This article examines the life and times of Lee Choon Seng (李俊承), exploring his role as a prominent lay Buddhist leader in Singapore and the broader Chinese Buddhist world. Lee Choon Seng’s influence in society, as well as...
Lee’s field-theoretical model describes the interaction between a qubit and a structured bosonic field. We study the mathematical properties of the Hamiltonian of the single-excitation sector of the theory, including a possibly “singular” qubit-field...
In the field of mortality, the Lee–Carter based approach can be considered the milestone to forecast mortality rates among stochastic models. We could define a “Lee–Carter model family” that embraces all developments of this m...
This paper presents a new model of the term structure of interest rates that is based on the continuous Ho–Lee one. In this model, we suggest that the drift and volatility coefficients depend additionally on a generalized inverse Gaussian (GIG)...
Post-quantum cryptography has gained urgent attention as quantum computing poses fundamental threats to traditional public-key cryptosystems. Code-based cryptography stands out as a robust post-quantum candidate, but most existing schemes are built o...
Sediment plumes threatening benthic ecosystems are one of the environmental hazards associated with seafloor interventions such as bottom trawling, cabling, dredging, and marine mining operations. This study focuses on sediment plume release from hyp...
Mountain lee waves present significant hazards to aviation, often inducing turbulence and aircraft icing. The current study focuses on understanding the potential impact of global climate change on the precursor environments to mountain lee wave clou...
We compute the canonical partition functions and the Lee–Yang zeros in
Influential existing research has suggested that rather than being static, mortality declines decelerate at young ages and accelerate at old ages. Without accounting for this feature, the forecast mortality rates of the popular Lee–Carter (LC)...
This article examines the theological trajectories of Watchman Nee (1903–1972) and Witness Lee (1905–1997) on sanctification, union with Christ, and deification, situating their contributions within recent reappraisals of the doctrine of...
Since the early 2000s, Malaysian Chinese independent cinema has garnered international recognition, with James Lee emerging as one of its most influential figures. Distinct from many of his contemporaries, Lee’s films feature a unique sound des...
We study the relaxation dynamics near the critical points of the Yang–Lee edge singularities (YLESs) in the quantum Ising chain in an imaginary longitudinal field with a polarized initial state. We find that scaling behaviors are manifested in...
The study develops alternatives of the classical Lee-Carter stochastic mortality model in assessment of uncertainty of mortality rates forecasts. We use the Lee-Carter model expressed as linear Gaussian state-space model or state-space model with Mar...
Mortality forecasting has always been a target of study by academics and practitioners. Since the introduction and rising significance of securitization of risk in mortality and longevity, more in-depth studies regarding mortality have been carried o...
We study the semi-Riemannian geometry of the foliation
We study the scaling behavior of the Berry phase in the Yang-Lee edge singularity (YLES) of the non-Hermitian quantum system. A representative model, the one-dimensional quantum Ising model in an imaginary longitudinal field, is selected. For this mo...
Flash evaporation processes are widely adopted in the desalination, food processing, waste heat recovery and other industries for heat extraction or product separation. In this paper, a pressure-driven phase transition model is developed by improving...
The Lee–Carter model could be considered as one of the most important mortality prediction models among stochastic models in the field of mortality. With the recent developments of machine learning and deep learning, many studies have applied d...
A linear model is used to diagnose the onset of rotors in flow over 2D hills, for atmospheres that are neutrally stratified near the surface and stably stratified aloft, with a sharp temperature inversion in between, where trapped lee waves may propa...
In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the generalized Chen–Lee–Liu (gCLL) equation utilizing the Riemann–Hilbert method to derive its
This paper investigates a Schrödinger-type fractional-order nonlinear equation known as the Chen–Lee–Liu equation. The fractional properties of the model are described by means of the reduced M-fractional derivative. Using a travelin...
The mortality structure of a population usually reflects the economic and social development of the country. The purpose of this study was to identify moments in time and age intervals at which the observed probability of death is substantially diffe...
The purpose of this paper is to derive analytic expressions for the multivariate Lorenz surface for a relevant type of models based on the class of distributions with given marginals described by Sarmanov and Lee. The expression of the bivariate Lore...
The Lee–Carter model, the dominant mortality projection modeling in the literature, was criticized for its homoscedastic error assumption. This was corrected in extensions to the model based on the assumption that the number of deaths follows P...
The quantum phase transition of a one-dimensional transverse field Ising model in an imaginary longitudinal field is studied. A new order parameter M is introduced to describe the critical behaviors in the Yang-Lee edge singularity (YLES). The M does...
This work proposes a backtesting analysis that compares the Lee–Carter and the Cairns–Blake–Dowd mortality models, employing Italian data. The mortality data come from the Italian National Statistics Institute (ISTAT) database and span the period 197...
