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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eThe Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things\u3c/i\u3e by Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan, Harvard University Press, 2009
Get PDFBook review of The Mermaid’s Tale: Four Billion Years of Cooperation in the Making of Living Things by Kenneth M. Weiss and Anne V. Buchanan. Harvard University Press, 2009, ISBN: 9780674031937
Der Wahrheitssucher : su Peter Weiss, Dante e l’utopia
No full textThe contribution outlines the utopian dimension of the work and aesthetics of the German-Jewish-Swedish author Peter Weiss (1916-1982), focusing mainly on his "DC-Projekt", the plan of a political rewriting of Dantes' Divine Comedy for the modern stage (1960s). The contribution contends that the medieval poet, called "the truthsearcher" in the posthumous drama "Inferno", is the key figure of the author's utopian concern in his lifelong alternation of autobiographical, poetical and political issues
The Lioness in Winter : Writing an Old Woman's Life /
No full textWhen she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began packing away the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she became older herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional literature offered little help, so she turned to the late-life writing of beloved women authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, M. F. K. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, and Florida Scott-Maxwell were among the many guides she turned to for inspiration. In The Lioness in Winter, Burack-Weiss blends an analysis of key writings from these and other famed women authors with her own wisdom to create one essential companion for older women and those who care for them. She fearlessly examines issues such as living with loss, finding comfort and joy in unexpected places, and facing disability and death. This book is filled with powerful passages from women who turned their experiences of aging into art, and Burack-Weiss ties their words to her own struggles and epiphanies, framing their collective observations with key insights from social work practice.When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began packing away the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she became older herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional literature offered little help, so she turned to the late-life writing of beloved women authors who had bravely climbed the mountain and sent back news from the summit. Maya Angelou, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Joan Didion, Marguerite Duras, M. F. K. Fisher, Doris Lessing, Mary Oliver, Adrienne Rich, May Sarton, and Florida Scott-Maxwell were among the many guides she turned to for inspiration. In The Lioness in Winter, Burack-Weiss blends an analysis of key writings from these and other famed women authors with her own wisdom to create one essential companion for older women and those who care for them. She fearlessly examines issues such as living with loss, finding comfort and joy in unexpected places, and facing disability and death. This book is filled with powerful passages from women who turned their experiences of aging into art, and Burack-Weiss ties their words to her own struggles and epiphanies, framing their collective observations with key insights from social work practice.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.ANN BURACK-WEISS is a social work practitioner, educator, and consultant who taught two generations of students at the Columbia School of Social Work and is now an associate faculty member in Columbia's Program of Narrative Medicine. She is also the author of The Caregiver's Tale: Loss and Renewal in Memoirs of Family Life.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed September 10 2015
Peter Weiss: Experiment und Engagement heute
Get PDFIn the introductory essay, the volume’s editors trace the project that gave rise to this collection of contributions on Peter Weiss, his work, and his fortunes back to the events celebrating the centenary of his birth in 2016. The reflections start from Milo Rau, as an example of a contemporary author and director who finds in the mastery of Peter Weiss a point of reference for an art combining formal experimentalism with political engagement. The relevance of this present-day reference to Weiss as an example of the “aesthetics of resistance” is then addressed in detail, which leads on to the discussion of the main idea and thematic structure of the volume.
The twelve papers are divided into two equal halves. In the first section, entitled “Essay und Prosa – Experimente mit Subjekt, Kunst und Politik”, six scholars investigate Peter Weiss’s essayistic and fictional writing, its cultural and artistic context, and its legacy for literature up to the 21st century. Lesser-known articles in Swedish and seminal interventions in the public debates of the 1960s, experimental prose and canonical novels, are thus reinterpreted using the tools of contemporary literary theory.
