cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Interdisciplinary/Team Teaching and the Lone Medievalist
Creators: name: Grinnell, Natalie
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Being  the  only  medievalist  on  one’s  campus  can  be  lonely,  not  because  one’s  colleagues  are  unwelcoming  or  uncollegial,  but  because the language of our intellectual passion is missing from campus. It’s not merely that those around us are not reading the same journals or attending the same conferences that we enjoy, but  that  their  very  definition  of  medieval  is  likely  to  be  far  re-moved from what we actually study, given medievalism’s power-ful influence on the portrayal of the Middle Ages in contempo-rary literature, film, and pop culture. Moreover, when it comes to the humanities, current political forces, with their emphases on the practicality of a college degree, are far more likely to pro-mote the study of modern languages, politics, and religion than their medieval cousins, reaching across cultures geographically, but less often temporally. As a result, the lone medievalist may come to feel isolated, and even unappreciated, regardless of his or her actual rank or relationships with fellow faculty.
Brief an Taubenheim
Creators: name: Wilhelm
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1850

description: Militärischer Inhalt
description: von Wilhelm I
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire März 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Towards Graph Self-Supervised Learning with Contrastive Adjusted Zooming
Creators: name: Zheng, Yizhen
name: Jin, Ming
name: Pan, Shirui
name: Li, Yuan-Fang
name: Peng, Hao
name: Li, Ming
name: Li, Zhao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph representation learning (GRL) is critical for graph-structured data analysis. However, most of the existing graph neural networks (GNNs) heavily rely on labeling information, which is normally expensive to obtain in the real world. Although some existing works aim to effectively learn graph representations in an unsupervised manner, they suffer from certain limitations, such as the heavy reliance on monotone contrastiveness and limited scalability. To overcome the aforementioned problems, we introduce a novel self-supervised graph representation learning algorithm via Graph Contrastive Adjusted Zooming, namely G-Zoom, to learn node representations by leveraging the proposed adjusted zooming scheme. Specifically, this mechanism enables G-Zoom to explore and extract self-supervision signals from a graph from multiple scales: micro (i.e., node-level), meso (i.e., neighborhood-level), and macro (i.e., subgraph-level). Firstly, we generate two augmented views of the input graph via two different graph augmentations. Then, we establish three different contrastiveness on the above three scales progressively, from node, neighboring, to subgraph level, where we maximize the agreement between graph representations across scales. While we can extract valuable clues from a given graph on the micro and macro perspectives, the neighboring-level contrastiveness offers G-Zoom the capability of a customizable option based on our adjusted zooming scheme to manually choose an optimal viewpoint that lies between the micro and macro perspectives to better understand the graph data. Additionally, to make our model scalable to large graphs, we employ a parallel graph diffusion approach to decouple model training from the graph size. We have conducted extensive experiments on real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate that our proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art methods consistently.
Attractor Metadynamics in Adapting Neural Networks
Creators: name: Gros, Claudius
name: Linkerhand, Mathias
name: Walther, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Slow adaption processes, like synaptic and intrinsic plasticity, abound in the brain and shape the landscape for the neural dynamics occurring on substantially faster timescales. At any given time the network is characterized by a set of internal parameters, which are adapting continuously, albeit slowly. This set of parameters defines the number and the location of the respective adiabatic attractors. The slow evolution of network parameters hence induces an evolving attractor landscape, a process which we term attractor metadynamics. We study the nature of the metadynamics of the attractor landscape for several continuous-time autonomous model networks. We find both first- and second-order changes in the location of adiabatic attractors and argue that the study of the continuously evolving attractor landscape constitutes a powerful tool for understanding the overall development of the neural dynamics.
Three-loop field renormalization for scalar field theory with Lorentz violation
Creators: name: Carvalho, Paulo R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Applying the counterterm method in minimal subtraction scheme we calculate the three-loop quantum correction to field anomalous dimension in a Lorentz-violating O($N$) self-interacting scalar field theory. We compute the Feynman diagrams using dimensional regularization and $ε$-expansion techniques. As this approximation corresponds to a three-loop term, to our knowledge this is the first time in literature in which such a loop level is attained for a LV theory.
description: 12 pages
And Gladly Wolde He Teche: The Medievalist and the History of the English Language Course
Creators: name: Kellerman, Robert
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: When  I  was  hired  on  the  tenure  track  by  University  of  Maine  at Augusta, a small branch of Maine’s public university system, there  were  no  courses  in  medieval  or  Renaissance  literature  at  all  other  than  the  ubiquitous  Shakespeare  course  that  was  taught by the British literature specialist. The job advertisement for my position simply stated that the English program sought a candidate to teach “composition and literature,” with no par-ticular specialization attached to the position. On being hired, I was thus in the enviable position of proposing and creating the courses in my field that I then taught; in essence, I filled a posi-tion that I subsequently designed to my own specifications. I am extremely  grateful  that  my  colleagues  were  enthusiastic  about  having the curriculum augmented with courses in early English literature.
Zahlungsanweisung
Creators: name: Marie Antoinette
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1784

