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Obituary: Philip J. Davis
No full textWith deep sorrow, we announce the passing of Philip J. Davis on March 14, 2018, at the age of 95. Phil was one of the founding fathers of SIAM and a prolificcontributor to SIAM News; he was an innovative mathematician, an inspiring teacher, an entertaining and wide-ranging author, and a profound thinker on the nature and significance of mathematics
Can ChatGPT Be Considered an Author of a Medical Article?
No full textKazuki Ide, Philip Hawke, Takeo Nakayama, Can ChatGPT Be Considered an Author of a Medical Article?, Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, Volume 33, Issue 7, Pages 381-382, Released on J-STAGE July 05, 2023, Advance online publication April 08, 2023, Online ISSN 1349-9092, Print ISSN 0917-5040, https://doi.org/10.2188/jea.JE20230030, https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jea/33/7/33_JE20230030/_article/-char/e
Motion and mobility in the realist novels of Philip K Dick
No full textThis essay explores the ways that ideas of motion and mobility support readings of Philip K Dick's early novels that take full account of the changing geographical context. They are set during a period of rapid suburban expansion, the building of the interstate and the spread of automobility through car ownership, and their characters frequently exist in a state between continuity through conformity and the potential for change. The open ended forms of the novels reflect a world around Dick that was still under construction, and where alternative realities can be glimpsed between incomplete materialities
Measurement of the Branching Fraction ratioB(B[subscript c] ⁺→ψ(2S)π⁺)/B(B[subscript c]⁺→J/ψπ⁺)
No full textFurther distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Using pp collision data collected by LHCb at center-of-mass energies √s = 7 TeV and 8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 3fb⁻¹, the ratio of the branching fraction of the B[subscript c]⁺→ψ(2S)π⁺ decay relative to that of the B[subscript c]⁺→J/ψπ⁺ decay is measured to be 0.268±0.032(stat)±0.007(syst)±0.006(BF). The first uncertainty is statistical, the second is systematic, and the third is due to the uncertainties on the branching fractions of the J/ψ→μ⁺μ⁻ and ψ(2S)→μ⁺μ⁻ decays. This measurement is consistent with the previous LHCb result, and the statistical uncertainty is halved
Philip P. Neely scrapbook of fugitive fiction, W.0022
No full textAbstract: Scrapbook containing handwritten notes and newspaper clippings related to Philip P. Neely's writingsScope and Content Note: This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes related to Philip P. Neely's writings. Highlights of the collection include copies of the short story series "Threads: From the Life-Woof of Hal Hankins, Esq.," selections from the autobiographical column "Leaves from my Life-Book," and selections from a social column entitled "Pen and Ink Gossip."Biographical/Historical Note: Philip Philips Neely was born on 8 September 1819 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He was a Methodist minister and author of several serialized novellas as well as several books of sermons. Neely and his first wife, Henrietta, had one child, John Edwin Polk, before she died in 1847 (presumably in childbirth) with the couple's second child. With his second wife, J. Alice, they had at least one daughter, Julia E.Philip Neely died on 9 November 1868, in Mobile, Alabama
An analysis of the correspondence and hagiographical works of Philip of Harvengt
No full textFor every famous author of the twelfth-century renaissance, there are numerous lesser-known writers. Despite being overshadowed by more brilliant scholars or those closer to the centre of important events, their voices add depth to the study of the intellectual history of this period. A founding member of one of the earliest Premonstratensian houses; a highly-educated and prolific author, much in demand as a hagiographer; and a vigorous defender of the clerical order, Philip of Harvengt is one such writer, and a worthy subject for study. This thesis examines two bodies of Philip’s works – his letters and his hagiographical writings – analysing the predominant and recurrent concerns and ideals expressed in them, and the means by which they are expressed.
The letters are carefully crafted works, examples of the literary labour which Philip writes is incumbent upon the cleric. The first part of this thesis approaches these letters in chapters on four themes: the role of the ecclesiastical prelate; the importance of learning; the relationship between religious orders; and Philip’s use of the motif of friendship. His hagiographical works, too, are examples of literary artistry, to move as well as to educate the audience. In the second part of the thesis, these will be discussed individually, with the first chapter analysing his vita of Oda, a nun attached to his own house, whom he portrays as a martyr. The succeeding chapters consider Philip’s rewritings of earlier vitae, and show how he managed his sources in order to produce vitae depicting their subjects according to his ideal model of sanctity.
Philip’s letters express concerns shared by contemporaries, reflecting anxieties surrounding roles and ideal forms of living in a period immediately following the first fervour of religious renewal. His hagiographies articulate ideals of sanctity, clarifying these when they are not made sufficiently explicit in earlier works, for the better edification of an audience pursuing this vita perfecta. Both letters and hagiographies are designed to exhort and instruct the reader or listener: above all, Philip is a teacher
On the probability that a discrete complex random matrix is singular:
No full textLet n be a large integer and M_n be an n by n complex matrix whose entries are independent (but not necessarily identically distributed) discrete random variables. The main goal of this thesis is to prove a general upper bound for the probability that M_n is singular.
