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Word Activation Forces Map Word Networks
Words associate with each other in a manner of intricate clusters^1-3^. Yet the brain capably encodes the complex relations into workable networks^4-7^ such that the onset of a word in the brain automatically and selectively activates its associates, facilitating language understanding and generation^8-10^. One believes that the activation strength from one word to another forges and accounts for the latent structures of the word networks. This implies that mapping the word networks from brains to computers^11,12^, which is necessary for various purposes^1,2,13-15^, may be achieved through modeling the activation strengths. However, although a lot of investigations on word activation effects have been carried out^8-10,16-20^, modeling the activation strengths remains open. Consequently, huge labor is required to do the mappings^11,12^. Here we show that our found word activation forces, statistically defined by a formula in the same form of the universal gravitation, capture essential information on the word networks, leading to a superior approach to the mappings. The approach compatibly encodes syntactical and semantic information into sparse coding directed networks, comprehensively highlights the features of individual words. We find that based on the directed networks, sensible word clusters and hierarchies can be efficiently discovered. Our striking results strongly suggest that the word activation forces might reveal the encoding of word networks in the brain
Semidefinite relaxations for semi-infinite polynomial programming
This paper studies how to solve semi-infinite polynomial programming (SIPP)
problems by semidefinite relaxation method. We first introduce two SDP
relaxation methods for solving polynomial optimization problems with finitely
many constraints. Then we propose an exchange algorithm with SDP relaxations to
solve SIPP problems with compact index set. At last, we extend the proposed
method to SIPP problems with noncompact index set via homogenization. Numerical
results show that the algorithm is efficient in practice.Comment: 23 pages, 4 figure
Traveling Wave Solutions of a Reaction-Diffusion Equation with State-Dependent Delay
This paper is concerned with the traveling wave solutions of a
reaction-diffusion equation with state-dependent delay. When the birth function
is monotone, the existence and nonexistence of monotone traveling wave
solutions are established. When the birth function is not monotone, the minimal
wave speed of nontrivial traveling wave solutions is obtained. The results are
proved by the construction of upper and lower solutions and application of the
fixed point theorem
A construction of pooling designs with surprisingly high degree of error correction
It is well-known that many famous pooling designs are constructed from
mathematical structures by the "containment matrix" method. In this paper, we
propose another method and obtain a family of pooling designs with surprisingly
high degree of error correction based on a finite set. Given the numbers of
items and pools, the error-tolerant property of our designs is much better than
that of Macula's designs when the size of the set is large enough
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