225 research outputs found
Authority Control: Where is It Heading?
No full textThis presentation was given at the meeting of the Technical Services Division of the Connecticut Library Association. It examines the current developments and research in authority control and controlled vocabularies
Organizing Middle Earth, or, The Lord of the Rings Meets FRBR
No full textThis presentation was given in New Zealand in 2005 as a public lecture. It describes the Functional Requirements of the Bibliographic Record and its application in library catalogs
Between Measure and Excess: The Roman Republic in Louisa May Alcott’s Moods
No full textLouisa May Alcott’s Moods and the sensation tales the author published in the 1860s exceeded narrative, racial, and gender boundaries. References to the Roman Republic came to epitomize the sentimental excess that was beginning to be censored by the literary establishment.
Tra eccesso e misura: la Repubblica Romana in Moods di Louisa May AlcottIl romanzo Moods e i racconti a sensazione che Louisa May Alcott pubblicò nel decennio 1860 trasgredivano i confini narrativi, razziali e di genere. I riferimenti alla Repubblica Romana finirono col simboleggiare gli eccessi sentimentalisti censurati dall’establishment letterario
An "Entirely Personal Success": Intertextuality and Self-Reflexive Ironies in Henry James's "Pandora"
No full textHenry James’s “Pandora” has been read as a rewriting of his former treatment of the “American Girl abroad” in the comic mode. The self-allusive hints at “a Tauchnitz novel by an American author” (90) establish an ironic reversal of the failures of understanding which had led to tragedy in “Daisy Miller.” In this framework, well-known Jamesian topoi appear both as a self-parody and a metaliterary dialogue James engages with his readers and critics. The author’s personal implication in this “American” story is further testified by his Notebooks, in which he states his intention to write about his friends Henry and “Clover” Adams. Thus, “Pandora”’s multi-layered intertextuality also includes undeclared references to Adams’s anonymously published novel, Democracy, a semi-satirical account of U.S. political life. This article focuses on the web of intertextual relations woven in this short story with a view to reflecting on James’s ideas concerning the politics of authorship, readership, and literary success
Contrarian effect in opinion forming: insights from Greta Thunberg phenomenon
No full textIn recent months, the figure of Greta Thunberg and the theme of climate changings quickly became the focus of the debate. This has led to a polarization effect in opinion forming about the climate subject. Starting from the analysis of this phenomenon, we develop an opinion dynamics model in which several types of contrarian agents are considered. Each agent is supposed to have an opinion on several topics related to each other; thus, the opinions being formed on these topics are also mutually dependent. The aim of the paper is to investigate the indirect effects of contrarian agents on the collective opinion about these topics. Several numerical tests are presented in order to highlight the main features of the model
π-Formulas and Gray code
No full textIn previous papers we introduced a class of polynomials which follow the same recursive
formula as the Lucas–Lehmer numbers, studying the distribution of their zeros
and remarking that this distribution follows a sequence related to the binary Gray code.
It allowed us to give an order for all the zeros of every polynomial Ln. In this paper,
the zeros, expressed in terms of nested radicals, are used to obtain two formulas for
π: the first can be seen as a generalization of a well known formula
related to the smallest positive zero of Ln; the second is an exact formula for π achieved
thanks to some identities valid for Ln
p-Riesz bases in quasi shift invariant spaces
No full textLet 1 ≤ p < ∞ and let ψ ∈ Lp(R d ). We study p−Riesz bases of quasi shift invariant spaces Vp(ψ; Y )
Microscopic modeling and analysis of collective decision making: equality bias leads suboptimal solutions
No full textWe discuss a novel microscopic model for collective decision-making interacting multi-agent systems. In particular we are interested in modeling a well known phenomena in the experimental literature called equality bias, where agents tend to behave in the same way as if they were as good, or as bad, as their partner. We analyze the introduced problem and we prove the suboptimality of the collective decision-making in the presence of equality bias. Numerical experiments are addressed in the last section
Chaos Versus Stochastic Paradigm in Energy Markets
No full textThe purpose of the chapter is to gain a better understanding of energy market movements and dynamics by examining two competing theories: deterministic chaos theory and stochastic paradigm.We advocate that feature of bothworldsmay coexist in the same phenomenon. In particular, we reassess the chaotic paradigm, by considering the advances that have been made in the design of estimation tools. We illustrate all the methodologies exploited in the energy finance literature and the related results
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