Degraded divinity? Sacred monstrosity? Gérard Depardieu and the abject star body

Screen ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-334
Author(s):  
Sue Harris
Keyword(s):  
Star Body

On The Critical Lattices of Arbitrary Point Sets

1949 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Mahler
Keyword(s):  
Finite Type ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Arbitrary Point ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Point Sets ◽  
Point Set ◽  
Critical Lattice ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

In this note, I shall establish necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of critical lattices of an arbitrary point set, and I shall construct a non-trivial example of a point set without any critical lattice. In a previous paper, I proved that every star body of the finite type possesses at least one critical lattice.

scholarly journals On the critical determinants of certain star bodies

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Georg Nowak
Keyword(s):  
Calculus Of Variations ◽  
Diophantine Approximation ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Geometry Of Numbers ◽  
Real Numbers ◽  
Critical Determinant ◽  
Simultaneous Diophantine Approximation ◽  
Star Bodies ◽  
Classic Paper

Abstract In a classic paper [14], W.G. Spohn established the to-date sharpest estimates from below for the simultaneous Diophantine approximation constants for three and more real numbers. As a by-result of his method which used Blichfeldt’s Theorem and the calculus of variations, he derived a bound for the critical determinant of the star body|x1|(|x1|3 + |x2|3 + |x3|3 ≤ 1.In this little note, after a brief exposition of the basics of the geometry of numbers and its significance for Diophantine approximation, this latter result is improved and extended to the star body|x1|(|x1|3 + |x22 + x32)3/2≤ 1.

Performance study of a power law star body

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Sabean ◽  
Mark Lewis ◽  
David Mee ◽  
Allan Paull
Keyword(s):  
Power Law ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Performance Study

scholarly journals Miniaturization during a Silurian environmental crisis generated the modern brittle star body plan

2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Thuy ◽  
Mats E. Eriksson ◽  
Manfred Kutscher ◽  
Johan Lindgren ◽  
Lea D. Numberger-Thuy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Record ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Brittle Star ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Animal Group ◽  
Environmental Perturbation ◽  
Speciation Event ◽  
Global Extinction ◽  
Structural Simplification

AbstractPivotal anatomical innovations often seem to appear by chance when viewed through the lens of the fossil record. As a consequence, specific driving forces behind the origination of major organismal clades generally remain speculative. Here, we present a rare exception to this axiom by constraining the appearance of a diverse animal group (the living Ophiuroidea) to a single speciation event rather than hypothetical ancestors. Fossils belonging to a new pair of temporally consecutive species of brittle stars (Ophiopetagno paicei gen. et sp. nov. and Muldaster haakei gen. et sp. nov.) from the Silurian (444–419 Mya) of Sweden reveal a process of miniaturization that temporally coincides with a global extinction and environmental perturbation known as the Mulde Event. The reduction in size from O. paicei to M. haakei forced a structural simplification of the ophiuroid skeleton through ontogenetic retention of juvenile traits, thereby generating the modern brittle star bauplan.

“A consummate actress, hampered by beauty”

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-50
Author(s):  
Lisa Stead
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
British Library ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Gone With The Wind ◽  
Archival Record ◽  
The Right ◽  
Key Aspects

The chapter explores the archival record of Vivien Leigh’s stage and screen craft. It considers how the archive illuminates her struggle to position her performative talent and craft in the “right” way relative to her status as glamourous star body. The chapter interrogates material in her archive at the V&A, her papers at the British Library, and connected archives of those performers and directors with whom she worked. Key case studies include her written correspondence with Laurence Olivier during the filming of Gone with the Wind, which illuminates her approach to male mentorship more broadly across her career. The chapter also focusses on two key aspects of her stage and screen craft often singled out for criticism in the reception of her performances: her voice and physical stamina.

scholarly journals On the Irreducibility of Convex Bodies

1959 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 256-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Woods
Keyword(s):  
Euclidean Space ◽  
Convex Bodies ◽  
Dimensional Euclidean Space ◽  
Star Body ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Absolute Value ◽  
Linearly Independent ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Set Of Points ◽  
Rational Integral

We select a Cartesian co-ordinate system in ndimensional Euclidean space Rn with origin 0 and employ the usual pointvector notation.By a lattice Λ in Rn we mean the set of all rational integral combinations of n linearly independent points X1, X2, … , Xn of Rn. The points X1 X2, … , Xn are said to form a basis of Λ. Let {X1, X2, … , Xn) denote the determinant formed when the co-ordinates of Xi are taken in order as the ith row of the determinant for i = 1,2, … , n. The absolute value of this determinant is called the determinant d(Λ) of Λ. It is well known that d(Λ) is independent of the particular basis one takes for Λ.A star body in Rn is a closed set of points K such that if X ∈ K then every point of the form tX where — 1 < t < 1 is an inner point of K.

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