315 research outputs found
On how religions could accidentally incite lies and violence: folktales as a cultural transmitter
Folklore has a critical role as a cultural transmitter, all the while being a socially accepted medium for the expressions of culturally contradicting wishes and conducts. In this study of Vietnamese folktales, through the use of Bayesian multilevel modeling and the Markov chain Monte Carlo technique, we offer empirical evidence for how the interplay between religious teachings (Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism) and deviant behaviors (lying and violence) could affect a folktale’s outcome. The findings indicate that characters who lie and/or commit violent acts tend to have bad endings, as intuition would dictate, but when they are associated with any of the above Three Teachings, the final endings may vary. Positive outcomes are seen in cases where characters associated with Confucianism lie and characters associated with Buddhism act violently. The results supplement the worldwide literature on discrepancies between folklore and real-life conduct, as well as on the contradictory human behaviors vis-à-vis religious teachings. Overall, the study highlights the complexity of human decision-making, especially beyond the folklore realm
Drosophila mind bomb2 is required for maintaining muscle integrity and survival
We report that the Drosophila mind bomb2 (mib2) gene is a novel regulator of muscle development. Unlike its paralogue, mib1, zygotic expression of mib2 is restricted to somatic and visceral muscle progenitors, and their respective differentiated musculatures. We demonstrate that in embryos that lack functional Mib2, muscle detachment is observed beginning in mid stage 15 and progresses rapidly, culminating in catastrophic degeneration and loss of most somatic muscles by stage 17. Notably, the degenerating muscles are positive for apoptosis markers, and inhibition of apoptosis in muscles prevents to a significant degree the muscle defects. Rescue experiments with Mib1 and Neuralized show further that these E3 ubiquitin ligases are not capable of ameliorating the muscle mutant phenotype of mib2. Our data suggest strongly that mib2 is involved in a novel Notch- and integrin-independent pathway that maintains the integrity of fully differentiated muscles and prevents their apoptotic degeneration
Differentiable Physics-based Greenhouse Simulation
We present a differentiable greenhouse simulation model based on physical
processes whose parameters can be obtained by training from real data. The
physics-based simulation model is fully interpretable and is able to do state
prediction for both climate and crop dynamics in the greenhouse over very a
long time horizon. The model works by constructing a system of linear
differential equations and solving them to obtain the next state. We propose a
procedure to solve the differential equations, handle the problem of missing
unobservable states in the data, and train the model efficiently. Our
experiment shows the procedure is effective. The model improves significantly
after training and can simulate a greenhouse that grows cucumbers accurately.Comment: Accepted at the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop,
NeurIPS 2022. 7 pages, 2 figure
On the braiding of an Ann-category
A braided Ann-category \A is an Ann-category \A together with the
braiding such that (\A, \otimes, a, c, (I,l,r)) is a braided tensor
category, and is compatible with the distributivity constraints. The paper
shows the dependence of the left (or right) distributivity constraint on other
axioms. Hence, the paper shows the relation to the concepts of {\it
distributivity category} due to M. L. Laplaza and {\it ring-like category} due
to A. Frohlich and C.T.C Wall.
The center construction of an almost strict Ann-category is an example of an
unsymmetric braided Ann-category.Comment: 20 page
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