Staging Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Rome: The Festival of the Chinea

Guide to exhibit held by Watkinson Library. Prints from the Vincent J. Buonanno Collection January 24 - February 28, 200

Otaku for Queer Theory and Media Theory

Beautiful Fighting Girl by Saitō Tamaki, translated by J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011. Pp. 213 + xxv. $60.00 cloth, 19.95 paper

Comment on “Ring-breaking electron attachment to uracil: Following bond dissociations via evolving resonances” [J. Chem. Phys. 128, 174302 (2008)]

We point out that the assignment of pi* resonances to calculated features in a recent paper by Gianturco et al. [J. Chem. Phys.128, 174302 (2008)] cannot be correct

Ein Liederabend, December 3, 1987

This is the concert program of the Ein Liederabend performance on Thursday, December 3, 1987 at 8:00 p.m., at the Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue. Works performed were Come again, sweet love doth now invite by John Dowland, Flow my tears by J. Dowland, What if I never speed by J. Dowland, Le secret by Gabriel Fauré, Out of the Morning by Vincent Persichetti, Morgenlied by Franz Schubert, Alma del core by Antonio Caldara, Cabin by Paul Bowles, I'll sail upon the Dog-Star by Henry Purcell, Cara, cara e dolce by Domenico Scarlatti, Der Winterabend by F. Schubert, Chanson triste by Henri Duparc, Un moto di gioia by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Schneeglöckchen by Robert Schumann, Nell by G. Fauré, Voglio amor by D. Scarlatti, Du moment qu'on aime by André Grétry, El Vito by Fernando Obradors, So wahr die Sonne scheinet by R. Schumann, Pleurs d'Or by G. Fauré, and Dialogue of a Kiss by Henry Lawes. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Hospitality in the Manner of St. Vincent de Paul

J. Patrick Murphy’s goal is to “discover Vincent [de Paul]’s theory and practice of hospitality in the seventeenth century and make sense of it in the twenty-first.” He does this by defining five components of hospitality: “mission, passion, make friends, listen to your heart, and active hospitality.” He explains how Vincent acted on each. Murphy also notes how eminent business leaders of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries exhibit these components within their industries. He concludes with hospitality lessons for Vincentian leaders

Book Review: The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction

Review of the book The Dunning School: Historians, Race, and the Meaning of Reconstruction. Edited by John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. ISBN 978-0-8131-4225-8

Content Based Image Retrieval by Convolutional Neural Networks

Hamreras S., Benítez-Rochel R., Boucheham B., Molina-Cabello M.A., López-Rubio E. (2019) Content Based Image Retrieval by Convolutional Neural Networks. In: Ferrández Vicente J., Álvarez-Sánchez J., de la Paz López F., Toledo Moreo J., Adeli H. (eds) From Bioinspired Systems and Biomedical Applications to Machine Learning. IWINAC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11487. Springer.In this paper, we present a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for feature extraction in Content based Image Retrieval (CBIR). The proposed CNN aims at reducing the semantic gap between low level and high-level features. Thus, improving retrieval results. Our CNN is the result of a transfer learning technique using Alexnet pretrained network. It learns how to extract representative features from a learning database and then uses this knowledge in query feature extraction. Experimentations performed on Wang (Corel 1K) database show a significant improvement in terms of precision over the state of the art classic approaches.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Non-nesting actions of Polish groups on real trees

We prove that if a Polish G with a comeagre conjugacy class has a non-nesting action on an R-tree, then every element of G fixes a point.Comment: 7 pages, to appear in J. Pure and Appl. Algebr

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Growth rates of permutation classes: categorization up to the uncountability threshold

In the antecedent paper to this it was established that there is an algebraic number $\xi\approx 2.30522$ such that while there are uncountably many growth rates of permutation classes arbitrarily close to $\xi$, there are only countably many less than $\xi$. Here we provide a complete characterization of the growth rates less than $\xi$. In particular, this classification establishes that $\xi$ is the least accumulation point from above of growth rates and that all growth rates less than or equal to $\xi$ are achieved by finitely based classes. A significant part of this classification is achieved via a reconstruction result for sum indecomposable permutations. We conclude by refuting a suggestion of Klazar, showing that $\xi$ is an accumulation point from above of growth rates of finitely based permutation classes.Comment: To appear in Israel J. Mat