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Review Of The Elizabethan Country House Entertainment: Print, Performance, and Gender By E. Z. Kolkovich
Unspeakable Desire To See, And Know : Paradise Regained And The Political Theology Of Privacy
In this essay, Eric B. Song considers the artistic, religious, and political value of privacy in Paradise Regained. The topic of privacy condenses Milton\u27s thinking about gender and sexuality, domesticity, the fraught work of publishing intimate truths, and the relationship between Christian and Hebraic modes of religious polity. The depiction of privacy in Paradise Regained relates not only to Milton\u27s earlier poetry and prose but also to twentieth-century theories of private and public life that contrast classical and modern societies. The productive friction between Milton\u27s religious convictions and his advocacy for personal liberty speaks to controversies that persist in present-day American politics
The Country Estate And The Indies (East And West): The Shifting Scene Of Eden In Paradise Lost
Review Of Empires Of Love: Europe, Asia, And The Making Of Early Modern Identity By C. Nocentelli
On a Conjecture of Givental
These brief notes record our puzzles and findings surrounding Givental's
recent conjecture which expresses higher genus Gromov-Witten invariants in
terms of the genus-0 data. We limit our considerations to the case of a
projective line, whose Gromov-Witten invariants are well-known and easy to
compute. We make some simple checks supporting his conjecture.Comment: 13 pages, no figures; v.2: new title, minor change
Polygraph: Automatically generating signatures for polymorphic worms
It is widely believed that content-signature-based intrusion detection systems (IDSes) are easily evaded by polymorphic worms, which vary their payload on every infection attempt. In this paper, we present Polygraph, a signature generation system that successfully produces signatures that match polymorphic worms. Polygraph generates signatures that consist of multiple disjoint content sub-strings. In doing so, Polygraph leverages our insight that for a real-world exploit to function properly, multiple invariant substrings must often be present in all variants of a payload; these substrings typically correspond to protocol framing, return addresses, and in some cases, poorly obfuscated code. We contribute a definition of the polymorphic signature generation problem; propose classes of signature suited for matching polymorphic worm payloads; and present algorithms for automatic generation of signatures in these classes. Our evaluation of these algorithms on a range of polymorphic worms demonstrates that Polygraph produces signatures for polymorphic worms that exhibit low false negatives and false positives. © 2005 IEEE
Energetics and kinetics of Li intercalation in irradiated graphene scaffolds
In the present study we investigate the irradiation-defects hybridized
graphene scaffold as one potential building material for the anode of Li-ion
batteries. Designating the Wigner V22 defect as a representative, we illustrate
the interplay of Li atoms with the irradiation-defects in graphene scaffolds.
We examine the adsorption energetics and diffusion kinetics of Li in the
vicinity of a Wigner V22 defect using density functional theory calculations.
The equilibrium Li adsorption sites at the defect are identified and shown to
be energetically preferable to the adsorption sites on pristine (bilayer)
graphene. Meanwhile the minimum energy paths and corresponding energy barriers
for Li migration at the defect are determined and computed. We find that while
the defect is shown to exhibit certain trapping effects on Li motions on the
graphene surface, it appears to facilitate the interlayer Li diffusion and
enhance the charge capacity within its vicinity because of the reduced
interlayer spacing and characteristic symmetry associated with the defect. Our
results provide critical assessment for the application of irradiated graphene
scaffolds in Li-ion batteries.Comment: 23 pages, 5 figure
Inflation and the size of government
It is commonly supposed in public and academic discourse that inflation and big government are related. The authors show that economic theory delivers such a prediction only in special cases. As an empirical matter, inflation is significantly positively related to the size of government mainly when periods of war and peace are compared. The authors find a weak positive peacetime time series correlation between inflation and the size of government and a negative cross-country correlation of inflation with non-defense spending.Inflation (Finance)
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