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08. Recognition and the ideology of merit
2015
This paper discusses pathological forms that the ideal of merit takes in ideological uses of meritocratic ideas. According to the French philosopher Dominique Girardot (2011) the possibility of our genuinely recognizing one another is impaired by the ideology of merit: this new ideology standardizes recognition and forces competition, thus creating hierarchies and what Axel Honneth calls social pathologies. The ideology also threatens the category of action in Hannah Arendt’s (1958) sense. The paper elucidates Girardot’s stance and sketches a comparison between Honneth’s and Girardot’s views on recognition. Despite the explicit connection to Honneth’s theory, Girardot actually creates an Ar…
The Past and Future of Innovations in Microfinance
2012
The microfinance industry carries every sign of an innovation in its take-off phase. The various aspects of the microfinance innovation were developed in the 1980’s, twenty years later the industry experiences a phenomenal growth rate, and it has diffused to most developing countries in the world. This review paper looks at microfinance as an entrepreneurial activity in its own right, contributing to the development of small and medium-sized firms in developing countries. We trace the innovations in microfinance, for instance group lending, loans to women, and their financing, and we ask whether the business model implied is sustainable once diffusion has gone far, competition enters, and c…
Continuous reformulations and heuristics for the Euclidean travelling salesperson problem
2008
We consider continuous reformulations of the Euclidean travelling salesperson problem (TSP), based on certain clustering problem formulations. These reformulations allow us to apply a generalisation with perturbations of the Weiszfeld algorithm in an attempt to find local approximate solutions to the Euclidean TSP.
On the structure of certain ultradistributions
2009
Let "o" be a nonempty open subset of the k-dimensional euclidean space Rk. In this paper we show that, if S is an ultradistribution in "o", belonging to a class of Roumieu type stable under differential operators, then there is a family f , 2 Nk 0, of elements of L1 loc("o") such that S is represented in the formP 2Nk 0 D"a"f "a". Some other results on the structure of certain ultradistributions of Roumieu type are also given.
Understanding star-fundamental algebras
2021
Star-fundamental algebras are special finite dimensional algebras with involution ∗ * over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero defined in terms of multialternating ∗ * -polynomials. We prove that the upper-block matrix algebras with involution introduced in Di Vincenzo and La Scala [J. Algebra 317 (2007), pp. 642–657] are star-fundamental. Moreover, any finite dimensional algebra with involution contains a subalgebra mapping homomorphically onto one of such algebras. We also give a characterization of star-fundamental algebras through the representation theory of the symmetric group.
Uncalibrated Reconstruction: An Adaptation to Structured Light Vision
2003
Abstract Euclidean reconstruction from two uncalibrated stereoscopic views is achievable from the knowledge of geometrical constraints about the environment. Unfortunately, these constraints may be quite difficult to obtain. In this paper, we propose an approach based on structured lighting, which has the advantage of providing geometrical constraints independent of the scene geometry. Moreover, the use of structured light provides a unique solution to the tricky correspondence problem present in stereovision. The projection matrices are first computed by using a canonical representation, and a projective reconstruction is performed. Then, several constraints are generated from the image an…
A methodology to assess the intrinsic discriminative ability of a distance function and its interplay with clustering algorithms for microarray data …
2013
Abstract Background Clustering is one of the most well known activities in scientific investigation and the object of research in many disciplines, ranging from statistics to computer science. Following Handl et al., it can be summarized as a three step process: (1) choice of a distance function; (2) choice of a clustering algorithm; (3) choice of a validation method. Although such a purist approach to clustering is hardly seen in many areas of science, genomic data require that level of attention, if inferences made from cluster analysis have to be of some relevance to biomedical research. Results A procedure is proposed for the assessment of the discriminative ability of a distance functi…
Bounded approximation properties via integral and nuclear operators
2010
Published version of an article in the journal:Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. Also available from the publisher, Open Access
Alain Badiou and the restart of the Idea of communism from Althusserianism, Lacanism and Maoism
2011
En el siguiente texto pretendemos mostrar cómo el fundamento de la teoría filosófica del pensador francés Alain Badiou tiene origen en su reflexión acerca de su práctica política iniciada a partir de los acontecimientos de mayo del 68 y que, tal y como reconocerá el propio Badiou en años posteriores, consistió en un recomienzo de la Idea de comunismo bajo la secuencia maoísta. De esta manera argumentaremos cómo para realizar esta reflexión el filósofo francés se apoyó en sus lecturas tempranas, tratando de sintetizar la teoría de causalidad estructural althusseriana, la teoría subjetiva lacaniana y la teoría dialéctica maoísta. Abstract: In the following text we intend to show that the basi…
La intimidad corporal en la filosofía de Ortega y Gasset
2015
[EN] In the face of the social crisis of intimacy for the extimacy, in neurosciences, and its reduction to privacy in legal field, this article explains the orteguian idea of the intimacy highlighting its bodily character. This notion of intimacy, rooted in body, discovers the sentimental aspect of reality (lyricism), and also overcomes thingism and subjectivism through the analysis of the mechanism of metaphor and the capacity of entering yourself. Reality of intimacy is conceived as enforceability (executive reality), and represents an alternative to idealism, objetivism of conscience and psychological introspection.