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Central Indiana Senior Fund State of Aging in Central Indiana Report (SoAR) Newsletter No. 1
No full textOlder adults are the fastest growing demographic in Central Indiana. Approximately 20,000 individuals in Central Indiana reach the age of 60 every year. By the year 2030, one in every five residents will be over the age of 65. To enhance the ability of older adults to live and thrive in Central Indiana, it is important to understand the population trends and basic needs of the growing older adult demographic. The Central Indiana Senior Fund is partnering with The Polis Center at IUPUI to develop the State of Aging in Central Indiana Report, a trusted source of information about Central Indiana’s older adult population.Central Indiana Senior Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundatio
Central Indiana Senior Fund State of Aging in Central Indiana Report (SoAR) Newsletter No. 1
No full textOlder adults are the fastest growing demographic in Central Indiana. Approximately 20,000 individuals in Central Indiana reach the age of 60 every year. By the year 2030, one in every five residents will be over the age of 65. To enhance the ability of older adults to live and thrive in Central Indiana, it is important to understand the population trends and basic needs of the growing older adult demographic. The Central Indiana Senior Fund is partnering with The Polis Center at IUPUI to develop the State of Aging in Central Indiana Report, a trusted source of information about Central Indiana’s older adult population.Central Indiana Senior Fund, a fund of the Central Indiana Community Foundatio
The Library of Alexandria : a cultural crossroads of the Ancient World : proceedings of the second Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference
No full textInternational audienceCreated and developed by the Ptolemaic kings, the Library of Alexandria was regarded as the world's main center of scholarship from the 3rd century BC until at least the reign of Cleopatra (48-30 BC). The dream to establish a gigantic library that could assemble all known texts of the Hellenistic period, the outstanding achievements of the scholars who worked inside its walls, and, finally, the mysteries surrounding its disappearance, have bestowed an almost mythic status on this monumental library.Where was the Royal Library exactly located? What kind of texts were kept in that library? To what extent did the Library of Alexandria become a meeting point for different languages and cultures? Should we distinguish between the Museum and the Library from an institutional point of view? Were the book collections housed in separate buildings? What caused the destruction of those collections and how much was lost? Why do some ancient authors remain silent about the Library's disappearance?Polis - The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an international conference to seek answers to these question. The 2015 conference on the Library of Alexandria gathered historians, archaeologists, and linguists, as well as specialists on the Septuagint and on Greek literature. This book presents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference
The Library of Alexandria : a cultural crossroads of the Ancient World : proceedings of the second Polis Institute Interdisciplinary Conference
No full textInternational audienceCreated and developed by the Ptolemaic kings, the Library of Alexandria was regarded as the world's main center of scholarship from the 3rd century BC until at least the reign of Cleopatra (48-30 BC). The dream to establish a gigantic library that could assemble all known texts of the Hellenistic period, the outstanding achievements of the scholars who worked inside its walls, and, finally, the mysteries surrounding its disappearance, have bestowed an almost mythic status on this monumental library.Where was the Royal Library exactly located? What kind of texts were kept in that library? To what extent did the Library of Alexandria become a meeting point for different languages and cultures? Should we distinguish between the Museum and the Library from an institutional point of view? Were the book collections housed in separate buildings? What caused the destruction of those collections and how much was lost? Why do some ancient authors remain silent about the Library's disappearance?Polis - The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an international conference to seek answers to these question. The 2015 conference on the Library of Alexandria gathered historians, archaeologists, and linguists, as well as specialists on the Septuagint and on Greek literature. This book presents the proceedings of the interdisciplinary conference
"Digital Transitions: The POLIS Theory and The NIEs"
No full textIn the fast developing digital technological revolution even the newly industrialized economies (the NIEs) have found it hard to catch up and maintain the pace required for not falling behind. The developing economies are clearly at a great disadvantage in such a fast paced technological race. Thus there is a digital divide that is growing and through a cumulative causation the gap will widen further unless coordinated action is taken. This paper discusses some of the most important economic issues conceptually and offers some modest policy advice. The basic problem of adoption of a new technology system such as the ICT( information and communications technologies) is explored via the theory of a positive feedback loop innovation system (POLIS) in a nonlinear, path-dependent world where institutional structure and its evolution matter crucially. By investing strategically in physical, intellectual and other forms of human and organizational capital as well as building new institutions of cooperation the NIEs may be able to forge a path not only in the ICT sectors, but also create innovation systems of their own that can be extended to region-wide systems. Under the emerging globally competitive market environment this will be the best way to compete dynamically. However, creating comparative advantage in this way requires capabilities that many NIES in Asia will need to promote. Creative policy interventions with a mix of market promotion, good governance, relative openness, and promotion of sustainable development in an equitable manner are necessary if the NIEs are not to be left far behind. The theoretical approach developed here also allows to evaluate the state of the economy and society ethically by extending and incorporating Amartya Sen's capabilities approach within the POLIS.
