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The Ursinus Weekly, November 21, 1902
Immensee • Tuesday Night Club: Schiller and Goethe • Football • Magazine articles • Mr. Gristock dines the varsity • Society echoes • Reverend J. Monroe Stick • YMCAhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/3064/thumbnail.jp
On the meaning of feedback parameter, transient climate response, and the greenhouse effect: Basic considerations and the discussion of uncertainties
In this paper we discuss the meaning of feedback parameter, greenhouse effect
and transient climate response usually related to the globally averaged energy
balance model of Schneider and Mass. After scrutinizing this model and the
corresponding planetary radiation balance we state that (a) the this globally
averaged energy balance model is flawed by unsuitable physical considerations,
(b) the planetary radiation balance for an Earth in the absence of an
atmosphere is fraught by the inappropriate assumption of a uniform surface
temperature, the so-called radiative equilibrium temperature of about 255 K,
and (c) the effect of the radiative anthropogenic forcing, considered as a
perturbation to the natural system, is much smaller than the uncertainty
involved in the solution of the model of Schneider and Mass. This uncertainty
is mainly related to the empirical constants suggested by various authors and
used for predicting the emission of infrared radiation by the Earth's skin.
Furthermore, after inserting the absorption of solar radiation by atmospheric
constituents and the exchange of sensible and latent heat between the Earth and
the atmosphere into the model of Schneider and Mass the surface temperatures
become appreciably lesser than the radiative equilibrium temperature. Moreover,
neither the model of Schneider and Mass nor the Dines-type two-layer energy
balance model for the Earth-atmosphere system, both contain the planetary
radiation balance for an Earth in the absence of an atmosphere as an asymptotic
solution, do not provide evidence for the existence of the so-called
atmospheric greenhouse effect if realistic empirical data are used.Comment: 69 pages, 3 tables and 16 figure
Finding Freire: Punk, praxis and the quest for spirituality in Krishnacore
Building upon earlier research, this paper unpacks the complex relationship between punk and Krishna Consciousness, in this instance through the lens of Paulo Freire’s notion of praxis. Here, the intersection between punk, the Hare Krishna movement and the corresponding relationship between auto-didacticism and spirituality are examined as a means of interrogating subcultural participation and the hegemonic dominance of the anti-religious sentiment within punk. Freire’s approach is examined within the context of this relationship, specifically regarding the inquisi-tiveness of the individual as they begin the process of engaging with Krishna Consciousness and spirituality, especially from the standpoint of punk. The importance here lies in the learning pro-cess being in a state of flux, where the continual re-creation of knowledge and inquiry becomes a means of consolidating the dialectical relationship between the self and the world around it. Here, punk becomes a valuable space in which to discover new ideas, a means of developing an aesthetic and subcultural/religious/spiritual membership within a framework of auto-didacticism; of illu-minating the dialectical, hermeneutic relationship between consciousness and the world around us, central to Freire’s concept of praxis
Nutritional Ecology: A First Vegetarian Spider
SummaryMutualisms are ubiquitous in nature and equally commonplace is their exploitation. A well-known mutualism has been found to be exploited from a surprising source: the first described vegetarian spider dines on trophic structures produced by acacia trees to reward their mutualistic protective ants
S-Lemma with Equality and Its Applications
Let and be two quadratic functions
having symmetric matrices and . The S-lemma with equality asks when the
unsolvability of the system implies the existence of a real
number such that . The
problem is much harder than the inequality version which asserts that, under
Slater condition, is unsolvable if and only if for some . In this paper, we
show that the S-lemma with equality does not hold only when the matrix has
exactly one negative eigenvalue and is a non-constant linear function
(). As an application, we can globally solve as well as the two-sided generalized trust region subproblem
without any condition. Moreover, the
convexity of the joint numerical range where is a (possibly non-convex) quadratic
function and are affine functions can be characterized
using the newly developed S-lemma with equality.Comment: 34 page
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