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Pioneer 2019
No full textThe annual student yearbook was first published in 1925 as "The Kokoon" when William Paterson University was Paterson State Normal School. The title changed over time but has been "The Pioneer" since 1941
WPTherml: Pioneering the design of materials for harvesting heat.
No full textWPTherml stands for William Paterson University’s tool for Thermal Energy and Radiation management with Multi Layer nanostructures. The vision of this software package is to provide an easy-to-use platform for the design of materials with tailored optical and thermal properties for the vast number of energy applications where control of absorption and emission of radiation, or conversion of heat to radiation or vice versa, is paramount. The optical properties are treated within classical electrodynamics, and the current version uses the Transfer Matrix Method to rigorously solve Maxwell’s equations for layered isotropic media. WPTherml was conceived and developed by the Foley Lab at William Paterson University.WPTherml is a Python package for the design of materials with tailored optical and thermal properties for the vast number of energy applications where control of absorption and emission of radiation, or conversion of heat to radiation or vice versa, is paramount. The optical properties are treated within classical electrodynamics via the Transfer Matrix Method which rigorously solve Maxwell's equations for layered isotropic media. A flexible multilayer class connects rigorous electrodynamics properties to figures of merit for a variety of thermal applications, and facilitates extensions to other applications for greater reuse potential. WPTherml can be accessed at https://github.com/FoleyLab/wptherml
On the psychology of primary and secondary consciousness: Part 1
Get PDFA theoretical approach to account for the psychological natures and functions of primary and secondary consciousness is elaborated. Based upon historical, evolutionary and functional considerations, it is suggested that perhaps the fundamental evolved function of human (and animal) primary consciousness is the enhancement of survival within the surrounding environmental world of nature by control over endogenous, nonverbal primary knowledge that arises from ensembles and cell assemblies of interacting neurons. And, that in human evolution, perhaps the fundamental evolved function of secondary consciousness (in addition to its hierarchical ability to readout and control the contents of primary consciousness) is enhancement of survival within the social world of nurture by executive control over acquired exogenous, language-based secondary knowledge originating from ensembles of socially interacting brains. Distinctions are drawn between the primary and secondary levels of consciousness of the fundamental processes in psychology (sensation, perception, motivation, emotion, cognition and personality-self-individuation). Distinctions are also drawn between some of the primary and secondary levels of consciousness manifested by some of the basic constituents of psychology (such as, language, thought, memory, the specious present, reaction time, etc.)
On the psychology of primary and secondary consciousness: Part 1
No full textA theoretical approach to account for the psychological natures and functions of primary and secondary consciousness is elaborated. Based upon historical, evolutionary and functional considerations, it is suggested that perhaps the fundamental evolved function of human (and animal) primary consciousness is the enhancement of survival within the surrounding environmental world of nature by control over endogenous, nonverbal primary knowledge that arises from ensembles and cell assemblies of interacting neurons. And, that in human evolution, perhaps the fundamental evolved function of secondary consciousness (in addition to its hierarchical ability to readout and control the contents of primary consciousness) is enhancement of survival within the social world of nurture by executive control over acquired exogenous, language-based secondary knowledge originating from ensembles of socially interacting brains. Distinctions are drawn between the primary and secondary levels of consciousness of the fundamental processes in psychology (sensation, perception, motivation, emotion, cognition and personality-self-individuation). Distinctions are also drawn between some of the primary and secondary levels of consciousness manifested by some of the basic constituents of psychology (such as, language, thought, memory, the specious present, reaction time, etc.)