AN OVERVIEW ON DIGITAL LIBRARY

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Dr. C. Muthurasu ◽  
Dr. M. Suganthi

Today, libraries are much more than storehouses for books, journals, and newspapers, in print form. Present day libraries apart from print resources, acquire e-resources, audio/visual material, multimedia material and other resources depending upon the demands from the users. This change is evident in all kinds of libraries. However, one thing that has not changed is the universe of information or knowledge; it is forever expanding and is continuing to do so at ever increasing speeds. One of the best examples of a digital library is, Digital Library of India (DLI).

Author(s):  
Donald C. Williams

This chapter provides a fuller treatment of the pure manifold theory with an expanded discussion of competing doctrines. It is argued that competing doctrines fail to account for the extensive and/or transitory aspect(s) of time, or they do so at great theoretical cost. The pure manifold theory accounts for the extensive aspect of time because it admits a four-dimensional manifold and it accounts for the transitory aspect of time because it hypothesizes that the increase of entropy is the thing that is ‘felt’ in veridical cases of felt passage. A four-dimensionalist theory of time travel is outlined, along with a sketch of large-scale cosmological traits of the universe.


Author(s):  
John Barnden

How, if at all, consciousness can be part of the physical universe remains a baffling problem. This article outlines a new, developing philosophical theory of how it could do so, and offers a preliminary mathematical formulation of a physical grounding for key aspects of the theory. Because the philosophical side has radical elements, so does the physical-theory side. The philosophical side is radical, first, in proposing that the productivity or dynamism in the universe that many believe to be responsible for its systematic regularities is actually itself a physical constituent of the universe, along with more familiar entities. Indeed, it proposes that instances of dynamism can themselves take part in physical interactions with other entities, this interaction then being “meta-dynamism” (a type of meta-causation). Secondly, the theory is radical, and unique, in arguing that consciousness is necessarily partly constituted of meta-dynamic auto-sensitivity, in other words it must react via meta-dynamism to its own dynamism, and also in conjecturing that some specific form of this sensitivity is sufficient for and indeed constitutive of consciousness. The article proposes a way for physical laws to be modified to accommodate meta-dynamism, via the radical step of including elements that explicitly refer to dynamism itself. Additionally, laws become, explicitly, temporally non-local in referring directly to quantity values holding at times prior to a given instant of application of the law. The approach therefore implicitly brings in considerations about what information determines states. Because of the temporal non-locality, and also because of the deep connections between dynamism and time-flow, the approach also implicitly connects to the topic of entropy insofar as this is related to time.


1942 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Graham Frisbee

In his essay, “On God and the Absolute,” F. H. Bradley declares that the “assertor of an imperfect God is, whether he knows it or not, face to face with a desperate task or a forlorn alternative. He must try to show (how I cannot tell) that the entire rest of the Universe, outside his limited God, is known to be still weaker and more limited. Or he must appeal to us to follow our Leader blindly and, for all we know, to a common and overwhelming defeat.” The appeal of the second course, even when it is set forth in the spirited and heroic manner of William James, cannot survive a full realization of what is involved in such a prospect. It is not surprising, therefore, to find that most of the more sober-minded theologians who hold the idea of a limited God attempt to do so in the first form suggested by Bradley. F. R. Tennant belongs to this group. And it is his attempt to accomplish the “desperate task” that we propose to examine.


2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (03) ◽  
pp. 1350116 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. S. KAZARIN ◽  
A. MARTÍNEZ-PASTOR ◽  
M. D. PÉREZ-RAMOS

The paper considers the influence of Sylow normalizers, i.e. normalizers of Sylow subgroups, on the structure of finite groups. In the universe of finite soluble groups it is known that classes of groups with nilpotent Hall subgroups for given sets of primes are exactly the subgroup-closed saturated formations satisfying the following property: a group belongs to the class if and only if its Sylow normalizers do so. The paper analyzes the extension of this research to the universe of all finite groups.


