Joseph Pilsner
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- May 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199286058
- eISBN:
- 9780191603808
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199286051.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Aquinas says that motives are responsible for the specification of human action. ‘Motive’ can generally refer to any principle of movement, but two meanings are especially significant in the context ...
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Aquinas says that motives are responsible for the specification of human action. ‘Motive’ can generally refer to any principle of movement, but two meanings are especially significant in the context of the voluntary. First, one sees ‘motive’ referring to what attracts a person to action. In this context, Aquinas calls motives ‘proper objects of the will’ and insists that they specify as ‘ends’ of human action. Second, one sees motives referring to causes related to appetite. For example, Aquinas differentiates gluttony into five species (named by circumstances) because each species is associated with a distinctive motive, as when rapid digestion (motive) incites concupiscence and defines the species of gluttony called ‘too soon’. Since Aquinas holds that a passion is morally relevant only to the extent that it is voluntary, motives regarding appetite must be willed somehow for them to determine a species of sin.Less
Aquinas says that motives are responsible for the specification of human action. ‘Motive’ can generally refer to any principle of movement, but two meanings are especially significant in the context of the voluntary. First, one sees ‘motive’ referring to what attracts a person to action. In this context, Aquinas calls motives ‘proper objects of the will’ and insists that they specify as ‘ends’ of human action. Second, one sees motives referring to causes related to appetite. For example, Aquinas differentiates gluttony into five species (named by circumstances) because each species is associated with a distinctive motive, as when rapid digestion (motive) incites concupiscence and defines the species of gluttony called ‘too soon’. Since Aquinas holds that a passion is morally relevant only to the extent that it is voluntary, motives regarding appetite must be willed somehow for them to determine a species of sin.
Iris Marion Young
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- September 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195161922
- eISBN:
- 9780199786664
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195161920.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This essay describes experience and oppressions of feminine styles of comportment, tracing in a provisional way some of the basic modalities of feminine body comportment, manner of moving, and ...
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This essay describes experience and oppressions of feminine styles of comportment, tracing in a provisional way some of the basic modalities of feminine body comportment, manner of moving, and relation in space. It highlights the certain observable and rather ordinary ways in which women in society typically comport themselves and move differently from the ways that men do. The account developed here combines the insights of the theory of the lived body as expressed by Merleau-Ponty and the theory of the situation of women as developed by Beauvoir. It limits itself to the experience of women in contemporary advanced industrial, urban, and commercial society, offering specific observations, phenomenlogical interpretation, and implications for an understanding of the oppression of women.Less
This essay describes experience and oppressions of feminine styles of comportment, tracing in a provisional way some of the basic modalities of feminine body comportment, manner of moving, and relation in space. It highlights the certain observable and rather ordinary ways in which women in society typically comport themselves and move differently from the ways that men do. The account developed here combines the insights of the theory of the lived body as expressed by Merleau-Ponty and the theory of the situation of women as developed by Beauvoir. It limits itself to the experience of women in contemporary advanced industrial, urban, and commercial society, offering specific observations, phenomenlogical interpretation, and implications for an understanding of the oppression of women.
Neil Calkin and Colm Mulcahy
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164038
- eISBN:
- 9781400881338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164038.003.0010
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter presents a single unified proof for a certain move that could be performed on packets of cards which, when repeated four times, brought the cards back to their initial arrangement. That ...
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This chapter presents a single unified proof for a certain move that could be performed on packets of cards which, when repeated four times, brought the cards back to their initial arrangement. That is, the move was “of period four.” The move gave rise to some interesting card effects, especially when applied just three times. At that time, the easiest known method for explaining how the move worked involved a decomposition of the packet into three parts. A decade later, a family of generalizations was stumbled upon, also of period four, with interesting consequences when applied only twice. This chapter arrives at proof which covers the whole spectrum of cases of period four, and it divides packets into four parts.Less
This chapter presents a single unified proof for a certain move that could be performed on packets of cards which, when repeated four times, brought the cards back to their initial arrangement. That is, the move was “of period four.” The move gave rise to some interesting card effects, especially when applied just three times. At that time, the easiest known method for explaining how the move worked involved a decomposition of the packet into three parts. A decade later, a family of generalizations was stumbled upon, also of period four, with interesting consequences when applied only twice. This chapter arrives at proof which covers the whole spectrum of cases of period four, and it divides packets into four parts.
