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Public worship and practical theology in the work of Benjamin Keach (1640-1704)
No full textThe late seventeenth century was a critical and fruitful period
for the Particular Baptists of England. Severely persecuted following
the Restoration, toleration in 1689 brought its own perils.
Particular Baptists were fortunate in having several strong leaders,
especially the London trio of Hanserd Knollys, William Kiffin, and
Benjamin Keach. Such a small and severely persecuted group as the
Baptists could afford little time for academic pursuits, thus of
necessity most of their theology was practical in nature.
Benjamin Keach (1640-1704) was the most outstanding practical
theologian among the English Particular Baptists of the late
seventeenth century. This dissertation is a study of Keach, in
particular his writings on public worship and practical theology.
Although Keach was a prolific author, he has been almost completely
neglected by scholars.
After a biographical sketch of Keach, this study considers his
writings on public worship and practical theology. In the area of
worship, Keach made two outstanding contributions: First, he was the
most vocal apologist for Baptist views on Baptism of his period.
Secondly, and more importantly, his hymn writing and defense of hymn
singing broke new ground, not just for Baptists, but for English
Protestantism, in general. In addition to his contributions in these
areas, he also dealt with the laying on of hands and the sabbath day
worship controversy.
Keach's contributions to practical theology fall into two main
groups: his writings that concern religious education and those that
deal with polity. In addition to these, Keach's vigorous advocacy of
a high Calvinist soteriology are also considered under the rubric of
practical theology. Keach's most important (although not his most
positive) contribution in this area were his soteriological writings.
Although well within the bounds of orthodoxy, some of the tendencies
in Keach's soteriology were taken up by the following generation of
Baptist leaders and developed into a stultifying hyper-Calvinism that
handicapped Baptist evangelism and missions.
In the conclusion, Keach's contributions to a theory of practical
theology are considered
Can We Tell Stories Out of Our Memories? The Contributions of Derrida and Benjamin
No full textThe author draws from Jacques Derrida’s and Walter Benjamin’s writings on
memory in order to argue that as these two thinkers deal with the simultaneity
of the diachronic and synchronic dimension of time they open up the
possibility of thinking about the relation between memory and narrative in a
more complex way. These two theorists affirm the discontinuity and the nonrecognition
between past events and present discourses and show the danger of
conflating memory and narrative without the awareness of its limits
Substrate specificity of [alpha]-proteobacterial N-end rule adaptors
No full textThesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. "June 2016." In title on title page [alpha] appears as lower case Greek letters.Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-118).by Benjamin J. Stein.Ph. D
Author profiling on social question and answer networks : extracting personal meta information from postings utilizing writing style features
No full textDas Forschungsgebiet Autor Profiling hat aufgrund der zahlreichen realen Anwendungsgebiete in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der akademischen Forschung als auch im industriellen Sektor an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Bisherige Forschungsansätze berücksichtigen jedoch nur Texte von Blogs oder Mikroblogs. Daher liegt der Fokus dieser Arbeit auf der Analyse von Beiträgen aus Frage-und-Antwort-Platformen, insbesondere aus dem Stack Exchange-Netzwerk. Es wird untersucht, ob und wie gut aktuelle Ansätze zur Autorenprofilerstellung auf diese Beiträge angewandt werden können, um das Geschlecht des Benutzers vorherzusagen. Da in dem verwendeten Datensatz keine Geschlechtsinformationen verfügbar sind, wurde ein vorab trainiertes neuronales Netzwerk genutzt, um das Geschlecht des Benutzers basierend auf dem Profilbild zu definieren. Durch den Vergleich von verschiedenen Kombinationen aus Textverarbeitungsansätzen, n-gram Variationen, Ansätzen zur Dimensionalitätsreduzierung und angewandten Klassifizierern, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass ein mehrschichtiges Perceptron in Kombination mit Wort n-Grammen und univarianter Merkmalsauswahl eine solide Klassifizierungsgenauigkeit von über 90% erzielt.Due to its diverse real-world applications, the research field of author profiling has recently been attracting growing attention and importance in both academic research and industry. Nevertheless, past research approaches consider only text from blogs or micro-blogs. