718 research outputs found
Les châteaux normands en Grande-Bretagne: D. F. Renn, Norman Castles in Britain
No full textde Boüard Michel. Les châteaux normands en Grande-Bretagne: D. F. Renn, Norman Castles in Britain. In: Annales de Normandie, 18ᵉ année, n°4, 1968. pp. 440-442
Connection between life and literary work by Rudwig Renn with special emphasis on the novel “War”
No full textThe novel “War” based on experiences of Ludwig Renn in the First World War battle experiences, the narrator and principal character of which was named Ludwig Renn. The stark simplicity of the novel emphasizes the uncompromising brutality of combat. The air of this article is to show how the biography can affect the literary work of the author, as well as which elements of the novel correspond with the experiences gained by Ludwig Renn as solder during the First World War.Powieść “Krieg” Ludwika Renna oparta jest na przeżyciach autora, który jako żołnierz brał udział w działaniach
wojennych na froncie zachodnim podczas I Wojny Światowej. W poniższym artykule chciałam przedstawić na
ile biografia i własne przeżycia Ludwika Renna wpłynęły na jego jedno z najznamienitszych dzieł literackich,
jakim była właśnie powieść „Krieg
The Einsteinian Revolution: the historical roots of his breakthroughs
No full textHow the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of scienceThe revolution that emerged from Albert Einstein’s work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion, gravity, matter, and radiation. Beginning with Einstein’s miracle year of 1905 and continuing through his development of the theory of general relativity, Einstein spurred a revolution that continues to reverberate in modern-day physics. In The Einsteinian Revolution, Hanoch Gutfreund and Jürgen Renn trace the century-long transformation of classical physics and argue that the revolution begun by Einstein was in fact the result of a long-term evolution. Describing the origins and context of Einstein’s innovative research, Gutfreund and Renn work to dispel the popular myth of Einstein as a lone genius who brought about a revolution in physics through the power of his own pure thought. We can only understand the birth of modern physics, they say, if we understand the long history of the evolution of knowledge.Gutfreund and Renn outline the essential structures of the knowledge system of classical physics on which Einstein drew. Examining Einstein’s discoveries from 1905 onward, they describe the process by which new concepts arose and the basis of modern physics emerged. These transformations continued, eventually resulting in the establishment of quantum physics and general relativity as the two major conceptual frameworks of modern physics—and its two unreconciled theoretical approaches. Gutfreund and Renn note that Einstein was dissatisfied with this conceptual dichotomy and began a search for a unified understanding of physics—a quest that continued for the rest of his life.Introduction I. The Einstein Phenomenon Preview a. Childhood and Youth b. The Student Years c. Einstein in Bern—The Miraculous Year and Beyond d. A Tale of Three Cities—The General Theory of Relativity e. The Emergence of a Quantum Worldview f. The Einstein Myth and His Iconic Status II. Ideas on Progress and Revolutions in Science Preview a. The History of the Philosophy of Progress b. How Did Einstein Think? c. The Role of Mental Models d. Restructuring Systems of Knowledge - A Copernicus Process e. An Example of a Copernicus Process - The Galilean Revolution f. The Einsteinian Revolution and Changing Worldviews g. Other Historiographic Perspectives on Progress in Science III. The Continents of Classical Physics and the Problems at Their Borders Preview a. Classical Mechanics as a Comprehensive Worldview b. Electrodynamics and the Ether Concept c. Thermodynamics, the Kinetic Theory of Heat, and Atomism d. Borderline Problems of Classical Physics e. Between Thermodynamics and Electromagnetism - Black-body Radiation f. Between Mechanics and Electromagnetism - The Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies g. Between Mechanics and Thermodynamics - The Riddle of Brownian Motion h. Borderline Problems in Historical and Cultural Context IV. Classical Physics Put Back on Its Feet - The Miraculous Year Preview a. Statistical Mechanics - A Prelude to the Miraculous Year b. Letter to a Colleague - A Blueprint for Einstein’s Copernican Revolution c. The “Invention” of Brownian Motion - The Reality of Atoms d. Radiation and Matter - The Discovery of Light Quanta (Photons) e. Einstein’s Lifelong Contemplation of Light Quanta f. An Encounter in May - A “Eureka” Moment d. Einsteinian Revolution as a Transformation of Knowledge—Lessons for the Future e. Supplementary Readin
On belated decision in the HilbertEinstein priority dispute,2004 http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/texts/Winterberg-Antwort.html The orginal text was replaced in 2005 by a now shorter text because of legal pressure from Winterberg. Testimony of the mentioned
No full textIn a paper, published in 1997 by L. Corry, J. Renn, and J. Stachel, it is claimed that the recently discovered printer's proofs of Hilbert's 1915 paper on the general theory of relativity prove that Hilbert did not anticipate Einstein in arriving at the correct form of the gravitational field equations, as it is widely believed, but that only after having seen Einstein's final paper did Hilbert amend his published version with the correct form of the gravitational field equations. However, because a crucial part of the printer's proofs of Hilbert's paper had been cut off by someone, a fact not mentioned in the paper by Corry, Renn, and Stachel, the conclusion drawn by Corry, Renn, and Stachel is untenable and has no probative value. I rather will show that the cut off part of the proofs suggests a crude attempt by some unknown individual to falsify the historical record
What’s the point of post-war elections?: power, institutions, and politics in the wake of civil war
No full textThe student, Duu Renn, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-10-02 at 11:15.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-10-04 at 10:43.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11663 on 2018-03-13 at 10:32:54Made available in DSpace on 2018-03-13T17:29:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD systemLimited Restriction Lifted for Item 105436 on 2020-03-14T09:15:12Z.This project explores the post-civil war elections with specific attention paid to the participants in these elections. Nearly every civil war in the past forty years has included an election in the years following the termination of the conflict but little only recently have scholars attempted to systematically examine the process and consequence of these elections. I examine the effects of war outcomes, political institutions, and international involvement on participation in these election, the results in both executive and legislative races, and post-election human rights practices.