Kees Hengeveld and J. Lachlan Mackenzie
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199278107
- eISBN:
- 9780191707797
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278107.003.0002
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Psycholinguistics / Neurolinguistics / Cognitive Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics
The chapter presents the Interpersonal Level of FDG, which is modelled as a layered structure indicating the part-whole relations among units of discourse. The chapter shows how Discourse Acts group ...
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The chapter presents the Interpersonal Level of FDG, which is modelled as a layered structure indicating the part-whole relations among units of discourse. The chapter shows how Discourse Acts group into Moves and are themselves built up from component elements, including the Communicated Content, which contains Subacts of Reference and Ascription.Less
The chapter presents the Interpersonal Level of FDG, which is modelled as a layered structure indicating the part-whole relations among units of discourse. The chapter shows how Discourse Acts group into Moves and are themselves built up from component elements, including the Communicated Content, which contains Subacts of Reference and Ascription.
Ken Binmore
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195300574
- eISBN:
- 9780199783748
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300574.003.0003
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Microeconomics
This chapter shows how risk can be introduced into the rules of a game by admitting chance moves. The Monty Hall problem is offered as an example. Elementary probability theory is reviewed, and ...
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This chapter shows how risk can be introduced into the rules of a game by admitting chance moves. The Monty Hall problem is offered as an example. Elementary probability theory is reviewed, and random variables are explained in terms of lottery tickets. The games of Duel and Parcheesi are analyzed as non-trivial examples of games with chance moves.Less
This chapter shows how risk can be introduced into the rules of a game by admitting chance moves. The Monty Hall problem is offered as an example. Elementary probability theory is reviewed, and random variables are explained in terms of lottery tickets. The games of Duel and Parcheesi are analyzed as non-trivial examples of games with chance moves.
Roman Kossak and James H. Schmerl
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198568278
- eISBN:
- 9780191718199
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568278.003.0008
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Logic / Computer Science / Mathematical Philosophy
This chapter develops the basic theory of automorphisms of countable recursively saturated models of PA. The key results are: Smoryìnski's characterization of exponentially closed cuts, the Moving ...
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This chapter develops the basic theory of automorphisms of countable recursively saturated models of PA. The key results are: Smoryìnski's characterization of exponentially closed cuts, the Moving Gaps Lemma, a theorem on extending automorphisms to end extensions, and the characterization of arithmetic saturation in terms of maximal automorphisms. The chapter also includes more results on fixed point sets, various characterizations of arithmetic saturation in terms of the standard topology on the automorphism group, and a theorem on maximal point stabilizers and selective types.Less
This chapter develops the basic theory of automorphisms of countable recursively saturated models of PA. The key results are: Smoryìnski's characterization of exponentially closed cuts, the Moving Gaps Lemma, a theorem on extending automorphisms to end extensions, and the characterization of arithmetic saturation in terms of maximal automorphisms. The chapter also includes more results on fixed point sets, various characterizations of arithmetic saturation in terms of the standard topology on the automorphism group, and a theorem on maximal point stabilizers and selective types.
Xiomarita Pérez and Maria Lara Soto (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813034676
- eISBN:
- 9780813046303
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034676.003.0013
- Subject:
- Music, Dance
Xiomarita Pérez discusses the Dominican son, its dance, how to teach it, and the characteristics of dance and personal style that mark a true Dominican sonero. The Dominican son descends from the ...
