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Researching trust in the police and trust in justice: a UK perspective
This paper describes the immediate and more distant origins of a programme of comparative research that is examining cross-national variations in public trust in justice and in the police. The programme is built around a module of the fifth European Social Survey, and evolved from a study funded by the European Commission. The paper describes the conceptual framework within which we are operating – developed in large measure from theories of procedural justice. It reviews some of the methodological issues raised by the use of sample surveys to research issues of public trust in the police, public perceptions of institutional legitimacy and compliance with the law. Finally it gives a flavour of some of the early findings emerging from the programme
Eigenvalue variance bounds for Wigner and covariance random matrices
This work is concerned with finite range bounds on the variance of individual
eigenvalues of Wigner random matrices, in the bulk and at the edge of the
spectrum, as well as for some intermediate eigenvalues. Relying on the GUE
example, which needs to be investigated first, the main bounds are extended to
families of Hermitian Wigner matrices by means of the Tao and Vu Four Moment
Theorem and recent localization results by Erd\"os, Yau and Yin. The case of
real Wigner matrices is obtained from interlacing formulas. As an application,
bounds on the expected 2-Wasserstein distance between the empirical spectral
measure and the semicircle law are derived. Similar results are available for
random covariance matrices
Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
Despite the incremental nature of Dynamic Syntax (DS), the semantic
grounding of it remains that of predicate logic, itself grounded in set theory,
so is poorly suited to expressing the rampantly context-relative nature
of word meaning, and related phenomena such as incremental judgements
of similarity needed for the modelling of disambiguation. Here, we show
how DS can be assigned a compositional distributional semantics which
enables such judgements and makes it possible to incrementally disambiguate
language constructs using vector space semantics. Building on a
proposal in our previous work, we implement and evaluate our model on
real data, showing that it outperforms a commonly used additive baseline.
In conclusion, we argue that these results set the ground for an account
of the non-determinism of lexical content, in which the nature of word
meaning is its dependence on surrounding context for its construal
Incremental Composition in Distributional Semantics
Despite the incremental nature of Dynamic Syntax (DS), the semantic grounding of it remains that of predicate logic, itself grounded in set theory, so is poorly suited to expressing the rampantly context-relative nature of word meaning, and related phenomena such as incremental judgements of similarity needed for the modelling of disambiguation. Here, we show how DS can be assigned a compositional distributional semantics which enables such judgements and makes it possible to incrementally disambiguate language constructs using vector space semantics. Building on a proposal in our previous work, we implement and evaluate our model on real data, showing that it outperforms a commonly used additive baseline. In conclusion, we argue that these results set the ground for an account of the non-determinism of lexical content, in which the nature of word meaning is its dependence on surrounding context for its construal
Thursday is my Jonah Day
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I Wonder Who\u27s Kissing Her Now
VERSE 1You have loved lots of girls in the sweet long agoAnd each one has meant Heaven to you,You have vowed your affection to each one in turnAnd have sworn to them all you’d be true;You have kissed ‘neath the moon while the world seemed in tune,Then you’ve left her to hunt a new game,Does it ever occur to you later my boy,That she’s probably doing the same?
CHORUSI wonder who’s kissing her now,Wonder who’s teaching her now,Wonder who’s looking into her eyesBreathing sighs, telling lies;I wonder who’s buying the wine,For lips that I used to call mine,Wonder if she ever tells him of me,I wonder who’s kissing her now.I kissing her now
VERSE 2If you want to feel wretched and lonely and blue,Just imagine the girl you love bestIn the arms of some fellow who’s stealing a kissFrom the lips that you once fondly pressed;But the world moves a pace and the loves of todayFlit away with a smile and a tear,So you never can tell who is kissing her now,Or just whom you’ll be kissing next year.
CHORU
The Sun that Shines On Dixieland
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Blow The Smoke Away
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Spectropolarimetry of the 3.4 micron absorption feature in NGC 1068
In order to test the silicate-core/organic-mantle model of galactic
interstellar dust, we have performed spectropolarimetry of the 3.4 micron C-H
bond stretch that is characteristic of aliphatic hydrocarbons, using the
nucleus of the Seyfert 2 galaxy, NGC 1068, as a bright, dusty background
source. Polarization calculations show that, if the grains in NGC 1068 had the
properties assigned by the core-mantle model to dust in the galactic diffuse
ISM, they would cause a detectable rise in polarization over the 3.4 micron
feature. No such increase is observed. We discuss modifications to the basic
core-mantle model, such as changes in grain size or the existence of additional
non-hydrocarbon aligned grain populations, which could better fit the
observational evidence. However, we emphasize that the absence of polarization
over the 3.4 micron band in NGC 1068 - and, indeed, in every line of sight
examined to date - can be readily explained by a population of small, unaligned
carbonaceous grains with no physical connection to the silicates.Comment: ApJ, accepte
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