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A typology of basic comparative issues
No full textComparative studies do not deal with objects, but with relations. Relations do not exist, they have to be established. On the basis of the four elementary forms of relation – unity, separation, dialogue and determination – there have been distinguished four basic forms of comparative studies. Semantic comparison is immanent to the literary system and mutual; functional comparison is also mutual but goes beyond the literary system; cultural transfer goes beyond the literary system but is unilateral; and literary influence is unilateral but immanent to the literary system. Two of these relations examine cultural or literary systems immanently – one traces the wandering of tropes and motives, the other reconstructs cultural interrelations. The other two forms of comparative studies go beyond literary and cultural systems, one in the direction of the social functions of literature, the other in the direction of facts and objects. The unilateral relations are based on succession in time, while the mutual forms imply simultaneity – either they are contrasted to one another with respect to their function, or they are put into a typological equivalence. Against this background, the article discusses Wacław Borowy’s description of different forms of comparative literature. While Borowy distinguishes “valid” and “invalid” forms of comparative studies, this article tries to demonstrate their equal epistemological value and to systematically arrange the different answers which can be expected from them.</p
Simplified optical configuration for a sloshing-speedmeter-enhanced gravitational wave detector
No full textWe propose a new optical configuration for an interferometric gravitational wave detector based on the speedmeter concept using a sloshing cavity. Speedmeters provide an inherently better quantum-noise-limited sensitivity at low frequencies than the currently used Michelson interferometers. We show that a practical sloshing cavity can be added relatively simply to an existing dual-recycled Michelson interferometer such as Advanced LIGO.Andreas Freise, Haixing Miao and Daniel D Brow
Die anthropologische Bedeutung und der poetische Aufbau Cechovscher Erzählungen am Beispiel von "Nescast'e"
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Die anthropologische Bedeutung und der poetische Aufbau Cechovscher Erzählungen am Beispiel von "Nescast'e"
No full textTriple Michelson interferometer for a third-generation gravitational wave detector
No full textThe upcoming European design study 'Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope' represents the first step towards a substantial, international effort for the design of a third-generation interferometric gravitational wave detector. It is generally believed that third-generation instruments might not be installed into existing infrastructures but will provoke a new search for optimal detector sites. Consequently, the detector design could be subject to fewer constraints than the on-going design of the second-generation instruments. In particular, it will be prudent to investigate alternatives to the traditional L-shaped Michelson interferometer. In this paper, we review an old proposal to use three Michelson interferometers in a triangular configuration. We use this example of a triple Michelson interferometer to clarify the terminology and will put this idea into the context of more recent research on interferometer technologies. Furthermore, the benefits of a triangular detector will be used to motivate this design as a good starting point for a more detailed research effort towards a third-generation gravitational-wave detector. © 2009 IOP Publishing Ltd
sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768221098247 - Supplemental material for Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-jrs-10.1177_01410768221098247 for Do national policies for complaint handling in English hospitals support quality improvement? Lessons from a case study by J van Dael, TW Reader, AT Gillespie, L Freise, A Darzi and EK Mayer in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine</p
Distribution and consequences of VKORC1 polymorphisms in Germany
No full textRunge, M., Von Keyserlingk, M., Braune, S., Freise, J., Eiler, T., Plenge-Bönig, A., Becker, D., Pelz, H.-J., Esther, A., Rost, S., Müller, C.R
Convergence of least squares estimators in the adaptive Wynn algorithm for some classes of nonlinear regression models
No full textThe paper continues the authors’ work (Freise et al. The adaptive Wynn-algorithm in
generalized linear models with univariate response. arXiv:1907.02708, 2019) on the
adaptive Wynn algorithm in a nonlinear regression model. In the present paper the
asymptotics of adaptive least squares estimators under the adaptive Wynn algorithm
is studied. Strong consistency and asymptotic normality are derived for two classes
of nonlinear models: firstly, for the class of models satisfying a condition of ‘saturated
identifiability’, which was introduced by Pronzato (Metrika 71:219–238, 2010);
secondly, a class of generalized linear models. Further essential assumptions are compactness
of the experimental region and of the parameter space together with some
natural continuity assumptions. For asymptotic normality some further smoothness
assumptions and asymptotic homoscedasticity of random errors are needed and the
true parameter point is required to be an interior point of the parameter space.Projekt DEAL 202
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