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Said and the Mythmaking of Auerbach\u27s Mimesis
In her article Said and the Mythmaking of Auerbach\u27s Mimesis Hyeryung Hwang revisits critical debates on Edward W. Said\u27s unwitting participation in the mythmaking of Erich Auerbach\u27s Mimesis and analyzes the degree to which critical discourse overlook what Said actually wanted to revive, namely the spirit of philological methodology. Hwang argues that before Said worked on Mimesis, the book already acquired a sort of myth. Hwang attempts to go beyond the commonly held understanding of philology and suggest it as a methodology for historical synthesis whose dialectical tension between texts and history amounts to the synthesis of fact and truth
Group Testing with Pools of Fixed Size
In the classical combinatorial (adaptive) group testing problem, one is given
two integers and , where , and a population of
items, exactly of which are known to be defective. The question is to
devise an optimal sequential algorithm that, at each step, tests a subset of
the population and determines whether such subset is contaminated (i.e.
contains defective items) or otherwise. The problem is solved only when the
defective items are identified. The minimum number of steps that an
optimal sequential algorithm takes in general (i.e. in the worst case) to solve
the problem is denoted by . The computation of appears
to be very difficult and a general formula is known only for . We
consider here a variant of the original problem, where the size of the subsets
to be tested is restricted to be a fixed positive integer . The
corresponding minimum number of tests by a sequential optimal algorithm is
denoted by . In this paper we start the
investigation of the function
The Western New York Entrepreneurship Ecosystem: Rapid Discovery Assessment and Recommendations for the Future
In an effort to learn more about the current state of Western New York's entrepreneurial ecosystem and to inform future strategy, the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation engaged Victor & Company, led by Victor W. Hwang, to conduct a three-month rapid discovery process.This report was written and published by Victor & Company, led by Victor W. Hwang, with support from the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation
The maximum number of minimal codewords in an code
Upper and lower bounds are derived for the quantity in the title, which is
tabulated for modest values of and An application to graphs with many
cycles is given.Comment: 6 pp. Submitte
Superconducting Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O films by sputtering
Superconducting Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O thin films 0.2–1.0 µm thick have been prepared on MgO(100) and SrTiO3 (100) substrates by dc diode sputtering using a single oxide target. Films containing primarily the Tl2Ba2Ca1Cu2O8 phase were obtained with a Tc (R =0) at 102 K and a transport Jc of 104 A/cm2 at 90 K. For the nearly pure phase Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 films, the Tc\u27s (R =0) are higher at 116 K and the transport Jc\u27s at 100 K are of 105 A/cm2. Both types of films show a strong preferred orientation with the c axis perpendicular to the film plane. The rocking curve of the Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 films is 0.32° wide and the typical grain size is over 10 µm
Superconducting Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O films by sputtering
Superconducting Tl-Ba-Ca-Cu-O thin films 0.2–1.0 µm thick have been prepared on MgO(100) and SrTiO3 (100) substrates by dc diode sputtering using a single oxide target. Films containing primarily the Tl2Ba2Ca1Cu2O8 phase were obtained with a Tc (R =0) at 102 K and a transport Jc of 104 A/cm2 at 90 K. For the nearly pure phase Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 films, the Tc\u27s (R =0) are higher at 116 K and the transport Jc\u27s at 100 K are of 105 A/cm2. Both types of films show a strong preferred orientation with the c axis perpendicular to the film plane. The rocking curve of the Tl2Ba2Ca2Cu3O10 films is 0.32° wide and the typical grain size is over 10 µm
Measuring of in the forthcoming decade
I first introduce the importance of measuring V_ub precisely. Then, from a
theoretician's point of view, I review (a) past history, (b) present trials,
and (c) possible future alternatives on measuring |V_ub| and/or |V_ub/V_cb|. As
of my main topic, I introduce a model-independent method, which predicts
\Gamma(B -> X_u l \nu) / \Gamma(B -> X_c l \nu) \equiv (\gamma_u / \gamma_c)
\times | V_{ub} / V_{cb}|^2 \simeq (1.83 \pm 0.28) \times |V_ub / V_cb|^2 and
|V_ub/V_cb| \equiv (\gamma_c / \gamma_u)^{1/2} \times [{\cal{B}}(B -> X_u l
\nu)/{\cal{B}}(B -> X_c l \nu)]^{1/2} \simeq (0.74 \pm 0.06) \times
[{\cal{B}}(B -> X_u l \nu)/ {\cal{B}}(B -> X_c l \nu)]^{1/2}, based on the
heavy quark effective theory. I also explore the possible experimental options
to separate B -> X_u l \nu from the dominant B -> X_c l \nu: the measurement of
inclusive hadronic invariant mass distributions, and the `D - \pi' (and `K -
\pi') separation conditions. I also clarify the relevant experimental
backgrounds.Comment: 9 pages(LaTeX), 1 Postscript figur
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