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Constitutionalism and cultural identity as revolutionary concepts in German political radicalism 1806-1819: the case of the Burschenschaftler Karl Follen
The aim of this essay is to investigate the concepts of cultural identity and national sovereignty as they emerge in radical German nationalism after 1806 in relation to French Revolutionary ideas and seek to reconstruct a radical revolutionary, i.e. a ‘French Revolution’, context for the idea of German national unity. Such a ‘French Revolution’ context differs from attempts to create national unity ‘from above’, it also questions the view that the ‘Teutomania’ emerging in the context of the Wars of Liberation can only be interpreted as the precursor to chauvinist German nationalism of later periods
Communicative Interactions Improve Visual Detection of Biological Motion
BACKGROUND: In the context of interacting activities requiring close-body contact such as fighting or dancing, the actions of one agent can be used to predict the actions of the second agent. In the present study, we investigated whether interpersonal predictive coding extends to interactive activities--such as communicative interactions--in which no physical contingency is implied between the movements of the interacting individuals. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Participants observed point-light displays of two agents (A and B) performing separate actions. In the communicative condition, the action performed by agent B responded to a communicative gesture performed by agent A. In the individual condition, agent A's communicative action was substituted with a non-communicative action. Using a simultaneous masking detection task, we demonstrate that observing the communicative gesture performed by agent A enhanced visual discrimination of agent B. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Our finding complements and extends previous evidence for interpersonal predictive coding, suggesting that the communicative gestures of one agent can serve as a predictor for the expected actions of the respondent, even if no physical contact between agents is implied
Strange quark condensate from QCD sum rules to five loops
It is argued that it is valid to use QCD sum rules to determine the scalar
and pseudoscalar two-point functions at zero momentum, which in turn determine
the ratio of the strange to non-strange quark condensates with (). This is done in the framework
of a new set of QCD Finite Energy Sum Rules (FESR) that involve as integration
kernel a second degree polynomial, tuned to reduce considerably the systematic
uncertainties in the hadronic spectral functions. As a result, the parameters
limiting the precision of this determination are , and to a
major extent the strange quark mass. From the positivity of there
follows an upper bound on the latter: , for Comment: Minor changes to Sections 2 and
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