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Junia, also called Joanna? An exploration of the historical possibilities regarding the life and ministry of the woman greeted in Romans 16:7
Get PDFMost studies about Junia so far have focussed on discussing whether she was a female apostle. Though this debate will be addressed, the purpose of this study is not to add another voice to it. Instead, this thesis seeks to explore what else could be deduced about the life and ministry of Junia.
Based on the analysis of the content and function of Romans 16:7, this thesis will construct a biographical sketch that locates Junia in Galilee during the ministry of Jesus, in Jerusalem as a witness of the resurrection, and in Rome shortly after Pentecost as a missionary among the Jews of the capital.
In a second step, this study will examine how Junia’s Latin name fits in with her proposed Palestinian origin by evaluating the approaches of Lampe, Wolters, and Bauckham. As the connection of Junia with the female disciple Joanna in Luke, suggested by Bauckham, does add a complete back-story to Junia’s biographical sketch, his thesis regarding double names and the presumed sound equivalency of Joanna/Junia will be explored further and tentative solutions for gaps in Bauckham's argument, like the absence of Junia from the Palestinian onomasticon, will be offered.
As there is at least the possibility of a link between the two women, the final chapter of this thesis will establish Joanna’s biographical sketch as a follower of Jesus throughout his ministry and as a witness of his death, burial, and resurrection based on her mentions in Luke. Finally, this study will explore whether she might have become the apostle Junia, filling in the silence about what happened to her after discovering the empty tomb.
This thesis will conclude by connecting the biographical sketches of Junia and Joanna, but not because there is definite evidence that they are the same person. Their identification remains possible but tentative. Yet, by using careful historical imagination, both sketches together can provide us with a historically possible and plausible biography of a female disciple becoming a significant figure within the mission of the early church
Defeat in the Supreme Court: where next for UK asylum policy?
No full textOn 15 November 2023, the UK Supreme Court (UKSC) unanimously declared the government’s policy of removing some asylum seekers to Rwanda to process their claims unlawful. Like the Court of Appeal, it found substantial grounds for believing that asylum seekers would face a real risk of ill-treatment because of insufficient guarantees against refoulement. This post explores the origin and significance of the UKSC judgment and the legal and policy implications of the UK government’s immediate response to it
A game engine based digital twin framework enabling next-gen manufacturing
Get PDFResearch into digital twins technology for automation and infrastructure is a new and prosperous field that is at the cutting-edge of current technology. Big data analytics, cloud computing, augmented reality and Internet of Things (IoT) have been around for a couple of years, and digital twin technology is what ties it all together. The aim for this research is to create a digital twin framework without ties to professional proprietary software. This should create a modular base for anyone to build a digital twin onto quickly, designed and developed on the Cyber-Physical System (CPS). Can digital twin technology be applied to monitoring and automation in a smart factory? Is it possible to apply a live tracking algorithm to a multi-stage smart factory? Is it possible to do this in a framework format to be applicable to other facilities? Use of the Festo CPS at Middlesex University will be a case study. The journey to realising these goals starts at forming a digital representation of a physical system, incorporating live tracking between the systems, offline simulation and overall being in a modular framework structure. This allows the system to be applied to multiple case studies. The outcome of this project was to not necessarily create a faster system, but to create a system less likely to have unscheduled downtime. The live tracking algorithm developed was successful in tracking multiple carriers, however, less successful when running into certain edge cases. Simulation mode works well and outputs data of the same shape as the physical CPS
Machine Learning model for student drop-out prediction based on student engagement
Get PDFNowadays, the issue of student drop-out is addressed not only through the prism of pedagogy, but also by technological practices. In this paper, we demonstrate how a student drop-out could be predicted through a student’s performance using different Machine Learning techniques, i.e., supervised learning and unsupervised learning. The results show that various types of student engagement are essential factors in predicting drop-out and the final ECTS points achievements
Labelled vulnerability dataset on Android source code (LVDAndro) to develop AI-based code vulnerability detection models
