47 research outputs found
Other Voices piece by Carol Isaacson Barash, Ph.D., of Hartford, a genetics an
No full textOther Voices piece by Carol Isaacson Barash, Ph.D., of Hartford, a genetics and ethics consultant, essayist and children\u27s book author. Barash, a trained philosopher, kept copious notes on roadside litter, and during the summers of 1995 and 1996 recorded weekly averages of 65 returnable bottles and cans
PRAND: GPU accelerated parallel random number generation library: Using most reliable algorithms and applying parallelism of modern GPUs and CPUs
No full textAbstract
The library PRAND for pseudorandom number generation for modern CPUs and GPUs is presented. It contains both single-threaded and multi-threaded realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators recently proposed and studied in Barash (2011), Matsumoto and Tishimura (1998), L'Ecuyer (1999,1999), Barash and Shchur (2006) and the efficient SIMD realizations proposed in Barash and Shchur (2011). One of the useful features for using PRAND in parallel simulations is the ability to ini...
Title of program: PRAND
Catalogue Id: AESB_v1_0
Nature of problem
Any calculation requiring uniform pseudorandom number generator, in particular, Monte Carlo calculations. Any calculation or simulation requiring uncorrelated parallel streams of uniform pseudorandom numbers.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AESB_v1_0; PRAND; 10.1016/j.cpc.2014.01.007
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2019
Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature, 1650-1865
No full textNot until the eighteenth century was the image of the tender, full-time mother invented. This image retains its power today. Inventing Maternity demonstrates that, despite its association with an increasingly standardized set of values, motherhood remained contested terrain. Drawing on feminist, cultural, and postcolonial theory, Inventing Maternity surveys a wide range of sources--medical texts, political tracts, religious doctrine, poems, novels, slave narratives, conduct books, and cookbooks. The first half of the volume, covering the mid-seventeenth to the late eighteenth centuries, considers central debates about fetal development, pregnancy, breastfeeding, and childbearing. The second half, covering the late eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries, charts a historical shift to the regulation of reproduction as maternity is increasingly associated with infanticide, population control, poverty, and colonial, national, and racial instability. In her introduction, Greenfield provides a historical overview of early modern interpretations of maternity. She concludes with a consideration of their impact on current debates about reproductive rights and technologies, child custody, and the cycles of poverty.
Honorable Mention for collaborative work from the Society for Early Modern Women
Susan C. Greenfield is associate professor of English at Fordham University. Carol Barash is the author of English Women\u27s Poetry, 1649-1714 and co-editor of Major Women Writers of Seventeenth-Century England.
These essays offer fresh and vigorous arguments for the challenges maternal roles present to social values. —Choice
It is extremely difficult to capture and convey the complex richness of this volume. Taken together, the constitutive essays offer a historical analysis of the making of modern maternity that is sure to appeal to a wide variety of readers. —Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering
Makes a timely and valuable contribution to the current scholarly conversation concerning maternity, reproduction, and the gendered body in which histories of imaginative narrative are profitably understood in conjunction with theories of gender, sexuality, race, and class. —Julia Sternhttps://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_gender_and_sexuality_studies/1005/thumbnail.jp
RNGSSELIB: Program library for random number generation. More generators, parallel streams of random numbers and Fortran compatibility
No full textAbstract
In this update, we present the new version of the random number generator (RNG) library RNGSSELIB, which, in particular, contains fast SSE realizations of a number of modern and most reliable generators [1]. The new features are: (i) Fortran compatibility and examples of using the library in Fortran; (ii) new modern and reliable generators; (iii) the abilities to jump ahead inside a RNG sequence and to initialize up to 10
^(19)
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Title of program: RNGSSELIB
Catalogue Id: AEIT_v2_0
Nature of problem
Any calculation requiring uniform pseudorandom number generator, in particular, Monte Carlo calculations. Any calculation requiring parallel streams of uniform pseudorandom numbers.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEIT_v1_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.03.022
AEIT_v2_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.04.007
AEIT_v3_0; RNGAVXLIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.11.001
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018
RNGSSELIB: Program library for random number generation, SSE2 realization
No full textAbstract
The library RNGSSELIB for random number generators (RNGs) based upon the SSE2 command set is presented. The library contains realization of a number of modern and most reliable generators. Usage of SSE2 command set allows to substantially improve performance of the generators. Three new RNG realizations are also constructed. We present detailed analysis of the speed depending on compiler usage and associated optimization level, as well as results of extensive statistical testing for all gener...
Title of program: RNGSSELIB
Catalogue Id: AEIT_v1_0
Nature of problem
Any calculation requiring uniform pseudorandom number generator, in particular, Monte Carlo calculations.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEIT_v1_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.03.022
AEIT_v2_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.04.007
AEIT_v3_0; RNGAVXLIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.11.001
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018
Many emotions: Primal therapy and beyond
No full textIt is the hypothesis of this thesis that understanding and fully allowing deep emotions is mostly absent in psychotherapy. Thus, the author looks to Primal therapy as a basis for responding to this perceived gap. Primal therapy is a method of reliving and emotionally discharging childhood traumas. Its corresponding theory is an extensive look into childhood pain and its effect on adults' lives. The author utilizes heuristic research to examine how Primal therapy illuminates the concept of deep emotion in therapy and how it limits them. In response to the latter, the author expands on Primal therapy's view of deep emotions, in hopes of portraying a broader picture of emotions in therapy. One of these developments is the proposition of a fourth level of consciousness, in addition to Primal therapy's original three, called the universal mind that the author suggests is vital to embracing the entire emotional life in psychotherapy
SERGEY YURIEVICH PREOBRAZHENSKY, SCHOLAR AND AUTHOR OF VERSES
No full textThe article is written in memoria of Sergey Yurievich Preobrahzhensky, linguist and poet. It tackles upon the scientific interests of the scholar, deals with his principal concepts in prosody and other spheres of poetics. Besides, It also contains a brief characteristics and examples of his own poetic work
RNGAVXLIB: Program library for random number generation, AVX realization
No full textAbstract
We present the random number generator (RNG) library RNGAVXLIB, which contains fast AVX realizations of a number of modern random number generators, and also the abilities to jump ahead inside a RNG sequence and to initialize up to 10
^(19)
independent random number streams with block splitting method. Fast AVX implementations produce exactly the same output sequences as the original algorithms. Usage of AVX vectorization allows to su...
Title of program: RNGAVXLIB
Catalogue Id: AEIT_v3_0
Nature of problem
Any calculation requiring uniform pseudorandom number generator, in particular, Monte Carlo calculations. Any calculation requiring parallel streams of uniform pseudorandom numbers.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
AEIT_v1_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2011.03.022
AEIT_v2_0; RNGSSELIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2013.04.007
AEIT_v3_0; RNGAVXLIB; 10.1016/j.cpc.2015.11.001
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2018
