98 research outputs found
Erle-Copter Verification Result
No full text<p>This file is to be referred by the author's TACAS19 paper. This file shows the verification result that Linear Controller Verifier (LCV) produces for the Erle-Copter controller in the paper.</p>
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Members of the JCC orchestra
No full textFour members of Toledo's Jewish Community Center orchestra are photographed looking over sheet music. The orchestra, which later became the Sylvania Community Orchestra, flourished from the late 1940's to the 1970s. Identified in this black and white photo taken around 1970 are Nelson Thal (trombone), Erle Hess (conductor), Dorothy O'Connor (violin), and James "Jimmy" Fox (violin)
'Do The Right Thing' and Failing To Do So in The Erle of Tolous
No full textInternational audienceDated to the late fourteenth century the tail-rhyme romance The Erle of Tolous, somehow confusingly labeled a “geste” chronicled in Rome (1214) and a “lay of Bretayne” (1215) by its anonymous author in the last lines, relates a tinglingly suspenseful chivalric romance with a happy ending. The plot revolves around the popular Woman Falsely Accused of Adultery motif. The narrative structure artfully telescopes distinct episodes following a loss and restoration pattern. The exceptionally beautiful and virtuous Beulybon, wife to a tyranical emperor who cruelly dispossesses Syr Barnard of Tolous of his lands, falls victim to some of her husband’s retainers’ wickedness. Their iniquitous plans jeopardise her fama and doom her to the stake unless a valiant champion cleans her name. The eponymous Earl of Tolous chivalrously rights the wrong. Yet, there seems to be a gap, a discrepancy between Beulybon’s irreproachable moralilty, praised by the narrator, and the severity of the slight to her public repute. It implies that the treacherous wrongdoers identified some contingent or circumstantial flaw or fault, and took advantage of some moral or ethical crack or fissure in the apparently spotless picture. The article will attempt to explore the blind spots and fault lines that have allowed for the outrageous affront to the lady’s honour and to the valiant earl’s faith in the knightly ethos to occur. A close examination of the tale may well reveal some unsuspected crevices beneath the apparent blameless and seamless surface as far as both form and content are concerned
Gender effects on VPT performance
No full textThis project re-analyzes previously collected datasets of studies that assessed visuo-spatial perspective-taking (VPT) performance with a new research question in mind.
The VPT task that was used in all of these studies involves participants looking at pictures of a person sitting at a table with two objects in front. One of the two objects is the target during every trial and participants have two response keys to indicate which hand the person in the picture would have to use to grab the target. Their reaction times (RTs) are recorded. The target person appears seated at different locations around the table (at angular disparities of 0/40/80/120/160° clock-wise or counter-clockwise rotation). At angles of 0/40°, this task can be solved egocentrically because the left-right-relations are the same for the person in the picture and the participant sitting in front of the screen. At angular disparities above 40°, however, participants need to engage in VPT to solve the task. A thorough summary of this task can be found in Kessler & Thomson (2010), see references at the end of this registration.
A crucial difference between the study by Kessler and Thomson (2010) and the currently analyzed datasets (references at the end of this registration) is that instead of a computer-generated avatar, actual persons were used as targets for the stimuli. Specifically, a male and a female target were used. In the previous studies, the RT data for this task were always analyzed only looking at egocentric vs. VPT trials.
However, previous research has suggested that VPT might be related to empathic PT (e.g., Erle & Topolinski, 2015; 2017; Erle & Funk, 2021), and other studies have shown that empathic PT creates feelings of similarity to the target (Davis et al., 1996; 2004). What is more debated is the question whether PT is easier or harder for similar (vs. dissimilar) others (for an overview, see van Boven et al., 2013). To address this question for the case of VPT, in the present analysis we will test whether gender, more specifically gender-congruency, affects how quickly participants can solve the VPT task. These analyses were uninformative in the previous studies, as there was usually only a small number of male participants in each individual sample, rendering any gender-effect analysis prone to false-positive results.
