Music in the Myth of Venice

1977 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 511-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Rosand
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Political Model ◽  
Single State ◽  
Venetian Republic

Historians have long been fascinated by the ‘myth of Venice’: the phenomenon of a single state acquiring and sustaining a reputation, often at obvious variance with reality, that would serve not only the propaganda goals of the state itself but even as an influential political model for others. Although there are several aspects to this myth, they all focus on the perfection of the Venetian Republic, its uniqueness and virtù. The official epithet, la Serenissima, epitomized the image of this splendid city, founded miraculously upon the waters, unwalled yet unconquered for more than a millennium, remarkably undisturbed by internal strife. Petrarch's wellknown panegyric expresses a generally held view of Venice: ‘a city rich in gold but richer in renown, mighty in works but mightier in virtue, founded on solid marble but established on the more solid foundations of civic concord, surrounded by the salty waves but secure through her saltier councils.’

The Separation of Powers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. W. Barber
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
The State ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
State Action ◽  
The Common Good ◽  
The Common ◽  
Single State

The point of the separation of powers is examined, and it is argued that accounts of the principle that identify liberty as the guiding purpose of the principle are flawed, the products of an unattractive account of the state. A richer understanding of the state produces a richer understanding of the principle. The second and third parts of the chapter outline such an account, reflecting on the institutional framework required by the separation of powers: the divisions and connections that the principle demands. Different state institutions are well-placed to identify different aspects of the common good and, through their differing skills and instruments, well-suited to modify the policies of the state in light of these assessments. The constitution then combines these decisions into a single state action. The chapter then considers apparent exceptions to the separation of powers.

Hindu Theory of International Relations

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 400-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoy Kumar Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The State ◽  
Cattle Farm ◽  
The People ◽  
Single State ◽  
The Government ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
Constituent Elements

The conception of “external” sovereignty was well established in the Hindu philosophy of the state. The Hindu thinkers not only analyzed sovereignty with regard to the constituent elements in a single state. They realized also that sovereignty is not complete unless it is external as well as internal, that is, unless the state can exercise its internal authority unobstructed by, and independently of, other states.“Great misery,” says Shookra, “comes of dependence on others. There is no greater happiness than that from self-rule.” This is one of the maxims of the Shookra-neeti bearing on the freedom of the rastra, or the land and the people in a state. Kautilya also in his remarks on “foreign rule” expresses the same idea in a negative manner. Under it, we are told in his Artha-shastra, the country is not treated as one's own land, it is impoverished, its wealth carried off, or it is treated “as a commercial article.” The description is suggestive of John Stuart Mill's metaphor of the “cattle farm” applied to the “government of one people by another.”

scholarly journals Accounting for ambiguity in ancestral sequence reconstruction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Oliva ◽  
S. Pulicani ◽  
V. Lefort ◽  
L. Bréhélin ◽  
S. Guindon
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Evolution ◽  
The State ◽  
Ancestral Sequence ◽  
Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction ◽  
Sequence Reconstruction ◽  
Phylogenetic Framework ◽  
Genetic Sequences ◽  
Single State ◽  
New Criterion ◽  
Statistical Criteria

AbstractThe reconstruction of ancestral genetic sequences from the analysis of contemporaneous data is a powerful tool to improve our understanding of molecular evolution. Various statistical criteria defined in a phylogenetic framework can be used to infer nucleotide, aminoa-cid or codon states at internal nodes of the tree, for every position along the sequence. These criteria generally select the state that maximises (or minimises) a given criterion. Although it is perfectly sensible from a statistical perspective, that strategy fails to convey useful information about the level of uncertainty associated to the inference. The present study introduces a new criterion for ancestral nucleotide reconstruction that selects a single state whenever the signal conveyed by the data is strong, and a combination of multiple states otherwise. Simulations demonstrate the benefit of this approach with a substantial increase in the accuracy of ancestral sequence reconstruction without significantly compromising on the precision of the solutions returned.

Reliability Assessment of Power Generation System Using an Optimized State Enumeration Method

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhiyan Zhang ◽  
Kaixuan Wang ◽  
Guangxi Tian ◽  
Gang Xu ◽  
Hongfei Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Power Systems ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
Reliability Assessment ◽  
The State ◽  
Large Network ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Som Neural Network ◽  
Single State ◽  
State Enumeration

Background: The single state enumeration method cannot meet the requirement of accuracy and high efficiency in the reliability assessment of complex power systems because of many uncertain factors and the large scale of the power grid. Methods: A new method of generating system reliability assessment based on self-organizing map (SOM) neural network and state enumeration is presented. First, the input parameters of the state enumeration method are optimized by using the feature of the SOM neural network algorithm that can automatically, quickly, and accurately classify the sample parameters in this method. Second, combining with Markov Model, the optimized system state samples are divided into fault state and normal state, and then the reliability indexes are enumerated. Finally, this method is used to calculate the reliability indexes of IEEE-RTS single-stage power units under different operation conditions. Results: The results show that this method is superior to the single state enumeration method in calculation time; it can be used to evaluate the reliability of modern complex power systems. Conclusion: The optimized state enumeration method is more suitable for the reliability evaluation of the system with a large network scale, and its reliability index is more accurate; while retaining the higher calculation accuracy of the state enumeration method, it can promote the safe, reliable, and economical operation of the power system.

