“It's the Beast Thing”

This article examines the representations of men and masculinities in contemporary crime narratives featuring a female protagonist. These “chick dick” stories (which adapt elements from the hardboiled detective novel, film noir, chick lit, and chick flicks) repeatedly engage with the gendered power dynamics made visible and problematic through the intersection of “chick” and crime genres, most particularly the sexualization of violence. In these narratives, popular masculinities operate as deployable concepts to dramatize contemporary gender relations. By tapping into the popular sentiment of a “crisis in masculinity,” chick dick texts also mobilize a rhetoric of unrepresentable male victimization and individual male pathologies. This strategy highlights the spaces and places in which masculinities are made vulnerable at the same time as it offers simplistic and individualized explanations for the systemic sexualized violence that dominate these narratives.     

Asymptotic behaviour of a test statistic for detection of change in mean of vectors

The paper gives an asymptotic distribution of a test statistic for detecting a change in a mean of random vectors with dependent components. The studied test statistic has a form of a maximum of a square Euclidean norms of vectors with components being standardized partial cumulative sums of deviations from means. The limit distribution was obtained using a result of Piterbarg [1994. High deviations for multidimensional stationary Gaussian processes with independent components. In: Zolotarev, V.M. (Ed.), Stability Problems for Stochastic Models, pp. 197–210].     

A single-featured EWMA-X control chart for detecting shifts in process mean and standard deviation

The combined EWMA-X chart is a commonly used tool for monitoring both large and small process shifts. However, this chart requires calculating and monitoring two statistics along with two sets of control limits. Thus, this study develops a single-featured EWMA-X (called SFEWMA-X) control chart which has the ability to simultaneously monitor both large and small process shifts using only one set of statistic and control limits. The proposed SFEWMA-X chart is further extended to monitoring the shifts in process standard deviation. A set of simulated data are used to demonstrate the proposed chart's superior performance in terms of average run length compared with that of the traditional charts. The experimental examples also show that the SFEWMA-X chart is neater and easier to visually interpret than the original EWMA-X chart.     

五四新文化运动与中国文化传统三题

发端于五四时期的现代新儒家之基本价值倾向是主张现代化的,因而它亦应归于"五四新文化运动"的范畴,所谓"五四新文化运动是全盘反传统"的论断是不成立的。中国文化现代开展的内在逻辑体现为从"外在冲击"到"内在转化",五四新文化运动构成了这一过程的的转折点,虽然它的批判和否定曾经对中国文化传统造成了一定的冲击,但它没有也不可能造成中国文化传统的断裂。就中国文化现代开展的整体进程而言,中国文化精神之主体性的挺立是一个不断得到加强的过程,中国文化传统受到了越来越多的重视。五四新文化运动所开启的文化格局进一步充实和丰富了中国文化的生命力,为中国文化传统面向21世纪的新开展增添了新的生机与活力。     

On Calculations Involving the Maximum Cell Frequency

We describe a method of computing the cumulative distribution function of the maximum and minimum cell frequencies in sampling distributions commonly encountered in the analysis of categorical data.The procedure is efficient for exact or approximate calculation in both homogeneous and non-homogeneous cases, is non-recursive, and does not require Dirichlet integrals.Some related statistical problems are also discussed.     

善与善的悲剧冲突——从《天边外》和《边城》看现代悲剧的必然性

《天边外》和《边城》是 2 0世纪初有影响的两部悲剧作品 ,虽然其文体及文化传统和悲剧处理不同 ,但主题、结构、悲剧走向和现代悲剧意识却惊人契合。在这两部悲剧中 ,可以看到现代悲剧关注时代、关注普通人的精神世界和情感生活的走向。它不再简单的是善与恶的冲突结果 ,而是多种力量复合的悲剧结合 ,尤其是善与善力量间必然的较量和冲突。随着生命不确定感的增强 ,这种现代悲剧的必然性开始以更丰富的文学手段自我表现着。     

Evaluation of strategies to mitigate contagion spread using social network characteristics

Computer simulation is an effective tool for assessing mitigation strategies, with recent trends concentrating on agent-based techniques. These methods require high computational efforts in order to simulate enough scenarios for statistical significance. The population individuals and their contacts determined by agent-based simulations form a social network. For some network structures it is possible to gain high accuracy estimates of contagion spread based on the connection structure of the network, an idea that is utilized in this work. A representative social network constructed from the 2006 census of the Greater Toronto Area (Ontario, Canada) of 5 million individuals in 1.8 million households is used to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. We examine the effects of six mitigation strategies with respect to their ability to contain disease spread as indicated by pre- and post-vaccination reproduction numbers, mean local clustering coefficients and degree distributions. One outcome of the analysis provides evidence supporting the design of mitigation strategies that aim to fragment the population into similarly sized components. While our analysis is framed in the context of pandemic disease spread, the approach is applicable to any contagion such as computer viruses, rumours, social trends, and so on.     

网络信息监控系统设计的研究

根据当前网络信息传播的混乱情况,在某种场合进行网络信息监控很有必要.该文提出了网络信息监控的几种实现方法和标准的信息监控流程,讨论设计网络信息监控系统的系统架构方法以及信息监控中应根据实际采用各种不同的技术组合,以达到全方位对网络信息进行监控.     

多波段光学探测系统的探测概率研究

针对光学联合探测子系统探测概率的不同特点,提出一种新的系统工作模式,使系统的最终探测概率有较大提高。当子系统的探测概率均比较低时,直接对子系统的探测数据进行融合,可以获得较高探测概率;当各子系统探测概率相差较大时,可先对探测数据进行选择,然后再进行数据融合,这样可以在总探测概率减小不大的情况下,使虚警概率明显降低。     

空中防撞系统避撞机制的数学模型

在TCAS系统中,到达最接近点的时间Tau、HMD和VMD是描述空中碰撞物理过程的主要参数,利用该组参数能够完整地描述TCAS系统的防撞机制。该文通过对到CPA时间的近似,引入对Tau时间的物理解释;并通过坐标变换,采用本机和入侵飞机的相对距离、相对距离变化率和相对距离加速度推导出了HMD的数学表达式;分析了工程实际应用中的修正模型。