description: von Marie Antoinette
description: Mit Unterschrift: "payez Marie Antoinette"
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire April 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Optically Measuring Force near the Standard Quantum Limit
Creators: name: Schreppler, Sydney
name: Spethmann, Nicolas
name: Brahms, Nathan
name: Botter, Thierry
name: Barrios, Maryrose
name: Stamper-Kurn, Dan M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Heisenberg uncertainty principle sets a lower bound on the sensitivity of continuous optical measurements of force. This bound, the standard quantum limit, can only be reached when a mechanical oscillator subjected to the force is unperturbed by its environment, and when measurement imprecision from photon shot-noise is balanced against disturbance from measurement backaction. We apply an external force to the center-of-mass motion of an ultracold atom cloud in a high-finesse optical cavity. The optomechanically transduced response clearly demonstrates the trade-off between measurement imprecision and back-action noise. We achieve a sensitivity that is consistent with theoretical predictions for the quantum limit given the atoms' slight residual thermal disturbance and the photodetection quantum efficiency, and is a factor of 4 above the absolute standard quantum limit.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
I Know! Let's Put on a Show!
Creators: name: Stauffer, Robert
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Perhaps  one  of  the  earliest  narrative  tropes  I  encountered  was  the one where a group of kids try to save the orphanage, or their parents’ homes, or the school by putting on a show. I still have a clear image of a five- or six-year-old Spanky, dressed as a Ro-man soldier, reciting Mark Antony’s speech from Shakespeare’s Julius  Caesar,  while  trying  to  dodge  spitballs  from  his  friends  and the domineering of his overprotective mother. By bringing down the house (quite literally, of course) he was able to win the prize so the young girl with stage fright could buy a new dress.1The trope was made famous in Rodgers and Hart’s musical com-edy, Babes in Arms, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, and the two actors made quite a few movies featuring this plot device. I guess having had this story line run through my head so many times as a kid, it sank in and resurfaces every now and again as something I would like to try. So when I encountered trouble  getting  students  and  colleagues  interested  in  the  work  featured  in  my  dissertation,  the  old  trope  naturally  sprang  to  mind.
Brief an Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg
Creators: name: Gustav Adolf
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1632

