221 research outputs found
Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands
Bloodlands or a Bloody Nose to History? Timothy Snyderās Bloodlands Long ago, the study of the Soviet and Nazi enterprises turned into a cottage industry, and numerous monographs, articles, memoirs, diaries and collections of documents continue to emerge. With so much written, separately and in tandem, one wonders if there is a room for yet another study of the so-called totalitarian twins. Certainly so, argues Timothy Snyder. Snyder takes to task the entire body of literature that preceded h..
Increased immunogenicity of HIV vaccination with constant-current electroporation and molecular adjuvants in mice and rhesus macaques
Sensation and perception - theoretical aspects od unconscious perception
Podaci koji s jedne strane upuÄuju na sluÄajeve nesvjesnog registriranja podražaja iz vanjskog svijeta (poslijehipnotiÄko ili poslijeanestetiÄko zapamÄivanje), a s druge strane na sluÄajeve lažnog opažanja, tj. stvaranja lažnog svjesnog dojma da je neÅ”to zamijeÄeno (halucinacije), upuÄuju na postojanje dvostruke disocijacije izmeÄu senzacije definirane kao objektivne registracije vanjskih podražaja i percepcije - svjesne predodžbe stvarnih opažaja ili njihovih iznutra stvorenih nadomjestaka. SrediÅ”nji problem koji proizlazi iz predložene razdvojbe dotiÄe se pamÄenja. Kakva je razlika izmeÄu sjeÄanja s vanjskim odnosno unutarnjim izvoriÅ”tem, kako su razlike senzacije i percepcije tumaÄene u proÅ”losti, koliko je od spremljenog materijala dostupno, koliko nesvjesno uskladiÅ”teni elementi mogu utjecati na naÅ”e ponaÅ”anje, samo su neki od filozofskih i neuropsihologijskih aspekata vezanih uz nesvjesnu registraciju o kojima se u Älanku raspravlja
Efficient LZ78 factorization of grammar compressed text
We present an efficient algorithm for computing the LZ78 factorization of a
text, where the text is represented as a straight line program (SLP), which is
a context free grammar in the Chomsky normal form that generates a single
string. Given an SLP of size representing a text of length , our
algorithm computes the LZ78 factorization of in time
and space, where is the number of resulting LZ78 factors.
We also show how to improve the algorithm so that the term in the
time and space complexities becomes either , where is the length of the
longest LZ78 factor, or where is a quantity
which depends on the amount of redundancy that the SLP captures with respect to
substrings of of a certain length. Since where
is the alphabet size, the latter is asymptotically at least as fast as
a linear time algorithm which runs on the uncompressed string when is
constant, and can be more efficient when the text is compressible, i.e. when
and are small.Comment: SPIRE 201
Chikungunya: A Potentially Emerging Epidemic?
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne emerging pathogen that has a major health impact in humans and causes fever disease, headache, rash, nausea, vomiting, myalgia, and arthralgia. Indigenous to tropical Africa, recent large outbreaks have been reported in parts of South East Asia and several of its neighboring islands in 2005ā07 and in Europe in 2007. Furthermore, positive cases have been confirmed in the United States in travelers returning from known outbreak areas. Currently, there is no vaccine or antiviral treatment. With the threat of an emerging global pandemic, the peculiar problems associated with the more immediate and seasonal epidemics warrant the development of an effective vaccine. In this review, we summarize the evidence supporting these concepts
Defying De-Stalinization: Albaniaās 1956
Drawing on recently declassified Albanian, Soviet, East German, and Western archival sources, as well as a rich historiography on Nikita Khrushchev\u27s secret speech and the Hungarian revolution of 1956, this article investigates the little-known events of 1956 in Albania. Rejecting de-Stalinization, the Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha was able to vindicate his position against Yugoslavia\u27s brand of socialism abroad, fortify his rule at home, and claim more aid from Moscow, Beijing, and the Soviet bloc. This article discusses the Tirana Party Conference of April 1956, treating the Albanian Party of Labor (the Communist party) as an āinformation society.ā The article assesses deliberations over security and ideology at the highest levels and demonstrates how tiny Albania came to embody, in exaggerated form, both the promises and the perils of socialist exchange, in addition to mirroring the profound inconsistencies of Khrushchev\u27s de-Stalinization campaign
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