105 research outputs found
Early hominin paleoecology
No full textEdited by Matt Sponheimer, Julia A. Lee-Thorp, Kaye E. Reed, and Peter Ungar.Includes bibliographical references and index.Pt. 1. Paleoclimate and paleoenvironment -- pt. 2. Hominin adaptations and behavior -- pt. 3. Analogies and models
Matt de la Peña Josette Frank Award 2022 Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Matt de la Peña wins the Josette Frank Award (for young readers) 2022 for Milo Imagines the World from Bank Street College Children\u27s Book Committee.
The Josette Frank Award
This award for fiction honors a book or books of outstanding literary merit in which children or young people deal in a positive and realistic way with difficulties in their world and grow emotionally and morally. The award has been given annually since 1943. Josette Frank, the editor of anthologies for children, served for many years as the Executive Director of the Child Study Association of America of which this committee was a part.https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cbc_awards/1001/thumbnail.jp
QKSA: Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent
No full textIn this research, we extend the universal reinforcement learning agent models of artificial general intelligence to quantum environments. The utility function of a classical exploratory stochastic Knowledge Seeking Agent, KL-KSA, is generalized to distance measures from quantum information theory on density matrices. Quantum process tomography (QPT) algorithms form a tractable subset of programs for modeling environmental dynamics. The optimal QPT policy is selected based on a mutable cost function based on algorithmic complexity as well as computational resource complexity. The entire agent design is encapsulated in a self-replicating quine which mutates the cost function based on the predictive value of the optimal policy choosing scheme. Thus, multiple agents with pareto-optimal QPT policies evolve using genetic programming, mimicking the development of physical theories each with different resource trade-offs. This formal framework, termed Quantum Knowledge Seeking Agent (QKSA), is a resource-bounded participatory observer modification to the recently proposed algorithmic information-based reconstruction of quantum mechanics. A proof-of-concept is implemented and available as open-sourced software.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Quantum & Computer EngineeringComputer EngineeringQCD/Almudever La
Alien citizens : discerning the now and the not yet in the thought of Richard John Neuhaus.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. ).Richard John Neuhaus (1936-2009) was a prominent author, editor and cleric whose reflections on the relationship between Christian faith and American democracy were highly influential. This paper describes his efforts, over more than four decades as a public intellectual, to correctly prioritize his patriotic attachment to the American experiment and his ultimate loyalty to Christ and the Church. Neuhaus discerned perennial and irresolvable tensions between what he termed the "Now" and the "Not Yet" of the Christian experience, ideas that are roughly analogous to Augustine's concepts of the City of Man and the City of God. The paper demonstrates how Neuhaus exhorted American Christians to engagement in the political arena, taught how American democracy depends upon acknowledgment of Christ's lordship, and warned against the desire to build a perfectly Christianized society on earth.by Matt Reynolds.M.A
Manual inscriptions of the everyday : SASA Gallery, 17 September - 18 October 2013
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 17 September-18 October 2013.
The SASA Gallery showcases artists, designers and curators associated with the School of Art, Architecture and Design, University of South Australia.Prompted by the curators' research in theories of the everyday, this exhibition of architecture and design explores the concept of the manual - as dexterity, craft, handbooks and instruction. It will consist of a series of 2 and 3 dimensional pieces in mixed media. Central to the curation will be a 'table of contents' as a dynamic device providing a condensed, physical synopsis of the exhibition.Artists/designers: Damien Chwalisz, Matt Davis, Michael Geissler, Rachel Hurst, Jane Lawrence, Gini Lee, Peter Malatt, Katica Pedisic, Peter Poulet, Hannah White.
Curators: Rachel Hurst and Jane Lawrence.
Catalogue essay by external scholar: Dr Ceridwen Owen.
Editor: Dr Mary Knights.
Includes bibliographical references
Intimate immensities
No full textCatalogue of an exhibition held at the SASA Gallery, Adelaide, 18 May-18 June 2010.
