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Free Download Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism, Volume 2: A Weak Nature Alone By Adrian Johnston
2019 | 408 Pages | ISBN: 0810140624 | PDF | 2 MB
Adrian Johnston’s trilogy Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism aims to forge a thoroughly materialist yet antireductive theory of subjectivity. In this second volume, A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston focuses on the philosophy of nature required for such a theory. This volume is guided by a fundamental question: How must nature be rethought so that human minds and freedom do not appear to be either impossible or inexplicable within it? Asked differently: How must the natural world itself be structured such that sapient subjects in all their distinctive peculiarities emerged from and continue to exist within this world? In A Weak Nature Alone, Johnston develops his transcendental materialist account of nature through engaging with and weaving together five main sources of inspiration: Hegelian philosophy, Marxist materialism, Freudian-Lacanian metapsychology, Anglo-American analytic neo-Hegelianism, and evolutionary theory and neurobiology. Johnston argues that these seemingly (but not really) strange bedfellows should be brought together so as to construct a contemporary ontology of nature. Through this ontology, nonnatural human subjects can be seen to arise in an immanent, bottom-up fashionfrom nature itself.

Free Download Richard L. Wheeden Eric T. Sawyer, "Holder Continuity of Weak Solutions to Subelliptic Equations With Rough Coefficients"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0821838261 | DJVU | pages: 176 | 1.5 mb
We study interior regularity of weak solutions of second order linear divergence form equations with degenerate ellipticity and rough coefficients. In particular, we show that solutions of large classes of subelliptic equations with bounded measurable coefficients are Hölder continuous. We present two types of results dealing with such equations. The first type generalizes the celebrated Fefferman-Phong geometric characterization of subellipticity in the smooth case. We introduce a notion of $L^q$-subellipticity for the rough case and develop an axiomatic method which provides a near characterization of the notion of $L^q$-subellipticity. The second type deals with generalizing a case of Hörmanders’s celebrated algebraic characterization of subellipticity for sums of squares of real analytic vector fields. In this case, we introduce a "flag condition" as a substitute for the Hörmander commutator condition which turns out to be equivalent to it in the smooth case! . The question of regularity for quasilinear subelliptic equations with smooth coefficients provides motivation for our study, and we briefly indicate some applications in this direction, including degenerate Monge-Ampère equations.

Free Download Ultra-Weak Photon Emission from Biological Systems: Endogenous Biophotonics and Intrinsic Bioluminescence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031390776 | 511 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 161 MB
This book addresses the phenomenon of biological autoluminescence (also known as ultraweak photon emission, UPE, biochemiluminescence, or biophotons) and deals with a very broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from basic observational studies to molecular mechanisms, free-radical processes, physics of electron excitation and photon emission, as well as detection techniques. The chapter topics include UPE in plants, animals, and the human body; microorganisms and subcellular structures; and model systems, illustrating its high prevalence. Several sections of the book provide some backstory, with emphasis on methodology, unresolved questions, and existing controversies. The authors raise and discuss complex, potentially divisive aspects: Are there any reasons to assume the existence of non-chemical interaction in biological systems? Can research results in the field of mitogenetic radiation, delayed luminescence, and oxychemiluminescence of model systems, be correctly interpreted? What does the future hold for this area of research? Altogether, this publication gives the reader a thorough overview of biological autoluminescence (UPE, biophotonics) research, making it ideal for students and researchers who are new to the area as well as those who are specializing in it.

Free Download Weak Dependence: With Examples and Applications by Jérôme Dedecker , Paul Doukhan , Gabriel Lang , León R. José Rafael , Sana Louhichi , Clémentine Prieur
English | PDF | 2007 | 325 Pages | ISBN : 0387699511 | 5.4 MB
Time series and random ?elds are main topics in modern statistical techniques. They are essential for applications where randomness plays an important role. Indeed, physical constraints mean that serious modelling cannot be done – ing only independent sequences. This is a real problem because asymptotic properties are not always known in this case. Thepresentworkisdevotedtoprovidingaframeworkforthecommonlyused time series. In order to validate the main statistics, one needs rigorous limit theorems. In the ?eld of probability theory, asymptotic behavior of sums may or may not be analogous to those of independent sequences. We are involved with this ?rst case in this book. Very sharp results have been proved for mixing processes, a notion int- duced by Murray Rosenblatt [166]. Extensive discussions of this topic may be found in his Dependence in Probability and Statistics (a monograph published by Birkhau ¨ser in 1986) and in Doukhan (1994) [61], and the sharpest results may be found in Rio (2000)[161]. However, a counterexample of a really simple non-mixing process was exhibited by Andrews (1984) [2]. The notion of weak dependence discussed here takes real account of the available models, which are discussed extensively. Our idea is that robustness of the limit theorems with respect to the model should be taken into account. In real applications, nobody may assert, for example, the existence of a density for the inputs in a certain model, while such assumptions are always needed when dealing with mixing concepts.