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Xiomarita Pérez discusses the Dominican son, its dance, how to teach it, and the characteristics of dance and personal style that mark a true Dominican sonero. The Dominican son descends from the Cuban son, but the dance and music have developed locally. To the son's irresistible rhythms and lilting guitar, the soneros, urban people who have developed a subculture that stresses elegance, dance with grace and great style, hips moving to the lilt, men taking breaks for elaborate footwork or inventive body shifts, women and men partnering as one. Pérez, who teaches son (among other dances) in Santo Domingo, emphasizes rhythm and the elegance of son and the sonero.Less
Xiomarita Pérez discusses the Dominican son, its dance, how to teach it, and the characteristics of dance and personal style that mark a true Dominican sonero. The Dominican son descends from the Cuban son, but the dance and music have developed locally. To the son's irresistible rhythms and lilting guitar, the soneros, urban people who have developed a subculture that stresses elegance, dance with grace and great style, hips moving to the lilt, men taking breaks for elaborate footwork or inventive body shifts, women and men partnering as one. Pérez, who teaches son (among other dances) in Santo Domingo, emphasizes rhythm and the elegance of son and the sonero.
Bruce Heiden
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195341072
- eISBN:
- 9780199867066
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195341072.003.0003
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter turns to the question of a reader's orientation within horizons shorter than the epic as a whole. Examining the transmitted articulation of the epic into “books” and analyzing their ...
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This chapter turns to the question of a reader's orientation within horizons shorter than the epic as a whole. Examining the transmitted articulation of the epic into “books” and analyzing their event trajectories, the study finds that each book narrates a trajectory consisting of a Problem/Decision stage, an Action stage, and a low-consequence Aftermath stage, varied by internal elaborations and repetitions but always following the three stages in the same order. Since these important narrative subtrajectories are congruent with the transmitted articulation, the articulation furnishes readers with valuable cognitive orientation. The phrasing of transitions that coincide with some transmitted articulations also suggests that the articulations were known to the composer and coeval with the rest of the composition. Scholarly claims that the articulation was a late intrusion are critiqued through examination of the alleged ancient testimony and indirect evidence.Less
This chapter turns to the question of a reader's orientation within horizons shorter than the epic as a whole. Examining the transmitted articulation of the epic into “books” and analyzing their event trajectories, the study finds that each book narrates a trajectory consisting of a Problem/Decision stage, an Action stage, and a low-consequence Aftermath stage, varied by internal elaborations and repetitions but always following the three stages in the same order. Since these important narrative subtrajectories are congruent with the transmitted articulation, the articulation furnishes readers with valuable cognitive orientation. The phrasing of transitions that coincide with some transmitted articulations also suggests that the articulations were known to the composer and coeval with the rest of the composition. Scholarly claims that the articulation was a late intrusion are critiqued through examination of the alleged ancient testimony and indirect evidence.
William R. Nugent
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195369625
- eISBN:
- 9780199865208
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195369625.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
This chapter covers regression-discontinuity models for analyzing the data from single case designs. Auto-regressive-integrated-moving-average models are also described and illustrated. These ...
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This chapter covers regression-discontinuity models for analyzing the data from single case designs. Auto-regressive-integrated-moving-average models are also described and illustrated. These statistical methods are useful when there are a large number of observations in the phases of a single case design. These methods are described in detail and illustrated using data from a study of the implementation of an Aggression Replacement Training program implemented in a runaway shelter.Less
This chapter covers regression-discontinuity models for analyzing the data from single case designs. Auto-regressive-integrated-moving-average models are also described and illustrated. These statistical methods are useful when there are a large number of observations in the phases of a single case design. These methods are described in detail and illustrated using data from a study of the implementation of an Aggression Replacement Training program implemented in a runaway shelter.
L. Weiskrantz
- Published in print:
- 1990
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198521921
- eISBN:
- 9780191706226
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198521921.003.0006
- Subject:
- Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience
Two types of movement were generated and the subject was asked to discriminate movement from non-movement. In the first, a spot on an ocilloscope was oscillated sinisoidally up and down (‘shimmer’) ...
