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The Bergman property for semigroups
No full textIn this article, we study the Bergman property for semigroups and the associated notions of cofinality and strong cofinality. A large part of the paper is devoted to determining when the Bergman property, and the values of the cofinality and strong cofinality, can be passed from semigroups to subsemigroups and vice versa. Numerous examples, including many important semigroups from the literature, are given throughout the paper. For example, it is shown that the semigroup of all mappings on an infinite set has the Bergman property but that its finitary power semigroup does not; the symmetric inverse semigroup on an infinite set and its finitary power semigroup have the Bergman property; the Baer-Levi semigroup does not have the Bergman property.Peer reviewe
The role of imagination in Bergman, Klein and Sartre
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityThis thesis provides an inter-disciplinary study of selected works by Ingmar Bergman. I explore how key concepts from Melanie Klein and Jean-Paul Sartre apply to the focus on characters in a state of heightened imagination; and the value placed on imagination in the construction of these films. This involves recognition of the way an active response from the viewer is encouraged.
Klein, Sartre and Bergman also attend to contextual factors that challenge any notion of subjectivity as sovereign and the power of imagination is frequently placed in a social context. All three figures develop their ideas within specialised fields drawing on the influence of others. Chapter 2 shows how Klein’s ideas relate to the influence of Freud before exploring how her work can be applied to Bergman’s films through the example of Wild Strawberries. Chapter 3 concentrates on Sartre’s early work, The Imaginary and considers how this is significant in relation to some of Sartre’s better-known philosophical ideas developed during and after the Second World War. These ideas will lead to an exploration of The Seventh Seal.
Chapters 4, 5, and 6 focus on three films from distinct parts of Bergman’s career: Summer with Monika, The Virgin Spring and Hour of the Wolf. In Chapter 4 this will be preceded by a brief over-view of three more films from the early part of Bergman’s career. These chapters explore how Kleinian and Sartrean ideas can be incorporated in close analysis, and alongside selected critical responses to the films. The analysis integrates key points from Klein and Sartre in a methodology specific to film studies. This will include analysis of cinematic elements such as camera work and lighting, and recognition of narrative structure and character developmen
Hjalmar Bergman
No full textShort presentation of Swedish author Hj. Bergman and translation of the short story Från andra sida
Bergman kernel and period map for curves
No full textAs for any symmetric space the tangent space to Siegel upper-half space is endowed with an operation coming from the Lie bracket on the Lie algebra. We consider the pull-back of this operation to the moduli space of curves via the Torelli map. We characterize it in terms of the geometry of the curve, using the Bergman kernel form associated to the curve. It is known that the second fundamental form of the Torelli map outside the hyperelliptic locus can be seen as the multiplication by a certain meromorphic form. Our second result says that the Bergman kernel form is the harmonic representative—in a suitable sense—of this meromorphic form
Captives no longer, but servants still? Contract parliamentarism and the new minority governance in Sweden and New Zealand
No full textThis is the accepted version of this article. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com
Published version: Bale, T. and Bergman, T. (2006), Captives No Longer, but Servants Still? Contract Parliamentarism and the New Minority Governance in Sweden and New Zealand. Government and Opposition, 41: 422–449. doi: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2006.00186.
Journey Into Shame: Implications for Justice Pedagogies
No full textBeing formed for justice can be a painful experience. Sometimes that pain takes the form of shame and contributes to the formation and exercise of conscience. But shame in other forms can be opposed to human flourishing and social justice. Psychologist James Fowler provides a spectrum of two forms of healthy shame and four forms of unhealthy shame, to which the author adds four other varieties, strategic shame and spiritual shame, at one end of the spectrum, and murderous shame and genocidal shame, at the other. Various experiences of shame are dramatically illustrated in Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin’s classic narrative of racism in the Deep South. It is crucial for social justice educators to be able to discern among these forms of shame in their own experience and when reported by students, so that healthy forms can be sympathetically honored and unhealthy forms critically examined
Insulin sensitivity from meal tolerance tests in normal subjects: a minimal model index
No full textIn this report a new approach is introduced that allows estimation of insulin sensitivity (S(I)) from orally ingested glucose during an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) or a meal glucose tolerance test (MGTT) in normal subjects. The method hinges on the classic minimal model of glucose kinetics that is coupled with an equation describing the rate of appearance of glucose into the circulation after oral glucose ingestion. The model provides an estimate of S(I) in a given individual based on simple area under the curve type of calculations. To prove the reliability of the new approach, MGTT studies performed in 10 normal subjects were analyzed and the S(I) index from the MGTT was compared with the S(I) index obtained in the same subjects from an insulin-modified, frequently sampled iv glucose test (FSIGT). S(I) from the MGTT was 13.6+/-3.9 x 10(-4) dL/kg x min/microU x mL and was strongly correlated to the S(I) from the FSIGT (rs = 0.89; P < 0.01). In conclusion, this study shows that in normal subjects the minimal model can be applied to a MGTT/OGTT to derive an index of insulin sensitivity that is in good agreement with the one estimated from the FSIGT. Due to its simplicity, this method has potential for use in population studies, but further investigation is required to ascertain its applicability to subjects with severe insulin resistance and impaired secretory function
Local rigidity of infinite-dimensional Teichmüller spaces
No full textThis paper presents a rigidity theorem for infinite-dimensional Bergman spaces of hyperbolic Riemann surfaces, which states that the Bergman space , for such a Riemann surface , is isomorphic to the Banach space of summable sequence, . This implies that whenever and are Riemann surfaces that are not analytically finite, and in particular are not necessarily homeomorphic, then is isomorphic to . It is known from V. Markovic that if there is a linear isometry between and , for two Riemann surfaces and of non-exceptional type, then this isometry is induced by a conformal mapping between and . As a corollary to this rigidity theorem presented here, taking the Banach duals of and shows that the space of holomorphic quadratic differentials on , is isomorphic to the Banach space of bounded sequences, . As a consequence of this theorem and the Bers embedding, the Teichmüller spaces of such Riemann surfaces are locally bi-Lipschitz equivalent
Letter Written by Robert G. Bergman to the Bryant College Service Club Dated December 9, 1942
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U. S. ARMY
Pvt. Robert G. Bergman Hq. Co. --R. R. C. Fort Devens, Massachusetts
December 9, 1942
Chairman, Bryant Service Club Bryant College Providence, R.I.
Dear Chairman,
I would like to express my sincere thanks and appreciation of your swell Christmas gift which I received today.
It leaves a wonderful feeling to know that you are still remembered by those you have left at school.
I’m sure that every fellow in the military service of the United States who is a graduate of Bryant must appreciate the wonderful work the service club is doing.
Sincerely,
Bob Bergman [Transcription ends
The hot IVGTT minimal models: simultaneous assessment of glucose disposal indices and hepatic glucose release
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