Design for the past

The thesis project started off with an investigation of the Coal Gas Factory in Datong City, and an interview of a former factory employee. All relevent information is covered in the Report. This thesis project proposes for an alternative factory design solution for the past (1980s), acknowledging its inevitable failure in its future (2000s). The design acknowledges architecture’s nature of temporality, and is focused on making architecture transformative--creating space and environment for architecture to be transformed in order to accommodate updated programs and activities when its no longer able to serve its original purpose

A Universal Update-pacing Framework For Visual Tracking

This paper proposes a novel framework to alleviate the model drift problem in visual tracking, which is based on paced updates and trajectory selection. Given a base tracker, an ensemble of trackers is generated, in which each tracker's update behavior will be paced and then traces the target object forward and backward to generate a pair of trajectories in an interval. Then, we implicitly perform self-examination based on trajectory pair of each tracker and select the most robust tracker. The proposed framework can effectively leverage temporal context of sequential frames and avoid to learn corrupted information. Extensive experiments on the standard benchmark suggest that the proposed framework achieves superior performance against state-of-the-art trackers.Comment: Submitted to ICIP 201

Normalized ground states for a biharmonic Choquard system in R4\mathbb{R}^4

In this paper, we study the existence of normalized ground state solutions for the following biharmonic Choquard system \begin{align*} \begin{split} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta^2u=\lambda_1 u+(I_\mu*F(u,v))F_u (u,v), \quad\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^4, \Delta^2v=\lambda_2 v+(I_\mu*F(u,v)) F_v(u,v), \quad\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^4, \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|u|^2dx=a^2,\quad \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|v|^2dx=b^2,\quad u,v\in H^2(\mathbb{R}^4), \end{array} \right. \end{split} \end{align*} where $a,b>0$ are prescribed, $\lambda_1,\lambda_2\in \mathbb{R}$, $I_\mu=\frac{1}{|x|^\mu}$ with $\mu\in (0,4)$, $F_u,F_v$ are partial derivatives of $F$ and $F_u,F_v$ have exponential subcritical or critical growth in the sense of the Adams inequality. By using a minimax principle and analyzing the behavior of the ground state energy with respect to the prescribed mass, we obtain the existence of ground state solutions for the above problem.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2211.1370

Normalized solutions for a fractional N/sN/s-Laplacian Choquard equation with exponential critical nonlinearities

In this paper, we are concerned with the following fractional $N/s$-Laplacian Choquard equation \begin{align*} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^s_{N/s}u=\lambda |u|^{\frac{N}{s}-2}u +(I_\mu*F(u))f(u),\ \ \mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}^N, \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^N}|u|^{N/s} \mathrm{d}x=a^{N/s}, \end{cases} \end{align*} where $s\in(0,1)$, $10$ is a prescribed constant, $\lambda\in \mathbb{R}$, $I_\mu(x)=\frac{1}{|x|^{\mu}}$ with $\mu\in(0,N)$, $F$ is the primitive function of $f$, and $f$ is a continuous function with exponential critical growth of Trudinger-Moser type. Under some suitable assumptions on $f$, we prove that the above problem admits a ground state solution for any given $a>0$, by using the constraint variational method and minimax technique

Normalized ground states for a biharmonic Choquard equation with exponential critical growth

In this paper, we consider the normalized ground state solution for the following biharmonic Choquard type problem \begin{align*} \begin{split} \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \Delta^2u-\beta\Delta u=\lambda u+(I_\mu*F(u))f(u), \quad\mbox{in}\ \ \mathbb{R}^4, \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}^4}|u|^2dx=c^2,\quad u\in H^2(\mathbb{R}^4), \end{array} \right. \end{split} \end{align*} where $\beta\geq0$, $c>0$, $\lambda\in \mathbb{R}$, $I_\mu=\frac{1}{|x|^\mu}$ with $\mu\in (0,4)$, $F(u)$ is the primitive function of $f(u)$, and $f$ is a continuous function with exponential critical growth in the sense of the Adams inequality. By using a minimax principle based on the homotopy stable family, we obtain that the above problem admits at least one ground state normalized solution.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2210.0088

The Implementation of Central Bank Policy in China: The Roles of Commercial Bank Ownership and CEO Faction Membership

We examine the roles of bank ownership and CEO political faction membership in facilitating or hindering the implementation of central bank policy in China. Specifically, we examine the response of China's commercial banks to People's Bank of China (PBC) guidelines intended to decrease mortgage lending and to slow down the rise in residential property prices. We find that both bank ownership and faction membership matter. Central government-owned banks whose CEOs are members of the specialist finance faction within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) respond most strongly to PBC guidance, whereas provincial or city government-owned banks whose CEOs are members of a generalist faction respond least strongly. The implementation of PBC policy has real effects: in those cities where central government-owned banks with specialist CEOs constitute a larger percentage of total bank branches, house prices grew more slowly, as did the number of residential real estate transactions and the number of new listings. Where in contrast provincial and city government-owned banks with generalist CEOs dominate, the number of transactions grew faster; the rate of house price appreciation and the number of listings were however unaffected. We conclude that China's different levels of government and the CCP's different factions enjoy some discretion in responding to PBC guidance and that they exploit the discretion they are afforded to vary the strength of their response

Normalized solutions for a fractional Choquard-type equation with exponential critical growth in R\mathbb{R}

In this paper, we study the following fractional Choquard-type equation with prescribed mass \begin{align*} \begin{cases} (-\Delta)^{1/2}u=\lambda u +(I_\mu*F(u))f(u),\ \ \mbox{in}\ \mathbb{R}, \displaystyle\int_{\mathbb{R}}|u|^2 \mathrm{d}x=a^2, \end{cases} \end{align*} where $(-\Delta)^{1/2}$ denotes the $1/2$-Laplacian operator, $a>0$, $\lambda\in \mathbb{R}$, $I_\mu(x)=\frac{{1}}{{|x|^\mu}}$ with $\mu\in(0,1)$, $F(u)$ is the primitive function of $f(u)$, and $f$ is a continuous function with exponential critical growth in the sense of the Trudinger-Moser inequality. By using a minimax principle based on the homotopy stable family, we obtain that there is at least one normalized ground state solution to the above equation.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2211.1370