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Papéis Normativos E Práticas Sociais
Agnes Ayres (1898-194): Rodolfo Valentino e Agnes Ayres em “The Sheik” (1921) The Donovan Affair (1929) The Affairs of Anatol (1921) The Rubaiyat of a Scotch Highball Broken Hearted (1929) Cappy Ricks (1921) (1918) Bye, Bye, Buddy (1929) Too Much Speed (1921) Their Godson (1918) Into the Night (1928) The Love Special (1921) Sweets of the Sour (1918) The Lady of Victories (1928) Forbidden Fruit (1921) Coals for the Fire (1918) Eve's Love Letters (1927) The Furnace (1920) Their Anniversary Feast (1918) The Son of the Sheik (1926) Held by the Enemy (1920) A Four Cornered Triangle (1918) Morals for Men (1925) Go and Get It (1920) Seeking an Oversoul (1918) The Awful Truth (1925) The Inner Voice (1920) A Little Ouija Work (1918) Her Market Value (1925) A Modern Salome (1920) The Purple Dress (1918) Tomorrow's Love (1925) The Ghost of a Chance (1919) His Wife's Hero (1917) Worldly Goods (1924) Sacred Silence (1919) His Wife Got All the Credit (1917) The Story Without a Name (1924) The Gamblers (1919) He Had to Camouflage (1917) Detained (1924) In Honor's Web (1919) Paging Page Two (1917) The Guilty One (1924) The Buried Treasure (1919) A Family Flivver (1917) Bluff (1924) The Guardian of the Accolade (1919) The Renaissance at Charleroi (1917) When a Girl Loves (1924) A Stitch in Time (1919) The Bottom of the Well (1917) Don't Call It Love (1923) Shocks of Doom (1919) The Furnished Room (1917) The Ten Commandments (1923) The Girl Problem (1919) The Defeat of the City (1917) The Marriage Maker (1923) Transients in Arcadia (1918) Richard the Brazen (1917) Racing Hearts (1923) A Bird of Bagdad (1918) The Dazzling Miss Davison (1917) The Heart Raider (1923) Springtime à la Carte (1918) The Mirror (1917) A Daughter of Luxury (1922) Mammon and the Archer (1918) Hedda Gabler (1917) Clarence (1922) One Thousand Dollars (1918) The Debt (1917) Borderland (1922) The Girl and the Graft (1918) Mrs. -
Count Down: Six Kids Vie for Glory at the World's Toughest Math
Count Down Six Kids Vie for Glory | at the World's TOUGHEST MATH COMPETITION STEVE OLSON author of MAPPING HUMAN HISTORY, National Book Award finalist $Z4- 00 ACH SUMMER SIX MATH WHIZZES selected from nearly a half million EAmerican teens compete against the world's best problem solvers at the Interna• tional Mathematical Olympiad. Steve Olson, whose Mapping Human History was a Na• tional Book Award finalist, follows the members of a U.S. team from their intense tryouts to the Olympiad's nail-biting final rounds to discover not only what drives these extraordinary kids but what makes them both unique and typical. In the process he provides fascinating insights into the creative process, human intelligence and learning, and the nature of genius. Brilliant, but defying all the math-nerd stereotypes, these athletes of the mind want to excel at whatever piques their cu• riosity, and they are curious about almost everything — music, games, politics, sports, literature. One team member is ardent about water polo and creative writing. An• other plays four musical instruments. For fun and entertainment during breaks, the Olympians invent games of mind-boggling difficulty. Though driven by the glory of winning this ultimate math contest, in many ways these kids are not so different from other teenagers, finding pure joy in indulging their personal passions. Beyond the Olympiad, Steve Olson sheds light on such questions as why Americans feel so queasy about math, why so few girls compete in the subject, and whether or not talent is innate. Inside the cavernous gym where the competition takes place, Count Down reveals a fascinating subculture and its engaging, driven inhabitants. -
Foundations of Computation, Version 2.3.2 (Summer 2011)
Foundations of Computation Second Edition (Version 2.3.2, Summer 2011) Carol Critchlow and David Eck Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Hobart and William Smith Colleges Geneva, New York 14456 ii c 2011, Carol Critchlow and David Eck. Foundations of Computation is a textbook for a one semester introductory course in theoretical computer science. It includes topics from discrete mathematics, automata the- ory, formal language theory, and the theory of computation, along with practical applications to computer science. It has no prerequisites other than a general familiarity with com- puter programming. Version 2.3, Summer 2010, was a minor update from Version 2.2, which was published in Fall 2006. Version 2.3.1 is an even smaller update of Version 2.3. Ver- sion 2.3.2 is identical to Version 2.3.1 except for a change in the license under which the book is released. This book can be redistributed in unmodified form, or in mod- ified form with proper attribution and under the same license as the original, for non-commercial uses only, as specified by the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Li- cense. (See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This textbook is available for on-line use and for free download in PDF form at http://math.hws.edu/FoundationsOfComputation/ and it can be purchased in print form for the cost of reproduction plus shipping at http://www.lulu.com Contents Table of Contents iii 1 Logic and Proof 1 1.1 Propositional Logic ....................... 2 1.2 Boolean Algebra ....................... -