Artists and designers: Damien Chwalisz, Matt Davis, Sally Davis, Michael Geissler, Sean Humphries, Rachel Hurst, Jane Lawrence, Katica Pedisic, Sasha Radjenovich, Linda Marie Walker, Phil Walker and Hannah White.The exhibition takes its rationale from the congruence of these (two) themes: ONE: as an exploration /interrogation of simultaneous scales of perception, motivation and operation within architecture and interior architecture, TWO: as an exploration of the everyday as a source for spatial and aesthetic practices.Catalogue essay: Karen Burns
Exhibition notes by curators: Jane Lawrence and Rachel Hurst
Editor: Mary Knights.
Includes bibliographical references
UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 93, No. 9
No full textWKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles: Chisenhall, Jeremy. Mitchell Robinson Leaves WKU Again Singleton, John Water War – Hurricane Harvey Kast, Monica & Emma Austin. Matt Bevin: Universities Should Cut Programs, Close Buildings Alvey, Rebekah. Board of Regents to Discuss Diversity Plan DeLetter, Emily. Campus Activities Board Hosts Virtual Reality Experience for Students Stevens, Mason. Letter to the Editor re: Matt Bevin King, Jennifer. Editorial Cartoon re: Matt Bevin Murrer, Erick. Major Issues – Student Loans Johnson, Kalyn. Never Forget the Arts: A Response to Matt Bevin’s Controversial Comments Dollins, Abigail. Curtain Up – Drag Shows Deppen, Laurel. Author Ann Patchett to Give Talk at WKU Fletcher, Griffin. Jewish Students Seek Representation Heichelbech, Evan. Mitchell Robinson’s Hide-and-Seek Has Ended – Basketball Porter, Sam. Half Full – Football Manlove, Clay. Emerging Defense Is Key for Lady Toppers – Volleybal
Richardson, Barbauld, and the construction of an early modern fan club
No full textMPhilMuch has been written about the life and long works of the eighteenth century epistolary novelist, Samuel Richardson, but the prospect of his position as the first celebrity novelist – responsible for courting his own fame as well as initiating his own fan club – has largely been ignored. The body of manuscripts housed at the National Art Library in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London provides the modern scholar with evidence of the skeletal beginnings of an early fan club. This thesis aims to show how these manuscripts were turned into a saleable commodity by the publisher and entrepreneur Richard Phillips, while under the guiding hand of another, slightly later, literary celebrity, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. In order to restore Richardson’s reputation amongst a new nineteenth century audience, Barbauld was required to construct her own idea of him as an eighteenth century celebrity author, and in doing so the insecurities of a self-professed, apparently diffident man, are revealed. Barbauld’s capacious, but heavily edited selection of letters is analyzed in this thesis, providing ample evidence that Richardson’s correspondents were more than just eager letter writers. By using Barbauld’s biography of Richardson this thesis aims to show how she manipulates the genre of life writing in her construction of him.
This thesis offers an alternative reading of how the Richardson manuscripts are viewed, redefining them as not simply a collection of letters, but as a collective entity, deliberately selected and archived as evidence of an early modern fan club, and its celebrity managing director
Any space left? Homeless resistance by place-type in Los Angeles County
No full textThis study develops a more nuanced concept of homeless resistance, incorporating a range of resistance behaviors (exit, adaptation, persistence, and voice) that bridge the gap between current frameworks that either romanticize or ignore it. We also consider the possibility that different kinds of space may theoretically allow for different kinds of resistance. To this end, we employ an ecological approach to homeless space by classifying Los Angeles County into three place-types (prime, transitional, and marginal). We empirically consider the issue of resistance within the hardening context among a group of 25 homeless informants, focusing on whether and how some of them have exercised their voices and sought to ameliorate one or more aspects of their situation, as well as how resistance may vary by place-type
Did You Bring the Hummus? Episode 120 - Hungry Beautiful Animals
No full textToday, I am joined by Philosopher and author of Hungry Beautiful Animals, Matthew Halteman. Matt is is professor of philosophy at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics in the UK. He is the author of Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and co-editor of Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating.
His book Hungry Beautiful Animals, of which we talk a lot about, is a heartfelt, humane, and humorous exploration of how going vegan can bring abundance into our lives.
This is such a rich conversation of veganism, morality, abundance, leading with love, and the parallels we observe in the state of our world right now, Matt and I dig in deep with a lot of care, love, and laughs
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