390 research outputs found
AHC interview with Ruth B. Mandel
No full textMay 31, 2012Ruth B. Mandel was born Ruth Blumenstock in Vienna, Austria.Austrian Heritage CollectionRuth B. Mandel is the author of the book 'Jewish women in politics'.Digital recordin
Hemingway’s \u3cem\u3eThe Dangerous Summer\u3c/em\u3e: The Complete Annotations
No full textComprehensive guide to the people, places, events, and other allusions making up Hemingway’s final book on Spain and the bullring. Mandel identifies, explains, and interprets each entry, bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of both author and taurine history and politics. Her introduction surveys Hemingway’s lifelong fascination with the corrida before moving into a discussion of the many elements comprising the bullfight, from bull breeding to taurine laws. Mandel closes her introduction with an overview of the complicated composition, revision, editing, and publication of the various versions of the narrative. Includes a dozen black-and-white photographs, extensive endnotes, and index
Guest Speakers for POLS 672 Politics of the Future 10-25-1989
No full textGuest speakers Walter Truitt Anderson (author of numerous books including "Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be") and Tom Mandel (inventor of the term "surfing the net" and first person to die on the net with Beethoven's 9th playing) speak on the state of futures studies and make several projections about the coming decades
Subject and Author: The Literary Backgrounds of \u3cem\u3eDeath in the Afternoon\u3c/em\u3e
No full textProvides two bibliographies of literature that influenced Hemingway’s writing of the book, including memoirs, histories, novels, and travel guides. The first covers a broad range of English-language works on Spain and the bullfight, specifically identifying those owned by Hemingway. The second annotates Hemingway’s readings on the subject in Spanish, French, and English. In her detailed introduction, Mandel explains the place Death in the Afternoon holds as one of the most accurate and respected books on bullfighting in Spain, with Hemingway’s volume closer to the Spanish tradition of writing on the bullfight than the English
The Prospero of Wonderland; or, Miranda Carroll, Author of Station Eleven
No full textAnalysis of Emily St. John Mandel\u27s novel Station Eleven and its Shakespearean antecedents, particularly The Tempest. This article reads Mandel\u27s character Miranda Carroll as an artist-figure comparable to Prospero. I argue that Miranda is the embedded author of the entire Station Eleven--both pre- and post-pandemic--in ways that mirror themes of revenge and forgiveness in The Tempest
Sara Hartland-Rowe : What Are Days For?
No full textCatalogue to accompany Hartland-Rowe’s exhibition based on the theme: “What are days for?” Quinton’s analysis of the iconography used in the artist’s narrative paintings highlights the biblical, literary and mythological sources of the imagery. The author also compares the human figures, animals and plant forms represented to the backgrounds of medieval woven tapestries. Mandel provides detailed descriptions of various elements of the exhibition, and suggests that Hartland-Rowe’s paintings are a form of storytelling. Figurative, narrative and symbolic aspects of the works are considered in relation to medieval, renaissance and modernist painting. Includes a brief artist’s statement. List of works. Biographical notes. 26 bibl. ref
Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference: A spectral-temporal analysis
No full textHong-Ou-Mandel interference is most dramatic when the photons involved are perfectly indistinguishable. Departures from this ideal scenario, however, are also interesting and useful to consider. In this tutorial, we analyze scenarios where the degree of the photons' distinguishability depends on their spectral and temporal ``overlap.'' We first consider photons that are both spectrally pure and spectrally separable. We then generalize this to include spectrally entangled (but still spectrally pure) photons, and spectrally mixed (but still spectrally separable) photons. This tutorial equips researchers with tools for a deeper understanding of this interesting phenomenon and its various applications.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
Beauty or money? Statistical analysis
No full textThere are many studies investigating relationship between paintings' meta information (author, age, etc.) and their prices, however, there is limited research on how people's aesthetic perception of paintings is related to their prices. To bridge this gap, we designed a website (pollart1000.com) collecting survey responses on people's opinions regarding aesthetic values of paintings; survey and data were complemented with price information. Comprehensive statistical analysis of that data is presented, including scoring of the best and worst works, correlations between variables, typology of respondents, and more. The results quantify relationships between aesthetic values and art prices. Particularly, we showed that aesthetic preference is inclined to figurative and innovational rather than to abstract art and that relations between price and aesthetic values are rather weak except of special cases
Principal components, analysis of variance and data structure
