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On Technological Ground:The Art of Torsten Lauschmann
No full textThis essay considers the relationship between the work of contemporary artist Torsten Lauschmann and themes in a growing area of research: philosophy of technology. Themes considered include relations between technology and contemporary urban dwelling, technology and the “everyday”, and Heidegger’s problematic but canonical understanding of technology not as a set of “mere means” but as a “way of revealing.” I argue that Lauschmann’s art renders these themes relevant for our increasingly technologically mediated forms of everyday experience by engaging in a paradoxical practice of creating what McLuhan called “anti-environments.” Part one relates Lauschmann’s art to three concepts surfacing in McLuhan’s late work: “figure”, “ground”, and “anti-environment.” Part two relates Lauschmann’s art to Merleau-Ponty’s critique of photography in terms of the ontology of dynamic movement. Part three relates Lauschmann’s art to Heidegger, implying a form of “affective critique” that – by questioning the environmental conditions that constitute works of art – points beyond vexed aspects of Heidegger’s approach, such as its apparent pessimism and tendency to homogenize disparate technologies. The essay’s broader argument is that Lauschmann’s art, like the philosophical reflections to which it is related, is engaged in a practice of challenging settled common-sense notions regarding technologically mediated experience. <br/
David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel
No full textWhile attending medical school at McGill, David Hubel developed an interest in the nervous system during the summers he spent at the Montreal Neurological Institute. After heading to the United States in 1954 for a Neurology year at Johns Hopkins, he was drafted by the army and was assigned to the Neuropsychiatry Division at the Walter Reed Hospital, where he began his career in research and did his first recordings from the visual cortex of sleeping and awake cats. In 1958, he moved to the lab of Stephen Kuffler at Johns Hopkins, where he began a long and fruitful collaboration with Torsten Wiesel.Born in Sweden, Torsten Wiesel began his scientific career at the Karolinska Institute, where he received his medical degree in 1954. After spending a year in Carl Gustaf Bernhard’s laboratory doing basic neurophysiological research, he moved to the United States to be a postdoctoral fellow with Stephen Kuffler. It was at Johns Hopkins where he met David Hubel in 1958, and they began working together on exploring the receptive field properties of neurons in the visual cortex. Their collaboration continued until the late seventies.Hubel and Wiesel’s work provided fundamental insight into information processing in the visual system and laid the foundation for the field of visual neuroscience. They have had many achievements, including—but not limited to—the discovery of orientation selectivity in visual cortex neurons and the characterization of the columnar organization of visual cortex through their discovery of orientation columns and ocular-dominance columns. Their work earned them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1981, which they shared with Roger Sperry
Seltsame Schauspiele. Torsten Fogelqvists Deutschlandreise 1934
No full textIn 1934 Torsten Fogelqvist, a prominent member of the Swedish Academy and a well-known journalist and intellectual, visits Nazi Germany. He writes about his visit to the Third Reich in 17 articles published in the Stockholm daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter. The author, highly critical of the Hitler regime, scrutinizes several aspects of the nazified German society such as the attempts to re-educate the German citizen in accordance with the ideology of the new regime, the hero cult in the Nazi movement, and the relationship between the German state and the churches. In order to further an understanding of political and social developments in Germany Fogelqvist uses a specific strategy. He “translates” them into an imaginary Swedish context. This paper compares his views with those of other Swedish visitors
„Kaiserfreund und Korankenner“ – Christian Seybold und die Tübinger Handschriftenkataloge
No full textVon: Michaela Hoffmann-Ruf und Torsten Wollina Als Christian Seybold mit der Katalogisierung der Tübinger Wetzstein-Sammlung arabischer Handschriften begann, hatte er schon umfangreiche Erfahrungen mit orientalischen Handschriften gesammelt und ein – auch für heutige Standards – ziemlich ereignisreiches Leben hinter sich. Nicht umsonst bezeichnet ihn Walter Riethmüller in seinem Nachruf als „Kaiserfreund und Korankenner“. ((Riethmüller 1970.)) Christian Seybold (1859-1921) Seybold w..
