327 research outputs found
Mutating Monsters: Approaches to âLiving Textsâ of the Carolingian Era
Scholars of pre-modern legal history face interesting problems with the interpretation of their materials because the ideal of fixed written laws is compromised by the variability in handwritten transcription of the texts. The variability may lead to inadvertently peculiar readings of the law in specific instances, or may have resulted from deliberate manipulation of the texts to adapt them to particular interests or circumstances. While such textual evolution occurs in many professional fields (medicine, music, liturgy, etc.), it raises especially interesting questions in the field of legal studies because of the implications for the authority of the text and the threshold of âforgery.â This paper investigates new methods for assessing the relationship between âstandardâ versions of legal texts and the degree and frequency of alteration in manuscript witnesses, using the Carolingian Canon Law project as one possible model for using a digital environment to study the histories of âliving textsâ, that is, texts that potentially mutate in each manuscript representation
Boundary Integral Equations for the Laplace-Beltrami Operator
We present a boundary integral method, and an accompanying boundary element
discretization, for solving boundary-value problems for the Laplace-Beltrami
operator on the surface of the unit sphere in . We consider
a closed curve on which divides into two parts
and . In particular,
is the boundary curve of . We are interested in solving a boundary
value problem for the Laplace-Beltrami operator in , with boundary data
prescribed on \C
The T-PEN Tool: Sustainability and Quality Control in Encoding Handwritten Texts
The Center for Digital Theology and the Carolingian Canon Law (CCL) Project will collaborate to develop a Transcription-Paleographic and Editing Notation (T-PEN) Tool. Using digitized images of medieval manuscripts, this tool will assist scholars in the transcription of such sources and will allow automatic insertion of markup of textual features during the transcription process. T-PEN will be a new research tool in the CCL, permitting any number of scholars to submit their transcriptions of unpublished texts of early medieval canon law. Moreover, T-PEN will assist the CCL in maintaining quality control of transcriptions, as it will supply continuous comparison of manuscript image and the transcriber's work in a transparent display. It supports easy and immediate insertion of annotations (paleographic, discursive, and bibliographic), insertion of TEI P5 markup according to project protocols and validation against the schema during the transcription process
On the uniqueness of -Minkowski problems: the constant -curvature case in
We study the smooth convex bodies
satisfying , where , is the Gauss
curvature of , is the support function of ,
and is a constant. In the case of , either when or when
in addition to a pinching condition, we show that must
be the unit ball. This partially answers a conjecture of Lutwak, Yang, and
Zhang about the uniqueness of the -Minkowski problem in .
Moreover, we give an explicit pinching constant depending only on when
.Comment: references update
Deep-sea corals : a new oceanic archive
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1998.Vita.Includes bibliographical references.by Jess F. Adins.Ph.D
Statistical Methods by SAS. Annotated Output from SAS for Selected Examples from Statistical Methods, Snedecor and Cochran
52 pages, 1 article*Statistical Methods by SAS. Annotated Output from SAS for Selected Examples from Statistical Methods, Snedecor and Cochran* (Arneson, Valerie; Firey, Patricia A.; McCulloch, Charles) 52 page
On the multiple Borsuk numbers of sets
The Borsuk number of a set S of diameter d >0 in Euclidean n-space is the
smallest value of m such that S can be partitioned into m sets of diameters
less than d. Our aim is to generalize this notion in the following way: The
k-fold Borsuk number of such a set S is the smallest value of m such that there
is a k-fold cover of S with m sets of diameters less than d. In this paper we
characterize the k-fold Borsuk numbers of sets in the Euclidean plane, give
bounds for those of centrally symmetric sets, smooth bodies and convex bodies
of constant width, and examine them for finite point sets in the Euclidean
3-space.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
A discrete random model describing bedrock profile abrasion
We use a simple, collision-based, discrete, random abrasion model to compute
the profiles for the stoss faces in a bedrock abrasion process. The model is
the discrete equivalent of the generalized version of a classical, collision
based model of abrasion. Three control parameters (which describe the average
size of the colliding objects, the expected direction of the impacts and the
average volume removed from the body due to one collision) are sufficient for
realistic predictions. Our computations show the robust emergence of steady
state shapes, both the geometry and the time evolution of which shows good
quantitative agreement with laboratory experiments.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figure
The decline and rise of neighbourhoods: the importance of neighbourhood governance
There is a substantial literature on the explanation of neighbourhood change. Most of this literature concentrates on identifying factors and developments behind processes of decline. This paper reviews the literature, focusing on the identification of patterns of neighbourhood change, and argues that the concept of neighbourhood governance is a missing link in attempts to explain these patterns. Including neighbourhood governance in the explanations of neighbourhood change and decline will produce better explanatory models and, finally, a better view about what is actually steering neighbourhood change
What does it mean when people call a place a shithole? Understanding a discourse of denigration in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
This paper investigates what people mean when they engage in the discourse of denigration. Building on existing literature on territorial stigmatisation that either focuses on macroâscale uses and effects of territorial stigmatisation or microâscale ethnographic studies of effects, we develop a novel approach that captures the diverse voices that engage in the discourse of denigration by tracing the use of the word and hashtag âshitholeâ on the social media platform Twitter in order to examine who is engaged in the stigmatising discourse, the types of place that are stigmatised and the responses to stigmatised places. Using a robust data set, we highlight two key findings. First, the majority of tweets were aimed at places where the tweeter was not from, a form of othering consistent with how territories are stigmatised by those in positions of power such as policymakers, politicians and journalists. Second, we note that an important and gendered minority of tweets can be characterised by a âcry for helpâ and powerlessness, where the stigma is aimed at their own places. We offer an interpretive lens through which to understand and frame these minoritarian voices by engaging with theories of abjection that allow us to see how minoritarian voices relate to place
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