Waka is a form of traditional Japanese poetry with a 1300year history. In this paper we attempt to semi-automatically discover instances of poetic allusion, or more generally, to find similar poems in anthologies of waka poems. The key to success is how to define the similarity measure on poems. We first examine the existing similarity measures on strings, and then give a unifying framework tha...

This paper examines methods of controlling the supply shock in the estimation of the Phillips curve and discusses the relationship between the supply shock and inflation inertia. The empirical results clearly show that controlling the supply shock effect, not only for current inflation but also for lagged inflation using the asymmetry of the price change distribution, substantially outperforms ...

Vine (1971) examines different geometrical spacings of prey in order to determine their risk of visual detection and pursuit by a predator. In his first model, Vine considers a situation where there are n prey (es), each of body length I and all at a distance r from some predator P. This predator can detect a prey (occupying Z/r radians) if that prey is standing completely within 8, radians in ...

This is a report of research project about developing musical instruments for interactive computer music. The project's name "GHI project" means that "It might be interesting that musical instrument shines, isn't it?" in Japanese. I examined the essences of instruments in my composition again on proverb "Taking a lesson from the past." First of all, I examined the relation between the performer...

The author is responsible for the choice and the presentation of facts in this concept paper and for the opinions expressed therein, which are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization 1 Summary This research paper deals with the issue of defining and measuring the diversity of cultural expressions. Firstly, it proposes a three-dimensional definition based on a review o...

We propose a modest conservative extension to ML that allows semi-explicit higher-order polymorphism while preserving the essential properties of ML. In our proposal, the introduction of polymorphic types remains fully explicit, that is, both the introduction and the exact polymorphic type must be speci ed. However, the elimination of polymorphic types is now semi-implicit: only the elimination...

The aim of this work is to study an essential property in the framework of fuzzy preference structures, which is the transitivity. In particular, we discuss the relationship between the transitivity of a fuzzy large preference relation R and the transitivity of the fuzzy strict preference relation P obtained from R when every pair of elements can be compared. We consider some of the most import...

In this paper we consider the emerging position in metaphysics that artifact functions characterize real kinds of artifacts. We analyze how it can circumvent an objection by David Wiggins (Sameness and substance renewed, 2001, 87) and then argue that this position, in comparison to expert judgments, amounts to an interesting fine-grained metaphysics: taking artifact functions as (part of the) e...

gerbera cut flowers is one of the important and popular cut flowers in the world that regardless of increasing production of this plant in iran, the duration of its life is short due to rapid wilting petals and bending neck of flower. to increase vase life of gerbera cut flowers cv. ‘alain ducasse’, the essences of eucalyptus and rosa damascena, the combination of these two essences at a concen...