A mixed bag

A Mixed Bag of Results: Village Elections in Contemporary China

While there is only little transformation to the absolute power of the party-state to be detected, some grassroots democratic experiments, however, are receiving enormous attention of the world, especially village elections. Nevertheless, this preliminary exercise of democracy is widely characterized as a mixed bag of results. Since its first conduction, it has experienced immense development a...

Front - Running by Mutual Fund Managers : A Mixed Bag ?

This paper evaluates the welfare implications of front-running by mutual fund managers. It extends the model of Kyle (1985) to a situation in which the insider with fundamentals-information competes against an insider with trade-information and in which noise trading is endogenized. Noise traders are small investors trading through mutual funds to hedge non-tradable or illiquid assets. The insi...

The cytoplasm: no longer a well-mixed bag.

Until the last decade or so, many intracellular signaling pathways were viewed as processes in which second messengers diffused uniformly through a well-mixed milieu of the cell’s cytoplasm to reach their targets. Although it was recognized that the cell’s interior was compartmentalized, this compartmentalization was believed to be largely defined by internal membranes, such as the nuclear enve...

UNICEF's child injury league tables: a bag of mixed messages.

Getting the best out of a mixed bag

This paper discusses the development and implementation of an approach to the combination of Rule Based Machine Translation, Statistical Machine Translation and Translation Memory tecnologies. The machine translation system itself draws upon translation memories and both syntactically and statistically generated phrase tables, unresolved sentences being fed to a Rules Engine. The output of the ...