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Chapter On the optimal weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
We work out the optimization problem, initiated by K. Soundararajan, for the choice of the underlying polynomialused in the construction of the weight function in the Goldston–Pintz–Yıldırım method for finding small gaps ...
Chapter 8 Classifiers
(2012)
Classifiers (currently also called ‘depicting handshapes’), are observed in almost all sign languages studied to date and form a well-researched topic in sign language linguistics. Yet, these elements are still subject to ...
Chapter 39 Ethnolects of Dutch
(2013)
In this chapter I discuss the different ethnolects that exist in the Netherlandic-speaking language context. It is convenient, but not entirely accurate, to define these simply as ethnic varieties of Dutch, on a par with ...
Chapter 6 Optogenetic actuation, inhibition, modulation and readout for neuronal networks generating behavior in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
(2013)
Elucidating the mechanisms by which nervous systems process information and generate behavior is among the fundamental problems of biology. The complexity of our brain and plasticity of our behaviors make it challenging ...
Chapter Measures of Pseudorandomness
(2013)
In the second half of the 1990s Christian Mauduit and András Sárközy [86] introduced a new quantitative theory of pseudorandomness of binary sequences. Since then numerous papers have been written on this subject and the ...
Chapter Some new results on gaps between consecutive primes
(2013)
The paper presents a brief history of results about small gaps between con¬secutive primes and mentions some recent results of the author, in some cases only with a sketch of the main ideas, in some cases with detailed proofs
Chapter 3 Challenges and opportunities for optochemical genetics
(2013)
The transmembrane proteins that underlie neural processing are now known at a level of detail that has greatly increased our understanding of these sophisticated molecular machines. Starting with MacKinnon’s seminal structure ...
Chapter On a theorem of Erdős and Simonovits on graphs not containing the cube
(2013)
Turán graph problem; bipartite extremal graphs; cube graph
Greek Medical Papyri Text, Context, Hypertext
(2019)
This volume, authored by outstanding papyrologists and historians of ancient medicine, deals with topics focused on the papyrological evidence of ancient medical texts and contexts. The first part contains some new reflections ...
Inscriptions of the Aulikaras and Their Associates
(2019)
The Aulikaras were the rulers of western Malwa (the northwest of Central India) in the heyday of the Imperial Guptas in the fifth century CE, and rose briefly to sovereignty at the beginning of the sixth century before ...
Goethe’s Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty
(2019)
This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe’s Faust and Ḥāfiẓ’ Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks ...
Staging Doubt Skepticism in Early Modern European Drama
(2019)
This volume considers the influential revival of ancient philosophical skepticism in the 16th and early 17th centuries and investigates, from a comparative perspective, its reception in early modern English, Spanish and ...
Volksschauspiele Genese einer kulturgeschichtlichen Formation
(2019)
Many types of works are characterized as folk plays: the peasant play, the passion play, the knightly drama, the tradition play, the mass festival, the anti-folk play, and the social drama. This book reconstructs the ...
Theater as Metaphor
(2019)
The papers of the present volume investigate the potential of the metaphor of life as theater for literary, philosophical, juridical and epistemological discourses from the Middle Ages through modernity, and focusing on ...
Healing Magic and Evil Demons. Canonical Udug-hul Incantations
(2015)
This book brings together ancient manuscripts of the large compendium of Mesopotamian exorcistic incantations known as Udug.hul (Utukku Lemnutu), directed against evil demons, ghosts, gods, and other demonic malefactors ...
L’historiographie tardo-antique et la transmission des savoirs
(2015)
This volume focuses on the role played by historiography in the selection, processing and transmission of knowledge in Late Antiquity. In particular, the transmission of documents (civil and ecclesiastical, authentic and ...
History and Religion: Narrating a Religious Past
(2015)
This volume is the first systematic scholarly study that analyses the complex relationship between history and religion. It considers religious groups as both producers of historical narratives and topics of historiography. ...
In the Wake of the Compendia
(2015)
In the Wake of the Compendia examines the composition of technical literature in the ancient Semitic-speaking world. Compendia on astrology, magic, medicine, lexicography, and alchemy were composed in several languages and ...
L'harmonie des Sirènes du pythagorisme ancien à Platon
(2015)
The Pythagorean theory of the "Harmony of the Spheres" has been influential in the history of philosophy and science. While much ink has been spilt over its scientific implications, its mythological formulation has not yet ...
Men in the Middle. Local Priests in Early Medieval Europe
(2016)
This volume studies local priests as central players in small communities of early medieval Europe. On the one hand, manuscript evidence shows their knowledge, expertise and potential to teach, whereas charter collections ...