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Doerr, Charles A.
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An Evening with Anthony Doerr
No full textShaker Library and University School are proud to present Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr, author of All the Light We Cannot See and a University School alumnus. He will speak at the University School Lower Campus in Shaker Heights. Tickets sold out in two days, but his lecture will be live streamed to the Main Library. Please register at www.shakerlibrary.org beginning October 5, 201
Blood will have blood: Vengeance and Injustice in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown
No full textRevenge, as a violent redressing following the perception of injustice or wrongdoing by others, is a complex sentiment that links contrasting concepts such as love, hate, history, pain and justice in Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar the Clown. The assassination of prominent politician and World War hero Max Ophuls in front of his illegitimate daughter India by a Kashmiri known as Shalimar the Clown provokes an unstoppable chain of events that reveals a wealth of undiscovered changes of identity and unaddressed crimes. After discovering his wife had left him for Max, Shalimar’s suffering and burning desire to deliver revenge on a cold platter of his own gradually involves entire families, religious and political groups and the justice system itself, thus surpassing boundaries of morality, culture, time and space. Likewise, upon discovering the truth about her parents and their assassin, India – who regains her true name Kashmira in the process – is deeply affected and also seeks revenge. Her confused state of mind leads her to ponder on how problematic it is to delimit righteous revenge and relate it with justice, be it official or ‘poetic’. Shalimar’s subsequent capture marks the beginning of a duel between the two protagonists who use different means to punish the other. Kashmira combines psychological torture and a determining testimony in court that dismisses Shalimar’s solid ‘reasonable betrayed Muslim man’ legal defence. He, on the other hand, defies the law by breaking out of prison and persistently hunting down his prey. Rushdie’s novel is therefore a telling story of the deep and troubled roots of the constant cycle binding revenge and justice, wrong and right, and of the various forces, be them avenging, legal or cosmic, through which an amendment of wrongs may be attained in a postmodern and multicultural world such as the one we live in today
The Runtime of Randomized Local Search on the generalized Needle problem
No full textInternational audienceIn their recent work, C. Doerr and Krejca (Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 2023) proved upper bounds on the expected runtime of the randomized local search heuristic on generalized Needle functions. Based on these upper bounds, they deduce in a not fully rigorous manner a drastic influence of the needle radius k on the runtime. In this short article, we add the missing lower bound necessary to determine the influence of parameter k on the runtime. To this aim, we derive an exact description of the expected runtime, which also significantly improves the upper bound given by C. Doerr and Krejca. We also describe asymptotic estimates of the expected runtime
Playing Mastermind With Constant-Size Memory
No full textWe analyze the classic board game of Mastermind with n holes and a
constant number of colors. The classic result of Chvatal (Combinatorica 3 (1983), 325-329) states that the codebreaker can find the secret code with Theta(n / log n) questions. We show that this bound remains valid if the codebreaker may only store a constant number of guesses and answers. In addition to an intrinsic interest in this question, our result also disproves a conjecture of Droste, Jansen, and Wegener (Theory of Computing Systems 39 (2006), 525-544) on the memory-restricted black-box complexity of the OneMax function class
Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity
No full text Pages R837–R847: K. A. Engelke, D. F. Doerr, and V. A. Convertino. “Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity.” On p. 837, the author line of the article and abstract and the affiliation line should read as follows: KEITH A. ENGELKE, DONALD F. DOERR, CRAIG G. CRANDALL, AND VICTOR A. CONVERTINO Department of Physiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610; National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32899; Department of Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas 76107; and Physiology Research Branch, Clinical Science Division, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 78235 </jats:p
Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity
No full text Pages R837–R847: K. A. Engelke, D. F. Doerr, and V. A. Convertino. “Application of acute maximal exercise to protect orthostatic tolerance after simulated microgravity.” On p. 837, the author line of the article and abstract and the affiliation line should read as follows: KEITH A. ENGELKE, DONALD F. DOERR,CRAIG G. CRANDALL, AND VICTOR A. CONVERTINO Department of Physiology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610; National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida 32899;Department of Physiology, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Ft. Worth, Texas 76107; and Physiology Research Branch, Clinical Science Division, Brooks Air Force Base, Texas 78235 </jats:p
Constructing the Heritage Language Learner : Knowledge, Power and New Subjectivities /
No full textThough often treated as an objective category, heritage language learner is a social construct contested by researchers, government officials, school administrators, and students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a Japanese language school in the US, the book examines the construction of the heritage language learner, viewing the notion as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging.Though often treated as an objective category, heritage language learner is a social construct contested by researchers, government officials, school administrators, and students themselves. Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a Japanese language school in the US, the book examines the construction of the heritage language learner, viewing the notion as a site of negotiation regarding the legitimate knowledge of language and ways of belonging.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Neriko Musha Doerr, Ramapo College, USA; Kiri Lee, Lehigh University, USA.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed March 24, 2015
Spatial and temporal variations of water repellency and probability of its occurrence in calcareous Mediterranean rangeland soils affected by fires
No full textAbstract not availableMerche B. Bodí, Isabel Muñoz-Santa, Carmen Armero, Stefan H. Doerr, Jorge Mataix-Solera, Artemi Cerd
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