Poetic Labors and Challenging Political Science: An Epistolary Poem

ABSTRACT

The author, a political theorist, uses poetry to reflect on and spur structural change in admissions committees, hiring committees, funding decisions, curriculum development, and the institutionalized awards-making structure regarding African Politics in the American Political Science Association. This poem, delivered and performed at the American Political Science Association 2018 meeting in Boston, provides empirical and verifiable data about how scholarly awards are distributed in the discipline. The analysis of this process reflects on a long history of erasing, minimizing, and tokenizing the scholarship of African political scientists in the discipline of political science. Written as an epistolary poem, the author explains how #MeToo accounts for complex and interrelated forms of exclusion from the production of knowledge and uses the history of Black women in politics associations, writings by Patricia J. Williams, Pearl T. Robinson, Darlene Miller, and poetry by June Jordan (1936–2002) and Sweet Honey in the Rock (f. 1973).     

Prediction and Impact of Sea Level Rise on Properties and Infrastructure of Washington,DC

The city of Washington, District of Columbia (DC) will face flooding, and eventual geographic changes, in both the short‐ and long‐term future because of sea level rise (SLR) brought on by climate change, including global warming. To fully assess the potential damage, a linear model was developed to predict SLR in Washington, DC, and its results compared to other nonlinear model results. Using geographic information systems (GIS) and graphical visualization, analytical models were created for the city and its underlying infrastructure. Values of SLR used in the assessments were 0.1 m for the year 2043 and 0.4 m for the year 2150 to model short‐term SLR; 1.0 m, 2.5 m, and 5.0 m were used for long‐term SLR. All necessary data layers were obtained from free data banks from the U.S. Geological Survey and Washington, DC government websites. Using GIS software, inventories of the possibly affected infrastructure were made at different SLR. Results of the analysis show that low SLR would lead to a minimal loss of city area. Damages to the local properties, however, are estimated at an assessment value of at least US$2 billion based on only the direct losses of properties listed in real estate databases, without accounting for infrastructure damages that include military installations, residential areas, governmental property, and cultural institutions. The projected value of lost property is in excess of US$24.6 billion at 5.0 m SLR.     

Construction and analysis of edge designs from skew-symmetric supplementary difference sets

The purpose of screening experiments is to identify the dominant variables from a set of many potentially active variables which may affect some characteristic y. Edge designs were recently introduced in the literature and are constructed by using conferences matrices and were proved to be robust. We introduce a new class of edge designs which are constructed from skew-symmetric supplementary difference sets. These designs are particularly useful since they can be applied for experiments with an even number of factors and they may exist for orders where conference matrices do not exist. Using this methodology, examples of new edge designs for 6, 14, 22, 26, 38, 42, 46, 58, and 62 factors are constructed. Of special interest are the new edge designs for studying 22 and 58 factors because edge designs with these parameters have not been constructed in the literature since conference matrices of the corresponding order do not exist. The suggested new edge designs achieve the same model-robustness as the traditional edge designs. We also suggest the use of a mirror edge method as a test for the linearity of the true underlying model. We give the details of the methodology and provide some illustrating examples for this new approach. We also show that the new designs have good D-efficiencies when applied to first order models.     

《华盛顿协议》对我国工科物理教育的启示

从工程教育与国际接轨的角度出发,分析了我国大学物理教育的现状,探讨了工科物理教育中存在的问题以及寻找教学改革的焦点,希望能够促进工科物理教学质量的提高,缩短我国物理教育与国际物理教育之间的差距,为专业认证体系与国际接轨做好准备工作。     

中国共产党党的代表大会制度的历史实践初探

中国共产党自建党以来,在革命、改革和建设的不同阶段,党的代表大会制度建设的内容和形式表现出不同的特点。本文通过对这三个阶段历史的梳理考察,探索中国共产党党代会制度发展脉络。     

略论《中法会议简明条款》的签订与中法战争重启

《中法会议简明条款》是中法战争过程中双方试图取得妥协的一个和约。由于双方谈判过程中的细节问题,双方最终兵戎相见,中法冲突再次爆发。这与双方的根本利益冲突有关,但是另一方面的原因则是一些技术性问题。究其原因,首先,双方的谈判者李鸿章与福禄诺的交涉不符合近代外交的规范;其次,总署和中枢以及最高统治者对于《简明条款》的内容没有进行深入核查,使得条约中的隐患得以延续;第三,双方对于《简明条款》第二款的模糊处理和误解使得中法之间再次爆发冲突。     

Foldover Conference Designs for Screening Experiments

A conference matrix is a square matrix C with zeros on the diagonal and ±1s off the diagonal, such that C ^T C = CC ^T  = (n ? 1)I, where I is the identity matrix. Conference matrices are an important class of combinatorial designs due to their many applications in several fields of science, including statistical-experimental designs, telecommunications, elliptic geometry, and more. In this article, conference matrices and their full foldover design are combined together to obtain an alternative method for screening active factors in complicated problems. This method provides a model-independent estimate of the set of active factors and also gives a linearity test for the underlying model.     

认知视域下记者招待会中隐喻口译策略的实证研究

基于概念隐喻理论,对政府记者招待会平行语料库中的隐喻进行识别和归类。同时,基于认知翻译学,对语料中的隐喻口译策略进行归纳,并统计每一种口译策略的使用频率,揭示隐喻口译的特点以及译者口译策略选择的原因。研究发现语料中概念隐喻使用丰富,直译隐喻法是使用频率最高的策略。译者通常根据隐喻的语篇功能、中英文政治文本隐喻类别的相似程度、隐喻的语境和搭配原则等进行隐喻口译策略的选择。     

日韩澳经济形势及对墨西哥会议的影响

日本、韩国和澳大利亚是亚太经济合作组织的重要成员,其经济发展形势对亚太地区的长远合作与发展具有重要的影响力.通过对上述三国经济发展形势的研究,在加速 APEC能力建设、发展信息产业、推进 APEC金融合作等方面对中国具有重要的借鉴意义.     

The children of alcoholics: An exploratory study

This study explored the relation of parents alcoholism to the health, behavior, and learning problems of their children. To control for the impact of hospitalization on the children, two control samples were obtained. In general, the problems among children of alcoholics were the same as for children in the control group except in the area of behavioral problems. The implication of these results for further research and for clinical practice were discussed.