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Can the Release of Only a Few Subarachnoidal and Basal Cistern Adhesion Resolve Postinfective Hydrocephalus?
No full textSeneca. Medea, Fedra, Tieste
No full textSaggio introduttivo con profilo storico-critico dell'autore e dell'opera e bibliografi
The construction of the orator in the early Imperial period (3IBC- ADI38)
No full textThis thesis explores the construction of the orator and oratory in Roman Imperial Literature and Social History and engages with theoretical works on gender definition to ask the questlon 'What does it mean to be an oratOr in the hundred and fifty years after Cicero's death'.
Chapter 1 considers the declamations on and around Cicero's death, and how they are used to construct the figure of Cicero in the first century AD.
Chapter 2 examines how Tacitus' Dialogus can be read as a series of declamations which allow the participants and audience of the Dialogus to continue to re-examine the nature of oratory and its place in Roman society.
Chapter 3 focuses on the relation of forensic oratory, declamation, and rhetorical theory. It shows how 'school exercises' put rhetOrical theory into practice and are a practical preparation for being an orator.
Chapter 4 examines oratory and declamation in the Prefaces to Controversiae of the Elder Seneca. It shows that Seneca is not as pessimistic as he has been read and re-evaluates the criticism of declamation in Books 3 and 9: what has been taken as a successful assault on the practice is shown instead to derive from the speakers' inability to declaim well.
Chapter 5 focuses on Tacitus' views on orators by examining the use of the term orator in the Annals and the role of performance in defining an orator.
Chapter 6 looks at Petronius Satyricon, particularly Trimalchio' s reading of the zodiac-dish as a hitherto unnoticed allusion to the Platonic criticism of rhetOric, which can be seen to run through the various passages where oratOry or declamation are discussed.
Chapter 7 explores QuintiIian's discussion of the orator as the embodiment of the vir bonus and its implications for our reading of the ethics of rhetoric in Quintilian. The chapter considers Book 12 of the Institutio as a whole, to show that it deals with the orator's career in an inherently Roman and practical way.
The Conclusion addresses the perceived pessimism of the sources regarding the present state of rhetoric and its future. Instead of reading the period as one of the decline of oratory, due to imperial control and the rise of declamation, it stresses the continuity between Republic and Empire in the way that the Roman elite conceived of themselves and their role in public life as an orator
Benchmarking and Algorithm Optimization for SENeCA: A RISC-V-based Neuromorphic Processor
No full textWith recent breakthroughs in AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, the impact of AI on society can be felt in various fields. The market for AI software, for example, reached a valuation of \$62 billion in 2022. A growing number of new computer architectures specialized in running these AI software were also developed. At first they were run on conventional CPUs (Central Processing Unit) and GPUs (Graphical Processing Units), but then more specialized hardware emerged, such as the TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). However, since algorithms in these AI software are generally data-intensive, the power consumption became a problem. Therefore, as many of these algorithms were based on biological neural networks, there is a growing interest to develop hardware similarly based on principles found these networks as well to replicate their efficiency. This new architecture is known as neuromorphic architecture. However, a new architecture does not come without challenges. As a nascent and fragmented field, neuromorphic computing in general lacks a standardized benchmarking suite or methodology. In other, more mature fields, benchmarks are a standard way of evaluating the performance of different designs objectively and fairly. This thesis aims to propose and demonstrate a benchmarking methodology and implementation flow for neuromorphic processors. This methodology aims to measure the important performance metrics for a neuromorphic processor, both on the small scale of individual synaptic operations, and the large scale of performing an actual workload. The chosen workload is a keyword spotting program based on a simple DNN architecture, which detects a specific phrase in an audio recording. This workload was chosen due to its potential application in an environment where energy is limited, such as an embedded device.The neuromorphic processor that is the target of this benchmarking is SENeCA (short for Scalable Energy-efficient Neuromorphic Computer Architecture), a flexible and scalable design developed at IMEC The Netherlands. To implement the keyword spotting program on SENeCA, the keyword spotting program was rewritten and parsed. Since no physical chip implementation of SENeCA exists at the time of writing, the program was run on SENeCA using a HDL simulator. The execution time of the program is measured in detail, taking into account not only the total time, but also the time required to complete the specific stages of program. Afterwards, the power consumption of SENeCA during the execution of the program was measured using a power estimation software, both for the entire chip and its individual components. This is done both in average mode, obtaining the average power consumption over the total execution time, and in time-based mode, providing insight to the peak power and fluctuations over time. Then, the energy to solution is calculated using the execution time and power consumption. This process is done in multiple iterations, with a specific optimization done each iteration using SENeCA's accelerators. This provides insight into the impact of each optimization to power consumption and performance. Finally, a measurement of the energy consumption of SENeCA per individual synaptic operations is also done, allowing estimates of the energy consumption of future implementations.Electrical Engineering | Embedded System