Thus, in this project we use gender as a quasi-experimental manipulation of similarity between participant (f/m) and target in the picture (f/m), to test whether women are faster to solve VPT tasks if the target person in the picture is also female, and vice versa for men. We meta-analyze all datasets involving female and male participants reacting to female and male targets in a VPT task that the first author and his collaborators have collected
The Nuclear Structure of ¹⁵¹Sm
No full textAn experimental study of the low-lying levels of the nucleus ¹⁵¹sm has been made using the single particle transfer reactions 1) ¹⁵²Sm (d,t)¹⁵¹Sm , 2)¹⁵¹Sm(³He,α)¹⁵¹Sm, 3) ¹⁵⁰Sm (d,p)¹⁵¹Sm , 4) ¹⁵¹Sm (d,p)¹⁵²Sm, 5) ¹⁵¹Sm(d,t)¹⁵⁰Sm and 6) ¹⁵¹Sm(³He,α) ¹⁵⁰Sm. Also,inelastic scattering and Coulomb excitation experiments were performed on targets of ¹⁵¹Sm. The information obtained from these experiments when combined with the results of previous studies of the decay of ¹⁵¹Pm, has allowed definite spin and parity assignments to be made for about 15 levels in ¹⁵¹Sm, and has put limitations on the possible assignments for several others. The level scheme obtained is compared with the predictions of the Nilsson model, including the effects of Coriolis and ΔN=2 mixing.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD
“Blake was a phenomenon”: Artistic, Domestic and Blakean Visions in Joseph Paul Hodin’s writing on Else and Ludwig Meidner
No full textWhen Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966), the German-Jewish Expressionist painter, printmaker and writer, returned to Germany in 1953, never adjusted during the fourteen years of exile and there is a sense, that he wanted to eradicate all that reminded him of London – except for Blake. This essay, which engages with the artistic visions of Else and Ludwig Meidner, focuses on their shared interest in Blake as mediated by fellow émigré and Czech-born art historian, art critic and author Joseph Paul (1905-1995)
‘End of the Goddamned thing!!’
No full textThe mystery fiction writer Erle Stanley Gardner and his publisher Thayer Hobson of Morrow devised an unusual procedure for connecting the first ten Perry Mason novels with ‘leads’ to provoke the reader’s curiosity, and so promote the sale of the succeeding book. The genesis of these ‘leads’, and the contrasting views of author and publisher on the requirements of endings in mysteries, is documented through their correspondence. The paper examines Erle Stanley Gardner’s resourcefulness in triggering different types of curiosity, and the issues that could arise when publishers substituted or curtailed these ‘leads’ in reprint editions. In translated editions the endings of these books became especially liable to modifications according to the expectations of the target culture. Differing conventions and fashions for the concluding textual threshold are exemplified from the manuscript evidence (including novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner under the pseudonym A.A. Fair) and from the very extensive dissemination of these best-selling works in book form.L’auteur de romans policiers Erle Stanley Gardner et son éditeur chez Morrow, Thayer Hobson, ont imaginé une procédure originale pour éveiller la curiosité du lecteur et promouvoir la vente du prochain épisode de la série Perry Mason, en reliant ses dix premiers romans par un système d’ « indices ». La genèse de ces « indices » et les opinions divergentes de l’auteur et de son éditeur quant aux exigences de la fin dans le roman policier sont mises en relief dans leur correspondance. Cet article étudie les différentes techniques utilisées par Erle Stanley Gardner pour éveiller la curiosité du lecteur, ainsi que les problèmes soulevés par la tendance des éditeurs à substituer ou limiter ces « indices » dans les rééditions successives. C’est dans la traduction des romans cependant que la fin devient particulièrement sujette aux modifications, selon les attentes culturelles du public-cible. Les modes et conventions divergentes mises en jeu dans le choix d’un seuil textuel final s’inscrivent dans les manuscrits (et dans les romans écrits par Erle Stanley Gardner sous le pseudonyme de A.A. Fair) et dans la diffusion internationale de ces best-sellers
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