Free Download Weak Convergence and Empirical Processes: With Applications to Statistics
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031290380 | 693 Pages | PDF (True) | 8 MB
This book provides an account of weak convergence theory, empirical processes, and their application to a wide variety of problems in statistics. The first part of the book presents a thorough treatment of stochastic convergence in its various forms. Part 2 brings together the theory of empirical processes in a form accessible to statisticians and probabilists. In Part 3, the authors cover a range of applications in statistics including rates of convergence of estimators; limit theorems for M- and Z-estimators; the bootstrap; the functional delta-method and semiparametric estimation. Most of the chapters conclude with "problems and complements." Some of these are exercises to help the reader’s understanding of the material, whereas others are intended to supplement the text.

Free Download Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power By Joel Colón-Ríos
2012 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 0415671906 | PDF | 2 MB
It has been frequently argued that democracy is protected and realized under constitutions that protect certain rights and establish the conditions for a functioning representative democracy. However, some democrats still find something profoundly unsettling about contemporary constitutional regimes. The participation of ordinary citizens in constitutional change in the world’s most "advanced" democracies (such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom) is weak at best: the power of constitutional reform usually lies in the exclusive hands of legislatures. How can constitutions that can only be altered by those occupying positions of power be considered democratically legitimate? This book argues that only a regime that provides an outlet for constituent power to manifest from time to time can ever come to enjoy democratic legitimacy. In so doing, it advances a democratic constitutional theory, one that combines a strong or participatory conception of democracy with a weak form of constitutionalism. The author engages with Anglo-American constitutional theory as well as examining the theory and practise of constituent power in different constitutional regimes (including Latin American countries) where constituent power has become an important part of the left’s legal and political discourse. Weak Constitutionalism: Democratic Legitimacy and the Question of Constituent Power will be of particular interest to legal/political theorists and comparative constitutional lawyers. It also provides an introduction to the theory of constituent power and its relationship to constitutionalism and democracy.

Free Download Leverage of the Weak: Labor and Environmental Movements in Taiwan and South Korea By Hwa-Jen Liu
2015 | 248 Pages | ISBN: 0816689520 | PDF | 3 MB
Comparing Taiwan and South Korea strategically, Hwa-Jen Liu seeks an answer to a deceptively simple question: Why do social movements appear at different times in a nation’s development?Despite their apparent resemblance-a colonial heritage, authoritarian rule, rapid industrialization, and structural similarities-Taiwan and South Korea were opposites in their experiences with two key social movements. South Korea followed a conventional capitalist route: labor movements challenged the system long before environmental movements did. In Taiwan, pro-environment struggles gained strength before labor activism. Liu argues that part of the explanation lies in an analysis of how movements advance their causes by utilizing different types of power. Whereas labor movements have the power of economic leverage, environmental movements depend on the power of ideology. Therefore, examining material factors versus ideational factors is crucial to understanding the successes (or failures) of social movements.Leverage of the Weak is a significant contribution to the literature on social movements, to the study of East Asian political economies, and to the progress of the comparative-historical method. It enhances knowledge of movement emergence, investigates the possibilities and obstacles involved in forging labor-environment alliances, and offers the first systematic, multilayered comparisons across movements and nations in East Asia.

Free Download Štefan Štofaník, "The Adventure of Weak Theology: Reading the Work of John D. Caputo through Biographies and Events "
English | ISBN: 1438471955 | 2018 | 308 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Štofaník provides a unique, personal reading of weak theology and tries to inhabit the gap between it and its "founder," John D. Caputo.

Free Download Weak Convergence of Stochastic Processes: With Applications to Statistical Limit Theorems
English | 2016 | ISBN: 3110475421 | 230 Pages | EPUB (True) | 25 MB
The purpose of this book is to present results on the subject of weak convergence in function spaces to study invariance principles in statistical applications to dependent random variables, U-statistics, censor data analysis. Different techniques, formerly available only in a broad range of literature, are for the first time presented here in a self-contained fashion.

Free Download Leveraging Latency: How the Weak Compel the Strong with Nuclear Technology (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0C37XYJBC | 2023 | 8 hours and 12 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 234 MB
Author: Tristan A. Volpe
Narrator: Paul Brion