Manners and method in classical criticism of the early eighteenth century

This article explores a neglected period in the history of classical scholarship: the first decades of the eighteenth century. It focuses on the tension between an evolving idea of method, and the tradition of personal polemic which had been an important part of the culture of scholarship since the Renaissance. There are two case studies: the conflict between Jean Le Clerc and Pieter Burman, and the controversy that followed Richard Bentley's edition of Horace's Odes. Both demonstrate the need to revise current paradigms for writing the history of scholarship, and invite us to reconsider the role of methodology in producing of scholarly authority

Adaptive classification of mental states for asynchronous brain computer interfaces

ISBN : 978-2-9532965-0-1Brain Computers Interfaces (BCI) are emerging as a new communicational device, aiming to make a direct link between the brain and an external device, bypassing conventional motor outputs, such as peripheral nerves and muscles. A BCI extracts features from a brain signal and classifies them in order to interpret them in terms of the user's volition. For communication to be effective, the computer has to provide feedback to the user allowing him/her to judge how the brain activity is being classified and interpreted. Similarly, the user must produce patterns of brain activity which can easily be learned and recognized by the computer. Here, we describe a method for selecting mental tasks that are best classified by a subject using support vector machines (SVM)

Herrn von Buffons allgemeine Naturgeschichte, Bd. 3-4

Im Schooße der brennenden Berge, die unter dem Rahmen der feuerspeyenden bekannt sind, liegen ausser dem Schwefel und Erdharz lauter solce Materien verborgen, welche fähig sind, ein unterirdisches Feuer zu unterhalten, ein Feuer, das weit gewaltsamere Wirkungen, als das Schießpulver und der Donner selbst, hervorbringen kann, ein feuer, das von je her ein Entsetzen der Menschen, und eine Verwüstung gewisser Länder gewesen. ..

Epochen der Natur, Bd. 1-2

Wie die bürgerliche Geschichte Wappen zu Rathe ziehet, Münzen untersuchet, und alte Inschriften entziffert, um Epochen in den Revolutionen des Menschengeschlechts festzusetzen, und die Zeitpunkte moralischer Begebenheiten zu bestimmen: so muß die Naturgeschichte in den Archiven der Welt nachsuchen, alte Denkmäler aus den Eingeweiden der Erde hervorziehen, diese zerstreuten Trümmer sammeln, und alle Spuren natürliche Veränderungen vereinigt als Beweise gebrauchen, die den Forscher zur Bestimmung der verschiedenen Alter der Natur leiten können. ..

Germaine L. Warmke Correspondence

Entries include brief biographical information, a newspaper book review clipping with her large photographic portrait image and some conflicting biographical and notated information, a typed letter introducing Warmke to the Maine Author collection, and a typed letter to Warmke at the University of Puerto Rico, Institute of Marine Biology, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, from the Maine State Library on receipt of a copy of Caribbean Seashells inscribed by Warmke and coauthor R. Tucker Abbott for the Maine Author Collection

CHARACTERIZATION OF NEMOTIC DENTAL FIBROBLASTS

Oral Communication presented at the ";Forum des Jeunes Chercheurs";, Brest (France) 2011