description: Condoléance à propos de la mort de l'électrice Anne, mère de Georges-Guillaume
description: von Gustav Adolph II
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift und Schlussformel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Lateinisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Quantum Spin Hall and Quantum Anomalous Hall States Realized in Junction Quantum Wells
Creators: name: Zhang, Haijun
name: Xu, Yong
name: Wang, Jing
name: Zhang, Shou-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Both quantum spin Hall and quantum anomalous Hall states are novel states of quantum matter with promising applications. We propose junction quantum wells comprising II-VI, III-V or IV semiconductors as a large class of new materials realizing the quantum spin Hall state. Especially, we find that the bulk band gap for the quantum spin Hall state can be as large as 0.1 eV. Further more, magnetic doping would induce the ferromagnetism in these junction quantum wells due to band edge singularities in the band-inversion regime and to realize the quantum anomalous Hall state.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
TridentAdapt: Learning Domain-invariance via Source-Target Confrontation and Self-induced Cross-domain Augmentation
Creators: name: Shen, Fengyi
name: Gurram, Akhil
name: Tuna, Ahmet Faruk
name: Urfalioglu, Onay
name: Knoll, Alois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Due to the difficulty of obtaining ground-truth labels, learning from virtual-world datasets is of great interest for real-world applications like semantic segmentation. From domain adaptation perspective, the key challenge is to learn domain-agnostic representation of the inputs in order to benefit from virtual data. In this paper, we propose a novel trident-like architecture that enforces a shared feature encoder to satisfy confrontational source and target constraints simultaneously, thus learning a domain-invariant feature space. Moreover, we also introduce a novel training pipeline enabling self-induced cross-domain data augmentation during the forward pass. This contributes to a further reduction of the domain gap. Combined with a self-training process, we obtain state-of-the-art results on benchmark datasets (e.g. GTA5 or Synthia to Cityscapes adaptation). Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/HMRC-AEL/TridentAdapt
Capacitative coupling of singlet-triplet qubits in different inter-qubit geometries
Creators: name: Hiltunen, Tuukka
name: Harju, Ari
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the singlet-triplet qubit architecture, the two-qubit interactions required in universal quantum computing can be implemented by capacitative coupling, by exploiting the charge distribution differences of the singlet and triplet states. The efficiency of this scheme is limited by decoherence, that can be mitigated by stronger coupling between the qubits. In this paper, we study the capacitative coupling of singlet-triplet qubits in different geometries of the two-qubit system. The effects of the qubit-qubit distance and the relative orientation of the qubits on the capacitative coupling strength are discussed using an accurate microscopic model and exact diagonalization of it. We find that the trapezoidal quantum dot formations allow strong coupling with low charge distribution differences between the singlet and triplet states. The analysis of geometry on the capacitative coupling is also extended to the many-qubit case and the creation of cluster states.
Perpetual Invention and Performance-Based Research: The Case of The Ballad of Robin Hood and the Potter
Creators: name: Coulson, Carolyn
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: When I was in graduate school, I had a secret, albeit not a very well-kept  one.  Before  I  moved  across  the  country  to  study  the  Middle Ages, I was an actor and director, working consistently in California’s regional theaters. I had always been torn between my creative instincts and my intellectual pursuits, and, when I entered my MA program, I thought that intellect had prevailed and I had left theater behind for good. I remember that, when my  peers  in  the  English  department  would  lament  the  state  of  the  academic  job  market,  I  would  shrug  and  think,  “I  was  an  actor. The job market doesn’t get worse than that.” I am not sure if I ever said it out loud after the first month because my experi-ence as a theater practitioner was alien to most of my peers and professors.  It  was  not  academic.  It  was  not  literary.  It  was  not  historical. Even to me, it seemed to have little relevance to my new field, except for lending me some comfort in front of a class of  undergraduates.  My  past,  therefore,  was  essentially  erased,  and I reinvented myself as an academic.
What's the Message?: Building Community through Tolkien's Beowulf
Creators: name: Wendt, Holly M.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: When I was asked to participate in a series of summer book talks, I had a number of decisions to make. The first — to participate at all — was easy. As a faculty member finishing up the first year on the tenure track at a new campus, I jumped at the chance to take part in a long-running partnership between my institution and an active, engaged local community. The second decision — the book  —  was  far  more  difficult.  The  series’  scope  ranged  wide;  the  other  texts  on  the  schedule  leaned  heavily  toward  history,  biography,  and  accessible  social  and  natural  science.  As  some-one  whose  academic  interests  and  teaching  responsibilities  lay  evenly split between creative writing and medieval literature, I was,  like  Chaucer’s  Troilus,  in  kankedort.1  But  I  found  resolu-tion in J.R.R. Tolkien’s translation of Beowulf. Tolkien’s Beowulfstruck  the  right  balance  of  intellectually  interesting  and  more  broadly  appealing;  if  Beowulf  itself  didn’t  draw  people  in,  per-haps Tolkien’s name might. The Hobbit film franchise, after all, had just drawn to a close, and the bulk of the book talk attendees would be seniors. If they had children, those children would have been of an age to discover Tolkien’s creative works in their youth.  This  audience,  too,  might  have  better  memory  of  Peter  Jackson’s screen adaptation of the Lord of the Rings trilogy than my current sophomores, who were only four years old when the first movie came out.
Why Read That?: Selling the Middle Ages
Creators: name: Cady, Diane
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: As medievalists, we often do our training in graduate programs with several medievalists on staff, only to find ourselves teach-ing  in  places  where  we  are  the  lone  medievalists.  As  a  conse-quence, we may find ourselves fielding questions from students, colleagues,  and  administrators  about  the  value  —  cultural,  aes-thetic and economic — of studying the Middle Ages. I remem-ber  one  such  question  early  in  my  career,  during  my  first  se-mester at Mills College, a small liberal arts college in Oakland, California,  with  a  woman-identified,  undergraduate  popula-tion. How, a student asked, could I love Chaucer? Initially, her question  surprised  me:  I  not  only  love  Chaucer,  but  also  often  wonder how anyone could not love Chaucer. Yet, I also under-stood the source of her question. We had just finished reading “The  Reeve’s  Tale,”  a  short  and  troubling  story  that,  like  many  of the Canterbury Tales, presents women’s bodies as the terrain on which male rivalry is fought. Does teaching such stories per-petuate the idea that sexual violence is inevitable? Does it repro-duce misogyny and gender bias, she pressed? What value, if any, do texts like these hold for us as readers today?
Vorgedruckte Urkunde
Creators: name: Peter
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1714

