Randomness and early termination: what makes a game exciting? by Guo, G, Howison, S, Possamai, D, Reisinger, C

“…The analytical and numerical results allow us to characterise the max-entropy win-probability martingale and to highlight the behaviour of this process in the present case where the match may end early, in contrast to recent work by Backhoff-Veraguas and Beiglböck where the match always runs the full length.…”

A tale of disregard? Reception of the jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights by Cali, B, Galand, AS

“…In this article, we examine the reception of this jurisprudence by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and ask whether and how the CRPD Committee’s interpretation of the CRPD has influenced the case law of the ECtHR. By focussing on the right to legal capacity, accessibility and reasonable accommodation, we demonstrate that the transformative jurisprudence of the CRPD Committee was met with visible disregard in Strasbourg. …”

Mental disorder and its treatment as a transformative experience by Villiger, D

“…The present paper examines mental disorder and its treatment from a transformative experiential perspective, using major depressive disorder as an exemplary case. It shows that developing a mental disorder typically requires a transformative experience since the two popular mental disorder classification systems primarily classify such disorders on an experiential basis. …”

Distributed momentum based multi-agent optimization with different constraint sets by Zhou, X, Ma, Z, Zou, S, Margellos, K

“…Simulations on an ℓ1-regularized logisticregression problem show that the proposed algorithm can achieve faster convergence than existing related distributed algorithms, while a case study involving a building energy management problem further demonstrates its efficacy.…”

Important mathematical competences for students in the age of generative artificial intelligence: proof comprehension and evaluation, and ChatGPT by Stylianides, AJ, Stylianides, GJ

“…We view our discussion of these proof competences as a case in point of the pressing need for mathematics education researchers and practitioners to reflect on what constitute important mathematical competences for students in the age of generative artificial intelligence. …”

Making mutineers? Reimagining religious education for the promotion of virtuous digital citizenship by Tridgell, J

“…This is used to distinguish between digital instrumentalism and digital citizenship and as a way to consider the role of curriculum designers in helping young people not simply understand the digital world, but make it better – by mutiny, if they must. </p> <p>The case is then made for a reimagining of religious education (RE) in England to lead the way in this. …”

Descriptor learning for efficient retrieval by Philbin, J, Isard, M, Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…Scalable, stochastic gradient methods are used for the optimization.</p> <br> <p>For the case of particular object retrieval, we demonstrate impressive gains in performance on a ground truth dataset: our learnt 32-D descriptor without spatial re-ranking outperforms a baseline method using 128-D SIFT descriptors with spatial re-ranking.…”

Psychedelics for the Treatment of Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Efficacy and Proposed Mechanisms by Collins, HM

“…Recent studies have also suggested that the psychedelic psilocybin may be able to treat obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Since the 1960s, case studies have reported improvements to obsessive and compulsive behaviors in patients taking psychedelics recreationally. …”

Governing in the face of a global crisis: when do voters punish and reward incumbent governments? by Duch, RM, Loewen, P, Robinson, TS, Zakharov, A

“…The recent COVID-19 pandemic offers a rare opportunity to understand how citizens attribute responsibility for governments’ responses to unanticipated negative—and in this case, systemic—exogenous shocks. Classical accounts of responsibility are complicated when crises are pervasive, involve multiple valence dimensions, and where individuals can make relative assessments of performance. …”

Promoting elements of mathematical knowledge for teaching related to the notion of assumptions by Stylianides, G, Stylianides, A

“…The approach to promoting mathematical knowledge for teaching that we discuss in the paper offers a paradigmatic case of how teacher educators can use productive ambiguity to design learning opportunities for prospective teachers to intertwine mathematical learning with pedagogical awareness thus developing pedagogically functional mathematical knowledge.…”

Deep features for text spotting by Jaderberg, M, Vedaldi, A, Zisserman, A

“…The CNN has a novel architecture that enables efficient feature sharing (by using a number of layers in common) for text detection, character case-sensitive and insensitive classification, and bigram classification. …”

Urban local authorities and the delivery of micromobility strategies obstacles in the implementation of bicycle hire in the UK by Dudley, G, Banister, D, Schwanen, T

“…The dynamics of the delivery of micromobility can therefore offer strong challenges to urban local authorities in constructing stable networks, mobilizing public support for their actions, and in linking in with other transport services. The two case studies selected here cover the development of bicycle hire in the UK, with particular reference to dockless bicycle hire. …”

Disciplining the state: virtue, violence, and state-making in modern China by Thornton, P

“…The successes and failures of state-building in each case rested largely upon the ability of each regime to construct itself as an autonomous moral agent both separate from and embedded in an imagined political community. …”

On affine invariant clustering and automatic cast listing in movies by Fitzgibbon, A, Zisserman, A

“…For the particular special case of corresponding point sets we demonstrate that the affine invariant measure we introduced may be obtained in closed form.…”

Flexibility prediction of aggregated electric vehicles and domestic hot water systems in smart grids by Hu, J, Zhou, H, Zhou, Y, Zhang, H, Nordströmd, L, Yang, G

“…The accuracy of the flexibility prediction results was verified through simulations of case studies. The simulation results show that under different maintenance times, the size of the flexibility changed. …”

The neurological consequences of contracting COVID-19 by Aknin, LB, De Neve, JE, Dunn, EW, Fancourt, DE, Goldberg, E, Helliwell, JF, Jones, SP, Karam, E, Layard, R, Lyubomirsky, S, Rzepa, A, Saxena, S, Thornton, EM, VanderWeele, TJ, Whillans, AV, Zaki, J, Caman, O, Amor, YB

“…Since the first confirmed case in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has spread quickly, infecting 165 million people as of May 2021. …”

Expectation vs. reality: towards verification of psychological games by Kwiatkowska, M, Norman, G, Parker, D, Santos, G

“…We discuss how to model these games, highlight specific challenges for their analysis and illustrate the usefulness of our approach on several case studies, including human behaviour in traffic scenarios.…”

The trembling-hand problem for LTLf planning by Yu, P, Zhu, S, De Giacomo, G, Vardi, M

“…Consider an agent acting to achieve its temporal goal, but with a "trembling hand". In this case, the agent may mistakenly instruct, with a certain (typically small) probability, actions that are not intended due to faults or imprecision in its action selection mechanism, thereby leading to possible goal failure. …”

‘Swirling' around translanguaging spaces of nature of science in multilingual classrooms by Cheung, KKC, Erduran, S, Oancea, A

“…In order to create a linguistically inclusive environment for multilingual learners’ meaning making of nature of science (NOS), it is important to allow students to freely mobilise different linguistic and modal resources for meaning making. In this single case study of a Hong Kong seventh-grade linguistically diverse classroom, we characterise two types of translanguaging spaces for meaning making of NOS: NOS-negotiation space and NOS-inscription space. …”

Lost in quantization: improving particular object retrieval in large scale image databases by Philbin, J, Chum, O, Isard, M, Sivic, J, Zisserman, A

“…We describe how this representation may be incorporated into a standard tf-idf architecture, and how spatial verification is modified in the case of this soft-assignment. We evaluate our method on the standard Oxford Buildings dataset, and introduce a new dataset for evaluation. …”