Re-discovering Oliver M. Sayler

(re)discovering Marx’s Materialism

With Marx’s Ecology, John Bellamy Foster has written the definitive account of Karl Marx and Frederich Engels’s materialism. Its title notwithstanding, Marx’s Ecology is far more than an account of Marx’s thinking about nature. Marx’s materialism is not contained within the critique of capitalism, Foster argues, but rather the other way around—it is Marx’s critique of capitalism that is contain...

Re-discovering the Quechua adjective

This article describes the adjective class in Quechua, countering many previous accounts of the language as a linguistic type with no adjective/noun distinction. It applies a set of common crosslinguistic criteria for distinguishing adjectives to data from several dialects of Ecuadorian Highland Quechua (EHQ), analyzing examples from a natural speech audio/video corpus, speaker intuitions of gr...

Re-Discovering the Art of Bel Canto

Die Autoren Oliver Berthold Oliver Günther

RFID: Consumer Fears and Consumer Protection RFID introduction is a hotly debated public policy issue. The technology enables physical environments to become more interactive and supportive by tagging each item with a chip that wirelessly communicates with a service-enriched backend infrastructure. Based on a number of user studies at Humboldt-Universität and at the Auto-ID Center, this article...

Discovering Side-Chain Correlation in m-Helices

Using a new representation for interactions in protein sequences based on correlations between pairs of amino acids, we have examined or-helical segments from known protein structures for important interactions. Traditional techniques tbr representing protein sequences usually make an explicit assumption of conditional independence of residues in the sequences. Protein structure analyses, howev...