description: von Peter [I., der Grosse, Zar v. Russland]
description: Dokument mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift
description: Mit Oblate
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Russisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Czernikowski
Creators: name: Jan
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1661

description: von König Johann Sobieski
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift: "J. Sobieski" und einer Nachschrift, militärischen Inhaltes. Mit Adresse und rotem Lacksiegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Polnisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Circle detection on images using Learning Automata
Creators: name: Cuevas, Erik
name: Wario, Fernando
name: Zaldivar, Daniel
name: Perez, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Circle detection over digital images has received considerable attention from the computer vision community over the last few years devoting a tremendous amount of research seeking for an optimal detector. This article presents an algorithm for the automatic detection of circular shapes from complicated and noisy images with no consideration of conventional Hough transform principles. The proposed algorithm is based on Learning Automata (LA) which is a probabilistic optimization method that explores an unknown random environment by progressively improving the performance via a reinforcement signal (objective function). The approach uses the encoding of three non-collinear points as a candidate circle over the edge image. A reinforcement signal (matching function) indicates if such candidate circles are actually present in the edge map. Guided by the values of such reinforcement signal, the probability set of the encoded candidate circles is modified through the LA algorithm so that they can fit to the actual circles on the edge map. Experimental results over several complex synthetic and natural images have validated the efficiency of the proposed technique regarding accuracy, speed and robustness.
description: 26 Pages
A Trip to England: Discovering the Ties between Medievalism and Pop Culture
Creators: name: Girard, Danielle
name: Huff, Sarah
name: Marsella, Justine
name: Protze, Alicia
name: Rosen, Abbie
name: Teague, Jacki
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: In  early  March  of  2014,  a  group  of  eager  undergraduate  stu-dents  sat  huddled  in  a  classroom  at  Fitchburg  State  University  discussing with ill-disguised excitement the trivial fact that The Hobbit:  The  Desolation  of  Smaug  might  be  a  screening  option  on  the  plane  to  England.  Our  Lone  Medievalist  —  our  study  abroad course instructor — listened with an amused expression. The  following  night  we  boarded  said  plane  to  embark  on  our  adventure to walk in the footsteps of medieval England. As we moved  through  the  country  it  became  clear  that  there  was  an  indisputable link between the medieval sites we visited and the fan culture that we so thoroughly immersed ourselves in daily. Not  a  single  day  passed  during  which  we  failed  to  find  a  link  between the medieval past and contemporary “nerd-dom.” In a trip that lasted the duration of nine days, we learned that, while the  world  of  academia  may  marginalize  medieval  scholars  in  favor  of  contemporary  scholars,  the  world  of  popular  culture  embraces and profits from the fascinating and diverse stores of medieval culture.
Identical particles exchange symmetry and the electric dipole moment in molecules
Creators: name: Tino, Guglielmo M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on fundamental symmetries, molecules cannot have a permanent electric dipole moment although it is commonly used in the literature to explain the different molecular spectra for heteronuclear and homonuclear molecules. Electric-dipole rotational and vibrational spectra can indeed be observed in heteronuclear molecules while they are missing in molecules with identical nuclei. I show that the missing spectral features can be explained as an effect of the exchange symmetry for identical particles.
description: Revised argument, results unchanged. Corrected typos. Added references
Vollmacht für Don José de Nebiet
Creators: name: Isabella
name: Pidal, Pedro José de
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1850

description: von Isabella II., Königin von Spanien
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift: "Yo la Reyna"
description: Mit Oblate
description: Gegengezeichnet von Pedro J. Pidal
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Spanisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Weisung für die Hofcassa
Creators: name: Otto
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1834

