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Topics in Enlightenment History
No full textWhen we think about eighteenth-century France, two words come to mind: Libertinage and Liberty. Both words have the same root and and both are associated with the Enlightenment. A closer look, however, disrupts their apparent affinity. Liberty is a modern political category whereas Libertinage is an archaic one associated with skepticism and immorality. The triumph of liberty in the French Revolution of 1789 signalled the end of the world in which libertinage had flourished. Democratic societies since the late eighteenth century have purged themselves of any traces of libertinage. This seminar explores the affinity of these two terms within the context of the Enlightenment and the tensions that drove them apart. \ud
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This topic demands an interdicisplinary approach that engages history and literature because libertinage is entwined with the spread of print technolgies and literacy, the changing status of religion and science, the history of medicine and sexuality, new literary genres such as epistolary novels, travel journals, autobiography, fairytales, definitions of decency and obscenity, and the emergence of the individual as a locus of rights and desires. Our analysis of libertinage illuminates debates that shaped modern assumptions about gender and eroticism, censorship and repression, pleasure and morality, government and authority. \ud
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This course is designed as a seminar with the emphasis on collective reading and conversation between instructor and students. The readings introduce students to a corpus of libertine texts and historical contexts for interpreting them. The topics and readings I have selected for class discussion are set out in the syllabus below. Topics for final research papers can draw on this syllabus or go beyond it depending on student interest and language facility. History majors are encouraged to use the research paper to explore a possible topic for thesis work in their senior yea
Principle Component Analysis
No full textPrincipal component analysis is a method of statistical anal- ysis used to reduce the dimensionality of a dataset without loss of signif- icant information. Given a set of p random variables, X = (X1; : : :Xp)t , principal component analysis nds p linear combinations of X, called principal components (PCs). The rst principal component is chosen to have maximal variance, while each subsequent PC has the next largest variance and is uncorrelated with previous PCs. If the random vari- ables are highly correlated, then the rst few principal components will account for a large portion of the total variance, allowing for a reduc- tion in the dimension of the dataset. A key observation of principal components is that the variance of the PCs are the eigenvalues of the covariance matrix and that the eigenvectors make up the coe cients of the linear combination that transforms X
The Community Table: Eating and Gender at Swarthmore College
No full textThis thesis explores approaches to and concepts of food held by students of binary\ud
gender identities on a college campus. Based on testimonies from focus groups and in-\ud
depth interviews with students attending Swarthmore College, this study was conducted during the Fall of 2015. The findings show more frequent dieting and concern for health in women, a trend established in existing literature. These results also suggest that men tend to interpret health in terms of nutrition rather than weight, viewing health as a matter of adding nutritious elements as opposed to restricting intake. Further, women were more likely to directly criticize gendered expectations related to body image but often did not relate these norms to their own experience of eating. Food was identified as a source of social connection and readily linked to culture and community. The analysis presented here provides a preliminary foundation for assessing gendered eating both on college campuses and in the United States more generally
Hormonal and molecular effects of restraint stress on formalin-induced pain-like behavior in male and female mice
No full textThe evolutionary advantages to the suppression of pain during a stressful event (stress- induced analgesia (SIA) are obvious, yet the reasoning behind sex-differences in the expression of this pain reduction are not. The different ways in which males and females integrate physiological stress responses and descending pain inhibition are unclear. A potential supraspinal modulator of stress-induced analgesia is the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA). This limbic brain region is involved in both the processing of stress and pain; the CeA is anatomically and molecularly linked to regions of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis and descending pain network. The CeA exhibits sex-based differences in response to stress and pain that may differentially induce SIA in males and females. Here, sex-based differences in behavioral and molecular indices of SIA were examined following noxious stimulation. Acute restraint stress in male and female mice was performed prior to intraplantar injections of formalin, a noxious inflammatory agent. Spontaneous pain-like behaviors were measured for 60 min following formalin injection and mechanical hypersensitivity was evaluated 180 min post-injection. Restraint stress decreases centrally mediated formalin-induced spontaneous behavior and formalin-induced mechanical hypersensitivity. To assess molecular indices of SIA, tissue samples from the CeA and blood samples were collected at the 180 min time point. Restraint stress prevents formalin-induced extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation in the male CeA, but not in the female. In male mice, restraint and formalin injection significantly increased blood corticosterone concentrations 180 min post injection compared to naïve and non-restrained formalin-injected males. These results demonstrate sex-based differences in behavioral, molecular, and hormonal indices of acute stress in mice that extend for 180 min after stress and noxious stimulation
Physical Interpretations of Permutation Entropy Scaling Analyses in Turbulent Fluids
No full textWe show that the methods permutation entropy and complexity analysis can be extended to a more robust tool by treating embedding delay as a freely varying parameter. We show that one can extract meaningful information about the nature turbulent systems when this extended analysis is applied to data taken from such systems. Furthermore, we find that this information agrees with information determined via conventional methodology, as well as providing new understanding about the systems analyzed
Eighth Installment of AQIS' "Jihadi Memories" Series Features 2015 Lahore Suicide Attacker
No full textFilibusted Presents - Putin The Greatest Hits: Throwing It Back for a Look at Media Representations of US Russia Relations
No full textIt’s hard to listen to the news without getting angry. War News Radio’s Jay Clayton and Sabrina Merold have stopped trying. WNR proudly presents “Filibusted”, with all the news that makes us tear our hair out. This month’s topic? US Russia Relations
Tri-Co 1999-2000 LANCHA Application
No full textTri-Co application for students to work in the LANCHA program, designed to stimulate interest in and preparation for higher education among Latino youth in Philadelphi
HOLA Board Positions
No full textDescription of HOLA Board Positions, their responsibilities, with additional handwritten note