Joseph Conrad has been widely criticized for his portrait of the African woman who appears toward the end of his African novella. Most commentators consider her exclusively as the embodiment of the savagery inherent in the continent, and thence they pronounce an aggrieved or enraged condemnation of the novelist for having written such a Eurocentric and misogynistic portrait. Undoubtedly many of...

sanitation. New Zealand distinctiveness is too important to the global historiography of colonization for it to be discussed only in the Antipodes. The term "geography militant" was used by Joseph Conrad in 1924 to describe what he saw as the second epoch in the history of geographical knowledge; roughly the age of heroic exploration from James Cook to the scramble for Africa. The first epoch w...

I In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad famously describes the colonisation of Central Africa as a “fantastic invasion” (Conrad 1995: 44, 58, 95), undertaken by heavily armed but fever-stricken hunters for ivory who are ultimately powerless against the unconquerable wilderness of the Dark Continent. To Conrad’s narrator-protagonist, the jungle and its denizens appear to be awaiting patiently the ...

From Definition 1.1, checking a polynomial is separable requires building a splitting field to check the roots are distinct. But we will see in Section 2 a criterion for deciding when a polynomial is separable (that is, has no multiple roots) without having to work in a splitting field. In Section 3 we will define what it means for a field extension to be separable and then prove the primitive ...

We present Conrad, the first comparative gene predictor based on semi-Markov conditional random fields (SMCRFs). Unlike the best standalone gene predictors, which are based on generalized hidden Markov models (GHMMs) and trained by maximum likelihood, Conrad is discriminatively trained to maximize annotation accuracy. In addition, unlike the best annotation pipelines, which rely on heuristic an...

O presente texto acompanha a publicação na revista Terra Brasilis de três textos do livro Por mares e terras (Leituras Geographicas) Bernardino Souza (1913), sendo esses: “O geógrafo nubiense (No campo da história Geografia)”, “A Geografia militante no Brasil” das cidades”. Procura-se situar esses contexto debate sobre o papel desempenado pelo espaço triunfo modernidade modo produção capitalist...