In 1999, Pulitzer Prize winning historian and biographer Edmund Morris released his much-anticipated work on Ronald Reagan. Entitled Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan, this novel—or biography, or biographical novel— set off a great deal of controversy, not least among those who had hoped for a successor to Morris’s magisterial and quite factual, if interpretative, biography of Theodore Roosevelt...

Current fine-grained classification approaches often rely on a robust localization of object parts to extract localized feature representations suitable for discrimination. However, part localization is a challenging task due to the large variation of appearance and pose. In this paper, we show how pre-trained convolutional neural networks can be used for robust and efficient object part discov...

In this paper, we employ simulation-based methods to study the role of a market maker in improving price discovery in a prediction market. In our model, traders receive a lagged signal of a ground truth, which is based on real price data from prediction markets on NBA games in the 2014–2015 season. We employ empirical game-theoretic analysis to identify equilibria under different settings of ma...

The history of the discovery of electron spin and the Pauli principle and the mathematics of spin and quantum statistics are reviewed. Pauli’s theory of the spinning electron and some of its many applications in mathematics and physics are considered in more detail. The role of the fact that the tree-level gyromagnetic factor of the electron has the value ge = 2 in an analysis of stability (and...

Nonaka and Takeuchi’s highly influential account of tacit–explicit knowledgeconversion in Japan’s knowledge-creating companies has been instrumental in Knowledge Management’s institutionalisation of Michael Polanyi’s distinction between ‘tacit knowledge’ and ‘explicit knowledge’. But tacit knowledge has been misunderstood and what Nonaka and Takeuchi claim in the name of explicit knowledge does...

The accessibility and abundance of data today makes knowledge discovery a matter of considerable importance and necessity. The process to discover continuously knowledge in evolving business domain is a challenge issue. A continuous knowledge discovery process is introduced for inducing the local first-order rules and global evolutional rules, to trace dynamic evolution patterns firstly. The de...