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Oedipus of many pains: Strategies of contest in Homeric poetry
In this paper we analyse Oedipusâ appearance during Odysseusâ tale in book 11 of Homerâs Odyssey in order to outline and test a methodology for appreciating the poetic and thematic implications of moments when âextraneousâ narratives or traditions appear in the Homeric poems. Our analysis, which draws on oral-formulaic theory, is offered partly as a re-evaluation of standard scholarly approaches that tend to over-rely on the assumed pre-eminence of Homeric narratives over other traditions in their original contexts or approaches that reduce such moments to instances of allusions to or parallels with fixed texts. In conjunction with perspectives grounded in orality, we emphasise the agonistic character of Greek poetry to explore the ways in which Odysseusâ articulation of his Oedipus narrative exemplifies an attempt to appropriate and manipulate a rival tradition in the service of a particular narrativeâs ends. We focus specifically on the resonance of the phrases algea polla and mega ergon used by Odysseus as a narrator to draw a web of interconnections throughout Homeric and Archaic Greek poetry. Such an approach, in turn, suggests to what extent the Homeric Oedipus passage speaks to the themes and concerns of Homeric poetry rather than some lost Oedipal epic tradition and illustrates the importance of recognizing the deeply competitive nature of Homeric narratives vis-Ă -vis other narrative traditions
On the Unification of Gauge Symmetries in Theories with Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
We analyze approaches to the partial or complete unification of gauge
symmetries in theories with dynamical symmetry breaking. Several types of
models are considered, including those that (i) involve sufficient unification
to quantize electric charge, (ii) attempt to unify the three standard-model
gauge interactions in a simple Lie group that forms a direct product with an
extended technicolor group, and, most ambitiously, (iii) attempt to unify the
standard-model gauge interactions with (extended) technicolor in a simple Lie
group.Comment: 24 pages, ReVTe
On R-duals and the duality principle in Gabor analysis
The concept of R-duals of a frame was introduced by Casazza, Kutyniok and
Lammers in 2004, with the motivation to obtain a general version of the duality
principle in Gabor analysis. For tight Gabor frames and Gabor Riesz bases the
three authors were actually able to show that the duality principle is a
special case of general results for R-duals. In this paper we introduce various
alternative R-duals, with focus on what we call R-duals of type II and III. We
show how they are related and provide characterizations of the R-duals of type
II and III. In particular, we prove that for tight frames these classes
coincide with the R-duals by Casazza et el., which is desirable in the sense
that the motivating case of tight Gabor frames already is well covered by these
R-duals. On the other hand, all the introduced types of R-duals generalize the
duality principle for larger classes of Gabor frames than just the tight frames
and the Riesz bases; in particular, the R-duals of type III cover the duality
principle for all Gabor frames
Universality Class of One-Dimensional Directed Sandpile Models
A general n-state directed `sandpile' model is introduced. The stationary
properties of the n-state model are derived for n < infty, and analytical
arguments based on a central limit theorem show that the model belongs to the
universality class of the totally asymmetric Oslo model, with a crossover to
uncorrelated branching process behavior for small system sizes. Hence, the
central limit theorem allows us to identify the existence of a large
universality class of one-dimensional directed sandpile models.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figure
Frequency Dependent Specific Heat from Thermal Effusion in Spherical Geometry
We present a novel method of measuring the frequency dependent specific heat
at the glass transition applied to 5-polyphenyl-4-ether. The method employs
thermal waves effusing radially out from the surface of a spherical thermistor
that acts as both a heat generator and thermometer. It is a merit of the method
compared to planar effusion methods that the influence of the mechanical
boundary conditions are analytically known. This implies that it is the
longitudinal rather than the isobaric specific heat that is measured. As
another merit the thermal conductivity and specific heat can be found
independently. The method has highest sensitivity at a frequency where the
thermal diffusion length is comparable to the radius of the heat generator.
This limits in practise the frequency range to 2-3 decades. An account of the
3omega-technique used including higher order terms in the temperature
dependency of the thermistor and in the power generated is furthermore given.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures, Substantially revised versio
The concept of social pharmacy
The 13th International Social Pharmacy Workshop will be held in Malta in July 2004. The Social Pharmacy Workshops are international conferences for research in social and behavioural pharmacy. Meetings are held every second year and participation has grown steadily since the first Workshop was held in Helsinki, Finland, in 1980. Following the successful 2002 conference in Sydney, Australia, the 2004 meeting in Malta will be the first one held in the Mediterranean area!peer-reviewe
Mobilizing Public Will For Social Change
Examines the theory and strategies of "public will" campaigns and offers tangible criteria for their evaluation. It provides a rich inventory of strategies for use in mobilizing the public will through an integration of models of agenda building, social problem construction, issues management, social movements, media advocacy, and social capital. In addition, the paper provides cases and examples of public will campaigns directed at various social problems, along with criteria for evaluating these campaigns at various stages of a social problem's life cycle
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