8,157 research outputs found
Infinitely repeated games with public monitoring and monetary transfers
No full textThis paper studies infinitely repeated games with imperfect public monitoring and the possibility of monetary transfers. It is shown that all public perfect equilibrium payoffs can be implemented with a simple class of stationary equilibria that use stick-and-carrot punishments. A fast algorithm is developed that exactly computes the set of pure strategies equilibrium payoffs for all discount factors
Assessment of the statistical relevance of TR-PIV datasets
No full textThe increasing interest for high repetition rate global optical measurement techniques such as Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry (TR-PIV) raises a number of questions concerning their ability to provide relevant statistical and spectral quantities. In an effort to address this issue, complementary TR-PIV and Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) measurements have been carried out. An application to the analysis of the detached flow over a NACA 0015 airfoil at a Reynolds number Re=105 in a water tunnel is proposed
Socratic discourses,
No full textAt foot of half-title: Plato and Xenophon. Socratic discourses, with an introduction by A. D. Lindsay, M.A.Bibliography: p. xxii.Xenophon's Memorabilia, tr. by Rev. J. S. Watson.--Apology, or the defence of Socrates, tr. by Sarah Fielding.--Symposium, or banquet, tr. by James Wellwood.--Plato's Lysis, tr. by J. Wright.--Protagoras, tr. by J. Wright.--Euthyphro, tr. by F. M. Stawell.--Apology, tr. by F. M. Stawell.--Crito, tr. by F. M. Stawell.Mode of access: Internet
Lebenswelt, motivi e normatività in Habermas e Wright Mills
No full textIn questo articolo ricostruiremo la concettualizzazione del “mondo-di-vita” offerta da Jürgen Habermas nei testi Teoria dell’agire comunicativo [1981, tr. it. 1986] e Verbalizzare il sacro [2015, tr. it. 2012]. A partire da ciò, approfondiremo gli aspetti normativi del mondo-di-vita e il loro rapporto con i motivi pubblicamente plausibili, nell'accezione data da Max Weber prima e da Charles Wright Mills poi. Come sosterremo, da punti di vista differenti, Habermas e Wright Mills affermano la centralità delle pratiche performative di narrazione e gli usi strategici delle ragioni normative nella definizione di un ordine sociale situato. Entrambi, ancora, dimostrano come non sia possibile eludere la componente normativa nei processi di comprensione esplicativa (Erklärendes Verstehen) dell’azione sociale
Kustverdediging na 1990 (Kustnota 1990): Technisch rapport 11: Strand en duinsuppleties
No full textIn Technisch Rapport 11 (TR 11) wordt een overzicht gegeven van de strand- en duinsuppleties, welke ter compensatie van kusterosie zijn uitgevoerd. In 1988 is het "Handboek zandsuppleties" uitgegeven. Hierin is een schat van gegevens verzameld over het desbetreffende onderwerp. Dit rapport voorziet in een aanvulling op het handboek, met meer recente gegevens. Overlapping van dit rapport met het handboek is zoveel mogelijk vermeden. Naast de aanvulling wordt ingegaan op de levensduur van suppleties en wordt een eerste aanzet gegeven om een puur economische afweging te maken tussen zandsuppleties, die nu een belangrijke maatregel bij kustverdediging zijn, en de bouw van strandhoofden, wat in het verleden een belangrijke maatregel geweest is. Zand wordt met grote drijvende werktuigen relatief goedkoop, als zandwatermengsel, verplaatst. Een netto-verplaatsing van 200.000 tot 500.000 kubieke meter zand per werktuig, per werkweek is haalbaar. Naarmate het zand hoger en verder op de oever gebracht wordt nemen de kosten toe.Kustnot
Comunicación de masas : una perspectiva sociológica / C.R. Wright ; tr. por R. Ferrario, R. Malfé.