Entwicklung einer schnellen Pulsformanalyse für asymmetrische AGATA-Germanium-Detektoren
No full textOnTEAM metadata: GDSID: DOC-2007-May-32; Attribute ID: LIBRARY-thesis_diss-2007-005; Title: [GSI Diss 2007-05] Entwicklung einer schnellen Pulsformanalyse für asymmetrische AGATA-Germanium-Detektoren; Author(s): Beck, Torsten; Corporate author(s): ; Publication date: 20070501; Creator: manton; Creation date: 15.05.2007 16:02:12; Change date: 29.10.2008 16:29:34; Access: nur berechtigte Gruppen; Attribute type: Text.Thesis.Diss; Directory path: ['GSI Publications', 'GSI as Publisher']; Attribute path: ['Infrastructure', 'Library and Documentation', 'thesis_diss', 'Added in 2007']; File name(s): ['DOC-2007-May-32-1.pdf']; File title(s): ['']; File access: ['nur berechtigte Gruppen'
Manifolds, sheaves, and cohomology
No full textThis book explains techniques that are essential in almost all branches of modern geometry such as algebraic geometry, complex geometry, or non-archimedian geometry. It uses the most accessible case, real and complex manifolds, as a model. The author especially emphasizes the difference between local and global questions. Cohomology theory of sheaves is introduced and its usage is illustrated by many examples. Content Topological Preliminaries - Algebraic Topological Preliminaries - Sheaves - Manifolds - Local Theory of Manifolds - Lie Groups - Torsors and Non-abelian Cech Cohomology - Bundles - Soft Sheaves - Cohomology of Complexes of Sheaves - Cohomology of Sheaves of Locally Constant Functions - Appendix: Basic Topology, The Language of Categories, Basic Algebra, Homological Algebra, Local Analysis Readership Graduate Students in Mathematics / Master of Science in Mathematics About the Author Prof. Dr. Torsten Wedhorn, Department of Mathematics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
James Watson, Maclyn McCarty, and Torsten Wiesel
No full textTorsten Wiesel (right) with Professor Emeritus Maclyn McCarty (center), co-author of the paper with Oswald Avery and Colin MacLeod, and James D. Watson, director of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 1994
Photo by Leif Carlsson
To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery at The Rockefeller University that genes are made of DNA - considered by many to be the single most important biological discovery of the twentieth century - the university has kicked off a year-long series of events that were running through May 1994. The celebration was formally inaugurated in November 1993 with a lecture by Nobel laureate James D. Watson, best known for discovering the double-helical structure of DNA.
See also Search Winter 1994, vol. 4, no. 1https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/group-portraits/1013/thumbnail.jp
PISM glacial cycle sensitivity experiments of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
No full textThis dataset contains PISM simulation results (http://www.pism-docs.org) of the Antarctic Ice Sheet based on code release v1.0-paleo-ensemble (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3574033). PISM is the open-source Parallel Ice Sheet Model developed mainly at UAF, USA and PIK, Germany.
With the help of added python scripts, all figures can be reproduced as in the journal publication:
- Albrecht et al., 2020, doi:10.5194/tc-14-599-2020.
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Data:
Find PISM results as netCDF data. See 'README.md' for a list of all performed experiment.
All forcing input data for the experiments and plots can be downloaded and remapped via https://github.com/pism/pism-ais. Some of the original input data files are freely available, for others please contact the author or the corresponding data publisher.
Figure plotting scripts (jupyter notebook based on python, see https://jupyter.org) in 'plot_scripts' access the uploaded PISM results in 'model_data' and save the plots to 'final_figures'. Jupyter notebook can be run in the browser and shared, see https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/url/www.pik-potsdam.de/~albrecht/notebooks/paleo_paper/paleo_paper_final.ipynb.
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Contact:
Albrecht, Torsten ([email protected]) ; Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam, German
Rezension zu: Philipp Böttcher/Kai Sina (Hgg.): Walter Kempowskis Tagebücher. Selbstausdruck, Poetik, Werkstrategie, München 2014
No full textVoß T. Rezension zu: Philipp Böttcher/Kai Sina (Hgg.): Walter Kempowskis Tagebücher. Selbstausdruck, Poetik, Werkstrategie, München 2014. Germanistik. 2015;56(3-4):852-853
Die Erfolgsfaktoren für unternehmerisches E-Mail-Marketing nach Dr. Torsten Schwarz am Praxisbeispiel ERGOTOPIA GmbH
No full textThis scientific document reveals the results of an empirical examination within the realm of entrepreneurial e-mail-marketing which is based on a literature review by technical author Dr. Torsten Schwarz. Using the start-up company ERGOTOPIA as a practical example, the author of the master thesis investigates whether the explanations of Dr. Schwarz match with the practical implementation of ERGOTOPIA.
Precisely, the scientific paper focuses on the examination of the four aspects lead generation, newsletter-design, software-requirements and performance measurement through monitoring with regard to successful realization of e-mail-marketing campaigns. The empirical part of this examination is made of the introduction as well as the analysis of two conducted so called split-tests that compare specific aspects of the newsletter-design and measure data-driven results to show which kind of aspect produced the more successful campaign.
This way the author proves whether the recommendations by Dr. Schwarz are practically relevant for the company ERGOTOPIA
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