description: Betrifft einen Ankauf für die Bibliothek
description: von Otto I, König von Griechenland
description: Brief von fremder Hand mit eigenhändiger Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Mai 2015 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Contactless Electrocardiogram Monitoring with Millimeter Wave Radar
Creators: name: Chen, Jinbo
name: Zhang, Dongheng
name: Wu, Zhi
name: Zhou, Fang
name: Sun, Qibin
name: Chen, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: The electrocardiogram (ECG) has always been an important biomedical test to diagnose cardiovascular diseases. Current approaches for ECG monitoring are based on body attached electrodes leading to uncomfortable user experience. Therefore, contactless ECG monitoring has drawn tremendous attention, which however remains unsolved. In fact, cardiac electrical-mechanical activities are coupling in a well-coordinated pattern. In this paper, we achieve contactless ECG monitoring by breaking the boundary between the cardiac mechanical and electrical activity. Specifically, we develop a millimeter-wave radar system to contactlessly measure cardiac mechanical activity and reconstruct ECG without any contact in. To measure the cardiac mechanical activity comprehensively, we propose a series of signal processing algorithms to extract 4D cardiac motions from radio frequency (RF) signals. Furthermore, we design a deep neural network to solve the cardiac related domain transformation problem and achieve end-to-end reconstruction mapping from RF input to the ECG output. The experimental results show that our contactless ECG measurements achieve timing accuracy of cardiac electrical events with median error below 14ms and morphology accuracy with median Pearson-Correlation of 90% and median Root-Mean-Square-Error of 0.081mv compared to the groudtruth ECG. These results indicate that the system enables the potential of contactless, continuous and accurate ECG monitoring.
Three Dimensional Non-Isothermal Ginzburg-Landau Phase-Field Model for Shape Memory Alloys
Creators: name: Dhote, R.
name: Fabrizio, M.
name: Melnik, R.
name: Zu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, a macroscopic three dimensional non-isothermal model is proposed to describe hysteresis phenomena and phase transformations in shape memory alloys (SMAs). The model is of phase-field type and is based on the Ginzburg-Landau theory. The hysteresis and phase transformations are governed by the kinetic phase evolution equation using the scalar order parameter, conservation laws of momentum and energy, and a non-linear coupling between stress, strain, and the order parameter in a differential form. One of the important features of the model is that the phase transformation is governed by the stress tensor as opposed to the transformation strain tensor typically used in the literature. The model takes into account different properties of austenite and martensite phases based on the compliance tensor as a function of the order parameter and stress. Representative numerical simulations on a SMA specimen reproduce hysteretic behaviors observed experimentally in the literature.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
Brief an den Bürgermeister und die geheimen Räte von Ulm
Creators: name: Jud, Leo
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1533

description: von Leo Jud
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift und abgefallenem Siegel
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire April 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
From the Monk's Cell to the Professor's Office
Creators: name: Tracy, Kisha G.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Despite  the  title  of  this  essay,  I  am  not  going  to  spend  much  time  in  the  monk’s  cell  —  this  regardless  of  the  common  hab-it  of  equating  academics  with  monks,  generally  with  negative  connotations. This image was evoked by Nicholas Kristof in his much-discussed (by academics at least) New York Times article, “Professors, We Need You!,” advocating for public engagement by academics in less arcane language. He ends with the cry, “So, professors,  don’t  cloister  yourselves  like  medieval  monks  —  we  need you!”1 Earlier, he defines what this “cloistering” means: “A basic  challenge  is  that  Ph.D.  programs  have  fostered  a  culture  that  glorifies  arcane  unintelligibility  while  disdaining  impact  and audience. This culture of exclusivity is then transmitted to the  next  generation  through  the  publish-or-perish  tenure  pro-cess.  Rebels  are  too  often  crushed  or  driven  away.”  Essentially,  he  is  denigrating,  if  not  the  lone  medievalist  by  name,  then  certainly  the  lone  academic.  With  due  respect  to  Mr.  Kristof,  he clearly has not been a student of medieval studies. Peter Buchanan offers a reply to Kristof ’s article on his blog Phenomenal Anglo-Saxons that cannot fail to make a medievalist smile — if not smirk. He writes, “And since my PhD is in medieval studies, it’s not clear that he would want me [...] although I could at the very least let him know that medieval monks were often active figures in their world, preserving and transmitting knowledge, producing art and literature, and serving as public intellectuals shaping  the  course  of  local  and  international  political  affairs.”2Of course, such a discussion would necessarily get into eremitic vs.  cenobitic  monastic  traditions,  the  various  rules  of  orders,  and the determination of the effects monks had on public life. Nonetheless, Buchanan’s response is well-aimed.
Brief an Johann von Werth
Creators: name: Maximilian
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1645

