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"Some Unpublished Studies by Paul Rehak on Gender in Aegean Art," edited by John Younger
No full textThree short studies by Paul Rehak are edited and fleshed out: 1) "The Earliest Figure-Eight Shield Friezes in the Aegean and their Meaning," 2) "Aegean Hairpins and Linear A," 3) "Nothing to Do with Myth?" (why Aegean archaeologists have been slow to study gender)
Blockchain Technology – Autonomy for the IT-elite, new vulnerabilites for the rest?
No full textThe blockchain enticingly promises to make intermediaries of social interactions superfluous. At the moment, these have to be trusted, which produces dependencies, as the banking crisis painfully proves. Notaries and banks would become unnecessary through the blockchain. But the power of actors is not dissolved in the blockchain, rather it shifts towards new and most importantly illegitimate and uncontrolled centers of power. As interesting as the blockchain is from a technological standpoint, it is not a substitute for classical political action and the regulation of power. In his lecture, Rainer Rehak discusses the ideas behind blockchain and autonomy
The Migration Of Forms: Bullet Time As Microgenre
No full textRehak considers the ways in which the film The Matrix branded bullet time both as technical process and stylistic convention, and discusses bullet time\u27s ancestry in image experimentation of the 1980s and 1990s. In his analysis, Rehak uses the conceptual framework of the microgenre to explore the cultural lifespan of bullet time, treating it less as a singular special effect than a package of photographic and digital techniques whose fortunes were shaped by a complex interplay of technology, narrative and style. Rehak\u27s goal is to shed light not just on bullet time, but on the changing behavior of visual texts in contemporary media. He examines an overview of special effects scholarship to date, most notably the indication that the repetition of special effects dulls their effectiveness, in part due to the changing competencies of audiences. Rehak also looks at the struggle of the filmmakers of The Matrix to craft sequels that simultaneously preserved bullet time\u27s appeal while varying it enough to ensure another breakthrough
The Mycenaean Warrior Goddess Revisited
No full textThis study updates Rehak 1984 (Archäologischer Anzeiger, 535-545) by bringing new evidence to bear on the identification of a Mycenaean warrior goddess and by treating the individual elements of her iconography
Performance of an X-ray spectroscopic system based on a double-gate double-feedback charge preamplifier
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Existence of positive decaying solutions for nonlinear singular second order equations
No full textWe study a singular boundary value problem for a second order equations under quite general assumptions. The conditions guaranteeing its solvability are given, which yield some of the existing results when the equation reduces to special forms
Double particle resolution in semiconductor drift detectors
No full textThe optimum signal processing of two close pulses produced by ionization of two close fast particles in a semiconductor drift detector is presented. The optimum is relative to the determination of charges produced by each particle and the average drift times for the released charges to reach the anode. The resolution of the charge and the drift time measurements in the presence of additive and nonadditive noises have been theoretically studied as functions of the distance between two fast ionizing particles and the amount of ionization produced by individual particles. Is it shown that the precision of the position determination of the individual particles remains good enough also in the case of a significant overlap of the two pulse
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