Cosmopolitanism Beyond the Polis: Creative Memory Works and Reimaging the Relationship between Xenia and Hestia
No full textAt the center of the cosmopolitan impulse is the instinctive need to belong. Using the Ancient Greek pre-polis deification of the hearth (hestia), a space of connectivity, this chapter traces the understanding of self as an ever widening progression toward belonging. Belonging is not singular, and the focus on the pre-polis Ancient Greek concept of the goddess Hestia, and her realm of the hearth, provides a foundation for understanding the multiplicity of belonging. This chapter suggests a move away from the polis-centric mentality of the ‘outsider’ to a more hestia-centric perspective of inclusion and cooperation
A Relational Model for One-Shot Classification of Images and Pen Strokes
No full textFunding Information: We thank CSC (IT Center for Science, Finland) for computational resources and the Academy of Finland for the support within the Flagship programme: Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence (FCAI). Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The AuthorsWe show that a deep learning model with built-in relational inductive bias can bring benefits to sample-efficient learning, without relying on extensive data augmentation. Our study shows that excellent results can be achieved with a model in which the relational inductive bias is applied to images, while building an efficient one-shot classifier on top of raw strokes is more challenging. The proposed one-shot classification model performs relational matching of a pair of inputs in the form of local and pairwise attention. Our approach solves with almost perfect accuracy the one-shot image classification Omniglot challenge when combined with a Hungarian matching algorithm and attains competitive results on the same task on characters represented as rotation-augmented strokes.Peer reviewe
Mogens H. Hansen, Polis. An Introduction to the Ancient Greek City-State
No full textLe titre de cet ouvrage n’est pas à la mesure de la place de fondateur, ou plutôt de refondateur, qu’il est appelé à occuper dans la recherche sur la cité grecque. M. H. Hansen fait le bilan des travaux menés par le Polis Center, fondé en 1993 par la Danish Research Foundation pour l’étude de la polis. La version anglaise de cette somme (1500 poleis sont répertoriées) revisite et élargit une première publication, Polis : den oldgraeske bystatskultur, Copenhagen, 2004. Elle s’inscrit d’emblée ..
Voyage to the Lower World
No full textThis is a dramatic reading of Lucian's dialogue The Downward Journey in the original ancient Greek, with multiple voices and sound effects, intended to help students of ancient Greek improve their aural fluency. Runtime: 46:20.
Credits:
Recording: Zachary Thomas and Leonardo Buscemi
Editing: Zachary Thomas
Voice credits:
Rhadamanthus: Raymond Spiotta
Megapenthes: Conor Stark
Hermes/ The Bed: Jules Culot
Tisiphone: Julie Ethioux
The Lamp: Leonardo Buscemi
Mikullos: Michael Kopf
Clotho: Catie Crnkovich
Charon: Leon Wirtz
Kuniskos: Christophe Rico
Erinys: Julie Ethioux
The Dead: Zachary Thomas and Leonardo BuscemiThis is a dramatic reading of Lucian's dialogue The Downward Journey in the original ancient Greek, with multiple voices and sound effects, intended to help students of ancient Greek improve their aural fluency. In the dialogue, a group of dead people, including the tyrant Megapenthes, are carried to the Underworld in Charon's boat. Only the cobbler Micyllus accepts his fate with resignation. Runtime: 46:20.The Polis Institute (Jerusalem) and Cornell University. The Polis Institute created the recording (see description for credits). Funding for the project was obtained by Michael Fontaine, Professor of Classics, Cornell University from Cornell University's Language Resource Center.1_gilju1c
Digital Transitions : The POLIS Theory and the NIEs
No full textIn the fast developing digital technological revolution even the newly industrialized economies (the NIEs) have found it hard to catch up and maintain the pace required for not falling behind. The developing economies are clearly at a great disadvantage in such a fast paced technological race. Thus there is a digital divide that is growing and through a cumulative causation the gap will widen further unless coordinated action is taken. This paper discusses some of the most important economic issues conceptually and offers some modest policy advice. The basic problem of adoption of a new technology system such as the ICT( information and communications technologies) is explored via the theory of a positive feedback loop innovation system (POLIS) in a nonlinear, path-dependent world where institutional structure and its evolution matter crucially. By investing strategically in physical, intellectual and other forms of human and organizational capital as well as building new institutions of cooperation the NIEs may be able to forge a path not only in the ICT sectors, but also create innovation systems of their own that can be extended to region-wide systems. Under the emerging globally competitive market environment this will be the best way to compete dynamically. However, creating comparative advantage in this way requires capabilities that many NIES in Asia will need to promote. Creative policy interventions with a mix of market promotion, good governance, relative openness, and promotion of sustainable development in an equitable manner are necessary if the NIEs are not to be left far behind. The theoretical approach developed here also allows to evaluate the state of the economy and society ethically by extending and incorporating Amartya Sen\u27s capabilities approach within the POLIS.本文フィルはリンク先を参照のこ
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