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Two types of movement were generated and the subject was asked to discriminate movement from non-movement. In the first, a spot on an ocilloscope was oscillated sinisoidally up and down (‘shimmer’) at a frequency of 7 Hz and the distance the spot travelled was adjusted by a potentiometer. The eccentricity was varied along the horizontal meridian between 10° and 90° in steps of 10°. He could either adjust the potentiometer until he reported detecting something, or he was asked to discriminate movement from non-movement in a forced-choice manner. In the second arrangement, a mirror attached to a galvanometer reflected a beam from a projector onto a screen allowing movement to be generated for any stimulus that was on a projector slide, in particular a vertical line or a disc. With both arrangements, his thresholds were markedly elevated compared to the good field. With the shimmer stimulus as a function of eccentricity, the blind field showed a slope opposite to that of the good field, i.e., his performance improved with increasing eccentricity in the blind field. His verbal responses for the forced-choice shimmer, even at 95% accuracy, were that he was not aware of anything and was merely guessing. With the projected stimuli, he sometimes reported ‘pulsating waves’.Less
Two types of movement were generated and the subject was asked to discriminate movement from non-movement. In the first, a spot on an ocilloscope was oscillated sinisoidally up and down (‘shimmer’) at a frequency of 7 Hz and the distance the spot travelled was adjusted by a potentiometer. The eccentricity was varied along the horizontal meridian between 10° and 90° in steps of 10°. He could either adjust the potentiometer until he reported detecting something, or he was asked to discriminate movement from non-movement in a forced-choice manner. In the second arrangement, a mirror attached to a galvanometer reflected a beam from a projector onto a screen allowing movement to be generated for any stimulus that was on a projector slide, in particular a vertical line or a disc. With both arrangements, his thresholds were markedly elevated compared to the good field. With the shimmer stimulus as a function of eccentricity, the blind field showed a slope opposite to that of the good field, i.e., his performance improved with increasing eccentricity in the blind field. His verbal responses for the forced-choice shimmer, even at 95% accuracy, were that he was not aware of anything and was merely guessing. With the projected stimuli, he sometimes reported ‘pulsating waves’.
Elisa Mandelli
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781474416795
- eISBN:
- 9781474476577
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474416795.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Moving images have become a common feature in museums, where visitors are now accustomed to finding a broad variety of projections and screens. But when did films start to be displayed in history, ...
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Moving images have become a common feature in museums, where visitors are now accustomed to finding a broad variety of projections and screens. But when did films start to be displayed in history, science or natural history museums? How did visitors react to the transformation of static displays by means of moving images? And what are the current stakes of showing audio-visuals in exhibition spaces? The Museum as a Cinematic Space is an extensive investigation of the use of moving images in exhibition design outside the art field. It explores how museums have incorporated films and audio-visuals in their display from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the present. The Museum as a Cinematic Space investigates the inclusion of cinematic elements (films, screens, projections) within the display. In addition to describing the strategies used by the curators to exhibit films, the book identifies the practical, technical and discursive conditions that made possible the use of moving images in museum galleries during the twentieth and twenty-first century. By opening itself to moving images, the exhibition becomes a place where cinema and museum spectatorships converge, reshaping the relations between the public, the images, and viewing space.Less
Moving images have become a common feature in museums, where visitors are now accustomed to finding a broad variety of projections and screens. But when did films start to be displayed in history, science or natural history museums? How did visitors react to the transformation of static displays by means of moving images? And what are the current stakes of showing audio-visuals in exhibition spaces? The Museum as a Cinematic Space is an extensive investigation of the use of moving images in exhibition design outside the art field. It explores how museums have incorporated films and audio-visuals in their display from the beginning of the twentieth century up to the present. The Museum as a Cinematic Space investigates the inclusion of cinematic elements (films, screens, projections) within the display. In addition to describing the strategies used by the curators to exhibit films, the book identifies the practical, technical and discursive conditions that made possible the use of moving images in museum galleries during the twentieth and twenty-first century. By opening itself to moving images, the exhibition becomes a place where cinema and museum spectatorships converge, reshaping the relations between the public, the images, and viewing space.
Jonathan Murray and Nea Ehrlich (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780748694112
- eISBN:
- 9781474460071
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694112.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life. However, an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers go further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated ...
