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Using Moodle Metrics to Analyze Student Navigation of Online Assessments with Mixed Question Types in Introductory Chemistry
Full text linkWe present an analysis of the quiz metrics (question responses, marks, and times) recorded by a virtual learning platform (Moodle) in the context of a series of chemistry assessments. These metrics allow us to investigate whether any particular strategies are associated with higher or lower marks on the assessments. We find that there are no significant correlations between the order in which students attempt questions or edit their answers or between the percentage of the allowed time that students use and their performance on these quizzes. However, we did observe some patterns of behavior that seemed to distinguish students who obtained marks below the median and those who obtained higher marks. This work was conducted with reference to the model of “Scholarship of Teaching and Learning”, and as such, we also describe some practical implications of this work for our own pedagogy, which others who teach chemistry across a range of educational levels may also find useful
Power, Propaganda and Medieval Historiography
Full text linkThis article explores the contribution of Antonia Gransden’s article, ‘Propaganda in English Medieval Historiography’. It argues that while the tendency to focus on the political aspects of historical writing has grown more influential in the fifty years since Gransden wrote, a number of new contributions share Gransden’s reservations on the use of history as ‘propaganda’ in the Middle Ages, and points to new ways to appreciate the purposes and powers of medieval historical writing
“Heir to his Name and Blood”: The Valdemarian Kings of Denmark and the Slavs, 1168–1241
Full text linkThis article examines the relations between the Valdemarian rulers of Denmark and their Slavic allies and subjects in Pommerania, Mecklenburg, Rügen and Estonia. It argues that these relationships were stronger than has often been recognised
The Role of Intentions in Anton Wilhelm Amo's Philosophical Project
Full text linkIn this paper we provide the first in-depth analysis of Anton Wilhelm Amo’s 1734 Tractatus de Arte Sobrie et Accurate Philosophandi by examining the fundamental role that intention plays in this work. Specifically, we argue that the ‘Intentional Principle’, which states that everything that exists (except for God) is the effect of an intentional action, is key to understanding his account of the operations of human and divine spirits and his account of what exists (and why). In doing so, we demonstrate that Amo was a systematic thinker with intention underpinning his philosophical system. Furthermore, we show that intentions are key to understanding Amo’s views on what the ends of philosophy are and how philosophical inquiry ought to be pursued
AI as an Artistic Medium
Full text linkIn 2022, Stephen Marche, writing for The Atlantic, claimed, “We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium.” However, since then, we have seen dismissive criticisms of the use of AI in the arts. This paper takes Marche’s claim seriously and argues that Artificial Intelligence (AI), understood as machine learning algorithms, is a new artistic medium. In this paper, I begin by discussing the concept of the medium in the arts. I apply this concept to AI, following the tradition of legitimisation and evaluation of new media through medium analysis (as has been done with photography, cinema, comics, and video games). I also consider some initial objections about AI as an artistic medium, arguing that these objections fail. I then move on to discuss the medium-specificity thesis. This is the idea that each medium of art offers particular qualities that affect what artists can achieve within it, and this, in turn, informs how we can properly evaluate works in that medium. I apply medium specificity to AI, considering first a strong version of medium specificity, then Gaut’s weaker (but arguably more defensible) claims of medium specificity. Through this, I argue that AI can be considered as a medium with unique features, the quality of which we might call ‘machinic’ (much like the cinematic as applied to the medium of cinema). Finally, I argue that AI may indeed constitute not just a medium but also an artform, albeit one which we have yet to see reach full potential. With this paper, I aim to demonstrate that understanding AI as an artistic medium is helpful for reasoning about works of art made with AI, and suggest a potential way forward for critical evaluation of AI art
The Horses of 'The Plumed Serpent': Resistance, Cooperation, Victimisation
Full text linkThis article, one of an invited multi-author series of brief articles on the topic of horses in D. H. Lawrence, uses a focus on horses in the 1923-25 Mexican novel The Plumed Serpent to develop an entirely new perspective on this most controversial of his works. It has been criticised, ever since its publication, as fascistic, misogynist and fantasist. Of late a few critics have, whilst acknowledging these criticisms, commended its anti-racism, anti-colonialism, and environmentalism. This article argues that a focus on the novel’s animals – and on horses in particular (the ways in which they resist, cooperate, and are killed) – indicates the mode in which the novel should be read: one which forbids any aggregate moral calculus or definitive assessment of aesthetic meaning in the novel, but which tracks the nature of lived experience, and which holds the reader open to a realm beyond, and contextualising, all human meaning – the animal other
Dynamics in Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theory: Approaching the Continuum Limit with Partitionings of SU(2)
Full text linkIn this paper, we investigate a digitised SU(2) lattice gauge theory in the Hamiltonian formalism. We use partitionings to digitise the gauge degrees of freedom and show how to define a penalty term based on finite element methods to project onto physical states of the system. Moreover, we show for a single plaquette system that in this framework the limit g → 0 can be approached at constant cost
Modeling the Spread of Misfolded Proteins in Alzheimer’s Disease using Higher-Order Simplicial Complex Contagion - IEEE Conference Proceedings
Full text linkThe healthcare community has a responsibility to highlight the ongoing destruction in Gaza
Full text linkA month before Mahmoud Abu Nujaila, a doctor who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières at Gaza's Al-Awda hospital, was killed by an Israeli airstrike along with his colleagues, he wrote on a hospital whiteboard:
“Whoever stays until the end will tell the story. We did what we could. Remember us.” 1
Doctors working in Gaza have made urgent pleas, saying that they feel abandoned by the world amid renewed Israeli airstrikes.2 More recently, the United Nations reported that several paramedics and rescue workers were killed and buried in a mass grave by Israeli forces in southern Gaza.3 Over 18 months of relentless attacks, thousands have died,4 and the healthcare infrastructure has been almost entirely dismantled.56 Access to vital medical supplies has been systematically restricted, and basic necessities for life—clean water, food, sanitation, and energy—have also been destroyed
Radical Voices: Revolutionary Discourses of Translation (1782-1815)
No full textThe French Revolution saw the diverse and widespread use of translation as a medium of political radicalisation across Europe. This anthology collects the paratextual materials fnwhere these radical actors speak as translators: prefaces, notes, postfaces, announcements. Focusing on the axes between English, French, and Italian linguistic cultures, places presumed to be the most affected (Italy) and least affected (Britain) by revolutionary radicalism, this collection demonstrates both how much radical ideas and language infiltrated those political spaces, and how translation functioned as a key medium for their dissemination, transformation, and radicalisation. The collection charts a history of changing attitudes and uses across the period, and shows how closely aligned revolutionary culture was to publication and translation. Finally, the anthology advances the idea that there is a revolutionary mode of translation itself, specific to the contexts of revolutionary era transnational linguistic culture