The first substantive chapter, Chapter 3, asks who participates in post-war elections? While models of democratization and conflict typically involve at least two sides, current research in post-war elections pays little attention to who participates. I collect data on rebels and governments during civil wars, trace their leadership and party organizations through the campaigning process to see if they present candidates for national-level elections. According to my data, only ten-percent of elections that followed armed conflicts (1973-2011) included multiple sides from the previous conflict. Election outcomes in these cases also heavily favor war-winners, especially governments, suggesting that political competition offers little to losers and rebel organizations even if they do manage to participate. These patterns in participation and exclusion are primarily associated with material power, with war-winners and militarily strong groups more likely to participate and win by large margins in elections. International involvement and previous domestic institutions contribute to broader participation and help curb the government’s advantage in electoral competition, but are relatively rare and their effect smaller than the government’s advantages.
In Chapter 4, I seek to answer the question who wins post-war election. Moving beyond the question of whether a country holds a post-war election and who participates, perhaps the most important question is what is the outcome of the post-war election? The results suggest that like participation, election outcomes are primarily decided by military power with stronger parties winning by large margins in both executive and legislative competitions. This outcome is reinforced by the additional advantage that most governments, who are typically stronger than rebel groups, have in organization and political campaigning. While rebels almost always lose, governments face a more serious challenge from political parties that are not tied to former belligerent groups perhaps signifying that elections are an alternative to war and populations – if they are able to – will vote against both former rebels and governments that fought bloody civil wars. Democratic political institutions as well as election monitoring decrease a government’s advantage, though not enough to result in rebel victories. Peacekeeping, perhaps because it is not always focused on electoral outcomes, has no effect on the results of either executive or legislative elections.
The final empirical portion, Chapter 5, examines the consequences of post-war elections. I ask whether some post-war elections raise the risk of human rights abuses and compare elections where rebels participate to those where they do not. I use the Militant Group Electoral Participation (MGEP) dataset for information on rebel group participation and compare human rights practices in post-civil war states that include rebel organizations to that do not. I implement a number of matching strategies to adjust for imbalances across these two groups, notably confounders such as their history of rights practices and the outcome of previous wars that have a strong impact on both rebel participation and human rights practices. With no adjustment, rebel participation has a positive and significant effect on human rights practices. After matching, however, this difference disappears. The findings suggest that while rebel participation does not worsen human rights practices, it does not markedly improve them either. Future studies will examine whether this pattern holds when accounting for post-war election results, the activities of rebels during the elections, and perceptions of threat by the government.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-12-01The student, Duu Renn, accepted the attached license on 2017-10-02 at 11:11
Einstein a Bologna
No full textL'esposizione è articolata in tre sezioni.
La prima (Einstein a Bologna) ricostruisce le tappe del suo soggiorno grazie soprattutto alla corrispondenza con Enriques e Ricordi, alle cronache cittadine e nazionali
La seconda sezione (Einstein cittadino del mondo) ripercorre le vicende umane e intellettuali di Einstein come scienziato, organizzatore di imprese culturali, uomo pubblico impegnato sul fronte politico e sociale.
La terza (Einstein ingegnere dell'universo) illustra la teoria della relatività attraverso articoli, strumenti, filmati, oggetti ed exibit multimediali, tra i quli spicca il 'Relativity Tramcar
Herausforderungen und Fragestellungen einer Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
No full text[Buchabstract] Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft widmet sich in derzeit 86 selbstständigen Instituten der naturwissenschaftlichen, aber auch der sozial- und geisteswissenschaftlichen Grundlagenforschung. Als Einrichtung der nicht-universitären Forschung und Forschungsförderung genießt sie weltweite Anerkennung. Dieser Band stellt ihre Geschichte von der Gründung bis ins erste Jahrzehnt unseres Jahrhunderts umfassend dar, im Ergebnis mehrjähriger Forschungen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsteams. Er behandelt ein zentrales Stück deutscher Wissenschaftsgeschichte in europäischen und globalen Zusammenhängen, auf der Grundlage hier erstmals ausgewerteter Materialien. Zugleich bietet er neue Einsichten in die Gesellschaftsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik. Der Band wird herausgegeben von Herausgegeben von Jürgen Renn, Carsten Reinhardt und Jürgen Kocka, gemeinsam mit Florian Schmaltz, Birgit Kolboske, Jaromír Balcar und Alexander von Schwerin
Der Vogel und sein Leben : mit dem Bildnis Altums
No full textgeschildert von Bernard Altum. Nach dem Tode des Verf. hrsg. von F. Renn
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