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The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research
No full textThe early years of the first decade of the twenty-first century saw the emergence and rapid development of a movement that labeled itself “Empirical Legal Studies” (ELS). This book acknowledges the diversity of empirical investigation of law, legal systems, and other legal phenomena. In particular, there are at least three approaches and research groupings that predate the contemporary ELS movement, which may be respectively identified as socio-legal/law and society (an interdisciplinary movement with strong roots in sociology but including scholars from a wide range of traditional disciplines including law), empirically oriented law-and-economics, and judicial behavior/politics. This book also explores three key dimensions of policing: order management, crime management, and security management. Finally, it concludes by identifying some emerging trends in the organization and conduct of police work as policing organizations seek to reconfigure their capacities and capabilities to meet new challenges. The phrase “empirical legal research” in the title, The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research, is designed both to reflect and to celebrate the healthy pluralism of empirical approaches to the study of law and legal phenomena
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
Lunchtime Talk with Author and Attorney Peter Godwin
No full textAuthor and attorney Peter Godwin gave a lunchtime talk about the topics discussed in his book, The Fear, which focuses on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe under the rule of Robert Mugabe
Constructing lattice points for numerical integration by a reduced fast successive coordinate search algorithm
No full textIn this paper, we study an efficient algorithm for constructing node sets of high-quality quasi-Monte Carlo integration rules for weighted Korobov, Walsh, and Sobolev spaces. The algorithm presented is a reduced fast successive coordinate search (SCS) algorithm, which is adapted to situations where the weights in the function space show a sufficiently fast decay. The new SCS algorithm is designed to work for the construction of lattice points, and, in a modified version, for polynomial lattice points, and the corresponding
integration rules can be used to treat functions in different kinds of function spaces. We show that the integration rules constructed by our algorithms satisfy error bounds of optimal convergence order. Furthermore, we give details on efficient implementation such that we obtain a considerable speed-up of previously known SCS algorithms. This improvement is illustrated by numerical results. The speed-up obtained by our results may
be of particular interest in the context of QMC for PDEs with random coefficients, where both the dimension and the required number of points are usually very large. Furthermore, our main theorems yield previously unknown generalizations of earlier results.sponsorship: [
"P. Kritzer is supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): Project F5506-N26, which is part of the Special Research Program \"Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications\". P. Kritzer furthermore gratefully acknowledges the partial support of the Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) in Vienna under the thematic programme \"Tractability of High Dimensional Problems and Discrepancy\".",
"The authors acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant DMS-1638521 to the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute."
] (Austrian Science Fund (FWF) is part of the Special Research Program "Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods: Theory and Applications"|F5506-N26, Erwin Schrodinger International Institute for Mathematics and Physics (ESI) in Vienna under the thematic programme "Tractability of High Dimensional Problems and Discrepancy", National Science Foundation (NSF)|DMS-1638521)status: Publishe
An essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell by Peter Pullman
No full textThis is an essay about the Francis Paudras Collection on Bud Powell written by Peter Pullman, a jazz scholar and author of Wail: The Life of Bud Powell (Brooklyn: Bop Changes, 2012).One image file (pdf)This project was supported by a Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Professor Peter Singer speaking at the National Press Club Canberra, 11 February 2009 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer based on information from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Humanitarian author Professor Peter Singer at the National Press Club, Canberra, 11 February 2009.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia, 2009
A higher order Blokh–Zyablov propagation rule for higher order nets
No full textAbstractHigher order nets were introduced by Dick as a generalisation of classical (t,m,s)-nets, which are point sets frequently used in quasi-Monte Carlo integration algorithms. Essential tools in finding such point sets of high quality are propagation rules, which make it possible to generate new higher order nets from existing higher order nets and even classical (t,m,s)-nets. Such propagation rules for higher order nets were first considered by Dick and Kritzer (2010) [8] and further developed in Baldeaux et al. (2011) [2]. Blokh and Zyablov (1974) [4] established a very general propagation rule for linear codes. This propagation rule has been extended to (t,m,s)-nets by Schürer and Schmid (2012) [18]. In this paper we show that this propagation rule can also be extended to higher order nets. Examples indicate that this propagation rule yields new higher order nets with significantly higher quality
The Peter Martyr reader
No full textAccession Number: ATLA0001328116; Language(s): English; Issued by ATLA: 20080715; Publication Type: Review; Related Books/Electronic Resources: By: Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562 Peter Martyr reader viii, 260 p. Publisher: Kirksville, Mo.: Truman State University Press, 1999. ATLA0001327874Source type: Electronic(1)http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=reh&AN=ATLA0001328116&loginpage=Login.asp&site=ehost-liv
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