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Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life. However, an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers go further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated filmmaking techniques and aesthetics. This book is the first of its kind, exploring the field of animated documentary film from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. The book’s chapters explore and propose answers to a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: What are the historical roots of animated documentary? What kinds of reasons inspire practitioners to employ animation within documentary contexts? How do animated documentary images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of multiple forms of reality – public and private, psychological and political? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging many orthodox definitions of both animated and documentary cinema.Less
Documentary cinema has always drawn from real life. However, an increasing number of contemporary filmmakers go further still, drawing onscreen images of reality through a range of animated filmmaking techniques and aesthetics. This book is the first of its kind, exploring the field of animated documentary film from a diverse range of scholarly and practice-based perspectives. The book’s chapters explore and propose answers to a range of questions that preoccupy twenty-first-century film artists and audiences alike: What are the historical roots of animated documentary? What kinds of reasons inspire practitioners to employ animation within documentary contexts? How do animated documentary images reflect and influence our understanding and experience of multiple forms of reality – public and private, psychological and political? From early cinema to present-day scientific research, military uses, digital art and gaming, this book casts new light on the capacity of the moving image to act as a record of the world around us, challenging many orthodox definitions of both animated and documentary cinema.
Ursula Coope
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780199247905
- eISBN:
- 9780191603082
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199247900.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
Aristotle says that although earlier and later nows are different, there is also a way in which they are the same. He compares the way in which earlier and later nows are the same but different to ...
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Aristotle says that although earlier and later nows are different, there is also a way in which they are the same. He compares the way in which earlier and later nows are the same but different to the way in which something in motion is, during its motion, the same and yet different. This chapter explains this comparison. It argues that by ‘moving thing’, Aristotle means an odd entity: a thing defined as in motion. An example would be Coriscos-moving-from-A-to-B. In comparing the now to an entity of this sort, Aristotle is not saying that the now is something that moves. His view is that there is a way in which all nows are the same: that by being which the now is (ho pote on esti) is the same. In Aristotle’s view, nows are only countable in virtue of the fact that they are the same in this way.Less
Aristotle says that although earlier and later nows are different, there is also a way in which they are the same. He compares the way in which earlier and later nows are the same but different to the way in which something in motion is, during its motion, the same and yet different. This chapter explains this comparison. It argues that by ‘moving thing’, Aristotle means an odd entity: a thing defined as in motion. An example would be Coriscos-moving-from-A-to-B. In comparing the now to an entity of this sort, Aristotle is not saying that the now is something that moves. His view is that there is a way in which all nows are the same: that by being which the now is (ho pote on esti) is the same. In Aristotle’s view, nows are only countable in virtue of the fact that they are the same in this way.
Anany Levitin
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164038
- eISBN:
- 9781400881338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164038.003.0002
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter provides a survey of mathematical puzzles solvable in one move. The types considered are divination puzzles, weighing puzzles, rearrangement puzzles, dissection puzzles, and folding ...
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This chapter provides a survey of mathematical puzzles solvable in one move. The types considered are divination puzzles, weighing puzzles, rearrangement puzzles, dissection puzzles, and folding puzzles. The chapter does not include one-question logic puzzles (e.g., Knights and Knaves) or puzzles that can be solved in one move only because of the small size of the puzzle's instance (e.g., making seven payments with links of a seven-link gold chain). Equation puzzles composed of matchsticks or decimal digits have also been excluded. In addition, the survey suggests several research projects related to the included puzzles. The chapter then concludes with answers to the puzzles highlighted in the survey.Less
This chapter provides a survey of mathematical puzzles solvable in one move. The types considered are divination puzzles, weighing puzzles, rearrangement puzzles, dissection puzzles, and folding puzzles. The chapter does not include one-question logic puzzles (e.g., Knights and Knaves) or puzzles that can be solved in one move only because of the small size of the puzzle's instance (e.g., making seven payments with links of a seven-link gold chain). Equation puzzles composed of matchsticks or decimal digits have also been excluded. In addition, the survey suggests several research projects related to the included puzzles. The chapter then concludes with answers to the puzzles highlighted in the survey.
Max A. Alekseyev and Toby Berger
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164038
- eISBN:
- 9781400881338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164038.003.0005
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The ...