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the analysis of user posts extracted from question and answering platforms, in particular, the stack exchange network. It examines the applicability of current author profiling approaches on user posts in order to predict the author's gender. As gender information is not available in the used dataset, a pre-trained neural network is applied to define the user's gender based on the profile picture. By comparing various combinations of text processing approaches, Bag of N-gram variations, dimensionality reduction approaches, and applied classifiers, this thesis shows that a multilayered perceptron in combination with word n-grams and univariate feature selection achieves a solid classification accuracy of over 90%.Benjamin BinderMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 202
Author profiling on social question and answer networks : extracting personal meta information from postings utilizing writing style features
No full textDas Forschungsgebiet Autor Profiling hat aufgrund der zahlreichen realen Anwendungsgebiete in den letzten Jahren sowohl in der akademischen Forschung als auch im industriellen Sektor an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Bisherige Forschungsansätze berücksichtigen jedoch nur Texte von Blogs oder Mikroblogs. Daher liegt der Fokus dieser Arbeit auf der Analyse von Beiträgen aus Frage-und-Antwort-Platformen, insbesondere aus dem Stack Exchange-Netzwerk. Es wird untersucht, ob und wie gut aktuelle Ansätze zur Autorenprofilerstellung auf diese Beiträge angewandt werden können, um das Geschlecht des Benutzers vorherzusagen. Da in dem verwendeten Datensatz keine Geschlechtsinformationen verfügbar sind, wurde ein vorab trainiertes neuronales Netzwerk genutzt, um das Geschlecht des Benutzers basierend auf dem Profilbild zu definieren. Durch den Vergleich von verschiedenen Kombinationen aus Textverarbeitungsansätzen, n-gram Variationen, Ansätzen zur Dimensionalitätsreduzierung und angewandten Klassifizierern, zeigt diese Arbeit, dass ein mehrschichtiges Perceptron in Kombination mit Wort n-Grammen und univarianter Merkmalsauswahl eine solide Klassifizierungsgenauigkeit von über 90% erzielt.Due to its diverse real-world applications, the research field of author profiling has recently been attracting growing attention and importance in both academic research and industry. Nevertheless, past research approaches consider only text from blogs or micro-blogs. Therefore, this thesis focuses on the analysis of user posts extracted from question and answering platforms, in particular, the stack exchange network. It examines the applicability of current author profiling approaches on user posts in order to predict the author's gender. As gender information is not available in the used dataset, a pre-trained neural network is applied to define the user's gender based on the profile picture. By comparing various combinations of text processing approaches, Bag of N-gram variations, dimensionality reduction approaches, and applied classifiers, this thesis shows that a multilayered perceptron in combination with word n-grams and univariate feature selection achieves a solid classification accuracy of over 90%.Benjamin BinderMasterarbeit University of Innsbruck 202
Shifting in the n-Cube: online mistake bounds and the sample compression conjecture
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2009 Benjamin I. P. RubinsteinThis thesis explores near-optimal bounds on worst-case expected risk in supervised classification, and the Sample Compressibility Conjecture of Littlestone and Warmuth. These topics are related by the one-inclusion graph, an important data structure in learning theory
Efficient, Compositional, Order-Sensitive n-gram Embeddings
No full text<p>This is the companion data for the paper, `"Efficient, Compositional, Order-Sensitive n-gram Embeddings, Adam Poliak, Pushpendre Rastogi, M. Patrick Martin, Benjamin Van Durme, EACL(2017).` For more details see https://www.cs.jhu.edu/~apoliak1/papers/ECO--EACL-2017.pdf</p>
<p> </p>
<p>@inproceedings{Poliak:2017EACL,<br>
Title = {Efficient, Compositional, Order-sensitive n-gram Embeddings},<br>
Author = {Poliak, Adam and Rastogi, Pushpendre and Martin, M. Patrick and Van Durme, Benjamin},<br>
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics},<br>
Year = {2017},<br>
Publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},<br>
location = {Valencia, Spain}<br>
}</p>
<p>This data contains individual skip-embeddings created and the English Wikipedia data used to generate the embeddings.</p>
<p>dim100_c10.tar.gz is missing the skip-embeddings 3 positions to the right of a given word. They can be downloaded from http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~apoliak1/data/eco/cocoon.mincount~5.dim~100.window~3.dim_divide~10.embeds.gz</p>
Criticality of Regular Formulas
No full textWe define the criticality of a boolean function f : {0,1}^n -> {0,1} as the minimum real number lambda >= 1 such that Pr [DT_{depth}(f|R_p) >= t] = k.