The Development of Film Criticism in South Africa in the 1920S and 1930S
9820 ASM Film Critisism in CT.FH11 Mon Apr 11 11:18:57 2005 Page 1 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K This book examines the development of film criticism in Cape Towns daily press from 1928 to 1930, using film reviews from the newspapers the Cape Times and Die Burger. The character of film criticism in the period under discussion is explained by describing the general function of film criticism as well as comparing the local with the international film press. The basis for the comparative analysis is a list of films screened in three selected cinemas in Cape Town. Part of the analysis is an empirical study to examine the quantitative development of film reviews and a qualitative part, analyzing the content of selected film reviews. This book demonstrates that newspapers are the most valuable source for research concerning early South African film history. The existing standard reference, Thelma Gutsches The History and Social Significance of Motion Pictures in South Africa 1895-1940 can be fruitfully complemented by using Afrikaans newspapers, as well as Hans Rompels book Die Bioskoop in Diens van die Volk and other writings by this influential Afrikaner film critic. Michael Eckardt (*1974) studied Cultural, Media and Communication Studies in Weimar (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Durban and Stellenbosch (South Africa), gaining a degree in Cultural- and Media Studies from Bauhaus-University Weimar (Diplomkulturwissenschaftler) and graduated as Master of Philosophy (Journalism) at Stellenbosch University. His PhD-project aims to investigate the reception of Weimar Republic cinema in South Africa in the period 1928-1933. Michael Eckardt is a visiting scholar at Stellenbosch and Goettingen University. -
Notices of the American Mathematical Society Is Support, for Carrying out the Work of the Society
OTICES OF THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY 1989 Steele Prizes page 831 SEPTEMBER 1989, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 7 Providence, Rhode Island, USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings and Conferences This calendar lists all meetings which have been approved prior to Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices the date this issue of Notices was sent to the press. The summer which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be sub and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Associ mitted on special forms which are available in many departments of ation of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meet mathematics and from the headquarters office of the Society. Ab ing dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this stracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have been as at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on signed. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special have appeared in earlier issues. sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For Abstracts of papers presented at a meeting of the Society are pub additional information, consult the meeting announcements and the lished in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American list of organizers of special sessions. -
Number Systems
Number Systems PDF generated using the open source mwlib toolkit. See http://code.pediapress.com/ for more information. PDF generated at: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 02:39:37 UTC Contents Articles Two's complement 1 Ones' complement 10 Binary-coded decimal 14 Gray code 24 Hexadecimal 39 Octal 50 Binary number 55 References Article Sources and Contributors 70 Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors 72 Article Licenses License 73 Two's complement 1 Two's complement Two's complement is a mathematical operation on binary numbers, as well as a binary signed number representation based on this operation. The two's complement of an N-bit number is defined as the complement with respect to 2N, in other words the result of subtracting the number from 2N. This is also equivalent to taking the ones' complement and then adding one, since the sum of a number and its ones' complement is all 1 bits. The two's complement of a number behaves like the negative of the original number in most arithmetic, and positive and negative numbers can coexist in a natural way. In two's-complement representation, negative numbers are represented by the two's complement of their absolute value;[1] in general, negation (reversing the sign) is performed by taking the two's complement. This system is the most common method of representing signed integers on computers.[2] An N-bit two's-complement numeral system can represent every integer in the range −(2N − 1) to +(2N − 1 − 1) while ones' complement can only represent integers in the range −(2N − 1 − 1) to +(2N − 1 − 1). -
