A minimalist approach to roots

2014 ◽  
pp. 287-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Phoevos Panagiotidis
Keyword(s):  
Minimalist Approach

The Gender Troubles of Feofan Prokopovich

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 198-228
Author(s):  
Gary Marker
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Contrast ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Dual Codes ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Holy Women ◽  
Gender Trouble

Abstract This essay constitutes a close reading of the works of Feofan Prokopovich that touch upon gender and womanhood. Interpretively it is informed by Judith Butler’s book Gender Trouble, specifically by her model of gender-as-performance. Prokopovich’s writings conveyed a negative characterization of holy women and Russian women of power, a combination of glaring silences and Scholastic dual codes that in toto denied the association of womanhood with glory or wisdom. In this he stood apart from other East Slavic Orthodox homilists of his day, even though they too invariably associated virtue with masculinity (muzhestvo). For Prokopovich, wisdom, strength, constancy, etc., were innately masculine. Women, by contrast, were weak, inconstant, non-rational, and guided by emotion. His sermons nominally in praise of Catherine I and Anna Ioannovna were suffused with narrative gestures that, to those attuned to the nuances of Scholastic rhetoric, ran entirely counter to their nominal message. Several panegyrics to Anna, for example, made no mention of her at all, a practice in sharp contrast to his sermons to male rulers, which typically placed the honoree firmly in the foreground. Even more startling is his singularly minimalist approach to Mary, for whom he composed almost no sermons and whose presence he barely mentioned in tracts where one would have expected otherwise. This essay concludes that this attitude reflected both his personal preferences and influence that Protestant Pietism had on his thinking.

scholarly journals B-PO02-115 MINIMALIST APPROACH TO HYBRID ABLATION FOR ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: FEASIBILITY & EFFICACY OF UNILATERAL EPICARDIAL ACCESS

Heart Rhythm ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. S144
Author(s):  
Terrence Pong ◽  
Rajan L. Shah ◽  
Cody Carlton ◽  
Angeline Truong ◽  
Kevin Cyr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Atrial Fibrillation ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Hybrid Ablation ◽  
Epicardial Access

scholarly journals Construct Validity in Software Engineering

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dag Sjøberg ◽  
Gunnar Bergersen
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Construct Validity ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Minimalist Approach ◽  
Unbiased Manner ◽  
Statistical Conclusion

Empirical research aims to establish generalizable claims from data. Such claims involve concepts that often must be measured indirectly by using indicators. Construct validity is concerned with whether one can justifiably make claims at the conceptual level that are supported by results at the operational level. We report a quantitative analysis of the awareness of construct validity in the software engineering literature between 2000 and 2019 and a qualitative review of 83 articles about human-centric experiments published in five high-quality journals between 2015 and 2019. Over the two decades, the appearance in the literature of the term construct validity increased sevenfold. Some of the reviewed articles we reviewed employed various ways to ensure that the indicators span the concept in an unbiased manner. We also found articles that reuse formerly validated constructs. However, the articles disagree about how to define construct validity. Several interpret construct validity excessively by including threats to internal, external, or statistical conclusion validity. A few articles also include fundamental challenges of a study, such as cheating and misunderstandings of experiment material. The diversity of topics discussed makes us recommend a minimalist approach to construct validity. We propose seven guidelines to establish a common ground for addressing construct validity in software engineering.

scholarly journals Geometry of resource interaction and Taylor–Ehrhard–Regnier expansion: a minimalist approach

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 667-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCO SOLIERI
Keyword(s):  
Programming Languages ◽  
Infinite Series ◽  
Normal Forms ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Simple Geometry ◽  
Minimalist Approach

The resource λ-calculus is a variation of the λ-calculus where arguments are superpositions of terms and must be linearly used; hence, it is a model for linear and non-deterministic programming languages. Moreover, it is the target language of the Taylor–Ehrhard–Regnier expansion of λ-terms, a linearisation of the λ-calculus which develops ordinary terms into infinite series of resource terms. In a strictly typed restriction of the resource λ-calculus, we study the notion of path persistence, and define a remarkably simple geometry of resource interaction (GoRI) that characterises it. In addition, GoRI is invariant under reduction and counts addends in normal forms. We also analyse expansion on paths in ordinary terms, showing that reduction commutes with expansion and, consequently, that persistence can be transferred back and forth between a path and its expansion. Lastly, we also provide an expanded counterpart of the execution formula, which computes paths as series of objects of GoRI; thus, exchanging determinism and conciseness for linearity and simplicity.

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