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The Intellectual Organisation of History
A tradition of scholarship discusses the characteristics of different areas of knowledge, in particular after modern academia compartmentalized them into disciplines. The academic approach is often put to question: are there two or more cultures? Is an ever-increasing specialization the only way to cope with information abundance or are holistic ...
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The Hopeless University: Intellectual Work at the End of the End of History
The University is being explicitly restructured for the production, circulation and accumulation of value, materialised in the form of rents and surpluses on operating activities.
R. Hall
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A Python package for fast GPU‐based proton pencil beam dose calculation
Abstract Purpose Open‐source GPU‐based Monte Carlo (MC) proton dose calculation algorithms provide high speed and unparalleled accuracy but can be complex to integrate with new applications and remain slower than GPU‐based pencil beam (PB) methods, which sacrifice some physical accuracy for sub‐second plan calculation.
Mahasweta Bhattacharya+4 more
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Lokomotive Zwei Neun Drei – Marxismus, Historiographie und Fortschrittsparadigma
Marxism and the idea of ‚progress‘ have been closely interrelated in the course of the last 150 years. I argue that this relation was, however, less clear-cut and one-dimensional than those reflected in critical appraisals hitherto of the notion of ...
David Mayer
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A Changing Dichotomy: The Conception of the "Macroscopic" and "Microscopic" Worlds in the History of Physics [PDF]
This short essay traces the conceptual history of micro- and macroscopicity in the context of physical science. By focusing on three distinct episodes spanning five centuries, we show the scientific and philosophical meanings of this antonym pair, despite never being far from "the small" and "the large," have been evolving as the frontier of science ...
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Classical Thought in Newton's General Scholium [PDF]
Isaac Newton, in popular imagination the Ur-scientist, was an outstanding humanist scholar. His researches on, among others, ancient philosophy, are thorough and appear to be connected to and fit within his larger philosophical and theological agenda.
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Abstract The establishment of guidelines and curriculum standards for medical physics residency training is a critical component of setting expectations and competencies for the profession. Since the last publication of these standards, residency training has become integrated into the eligibility criteria for most medical physics certification bodies.
Jonathon A. Nye+16 more
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Sunbeam: A Ray of Hope for Trademark Licensees [PDF]
In the 1985 decision Lubrizol Enterprises v. Richmond Metal Finishers, the Fourth Circuit established that a licensor’s rejection of an intellectual property license under § 365 of the U.S.
Gabay, Ryan
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Illustriousness in the farmhouse villa: reading virtue from a Flemish-Veronese merchant family's history [PDF]
The Italian nobility has a long history tied to landownership, a dynamic example of which lies in the history of Verona from the late sixteenth century.
Dewhirst, Catherine
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Isaac Thuret: celebrated craftsman denied intellectual credit [PDF]
The Scientific Revolution sweeping through seventeenth-century Europe led to unprecedented intellectual and scientific insights and high-profile technological developments. Combined with a significant worldwide increase in naval commerce, solving the intractable "longitude problem" became an ever more urgent requirement for the continent's main sea ...
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