No full textThe relation between principal components and analysis of variance is examined. It is shown that the model underlying the extended analysis of variance developed by GOLLOB and MANDEL is useful also as a model for principal component analysis. The elucidation of structure of two-factor data using the new analysis of variance model is illustrated by an example taken from thermodynamics. It has been may good fortune to have spent a full year in close association with Professor HAMAKER at the Technological University of Eindhoven. That year was among the most pleasant and most rewarding of my career. I feel honored to be able to join with Professor HAMAKER'S many friends and colleagues in dedicating this issue of Statistica Neerlandica to him. The method of principal components goes back to ideas proposed by PEARSON as early as 1901 (12) and developed systematically by HOTELLING in 1933 [4]. Since then the method has been applied to numerous sets of data, more particularly in the field of psychology, but also in numerous other areas of research, including the physical sciences [e.g. 1,2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, IS, 16). In 1968 and 1969 respectively, GOLLOB (3) and MANDEL (8) proposed, independently of each other, an extension of the analysis of variance approach, which GOLLOB called "Fanova", because it combined features of analysis of variance and of factor analysis. This method, too, had been anticipated by some earlier authors [13, 17). It is immediately apparent that this extension of the analysis of variance involves the same matrix calculations as the method of principal components. The question then arises whether a deeper conceptual relationship exists between the two methods. In this paper this question is examined. The result is not only a positive answer to this question but also a clarification of the method of principal components. The author believes, as a result of this work, that interpretations of principal component analyses found in the literature are sometimes incorrect. We will attempt to show that such misinterpretations are due, in no small measure, to a particular terminology that has acquired common usage in inferences drawn from principal component analysis
Cycles or long waves?: the treatment of long temporality fluctuations in Kondratieff, Schumpeter and Mandel
No full textThe alternation between periods of economic prosperity and acute crises that makes up the
history of capitalist development attracts the interest of many researchers who seek to
understand and systematize how this occurs. For some, such as Kondratieff and Schumpeter,
these oscillatory movements are the expression of long cycles, which in turn result from the
dynamics of accumulation. For others, like Mandel, they are the expression of long waves,
which depend not only on elements intrinsic to the dynamics of accumulation, but also on the
constant interaction of these with other factors, with different degrees of interdependence,
which make up social, historical, political and economic. The construction of this dissertation
indicates that Mandel's perception is closer to the concrete, complex historical reality that is
embedded in economic life than that of his counterparts in the long cycles. In this way, the
greater detail of his theory and his analysis of postwar capitalism, contained in this work,
allows us to raise important points. The analysis proposed by Mandel, in view of his
theoretical ambition, contains some flaws. We present the main ones, the most serious of
which refer to the fragility of some of their historical interpretations and the empirical data
used by the author, which do not have a more systematic treatment, making them often
infectious, in view of the theoretical perspective outlined. Nonetheless, his method of
analysis, seeking the integration of endogenous and "exogenous" elements into the process of
accumulation, seems to us to be indispensable for the understanding of the current historical
block.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorDissertação (Mestrado)A alternância entre períodos de prosperidade econômica e de crises agudas que
perfaz a história do desenvolvimento do capitalismo atrai o interesse de muitos pesquisadores,
que buscam entender e sistematizar a forma como isto ocorre. Para alguns, como Kondratieff
e Schumpeter, esses movimentos oscilatórios são a expressão dos ciclos longos, que por sua
vez resultam da dinâmica de acumulação. Para outros, como Mandel, são a expressão das
ondas longas, que não dependem apenas de elementos intrínsecos à dinâmica de acumulação,
mas também da constante interação destes com os demais fatores, com diferentes graus de
interdependência, que compõem as relações sociais, históricas, políticas e econômicas. A
construção desta dissertação nos indica que a percepção de Mandel é mais próxima à
realidade histórica, concreta e complexa, a qual está inserida a vida econômica do que a de
seus colegas defensores dos ciclos longos. Desta forma, o maior detalhamento de sua teoria e
de sua análise do capitalismo no pós-guerra, contidos neste trabalho, permite-nos levantar
pontos importantes. A análise proposta por Mandel, tendo em vista sua ambição teórica,
contém algumas falhas. Apresentamos as principais, sendo que as mais graves se referem à
fragilidade de algumas de suas interpretações históricas e dos dados empíricos utilizados pelo
autor, que não possuem um tratamento mais sistemático, tornando-as muitas das vezes
infecundas, face à perspectiva teórica delineada. Não obstante, seu método de análise,
buscando a integração de elementos endógenos e ―exógenos‖ ao processo de acumulação, nos
parece ser imprescindível para a compreensão da atual quadra histórica
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