In an unpublished manuscript [Rossmann, 2018], the author showed that a combination of Håstad’s switching and multi-switching lemmas [Håstad, 1986; Håstad, 2014] implies that AC^0 circuits of depth d+1 and size s have criticality at most O(log s)^d. In the present paper, we establish a stronger O(1/d log s)^d bound for regular formulas: the class of AC^0 formulas in which all gates at any given depth have the same fan-in. This result is based on
(i) a novel switching lemma for bounded size (unbounded width) DNF formulas, and
(ii) an extension of (i) which analyzes a canonical decision tree associated with an entire depth-d formula.
As corollaries of our criticality bound, we obtain an improved #SAT algorithm and tight Linial-Mansour-Nisan Theorem for regular formulas, strengthening previous results for AC^0 circuits due to Impagliazzo, Matthews, Paturi [Impagliazzo et al., 2012] and Tal [Tal, 2017]. As a further corollary, we increase from o(log n /(log log n)) to o(log n) the number of quantifier alternations for which the QBF-SAT (quantified boolean formula satisfiability) algorithm of Santhanam and Williams [Santhanam and Williams, 2014] beats exhaustive search
Faiblesse paysanne du mouvement nationaliste algérien avant 1954
No full textPeasant weakness in the Algerian natio-nalist movement before 1954, Benjamin Stora.
Concentrating on the biographies of 260 members of the pre-1954 Algerian nationalist movement's leadership which he put together in his recent Dictionary, the author shows that from 1936 to 1953 only 5,7 % of the leaders originated from the peasantry. Such facts, quite contrary to the lyrical statements of Franz Fanon, for example, posed a serious problem before and after the 1954 insurrection, since for the rebels the revolution was to be offered to a largely rural population. This shortcoming has undoubtedly been at the root of many of Algeria's problems since independence.Stora Benjamin. Faiblesse paysanne du mouvement nationaliste algérien avant 1954. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°12, octobre-décembre 1986. Dossier : Retour au tiers monde. pp. 59-72
Bristowia gandhii Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2016, sp. nov.
No full text<i>Bristowia gandhii</i> sp. nov. <p>urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:46066597-9E86-483A-BB19-6D08EE6DF7C9</p> <p>Figs 1, 2 A–B, 3 – 4</p> <p> <i>B. heterospinosa</i> – Dobroruka, 2004: 14–17, Fgs 8–11, ♀ from India, Goa Province, S of Margao, Palolem env., leg. P. Sipek (specimens in the private collection of author), not examined. MisidentiFcation.</p> <p> non <i>B. heterospinosa</i> Reimoser, 1934: 17, Fgs 1–3.</p> Diagnosis <p> This species can easily be distinguished from <i>B. afra</i> Szüts, 2004 by the high carapace with steeper thoracic slope, a thicker and longer embolus, copulatory openings anterior to the spermathecae, a large distance between copulatory ducts and the presence of a posterior epigynal plate with a median depression, and from <i>B. heterospinosa</i> by broader copulatory ducts, a comparatively shallow median indentation of posterior epigynal plate and a thicker embolus.</p> Etymology <p>The species is named for Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869–1948). He was the pre-eminent leader of the Indian Independence Movement in British-ruled India, eventually paving the way for independence of Sri Lanka as well.</p> Material examined Holotype <p>SRI LANKA: Ƌ, Central Province, Kandy District, Balagola, home garden (L63), 07°17′20.08″ N, 80°42′48.85″ E, 476 m, 10 Nov. 2013, leg. S.P. Benjamin (IFS _ SAL 228).</p> Paratype <p> SRI LANKA: 1 ♀, Central Province, Matale District, IFS Arboretum (Ll7), 07°51′36.70″ N, 80°40′29″ E, 185 m, litter, 2 Nov. 2013, leg. S.P. Benjamin <i>et al</i>. (IFS _ SAL 297).