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UA3/9/5 ALIVE Center Invitation
Invitation to the ALIVE Center ribbon cutting ceremony housed in President Gary Ransdell\u27s papers
OperA/ALIVE/OperettA
Comprehensive models for organizations must, on the one hand, be able to specify global goals and requirements but, on the other hand, cannot assume that particular actors will always act according to the needs and expectations of the system design. Concepts as organizational rules (Zambonelli 2002), norms and institutions (Dignum and Dignum 2001; Esteva et al. 2002), and social structures (Parunak and Odell 2002) arise from the idea that the effective engineering of organizations needs high-level, actor-independent concepts and abstractions that explicitly define the organization in which agents live (Zambonelli 2002).Peer ReviewedPostprint (author's final draft
Magnetic monopoles, alive
We review recent developments in understanding the physics of the magnetic
monopoles in unbroken non-Abelian gauge theories. Since numerical data on the
monopoles are accumulated in lattice simulations, the continuum theory is
understood as the limiting case of the lattice formulation. In this review,
written for a memorial volume dedicated to the memory of Academician A.B.
Migdal, we emphasize physical effects related to the monopoles. In particular,
we discuss the monopole-antimonopole potential at short and larger distances as
well as a dual formulation of the gluodynamics, relevant to the physics of the
confinement.Comment: 24+1 pp., Latex2e, no figure
Toward alive art
Electronics is about to change the idea of art and drastically so. We know this is going to happen - we can feel it. Much less clear to most of us are the hows, whens and whys of the change. In this paper, we will attempt to analyze the mechanisms and dynamics of the coming cultural revolution, focusing on the «artistic space» where the revolution is taking place, on the interactions between the artistic act and the space in which the act takes place and on the way in which the act modifies the space and the space the act. We briefly discuss the new category of «electronic artists». We then highlight what we see as the logical process connecting the past, the present and our uncertain future. We examine the relationship between art and previous technologies, pointing to the evolutionary, as well as the revolutionary impact of new means of expression. Against this background we propose a definition for what we call «Alive Art», going on to develop a tentative profile of the performers (the «Alivers»). In the last section, we describe two examples of Alive Artworks, pointing out the central role of what we call the "Alive Art Effect" in which we can perceive relative independence of creation from the artist and thus it may seem that unique creative role of artist is not always immediate and directly induced by his/her activity. We actually, emphasized that artist's activities may result in unpredictable processes more or less free of the artist's will
Nothing is alive
Finding an adequate definition of "life" has proven to be a tricky affair. In this article, I discuss the idea that nothing is really alive: we only say so. I shall argue that 'being alive' is not a genuine property of things, and that it only reflects the way we think and talk about things. An eliminativist strategy will then allow us to free ourselves from the burden of having to find a definition of life, and will allow us to focus on the genuinely interesting properties of living (and non-living) entities
Digging Them Out Alive
From 2013-2018, we taught a collection of interrelated law and social work clinical courses, which we call âthe Unger clinic.â This clinic was part of a major, multi-year criminal justice project, led by the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. The clinic and project responded to a need created by a 2012 Maryland Court of Appeals decision, Unger v. State. It, as later clarified, required that all Maryland prisoners who were convicted by juries before 1981â237 older, long-incarcerated prisonersâbe given new trials. This was because prior to 1981 Maryland judges in criminal trials were required to instruct the jury that theyâthe juryâhad the ultimate right to determine the law. Our clinic helped to implement Unger by providing a range of legal services and related social services to many of these prisoners. Through the five years, the great majority of the Unger group were released by agreements, on probation, and not retried. In all, approximately 85% of the 237âthat is, 85% of all state prisoners in Maryland convicted by juries of violent crimes before 1981âwere released. This article describes why and how we created the Unger Clinic; why we made it interdisciplinary; what the students and we learned in it and from our clients; and what we would do differently. We believe the clinical education model we developedâan interdisciplinary clinic working in partnership with a major legal services provider and a citizensâ advocacy groupâcan be used effectively to address other significant access-to-justice problems nationally. In the end, the Unger Project has been a criminal justice laboratory. The qualitative experiences support many criminal justice reforms with the overriding lesson being that the continued incarceration of older, long incarcerated prisoners convicted of violent crimes serves no public safety purpose
The Alive Particle Filter
In the following article we develop a particle filter for approximating
Feynman-Kac models with indicator potentials. Examples of such models include
approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) posteriors associated with hidden Markov
models (HMMs) or rare-event problems. Such models require the use of advanced
particle filter or Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms e.g. Jasra et al.
(2012), to perform estimation. One of the drawbacks of existing particle
filters, is that they may 'collapse', in that the algorithm may terminate
early, due to the indicator potentials. In this article, using a special case
of the locally adaptive particle filter in Lee et al. (2013), which is closely
related to Le Gland & Oudjane (2004), we use an algorithm which can deal with
this latter problem, whilst introducing a random cost per-time step. This
algorithm is investigated from a theoretical perspective and several results
are given which help to validate the algorithms and to provide guidelines for
their implementation. In addition, we show how this algorithm can be used
within MCMC, using particle MCMC (Andrieu et al. 2010). Numerical examples are
presented for ABC approximations of HMMs
Higgs inflation still alive
The observed value of the Higgs mass indicates that the Higgs potential
becomes small and flat at the scale around GeV. Having this fact in
mind, we reconsider the Higgs inflation scenario proposed by Bezrukov and
Shaposhnikov. It turns out that the non-minimal coupling of the
Higgs-squared to the Ricci scalar can be smaller than ten. For example,
corresponds to the tensor-to-scalar ratio , which is consistent
with the recent observation by BICEP2.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures; Version to appear on Physical Review Letters,
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