scholarly journals Temporal Discounting for Multidimensional Economic Agents

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 86
Author(s):  
F. Bota
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Temporal Discounting ◽  
Time Discounting ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Hybrid Solutions ◽  
Over Time

Individuals frequently place a higher value on money and goods today than they would in the future. This is known as temporal or time discounting, and most economic models include discount functions to represent such utility over time. In this paper we evaluated traditional models with experimental data from the scientific literature and constructed our own samples for comparison. In addition, we evaluated the prediction accuracy of the models and proposed new hybrid solutions. Our investigation aims to contribute to a better understanding of human nature in complex processes.  

scholarly journals Research Creativity and Productivity in Political Science: A Research Agenda for Understanding Alternative Career Paths and Attitudes Toward Professional Work in the Profession

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-83
Author(s):  
Kim Quaile Hill
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Scientific Career ◽  
Scientific Careers ◽  
Publication Success ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
Over Time

ABSTRACTA growing body of research investigates the factors that enhance the research productivity and creativity of political scientists. This work provides a foundation for future research, but it has not addressed some of the most promising causal hypotheses in the general scientific literature on this topic. This article explicates the latter hypotheses, a typology of scientific career paths that distinguishes how scientific careers vary over time with respect to creative ambitions and achievements, and a research agenda based on the preceding components for investigation of the publication success of political scientists.

scholarly journals A Study of Developing a Prediction Equation of Electricity Energy Output via Photovoltaic Modules

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1503
Author(s):  
Minsu Kim ◽  
Hongmyeong Kim ◽  
Jae Hak Jung
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Air Temperature ◽  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
Prediction Equation ◽  
Energy Output ◽  
Photovoltaic Modules ◽  
Mean Error ◽  
Pv Module

Various equations are being developed and applied to predict photovoltaic (PV) module generation. Currently, quite diverse methods for predicting module generation are available, with most equations showing accuracy with ≤5% error. However, the accuracy can be determined only when the module temperature and the value of irradiation that reaches the module surface are precisely known. The prediction accuracy of outdoor generation is actually extremely low, as the method for predicting outdoor module temperature has extremely low accuracy. The change in module temperature cannot be predicted accurately because of the real-time change of irradiation and air temperature outdoors. Calculations using conventional equations from other studies show a mean error of temperature difference of 4.23 °C. In this study, an equation was developed and verified that can predict the precise module temperature up to 1.64 °C, based on the experimental data obtained after installing an actual outdoor module.

The Virtues of Justice: Toward a Moral and Jurisprudential Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 0306624X2110668
Author(s):  
Christopher Williams ◽  
Bruce Arrigo
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Human Nature ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Offender Therapy ◽  
Psychological Structure ◽  
The Common ◽  
Over Time

Within the theoretical literature on crime control and offender therapy, little has been written about the importance of virtue ethics in the experience of human justice and in the evolution of the common good. As a theory of being, the aretaic tradition extols eudemonic existence (i.e., excellence, flourishing) as a relational habit of developing character that is both practiced and embodied over time. What this implies is that virtue justice depends on a set of assumptions and predispositions—both moral and jurisprudential—whose meanings are essential to comprehending its psychological structure. This article sets out to explore several themes that our integral to our thesis on the virtues (i.e., the being) of justice. We reclaim justice’s aretaic significance, critique the common conflation of justice and law, discuss how the dominant legalistic conception of justice is rooted in a particular view of human nature, suggest how justice might be more properly grounded in natural moral sensibilities, and provide a tentative explication of the psychological character of justice as a twofold moral disposition. Given this exploratory commentary, we conclude by reflecting on how individual well-being, system-wide progress, and transformative social change are both possible and practical, in the interest of promoting the virtues of justice within the practice of crime control and offender therapy.

Performance Characterization of a Twin Scroll Volute for Turbocharging Applications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Cravero ◽  
Mario La Rocca ◽  
Andrea Ottonello
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Aerodynamic Performance ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Automatic Design ◽  
Cfd Model ◽  
Radial Turbine ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Partial Admission

The use of twin scroll volutes in radial turbine for turbocharging applications has several advantages over single passage volute related to the engine matching and to the overall compactness. Twin scroll volutes are of increasing interest in power unit development but the open scientific literature on their performance and modelling is still quite limited. In the present work the performance of a twin scroll volute for a turbocharger radial turbine are investigated in some detail in a wide range of operating conditions at both full and partial admission. A CFD model for the volute have been developed and preliminary validated against experimental data available for the radial turbine. Then the numerical model has been used to generate the database of solutions that have been investigated and used to extract the performance. Different parameters and indices are introduced to describe the volute aerodynamic performance in the wide range of operating conditions chosen. The above parameters can be used for volute development or matching with a given rotor or efficiently implemented in automatic design optimization strategies.