Longevity risk has become increasingly important in actuarial and financial applications owing to rising life expectancy and demographic change. To address uncertainty in future mortality trends, particularly age-specific variations, this study propo...
Chang-rae Lee, a contemporary Korean-American writer, is renowned in the literary world for his rich imagination, delicate emotional expression, unique transcultural perspective and idiosyncratic narrative technique. He is one of the representatives...
The objective of the present study is to detect chirped optical solitons of the perturbed Chen–Lee–Liu equation with full nonlinearity. By virtue of the traveling wave hypothesis, the discussed model is reduced to a simple form known as a...
The effect of vinification techniques on phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of wine lees are poorly understood. The present study investigated the antioxidant activity of white and red wine lees generated at early fermentation and during agi...
Functional vinegar with high γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) content was manufactured through a two-stage serial co-fermentation of rice wine lees, a by-product of Korean rice wine, using lactic acid bacteria (LAB) and acetic acid bacteria (AAB). Th...
Ageing on Lees (AOL) is a technique to improve the aromatic and gustatory complexity of wine, mainly by improving its body and reducing its astringency. However, the autolytic process is slow, resulting in high production costs. This work evaluated t...
Contemporary pastoral theology has increasingly absorbed the categories and methods of counseling psychology, yet this turn often leaves unexplained the theological ontology of the pastoral caregiver. This article develops a constructive interdiscipl...
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The parametric model introduced by Lee and Carter in 1992 for modeling mortality rates in the USA was a seminal development in forecasting life expectancies and has been widely used since then. Different extensions of this model, using different hypo...
This article develops a comparative metaphysical inquiry into real time through a dialogue structured by formal analogy between al-Ghazālī’s theology of continuous creation (tajdīd al-khalq) and Lee Smolin’s relational, law...
The winemaking industry produces large amount of byproducts, including grape pomace, stalks, and lees. Wine lees are a natural source of phenolic compounds, which have important antioxidant and biological properties. Due to the high quantities produc...
In this study, we determined the germination response in the seeds of the rare plant Pseudolysimachion pusanensis (Y. N. Lee) Y. N. Lee to different temperatures. P. pusanensis seeds were collected from the Baekdudaegan National Arboretum, South Kore...
It is well known that multicomponent integrable systems provide a method for analyzing phenomena with numerous interactions, due to the interactions between their different components. In this paper, we derive the multicomponent higher-order Chen&nda...
Rubus suavissimus S. Lee leaves, also known as Chinese sweet tea or Tiancha, are used in folk medicine in southern China. This study evaluated the impact of the addition of Chinese sweet tea extract (0.25%, 0.5%, and 1%) on the chemical composition,...
Wine lees are defined as the sediment formed at the bottom of the tank or barrel after wine alcoholic fermentation. They have a heterogeneous composition and currently constitute 6% of the byproducts generated by each ton of wine grapes. However, it...
Lees are a winery by-product with a fiber-rich composition that could have a potential prebiotic effect on gut microbiota. Prebiotics cannot be digested by humans but can be used by bacteria found in the large intestine. To evaluate the potential pre...
The revalorization of food processing by-products not only reduces the environmental impact of their disposal, but also generates added economic value. Cava lees consist of inactive cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and though regarded as a valueles...
Cava lees are a sparkling wine by-product formed of dead microorganisms, tartaric acid and other inorganic compounds, with a potential for enhancing microbial growth. Lees are rich in antioxidant compounds as well as β-glucans and mannoproteins....
In order to investigate the contact characteristics of the mechanical parts of the brewing robot with wine lees particles, it is essential to calibrate the parameters of the discrete elemental model of wine lees particles. This paper proposes a metho...
Wine lees are one of the main by-products produced during winemaking. Little is known about the effect of the vinification technique on the phenolic compounds and the biological activity of wine lees extracts. Wine lees collected at varying vinificat...
Pullulan is a high-value biopolymer synthesized by Aureobasidium pullulans through the fermentation of starch and sugars. It finds extensive applications in food, packaging, biomedicine, and other sectors. However, the high production costs significa...
It is expected that any processing and handling of lees (e.g., drying, storage or removal of residual alcohol using various concentration techniques) will expose the material to oxidation and the consequences of oxidation on the biological activity o...
Obesity, along with hypertension and hyperlipidemia, is one of the leading factors of metabolic syndrome, which increases the risk of diabetes. However, controlling obesity is a global challenge. Sake lees, or Japanese rice wine lees, is a by-product...
Wine lees are sediments deposited on the walls and bottom of barrels resulting from wine fermentation and mainly consist of yeasts. Saccharomyces cerevisiae extracts, rich in beneficial components for the skin, have already been used in cosmesis, whi...
This study introduces a novel empirical model to estimate the total pressure drag generated by trapped lee waves (TLW) and upward-propagating internal waves in moderate-to-strong non-hydrostatic, stratified flow over a mountain ridge, as a function o...
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