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Stein Estimation and Model Selection
This thesis attempts to use Stein type estimators for statistical model selection purposes. First, a parameter truncation criterion developed in conjunction with the new Stein estimator (Stein, 1981) is used in an orthonormal linear statistical model setting, as a basis for simultaneously selecting …
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Gertrude Stein and the Modern Theatre
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The symplectic topology of Stein manifolds
Exotic Stein manifolds are Stein manifolds diffeomorphic to JR2 k which cannot be embedded symplectically into the Stein manifold <r:,k. In this thesis we prove two results about exotic Stein manifolds. The first result shows us that in each complex dimension > 2, there exists an exotic Stein …
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Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language
Tine Melzer: Ludwig Wittgenstein & Gertrude Stein – Meeting in Language The purpose of this study is to show transitions between verbal and visual meaning in ordinary language, based on philosophical concepts and conceptual artworks. It offers models for artistic research and collaboration in arts …
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Lorenz Stein and German Socialism 1835-1872
… traces the intellectual trajectory of Lorenz Stein (1815-1890), a German legal scholar and political thinker who, despite being a significant theorist during his lifetime, is an obscure figure today, especially in Anglophone scholarship. It focuses on Stein’s writings on socialism and argues …
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Good Stein Neighborhood Bases for Nonsmooth Pseudoconvex Domains
… Dufresnoy showed that the existence of a good Stein neighborhood base for Ω ⊂ℂⁿ implies that one can solve the inhomogeneous Cauchy-Riemann equations in C^∞(Ω̄), even if the boundary of Ω is only Lipschitz. In my thesis, I will show sufficient conditions for the existence of a good Stein …
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Gertrude Stein, spatial form, and prose poetry : how Stein uses the linguistic hybridity of prose poetry to present space as process
… indebted to the formal experiments of Gertrude Stein, can be used to stage space as a flux of becoming. It investigates the dynamics of this kind of prose poetry through critical reflections on my own creative practice as it has developed out of a close analysis of Stein’s poetic innovations. My …
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Edith Stein: Toward an Ethic of Relationship and Responsibility
The philosopher Edith Stein (1891-1942) never set down formally an ethical plan. However, in Stein's professional and personal texts, "ethic" is defined as a harmonious matching of internal thoughts and beliefs with external actions, while always moving toward truth. This dissertation seeks to …
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Discursive departures: A reading paradigm affiliated with feminist, lesbian, aesthetic and queer practices (with reference to Woolf, Stein and H.D.) (Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Hilda Doolittle)
… Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography and Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas—as a way to examine some manifestations of feminist, lesbian, and aesthetic reading practices. In this section I will argue that feminist and lesbian readings tend to produce, respectively, feminist and …
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Existing off the Map: Reading Stein and Barnes as Hybrid Architects
… movement and, more specifically, to Gertrude Stein's <i>The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas</i> and Djuna Barnes's <i>Nightwood</i>. The notion of hybridity, however, has remained largely absent from published works about these texts. This project seeks to uncover hybrid elements from these …
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Bithoracochaeta Stein, 1911 (Diptera, Muscidae): revisão das espécies e análise cladística
Bithoracochaeta Stein, 1911 differs from the others Neotropical Coenosiinae by the presence of three very long bristles on the middle of the anterodorsal, anteroventral and posterodorsal surfaces of hind tibia some species have an additional bristle on the posteroventral surface and by the …
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Die philosophische Begründung einer Theorie von Individuum, Gemeinschaft und Staat bei Edith Stein
Das Ziel der Arbeit ist, Edith Stein als philosophische Stimme in der aktuellen Diskussion um die Begründung von Menschenwürde, um die Beziehung von Philosophie und Naturwissenschaften am Beispiel der Auseinandersetzung der Neurophilosophie mit der Gehirn-Geist bzw. Leib-Seele-Problematik und um …
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Advances in approximate inference: combining VI and MCMC and improving on Stein discrepancy
… we shift our focus to a promising future: Stein discrepancy, which greatly expands the choice of approximating distributions compared to the Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. We aim to improve on it by addressing the well-known curse-of-dimensionality problem of its scalable variant: …
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