"Strange images of death." Wreedheid en verbeelding in Shakespeares "Macbeth"

Strange images of profinite groups

We investigate whether a finitely generated profinite group G could have a finitely generated infinite image. A result of Dan Segal shows that this is impossible if G is prosoluble. We prove that such an image does not exist if G is semisimple or nonuniversal.

Intermedial Representations in Asian Macbeth-s

In her article "Intermedial representations in Asian Macbeth-s" I-Chun Wang discusses three Asian versions of Macbeths that exemplify the cultural meanings through the interaction of landscape, body, and spectacles of power. Shakespeare remains one of the most popular playwrights in the Eastern world, and playwrights in the Asian world find Shakespearean plays attractive to the Asian audience. ...

The Historical Context of Macbeth

Shakespeare wrote Macbeth sometime between 1605 and 1606, shortly after the ascension of King James of Scotland to the English throne. The new monarch brought Scotland—previously known to the English only as a mysterious, conquered neighbor—into the public limelight. The period of James' reign was further marked by political and religious conflict, much of which focused the kingdom's attention ...

Region-based Correspondence in Oversegmented Images. Correspondencia Basada En Regiones En Imágenes Sobresegmentadas. Region-based Correspondence in Oversegmented Images

A method to solve oversegmentation and undersegmentation in a region-based correspondence process is presented. The approach is based on performing a preprocessing step before using existing graph based methods. This preprocessing tries to assess the possible split regions in each image, with respect to the corresponding image, and form merge regions that could map better with regions in the ot...

The Fama-macbeth Approach Revisited