No full textTraducción de: Mass Communication. A Sociological PerspectiveEstudio que analiza la naturaleza, función, sistemas, efectos sociales y contenido cultural de las comunicaciones de masas, así como un acercamiento a la sociología del auditorio
'How warped the mirrors': postmodernism and historiography
No full textPostmodernism, though it may be described in many ways, may be thought essentially to be captured by Lyotard's phrase, 'incredulity towards metanarratives'. The first chapter of my thesis attempts to define both 'postmodernism' and 'historiography', and then surveys historiographical discourse today. Because it is often ancient history that most frequently may be open to radically differing interpretations, I take in chapter two a 'generative' example, namely the speech compositions of Thucydides. This example I consider as 'generative' in the sense that it opens up questions, not only about the History of Thucydides itself and about how Thucydides is conceived in the ancient historiographical tradition, but also about what it means for an historian to disclose the 'truth' of an historical situation. My third chapter takes up the suggestion by Keith Jenkins that postmodern philosophy, particularly the conception of 'truth' and 'knowledge' proffered by Rorty, is a good way for history to acclimatise itself in the postmodern era. I survey Jenkins' proposals, and then discuss a work Jenkins largely ignores, i.e. Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. I demonstrate not just the familiar point that Rorty attempts to overturn 'foundationalist epistemology', and proposes 'new vocabularies' that involve 'hermeneutics' which set up I discourse as 'conversation'. This overturning involves for Rorty an assertion of 'unarbitrability', i.e. that it is impossible to argue that one view is better or more true than another. Thus Jenkins wishes to enter a world of a plurality of interpretations. In chapter four, however, I draw upon the work of Charles Taylor who argues for the necessity of 'arbitrage' in human discourse, whilst still wishing to overturn epistemological foundationalism. I therefore wish to advocate in my fifth chapter a 'third way', drawing on Taylor's theory of interpretation that requires neither a correspondence theory of truth, nor unarbitrability. Throughout the chapter I demonstrate how my conclusions regarding Thucydidean speeches and my discussion of postmodern philosophy may serve as a way of thinking about the task of historians, and hot just ancient historians. I conclude with some theological reflections on the arguments offered
A Preliminary Statistical Investigation into the impact of an N-Gram Analysis Approach based on Word Syntactic Categories toward Text Author Classification
No full textQuantitative analysis of literary style has heretofore utilized semantic elements-word counts. This research attempts to identify quantifiable syntactic elements of style that can be used for author identification. The measurement of syntactic elements utilizes a dictionary with one part of speech per word and looks at phrases delimited by punctuation marks. Different size permutations of words - referred to as grams - are counted within each text. Correlations are measured amongst the gram frequencies of eight texts pertaining to four authors, both contemporary and non-contemporary. The correlations are performed across different gram sizes of words. The same treatment is applied to a target text, the Funeral Elegy text. The approach holds for classifying texts temporally consistently across the various gram sizes. Yet a finer grained investigation is required to certify the authorship of the Funeral Elegy text.
(Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-2000-39, LAMP-TR-046
pmTR database: Population matched (pm) germline allelic variants of T-cell receptor (TR) loci
No full textThe IMGT database profiles the TR germline alleles for all four TR loci (TRA, TRB, TRG and TRD), however, it does not comprise of the information regarding population specificity and allelic frequencies of these germline alleles. The specificity of allelic variants to different human populations can, however, be a rich source of information when studying the genetic basis of population-specific immune responses in disease and in vaccination. Therefore, we meticulously identified true germline alleles enriched with complete TR allele sequences and their frequencies across 26 different human populations, profiled by “1000 Genomes data”. We identified 205 TRAV, 249 TRBV, 16 TRGV and 5 TRDV germline alleles supported by at least four haplotypes. The diversity of germline allelic variants in the TR loci is the highest in Africans, while the majority of the Non-African alleles are specific to the Asian populations, suggesting a diverse profile of TR germline alleles in different human populations. Interestingly, the alleles in the IMGT database are frequent and common across all five super-populations. We believe that this new set of germline TR sequences represents a valuable new resource which we have made available through the new population-matched TR (pmTR) database, accessible via https://pmtrig.lumc.nl/.Pattern Recognition and Bioinformatic
RO(S1)-graded TR-groups of Fp, Z and ℓ
No full textAbstractWe give an algorithm for calculating the RO(S1)-graded TR-groups of Fp, completing the calculation started by the second author. We also calculate the RO(S1)-graded TR-groups of Z with mod p coefficients and of the Adams summand ℓ of connective complex K-theory with V(1)-coefficients. These calculations are used elsewhere to compute the algebraic K-theory of certain Z-algebras
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