Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Representations of Royal Martyrs

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

The Puritan connexions of Sir Edward Alston, President of the Royal College of Physicians 1655-1666.

SIR EDWARD ALSTON was the son of Edward Alston senior and descended from a family that had lived and held land in Suffolk since the days of Edward III.' Edward Alston senior has been variously identified with either Edwardstone or Boxford in Suffolk. Topographically, these tiny villages are virtually inseparable. American readers will perhaps remember that Edwardstone was the birthplace, in 158...

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and the Roman Catholic Church.

The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse received more reports of sexual abuse of minors from victims of personnel from the Catholic Church than from any other source. It looked beyond the circumstances of the individual reports, to the response of Church leaders. It then took the inquiry to the more fundamental issue of the elements of the Church's str...

Probabilistic Programming in Anglican

Anglican is a probabilistic programming system designed to interoperate with Clojure and other JVM languages. We describe the implementation of Anglican and illustrate how its design facilitates both explorative and industrial use of probabilistic programming.