A Case for SmartNIC-accelerated Private Communication

The measurement of magnification in the electron microscope is always troublesome especially when a goniometer stage is in use, since there can be wide variations from calibrated values. One elegant method (L.M.Brown, private communication) of avoiding the difficulties of standard methods would be to fit a device which displaces the specimen a small but known distance and recording the displacement by a double exposure. Such a device would obviate the need for changing the specimen and guarantee that the magnification was measured under precisely the conditions used.Such a small displacement could be produced by any suitable transducer mounted in one of the specimen translation mechanisms. In the present case a piezoelectric crystal was used. Modern synthetic piezo electric ceramics readily give reproducible displacements in the right range for quite modest voltages (for example: Joyce and Wilson, 1969).

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A SPHERICAL VERSION OF THE KOWALSKI–SŁODKOWSKI THEOREM AND ITS APPLICATIONS

Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society ◽

10.1017/s1446788720000452 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-26

Author(s):

SHIHO OI

Keyword(s):

Banach Algebra ◽

Function Space ◽

Affirmative Answer ◽

List Type ◽

Private Communication ◽

Type Number ◽

Uniform Algebras ◽

Surjective Isometry ◽

Complex Linear ◽

Local Map

Abstract Li et al. [‘Weak 2-local isometries on uniform algebras and Lipschitz algebras’, Publ. Mat.63 (2019), 241–264] generalized the Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem by establishing the following spherical variant: let A be a unital complex Banach algebra and let $\Delta : A \to \mathbb {C}$ be a mapping satisfying the following properties: (a) $\Delta $ is 1-homogeneous (that is, $\Delta (\lambda x)=\lambda \Delta (x)$ for all $x \in A$ , $\lambda \in \mathbb C$ ); (b) $\Delta (x)-\Delta (y) \in \mathbb {T}\sigma (x-y), \quad x,y \in A$ . Then $\Delta $ is linear and there exists $\lambda _{0} \in \mathbb {T}$ such that $\lambda _{0}\Delta $ is multiplicative. In this note we prove that if (a) is relaxed to $\Delta (0)=0$ , then $\Delta $ is complex-linear or conjugate-linear and $\overline {\Delta (\mathbf {1})}\Delta $ is multiplicative. We extend the Kowalski–Słodkowski theorem as a conclusion. As a corollary, we prove that every 2-local map in the set of all surjective isometries (without assuming linearity) on a certain function space is in fact a surjective isometry. This gives an affirmative answer to a problem on 2-local isometries posed by Molnár [‘On 2-local *-automorphisms and 2-local isometries of B(H)', J. Math. Anal. Appl.479(1) (2019), 569–580] and also in a private communication between Molnár and O. Hatori, 2018.

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On Emotional Grounds: Private Communication of Muslims in Late Imperial Russia

Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques ◽

10.1515/asia-2019-0026 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 73 (4) ◽

pp. 655-682

Author(s):

Alfrid Bustanov

Keyword(s):

Personal Experience ◽

Language Use ◽

Social Activism ◽

Russian Empire ◽

The Self ◽

Private Communication ◽

Late Imperial ◽

Imperial Russia ◽

The Russian Empire ◽

New Generation

AbstractThis article explores the practices of private communication of Muslims at the eclipse of the Russian empire. The correspondence of a young Kazan mullah with his family and friends lays the ground for an analysis of subjectivity at the intersection of literary models and personal experience. In personal writings, individuals selected from a repertoire of available tools for self-fashioning, be that the usage of notebooks, the Russian or Muslim calendar, or peculiarities of situational language use. Letters carried the emotions of their writers as well as evoking emotions in their readers. While still having access to the Persianate models of the self, practiced by previous generations of Tatar students in Bukhara, the new generation prioritized another type of scholarly persona, based on the mastery of Arabic, the study of the Qur’an and the hadith, as well as social activism.

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Arcs with increasing chords

Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society ◽

10.1017/s0305004100047022 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 72 (2) ◽

pp. 205-207 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

D. G. Larman ◽

P. McMullen

Keyword(s):

Absolute Constant ◽

Complex Analysis ◽

Private Communication ◽

Arc Length ◽

Euclidean Length ◽

Jordan Arc ◽

Image Position

Let f:[0, 1]→R2 be a Jordan arc, and for t, u ∈ [0, 1] let d(t, u) = d(f(t), f(u)) denote the Euclidean length of the chord between f(t) and f(u), and l(t, u) = l(f(t), f(u)) the corresponding arc-length, when this is defined. We say that f has the increasing chord property if d(t2, t3) ≤ d(t1, t4) whenever 0 ≤ t1 ≤ t2 ≤ t3 ≤ t4 ≤ 1. In connexion with a problem in complex analysis, K. Binmore has asked (private communication, see (1)) whether there exists an absolute constant K such that.

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Situational transformations

Pragmatics and Society ◽

10.1075/ps.4.3.05odr ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 369-387 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jim O'Driscoll

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Public Communication ◽

Private Communication ◽

Email Communication ◽

Legal Sanction

This paper raises concerns about the tenor of 21st century interaction by identifying a tendency whereby relatively innocuous, canonically private communication is transformed into public communication deemed offensive enough to attract institutional or legal sanction. To understand examples of this tendency, it applies Goffman’s architecture of interaction to email communication and proposes the notion of situational transformation to encapsulate reframing processes involving footing, face and participation framework. Through these processes (to which, it is shown, the email medium is especially vulnerable) and a discourse of civility, the private becomes public and opposition becomes offence.

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