Calvinistic Economy and 17th Century Dutch Art

74 p. ; 23 cm. Bibliography: p. [73]-74

From Comparatism to Comparativity: Comparative Reasoning Reconsidered

Comparative literature was born with the national paradigm of literary historiography in the early nineteenth century when literary studies, together with other historical and comparative studies, were institutionalized as a particular field of research and higher education. The cognitive pattern generated by this paradigm comprises both national literary studies and comparative literature. They are both instances of comparatism, solidly anchored in a national context as its basic and indispensable point of reference rather than in the border crossing life of literary texts. In contrast, the comparative reasoning of the twenty first century, as exemplified by the emerging interest in world literature studies, attempts to cultivate the comparativity of the literary texts themselves – their potential to engage with several possible contexts of comparison beyond the standard theories and methods of comparatism and without giving an axiomatic priority to one of them. In the traditional aesthetics of imitation, European and non European, the double nature of any text as being organized around both an external centre and a domestic centre is already an integral part of the definition of literature in view, first of all, of their degree of canonicity. Today, more radically, all literary texts, irrespective of canonical position but as part of their status and function as literary texts, are assumed to possess the capacity to be part of several textual and cultural contexts beyond that of their place and time of origin. The paper traces the history of comparative reasoning, leading both to the national paradigm and the nineteenth century inspired comparatism and to the consequences for modern literary studies, opening a broader view of the comparative potentials of texts across time and space

Koordineret kommunal cykelplanlægning

Når en kommune skal renovere cykelruter og andre faciliteter, er det en god idé at gå systematisk til værks, så der ikke spildes unødige ressourcer. I Viborg og i Hillerød har kommunerne gjort en god indsats med cykelruteplanlægningen.

A Short Note on the Potential for a Momentum Based Investment Strategy in Sector ETFs

The focus of this research is on the enhanced one-year average annual return performance of Select Sector SDPR EFFs with the highest average annual realized return over the previous five-year period [MaxRet strategy]. From 2004 through 2015, the MaxRet strategy generates a higher average annual total return than an equal weight portfolio [EW strategy] of the same sector funds. The average annual return for the MaxRet strategy is 14.13% compared to 9.75% for the EW strategy. In addition, the coefficient of variation [CV] for the MaxRet and EW strategies are 1.52 and 1.59 respectively. The MaxRet strategy, therefore, is a more efficient strategy in that it generates less standard deviation risk per unit of average annual return than the EW strategy over the study period. Measures of downside risk further support the enhanced out-of-sample performance of the MaxRet strategy

Predicting Solar Flares with Machine Learning

High energy solar flares and coronal mass ejections have the potential to destroy Earth’s ground and satellite infrastructures, causing trillions of dollars in damage and mass human suffering. This would lead to food shortages and crippled emergency response capabilities. A solution to this impending problem is proposed herein using satellites in solar orbit with built-in machine learning capability that continuously monitor the Sun. They will use machine learning to calculate the probability of massive solar explosions from the remote sensing data, then signal defence mechanisms that can mitigate the threat. This paper reports the results from a survey of machine learning models using open-source solar flare prediction data. The rise of edge computing supports machine learning hardware placed on the same satellites as the sensor arrays, saving critical transmit time across the vast distances of space. A system of systems approach will allow enough warning for safety measures to be enacted, thus mitigating the risk of disaster

Sea, Identity and Literature

The sea is more than water and remote horizons. Since the beginning of literatures, the sea has sent waves of challenges to human existence through numerous stories and poems and continues to do so in all media. Everywhere the sea marks the limits of collective and individual human identity both on a social level as a question of survival, on an anthropological level as a non-human space we are bound to and on an ontological level as the boundary between life and death. The role of the sea in literature reaches far beyond maritime novels and heroic epics feeding on adventures at sea. In constantly changing cultural contexts it releases the basic question of human identity in all its complexity across time and space.El mar es mucho más que agua y horizontes remotos. Desde el inicio de las literaturas, el mar ha enviado sus olas de desafío a la existencia humana a través de numerosas historias y poemas, y lo sigue haciendo en los diversos medios comunicativos. En todas partes, el mar marca los límites de la identidad humana individual y colectiva tanto en un nivel social, como cuestión de supervivencia, como en un nivel antropológico en cuanto espacio no humano al que estamos ligados y en nivel ontológico como la frontera entre la vida y la muerte. El papel del mar en la literatura va más allá de las novelas marítimas y los poemas épicos que se alimentan de las aventuras en el mar. En contextos culturales que varían constantemente, plantea la cuestión básica de la identidad humana en toda su complejidad a través del tiempo y el espacio

Collembola’s role in regulating mass fluxes in soil and the effects of contrasting life histories

The study determined metabolic rates and elemental pools for two Collembola species with contrasting life histories. The fittest of the two species, P. minuta, excreted the equivalent of 10–12% of the elemental body content per day, and P. armata 7–10%. Most elements are lost to excretion (CO2 and N-waste). These figures in combination with stoichiometry and life histories indicate that the cost of P. minuta’s better fitness is a requirement for a higher quality diet than P. armata. The data produced in this study can be used to estimate the collembolan contribution to C and N fluxes in the soil