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Professor David Audretsch: my Doktorvater
No full textWhen JP Tamvada wrote an email to David in the summer of 2004, he never expected a quick reply and invitation to come and meet him at the Max Planck Institute. In the 5 years following that first meeting, David taught the author invaluable lessons of life, exemplified ideal leadership, and shaped their scholarship
D. T. Max, 36th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textD. T. Max is a graduate of Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker. His new book, Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace, was released in August 2012 and was a New York Times best-seller. He is also the author of The Family That Couldn\u27t Sleep: A Medical Mystery
Cult: A Composite Novel
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The first component of the thesis is a composite novel called Cult which falls into two parts with seven narratives in each. Part 1 tracks the protagonist, Ellen, from her first involvement with the cult through to her eventually leaving it. Although fiction, the first half of the book answers the kinds of questions the author is asked when people discover that she was once a sannyasin (a follower of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh). While the experiences of meditation, group therapy and communal living are all faithfully rendered within the stories, the need for strong characters, narrative drive and a lightness of touch takes precedence.
Part 2 picks up Ellen’s story some twenty or so years later and explores what becomes of her in middle age. It also looks at other groups in society, such as academia, the law and the internet dating community which each have their own jargon, hierarchies, rituals and rules but are not considered to be cults.
The book examines the question raised in the Epigraph, ‘how do we be together when we feel so alone’ with a focus on relationships other than the familial and the romantic.
Collisions, Chasms and Connections: a Performative Exploration of the Composite Novel Form
The second part of the thesis is both a critical and creative response to three contemporary American books: Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; and Legend of a Suicide by David Vann. The critical element comprises a close reading of the three books; a chronological reconstruction of their overarching storylines; and a consideration of what their authors have said about writing the books. It concludes that, in the composite novel, the simultaneous presentation of multiple views and storylines operate much like a 3D image to give the impression of depth to the characters and situations rendered. The creative element of the essay is a playful and personal response to the texts
Global Max-Min Fairness Guarantee for ABR Flow Control
No full textThis paper addresses Available Bit Rate (ABR) service fairness in wide area ATM networks. In traffic management, fairness is generally understood as equally sharing the available bandwidth of a link among all its contending users. The most widely used specific fairness measure is Max-Min fairness [14]. Fairness is a very important performance measurement for ABR flow control, but no mathematical fairness guarantee has been proposed. In this paper, we define a specific category of ABR flow control algorithms as "Equal Share Schemes". For Equal Share Schemes, mathematical analysis proves that global Max-Min fairness can be achieved without exception. Key words: Max-Min fairness, ABR service, Equal Share Scheme, FairShare, EqualShare Dr. David W. Petr is the corresponding author. This research is partially supported by Sprint Corporation. Multiplexer Queue Server Controllable Users Users Uncontrollable High Priority Low Priority Figure 1: Single Node Network Architecture 1 Introducti..
"Arbeiterverräter", "Sozialchauvinisten", "Lakaien der Bourgeoisie" Der sozialdemokratische Reformismus in Kaiserreich und Weimarerer Republik als Desiderat einer postideologischen Forschung
No full textThe author traces the legacy of the reformist network of the SPD (Social Democratic Party of Germany) from World War I to the Weimar Republic. It focuese on the communication structures and the political interests of its members. Wolfgang Heine, Max Quarck, Otto Landsberg, Eduard David, Albert Südekum, Georg Gradnauer and others are portrayed as representatives of a generation of middle-class social democrats that suffered from being either ignored in labour movement research or from being associated with "opportunism" and "workers\u27 treachery" by the \u27official\u27 social democratic history
Non-Gaussian discriminative factor models via the max-margin rank-likelihood
No full textCopyright © 2015 by the author(s).We consider the problem of discriminative factor analysis for data that are in general non-Gaussian. A Bayesian model based on the ranks of the data is proposed. We first introduce a new max-margin version of the rank-likelihood. A discriminative factor model is then developed, integrating the max-margin rank-likelihood and (linear) Bayesian support vector machines, which are also built on the max-margin principle. The discriminative factor model is further extended to the nonlinear case through mixtures of local linear classifiers, via Dirichlet processes. Fully local conjugacy of the model yields efficient inference with both Markov Chain Monte Carlo and variational Bayes approaches. Extensive experiments on benchmark and real data demonstrate superior performance of the proposed model and its potential for applications in computational biology
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No full textChapter author Maksim Belitski describes his life experiences with David and the broad impact that David has had in the area of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Citing personal stories and observations, Belitski details how David has always been a willing partner for academic collaboration and also provides insights on the secrets to David’s success. This chapter thus forms an example of how David has ensured the future of entrepreneurship research by helping and inspiring up-and-coming scholars
Simplifying knowledge acquisition from end-users on the semantic web
No full textIn this position paper, we argue that improved mechanisms for knowledge acquisition on the semantic web (SW) will be necessary before it will be adopted widely by end-users. In particular, we propose an investigation surrounding improved languages for knowledge exchange, better UI mechanisms for interaction, and potential help from user modeling to enable accurate, efficient, SW knowledge modeling for everyone. Copyright is held by the author/owner(s).</p
A Quantum Annealing Approach for Solving Hard Variants of the Stable Marriage Problem
No full textThe Stable Marriage Problem (SMP) describes the problem, of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements (e.g., males and females) given an ordering of preferences for each element. A matching is stable, when there does not exist any match of a male and female which both prefer each other to their current partner under the matching. Finding such a matching of maximum cardinality, when ties and incomplete preference lists are allowed, is called MAX-SMTI and is an NP-hard variation of the SMP. In this work a Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization (QUBO) formulation for MAX-SMTI is introduced and solved both with D-Wave Systems quantum annealing hardware and by their classical meta-heuristic QBSolv. Both approaches are reviewed against existing state-of-the-art approximation algorithms for MAX-SMTI. Additionally, the proposed QUBO problem can also be used to count stable matchings in SMP instances, which is proven to be a #P-complete problem. The results show, that the proposed (quantum) methods can compete with the classical ones regarding the solution quality and might be a relevant alternative, when quantum hardware scales with respect to the number of qubits and their connectivity.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Quantum & Computer EngineeringQuantum Circuit Architectures and Technolog
Violence, terrorism and the role of theology : repentant and rebellious Christian identity
No full textWhat has come to be known within the Academy as, Identity theology, is presented in the
literature as a monolithic belief system which supports and encourages terrorism and other forms
of political violence. This dissertation argues that inattention to theological and social issues
within the many Identity theology based groups in the US has led to a deeply flawed
understanding of the relation between Identity adherents, terrorism and other political violence.
Discussions about these groups in the literature are flawed and there is an imprecise understanding
which has led to an inaccurate alignment of widely varied social groups with a pejorative
classification that is neither descriptive of the various theologies at work, nor the social
manifestations observed in these groups. Further, the research suggests that the academic
community known as “Terrorism Studies” continues to contribute to the inaccurate
understanding and that those inaccuracies are likely impediments to effective government policy
in relation to the phenomenon known as Identity theology.
The research presented here suggests that there are both theological and social
distinctions, which can and should be delineated and understood by all those researching Identity
groups. The research highlights four significant types or differences within what is now known
as Identity theology, by highlighting the nuances between social groups including the Church of
Israel, Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA), Mission to Israel, KKK and Aryan
Nations and suggests that a more precise understanding of the differences could lead to declining
instances of violence and more openness to positive social change by those who currently follow
these very different types of theological belief systems
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