473 research outputs found
On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited
No full textThis article revisits the authorship of the anonymous Koca Sekbanbaşı Risale, one of the best-known political treatises of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The authors summarise the debate over its authorship from origins to the present. They then present new data that strengthens the claim of the historiographer royal, Ahmed Vasif Efendi (d. 1806)
On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited
No full textThis article revisits the authorship of the anonymous Koca Sekbanbaşı Risale, one of the best-known political treatises of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The authors summarise the debate over its authorship from origins to the present. They then present new data that strengthens the claim of the historiographer royal, Ahmed Vasif Efendi (d. 1806)
On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited
No full textThis article revisits the authorship of the anonymous Koca Sekbanbaşı Risale, one of the best-known political treatises of the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. The authors summarise the debate over its authorship from origins to the present. They then present new data that strengthens the claim of the historiographer royal, Ahmed Vasif Efendi (d. 1806)
Ethan Frome
No full textOne of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of duty. But long ago, Ethan dreamed of something beyond his bleak and tedious New England existence. Once, he had dared to have hope for the future.Ethan Frome tells the wrenching story of a love destined not to be and a man mired in his own private hell. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Cover -- Title Page -- ETHAN FROME -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- IX -- CopyrightOne of literature's keenest social critics, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton weaves a tragic small-town tale of epic proportions in this masterful novella Physically disfigured and trapped in a loveless marriage to a sickly older woman, Ethan Frome is a broken man. He lives a desolate, impoverished life in the town of Starkfield, Massachusetts, bound by an unassailable sense of duty. But long ago, Ethan dreamed of something beyond his bleak and tedious New England existence. Once, he had dared to have hope for the future.Ethan Frome tells the wrenching story of a love destined not to be and a man mired in his own private hell. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Ethan Canin, 30th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textEthan Canin is the author of six books of fiction, including the story collections Emperor of the Air, and The Palace Thief, and the novel Carry Me Across the Water. He has been called by the New Yorker one of “twenty writers for the new millennium.” Canin’s widely anthologized short stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Paris Review, and many other magazines, and have also been the basis for several Hollywood movies. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and a licensed physician, Canin gave up medicine a decade ago to become a professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, in Iowa City, Iowa
How theme building helps to create impactful electronic dance music
Get PDFThe thesis was created in order to explore the idea of creating stories to coin-cide with music. The aim was to give the reader an understanding of the artistry of electronic dance music. The author thoroughly documented existing works of art in the form of an EP (Extended Play) and album from two separate artists. Interviews of Virtual Riot and Xilent were researched in order to present their ideas of theme building and storytelling within their respective works. The in-terviews provided the ability to view the work they created subjectively while referencing the artists objective viewpoint and intentions.
The project portion of the thesis is where the author demonstrated the useful-ness of the findings by writing and producing their own EP. A collection of random songs written by the author was then put up against the newly made EP. The goal of this is to contrast how impactful the themed EP is in compari-son to the randomly assembled EP.
The conclusive idea is that music is typically more impactful if it can convey any level of story. Deep down people want more than just hype. The job of the artists is complete If the listener can become immersed in the music’s fabricat-ed world. With EPs it is imperative to maintain a mood for the listener and story-telling is just the way to do it.Links to the media portion
https://soundcloud.com/user-734350261/sets/thesis-ep-no-theme/s-xdWTOpR7mIO
https://soundcloud.com/user-734350261/sets/thesis-ep-themed/s-PEDfxZScDp
FCT-GAN: Fourier Neural Operator for Global Relation Enhancement in Tabular Data Synthesizing using Generative Adversarial Networks
No full textSince the regularization of data privacy (e.g., GDPR), the effectiveness of data sharing has decreased. A promising technique to circumvent this problem is tabular data synthesis (i.e., the generation of fake tabular data that statistically resembles the original data). However, the state-of-the-art tabular data synthesis model, CTAB-GAN, fails at robustly imitating global data dependencies and underperforms when column orders get permuted. CTAB-GAN internally uses Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) which limits the model’s performance due to a strictly non-global data perspective during iterative training phases. To address this limitation, this paper proposes FCT-GAN which leverages the Fourier Neural Operator to learn global dependencies in the frequency domain. Specifically, it enhances CTAB-GAN by replacing the CNN of the discriminator with a four-layered two-dimensional Fourier Neural Operator. As a consequence of FCT-GAN’s global nature and cross-column relation robustness, it outperforms CTAB-GAN and additionally offers the column permutation invariant property. The evaluation of FCT-GAN on five datasets shows that the generated data, remarkably resembles the real data and reveals an increase in accuracy, by up to 19% for five machine learning algorithms independent of data column order, compared to CTAB-GAN.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin
I Left My Communicator on Sigma Iotia!
No full textThe astroquarks welcome noted science blogger and author Dr. Ethan Siegel whose new book Treknology takes a look at the intersection of science and science fiction. While you may already have a tablet computer, warp drive is probably still a few years away. But Elon Musk may be sending missions to the moon in less time than it takes the U.S.S. Enterprise to complete its 5-year mission (so, less than 5 years, get it?). Tune in for the latest news on exploration of the solar system as well as a look back to some classic Trek-nology with Dr. Ethan Siegel on this episode of Walkabout the Galaxy
Savannah as a History Classroom: An Interview with Lydia Moreton, the Curator of Collections for the Coastal Heritage Society
Get PDFAbout the Author
Ethan Marshall is a senior majoring in history at Armstrong. After graduating he hopes to achieve a Master degree in History or Foreign Affairs. Ethan is primarily interested in the study of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the effects it has had on the modern world
An Ottoman Historian in an Age of Reform: Ahmed Vasif Efendi (ca. 1730-1806).
Get PDFIn the late eighteenth century the Ottoman Empire experienced a time of profound crisis, political as well as intellectual, moral, and ideological. This dissertation explores the mental and moral climate of the period through the work of Ahmed Vasif Efendi, a statesman, ambassador, intellectual, and author of one of the century’s largest histories, and also through his personal development as a reformer.
Divided into five chapters, each treating a distinct aspect of Vasif’s thought, this dissertation argues that Ottoman elites after 1774 responded to growing foreign and domestic challenges with not only military reform but a broad re-evaluation of subjects like war, peacemaking, moral rule, and human agency in history. It suggests these debates, including a basic disagreement over the legitimate place of human reason and action across life’s many spheres, indicate a vital if fractured response to the crisis, and an incipient breakdown in certain storied intellectual frameworks. In Chapter One I provide a short biography of the author in addition to a discussion of the structure and content of his history, his epistemology, and his understanding of historiography as a field of knowledge. In Chapter Two I more closely examine Vasif’s philosophy of history in relation to contemporary debates in the empire over human agency, reform, and theodicy, concluding that his approach might be called reformist. Chapter Three introduces the reader to ongoing discussions among Ottoman elites over the merits of peace and peacemaking, and shows through Vasif a distinct shift in rhetoric by the turn of the nineteenth century. Chapter Four attempts to convey a sense of Vasif’s moral universe, including his understanding of justice, ideal social order, and proper rule, all treated through the Aristotelian tradition of practical philosophy. Lastly, in Chapter Five, I seek to understand how Vasif and his peers conceptualized political reform, especially in terms Chapter Four’s universal moral order.PhDNear Eastern StudiesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/108892/1/emenchin_1.pd
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