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Dr. Eric Yellin – Faculty Author Interview
No full textDr. Eric Yellin, Associate Professor of History and American Studies discusses his new book, Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson’s America, published recently by the University of North Carolina Press. In this book, Dr. Yellin argues that President Wilson’s administration successfully segregated the federal government in the age of progressive politics. He investigates how the enactment of the segregation policy imposed a color line on American opportunity and implicated Washington in the economic limitation of African Americans for decades to com
How many focus markers are there in Konkomba?
No full textThis article discusses the divergent status of the two particles lé and lá in the grammar of Konkomba, a Gur language (Niger-Congo) of the Gurma subgroup. While previous studies claim that both particles are focus markers, this author argues that only the particle lá should be analyzed as a pure pragmatic device. Distributional studies suggest that the use of particle lé, on the other hand, is only required under specific focus conditions, and primarily represents a syntactic device
Conference 2014 speaker series: an interview with Eric Newton
No full textEric Newton is senior adviser to the president at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which funds ideas that promote quality journalism and media innovation, based on a principle that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged. A former managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, he is also author of the innovative digital educational book on the history and future of news, Searchlights and Sunglasses
Imaginative solutions to the Snub Dodecahedron
No full text<p>Closed-form solution to the Snub Dodecahedron by Mark S. Adams and other solutions from H. S. M. Coxeter, Eric W. Weisstein, and Harish C. Rajpoot. Jupyter Notebook format available. Python script calculates the volume of the Snub Dodecahedron using five different methods. </p>
Ker-I Ko and the study of resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity
No full textKer-I Ko was among the first people to recognize the importance of resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity as a tool for better understanding the structure of complexity classes. In this brief informal reminiscence, I review the milieu of the early 1980’s that caused an up-welling of interest in resource-bounded Kolmogorov complexity, and then I discuss some more recent work that sheds additional light on the questions related to Kolmogorov complexity that Ko grappled with in the 1980’s and 1990’s.
In particular, I include a detailed discussion of Ko’s work on the question of whether it is NP-hard to determine the time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity of a given string. This problem is closely connected with the Minimum Circuit Size Problem (MCSP), which is central to several contemporary investigations in computational complexity theory.Peer reviewe
Canada's 'Newer Constitutional Law' and the idea of constitutional rights
No full textThis article places F.R. Scott’s 1935 call for entrenched constitutional rights within the context of marked changes in constitutional scholarship in the 1930s—what the author refers to as the “newer constitutional law”. Influenced by broader currents in legal theory and inspired by the political and economic upheavals of the Depression, constitutional scholars broke away from the formalist traditions of a previous generation and engaged in new ways of thinking and writing about Canadian constitutional law. In this new approach, scholars questioned Canada’s constitutional connection to Britain and argued instead for a made-inCanada constitutional law that could functionally address the changing needs of Canada and its citizens. In the process, scholars legitimated the prospects and possibilities of constitutional adaptation and change. Scott’s vision of constitutional renewal entailed a strong central government capable of national economic planning, but he added constitutional rights to protect the personal liberties he viewed as particularly under threat in the 1930s. In so doing, Scott subtly recast the meaning of constitutional rights and took the first tentative steps in a rights revolution that would fundamentally transform Canada in the decades that followed
Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of the Material Other by Eric Nelson, SUNY Press, 2020 pp. 480
No full textThis is a number of reviews and responses to Eric S. Nelson\u27s Levinas, Adorno, and the Ethics of Materials Other (2020) SUNY Press. This includes:
The Relation of the Ethics of the Material Other to the Rights of the Stranger by Emilia Angelova
Nelson\u27s Defense of Asymmetrical Ethics: On Religion and Human Rights by Curtis Hutt
On Nelson and East Asian Philosophies by Leah Kalmanson
Author Response: The Ethics of the Material Other and the Right of the Other by Eric S. Nelso
Spending and economic activity from recreation at Oregon State Park units - coastal region and Milo McIver State Park, an update
No full textEric M. White, Darren Goodding, and Randall S. Rosenberger.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 25).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Touching Freud's dog: H.D.'s tactile poetics
No full text"Do not touch me", Frau Emmy warns Freud in 1889. "Do not touch", Freud echoes in 1933. This time, he is referring to his pet chow, Yofi, warning H.D. that "she snaps - she is very difficult with strangers". Examining the prohibition in light of work by Jacques Derrida and Jean-Luc Nancy, this article charts the withdrawal that always interrupts touch. Despite Freud's taboo, however, H.D.'s writing seeks to make contact in strange and unnerving ways. Developing Julia Kristeva's account of the semiotic, this paper proposes a literature of touch. Reading H.D.'s poems, alongside Tribute to Freud, and her letters, the author demonstrates that H.D.'s poetics are always haunted by the very (im)possibility of contact
Reformulation of the stable Adams conjecture
No full textWe revisit methods of proof of the Adams Conjecture in order to correct and
supplement earlier efforts to prove analogous conjectures in the stable
homotopy category. We utilize simplicial schemes over an algebraically closed
field of positive characteristic and a rigid version of Artin-Mazur \'etale
homotopy theory. Consideration of special -spaces and together with
Bousfield-Kan -completion enables us to employ an "\'etale
functor" which commutes up to homotopy with products of simplicial schemes. In
order to prove the Stable Adams Conjecture, we construct the universal -completed -fibrations for various pointed simplicial sets . Thus,
two maps from a given -space to the base
-space of the universal -completed -fibration
determine homotopy equivalent maps of spectra if and
only they correspond via pull-back of to fiber homotopy
equivalent -completed -fibrations over . For the proof of the Stable Adams Conjecture, we consider maps of
-spaces where is an -space model of
connective -completed connective -theory.Comment: Improved exposition with some corrected formulation
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