The Impact Of Aesthetic Imagination On Our Ethical Approach Towards Nature

Why is aesthetic experience of nature important in our everyday lives? This will be my main question. After defining the meaning of 'imagination' and 'aesthetic nature' in the context of Seel's thought, I will reflect on two aspects of this question. Firstly, I will focus on the function of imagination within our aesthetic experience of nature. Secondly, I will expose some ethical implications of the aesthetic approach to nature. My conclusion will emphasize the importance of aesthetic imagination for our personal and collective behaviour towards nature

The Future of General Jurisdiction: The Effects of Daimler AG v. Bauman

The Due Process Clause requires a court to have jurisdiction over a lawsuit before binding the parties to its judgment. However, before 2014, the Supreme Court had not addressed whether a court could impute a subsidiary\u27s contacts to its parent corporation for jurisdictional purposes. Because of this oversight, the Courts of Appeals split over how to impute a subsidiary\u27s contacts. Some courts apply the agency test, while other courts apply variations of the alter ego test. As a result, courts inconsistently asserted jurisdiction over multinational corporations, leading plaintiffs to forum shop and corporations to speculate which forums might assert jurisdiction over them. Fortunately, the Supreme Court in Daimler AG v. Bauman resolved the split in favor of a restricted approach to imputing contacts-the at home standard. This Comment will describe the facts of the case and dissect the Court\u27s holding. It will then explore the holding\u27s effects on general jurisdiction, the litigation environment, the United States economy, and the Nation\u27s international affairs. By analyzing the holding\u27s likely impact, this Comment ultimately concludes that the Supreme Court\u27s decision was the correct one. Despite having adopted the correct standard, this Comment acknowledges that this jurisdictional issue will come before the Court again due to the Court\u27s lack of guidance in the application of the at home standard

M. Heidegger, what is philosophy?

In the first lecture he gave in France in 1955 Heidegger discusses the question “what is philosophy?” Discussing Greek and modern answers from Heraclitus to Nietzsche to that question Heidegger also develops his own philosophy in this relatively short text. Of the highest importance are the relations between being and language and being and Dasein. Philosophy is only possible if it answers the call of being. The lecture offers a beautiful introduction into Heidegger’s later philosophy.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tec

Why Heidegger still matters?

In this presentation I will defend the relevance of Heidegger’s thinking for our time. He has always been a disturbing philosopher, both because of his involvement with National Socialism and because of the fundamental and radical character of his thought. In the second part of my presentation I will focus on the question what are the goals and means of contemporary Heidegger-research.Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

Regional quasigeoid determination in Northern Germany and comparison with GPS

For the northern part of the Federal Republic of Germany, new quasigeoid solutions were computed by least squares collocation and fast Fourier transformation (FFT) techniques using point and mean gravity data, a digital terrain model, and a global geopotential model. As severe accuracy limitations for precise regional quasigeoid determination come from global model uncertainties, different geopotential models were investigated by combining them with gravimetric data and comparing the quasigeoid heights with GPS and leveling. Optimum results were obtained by a global model tailored to gravity data in Europe. Collocation and FFT results based on this model agree well. The comparison with GPS and leveling yields rms discrepancies of + or - 2 cm over approximately 400 km range

Horizontal flow fields observed in Hinode G-band images IV. Statistical properties of the dynamical environment around pores

The extensive database of high-resolution G-band images observed with the Hinode/SOT is a unique resource to derive statistical properties of pores using advanced digital image processing techniques. The study is based on two data sets: (1) Photometric and morphological properties inferred from single G-band images cover almost seven years from 2006 October 25 to 2013 August 31. (2) Horizontal flow fields have been derived from 356 one-hour sequences of G-band images using LCT for a shorter period of time from 2006 November 3 to 2008 January 6 comprising 13 active regions. A total of 7643/2863 (single/time-averaged) pores builds the foundation of the statistical analysis. Pores are preferentially observed at low latitudes in the southern hemisphere during the deep minimum of solar cycle No. 23. This imbalance reverses during the rise of cycle No. 24, when the pores migrate from high to low latitudes. Pores are rarely encountered in quiet-Sun G-band images, and only about 10% of pores exists in isolation. In general, pores do not exhibit a circular shape. Typical aspect ratios of the semi-major and -minor axes are 3:2 when ellipses are fitted to pores. Smaller pores (more than two-thirds are smaller than 5~Mm^2) tend to be more circular, and their boundaries are less corrugated. Both area and perimeter length of pores obey log-normal frequency distributions. The frequency distribution of the intensity can be reproduced by two Gaussians representing dark and bright components. Bright features resembling umbral dots and even light-bridges cover about 20% of the pore's area. Averaged radial profiles show a peak of the intensity at normalized radius R_N = r /R_pore = 2.1, followed by maxima of the divergence at R_N= 2.3 and the radial component of the horizontal velocity at R_N= 4.6. The divergence is negative within pores.Comment: 14 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysic

Logarithmic Quantile Estimation for Rank Statistics

We prove an almost sure weak limit theorem for simple linear rank statistics for samples with continuous distributions functions. As a corollary the result extends to samples with ties, and the vector version of an a.s. central limit theorem for vectors of linear rank statistics. Moreover, we derive such a weak convergence result for some quadratic forms. These results are then applied to quantile estimation, and to hypothesis testing for nonparametric statistical designs, here demonstrated by the c-sample problem, where the samples may be dependent. In general, the method is known to be comparable to the bootstrap and other nonparametric methods (\cite{THA, FRI}) and we confirm this finding for the c-sample problem