2021 ◽  
Vol 81 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Araújo Filho ◽  
A. Yu. Petrov

AbstractThis paper is devoted to study the thermal aspects of a photon gas within the context of Planck-scale-modified dispersion relations. We study the spectrum of radiation and the correction to the Stefan–Boltzmann law in different cases when the Lorentz symmetry is no longer preserved. Explicitly, we examine two models within the context of CPT-even and CPT-odd sectors respectively. To do so, three distinct scenarios of the Universe are considered: the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), the electroweak epoch, and the inflationary era. Moreover, the equations of state in these cases turn out to display a dependence on Lorentz-breaking parameters. Finally, we also provide for both theories the analyses of the Helmholtz free energy, the mean energy, the entropy and the heat capacity.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Clarice Garcia Barbosa

O artigo procura refletir a partir da revolução realizada pelo Annales, em 1929, e o consequente alargamento do conceito de fonte histórica, a importância dos jornais diários para a reconstituição do cotidiano na pesquisa histórica. As relações de proximidade entre as áreas de História e Jornalismo autoriza seus usos possíveis. Para isso, faz-se um breve apanhado da história do movimento Annales, suas ideias, seus principais artífices, e o que representou este movimento para a ciência histórica. O seu antes e depois do Annales. Também se adentra o universo das pesquisas na área da Comunicação Social para extrair as opiniões a respeito desta relação e seus possíveis usos. Palavras-chave: Fontes históricas, Annales, Jornalismo, Cotidiano. AbstractThe article seeks to reflect from the revolution carried out by the Annales in 1929, and the consequent extension of the concept of historical source, the importance of the daily newspapers for the reconstitution of daily life in historical research. The relations of proximity between the areas of History and Journalism allows their possible uses. In order to do so, a brief survey of the history of the Annales movement, its ideas, its main architects, and what this movement for historical science represented. Its before and after the Annales. Also, the universe of research in the area of Social Communication goes to extract the opinions about this relation and its possible uses.Keywords: Historical sources, Annales, Journalism, Daily life.


Author(s):  
John Barnden

How, if at all, consciousness can be part of the physical universe remains a baffling problem. This article outlines a new, developing philosophical theory of how it could do so, and offers a preliminary mathematical formulation of a physical grounding for key aspects of the theory. Because the philosophical side has radical elements, so does the physical-theory side. The philosophical side is radical, first, in proposing that the productivity or dynamism in the universe that many believe to be responsible for its systematic regularities is actually itself a physical constituent of the universe, along with more familiar entities. It also proposes that instances of dynamism can themselves take part in physical interactions with other entities, this interaction then being “meta-dynamism” (a type of metacausation). Secondly, the theory is radical, and unique, in arguing that consciousness is necessarily partly constituted of meta-dynamic auto-sensitivity, in other words it must react via meta-dynamism to its own dynamism, and also in conjecturing that some specific form of this sensitivity is sufficient for and indeed constitutive of consciousness. This leads to a proposal for how physical laws could be modified to accommodate meta-dynamism, via the radical step of including elements that explicitly refer to dynamism itself.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Francisco Camêlo