The history of Iberian archaeology: one archaeology for two Spains

Antiquity ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (291) ◽  
pp. 184-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Ruiz ◽  
Alberto Sánchez ◽  
Juan P. Bellón
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Political ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Political Problem ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The 19Th Century

IntroductionIn this article we set out to analyse, from an archaeological point of view, a political problem which, as demonstrated by current debate, including acts of violence, goes well beyond archaeology. Throughout the 19th century, and especially in its latter half, a centralist political model for Spain was developed in which a political balance could not be found between the State and [lie autonomous traditions of the varions regions of the Iherian Peninsula. As a result of this failure, legitimation programmes began to be constructed towards the end of 19th century, based on the history of the peoples of these regions. This led to a search in protohistorical archaeology [Iberians, Celts, Tartessians, etc.) for a possible solution to the political problems caused by a lack of institutional agreement between states and regions.

scholarly journals Disappearing Citizenship: surveillance and the state of exception

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Surveillance System ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Theoretical Examination ◽  
Political Model

Surveillance is an ancient concept and an ancient practice.  As such, we must undertake a theoretical examination of surveillance that looks at the changes in the function of surveillance within a juridical-political model, rather than superficially studying the nature of surveillance mechanisms. What emerges is a surveillance system that is fundamentally biopolitical and is in many ways - as a defining ‘modern’ characteristic - the reason for a permanent state of exception and the loss of rights and citizenship.

scholarly journals Quantum Gravity as Higher Dimensional Perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Rob Langley
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Planck Scale ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
The State ◽  
Mathematical Principle ◽  
Vanishing Points ◽  
Higher Dimensional ◽  
Single State

Although highly predictive in their respective macroscopic and microscopic domains of applicability, General Relativity and quantum mechanics are mathematically incompatible, perhaps most markedly in assumptions in their formalisms concerning the nature of space and time. In <em>perspective</em> we already have a conceptual structure that links the local, macroscopic frame and the remote, apparently microscopic frame. A mathematical principle is invoked as a natural limit on D(n), so that effects which are clearly perspectival at D=3 become ‘more real’ (<em>effectively</em> observer-independent) with each D(n) increment. For instance, the apparently microscopic becomes the effectively microscopic and <em>scale extremes are juxtaposed</em>, so that black holes are local, macroscopic vanishing-points, in a similar way to that in which in projective geometry the point at infinity is incorporated into the foreground.  (In other words, <em>a black hole is a blown-up ‘Planck-scale’ singularity</em>.) Characteristics of the earthbound frame are applied to D&gt;3, suggesting a physical basis for entanglement, and perspectival interpretations of quantum gravity, dimensional reduction and the information paradox.  We claim that the familiar processes whereby multiple physical states become describable by a single state in which composition information appears to be lost (e.g., ‘falling into a black hole’, the state of quantum linearity, and the state of freefall) are all examples of effective convergence of a space or <em>n</em>-surface to a single point of perspective.

Notes on Sovereignty in a State

1907 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-320
Author(s):  
Robert Lansing
Keyword(s):  
Civil Liberty ◽  
The State ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Single State

In Part First of these notes the nature of sovereignty was discussed and its manifestations in a single state and a federal state considered. It is now proposed to carry the investigation further, and to see the effect of viewing sovereignty from standpoints internal and external to the state. Having completed this examination, the subjects of independence, civil liberty, state liberty, constitutions, and law in their relation to sovereignty will be briefly treated.

Making the revolution intelligible, rendering political imaginations unthinkable: A postcolonial reading of British and American media representations of Rojava

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 313-338
Author(s):  
Cihan Erdost Akin
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
American Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Model ◽  
The Revolution

