In Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, Timothy Raylor, points to anomalies in what has become the received wisdom about Thomas Hobbes's understanding of the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. Quentin S...
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In Philosophy, Rhetoric, and Thomas Hobbes, Timothy Raylor, points to anomalies in what has become the received wisdom about Thomas Hobbes's understanding of the relation between philosophy and rhetoric. Quentin Skinner, whose Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes (1996) is canonical, in From Humanism to Hobbes (2018, 1-2), restates his basic assumption, that 'by "humanism" and "the humanities", I am simply referring to a specific academic curriculum widely followed in the grammar schools and universities of early modern England' Raylor asserts, 'Hobbes's understanding of rhetoric [w]as, from the first, Aristotelian rather than Ciceronian'. But for Raylor to secure his case we need to know more about the distribution of knowledge in early modern England, which could not simply be read off from the heavily Ciceronian educational curriculum. Raylor does not discuss the English scientific MS culture of the seventeenth century, the late medieval Arabic into Latin translation movement to which it is indebted, or its impact on the circles to which Hobbes belonged, his mathematics or optics, or the atomism of the Cavendish and Mersenne circles. This essay is designed to make up some of this deficit.
Detecting large animals on roadways using automated systems such as robots or vehicles is a vital task. This can be achieved using conventional tools such as ultrasonic sensors, or with innovative technology based on ...
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Detecting large animals on roadways using automated systems such as robots or vehicles is a vital task. This can be achieved using conventional tools such as ultrasonic sensors, or with innovative technology based on smart cameras. In this paper, we investigate a vision-based solution. We begin the paper by performing a comparative study between three detectors: 1) Haar-AdaBoost;2) histogram of oriented gradient (HOG)-AdaBoost;and 3) local binary pattern (LBP)-AdaBoost, which were initially developed to detect humans and their faces. These detectors are implemented, evaluated, and compared to each other in terms of accuracy and processing time. Based on our evaluation and comparison results, we design a two-stage architecture which outperforms the aforementioned detectors. The proposed architecture detects candidate regions of interest using LBP-AdaBoost in the first stage, which offers robustness to false positives in real-time conditions. The second stage is based on support vector machine classifiers that were trained using HOG features. The training data are generated from our novel dataset called large animal dataset, which contains common and thermographic images of large road-animals. We emphasize that no such public dataset currently exists.
The distribution of trace cadium and mercury ions between Dowex-1 strong base anion exchanger, and solutions of hydrochloric acid, lithium chloride and bromide and sodium chloride, bromide and iodide has been measured...
The distribution of trace cadium and mercury ions between Dowex-1 strong base anion exchanger, and solutions of hydrochloric acid, lithium chloride and bromide and sodium chloride, bromide and iodide has been measured. Resin ligand activity functions for these electrolyte-resin systems were obtained and used to show that the predominant complex species in both solution and resin, over the halide concentration range one M to saturation, is the tetrahalide. Only in hydrochloric acid (but not in hydrobromic acid) is there evidence for other species, which may be the undissociated acids, as suggested in the literature. The results for the other electrolytes indicate the validity of the effective ligand activity concept also in bromide and iodide solutions.
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