author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 – Supplemental material for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct
No full textSupplemental material, author-bios-SRD-19-0063.R1 for The Network Structure of Police Misconduct by George Wood, Daria Roithmayr and Andrew V. Papachristos in Socius</p
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Dialogi et Alia opera
No full textNumérisation effectuée à partir d'un document original.Numérisation avant restaurationContient : F. 1-3v : Vita Senecae.F. 4-v : Blancs.F. 5-10v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De providentia.F. 10v-14 : Martinus, De quatuor virtutibus.F. 14v-16v : De moribus.F. 16v-30 : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De clementia.F. 30v-33 : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum.F. 33-45v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De tranquillitate animi.F. 45v-81v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De ira.F. 82-90 : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De constantia sapientis.F. 90-91v : De paupertate.F. 92-109v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De brevitate vitae.F. 110-121v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De consolatione ad Marciam.F. 121v-131v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De consolatione ad Helviam.F. 132-145 : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De vita beata.F. 145-210v : Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De beneficiis.Les comptes de Gaillon de 1502-1503 mentionnent un paiement en juin 1503 de 105 s.t. "pour reste de son payement [à Jean Serpin] du livre de Senecque nommé les Proverbes" (AD Seine-Maritime, G 615, n.f.). Ce titre désigne vraisemblablement le présent manuscrit, dont l'inventaire de 1508 indique qu'il était accompagné d'un autre volume. Le Latin 6391 commence un peu abruptement, sans frontispice, et pourrait dès lors être le second volume de cette collection de textes. Dès lors, le paiement à Jean Pichore, également en juin 1503, pour avoir fait "a ung autre livre une grande histoire et V petites" pourrait le concerner. En juillet 1503, onversa en outre 40 s.t. à Guillaume Gallet "pour avoir lié le livre des Proverbes de Senecque, l'avoir doré et fait les armes de mond. seigneur le cardinal".Réalisé pour le cardinal Georges Ier d'Amboise (en plusieurs endroits, armes palées d'or et de gueules de six pièces, surmontées d'une croix de procession et du chapeau de cardinal) ; librairie du château de Gaillon (Inv. 1508, B 61 : "Deux volumes des oeuvres de Seneque en parchemin, couvers de velours en graine garniz de fermaus de loton doré" ; cf. AD Seine-Maritime, G 866, f. 19v) ; légué à son neveu, Georges II d'Amboise (Inv. 1550, C 107 : "Opera Senece" ; cf. AD Seine-Maritime, G 868, f. 22v) ; sorti de la librairie de Gaillon avant 1593 ; Gaston d'Orléans ; legs de celui-ci à Louis XIV ; transféré au Cabinet du Louvre en 1663, puis à la Bibliothèque royale en 1666 ; ancien fonds royal.N° 5 de la liste des manuscrits de Gaston d'Orléans par Nicolas Clément, fin XVIIe siècle (BnF, Mss., Latin 17172, f. 43 : "Seneca philosophi opera, folio")
Editorial Introduction to The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal, v. 1
No full textIn lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the editorial introduction:
We are thrilled to introduce the inaugural edition of The Seneca Falls Dialogues Journal. This multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, online journal grows out of the Biennial Seneca Falls Dialogues (SFD), a biennial conference launched in October 2008 to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the first women’s rights convention held in Seneca Falls, New York and the 60th anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Approaching death in the classical tradition
No full textThe thesis consists of five chapters: the first functions as an overture; the second, third and fourth deal with Plato, Cicero and Montaigne respectively; and the fifth raises some questions.
The overture explores the ways in which Odysseus, Lucretius and Seneca approached death, and in the process introduces some obvious distinctions - between death viewed as the act of dying and death viewed as the state of being dead, between the death which comes to everyone and the death which comes to me, between our own death and the death of others - and anticipates certain recurring themes.
The second chapter, on Plato, is concerned chiefly with the Phaedo and the question of what is involved in "the practice of death". This entails an examination of related concepts and terminology in the Gorgias and the Republic, and of the whole subject of Platonic myth.
The third chapter discusses Cicero's views on death and immortality - both the considered reflections of the philosopher and the spontaneous reactions of the bereaved father - principally as these emerge from the Tusculan Disputations and the letters to Atticus.
The fourth chapter approaches Montaigne - his own experiences of death, the relationship between his earlier and later approaches, the tension between his professed Catholicism and his pagan inclinations, the difficulty and perhaps undesirability of extracting a 'message' from the Essais on this or any other subject.
The conclusion asks to what extent these various approaches succeed in what they set out to do, and whether any generalised, objective approach to death can ever successfully address the individual predicament, either in relation to one's own death or in facing bereavement
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