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N. G. Wilson, Filologi bizantini
No full textDonnet Daniel. N. G. Wilson, Filologi bizantini. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 61, 1992. pp. 434-435
N. G. Wilson, Filologi bizantini
No full textDonnet Daniel. N. G. Wilson, Filologi bizantini. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 61, 1992. pp. 434-435
Photography & Cultural Memory: Four Contemporary Photographers.
No full textExhibition catalogue to accompany the international conference Cultural Memory: Forgetting to Remember/Remembering to Forget held at the University of Kent, 10-13 September 2008.
Edited and with an introduction by Colette Wilson.
Photographs and accompanying text by Daniel Boetker-Smith, John Nassari, Matthew Pontin, Stephen Smith
From the Roman Republic to the American Revolution: readings of Cicero in the political thought of James Wilson
No full textAs a classical scholar and prominent founding father, James Wilson was at once statesman, judge, and political thinker, who read Cicero as an example worthy of emulation and as a philosopher whose theory could be applied to his own age. Classical reception studies have focused on questions of liberty, civic virtue, and constitutionalism in the American founding, and historians have also noted Wilson’s importance in American history and thought. Wilson’s direct engagement with Cicero’s works, however, and their significance in the formulation of his own philosophy has been long overlooked. My thesis argues that Wilson’s viewpoint was largely based on his readings of Cicero and can only be properly understood within this context. In the first two chapters of my thesis I demonstrate that Wilson not only possessed a wide-ranging knowledge of the classics in general, but also that he borrowed from Cicero’s writings and directly engaged with the texts themselves. Building upon this foundation, chapters three and four examine Cicero’s perspective on popular sovereignty and civic virtue, situate Wilson’s interpretations within contemporary discussions of Roman politics, and analyse the main ways in which he adapts Cicero’s arguments to his own era. Wilson retains a broader faith in the common people than seen in Cicero’s opinions, and he abstracts from Cicero a doctrine of sovereignty as an indivisible principle that is absent in the text; nevertheless, Cicero’s conception of a legitimate state and his insistence on the role of the people provided the foundation for Wilson’s thought and ultimately for his legitimization of the American Revolution. At the same time, like Cicero, Wilson views the stability of the state as resting in the personal virtue of the individual. While his enlightenment philosophy imparts optimism to his conception of the good citizen, his definition of virtue closely follows that of Cicero. As the final chapter of my thesis concludes, their individual interpretations of these theories of popular consent and virtue were instrumental in forming Cicero’s and Wilson’s justifications of civil disobedience
Que acortz s’apel mos cantz. The Place of acort in the Vocabulary of Arnaut Daniel
No full textPoe Elizabeth Wilson. Que acortz s’apel mos cantz. The Place of acort in the Vocabulary of Arnaut Daniel. In: Romania, tome 131 n°521-522, 2013. pp. 152-172
Data and code for "Design and evaluation of a low-cost sensor node for near-background methane measurement"
No full textSee included readme.Cleaned data and supporting code for "Design and evaluation of a low-cost sensor node for near-background methane measurement". The data was collected at two research sites in 2022 and 2023, and the analysis code was used to generate the model and figures in the paper.This research has been supported by funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Understanding and Control of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Air Emissions program (Assistance Agreement No. 84062701-0).
This research has been supported by the National Energy Technology Laboratory (grant no. S000663-USDOE).Furuta, Daniel CR; Wilson, Bruce N; Presto, Albert; Li, Jiayu. (2023). Data and code for "Design and evaluation of a low-cost sensor node for near-background methane measurement". Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://doi.org/10.13020/CDVH-E012
mSpace mobile: exploring support for mobile tasks
No full textIn the following paper we compare two Web application interfaces, mSpace Mobile and Google Local in supporting location discovery tasks on mobile devices while stationary and while on the move. While mSpace Mobile performed well in both stationary and mobile conditions, performance in Google Local dropped significantly. We postulate that mSpace Mobile performed so well because it breaks the paradigm of the page for delivering Web content, thereby enabling new and more powerful interfaces to be used to support mobility
On perturbative scattering amplitudes in maximally supersymmetric theories
No full textPhDThere has been substantial calculational progress in the last few years in maximally
supersymmetric theories, revealing unexpected simplicity, new structures and symmetries.
In this thesis, after reviewing some of the recent advances in N = 4 super
Yang-Mills and N = 8 supergravity, we present calculations of perturbative scattering
amplitudes and polygonal lightlike Wilson loops that lead to interesting new
results.
In N = 8 supergravity, we use supersymmetric generalised unitarity to calculate
supercoe cients of box functions in the expansion of scattering amplitudes at one
loop. Recent advances have presented tree-level amplitudes in N = 8 supergravity
in terms of sums of terms containing squares of colour-ordered Yang-Mills superamplitudes.
We develop the consequences of these results for the structure of one-loop
supercoe cients, recasting them as sums of squares of N = 4 Yang-Mills expressions
with certain coe cients inherited from the tree-level superamplitudes. This
provides new expressions for all one-loop box coe cients in N = 8 supergravity,
which we check against known results in a number of cases.
In N = 4 super Yang-Mills, we focus our attention on one of the many remarkable
features of MHV scattering amplitudes, their conjectured duality to lightlike
polygon Wilson loops, which is expected to hold to all orders in perturbation theory.
This duality is usually expressed in terms of purely four-dimensional quantities
obtained by appropriate subtraction of the infrared and ultraviolet divergences from
amplitudes and Wilson loops respectively. By explicit calculation, we demonstrate
the completely unanticipated fact that the equality continues to hold at two loops
through O( ) in dimensional regularisation for both the four-particle amplitude and
the (parity-even part of the) ve-particle amplitude
Global Wilson–Fisher fixed points
No full textThe Wilson–Fisher fixed point with O(N) universality in three dimensions is studied using the renormalisation group. It is shown how a combination of analytical and numerical techniques determine global fixed points to leading order in the derivative expansion for real or purely imaginary fields with moderate numerical effort. Universal and non-universal quantities such as scaling exponents and mass ratios are computed, for all N, together with local fixed point coordinates, radii of convergence, and parameters which control the asymptotic behaviour of the effective action. We also explain when and why finite-N results do not converge pointwise towards the exact infinite-N limit. In the regime of purely imaginary fields, a new link between singularities of fixed point effective actions and singularities of their counterparts by Polchinski are established. Implications for other theories are indicated
The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
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