In the second section, a further six scholars examine Weiss’s cinematographic and theatrical work and his reflections on media and performance. These contributions give new insights into Weiss’s documentary films, revolutionary dramas, and media aesthetics and politics, as well as their influence up to the present day. Under the title “Performative Engagements: Film, Theater, Medien”, contributions are brought together that range from earlier models, such as Hölderlin, Artaud, and Brecht, to contemporaries like Pier Paolo Pasolini, and finally to today’s theatre, again with Milo Rau
Path-space moderate deviations for a Curie-Weiss model of self-organized criticality
Get PDFThe dynamical Curie-Weiss model of self-organized criticality (SOC) was introduced in (Ann. Inst. Henri Poincaré Probab. Stat. 53 (2017) 658-678) and it is derived from the classical generalized Curie-Weiss by imposing a microscopic Markovian evolution having the distribution of the Curie-Weiss model of SOC (Ann. Probab. 44 (2016) 444-478) as unique invariant measure. In the case of Gaussian single-spin distribution, we analyze the dynamics of moderate fluctuations for the magnetization. We obtain a path-space moderate deviation principle via a general analytic approach based on convergence of non-linear generators and uniqueness of viscosity solutions for associated Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Our result shows that, under a peculiar moderate space-time scaling and without tuning external parameters, the typical behavior of the magnetization is critical
Correction to Virus Bioresistor (VBR) for the Detection of the Bladder Cancer Marker DJ-1 in Urine at 10 pM in One Minute
No full textThe author list contained an error: Gregory A. Weiss was not identified as a corresponding author. Both of the corresponding authors, Gregory A. Weiss and Reginald M. Penner, are indicated in this Addition and Correction
Looking into the black box : practical approaches to record linkage
No full textA long-term epidemiological study of the families of Laredo, Texas, a Mexican-American city on the U.S. border with Mexico is being conducted. Individual records of vital events have been linked into a computer-based genealogical network, relying on interactive methods of data entry, correction and review. Accurate entry, error correction, and the avoidance of false links have been priorities. The record linkage strategy has been to accept pairwise links whose match score is better than a given cutoff and for which there are no close competitors. Errors and variations in names have been compensated for by grouping given names and surnames into affinity classes. Preliminary linkage results and application of some demographic measurements to these data are also presented.L'article est consacré à une étude épidémiologique de longue durée des familles de Laredo, au Texas, ville américano-mexicaine, sur la frontière. Les actes de baptêmes, mariages et sépultures ont donné lieu à une analyse généalogique par ordinateurs. La méthode choisie a été d'accepter les liaisons couplées lorsque le résultat est meilleur qu'en cas de refus de ces liaisons et lorsqu'il n'y a pas de risques trop grands de confusion. Les erreurs et variations patronymiques ont été compensées en réunissant les noms et surnoms par groupes d'affinité. L'article présente également les résultats préliminaires du couplage et leur application dans plusieurs analyses démographiques.Schwartz Robert J., Weiss Kenneth M., Buchanan Anne V. Looking into the black box : practical approaches to record linkage. In: Annales de démographie historique, 1984. Démographie historique et généalogie. pp. 119-128
Discrete Distortion for 3D Data Analysis
Get PDFWe investigate a morphological approach to the analysis and understanding of three-dimensional scalar fields, and we consider applications to 3D medical and molecular images as examples.We consider a discrete model of the scalar field obtained by discretizing its 3D domain into a tetrahedral mesh. In particular, our meshes correspond to approximations at uniform or variable resolution extracted from a multi-resolution model of the 3D scalar field, that we call a hierarchy of diamonds. We analyze the images based on the concept of discrete distortion, that we have introduced in [26], and on segmentations based on Morse theory. Discrete distortion is defined by considering the graph of the discrete 3D field, which is a tetrahedral hypersurface in R 4, and measuring the distortion of the transformation which maps the tetrahedral mesh discretizing the scalar field domain into the mesh representing its graph in R 4. We describe a segmentation algorithm to produce Morse decompositions of a 3D scalar field which uses a watershed approach and we apply it to 3D images by using as scalar field both intensity and discrete distortion. We present experimental results by considering the influence of resolution on distortion computation. In particular, we show that the salient features of the distortion field appear prominently in lower resolution approximations to the dataset
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