description: Antwort auf den Brief vom 28.8.1645 (Autogr Geigy-Hagenbach 474:1)
description: von Maximilian I., Kürfürst von Bayern
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire September 2022 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel nni
description: Siehe auch: Autogr Geigy-Hagenbach 474:1
Embracing the Medievalist Margin
Creators: name: Spencer-Hall, Alicia
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: LondonWhat a loaded phrase it is, “the Middle Ages.” What does it de-note, exactly? Medievalists have long critiqued the terminology as  an  empty  —  and  intellectually  partisan  —  marker  of  other-ness.1 Certainly, the term is useful for historicists, classicists, and modernists as a delimiter of the end of the age of Antiquity and the beginning of the Renaissance. Yet, the phrase is tainted for researchers in the medieval trenches, actively working to demonstrate  the  fecundity  and  importance  of  the  period  to  intel-lectual and cultural history. The formulation itself, “the Middle Ages,”  deflect  us  from  the  temporal  period  supposedly  under  study: what are those ages in the “middle” of ? The Middle Ages, paradoxically, take center-stage in their function as the margins of  other  more  exciting  periods  of  study.  Without  the  essential  instrument  of  “the  Middle  Ages,”  modernists  and  Classicists  would  struggle  to  frame  their  own  work.  Even  the  adjectival  form, “medieval,” offers us few benefits. As Margreta de Grazia notes,  the  term  “medieval”  “works  less  as  a  historical  marker  than a massive value judgement, determining what matters and what does not”.2 To research the Middle Ages, to be a medieval-ist,  is  to  be  irrevocably  tied  to  “a  millennium  of  middleness,”  and to exist “in the [marginalized] middle” in our professional academic lives.
Planning with Biological Neurons and Synapses
Creators: name: d'Amore, Francesco
name: Mitropolsky, Daniel
name: Crescenzi, Pierluigi
name: Natale, Emanuele
name: Papadimitriou, Christos H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We revisit the planning problem in the blocks world, and we implement a known heuristic for this task. Importantly, our implementation is biologically plausible, in the sense that it is carried out exclusively through the spiking of neurons. Even though much has been accomplished in the blocks world over the past five decades, we believe that this is the first algorithm of its kind. The input is a sequence of symbols encoding an initial set of block stacks as well as a target set, and the output is a sequence of motion commands such as "put the top block in stack 1 on the table". The program is written in the Assembly Calculus, a recently proposed computational framework meant to model computation in the brain by bridging the gap between neural activity and cognitive function. Its elementary objects are assemblies of neurons (stable sets of neurons whose simultaneous firing signifies that the subject is thinking of an object, concept, word, etc.), its commands include project and merge, and its execution model is based on widely accepted tenets of neuroscience. A program in this framework essentially sets up a dynamical system of neurons and synapses that eventually, with high probability, accomplishes the task. The purpose of this work is to establish empirically that reasonably large programs in the Assembly Calculus can execute correctly and reliably; and that rather realistic -- if idealized -- higher cognitive functions, such as planning in the blocks world, can be implemented successfully by such programs.
Meromorphic Functions and the Topology of Giant Gravitons
Creators: name: Abbott, Michael C.
name: Murugan, Jeff
name: Prinsloo, Andrea
name: Rughoonauth, Nitin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using Mikhailov's map from holomorphic functions to supersymmetric D3-brane solutions, we show how to construct giant gravitons in AdS5 x S5 with toroidal topologies. In the 1/4-BPS sector we show that these are always of the form #^K (S2 x S1), and in the limit in which this becomes a set of m+n perpendicular spherical giants re-connected near to their intersections, we find K in terms of m,n. In the 1/8-BPS sector we find a similar class of solutions.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures
The Medievalist's Soliloquy: Struggles and Advice for Lone Medievalists
Creators: name: Ziegler, Tiffany A.
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: Many scholars of medieval studies enter their first job after leav-ing  supportive  graduate  programs  where  other  graduate  stu-dents  understood  their  woes.  Once  teaching  at  an  institution  where scholarly studies may not be a priority, many quickly dis-cover that they do not have much time, especially for research and writing. Moreover, they lack the supportive community that they  once  had.1  As  a  lone  medievalist,  the  struggle  to  produce  scholarship  and  writing  is  difficult  and  complicated.  Creating  classes, curriculum planning, committee work, etc., all eventu-ally become routine. Sadly, the same cannot be said of research. From lack of library resources, to the reliance on oneself as an audience,  the  research  process  proves  to  be  difficult.  Despite  these obstacles there are a number of ways to better facilitate re-searching and writing while still performing one’s teaching duties as the lone medievalist. The solutions and advice2 — focus-ing  on  the  categories  of  research  and  collegiality  —  draw  from  The Rule of Saint Augustine. The solitary medieval monk serves as a surprising parallel to modern lone medievalist.
Direct and approximately valid probabilistic inference on a class of statistical functionals
Creators: name: Cella, Leonardo
name: Martin, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing frameworks for probabilistic inference assume the quantity of interest is the parameter of a posited statistical model. In machine learning applications, however, often there is no statistical model/parameter; the quantity of interest is a statistical functional, a feature of the underlying distribution. Model-based methods can only handle such problems indirectly, via marginalization from a model parameter to the real quantity of interest. Here we develop a generalized inferential model (IM) framework for direct probabilistic uncertainty quantification on the quantity of interest. In particular, we construct a data-dependent, bootstrap-based possibility measure for uncertainty quantification and inference. We then prove that this new approach provides approximately valid inference in the sense that the plausibility values assigned to hypotheses about the unknowns are asymptotically well-calibrated in a frequentist sense. Among other things, this implies that confidence regions for the underlying functional derived from our proposed IM are approximately valid. The method is shown to perform well in key examples, including quantile regression, and in a personalized medicine application.
description: 32 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Comments welcome at https://researchers.one/articles/21.12.00004
Polarization exchange in colliding photon beams in a medium of an atomic gas
Creators: name: Sawyer, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Photon-photon interactions mediated by an atomic gas can effect efficient polarization exchanges between two beams, leaving the medium exactly in its initial state. In, e.g., hydrogen, the distance required for macroscopic exchange is of order one tenth the distance in which the ordinary non-linear index of refraction would induce a phase change of pi. Several examples are worked out that show the variety of behaviors that can result, depending on the initial respective polarizations stated and the angle between the beams. Of particular interest are initial conditions in which there is no exchange at a mean field level, conventionally believed to apply when the number of photons, N, is large. Then the full theory leads both to large exchange and to large entanglement between the beams. Our most solid results indicate that one would have to wait a time proportional to log[N] to see this effect, but there are some indications that this behavior can be circumvented.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures
Reflections of an Embarrassed Medievalist
Creators: name: Elam, Michael
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: While many medievalists find themselves alone in their depart-ments,  ranging  from  History  to  English,  etc.,  many  medieval-ists  often  find  themselves  just  as  alone,  lonelier  in  some  cases,  among  other  medievalists,  especially  in  professional  contexts  in which shared specialization ought to help them feel they be-long. Lone medievalists in their academic departments, though they may feel a sense of isolation, may find that acclimation to teaching, service, and other responsibilities has its own separat-ing effect, an effect that makes the lone medievalist feel doubly alone  among  other  medievalists,  especially  at  conferences,  at  which the expectation to make significant, independent, mean-ingful contributions to further medieval studies can be stifling. Such  an  expectation,  frankly,  may  not  be  entirely  reasonable.  This may seem shocking, but many, if not most, medievalists do not have the personal resources to offer the kind of discipline-changing studies tacitly expected from them (from any scholar, really).  At  least  it  is  shocking  to  say  it  out  loud.  The  custom  among academics is to refrain from saying what most are think-ing and experiencing in the hopes that somehow one will stum-ble into something that peers will claim is brilliant; it has been my custom, anyway, and I know from candid conversations with others that I am not alone.
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Heer, Oswald
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1867

