel in materialistic manner, anticipating Lukacs‟ interpretation of Hegel‟s dialectic and even contemporary readings (for example SlavojŽižek‟s or StathisKouvelakis‟). Perhaps it was Lenin, not Marx, who “discovered the rational kernel within the mystical shell” of Hegelian dialectic, and showed more understanding of it than his great predecessor. I will combine these two moments of dialectical equation and try to deduce what lessons Hegel-Lenin gives us concerning the possibilities of radical social change in the epoch of late neoliberal capitalism. Ultimately, the old Leninist question of “what is to be done?” remains. Maybe the answer is: go to countryside to read Lenin?

A novel super-resolution image and video reconstruction approach based on Newton-Thiele’s rational kernel in sparse principal component analysis

In this paper, we propose a new image and video sequences reconstruction approach, where the Newton-Thiele's vector valued rational interpolation is combined with the sparse principal component analysis. Through observation of the degraded model, the reconstruction scheme is performed by two steps. Firstly, the sparse principal component analysis and the linear minimum mean square-error estimation method are used to remove the noise from the degraded image. And then, the Newton-Thiele's vector valued rational interpolation is used to magnify the denoising result, by which the details and texture regions of image can be well preserved. By using this novel reconstruction model by Newton-Thiele's rational kernel in sparse principal component analysis, the final reconstructed results not only have good visual effect, but also have rich texture details. In order to show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed method, we have done plenty of experiments on images and video sequences, and the experimental results show that the proposed method can produce better high-quality resolution results, as compared with the state-of-the-art methods.

Rational kernels for Arabic Root Extraction and Text Classification

In this paper, we address the problems of Arabic Text Classification and root extraction using transducers and rational kernels. We introduce a new root extraction approach on the basis of the use of Arabic patterns (Pattern Based Stemmer). Transducers are used to model these patterns and root extraction is done without relying on any dictionary. Using transducers for extracting roots, documents are transformed into finite state transducers. This document representation allows us to use and explore rational kernels as a framework for Arabic Text Classification. Root extraction experiments are conducted on three word collections and yield 75.6% of accuracy. Classification experiments are done on the Saudi Press Agency dataset and N-gram kernels are tested with different values of N. Accuracy and F1 report 90.79% and 62.93% respectively. These results show that our approach, when compared with other approaches, is promising specially in terms of accuracy and F1.

La crítica marxiana de la dialéctica hegeliana. De la reproducción ideal de un proceso ideal a la reproducción ideal de un proceso real.

El presente trabajo examina la conexión entre el método dialéctico utilizadopor Hegel y el utilizado por Marx a la luz de los debates marxistas recientes.Se sostiene que ni el contenido ni la forma del método utilizado por Hegelpueden ser apropiados acríticamente para el desarrollo de la críticamarxiana de la economía política. Más específicamente, se sostiene queen la obra de Hegel puede encontrarse un ‘núcleo racional’ dado por eldescubrimiento de la forma más simple de auto-movimiento que tiene lo real.Sin embargo, asimismo se sostiene que por tomarse como punto de partidauna forma del puro pensar descubierta mediante un acto de abstracciónabsoluto, dicho ‘núcleo racional’ queda expuesto bajo una ‘envolturamística’ y, por tanto, en relación de exterioridad respecto del movimientode lo concreto real.

The dialectics of new fascism in Greece

The success of historical fascism in the particular transitional period at the beginning of the 20th century was grounded in its contribution to the successive acceptance and application of the so-called Fordist model for the organization of labor (accompanied by the correspondent social conditions and relations). Historical fascism contributed thus, with its particular way, to establishing a new class compromise between the potentials related with the productive forces and the confinements emanating from the productive relations. This contribution constitutes the "creativity" of fascism. Such a historical perspective on social processes allows us not to fall into the trap of understanding fascism only as a (barbarian) "deception". Fascism cannot be a plain deception, because a "mere deceit" cannot mobilize people. Fascism takes over, adopts real and unfulfilled needs and hopes - which as such constitute resistance to the capitalist arrogance and logic of commodification of everything - and offers its own (fascist, barbarian) solution or fulfillment. Consequently, our responsibility cannot lie in rejecting these needs and hopes (which are basically needs and hopes for security) because of their distorted or "pervert" articulations. Our responsibility lies in the careful peeling of these hopes/demands from their (fascist) enwrapment. Nationalism (from the subalterns!) does not constitute a mere irrational leftover from the past, but contains potentially mystic and romantic pre- or anti-capitalist elements and references. Nationalism obtains its dynamics and persuasion (for the subalterns!) from and for the contemporary societal processes, thus constituting an active, political and actual demand/position within the restructuring of society - which is in itself a moment in the restructuring of capitalism. Herein also the "rational kernel" of the anti-capitalist antithesis by the New Right is founded as counter position to the "neutral" commodification of everything. This antithesis can of course not be the issue for us the opponents of fascism. The "problem" for us is the fascist perspective in which this antithesis is embedded; the political vision which has recruited the antithesis for confining solidarity only to "our people" and not broadening solidarity towards all people!