Although the gendered media portrayal of female Kurdish fighters has drawn academic attention, the representation of the socio-political model of Rojava by the British and American media is often neglected. This paper surveys the British and American media to understand the kinds of opinions found in the media, the discursive means that make the Rojava model intelligible, and what is rendered either commonsensical or unimaginable. The Rojava project is framed as “a separatist rebellion”, “an experiment”, and “a genuine social revolution”. By excluding the anti-capitalist and ecological principles of Rojava, and either dismissing or romanticising its achievements, these discourses render an alternative to capitalism and the nation-state unthinkable, and reproduce Orientalist images of the region, thus serving capitalist and imperialist interests. This study suggests that we should pay more attention to socio-political imaginations and representations of non-state paradigms in order to understand the hegemony of the state. Abstract in Kurmanji Fehmbarkirina şoreşê, pêşkêşkirina nemumkiniya tesewira polîtîk: Xwendineke postkolonyal a temsîlên Rojava di medyaya Brîtanya û Amerîkayê de Li hember teswîra zayendî ya şervanên kurd ên jin ku gelek bala akademiyê kişandiye, temsîla modela sosyo-polîtîk a Rojava ji teref medyaya brîtanyayî û emerîkî ve pirî caran hate paşguhkirin. Ev nivîs li medyaya brîtanyayî û emerîkî dinêre da ku cureyên fikrên di medyayê de, amûrên vegotinê yên ku modela Rojavayê fehmbar dikin vebikole û fehm bike ka çi û çiqas beraqil an jî nexeyalbar tê pêşkêşkirin. Projeya Rojava, weke “serhildaneke cudaxwaz”, “ceribandek” û “şoreşeke civakî ya resen” tê resmkirin. Bi derkirina prensîbên dij-kapîtalîst û ekolojîk yên Rojava û bi paşguhkirin an jî romantîzekirina destkeftên wê, ev dîskûr nemumkiniya alternatîfa kapîtalîzmê û netewe-dewletê îfade dikin û wêneyekî Oryantalîst ya herêmê diafirînin ku xizmeta berjewendiyên kapîtalîst û emperyalîst dike. Ev xebat pêşniyar dike ku divê em bêtir bala xwe bidin tesewirên sosyo-polîtîk û temsîlên paradîgmaya ne-dewlet ji bo fehmkirina hegemonyaya dewletê. Abstract in Sorani Be têgeyandin kirdnî şorrş, bê mana kirdnî endêşe syasîyekan: Xwêndneweyekî postkolonyalaney wênakirdnî mîdyay berîtanî û emrîkî bo rojawa Egerçî wêne mîdyayye cênderekanî jne şervanekanî kurd sernicî ekadîmîyekanî rakêşawe, zorcar wênakirdnî modêlî syasî-cvakî rojava lelayen mîdyay berîtanî û emrîkayewe feramoşkrawe. Bo têgeyîştin lew bîruboçunaney le mîdyakanda bedî dekrêt, em babete rumallêkî mîdyay berîtanî û emrîkî dekat, amraze gutarîyekan ke modêlî rojava bê mana deken û  yan wek ştêkî asayî yan xeyallî dexrête rû . Projey rojava xrawete çwarçîwey “yaxîbunêkî cudaxwazî”, “ezmunêk” we “şorşêkî rasteqîney komellayetî”. Be wedernanî bnema dje-sermayedarî û îkolojîyekanî rojava, we yan be nadîdekirdin û romantîkirdnî deskewtekan, em gutarane bedîlêk bo sermayedarî û dewllet-netewe dexate derewey bîrkirdnewe.  Em twêjîneweye pêşnyar dekat ke bo ewey le hejmûnî dewllet têbgeyn, pêwîste bayexî zyatir be endêşey syasî-cvakî û nwênerayetîkrinî paradaymî nadewlletî bdeyn. Abstract in Zazaki Şoreşî dayîşfehmkerdiş, fikranê sîyasîyan nêdayîşfikirîyayîş: Medyaya Brîtanya û Amerîka de temsîlê Rojawanî ser o wendişêko postkolonîyalîst   Herçiqas ke nawitişê medyaya cinsîyetperwere de rolê şêrvananê cinîkanê kurdan bala akademîkan ante, modelê komel û sîyasetê Rojawanî zafê reyan hetê medyaya Brîtanya û Amerîka ra peygoş bî. Na meqale qayîtê medyaya Brîtanya û Amerîka kena ke wina tede qeneatê ci yê cîya-cîyayî, usûlê munaqeşeyî yê îzahkerdişê modelê Rojawanî û çîyê bimantiqkerde yan zî nefikrbarî fehm bibê. Projeyê Rojawanî sey “serewedaritişo cîyaker”, “ceribnayîş” û “şoreşê komelî yo raştikên” name beno. Bi îhmalkerdişê prensîpanê Rojawanî yê antîkapîtalîst û ekolojîkan û bi redkerdiş yan zî romantîzekerdişê serkewtişanê ci, nê munaqeşeyî alternatîfê kapîtalîzm û dewleta netewe nêdanê fikirîyayene. Wina herêm ra resimo oryantalîst yeno xêzkerdene ke menfeatanê kapîtalîst û emperyalîstan rê fayde dano. No cigêrayîş pêşnîyaz keno ke ma hîna zaf bala xo bidîme fikranê komelkî û sîyasîyan û estbîyayîşê paradîgmayanê nedewlete ser ke bandura dewlete fehm bikerîme.

Multiplicative population chains

1962 ◽  
Vol 266 (1327) ◽  
pp. 518-526 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Probability Distribution ◽  
The State ◽  
Single State

It is shown that the basic results concerning single-state multiplicative chains can be extended to general multiplicative population chains, where the probability distribution of the issue at each generation depends on the state x of the parent.

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