Omega: Chaitin's Demon
From SIAM News, Volume 39, Number 1, January/February 2006 Omega: Chaitin’s Demon Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega. By Gregory Chaitin, Pantheon Books, New York, 2005, 240 pages, $26.00. Problem: Name a book that combines mathematical history, philosophy, more than a whiff of theology, personal palaver, and brilliant insights, along with evidence of a Borges-like imagination, eyebrow-raising mathematical constructions, breathtaking excitement, grandiose ruminations, and some bosh. Solution: The book under review. This solution may not be unique, but with the addition of a side condition—that the book be a guide for readers seeking to learn where the oracular mathematical demon Omega resides—we certainly have uniqueness. We live in an age when some of our most brilliant scientists and mathematicians want to go beyond the confines of their disciplines as cur- rently pursued and create something revolutionary: one super-transcendental step for mankind, something meta, and, with an eye on sales, something sensational. Some years ago Gregory Chaitin, one of the stars at the IBM T.J. BOOK REVIEW Watson Research Center, defined a real number (or, more precisely, a construction, because a specific number Ω By Philip J. Davis emerges only after a Turing machine and an encoding have been arbitrarily selected) that he dubbed . Definition: Ω is the probability that a random program on a universal Turing machine will halt under the probability distribu- tion that a program of length k has probability 2 –k. In its ambiguity, Ω is something like the god Jupiter—now a swan, now a bull, depending on the opportunities available. -
Rescue Ship Hears Word from Nobile Western Farmers
RESCUE SHIP HEARS WORD FROM NOBILE Antis Hold Conference and For T mto Honrs Pacffic Avia- Cilia Di Milano Reports Re Radium Paint Inventor + • ^ ^ _ Plan Ways and Means to tors Battle Elements; TeD ceiving Faint Message; Stop Cabinet Candidate’s Has Disease Himself of Their Tronbles After “Franz” in Note fives wards—M esss^ C6m- Nomination. East Orange, N J., June 8 — (A The formula for the compound used in painting watch dials and Hint at Position. Radium poisoning, the dreaded other luminous objects was brought ing Fainter; Befieve Crew Kansas City, Mp., June 8— "Any malady which has baffled science, to this country by Dr. 'Yon Sos Rome. June 8— All Italy rejoiced body but Hoover— anything to stop has been contracted by Dr. S. A. hocky. He was formerly technical director of the U. S. Radium Cor Saving Rafio for Emer today over the official communique Hoover.” ’Yon Soschocky, scientist, physician and inventor of the luminous paint poration. He has also worked on a Under this banner the hard- issued by the Italia relief commit used on watch dials, in the opinion radium cure for cancer. ^ gencies; Weather Bnrean tee which stated that radio com pressed anti-Hoover Allies massed oi an attending physician. For eight years, it became known munication between the missims their forces today for a ^gantic ef Dr. 'Yon Soshocky, here, has re today. Dr. Von Soshocky has him self exhibited external symptoms of dirigible and the Citta. DiMilano fort to prevent the nomination of fused to discuss his own case or Warns Them Other Storms the peculiar malady and is required at King’s Bay, Spitzbergen, had the Cabinet candidate here next those of five women, former em ploys of th6 U. -
PRICES REALIZED DETAIL - Morris Everett, Jr
26662 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302 Tel: 310.859.7701 Fax: 310.859.3842 PRICES REALIZED DETAIL - Morris Everett, Jr. - Poster Auction - Part 1 Auction 76, Auction Date: 6/29/2015 LOT ITEM PRICE PREMIUM 1 CABIRIA ORIGINAL HALF-SHEET POSTER. $2,500 $500 2 MACISTE IN HELL (2) LOBBY CARDS, INCLUDING TITLE-LOBBY CARD. $600 $120 3 THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (2) LOBBY CARDS. $750 $150 4 UNDINE (7) VERTICAL LOBBY CARDS FOR THE FIRST KNOWN MERMAID $1,900 $380 FANTASY FILM. 5 DIRECTOR WILLIS O’BRIEN LOBBY CARD FOR THE GHOST OF SLUMBER $4,000 $800 MOUNTAIN. 6 PAUL WEGENER LOBBY CARD FOR THE GOLEM. $5,500 $1,100 7 CONRAD VEIDT LOBBY CARD FOR THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. $5,000 $1,000 8 JOHN BARRYMORE LOBBY CARD FOR DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE. $1,000 $200 9 DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE LOBBY CARD. $400 $80 10 A MESSAGE FROM MARS (3) LOBBY CARDS. $425 $85 11 THE MISTRESS OF THE WORLD (4) LOBBY CARDS. $400 $80 12 WALLACE REID INSERT POSTER FOR THE GHOST BREAKER. $400 $80 13 DIRECTOR MAURICE TOURNEUR (6) LOBBY CARDS FOR THE BRASS BOTTLE, $650 $130 INCLUDING TITLE-LOBBY CARD. 14 QUO VADIS TITLE-LOBBY CARD. $1,000 $200 15 THE WIZARD OF OZ LOBBY CARD. $9,000 $1,800 16 SHE TITLE-LOBBY CARD. $750 $150 Page 1 of 70 26662 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302 Tel: 310.859.7701 Fax: 310.859.3842 PRICES REALIZED DETAIL - Morris Everett, Jr. - Poster Auction - Part 1 Auction 76, Auction Date: 6/29/2015 LOT ITEM PRICE PREMIUM 18 SHE (3) LOBBY CARDS. -
