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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"positive functions"”.
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Moment sequences and their applications
… cases. Second, we define the lower and upper functions V±(ð₁,... ð <sub>n</sub>) on the convex hull of the curve Γ<sub>n</sub> = {(t,.·.,t<sup>n</sup>): t ∈ [0,1] } for each positive integer n. Explicit formulas of these functions are derived and applied to the study of the subnormal …
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Gambling and the Law: A Study of the Utility of Gambling and Its Prohibition in an American Chinatown
… of harms from gambling were examined. Some positive functions of gambling, such as to provide recreation, the achievement of status and social integration, were delineated. A review of the costs, effect, and feasibilities of gambling enforcement was undertaken and concluded that public …
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Apocalyptic Theopolitics: Dispensationalism, Israel/Palestine, and Ecclesial Enactments of Eschatology
… of its findings, as well as a discussion of the positive functions of apocalyptic in Christian social ethics, pointing toward the possibility of alternative ecclesial enactments of apocalyptic theopolitics.
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Pathways to hydrogen economies : a quantitative cross-national investigation of hydrogen discourses and strategy formulation in Britain and Germany
… towards sustainability are further potential positive functions of hydrogen as energy vector. Research has left its infant stages and first applications have already been successfully demonstrated. Hydrogen has the potential to turn the energy world upside down but at the same time might also …
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Transclave Economy: Immigrant Business Survival in An Era of Pandemic
… several decades, the persistent debate over the positive functions of the enclave economy, which is called the enclave effect, has expanded our knowledge of the social mobility of immigrants in a receiving society. Despite its significant contribution, a limitation of this debate is that scholars …
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Efficient learning of temporal dynamics with first-order methods
… learning for large datasets? • how to learn positive-valued intensity functions for point processes? • how to learn from complex systems with implicit likelihood? • how to learn from aggregated observations of temporal dynamics? Our main focus in this dissertation will be on designing …