Multiple domestications of asian rice

In their recent Correspondence about our study showingthat there were three origins of Asian rice2, Huang and Han suggest that the methodology that we used to infer multiple domestications was flawed as it did not take account of the strong genetic bottleneck in japonica

Manni Zhang, soprano and Anna Carl, piano, April 21, 2018

This is the concert program of the Manni Zhang, soprano and Anna Carl, piano performance on Saturday, April 21, 2018 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were La Promessa by Gioachino Rossini, Fiocca La Neve nu Pietro Cimara, Stornello by P. Cimara, Perchè dolce, caro bene by Stefano Donaudy, Ganymed Op. 19, No. 3 D. 544 by Franz Schubert, Liebhaber in allen Gestalten D. 558 by F. Schubert, Im Abendroth D. 799 by F. Schubert, Die Forelle Op. 32 D. 550 by F. Schubert, Vorrei spiegarvi, O Dio by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Fêtes galantes by Claude Debussy, En Sourdine by C. Debussy, Fantoches by C. Debussy, Clair De Lune by C. Debussy, Love by Vittorio Giannini, Tell me, Oh blue blue Sky! by V. Giannini, Sing to My Heart a Song by V. Giannini, and Spring Nostalgia by Huang Zi. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Deformable Part-based Fully Convolutional Network for Object Detection

Existing region-based object detectors are limited to regions with fixed box geometry to represent objects, even if those are highly non-rectangular. In this paper we introduce DP-FCN, a deep model for object detection which explicitly adapts to shapes of objects with deformable parts. Without additional annotations, it learns to focus on discriminative elements and to align them, and simultaneously brings more invariance for classification and geometric information to refine localization. DP-FCN is composed of three main modules: a Fully Convolutional Network to efficiently maintain spatial resolution, a deformable part-based RoI pooling layer to optimize positions of parts and build invariance, and a deformation-aware localization module explicitly exploiting displacements of parts to improve accuracy of bounding box regression. We experimentally validate our model and show significant gains. DP-FCN achieves state-of-the-art performances of 83.1% and 80.9% on PASCAL VOC 2007 and 2012 with VOC data only.Comment: Accepted to BMVC 2017 (oral

Numerical Simulation of Single-Electron Tunneling in Random Arrays of Small Tunnel Junctions Formed by Percolation of Conductive Nanoparticles

We numerically simulated electrical properties, i.e., the resistance and Coulomb blockade threshold, of randomly-placed conductive nanoparticles. In simulation, tunnel junctions were assumed to be formed between neighboring particle-particle and particle-electrode connections. On a plane of triangle 100×100 grids, three electrodes, the drain, source, and gate, were defined. After random placements of conductive particles, the connection between the drain and source electrodes were evaluated with keeping the gate electrode disconnected. The resistance was obtained by use of a SPICE-like simulator, whereas the Coulomb blockade threshold was determined from the current-voltage characteristics simulated using a Monte-Carlo simulator. Strong linear correlation between the resistance and threshold voltage was confirmed, which agreed with results for uniform one-dimensional arrays

Logophoricity and Mandarin Exempt Reflexives

Anaphors in many languages do not obey the \u27canonical\u27 Binding Condition A (Chomsky 1986), such as Icelandic \u27sig\u27 and Mandarin \u27ziji\u27. Two main competing approaches have been proposed to capture binding beyond the local domain: (i) The LONG-DISTANCE BINDING (LDB) theory derives non-local binding via covert cyclic movement and turns non-local binding into local binding which always obeys Condition A. (Pica 1987, Huang & Tang 1991) (ii) The LOGOPHORICITY (LOG) theory explains exempt anaphors by logophoric rather than pure structural constraints (Sells 1987, Huang & Liu 2001, Charnavel 2019). The two theories make distinct predictions on the referential dependencies between reflexives and their antecedents. The LDB theory predicts that antecedents should always c-command the reflexives, while the LOG theory predicts that reflexives need not be c-commanded by their antecedents if they are logophoric. This paper aims to experimentally test the two competing theories by investigating the binding conditions of Chinese reflexive \u27ziji\u27 and \u27taziji\u27 using acceptability judgment tasks. The results about \u27ziji\u27 support the LOG theory against the LDB theory. Furthermore, our results reveal that \u27taziji\u27, though usually considered as a local anaphor (e.g., Cole, Hermon & Huang 2006), can in fact similarly be exempt from binding under logophoric conditions

The universal DAHA of type (C1∨,C1)(C_1^\vee,C_1) and Leonard triples

Assume that $\mathbb F$ is an algebraically closed field and $q$ is a nonzero scalar in $\mathbb F$ that is not a root of unity. The universal Askey--Wilson algebra $\triangle_q$ is a unital associative $\mathbb F$-algebra generated by $A,B, C$ and the relations state that each of $$A+\frac{q BC-q^{-1} CB}{q^2-q^{-2}}, \qquad B+\frac{q CA-q^{-1} AC}{q^2-q^{-2}}, \qquad C+\frac{q AB-q^{-1} BA}{q^2-q^{-2}}$$ is central in $\triangle_q$. The universal DAHA $\mathfrak H_q$ of type $(C_1^\vee,C_1)$ is a unital associative $\mathbb F$-algebra generated by $\{t_i^{\pm 1}\}_{i=0}^3$ and the relations state that \begin{gather*} t_it_i^{-1}=t_i^{-1} t_i=1 \quad \hbox{for all $i=0,1,2,3$}; \\ \hbox{$t_i+t_i^{-1}$ is central} \quad \hbox{for all $i=0,1,2,3$}; \\ t_0t_1t_2t_3=q^{-1}. \end{gather*} It was given an $\mathbb F$-algebra homomorphism $\triangle_q\to \mathfrak H_q$ that sends \begin{eqnarray*} A &\mapsto & t_1 t_0+(t_1 t_0)^{-1}, \\ B &\mapsto & t_3 t_0+(t_3 t_0)^{-1}, \\ C &\mapsto & t_2 t_0+(t_2 t_0)^{-1}. \end{eqnarray*} Therefore any $\mathfrak H_q$-module can be considered as a $\triangle_q$-module. Let $V$ denote a finite-dimensional irreducible $\mathfrak H_q$-module. In this paper we show that $A,B,C$ are diagonalizable on $V$ if and only if $A,B,C$ act as Leonard triples on all composition factors of the $\triangle_q$-module $V$.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2003.0625