For a constant 0 < p < 1 and a constant positive integer r, we will define a property p-bounded of exponent r. Our main result shows that if the entries of M_n satisfy this
property, then the probability that M_n is singular is at most (p^(1/r) + o(1) )^n. All of the results in this thesis hold for any characteristic zero integral domain replacing the complex numbers.
In the special case where the entries of M_n are "fair coin flips" (taking the values +1, -1 each with probability 1/2), our general bound implies that the probability that
Mn is singular is at most (1/[square root]2 + o(1))^n, improving on the previous best upper bound of (3/4 + o(1))^n, proved by Tao and Vu in 2007.
In the special case where the entries of M_n are "lazy coin flips" (taking values +1, -1 each with probability 1/4 and value 0 with probability 1/2), our general bound implies that the probability that M_n is singular is at most (1/2 + o(1))^n, which is asymptotically sharp.
Our method is a refinement of those from Kahn, Komlos, and Szemeredi in 1995 and Tao and Vu in 2007. In particular, we make a critical use of the Structure Theorem from Tao and Vu in 2007, which was obtained using tools from additive combinatorics.
One key lemma for extending our results to the complex numbers follows from a more general result about characteristic zero integral domains. We show that any
finite system S in a characteristic zero integral domain can be mapped to Z/QZ, for infinitely many primes Q, preserving all algebraic incidences in S . This can be seen as a generalization of the well-known Freiman isomorphism lemma, which asserts that any finite subset of a torsion-free group can be mapped into Z/QZ, preserving all linear incidences.
As applications, we derive several combinatorial results (such as sum-product estimates) for a finite set in a characteristic zero integral domain. As C is a characteristic zero integral domain, this allows us to obtain new proofs for some recent results concerning finite sets of complex numbers, without relying on the topology of the plane.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-82)by Philip J. Woo
Research in Urban Economics: New Urban Strategies in Advanced Regional Economics, Vol. 10
No full textPhilip J. Lane is a contributing author, with Edward J. Deak Out-migrations as Adjustment in New England , p. 45-71.
Book description: This volume discusses such topics as re-thinking city economic development, the high price of high costs, the changing industrial structure of the New York region, transportation policy and the 1990 Clean Air Act, and SMEs and regional economic development. – Publisher description.https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/economics-books/1006/thumbnail.jp
Latin rhotacism: a case study in the life cycle of phonological processes
No full textRhotacism in Latin is a well-known phonological generalisation which, in its paradigm cases, can be stated as a regular sound change of [s] to [r] between vowels. This change/rule is posited on the basis both of comparative evidence, e.g. *swesor > Latin soror 'sister', and of paradigms in which final s alternates with medial intervocalic r, e.g. flos, floris 'flower'. It is possible, however, to cite a number of exceptions to the basic rule, which, if one attempts to account for all of them in a synchronic grammar, amount to outright paradoxes. This paper presents a diachronic model of the progress of rhotacism through the expected life-cycle of a phonological process, within the formalism of Stratal Optimality Theory, and demonstrates that this model can account for the exceptions to rhotacism as epiphenomena of the expected progress of the constraint ranking giving rise to it from phrase- to word-level, and from word- to stem-level. Finally, I argue that rhotacism became a systematic property of the lexicon, at which point it was subject to analogical extension, giving the paradigm levelling observed in e.g. honor, honoris 'honour' (formerly honos, honoris).This is the author's manuscript copy of an article that appeared in Transactions of the Philological Society 110(1):80-93, first published 14 March 2012. The definitive version is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01285.x/abstractRoberts, P. J. (2012), Latin Rhotacism: A Case Study in the Life cycle of Phonological Processes. Transactions of the Philological Society, 110: 80–93. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01285.xDOI:10.1111/j.1467-968X.2012.01285.x (published version)Peer reviewe
Opening spatial hinges with mindful writing practice: negotiating Philip Pullman’s secret commonwealth
No full textThis article enquires how ‘spatial hinges’ between author Philip Pullman’s series The Book of Dust and different sites are unexpected and elusive, but may opened by mindfulness. Natalie Goldberg’s mindful writing practice techniques are used as an interpretative instrument to measure this hinging together of parallel worlds. The research data amalgamates interviews with Oxford fantasy tour guides conducted before COVID 19 restrictions with writing sprints about Lockdown walks in both a local park and on a guided tour of ‘Philip Pullman’s Oxford’. The data reveals how a secret commonwealth of elves and fairies infuse the parks with otherworldly, unexpected and exaggerated bucolic awakenings and intersubjectivity, exposing ancient mythical places, including a holloway. On a tour of Oxford, the imaginative storytelling techniques of the guide include impromptu flights of fancy and tilted perspectives that contribute to an atmosphere of unlikeliness, suggestive of Pullman’s texts. In addition, an experience of getting lost or ‘de-touring’, leads to unexpected encounters with the affective mystical presence of Pullman’s novels. The findings conclude that mindfulness may create a state of attunement to the reverberations of the opening of spatial hinges, allowing stories to reveal themselves spontaneously
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