The Double Man: W. H. Auden’s Transatlantic Transformation

The paper attempts to consider the problem of W. H. Auden’s political engagement in the 1930s in the context of his (in)famous decision to leave England and settle down in the USA. The transatlantic journey of the eponymous member of so-called “Auden generation” prompted certain critics (notably Randall Jarrell) to set up a distinct caesura between the “English” and the “American” Auden, giving primacy to the accomplishments of the former and downplaying the works of the latter. As it is argued, America was not the place of the poet’s radical volte-face, but only a certain important, logical stage (and not a final one) in his personal and poetic evolution. His entanglements with politics were often mythologized, and occasional public and semi-political verse he “committed” often tended to subvert any attempts to pigeonhole the author in terms of his ideological stance

Non-uniform chiral and 2SC color superconducting phases, taking into account the non-zero current quark mass

We have shown, that the possibility of the existence of the mixed phase of the non-uniform chiral (NCh) and the color superconducting (2SC) ground state depends significantly on the choice of the parameters and type of the regularization scheme. Our calculations indicates, that in the 3d cut-off regularization scheme, the mixed region of the NCh and the 2SC phases exists for a broad set of NJL model parameters. However, in the Schwinger regularization scheme, if parameters are fitted to the physical quantities in the vacuum, then, the mixed region of the NCh and the 2SC phases does not exists

Controlling Soil-Borne Diseases in Ohio Nurseries

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Phase diagram of the non-uniform chiral condensate in different regularization schemes at T=0

We show that the qualitative picture of the phase diagram which includes the non-uniform chiral phase and 2SC superconducting phase is independent of the considered regularization schemes. We also demonstrate that the quantitative results agree with each other reasonably for the set of so called "relativistic" regularization schemes. On the other hand the "non-relativistic" momentum cut-off is clearly differ from the others

Curiositas i kobiety

Since ancient times, curiosity (curiositas) was perceived as a misdeed, negative passion resulting from an irrepressible drive in the pursuit of knowledge and associated with conceit. However, its positive aspect did not go unnoticed. This was associated with moderate inquisitiveness, which did not exceed the limits of cognition, and was determined by the existing worldview (curiositas versus studiositas). There existed a conviction that women, being closer to nature and unable to control their emotions, were more likely to succumb to undesirable curiosity; the mythical Pandora and biblical Eve being cited as examples to further underscore the point. Hence, they were taught the ability to refrain from wanting to satisfy their curiosity. In spite of this, 17th century Europe witnessed the emergence of women, many of whom were authors of scholarly essays and dissertations, works of encyclopedic nature, of textbooks and manuals on natural philosophy, “books of secrets”, of women’s writing, and of poems describing the universe. In the Republic of Poland, though, this type of creative activity was, for quite some time, met with utter incomprehension or no acceptance, if not outright criticism.Since ancient times, curiosity (curiositas) was perceived as a misdeed, negative passion resulting from an irrepressible drive in the pursuit of knowledge and associated with conceit. However, its positive aspect did not go unnoticed. This was associated with moderate inquisitiveness, which did not exceed the limits of cognition, and was determined by the existing worldview (curiositas versus studiositas). There existed a conviction that women, being closer to nature and unable to control their emotions, were more likely to succumb to undesirable curiosity; the mythical Pandora and biblical Eve being cited as examples to further underscore the point. Hence, they were taught the ability to refrain from wanting to satisfy their curiosity. In spite of this, 17th century Europe witnessed the emergence of women, many of whom were authors of scholarly essays and dissertations, works of encyclopedic nature, of textbooks and manuals on natural philosophy, “books of secrets”, of women’s writing, and of poems describing the universe. In the Republic of Poland, though, this type of creative activity was, for quite some time, met with utter incomprehension or no acceptance, if not outright criticism

On a modification of the Poisson integral operator

Given a quasisymmetric automorphism $\gamma$ of the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$ we define and study a modification $P_{\gamma}$ of the classical Poisson integral operator in the case of the unit disk $\mathbb{D}$. The modification is done by means of the generalized Fourier coefficients of $\gamma$. For a Lebesgue’s integrable complexvalued function $f$ on $\mathbb{T}$, $P_{\gamma}[f]$ is a complex-valued harmonic function in $\mathbb{D}$ and it coincides with the classical Poisson integral of $f$ provided $\gamma$ is the identity mapping on $\mathbb{T}$. Our considerations are motivated by the problem of spectral values and eigenvalues of a Jordan curve. As an application we establish a relationship between the operator $P_{\gamma}$, the maximal dilatation of a regular quasiconformal Teichmuller extension of $\gamma$ to $\mathbb{D}$ and the smallest positive eigenvalue of $\gamma$