description: von O[swald] Heer
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Deutsch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Ein Konzept zur Honorierung der Ökosystemleistungen der Wälder
Creators: name: Elsasser, Peter
name: Köthke, Margret
name: Dieter, Matthias
name: Elsasser, Peter
name: Köthke, Margret
name: Dieter, Matthias
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: Wald
subject: Ökosystemleistungen
subject: forstliche Förderung
subject: PES
subject: Honorierung
subject: forestry
subject: ecosystem services
subject: subsidisation

description: This working paper presents and substantiates a detailed concept for rewarding the ecosystem services of forests in Germany. The concept accounts for actually provided services (rather than for management measures), and focuses on the productivity of the particular forests/forest enterprises as well as on society’s demand for the individual forest services. The concept consists of two levels. Level 1 comprises global services, in particular for climate and biodiversity protection; here the amount of services provided and the respective payments are being deduced from international agreements and the corresponding national strategies, as far as possible. Level 2 comprises further recreational and protection services, where demand exhibits more pronounced regional and local differences; on this level, service amounts and the respective payments are determined by individual contracts, which require at least a pro-rata contribution of the interested stakeholders. Throughout, we legitimise the concept and its individual elements by relating it to the given legal situation, and to the results of democratic decision making. Finally, we discuss the conceivable incentive and steering effects of the proposal, and the necessary reforms of the existing subsidisation system for forestry.
description: DOI:10.3220/WP1598533026000
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Herschel, John F. W.
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1852

