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Selected AbstractsProportion of non-zero normal means: universal oracle equivalences and uniformly consistent estimatorsJOURNAL OF THE ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY: SERIES B (STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY), Issue 3 2008Jiashun Jin Summary., Since James and Stein's seminal work, the problem of estimating n normal means has received plenty of enthusiasm in the statistics community. Recently, driven by the fast expansion of the field of large-scale multiple testing, there has been a resurgence of research interest in the n normal means problem. The new interest, however, is more or less concentrated on testing n normal means: to determine simultaneously which means are 0 and which are not. In this setting, the proportion of the non-zero means plays a key role. Motivated by examples in genomics and astronomy, we are particularly interested in estimating the proportion of non-zero means, i.e. given n independent normal random variables with individual means Xj,N(,j,1), j=1,,,n, to estimate the proportion ,n=(1/n) #{j:,j /= 0}. We propose a general approach to construct the universal oracle equivalence of the proportion. The construction is based on the underlying characteristic function. The oracle equivalence reduces the problem of estimating the proportion to the problem of estimating the oracle, which is relatively easier to handle. In fact, the oracle equivalence naturally yields a family of estimators for the proportion, which are consistent under mild conditions, uniformly across a wide class of parameters. The approach compares favourably with recent works by Meinshausen and Rice, and Genovese and Wasserman. In particular, the consistency is proved for an unprecedentedly broad class of situations; the class is almost the largest that can be hoped for without further constraints on the model. We also discuss various extensions of the approach, report results on simulation experiments and make connections between the approach and several recent procedures in large-scale multiple testing, including the false discovery rate approach and the local false discovery rate approach. [source] A new anatomy of spirituality: clinical and political demands the psychotherapist cannot ignore,PSYCHOTHERAPY AND POLITICS INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2004Andrew Samuels Abstract I begin with some general issues and problems of defining the ,S' word. Next, I present a contemporary anatomy of spirituality stressing connections to lived experience in society. The third section is on ,responsibility' and how that links to psychological, spiritual and political concerns. Finally, inevitably, given my Jungian background, I discuss the shadow of spirituality. Throughout I make connections to the clinical encounter and dialogue in psychotherapy. Copyright © 2004 Whurr Publishers Ltd [source] Rubber Erasures, Rubber Producing Rights: Making Racialized Territories in West Kalimantan, IndonesiaDEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE, Issue 1 2009Nancy Lee Peluso ABSTRACT This article makes connections between often-disparate literatures on property, violence and identity, using the politics of rubber growing in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, as an example. It shows how rubber production gave rise to territorialities associated with and productive of ethnic identities, depending on both the political economies and cultural politics at play in different moments. What it meant to be Chinese and Dayak in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, as well as how categories of subjects and citizens were configured in the two respective periods, differentially affected both the formal property rights and the means of access to rubber and land in different parts of West Kalimantan. However, incremental changes in shifting rubber production practices were not the only means of producing territory and ethnicity. The author argues that violence ultimately played a more significant role in erasing prior identity-based claims and establishing the controls of new actors over trees and land and their claims to legitimate access or ,rightfulness'. Changing rubber production practices and reconfigurations of racialized territories and identity-based property rights are all implicated in hiding the violence. [source] Mastering Complaint: Michael Drayton's Peirs Gaveston and the Royal Mistress ComplaintsENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 3 2008Kelly Quinn Michael Drayton's poem Peirs Gaveston tells the story of Edward II's doomed lover and is modeled closely on the royal mistress complaint poems of the 1590s, and reading the poem through the genre is illuminating. The poem differs from its models significantly, however, in that the royal "mistress" of Drayton's poem is male. This difference signifies politically, and the poem demonstrates the dangerous power of male royal consorts who translate their erotic sway into active political power. Pointed parallels with the royal mistress complaint poems accentuate the consequences for rulers in taking male lovers, and Drayton makes connections between Gaveston's use of the penetrative sexual position with his increasing political power and authority over Edward II. In distinction, the female royal mistress poems in fact tend to minimize the political power the historical women actually wielded; whereas their power is contained by the complaint poems, Gaveston's is magnified. Gaveston frames his relationship in the language of humanist friendship, but he uses the rhetoric of friendship and its mirroring imagery as part of his strategy for achieving first equality and then dominance over the King. For Drayton, the royal mistress complaint genre functions as both precursor and foil to Peirs Gaveston. (K.Q.) [source] Queering Management and OrganizationGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 2 2002Martin Parker This article makes connections between ,queer' theory and contemporary thinking about management and organization. The article contains a re-presentation of queer, particularly the work of Butler and Sedgwick, and a discussion of the potential implications of queering for managers, managerial practices and the science of management. Most importantly, the article is also concerned with authority claims , both personal and institutional , and the relationship between (critical) theory and (critical) practice. [source] The discipline of improvement: something old, something new?JOURNAL OF NURSING MANAGEMENT, Issue 2 2004Charlotte L. Clarke BA, PGCE In response to calls to improve the efficacy of health care services, there is an increasing focus on the processes of achieving a continuous improvement of services and practices. One specific response is that of the NHS Modernization Agency and National Health Service University in relation to the Discipline of Improvement in Health and Social Care. This paper draws on a study that explored the underpinning knowledge base of the Discipline of Improvement and focuses on describing the framework that was developed. The two-dimensional framework is composed of five primary categories, which cross-link to 11 competencies. The study concludes that the Discipline of Improvement draws together a group of ideas that together cohere to form a distinctive model to aid the improvement of health care. While some of these ideas are well-established, the way in which the Discipline of Improvement makes connections between them offers something new to our understanding of change in the complex world of health care provision, and to nursing management. [source] | ||||||||||