Asymptotic efficiency of two nonparametric competitors of Wilcoxon's two sample test

Asymptotic efficiency of two nonparametric competitors of Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon U tes

Storing and Querying Probabilistic XML Using a Probabilistic Relational DBMS

This work explores the feasibility of storing and querying probabilistic XML in a probabilistic relational database. Our approach is to adapt known techniques for mapping XML to relational data such that the possible worlds are preserved. We show that this approach can work for any XML-to-relational technique by adapting a representative schema-based (inlining) as well as a representative schemaless technique (XPath Accelerator). We investigate the maturity of probabilistic rela- tional databases for this task with experiments with one of the state-of- the-art systems, called Trio

Torsional rigidity for cylinders with a Brownian fracture

We obtain bounds for the expected loss of torsional rigidity of a cylinder $\Omega_L=(-L/2,L/2) \times \Omega\subset \R^3$ of length $L$ due to a Brownian fracture that starts at a random point in $\Omega_L,$ and runs until the first time it exits $\Omega_L$. These bounds are expressed in terms of the geometry of the cross-section $\Omega \subset \R^2$. It is shown that if $\Omega$ is a disc with radius $R$, then in the limit as $L \rightarrow \infty$ the expected loss of torsional rigidity equals $cR^5$ for some $c\in (0,\infty)$. We derive bounds for $c$ in terms of the expected Newtonian capacity of the trace of a Brownian path that starts at the centre of a ball in $\R^3$ with radius $1,$ and runs until the first time it exits this ball.Comment: 18 page

Heat content and inradius for regions with a Brownian boundary

In this paper we consider $\beta[0; s]$, Brownian motion of time length $s > 0$, in $m$-dimensional Euclidean space $\mathbb R^m$ and on the $m$-dimensional torus $\mathbb T^m$. We compute the expectation of (i) the heat content at time $t$ of $\mathbb R^m\setminus \beta[0; s]$ for fixed $s$ and $m = 2,3$ in the limit $t \downarrow 0$, when $\beta[0; s]$ is kept at temperature 1 for all $t > 0$ and $\mathbb R^m\setminus \beta[0; s]$ has initial temperature 0, and (ii) the inradius of $\mathbb R^m\setminus \beta[0; s]$ for $m = 2,3,\cdots$ in the limit $s \rightarrow \infty$.Comment: 13 page

Stretched Exponential Relaxation in the Biased Random Voter Model

We study the relaxation properties of the voter model with i.i.d. random bias. We prove under mild condions that the disorder-averaged relaxation of this biased random voter model is faster than a stretched exponential with exponent $d/(d+\alpha)$, where $0<\alpha\le 2$ depends on the transition rates of the non-biased voter model. Under an additional assumption, we show that the above upper bound is optimal. The main ingredient of our proof is a result of Donsker and Varadhan (1979).Comment: 14 pages, AMS-LaTe

'Subject to control': shifting geographies of race and labour in US sugar agroindustry, 1930-1950

This article analyses how processes of racialization and place making converged in south Florida as the region's sugar agroindustry shifted from a southern US to a Caribbean labour market. The article engages theoretically at the intersection of the literatures on the geographies of race and labour, paying particular attention to ideas about the role of the state in each. I argue that such an engagement not only enhances the collective analytical power of such approaches, but that it is also critical for understanding agroindustry labour practices in south Florida. The empirical materials used include historical documents, reports and publications of the US Government and the United States Sugar Corporation (USSC). The analysis shows how ideas of corporate paternalism and industrial managerialism promoted by USSC were melded to an agricultural enterprise embedded in the racism of the Jim Crow South and the history of plantation slavery. The contradictions between USSC's dependence on cheap labour disciplined by Jim Crow violence and its corporate paternalism would never be fully reconciled and ultimately would prove untenable. As a consequence, sugar industry investors in collaboration with state labour regulators reimagined the ideal cane worker, elaborating intraracial categories of black labour based on place of origin. As the geography of labour markets was rescaled to the international level, the primary mechanism of labour control shifted from Jim Crow to summary deportation of foreign black workers from the Caribbean. This study contributes to our understanding of how historic processes of racialization are bound together with the political and economic processes of regional agroindustrial development

Exploring heterosexism through relationship perception of same and other sex avatar stimuli

Heterosexism refers to discrimination against gay men and lesbians manifested in cultural institutions that gives heterosexuals an advantage (Herek, 2007). In the current study participants rated the likelihood that avatars were in different types of relationships based on a video of a short interaction. Video dyads were depicted in scenes that suggested they were clearly friends, clearly a romantic couple, or it was unclear (Level of Ambiguity: Clearly Friends, Neutral, Clearly Couple). The avatars were comprised of Male-Male, Male-Female, or Female-Female dyads (Couple Sex). A 3 (Level of Ambiguity) X 3 (Couple Sex) X 2 (Participant Gender) analysis of variance showed significant main effects for Level of Ambiguity and Couple Sex for ratings of likelihood that they were co-workers, were in a romantic relationship for less than one year, and were in a romantic relationship for more than one year. Interactions between Level of Ambiguity and Couple Sex occurred for coworkers, in a romantic relationship for less than one year, and in a romantic relationship for more than one year. Further studies of the impact of heterosexism on relationship perception could increase awareness of the issue and provide policy makers with a convincing argument to work toward changing negative societal attitudes.Thesis (B.?.)Honors Colleg

The renormalization transformation for two-type branching models

This paper studies countable systems of linearly and hierarchically interacting diffusions taking values in the positive quadrant. These systems arise in population dynamics for two types of individuals migrating between and interacting within colonies. Their large-scale space-time behavior can be studied by means of a renormalization program. This program, which has been carried out successfully in a number of other cases (mostly one-dimensional), is based on the construction and the analysis of a nonlinear renormalization transformation, acting on the diffusion function for the components of the system and connecting the evolution of successive block averages on successive time scales. We identify a general class of diffusion functions on the positive quadrant for which this renormalization transformation is well-defined and, subject to a conjecture on its boundary behavior, can be iterated. Within certain subclasses, we identify the fixed points for the transformation and investigate their domains of attraction. These domains of attraction constitute the universality classes of the system under space-time scaling.Comment: 48 pages, revised version, to appear in Ann. Inst. H. Poincare (B) Probab. Statis

Interdisciplinary (retail) research: The business of geography and the geography of business

NoAt the 2005 British Academy of Management conference several well-known economic geographers, including Neil Wrigley, Gordon Clark, and Susan Christopherson, called for management researchers to engage with economic geographers on interrelated geographical and managerial issues in the study of (retail) firms. In this commentary we reflect upon the present geography -management interface.We begin by considering the term `interdisciplinary research' and its relationship to any management - geography interface. This is followed by a context-specific discussion of international retailing and the role of research on the retail transnational corporation (TNC) in developing an interdisciplinary agenda. This commentary represents an initial more business and management focused response to the call from geography academics for more/better interdisciplinary research at the geography - management interface

P1 Large scale three-dimensional cartilage tissue engineering using adult bone marrow stem cells from OA patients

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