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Space And Attention In The Kyrgyz Demonstrative System
No full textBased on novel empirical work on the Kyrgyz (Turkic) nine-term demonstrative system, this paper investigates the spatial uses of demonstratives and the relationship between demonstratives\u27 attention-drawing and spatial denotations, which has been a fundamental question for the study of demonstrative semantic content (Skilton 2019, Levinson 2018). While Kyrgyz, similarly to Turkish (Küntay & Özyürek 2002, 2006), appears to have a specialized attention-drawing demonstrative indicating that attention-drawing and spatial denotations can be entirely distinct, careful elicitations reveal that attention drawing is derived from a (joint-attention) sociocentric distal meaning
Algorithmically Optimal Outer Measures
No full textWe investigate the relationship between algorithmic fractal dimensions and the classical local fractal dimensions of outer measures in Euclidean spaces. We introduce global and local optimality conditions for lower semicomputable outer measures. We prove that globally optimal outer measures exist. Our main theorem states that the classical local fractal dimensions of any locally optimal outer measure coincide exactly with the algorithmic fractal dimensions. Our proof uses an especially convenient locally optimal outer measure κ defined in terms of Kolmogorov complexity. We discuss implications for point-to-set principles
A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly Of The Forked Fungus Beetle \u3cem\u3eBolitotherus cornutus\u3c/em\u3e, A Model System For Studying Social Evolution In The Wild
No full textThe forked fungus beetle Bolitotherus cornutus has long served as a model organism for the study of population ecology, behavior, chemical ecology, and natural selection in the wild. Today, it has become one of the best model systems for the understanding of social evolution and group selection. To understand the mechanistic drivers of group selection and its ultimate evolutionary consequences, it is crucial to begin studying these traits at the molecular level. Here, we take the first necessary step toward these goals by producing a chromosome-level genome assembly for this species. Using a combination of PacBio HiFi and Hi-C sequencing technologies, we produce a 196 Mb genome assembly with ten major chromosomal scaffolds as well as an assembled mitochondrial genome. We also provide a carefully curated annotation of 12 459 protein-coding genes. The quality and completeness of these resources present essential tools for future genetic and genomic studies of B. cornutus
A Partial Resolution Of Hedden’s Conjecture On Satellite Homomorphisms
No full textA pattern knot in a solid torus defines a self-map of the smooth knot concordance group. We prove that if the winding number of a pattern is even but not divisible by 8, then the corresponding map is not a homomorphism, thus partially establishing a conjecture of Hedden
Queer And Trans Torah: Horizons Of Possibility
No full textThis chapter provides a survey of queer and trans readings of midrashic and talmudic texts that are becoming more widely known through published works. After some introductory discussion about the context from and within which queer and trans torah emerges, the chapter presents an overview of scholarship focused on halakhic constructions of gender. The chapter then discusses the relatively scant attention to midrashic sources and moves on to provide some theoretical underpinnings and examples for future approaches to queering and transing rabbinic traditions through theories of gender performativity and multiplicity. It ends with a brief reconsideration of the question of anachronism in LGBTQ scholarship, and it offers rabbinic interpretative strategies as historical precedents for trans, non-binary gender, and queer uses of anachronism
Minimal Wordlist Size For A Phonological Profile: New Evidence From Kra-Dai Languages
No full textThis study replicates, and extends to Kra-Dai languages, earlier work on minimal wordlist size needed to make a phonological profile of a language. Previous work on Australian languages recommended approximately 400 randomly sampled words to comprise a minimally complete profile in terms of reliably capturing every phoneme, and with accurate distribution. We survey 55 Kra-Dai languages to show that a longer minimal list is necessary, which we attribute to typological differences like larger consonant/vowel inventories. Given the widespread use of short wordlists in fieldwork, these results hold significance for designing language documentation surveys as well as projects that use legacy wordlist data
The Anatomy of Resistance: Jewish Life, Struggle, and Revolt in the Vilna and Warsaw Ghettos
Get PDFOn September 1, 1939, the Germans invaded Poland, marking the start of WWII. In the following months, the Nazis established an inconceivable array of ghettos meant to concentrate the Jewish population and facilitate their deportation to killing centers across continental Europe. Of the over 1,000 ghettos set up throughout Nazi-occupied territory, this paper focuses on two, Vilna and Warsaw. Despite the hellish conditions imposed on the Jews in the Vilna and Warsaw ghettos—conditions rivaled only by the killing centers that awaited most of their inhabitants—an important phenomenon took form: the Jews of the ghettos resisted. How, it must be contended, could Jewish victims of ghettoization have resisted Nazi cruelty in the context of such dehumanizing conditions? This paper explores the history of Jewish life and resistance in the Vilna and Warsaw ghettos, with particular emphasis on the factors that allowed or disallowed resistance to occur. By carefully constructing their stories of resistance, it aims to answer why the Jews of Warsaw were able and willing to fight back in a violent uprising, while the Jews in Vilna were not
Full Issue: Volume 6, Issue 1
Get PDFThe first issue in the sixth volume of the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal
Noverre’s Lament: Inscription, Posterity, And The Ephemeral Art Of Dance
No full textJean-Georges Noverre defined pantomime ballet, or ballet d’action, as an ephemeral art. In his published writings, Noverre argued that to notate a ballet’s movement was both inadequate – in that the present day’s dance notation could not record a pantomime ballet – and inappropriate – in that the passions, the core of pantomime ballet, could not be recorded as discrete, repeatable units the way steps could have been. At the same time, Noverre was deeply invested in posterity, both his own, and that of pantomime ballet as a form. This essay examines the values of ephemerality and posterity in the writings of Noverre, reconciling the contradictions inherent in these values by considering Noverre’s views on what he considers appropriate means of documentation in view of future readers and dancers