The Development of Xunzi’s Theory of Xing, Reconstructed on the Basis of a Textual Analysis of Xunzi 23, “Xing E” 性惡 (Xing is Bad)

Early China ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 99-158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Robins
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
The Core ◽  
Over Time

The section of the Xunzi called “Xing e” 性惡 (xing is bad) prominently and repeatedly claims that people's xing is bad. However, no other text in the Xunzi makes this claim, and it is widely thought that the claim does not express Xunzi's fundamental ideas about human nature. This article addresses the issue in a somewhat indirect way, beginning with a detailed examination of the text of “Xing e”: identifying a core text, removing a series of interpolations, analyzing the structure of the core text, and distinguishing between three positions that are defended there. This analysis shows that the claim that people's xing is bad is not really central to “Xing e.” More ambitiously, it supports the conclusion that Xunzi's ideas about people's xing changed over time. Though Xunzi did claim that people's xing is bad, he later abandoned the claim, and replaced it with an account of wei 偽 “artifice.”

scholarly journals IMPROVEMENT OF THE ROUGHNESS FORECASTING MODEL OF COATING OF NON-RIGID ROAD PAVEMENT COATING

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (164) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
A. Batrakova ◽  
H. Sarkisian ◽  
E. Zakharova
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Service Life ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Safety Margin ◽  
Calculated Data ◽  
Statistical Processing ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Rigid Pavement ◽  
Improved Model ◽  
Over Time

To ensure safe, comfortable driving at high speeds, a strong, even surface is required for the entire life of the pavement. In this regard, the issue of predicting changes in the equality of coverage over time is very important. The article considers the peculiarities of changing the longitudinal equality of the road surface. Purpose is to improve the model of forecasting the equality of non-rigid pavement. Methods – analytical and experimental. The analysis of existing decisions on the issue of forecasting the equality of coverage is performed. The most important factors influencing the change in the equality of road coverage have been identified. Based on the analysis of theoretical models and a number of experimental data, an improved model for predicting the equality of coverage of non-rigid pavement is proposed. MathCAD and MS Excel were involved in the development of an improved model that takes into account the most important factors. The model of change of coverage roughness, where increase in the roughness index over time is considered as a function of such parameters, is improved: the modulus of pavement elasticity (actual or required); the number of load cycles for t years of pavement operation; the share of trucks in the traffic flow; the factor of safety margin of the pavement structure. The adequacy of the developed model of changing the roughness of coverage is confirmed by statistical processing of experimental data obtained by the thesis author and other researchers on public roads with different service life, and calculated data under the theoretical model. The Pearson correlation coefficient between experimental and calculated data is more than 0.95, which indicates the adequacy of the developed model. Compared to the well-known models of forecasting coverage roughness, the improved model allows to apply a wider range of values of the general equivalent modulus of elasticity of pavement design (from 100 MPa to 600 MPa) and to receive forecast values of roughness for service life of non-rigid pavement over 5 years.

scholarly journals Evolution of anatomical concept usage over time: Mining 200 years of biodiversity literature

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prashanti Manda ◽  
Todd J Vision
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Concept Drift ◽  
Multiple Time ◽  
Temporal Data Mining ◽  
Temporal Data ◽  
Initial State ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Historic Record ◽  
Concept Usage ◽  
Over Time

The scientific literature contains an historic record of the changing ways in which we describe the world. Shifts in understanding of scientific concepts are reflected in the introduction of new terms and the changing usage and context of existing ones. We conducted an ontology-based temporal data mining analysis of biodiversity literature from the 1700s to 2000s to quantitatively measure how the context of usage for vertebrate anatomical concepts has changed over time. The corpus of literature was divided into nine non-overlapping time periods with comparable amounts of data and context vectors of anatomical concepts were compared to measure the magnitude of concept drift both between adjacent time periods and cumulatively relative to the initial state. Surprisingly, we found that while anatomical concept drift between adjacent time periods was substantial (55% to 68%), it was of the same magnitude as cumulative concept drift across multiple time periods. Such a process, bound by an overall mean drift, fits the expectations of a mean-reverting process.

scholarly journals Aluminum nitride doped with transition metal group atoms as a material for spintronics

2020 ◽  
pp. 162-172
Author(s):  
S.S. Khludkov ◽  
◽  
I.A. Prudaev ◽  
L.O. Root ◽  
O.P. Tolbanov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Magnetic Properties ◽  
Molecular Beam Epitaxy ◽  
Transition Metal ◽  
Aluminum Nitride ◽  
Room Temperature ◽  
Molecular Beam ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Material Growth ◽  
Metal Group

Aluminum nitride doped with transition metal group atoms as a material for spintronics The overview of scientific literature on electric and magnetic properties of AlN doped with transition metal group atoms is presented. The review is based on literature sources published mainly in the last 10 years. The doping was carried out by different methods: during the material growth (molecular beam epitaxy, magnetron sputtering, discharge techniques) or by implantation into the material. The presented theoretical and experimental data show that AlN doped with transition metal group atoms has ferromagnetic properties at temperatures above room temperature and it is a promising material for spintronics.

scholarly journals Fill ventilation of heated corn grain

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
Mikhail Gennadievich Zagoruyko ◽  
Sergey Anatolyevich Pavlov
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Data ◽  
Distribution System ◽  
Air Flow ◽  
Air Distribution ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Corn Grain

The grain masses of the first and subsequent batches, the equivalent coefficient of the dead gap of the air distribution system are calculated, the expressions for calculating the air flow for these batches and the experimental data on the change in moisture and temperature of the grain over time are given.

Determining Usefulness of Machine Learning in Materials Discovery Using Simulated Research Landscapes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos del Cueto ◽  
Alessandro Troisi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Experimental Data ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Prediction Accuracy ◽  
New Materials

When existing experimental data are combined with machine learning (ML) to predict the performance of new materials, the data acquisition bias determines ML usefulness and the prediction accuracy. In this...

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