We provide a method to determine the motion of a classical massive particle in a background geometry of 2-dimensional gravity theories, for which the Birkhoo theorem holds. In particular, we get the particle trajectory in a continuous class of 2-dimensional dilaton gravity theories that includes the Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) model, the Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) model, and the d-dime...

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Is compassionate killing really psychologically impossible, as the Abhidhamma claims? Previously I discussed a Vinaya case that seemed to show the contrary. Reviewing my conclusions in the light of commentarial literature, Rupert Gethin disagreed and restated the Abhidhamma position that killing can never be motivated by compassion. This paper supports my original conclusions and argues further...

Negative association for a family of random variables (Xi) means that for any coordinate–wise increasing functions f, g we have Ef(Xi1 , . . . , Xik )g(Xj1 , . . . , Xjl ) ≤ Ef(Xi1 , . . . , Xik )Eg(Xj1 , . . . , Xjl ) for any disjoint sets of indices (im), (jn). It is a way to indicate the negative correlation in a family of random variables. It was first introduced in 1980s in statistics, and...

Computer music presents particular challenges for the analyst. This paper discusses the approach taken by the author to tackle these issues in analysing Jonathan Harvey’s work Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco [2]. The focus of the paper is not the analysis itself but the problems posed for the analyst by such a work and the methods used to try and resolve them. It describes a number of different tech...

Ttiic greater the man the greater are his potentialities for good or for evil, and in many instances for both good and evil. The influence of many great men lias been during their lifttime almost entirely good, yet much harm has been done in their names through the unreasoning hero-worship of posterity. For fifteen hundred years, commencing from the second century of the Christian era, the teac...

j This is one of the 11 Masters of Medicine" series, the introductory volume of which we reviewed in March. Everything as been done to make the record of the life of this truly great ^>an as complete as possible ; and although the material at the author's disposal was somewhat scanty, yet we have a consecutive and very readable biography supplemented by wellhosen extracts from Harvey's works. T...

as part of the moral order on the one hand and as pathological phenomena on the other. Dr. Riese writes interestingly of his seventeenth century theorists, and the reader will find much of what he has to say rewarding, especially with respect to the work of medical men so little known as de la Forge and de la Chambre. Rather than praise the obvious merits of Dr. Riese's monograph, however, I sh...

We establish a new homological lower bound for the Thurston norm on 1-cohomology of 3-manifolds. This generalizes previous results of C. McMullen, S. Harvey, and the author. We also establish an analogous lower bound for 1-cohomology of 2-dimensional CW-complexes. AMS Classification 57M27, 57M20, 57M05