Solving Non-Uniqueness in Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Using Multidendrograms

In agglomerative hierarchical clustering, pair-group methods suffer from a problem of non-uniqueness when two or more distances between different clusters coincide during the amalgamation process. The traditional approach for solving this drawback has been to take any arbitrary criterion in order to break ties between distances, which results in different hierarchical classifications depending on the criterion followed. In this article we propose a variable-group algorithm that consists in grouping more than two clusters at the same time when ties occur. We give a tree representation for the results of the algorithm, which we call a multidendrogram, as well as a generalization of the Lance andWilliams’ formula which enables the implementation of the algorithm in a recursive way. The authors thank A. Arenas for discussion and helpful comments. This work was partially supported by DGES of the Spanish Government Project No. FIS2006–13321–C02–02 and by a grant of Universitat Rovira i Virgili.     

漳州某基坑抽水引起地面沉降的初探

由于基坑快速抽水导致基坑周边地面沉降。通过对场地因抽水引起地面沉降的计算和试抽水等方面的前期工作,分析了因基坑降水对地面沉降的影响,并据此来调整完善基坑降水方案,取得了明显的社会和经济效益。     

西周"尊老"风气及其原因新探

我国历来有"尊老"之传统,长久以来,"尊老"思想被冠以孝治的产物,但在商周革故鼎新之际,周代的开国者却遇着后代所没有的境遇,他们所施行的"尊老"思想,在很大程度上是为了借鉴殷商所以灭亡的因素,在他们看来,"尊老"问题能否贯彻是关乎国家兴亡的大事。     

"藏汇于国"到"藏汇于民"的外汇投资渠道探讨

为了更好地落实藏汇于民,必须拓展外汇投资渠道,使藏汇于民成为可能。文章主要探讨当前可能的主要外汇投资渠道,并就在外汇投资活动中需要注意的事项给予说明。     

论企业技术创新的评价

讨论了企业技术创新的评价方法，引入事实评价与价值评价标准，对企业技术创新进行技术评价和社会评价。认为只有当企业技术创新的技术评价和社会评价均为可行时，技术创新方案才原则上可以采用。     

化工传热过程计算方法的分析

通过分析比较化工传热过程计算中的平均温度差法(MTD法)和传热单元数法(NTU法),找出了它们之间的内在联系,结合这两种方法的优点,组合成了一种新的计算方法,应用于化工传热过程的计算,可使计算过程大为简便,同时又可评价换热设备流动型式的合理性。     

The Frontier Movement and The American Values and Beliefs

This paper briefly accounts the background of American values and beliefs. It analyses the essence of the American ideals and points out that the American values are exaggerated and glamorized by the American upper class. They are in a sense, a dose of anaesthetic and a kind of hypocrisy.     

The Response of Debris-Flow Events to Solar Proton Flares （Ⅰ）

By analyzing the observation data from Dongchuan Debris Flow Observation and Research Station and historical data from year 1965 to 1990 gotten from National Astronomical Ob-servatories/Yunnan Observatory,the responding of debris flow in Jiangjia Ravine to Solar Proton Flare is studied. The following conclusion can be drawn. Solar Proton Flare,as one of most im-portant astronomical factors,affects the activity of debris flow in Yunnan. Generally,from 1965 to1990,the more active Solar Pro-ton Flare is,the greater the probability of high frequency and large runoff of debris flow is. On the contrary,the less active Solar Pro-ton Flare is,the greater the probability of low frequency,small runoff,and low sediment transport of debris flow is.     

Picturing the moon: Hevelius’s and Riccioli’s visual debate

This article investigates the maps of the moon produced in the mid-seventeenth century by Jesuit Giambattista Riccioli (1598-1671) and Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), whose cartographic projects competed for widespread acceptance. Although Hevelius’s Selenographia (1647) was applauded for its many detailed, self-engraved pictures of the moon, his cartography and proposed nomenclature were supplanted by Riccioli’s as offered in Almagestum novum (1651), in spite of the latter’s simplistic pictures and promotion of geocentric cosmology. Exploring this paradox through pictorial analysis, three types of images common to both Selenographia and Almagestum novum are compared, employing an analytical tool developed by Svetlana Alpers in The art of describing (1983). A focus on this debate exposes the tensions evoked by new technologies of vision and competing cultures of visual epistemology in seventeenth-century astronomy. As both selenographers grappled with questions about the role of representation and what kinds of knowledge could be generated visually, the successes and failures of their competing projects present implications for the course of visual astronomy, as well as for our understanding of the use of ‘visual technologies’ in a period of controversy.     

试论唐代宫廷宴饮风俗及其影响

唐代宫廷通过征收赋税、内官进奉、外官进奉和外蕃进奉等手段使得国库丰盈，这样唐代宫廷就有余财频繁地举行宴饮活动。唐代宫廷宴饮的主要类型有节日宴会、皇帝游宴、皇家醣宴、庆功宴、朝会及伴随祭祀活动而举行的宴会、宫廷内宴、皇帝为任命的外官饯行宴、皇帝迎接外蕃的宴会。唐代宫廷宴饮中主要的佐乐活动有行酒令、乐舞表演、百戏游艺节目表演等，这些活动一方面有效地调节宫廷宴饮气氛，另一方面也使得唐代宫廷宴饮风俗具有更丰富的文化内涵。唐代宫廷宴饮风俗作为一种上层丈化，为唐代社会各阶层所效仿，同时这种风俗也被五代直接继承。