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Anderson’s Ethical Vulnerability: animating feminist responses to sexual violence
Get PDFPamela Sue Anderson argues for an ethical vulnerability which "activates an openness to becoming changed" that "can make possible a relational accountability to one another on ethical matters". In this essay I pursue Anderson's solicitation that there is a positive politics to be developed from acknowledging and affirming vulnerability. I propose that this politics is one which has a specific relevance for animating the terms of feminist responses to sexual violence, something which has proved difficult for feminist theorists and activists alike. I will demonstrate the contribution of Anderson's work to such questions by examining the way in which "ethical vulnerability" as a framework can illuminate the intersectional feminist character of Tarana Burke's grassroots Me Too movement when compared with the mainstream, viral version of the movement. I conclude by arguing that Anderson's "ethical vulnerability" contains ontological insights which can allay both activist and academic concerns regarding how to respond to sexual violence
Linear correlation of vertical ionization energies and partial charges on acetaldehyde and methyl formate radicals in various solvents
Get PDFGlory and Legitimation in the Aristocratic Hall
No full textTimothy Reuter identified the central question in any investigation of the medieval aristocracy as being: “How did they get away with it?” This paper explores one element in the elite’s strategy for normalising their dominant position, namely the role of conspicuous consumption in the aristocratic hall. Generosity and hospitality served numerous purposes for the medieval elite: it was an opportunity to demonstrate wealth and power in the form of the food and drink consumed, precious tableware and the buildings in which festivities took place. Feasting was an opportunity to reinforce and display political alliances. Besides this, however, it was also an opportunity to demonstrate virtue and class through the correct treatment of the prestige goods assembled. By treating the rich foodstuffs and precious gifts with a studied, courteous indifference, the medieval elite sought to demonstrate to their peers, subjects, themselves and their maker that they were not enthralled to worldly riches and deserved their exalted status
Intelligent system to analyze data about powered wheelchair drivers
Get PDFThe research presented in this paper creates an intelligent system that collects powered wheelchair users’ driving session data. The intelligent system is based on a Python programming platform. A program is created that will collect data for future analysis. The collected data considers driving session details, the ability of a driver to operate a wheelchair, and the type of input devices used to operate a powered wheelchair. Data is collected on a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and is sent after each session via email. Data is placed in the body of the emails, in an attached file and saved on microcomputer memory. Modifications to the system is made to meet confidentiality and privacy concerns of potential users. Data will be used for future analysis and will be considered as a training data set to teach an intelligent system to predict future path patterns for different wheelchair users. In addition, data will be used to analyze the ability of a user to drive a wheelchair, and monitor users’ development from one session to another, compare the progress of various users with similar disabilities and identify the most appropriate input device for each user and path
Intelligent monitoring using hazard identification technique and multi-sensor data fusion for crude distillation column
No full textHazard assessment techniques and multi-sensor fusion are used for intelligent systematic monitoring. Firstly, a hazard identification technique is considered using failure mode and effect analysis and advantages of using a combined hazard technique is discussed. Data sources are identified considering component failures and some sensors associated with potential failure. Possible consequences in a hazardous situation are identified using failure mode and effect analysis to choose suitable safety measures. Failure mode and effect analysis is systematically considers how sequences of events can lead to accidents by looking at components and faults recorded by sensors and anomalies. Data were presented based on their threat levels using a traffic light color code system. Refineries use sensors to observe the process of crude refining and the monitoring system uses real-time data to access information provided by sensors. Understanding hazard assessments, sensor multi-fusion and sensor pattern recognition in a distillation column could help to identify trends, flag major regions of growing malfunction, model risk threat of a crude distillation column and help to systematically make decisions. The decisions could improve design regulations, eliminate anomalies, improve monitoring and reduce threat levels
Precision mass measurements of 67Fe and 69,70Co: Nuclear structure toward N=40 and impact on r-process reaction rates
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Spaces on the Temporal Move: Weimar Geopolitik and the Vision of an Indian Science of the State, 1924-45
No full textThe termination of the Great War hailed a universally modern moment and a new ‘global’ condition. Early to recognize this was the Bavarian scholar and general Karl Haushofer (1869–1946), who built his Geopolitik school on temporal expectation. Defying its reduction to Hitler and Nazism, Haushofer’s Geopolitik aimed to gain revolutionary momentum from anti-colonial nationalisms in the East. In Haushofer’s vision, geopolitical spaces themselves acquired motion as the long-dormant East rose with a globally resounding ‘energism’. Haushofer’s Zeitschrift für Geopolitik (‘Journal for Geopolitics’) made India a particular model for Germans seeking to ‘catch up’ on world affairs. The world signified exposure, but, if harnessed correctly, rejuvenation for the nation. In his attempt to de-orientalise the German mind to prepare it for geopolitical momentum, Haushofer drew on the vision of a dynamic East offered by the Indian sociologist Benoy Kumar Sarkar (1887–1949). This flipped the temporality of colonialism. Geopolitical temporality offered the promise of a history that would not manifest itself in time, but in space. In 1933, for Haushofer, the centre of emancipatory dynamism shifted to the fascist countries as champions of a just spatial order against the ‘status quo’ of British or US hegemony