A Widow’s Weeds

This chapter examines the death of Frederick V on November 29, 1632. Where her brother Charles appears to believe that Elizabeth's widowhood effectively returned her to the Stuart family, Elizabeth claims the opposite: her letter suggests that while as a Stuart her wishes naturally accord with her brother's commands, she must deny both on account of familial obligation of a more pressing kind, that due to her children. Now a widow, Elizabeth's position was under threat. With Frederick dead, she had to remind her supporters that she was Queen of Bohemia yet. Now more than ever, Elizabeth had to fight to both re-assert and maintain her own agency as she would now take control of the Palatine government-in-exile. As her son's regent, her prime task was to ensure that there was still an Electorship for Charles Louis to accede to when he reached his majority in December of 1635. Now alone, Elizabeth was mistress of her own destiny and that of her children, and she felt that she had more power desk-bound in The Hague than she would in the gilded cage of the Stuart court. Only there could she wield her most potent weapon, her secretariat, a weapon she had been developing for several years.

Emotion Detection Using Deep Learning Algorithm

Automatic emotion detection is a prime task in computerized human behaviour analysis. The proposed system is an automatic emotion detection using convolution neural network. The proposed end-to-end CNN is therefore named as ENet. Keeping in mind the computational efficiency, the deep network makes use of trained weight parameters of the MobileNet to initialize the weight parameters of ENet. On top of the last convolution layer of ENet, the authors place global average pooling layer to make it independent of the input image size. The ENet is validated for emotion detection using two benchmark datasets: Cohn-Kanade+ (CK+) and Japanese female facial expression (JAFFE). The experimental results show that the proposed ENet outperforms the other existing methods for emotion detection.

Study of Sexual Dimorphism in the Closure of Sagittal Suture – A Postmortem Study

Background: Performing identity is a prime task in medicolegal and postmortem examinations. Age is the first parameter that has to be determined followed by sex. There are several techniques through which sex can be determined. As well there are different anatomical, physiological and pathological parameters determination of sex. Aim: To determine the sexual dimorphism in the cranial sagittal suture closure macroscopically. Methods: All the cases for this purpose had been selected from those brought for autopsy in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, King Edward Medical University Lahore during the year 2016. Results: The statistical analysis revealed early closure in males than in females both ectocranially and endocranially with advancing age in the sagittal suture of cranial vault. The p value was found significant being less than 0.05 thereby establishing the fact that sexual dimorphism in the cranial sagittal suture exists. Conclusion: Conclusively the determination of sex is possible from the pattern of Cranial Sutures closure on autopsy table. Key words: Sex, Sagittal, Suture, Cranial

The Problem of the Relationship between Apperception, Self-Consciousness and Consciousness in Kant’s Critical Philosophy

Kant does not provide clear-cut definitions of apperception, consciousness, and self-consciousness and everywhere uses these terms as synonyms, which creates the problem of the relationship between these faculties. The importance of this problem stems from the colossal significance of each of the above-mentioned faculties which are intimately connected with Kant’s formulation of the key tasks of transcendental philosophy. The prime task is to discover the categories of understanding and to prove the legitimacy of their use, a task that is further complicated by the difference between the editions of the Critique of Pure Reason in terms of the argumentation in the section on the deduction of categories and Kant’s concept of apperception. Accordingly, the author seeks to clarify the purpose of each of the above-mentioned faculties and to establish their inter-relationship. To this end the author analyses the functional roles of consciousness, self-consciousness and apperception in solving the main tasks of the first Critique. It turns out that consciousness is a reflexive cognitive capacity which provides access to representations in our soul and allows us to distinguish them and to connect them. Self-consciousness is the mode of the functioning of consciousness which makes it possible to study three objects of consciousness: internal and external representations of the subject, the synthetic activity of understanding and our soul. Apperception is the Latin synonym of the concept of Selbstbewußtsein and is aimed at studying the unity of our representations. Because Kant distinguishes multiple kinds of unity, there are different names for apperception. Kant uses the concept of Apperzeption as a synonym of self-consciousness because his concept of consciousness follows the Leibniz-Wolffian tradition.

The Development of The Unesco World Heritage Area in Pécs

The World Heritage of Pécs is the most valuable historical relic in the city. The conservation, presentation and continuous development is significant. The significant parts of the area are: the Cella Septichora, the Old Christian Mausoleum and the crypts in Apáca Street. Through the design process our prime task is the restoration and expansion of the former development in 2006. The study focuses on creating the Cella Septichora concept.

Social relativism

People in different societies have very different beliefs and systems of belief. To understand such diversity is a prime task of the student of society. The task is especially pressing when alien beliefs seem obviously mistaken, unreasonable or otherwise peculiar. A popular response is social relativism. Perhaps beliefs which seem mistaken, unreasonable or peculiar viewed from our perspective, are by no means mistaken, unreasonable or peculiar viewed from the perspective of the society in which they occur. Different things are not just thought true (reasonable, natural) in different societies – rather, they are true (reasonable, natural) in different societies. Relativism recognizes diversity and deals with it even-handedly. Relativism has absurd results. Consider the view that what is true in society A need not be true in society B. So if society A believes in witches while society B does not, there are witches in A but not in B. Relativism regarding truth drives us to different ‘worlds’, one with witches in it and another without. This seems absurd: people who live in different societies do not in any literal sense live in different worlds. The challenge is to do justice to social diversity without falling into absurdities such as this.

Research on Models of Technology Innovation Systemic Risk and Early Warning of Materials and Manufacturing in SMEs

The prime task for limiting SMEs’ technology innovation systemic risks in materials and manufacturing is to exactly measure and warn the systemic risks.Before the SMEs’ technology innovation crisis in materials and manufacturing ,most of the research focused on how the macro economy shocked the l system,while few of them were interested in the correlation between and among different sectors and markets.This article tried to analyze the latest development of systemic risk measuring method based on the data the models needed,especially for the correlation measurement.

Promoting Hybridity: The Politics of the New Macau Identity

This article traces the unique process of reconstructing the identity of the Macau Special Administrative Region and its people after the political resumption to China in 1999, and the political and economic significance of the reconstruction. As in other postcolonial contexts, identity is an arena of political contest where various discourses that embody re-appropriation of political traditions and legacies criss-cross. In Macau, the post-handover identity comprises the local, the national and the international components, with Macau characterized as a historical, colonial/cultural hybrid and economic object. In fact, the Macau identity after 1999 represents a re-appropriation of the image of colonial Macau propagated by the Portuguese administration since the 1980s. Also, identity making has been a process of incorporating instead of repressing or eliminating the identities of “the other,” and building a stand-alone national identity is not the prime task in the reconstruction of an identity. Rather, multiple identity components are deliberately incorporated and promoted. The success of the process has fabricated Macau's relatively smooth reintegration with China and enhanced the legitimacy of its new government.