4,328 research outputs found
Else Spies Collection 1937-1938
No full textThis collection contains three items related to Else Spies and family, reflecting Jewish existence in 1938 Germany: postal receipt for item sent to Bernhard Spies in
Buchenwald concentration camp (1938); 1937-1938 membership card for Jüdischer Kulturbund Worms a. Rh.; letter from Basler Hilfe für Emigrantenkinder on emigration of several
individuals, including 70 children expected to arrive the week of the letter (1938).The original German language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationSent for digitizationReturned from digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Knights, spies, games and ballot sequences
No full textAbstractThis paper solves the Knights and Spies Problem: In a room there are n people, each labelled with a unique number between 1 and n. A person may either be a knight or a spy. Knights always tell the truth, while spies may lie or tell the truth as they see fit. Each person in the room knows the identity of everyone else. Apart from this, all that is known is that strictly more knights than spies are present. Asking only questions of the form: ‘Person i, what is the identity of person j?’, what is the least number of questions that will guarantee to find the true identities of all n people? We present a questioning strategy that uses slightly less than 3n/2 questions, and prove that it is optimal by solving a related two-player game. The performance of this strategy is analysed using methods from the famous ballot-counting problem. We end by discussing two questions suggested by generalisations of the original problem
Palace of Spies
No full textWhen Peggy is kicked out of her uncle’s house because she refuses to marry the man her uncle wants her to, she is thrown into a world of the royal court and espionage. The mysterious man who claims to know her father asks her to play the part of Lady Francesca at Hampton Court. Peggy has to find the information that her new benefactors want, but uncovering what happened to Lady Francesca could be a matter of life or death for her as she starts to uncover the Jacobite plot to change who rules England. During her time at court she starts to fall in love and discover things about court and the people there who could not only change her life but the future of her country. With spies around every corner, it is hard to know who to trust, but she manages to uncover what happened to Francesca and who are the major spies in the court. Several of the characters are ridiculous: the uncle throwing her out without much of an explanation of why, people knowing that Peggy is not who she says she is but don’t say anything about it, a character who knows who Peggy is right away even though he was not as familiar with the real Francesca as other characters were, and the murderer’s motive being ego more than anything else. The sexual assault scene is disturbing and unnecessary; there were many other ways Peggy could have started the life of a spy, and she doesn’t react the way someone would after becoming homeless and sexually assaulted within a few short hours. The romance is also underdeveloped with very few conversations before the characters decide that they are in love. There are good parts of the story. It is written in a fun, engaging way and the historical details are interesting, but the weaknesses of the book make it hard to enjoy the parts that are good. *Contains sexual assault and other sexual content, mild violence, some sexism and racism
Letter to Jan Else signed by Antigone Kotsiopulos and Ginny Webster
No full textThank you letter to Friends of the Gustafson Gallery member and department faculty member, Janet J. Else, signed by Department Head, Antigone Kotsiopulos, and Friends of the Gustafson Gallery President, Ginny (Virginia) Webster
A comparison of intertemporal choices for oneself versus someone else based on Tsallis’ statistics
No full textImpulsivity and inconsistency in intertemporal choice (discounting) have drawn attention in econophysics and neuroeconomics. Although it is well established that most people often show irrational discounting (e.g., hyperbolic discounting), little is known regarding whether the irrationality is mitigated or not, when the choice was performed by someone else instead of subject herself. This point is important for economic policy-making. In order to compare consistency and impulsivity in choices for oneself versus someone else, we experimentally estimated the consistency parameter q in Tsallis’ statistics-based discount function for oneself and someone else, by assessing the points of subjective equality (indifference points) at 7 delays (1 week to 25 years) in humans. We observed that (i) most people are more inconsistent when the outcomes of intertemporal choice are only relevant to someone else (q ¼ 8.89) than when relevant to oneself (q ¼ 2.63), and (ii) impulsivity, distinguished from inconsistency by utilizing the Tsallis statistics-based q-exponential discount function, is also larger in the choice for someone else than for oneself. Our results indicate that (i) leaving decision-making processes with some others may neither reduce impulsivity nor correct inconsistency and (ii) when q-exponential discounting is utilized, the definition range of q-parameter should be extended to qo0, and smaller (qo1) and larger (q41) values indicate more inconsistent discounting. Together, the usefulness of the q-exponential discounting for analyzing the dynamic consistency of economic policy was demonstrated in the present study
Somewhere else, part 149
No full textSome writings worth reading, discovered here and there, "Hacking Online Polls and Other Ways British Spies Seek to Control the Internet" https://firstlook.org/theintercept/… "Palestinian & Israeli deaths" https://i.imgur.com/7cdU0R6 see "Total of 8,856 rockets, 4,845 Palestinian casualties and 174 Israeli casualties" http://haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.2373486 … see "It's Economics, Stupid!" http://jewishpolicycenter.org/971/… via http://theatlantic.com/politics/archive/… "Is It Better..
Fräulein Else : Textanalyse aus psychologischer und epochentypischer Perspektive
No full textThis literary work has been chosen to focus on a novel called Fräulein Else and is written by Arthur Schnitzler. The author has chosen to focus the work on comparing the work with theera of the time the book was written and analyze the plot and character Else from apsychoanalytic perspective. The title of the paper is therefore ”Fräulein Else-Textanalyse aus epochentypischer Perspektive und Analyse der Hauptfigur auspsychologischer Sicht”. By collecting and reading student literature that touches on factsabout literature of the era: the millennium literature and literature on psychoanalysis, theauthor has been able to begin the analysis of the book, Fräulein Else and then be able toanswer her questions. The sources for the work come mainly from student literature but alsofrom copywriters who intend to spread knowledge. This study results in a deep characteristicanalysis of the main character as well as a comparison of the book and epoch-makingfeatures
Two Sides of a Coin: Fluxus and the Something Else Press
No full textAfter briefly outlining the process by which the Fluxus community coalesced, the author proceeds to recount the birthing of Something Else Press, Inc., and the transformation of aspects of the Press’ objectives into Printed Editions. In the process, the essay discusses many of the parallel concerns shared by both Something Else Press and Fluxus publication activities as well as their divergent agendas and strategies
Trade Effects of the Europe Agreements
No full textThe eastern enlargement of the European Union (EU) brought and will bring full membership to countries whose trade barriers with the EU had to a large extent already been removed under Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) during the 1990s. We employ a theory-based new version of a gravity equation, whose specification allows for an assessment of the impact of the arrangements on extra- and intra-group imports. We find robust evidence that the agreements have substantially increased intra-group trade, in the case of the Czech and Slovak Republic at the expense of the Rest of the World (ROW).Free Trade Agreements; Gravity equation; Central and Eastern Europe; Panel data
Ein Leben in Schönheit: Oskar Wilde kalender für das jahr 1908.
No full textBound in original paper covers, with portrait of author on front cover.Edited by Leo Colze; stories translated by Else Otten.Title and text within blue-gray ornamental borders; initials.Kalender.--Die Nachtigall und die Rose.--Der treue Freund.Mode of access: Internet
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