Guest editorial for the special issue on software-defined radio transceivers and circuits for 5G wireless communications

Yichuang Sun, Baoyong Chi, and Heng Zhang, Guest Editorial for the Special Issue on Software-Defined Radio Transceivers and Circuits for 5G Wireless Communications, published in IEEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, Vol. 63 (1): 1-3, January 2016, doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSII.2015.2506979.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

PLURALISM ABOUT TRUTH IN EARLY CHINESE PHILOSOPHY: A REFLECTION ON WANG CHONGS APPROACH

The debate concerning truth in Classical Chinese philosophy has for the most part avoided the possibility that pluralist theories of truth were part of the classical philosophical framework. I argue that the Eastern Han philosopher Wang Chong (c. 25-100 CE) can be profitably read as endorsing a kind of pluralism about truth grounded in the concept of shi 實, or actuality . In my exploration of this view, I explain how it offers a different account of the truth of moral and non-moral statements, while still retaining the univocality of the concept of truth (that is, that the concept amounts to more than the expression of a disjunction of various truth properties), by connecting shi with normative and descriptive facts about how humans appraise statements. In addition to providing insight into pluralist views of truth in early China, the unique pluralist view implicit in Wang\u27 work can help solve problems with contemporary pluralist theories of truth

Zhang Heng and Fortune-telling

Zhang Heng was a Chinese astronomer who lived during the Eastern Han Dynasty of China. Zhang was promoted to grand historian (太史令), and his job was to record heavenly observations. Zhang believed that any observable phenomenon could be explained by scientific means and he tried to seek a rational explanation for such phenomena. Zhang submitted a report entitled 請禁絶図讖疏 to the emperor about his controversial ideas, and criticized the prognosticatory character of fortune-telling called Tuchen (図讖; prediction, prophecy). On the other hand, Zhang accepted 占術 (divination), which he specifically official. In fact, some kinds of divination, for example, Boshi (卜筮; scapulimancy and divination), and oneirocritics (夢占い) were used and described in the books entitled 思玄賦 and 霊憲 written by Zhang. The fact that Zhang criticized Tuchen (図讖) is widely known, but no specific study has been done regarding Zhang\u27s criteria of judgment as to "wha". This article discusses the divination that appeared in books written by Zhang and reviews his critique on Tuchen (図讖), which clarify his thoughts on a close relationship between heavenly bodies and divination. The author provides an account of Zhang\u27s philosophy and evaluates Zhang\u27s philosophy both from the point of view as a literary man and as a scientist against the background of the history of thought in the Eastern Han Dynasty

Fast construction of FM-index for long sequence reads

Summary: We present a new method to incrementally construct the FM-index for both short and long sequence reads, up to the size of a genome. It is the first algorithm that can build the index while implicitly sorting the sequences in the reverse (complement) lexicographical order without a separate sorting step. The implementation is among the fastest for indexing short reads and the only one that practically works for reads of averaged kilobases in length. Availability and implementation: https://github.com/lh3/ropebwt2 Contact: [email protected]: 2 page

Synchronization for different opinions in Malaysia Multiracial Society: a mathematical exploration study

Malaysia is known for the multiracial and multicultural society who lives together harmoniously despite of the diversities. The tolerance of the people towards each others’ culture and religions has always been the subject of interest for social science researchers. The harmony is due to the phenomena of synchronization of the notions among the community. Synchronization has been widely studied since it is a natural phenomena happening around us everyday, such as the synchronization of fireflies flashes at night. In relate of these, we anticipate in the study of the synchronization of the opinions in a diverse society with mathematical modelling. In this thesis, we analyse three different methods of synchronization by 3 different models: Kuramoto model, Opinion Changing Rate model and a linear model associate with the famous Friedkin and Johnsen Model. We first develop a modified version of existing mathematical models and then conduct the numerical experiment on the models to utilize them in the desired framework