Complete Issue 22, 2000
Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal Issue 22 Article 18 4-1-2000 Complete Issue 22, 2000 Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj Recommended Citation (2000) "Complete Issue 22, 2000," Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal: Iss. 22, Article 18. Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss22/18 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Claremont at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ISSN 1 065-82 Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal Issue #22 April2000 STRUCTURAL SOCIO- LANGUAGE LINGUISTICS LINGUISTICS PEDAGOGY t '. ~ ~ MATHEMATICS __.. META- __.. MATHEMATICS MATHEMATICS EDUCATION In this issue... • What We Say, What Our Students Hear: A Case for Active Listening (p. 1) • Coherence in Theories Relating Mathematics and Language (p. 32) INVITATION TO AUTHORS EDITOR Essays, book reviews, syllabi, poetry, and letters are wel- Alvin White comed. Your essay should have a title, your name and ad- Harvey Mudd College dress, e-mail address, and a brief summary of content. In addition, your telephone number (not for publication) ASSOCIATE EDITORS would be helpful. Susan Addington If possible, avoid footnotes; put references and bibliogra- California State University, San Bernadino phy at the end of the text, using a consistent style. Please put all figures on separate sheets of paper at the end of the Stephen Brown text, with annotations as to where you would like them to State University of New York, Buffalo fit within the text; these should be original photographs, or drawn in dark ink. -
Guide to the Motion Picture Stills Collection 1920-1934
University of Chicago Library Guide to the Motion Picture Stills Collection 1920-1934 © 2006 University of Chicago Library Table of Contents Descriptive Summary 3 Information on Use 3 Access 3 Citation 3 Scope Note 3 Related Resources 5 Subject Headings 5 INVENTORY 6 Series I: Actors and Actresses 6 Series II: Motion Picture Stills 171 Series III: Scrapbooks 285 Subseries 1: Scrapbooks; Individual Actors and Actresses 285 Subseries 2: Miscellaneous Scrapbooks 296 Series IV: Vitaphone Stills 297 Series V: Large Film Stills and Marquee Cards 300 Series VI: Coming Attractions, Glass Lantern Slides 302 Series VII: Duplicate Film Stills 302 Series VIII: Index Cards 302 Descriptive Summary Identifier ICU.SPCL.MOTIONPICTURE Title Motion Picture Stills. Collection Date 1920-1934 Size 87.5 linear feet (139 boxes) Repository Special Collections Research Center University of Chicago Library 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 U.S.A. Abstract Contains approximately 30,000 black and white photographs of movie stills, production shots, and portrait photographs of actors. Includes 8" x 10" photographs, 187 scrapbooks devoted to individual film stars, marquee cards, and glass lantern slides announcing coming attractions from Pathe and other movie studios. Information on Use Access No restrictions. Citation When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Motion Picture Stills. Collection, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library Scope Note The Motion Picture Stills Collection features a group of approximately 30,000 black and white photographs of movie stills, production shots, and portrait photographs of actors. The first half of this collection consists of these 8" x 10" photographs. -
Part I: 1865-1898
MATHEMATICS AT CORNELL MATHEMATICS AT CORNELL: STORIES AND CHARACTERS, 1865—1965 PART I: 1865-1898 PART I: 1865—1898, THE FIRST THIRTY YEARS PREAMBLE CHAPTER I: BEFORE CORNELL, 1800—1867 I.1 THREE EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS I.2 SCIENCE AND EDUCATION IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE 1870 I.3 THE FOUNDERS CHAPTER II: THE EARLY YEARS, 1868—1878 II.1 THE OPENING OF CORNELL II.2 THE DEPARTMENT OF E.W. EVANS, Z.H. POTTER AND H.T. EDDY II.3 THE DEPARTMENT OF J.E. OLIVER, G.W. JONES AND L.A. WAIT II.4 THE FIRST STUDENTS CHAPTER III: TRANSITION, 1879—1887 III.1 JAMES EDWARD OLIVER (ALMOST SACKED) III.2 ABRAM ROGER BULLIS (1854—1928) III.3 ARTHUR STAFFORD HATHAWAY (1858—1934) III.4 THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY III.5 TOWARDS A GRADUATE PROGRAM INTERMEZZO: ROLLIN ARTHUR HARRIS (1863—1918) CHAPTER IV: THE BIRTH OF THE GRADUATE PROGRAM, 1888—1898 IV.1 THE RISE OF A COMMUNITY IV.2 GÖTTINGEN AND THE MATHEMATICAL CLUB IV.3 THE DEATHS OF JAMES OLIVER AND ERNST RITTER IV.4 MATHEMATICS AND CORNELL’S FOUNDING IDEAS MATHEMATICS AT CORNELL The Ithaca Journal, January 1st 18281 Beneath our feet the village lies, Above, around, on either side Improvements greet us far and wide. Here Eddy’s factory appears, First of the hardy pioneers. Yes, Ithaca, where from this brow I gaze around upon you, now I see you not as first I knew. Your dwellings, humble, how and few, Your chimney smokes I then could count; But now my eyes cannot surmount The splendid walls that meet the eye And mock my early memory.