Resumo: Propõe-se uma reflexão cruzada entre Walter Benjamin e Robert Walser, a partir de suas micrografias. Dentre os muitos objetos que colecionou durante a vida, Benjamin tinha especial apreço por livros infantis, miniaturas e brinquedos. Esse interesse pelo diminuto também se manifestava na extrema pequenez de sua letra e no desejo de chegar a cem linhas numa folha de carta de tamanho convencional, feito conseguido por Walser, que escrevia microtextos com uma grafia minúscula e sobre quem o próprio Benjamin redigiu um curtíssimo ensaio em 1929. Se, por um lado, a letra miniaturizada de Benjamin e de Walser aponta para um gesto de escrita que parece cifrar o conteúdo do texto, por outro lado, a micrografia de ambos diz do interesse mútuo de se esconder nas malhas textuais através de um apequenamento do eu pela escrita. Pode-se, ainda, aproximar a miniaturização da letra de uma estreita vinculação com o universo da infância, seja pelos personagens crianças e fracassados presentes na obra de Walser; seja pelo protagonismo que a infância como Denkbild (imagem de pensamento) assume nos escritos de Benjamin. A partir dessas afinidades eletivas, o artigo procura mostrar a miniaturização como um procedimento de escrita de Benjamin e de Walser através de paralelos entre suas micrografias e de comentários analítico-especulativos de ensaios de Benjamin e de contos de Walser.Palavras-chave: Walter Benjamin; Robert Walser; escrita; miniaturização, infância.Abstract: The article proposes a cross-reflection between Walter Benjamin and Robert Walser and finds its first intersection in the micrographs produced by them. Among the many objects collected during his lifetime, Benjamin seems to have had a special appreciation for children’s books, miniatures and toys. This interest in small items was also manifested in the extreme smallness of his handwriting and in the desire to write one hundred lines in a conventional-size paper – this last one achieved by Walser, who wrote microtexts in a miniscule handwriting and was also the subject of a short essay Benjamin wrote in 1929. If, on the one hand, the miniaturized handwritings of both Benjamin and Walser point to a manner of writing that seems to encrypt the content of texts, on the other hand, the micrographies constructed by both men state a mutual interest in hiding amongst the textual mesh through the suppression of the self in writing. One can, still, liken the miniaturized handwriting with the universe of childhood, be it by the character of the child or the character of the so-called underdog (both present in the works of Walser) or by the protagonism that a childhood-as-Denkbird (image of thought) assumes in Benjamin’s work. Based on these elective affinities, the article seeks to show the miniaturization as a writing procedure employed by both Benjamin and Walser, and it will do so by establishing parallels between the micrographs of the latter and the analytical-speculative commentaries present in Benjamin’s essays and in Walser’s tales.Keywords: Walter Benjamin; Robert Walser; writing; miniaturization; childhood.


1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Steel

In this paper we shall answer some questions in the set theory of L(ℝ), the universe of all sets constructible from the reals. In order to do so, we shall assume ADL(ℝ), the hypothesis that all 2-person games of perfect information on ω whose payoff set is in L(ℝ) are determined. This is by now standard practice. ZFC itself decides few questions in the set theory of L(ℝ), and for reasons we cannot discuss here, ZFC + ADL(ℝ) yields the most interesting “completion” of the ZFC-theory of L(ℝ).ADL(ℝ) implies that L(ℝ) satisfies “every wellordered set of reals is countable”, so that the axiom of choice fails in L(ℝ). Nevertheless, there is a natural inner model of L(ℝ), namely HODL(ℝ), which satisfies ZFC. (HOD is the class of all hereditarily ordinal definable sets, that is, the class of all sets x such that every member of the transitive closure of x is definable over the universe from ordinal parameters (i.e., “OD”). The superscript “L(ℝ)” indicates, here and below, that the notion in question is to be interpreted in L(R).) HODL(ℝ) is reasonably close to the full L(ℝ), in ways we shall make precise in § 1. The most important of the questions we shall answer concern HODL(ℝ): what is its first order theory, and in particular, does it satisfy GCH?These questions first drew attention in the 70's and early 80's. (See [4, p. 223]; also [12, p. 573] for variants involving finer notions of definability.)


1978 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 56-76
Author(s):  
Stuart Brown

My title advertizes a paradox. The characteristic complaint of the sceptic is that others make assumptions they are not entitled to make. A philosophical sceptic is committed to a systematic refusal to accept such assumptions in the absence of the kind of justification they think is required. A sceptic who, none the less, helps himself to such an assumption, seems to be caught in a paradoxical position. This is the kind of situation in which, it seems, certain eighteenth-century sceptical philosophers were placed in relation to the ‘principle’ of natural order. They did not doubt that there is such a principle, that there is a source or ultimate cause of the order to be found in the universe. And yet, on their own terms, is not the existence of such a principle something we should expect them to have doubted? What I shall try to do in this lecture is to bring out why they did not doubt the existence of such a principle and how serious their failure to do so is for their sceptical position.


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