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This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle consists of n disks of distinct sizes distributed across three pegs. At a single move it is permitted to transfer a disk from the top of one peg to the top of another peg, if this results in a valid state, i.e. a particular distribution of the disks across the pegs. The chapter proves the exact formulas for the expected number of random moves to solve the puzzles. It also presents an alternative proof for one of the formulas that couples a theorem about expected commute times of random walks on graphs with the delta-to-wye transformation used in the analysis of three-phase AC systems for electrical power distribution.Less
This chapter studies solutions of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle and some of its variants with random moves, where each move is chosen uniformly from the set of the valid moves in the current state. The Tower of Hanoi puzzle consists of n disks of distinct sizes distributed across three pegs. At a single move it is permitted to transfer a disk from the top of one peg to the top of another peg, if this results in a valid state, i.e. a particular distribution of the disks across the pegs. The chapter proves the exact formulas for the expected number of random moves to solve the puzzles. It also presents an alternative proof for one of the formulas that couples a theorem about expected commute times of random walks on graphs with the delta-to-wye transformation used in the analysis of three-phase AC systems for electrical power distribution.
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199230723
- eISBN:
- 9780191710872
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199230723.003.0006
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Applied Mathematics
This chapter begins with a discussion of moving frame formulae. It then covers n + 1 splitting adapted to space slices, constraints and evolution, Hamiltonian and symplectic formulation, Cauchy ...
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This chapter begins with a discussion of moving frame formulae. It then covers n + 1 splitting adapted to space slices, constraints and evolution, Hamiltonian and symplectic formulation, Cauchy problem, wave gauges, local existence for the full Einstein equations, constraints in a wave gauge, and Einstein equations with field sources.Less
This chapter begins with a discussion of moving frame formulae. It then covers n + 1 splitting adapted to space slices, constraints and evolution, Hamiltonian and symplectic formulation, Cauchy problem, wave gauges, local existence for the full Einstein equations, constraints in a wave gauge, and Einstein equations with field sources.
Martin Sohn-Rethel
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780993071768
- eISBN:
- 9781800341944
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780993071768.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody “realism” or “truth,” but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our ...
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What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody “realism” or “truth,” but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our notion of reality or truth to be understood? For film and media students and makers of moving-image fiction in new digital forms, the question of how to get a more objective, rigorous handle on realism has never been more important. The author of this book brings a lifetime of teaching film and media to bear on developing a new approach to analyzing the “realism” of the moving image: a set of seven “codes” that plot this tricky field of enquiry more systematically. In doing so, the book considers a wide range of film and media texts chosen for their accessibility, including Do the Right Thing (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), Erin Brockovich (2000), and District 9 (2009).Less
What happens when we watch feature films or television dramas? Many of our responses to moving-image fiction texts embody “realism” or “truth,” but what are we responding to, exactly, and how is our notion of reality or truth to be understood? For film and media students and makers of moving-image fiction in new digital forms, the question of how to get a more objective, rigorous handle on realism has never been more important. The author of this book brings a lifetime of teaching film and media to bear on developing a new approach to analyzing the “realism” of the moving image: a set of seven “codes” that plot this tricky field of enquiry more systematically. In doing so, the book considers a wide range of film and media texts chosen for their accessibility, including Do the Right Thing (1989), In the Name of the Father (1993), Erin Brockovich (2000), and District 9 (2009).
Isabelle McNeill
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638918
- eISBN:
- 9780748671014
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638918.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
A vital rethinking of memory and the moving image for the digital age, this book investigates the role of the moving image in cultural memory, considering the impact of digital technologies on visual ...