</p> Other material <p>SRI LANKA: 1 ♀, Central Province, Matale District, IFS Arboretum (Ll7), 07°51′36.70″ N, 80°40′29″ E, 185 m, litter, 19 Oct. 2015, leg. K. Kanesharatnam (IFS _ SAL 543); 1 ♀, North Central Province, Anuradhapura District, Wilpattu National Park (L38), 08°24′37.98″ N, 80°03′03.99″ E, hand collection, 6 Apr. 2011, leg. S. Batuwita (IFS _ SAL 157); 1 Ƌ, Sabaragamuwa Province, Udawalawe National Park (L65), 06°28′25.41″ N, 80°53′54.35″ E, 109 m, litter, 30 Dec. 2011, leg. N. Athukorala (IFS _ SAL 154); 3 ƋƋ, Uva Province, Badulla District, environs of Kalupahana village (L62), 06°44′58″ N, 80°50′19.8″ E, 820 m, beating, 2 Jan. 2012, leg. S.P. Benjamin (IFS _ SAL 357–359).</p> Description Male <p>MEASUREMENTS. BL 2.58, CL 1.42, PW at PLEs 0.74, AL 1.12,AW 0.53. Eye Feld: Diameter of AME 0.24, PLE 0.19, ALE 0.16, PME 0.03, PME-PME 0.65, PLE-PLE 0.70, ALE-PME 0.30, ALE-PLE 0.68. Leg I: Tr 0.35, Fm 0.93, Pt 0.44, Tb 0.70, Mt 0.40, Ta 0.22; Leg II: Tr 0.10, Fm 0.44, Pt 0.22, Tb 0.35, Mt 0.26, Ta 0.22; Leg III: Tr 0.10, Fm 0.44, Pt 0.22, Tb 0.31, Mt 0.26, Ta 0.22; Leg IV: Tr 0.13, Fm 0.57, Pt 0.22, Tb 0.44, Mt 0.39, Ta 0.22.</p> <p>COLOR AND BODY. Reddish brown carapace with punctured reticulate microsculpture (Fig. 3 A). Chelicerae dark brown with two promarginal and four retromarginal teeth. Labium reddish brown with yellowish brown margin. Elevated ocular area blackish brown, median ocular quadrangle much broader than long and little wider behind than in front. Eye ratio AME> PLE> ALE> PME. Sternum oval-shaped, brownish yellow with sparse brown hairs, edges reddish brown. Prosoma longer than wide with thoracic fovea. Posterior margin of prosoma steep and slightly truncated (Fig. 3 A). There are black stripes made up of minute tubercles behind PLEs.</p> <p>LEGS. First pair of legs more strongly modiFed in males than females, with elongated coxa, trochanter and patella. Patella and tibia with fringe of thick, long, black bristles (Fig. 3 A). Leg I dark brown except for pale yellow tarsus, other legs yellowish brown. Tibia I with 4 prolateral and 3 retrolateral spines, metatarsus I with 2 pairs of Fne, long spines. Legs III and IV spineless.</p> <p>PALP. Relatively simple. Cymbium and palpal tibia pale yellow, but coxa, femur and patella dark brown. Pyriform tegulum (Figs 3 C–D, 4 A–B). Thin and short embolus, tip of embolus slightly bent (Figs 3 C, 4A), tibial apophyses hook-shaped and strongly bent towards venter.</p> Female <p>MEASUREMENTS. BL 3.20, CL 1.78, PW at PLEs 0.77,AL 1.40,AW 0.93. Eye Feld: Diameter of AME 0.24, PLE 0.14, ALE 0.11, PME 0.03, PME-PME 0.65, PLE-PLE 0.73, ALE-PME 0.30, ALE-PLE 0.46. Leg I: Tr 0.25, Fm 0.73, Pt 0.25, Tb 0.53, Mt 0.31, Ta 0.22; Leg II: Tr 0.12, Fm 0.46, Pt 0.15, Tb 0.31, Mt 0.25, Ta 0.22; Leg III: Tr 0.12, Fm 0.37, Pt 0.15, Tb 0.18, Mt 0.25, Ta 0.15; Leg IV: Tr 0.12, Fm 0.43, Pt 0.19, Tb 0.50, Mt 0.34, Ta 0.21.</p> <p>COLOR AND BODY. Similar to male except abdomen with four light brown, longitudinal stripes converging near spinnerets; less strongly modiFed Frst pair of legs (Figs 2 A–B, 3 B); leg spination resembles males except in tibia II which has a prolateral and a ventral spine.</p> <p>EPIGYNUM. Circular hollow copulatory openings above the level of spermathecae (Fig. 4 C–D). Long and broad copulatory ducts bent over 180°. Somewhat rounded accessory gland- like structures in front of spermathecae (Fig. 4 C–D). Large and globe-like spermathecae. Posterior margin of epigynal plate with a median indentation (Figs 3 E, 4C–D). Fertilization ducts lanceolate, originating from anterior wall of receptacles.</p> Distribution <p>India, Sri Lanka.</p>Published as part of <i>Nilani Kanesharatnam & Suresh p. Benjamin, 2016, Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka, pp. 1-23 in European Journal of Taxonomy 228</i> on pages 4-9, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.228, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/322370">http://zenodo.org/record/322370</a>
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