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Susan Marie Boyer Collection 1926-1998
No full textThe collection contains documentation of Susan Marie Boyer's ancestors from Bohemia, including a family tree from the mid 18th century to 1995; family tree of the Bergmann family from the mid 18th century to 1998, prepared by Adolph Bergmann of Denmark; and copy of the original German/Czech family history by Maximillian Bermann, which was started in 1926. The family history includes some English translations.The following families are mentioned in this collection : Allina family; Ascherman family; Bergmann family; Bermann family; Elsner family; Fisher family; Freimuth family; Hahn family; Jelinek family; Kohn family; Koppleman family; Koserak family; Kovanice family; Lederer family; Lowe family; Nueman family; Oplatka family; Prochaska family; Sabath family; Sachsel family; Schwarzkopf family; Stadler family; Stein family; Steindler family; Stern family; Vodicka family; Zeesland family.The following locations in Bohemia are mentioned in this collection : Březnice; Brodce; Chyšky; Dlouhá Ves; Druhlice; Erstisovice; Horažďovice; Hořice; Klatovy; Klučenice; Kolín; Milevsko; Nečín; Nemice; Pečice; Petrovice; Písková Lhota; Stravoz; Sušice; Veslicko; Žebnice; Žilina; Zvěstov.digitize
Ida von Hahn-Hahn und Isabelle Eberhardt. Ausbruch aus Restriktionen – Auf der Suche nach sich selbst
No full textThe following thesis compares the travelogue Orientalische Briefe by the German author Ida von Hahn-Hahn with the travel journals Mes Journaliers by the French author Isabelle Eberhardt, in the context of how each woman represents herself as a female traveler and author. The comparative study analyzes whether both authors in these texts deal with the issue of breaking out of social and cultural restrictions while traveling to the ‘Orient’. The overall question of my thesis concerns what kind of filters did they use to speak about the ‘cultural other’.
The personal backgrounds of Ida von Hahn-Hahn and Isabelle Eberhardt differ in several aspects. The German author Ida von Hahn-Hahn visited the ‘Orient’ in 1843 temporarily and each place on only one occasion whereas the French author Isabelle Eberhardt constantly traveled at the end of the 19th century and at the same time she turned North Africa into her new home. These texts were analyzed in the context of gender discourse analysis, focusing on the discourse of feminity in the 19th century and the discourse of the Western world about the ‘Orient’. The comparison showed similarities and differences in the way both authors present themselves and the ‘Arab woman’ by (de-)constructing pre-existing ‘images’.
In my analysis I was able to demonstrate that both authors consciously deal with the western femininity discourse of the 19th century and the Western discourse about the ‘Orient’ by selecting similar motives. Even though their results are quite different, both authors clearly use the ‘Orient’ to express their search of one’s self
Agent-Based Support for Human/Agent Teams
No full textIn this paper, we present an interface agent, MokSAF, which facilitates time-critical team-planning tasks for teams of both humans and heterogeneous software agents. This agent assists in the formation of teams of humans (via other MokSAF agents) and task agents that can autonomously perform team subtasks. It provides a suitable interaction mechanism to instruct the various task agents in the team; and, by monitoring the human’s progress, reallocate or modify the sub-tasks if the human fails to achieve that sub-task. A military domain has been used to investigate this interface agent. The task consists of three military (human) commanders that each assemble a platoon, and plan routes so that all three platoons arrive at a given rendezvous by a specified time. An experimental study has been conducted to evaluate MokSAF and the assistance provided by one of three different task agents, and the results summarized
Characterization of the Dᵂ-Laguerre-Hahn functionals
No full text29 pages, no figures.-- MSC2000 codes: 33C45, 39A10.MR#: MR1914598 (2003e:33021)Zbl#: Zbl 1021.33007We give some characterization theorems for the DᵂLaguerre-Hahn linear functionals and we extend the concept of the class of the usual Laguerre-Hahn functionals to the Dᵂ-Laguerre-Hahn functionals, recovering the classic results when ᵂ tends to zero. Moreover, we show that some transformations carried out on the Dᵂ-Laguerre-Hahn linear functionals lead to new Dᵂ-Laguerre-Hahn linear functionals. Finally, we analyze the class of the resulting functionals and we give some applications relative to the first associated Charlier, Meixner, Krawtchouk and Hahn orthogonal polynomials.The work of the second author (FM) was supported by Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología (Dirección General de Investigación) of Spain under grant BFM 2000-0206-C04-01 and the INTAS project INTAS 2000-272.Publicad
Asymptotic iteration method for solving Hahn difference equations
No full textHahn’s difference operator Dq;wf(x)=(f(qx + w) – f(x))/((q – 1)x + w), q ∈ (0, 1), w > 0,
x = w/(1 – q) is used to unify the recently established difference and q-asymptotic
iteration methods (DAIM, qAIM). The technique is applied to solve the second-order
linear Hahn difference equations. The necessary and sufficient conditions for
polynomial solutions are derived and examined for the (q;w)-hypergeometric
equation.Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technolog
The Approximate Jordan-Hahn Decomposition
No full textNon-commutative measure theory embraces measure theory on cr-fields of subsets of a set, on projection lattices of von Neumann algebras or JBW-algebras and on hypergraphs alike [20], [27], [33], [37], [39], [40], [41]. Due to the unifying structure of an orthoalgebra concepts can easily be transferred from one branch to the other. Additional conceptual inpetus is obtained from the logico-probabilistic foundations of quantum mechanics (see [6], [19], [21]).In the late seventies the author studied the Jordan-Hahn decomposition of measures on orthomodular posets and certain graphs. These investigations revealed an interesting geometrical aspect of this decomposition in that the Jordan-Hahn property of the convex set of probability charges on a finite orthomodular poset can be characterized in terms of the extreme points of the unit ball of the Banach space dual of the base normed space of Jordan charges.</jats:p
Government Analysis of the Benefits and Costs of Regulation
No full textRecently, Congress has shown a greater interest in assessing the economic impact of regulation. The interest is driven in part by estimates that federal regulation cost several hundred billion dollars annually. In 1996, Congress required the director of the Office of Management and Budget to provide estimates of the total annual benefits and costs of all federal regulatory programs and estimates of the benefits and costs of individual regulations. This essay reviews the increasing use of economic analysis in regulatory decision making, critically assesses the first OMB report, and considers how the use of economic analysis can help inform regulatory decision making. It argues that policy makers need to address a growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the effectiveness and efficiency of much regulation.Regulatory Reform
Information seeking with Wikipedia on the iPod touch
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to present the results of a usability study which inquired into undergraduate student information seeking with Wikipedia on the iPod touch. Students characterize the overall nature of information searched for with the Wikipedia app to be for recreational and for short factual information. Recreational searching as a way in which undergraduate students utilize mobile technology is an earlier finding of Wikipedia iPod usage, and is verified as a trend of undergraduate student search using the iPod. All undergraduate student participants of the Wikipedia app on a mobile interface report this tool as helping to become more efficient in their research. Students viewed Wikipedia articles about people and concepts more so than other article types.is peer reviewedSubmitted by James Hahn ([email protected]) on 2011-02-17T02:14:29Z
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Previous issue date: 2010The author wishes to acknowledge the Research and Publication Committee of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library, which provided support for the completion of this research.published or submitted for publicatio
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