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A vital rethinking of memory and the moving image for the digital age, this book investigates the role of the moving image in cultural memory, considering the impact of digital technologies on visual culture. Drawing on an interdisciplinary range of theoretical resources and an unusual body of films and moving image works, the book examines the ways in which recent French filmmaking conceptualises both the past and the workings of memory. Ultimately the book argues, memory is an intersubjective process, in which filmic forms continue to play a crucial role even as new media come to dominate our contemporary experience. The book introduces new ways of thinking about the relation between film and memory, arising from an interdisciplinary study of theories and films; explores the French context while drawing theoretical conclusions with wider implications and applicability; provides detailed close readings of varied moving image works to aid theoretical explorations; moves away from auteurist approaches, examining work by canonical directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Agnès Varda alongside that of less well-known filmmakers such as Claire Simon and Yamina Benguigui; and brings together thinkers such as Bergson, Deleuze, Bazin and Barthes with, for example, Rodowick and Mulvey, in an interweaving of theories. Works considered include Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1989–98), Yamina Benguigui's Mémoires d'Immigrés (1997), Chris Marker's CD-ROM Immemory (1998), Claire Simon's Mimi (2003), Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) and Agnès Varda's multi-media exhibition, L'Île et Elle (2006).Less
A vital rethinking of memory and the moving image for the digital age, this book investigates the role of the moving image in cultural memory, considering the impact of digital technologies on visual culture. Drawing on an interdisciplinary range of theoretical resources and an unusual body of films and moving image works, the book examines the ways in which recent French filmmaking conceptualises both the past and the workings of memory. Ultimately the book argues, memory is an intersubjective process, in which filmic forms continue to play a crucial role even as new media come to dominate our contemporary experience. The book introduces new ways of thinking about the relation between film and memory, arising from an interdisciplinary study of theories and films; explores the French context while drawing theoretical conclusions with wider implications and applicability; provides detailed close readings of varied moving image works to aid theoretical explorations; moves away from auteurist approaches, examining work by canonical directors including Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Agnès Varda alongside that of less well-known filmmakers such as Claire Simon and Yamina Benguigui; and brings together thinkers such as Bergson, Deleuze, Bazin and Barthes with, for example, Rodowick and Mulvey, in an interweaving of theories. Works considered include Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du Cinéma (1989–98), Yamina Benguigui's Mémoires d'Immigrés (1997), Chris Marker's CD-ROM Immemory (1998), Claire Simon's Mimi (2003), Michael Haneke's Caché (2005) and Agnès Varda's multi-media exhibition, L'Île et Elle (2006).
Søren Johansen
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198774501
- eISBN:
- 9780191596476
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198774508.003.0004
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
Contains the mathematical and algebraic results needed to understand the properties of I(1) and I(2) processes generated by autoregressive and moving average models. The basic result is Grangers ...
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Contains the mathematical and algebraic results needed to understand the properties of I(1) and I(2) processes generated by autoregressive and moving average models. The basic result is Grangers representation theorem, which gives necessary and sufficient conditions on the coefficients of the autoregressive model for the process to be integrated of order 1 and 2. We introduce the error correction model for I(1) and I(2) processes.Less
Contains the mathematical and algebraic results needed to understand the properties of I(1) and I(2) processes generated by autoregressive and moving average models. The basic result is Grangers representation theorem, which gives necessary and sufficient conditions on the coefficients of the autoregressive model for the process to be integrated of order 1 and 2. We introduce the error correction model for I(1) and I(2) processes.
Miguel Alcubierre
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199205677
- eISBN:
- 9780191709371
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199205677.003.0006
- Subject:
- Physics, Theoretical, Computational, and Statistical Physics
This chapter considers the different issues associated with the numerical evolution of black hole spacetimes. These issues can be separated into three areas: 1) how to evolve black holes successfully ...
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This chapter considers the different issues associated with the numerical evolution of black hole spacetimes. These issues can be separated into three areas: 1) how to evolve black holes successfully and in particular how to deal with the presence of singularities; 2) how to locate the black hole horizons in a numerically generated spacetime; and 3) how to measure physical quantities such as mass and angular momentum associated with a black hole. Topics covered include isometries and throat adapted coordinates, static puncture evolution, singularity avoidance and slice stretching, black hole excision, moving punctures, apparent horizons, event horizons, and isolated and dynamical horizons.Less
This chapter considers the different issues associated with the numerical evolution of black hole spacetimes. These issues can be separated into three areas: 1) how to evolve black holes successfully and in particular how to deal with the presence of singularities; 2) how to locate the black hole horizons in a numerically generated spacetime; and 3) how to measure physical quantities such as mass and angular momentum associated with a black hole. Topics covered include isometries and throat adapted coordinates, static puncture evolution, singularity avoidance and slice stretching, black hole excision, moving punctures, apparent horizons, event horizons, and isolated and dynamical horizons.
