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A Response to Chiang and White on the Immaculate Conception
No full textThe article presents a response to the article of R. Gary Chiang and Evelyn M. White related to biological data disapproving the Immaculate Conception. Topics discussed include the original sin, modern understanding of the biology of human reproduction, authoring of the ineffabilis Deus, the 1854 Apostolic Constitution by Pope Pius IX and others. Also mentioned are favor of monogenism over polygenism by the Catholic Church and the Incarnation of Jesus Christ
Plastic Fantastic: Michigan’s Boat Building Industry and the Use of Reinforced Fiberglass Plastic
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Modified Wavelet Methods for Identifying Transitions in Bean Beetle Maturation
Get PDFAs bean beetle embryos develop, time lapse photographs of their eggs exhibit varying levels of brightness that correspond to different stages of maturation. This signal can be analyzed to pinpoint the timing of these various stages. We have developed an averaging method based on a modified Haar wavelet technique to identify these changes visually. This method has been studied for both accuracy and precision through a process of randomized simulations at different levels of signal noise. The results of this study have supported the efficacy of this method, demonstrating its usefulness in analyzing a wide variety of signals
Sartre, Beauvoir, and the Resistance: An Authentic or Compromising Commitment to the Cause?
No full textAfter France’s Liberation in 1945, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were lauded as an influential couple who exemplified the Resistance movement. However, despite their contributions to the literary and philosophic resistance, their personal and professional lives were filled with ambiguous and compromising activities. Under the oppressive Vichy regime, the two philosophers were able to better formulate and promote their existentialist ideas though extreme wartime events. This paper will first briefly discuss the historical context of the two writers, the German occupation during World War II, and the Resistance. Second, this research will explore existentialist themes in a work from each author: Morts Sans Sepulture (1941) by Sartre, and Le Sang Des Autres (1945) by Beauvoir. The analysis will emphasize the inherent ambiguity which characterized the authors’ philosophies, writings, and even personal lives due to existentialism’s lack of an absolute moral compass
Patagonia sin Represas: a Social-Environmental Movement in the Northern Chilean Patagonia
Get PDFThe Chilean Patagonia is truly stunning, landscape and people alike, but faces the looming threat of disruption. The region of Aysén, in northern Patagonia, is extremely isolated, both literally by land because of the Andes mountains, and also figuratively because its remoteness has caused a sort of historic abandonment developmentally in a country that promotes a neoliberal economic model and where everything seems to revolve around the capital. Two large, powerful companies, HidroAysén and Energía Austral, seek to construct a total of eight hydroelectric dams on some of the grandest and most adored rivers of the region, in order to power mines in Santiago, 2000 kilometers away. Despite the risks and insensibility, it goes far too smoothly and unnoticed for large companies to come and take advantage of people and places so marginalized. In the last decade, an immense campaign has arisen and united against the construction of these dams, under the banner Patagonia sin Represas. This investigation seeks to reveal more about the people involved in this movement and the motivations they hold that have led them to fight for this cause. The research was conducted specifically in Coyhaique, the capital of Aysén, through revision of bibliographic materials and press, and also personal interviews. This campaign is broad and dynamic, supported by people from many different backgrounds, with motivations stemming from a variety of roots and sources, including the beauty of the earth, the injustice of the breach in powers, and a dedication to an ethic or faith duty
Construction of a Cosmic-Ray Veto Shield for the Summing Na(Tl) Detector
No full textCosmic rays, which are constantly penetrating the SuN detector, produce signals in SuN similar to the . radiation SuN is designed to detect. A cosmic-ray veto detector was built in order to identify these signals and remove the background from SuN data. The veto detector consists of nine scintillator bars with a photomultiplier tube on each end. These bars were mounted horizontally and will be placed above the SuN detector in order to detect cosmic rays before they penetrate SuN. Data will be taken with the SuN and the veto detector simultaneously and the cosmic ray events will be removed offline. The first experiment with SuN and the veto will be in the spring of 2014