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Dispatches From Student Quarantine, episode 105
No full textSeries of 21 episodes created by COM220. Includes contributions by students Tea Ceresini, Kaitlyn Chambers, Jessica Freels, Sarah Hasenauer, Emily Kuhn, Rachel Little, Olivia Moyer, Patrick Osborn, Rebecca Parsons, Chad Rosenberger, Cameron Scandle, Samantha Seely, William Snyder, Christopher Tongel, and Kevin Wenger
The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal after the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 - Dale Brown Book Award Lecture
No full textA talk by Andrew Kloes, recipient of the Dale W. Brown Book Award for The German Awakening: Protestant Renewal After the Enlightenment, 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press, 2019). Historians of modern German culture and church history use “the Awakening movement” to describe a period in the history of German Protestantism between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the Revolution of 1848. Theologically, awakened Protestants affirmed religious beliefs that Protestants had professed since the Reformation; however, they were also distinctly modern. Their efforts to spread their religious beliefs were successful because of the new political freedoms and economic opportunities that the Enlightenment had introduced. Adapting Protestantism to modern society in these ways was the most original and innovative aspect of the Awakening movement. Kloes is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has contributed articles on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European religious history to academic journals, including the Harvard Theological Review and Pietismus und Neuzeit. He received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh and works as a historian in Washington, DC
Plain People and Modern Medicine - Dr. D. Holmes Morton
No full textDr. Holmes Morton discuses the impact of the work of the Clinic for Special Children on medical outcomes and the economic value of the clinic’s work for Plain communities at large. Dr. D. Holmes Morton cofounded the Clinic for Special Children, a nonprofit medical center or children with inherited metabolic disorders, in 1989, and served as its medical director for many years
The Perky effect revisited: Imagery hinders perception at high levels, but aids it at low
No full textVisual, although not auditory, imagery typically interferes with visual acuity: the so-called Perky effect. However, visual images can facilitate detection of visual Gabor patterns. Here we report that this discrepancy is not due so much to the class of stimuli but primarily to the level of accuracy; visual imagery interferes with acuity when performance is good but facilitates it when performance is poor. This finding is analogous to the ‘dipper’ function obtained when visual stimuli that mask visual targets when above threshold improve target detection near threshold
A complex ultimate reality: The metaphysics of the four Yogas
No full textThis essay will pose and seek to answer the following question: If, as Swami Vivekananda claims, the four yogas are independent and equally effective paths to God-realization and liberation from the cycle of rebirth, then what must reality be like? What ontology is implied by the claim that the four yogas are all equally effective paths to the supreme goal of religious life? What metaphysical conditions would enable this pluralistic assertion to be true? Swami Vivekananda’s worldview is frequently identified with Advaita Vedānta. We shall see that Vivekananda’s teaching is certainly Advaitic in what could be called a broad sense. As Anantanand Rambachan and others, however, have pointed out, it would be incorrect to identify Swami Vivekananda’s teachings in any rigid or dogmatic sense with the classical Advaita Vedānta of Śaṅkara; this is because Vivekananda’s teaching departs from that of Śaṅkara in some significant ways, not least in his assertion of the independent salvific efficacy of the four yogas. This essay will argue that Swami Vivekananda’s pluralism, based on the concept of the four yogas, is far more akin to the deep religious pluralism that is advocated by contemporary philosophers of religion in the Whiteheadian tradition of process thought like David Ray Griffin and John Cobb, the classical Jain doctrines of relativity (anekāntavāda, nayavāda, and syādvāda), and, most especially, the Vijñāna Vedānta of Vivekananda’s guru, Sri Ramakrishna, than any of these approaches is to the Advaita Vedānta of Śaṅkara. Advaita Vedānta, in Vivekananda’s pluralistic worldview, becomes one valid conceptual matrix among many that bear the ability to support an efficacious path to liberation. This essay is intended not as an historical reconstruction of Vivekananda’s thought, so much as a constructive philosophical contribution to the ongoing scholarly conversations about both religious (and, more broadly, worldview) pluralism and the religious and philosophical legacies of both Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. The former conversation has arrived at something of an impasse (as recounted by Kenneth Rose), while the latter conversation has recently been revived, thanks to the work of Swami Medhananda (formerly Ayon Maharaj) and Arpita Mitra
Portable Take-Home System Enables Proportional Control and High-Resolution Data Logging With a Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Bionic Arm
No full textThis paper describes a portable, prosthetic control system and the first at-home use of a multi-degree-of-freedom, proportionally controlled bionic arm. The system uses a modified Kalman filter to provide 6 degree-of-freedom, real-time, proportional control. We describe (a) how the system trains motor control algorithms for use with an advanced bionic arm, and (b) the system\u27s ability to record an unprecedented and comprehensive dataset of EMG, hand positions and force sensor values. Intact participants and a transradial amputee used the system to perform activities-of-daily-living, including bi-manual tasks, in the lab and at home. This technology enables at-home dexterous bionic arm use, and provides a high-temporal resolution description of daily use—essential information to determine clinical relevance and improve future research for advanced bionic arms
3D Printed Housing Development and Testing of a Lateral Flow Assay for Lead Detection in Drinking Water
Get PDFAmerica First as a Foreign Policy : Multilateralism and Security Policy
Get PDFPresident Donald Trump has redefined America’s foreign policy around his mantra, “America First.” This has led to attempts at renegotiating international treaties and reversing American Foreign policy toward inter-governmental organizations (IGOs). His actions, specifically on security policy issues including Iran and the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as well as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), have led to multiple short-term as well as potential long-term consequences. These include a level of uncertainty surrounding President Trump’s meaning of “America First” and a difficulty in understanding and/or anticipating his actions and intentions due to the lack of a clear foreign policy direction. Additionally, Trump’s actions have led to a substantial increase in tensions between the US and Iran, which has already caused multiple casualties. This paper aims to address the following questions: What does this mean for the United States? How are foreign leaders perceiving these changes made by the Trump Administration, and how does it help or hurt US interests abroad? Ultimately, Trump has approached foreign policy with his Realist mindset, causing him to question multilateralism and even bilateralism. His tendency to withdraw or threaten to withdraw from agreements and treaties has caused panic and fear amongst our allies who are unsure of the American commitment and has contributed to a lack of trust in America
Exploring the Experiences After Traumatic Brain Injury
Get PDFGrief and the experiences associated with adapting to life after a life changing injury are researched and reported in detail in regard to individuals sustaining spinal cord injuries and amputations, but there is significantly less evidence presented on the experiences that people go through after a traumatic brain injury (TBI). There is some empirical information on the experience of the family of the person who experienced the TBI and about the symptoms of TBI. While this is important, it is also imperative to understand the experiences and emotions that people with a TBI have as they go through the rehabilitation process and adjust to their new reality