description: von J[ohn] F[rederik] W[illiam] Herschel
description: Eigenhändiges Billett mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire Juli 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Unbekannt
Creators: name: Cousin, Victor
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1825

description: Conc. le poète De la Motte-Fouqué qui lui a donné un livre pour elle. (Kat. Geigy-Hagenbach)
description: von V[ictor] Cousin
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Französisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
Brief an Sidney E. Morse
Creators: name: Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
Publisher: name: [s.n.]
Year: 1857

description: Conc. Submarine Cable "to take on board at Liverpool our Atlantic Cable ..." (Kat. Geigy-Hagenbach)
description: von Sam[uel] F[inley] B[reese] Morse
description: Eigenhändiger Brief mit Unterschrift
description: Stiftung Sammlung Karl Geigy-Hagenbach
description: Englisch
description: Verzeichnung=Description=Inventaire August 2016 HAN-Katalogisierungsregeln Rekatalogisierung nach Original, Verzeichnis von Karl Geigy-Hagenbach und Briefkatalog der UB Basel
The Unicorn Learns Accountability
Creators: name: Urban, Misty
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: In  the  spring  of  my  first  year  at  Lewis-Clark  State  College  in  Lewiston, Idaho, I stood before a standing-room-only crowd in the  on-campus  coffee  shop,  prepared  to  give  an  informal  talk  as part of the Humanities Division’s ongoing colloquium series. Other  professors  had  run  small  but  intellectually  substantial  discussions about, for example, tigers in Romantic poetry. I was here to talk about monstrous women, Middle English romance, and  the  fairy  Melusine.  I  had  a  set  of  PowerPoint  slides.  I  had  a  packed  audience,  composed  not  just  of  my  colleagues  and  seminar students but, I suspected, other students earning extra credit.  Giving  this  talk  on  my  research  felt  like  a  good  way  to  introduce myself as the new assistant professor of English. It felt like a good way to give students a small taste of medieval litera-ture that might lure them into further study. It felt like one of the many ways I was still attempting to prove, to the division and to myself, that, though the hiring process was long complete, I was indeed the right person for this job.
Valid inferential models for prediction in supervised learning problems
Creators: name: Cella, Leonardo
name: Martin, Ryan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Prediction, where observed data is used to quantify uncertainty about a future observation, is a fundamental problem in statistics. Prediction sets with coverage probability guarantees are a common solution, but these do not provide probabilistic uncertainty quantification in the sense of assigning beliefs to relevant assertions about the future observable. Alternatively, we recommend the use of a {\em probabilistic predictor}, a data-dependent (imprecise) probability distribution for the to-be-predicted observation given the observed data. It is essential that the probabilistic predictor be reliable or valid, and here we offer a notion of validity and explore its behavioral and statistical implications. In particular, we show that valid probabilistic predictors must be imprecise, that they avoid sure loss, and that they lead to prediction procedures with desirable frequentist error rate control properties. We provide a general construction of a provably valid probabilistic predictor, which has close connections to the powerful conformal prediction machinery, and we illustrate this construction in regression and classification applications.
description: 29 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables. Comments welcome at https://researchers.one/articles/21.12.00002
How to Stop Being a Lonely Medievalist
Creators: name: Hennequin, M. Wendy
Publisher: name: punctum books
Year: 2018

description: If you are reading this essay, chances are you are a Lone Medi-evalist.  So  am  I.  I  am  the  only  medievalist  in  my  department  (Language,  Literature,  and  Philosophy,  comprising  the  disci-plines  of  English,  foreign  languages,  literature,  linguistics,  and  philosophy).  I  teach  at  a  historically  black  college,  where  me-dieval  studies  doesn’t  even  register  on  the  academic  radar.  My  historically-minded  students  are  generally  more  interested  in  American or African history. Many students, and indeed many of my colleagues, see the Middle Ages as irrelevant to our stud-ies and disciplines.Yet my purpose here isn’t to enumerate the challenges of be-ing  a  Lone  Medievalist.  We  all  know  what  they  are,  and  other  essays in this volume examine our situation and its inherent is-sues  and  frustrations  in  detail.  Instead,  I  intend  to  discuss  the  problem  of  a  Lone  Medievalist’s  loneliness  and  suggest  some  concrete ways to deal with it.