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Conversations with Robert: âJews as Jewsâ and the Critique of the Critique
I first met Robert some twenty-five years ago. I had just begun my PhD. As time passed, it was evident that things were not working out between me and my then supervisor, and Robert, whom I had met earlier, stepped in and offered to take over. After a little hesitation (and for the very reasons Robert had identi- fied), I agreed. I think it would not be an over- statement to say that without that intervention, I would have simply given up. Robert had an uncanny way of building up what was, by then, my shattered confidence. It was only after I had finished that I realized how Robert put me back together both emotionally and academically. Robert would respond to my work, first, by saying how good it was, how insightful, and then spend the rest of the time gently taking it (but not me) to pieces while at the same time moving me in directions and making connections I did not see myself.</jats:p
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Continuity and Discontinuity
This paper argues that antizionism must be understood, like the antisemitism that came before it, as an ideology. Here I draw upon Arendtâs definition of ideology as a radical distortion of social and political relations. I draw also upon Fine and Spencerâs understanding of the Jewish question as the antisemitic reaction to Jewish emancipation. I argue that antizionism is a reconfiguration of that reaction in the context of Jewsâ modern emancipation in the form of national self-determination in the State of Israel. While that modern reaction, antizionism, displays both continuity and discontinuity with the antisemitism that came before it, it remains a manifestation of the Jewish question
Construction management research and the attempt to build a social science
The paper challenges the view that the major theoretical and methodological issues in the social sciences have been resolved and that positivism provides the only sound basis for research in construction. By examining the relationship between specialist discourses and natural language and Weber's failure to provide a basis for objective causal explanations of social action, it is argued that the kind of theorising that Runeson advocates is at best premature and at worst preempts the achievement of a more rigorous and thorough understanding of construction processes. Reporting some empirical research on the design and construction of reinforced concrete structures, the paper seeks to demonstrate some theoretical methodological and practical implications of an interpretive style of research
Evidence for chaotic behaviour in pulsar spin-down rates
We present evidence for chaotic dynamics within the spin-down rates of 17
pulsars originally presented by Lyne et al. Using techniques that allow us to
re-sample the original measurements without losing structural information, we
have searched for evidence of a strange attractor in the time series of
frequency derivatives for each of the 17 pulsars. We demonstrate the
effectiveness of our methods by applying them to a component of the Lorenz and
R\"ossler attractors that were sampled with similar cadence to the pulsar time
series. Our measurements of correlation dimension and Lyapunov exponent show
that the underlying behaviour appears to be driven by a strange attractor with
approximately three governing non-linear differential equations. This is
particularly apparent in the case of PSR B182811 where a correlation
dimension of 2.06\pm0.03 and a Lyapunov exponent of
inverse days were measured. These results provide an additional diagnostic for
testing future models of this behaviour.Comment: 15 pages, 18 figures, 2 tables, Accepted to MNRA
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Systematic Underestimation of Maximum Crest Heights in Deep Water Using Surface-Following Buoys
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