Get PDFEnsuring the security of Android applications is a vital and intricate aspect requiring careful consideration during development. Unfortunately, many apps are published without sufficient security measures, possibly due to a lack of early vulnerability identification. One possible solution is to employ machine learning models trained on a labelled dataset, but currently, available datasets are suboptimal. This study creates a sequence of datasets of Android source code vulnerabilities, named LVDAndro, labelled based on Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). Three datasets were generated through app scanning by altering the number of apps and their sources. The LVDAndro, includes over 2,000,000 unique code samples, obtained by scanning over 15,000 apps. The AutoML technique was then applied to each dataset, as a proof of concept to evaluate the applicability of LVDAndro, in detecting vulnerable source code using machine learning. The AutoML model, trained on the dataset, achieved accuracy of 94% and F1-Score of 0.94 in binary classification, and accuracy of 94% and F1-Score of 0.93 in CWE-based multi-class classification. The LVDAndro dataset is publicly available, and continues to expand as more apps are scanned and added to the dataset regularly. The LVDAndro GitHub Repository also includes the source code for dataset generation, and model training
Bulgaria’s mafia state and the failure of the CVM
Get PDFRecent events in Bulgaria have brought the true extent of its rule of law decay to the fore. The wars between the highest-ranking prosecutors in the country, public testimonies by participants in crime syndicates implicating senior magistrates and politicians, and the brutal murders of potential witnesses against organized crime demonstrate that the line between organized crime, the judiciary, and the political apparatus is increasingly difficult to draw. In this post, I argue that the current escalation of Bulgaria’s rule of law crisis lays bare the European Commission’s continued mismanagement of the Cooperation and Verification Mechanism (CVM)
Ephemeral Grounds
No full textEphemeral Grounds
A project by Ergin Çavuşoğlu
Produced by Sophia Baker and Ami Mehta
Audio: Excerpt from Invisible Cities (1972) by Italo Calvino (Copyright Harcourt Brace Jovanovish inc.)
Commissioned by the Art and Culture Development Foundation of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the 59th Venice Contemporary Art Bienalle as a part of the Panoptic Garden workshop. Guest curated by Sara Raza and Andrew Brinkmanis. July 4-9, 2022 in Venice
‘As for carpets, they were originally reproductions of gardens (the garden is a rug onto which the whole world comes to enact its symbolic perfection, and the rug is a sort of garden that can move across space). The garden is the smallest parcel of the world and then it is the totality of the world’ (Foucault, ‘Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias’ 1967)
Ephemeral Grounds examines the border between the visible and the invisible, the ephemeral and the eternal, and the treacherous asymmetrical passages that lead us beyond simplistic return to origins, or the reach of ultimate destinations.
Thus, the game becomes a place of mobile transitions representing journeying over the patterns of a carpet that carries various connotations in relation to notions of home, place, and mobility. The work at large explores ideas about spaces situated between the private and public domains.
Thus, the representation of journeying over the patterns of a carpet in the game becomes a place of mobile transitions that carry various connotations to notions of home, mobility, liminality, and place. The work at large explores ideas about spaces situated between the private and public domains
Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy
No full textICP Celebrates a Summer of Love and Intimacy
This summer, visit ICP for Love Songs: Photography and Intimacy, on view from June 2 through September 11, 2023, with a community opening celebration on the evening of June 1. A group show conceived as a mixtape of songs gifted to a lover, Love Songs presents over 250 works throughout ICP's galleries, in photographic projects by 16 international artists that explore love, desire and intimacy in all their most complex and contradictory forms.
Love Songs, organized by curator and writer Sara Raza, will feature work by Nobuyoshi Araki, Ergin Cavusoglu, Motoyuki Daifu, Fouad Elkoury, Aikaterini Gegisian, Nan Goldin, René Groebli, Hervé Guibert, Sheree Hovsepian, Clifford Prince King, Leigh Ledare, Lin Zhipeng (No. 223), Sally Mann, RongRong&inri, Collier Schorr, Karla Hiraldo Voleau.
Synopsis:
Silent Glide portrays the complexities of a couple’s relationship, and the growing incompatibilities of their moral values. The scenes showing the downward spiral of their relationship are set against the dim landscape of Hereke, Turkey. Once renowned for the production of the finest silk carpets, a destination for the noble and wealthy, nowadays the scenery is dominated by the malaise of the cement factory and the freighter's port. This setting contains all the poetic ingredients for the main character to enable him to create, and ultimately becomes his point of departure
The separating variety for matrix semi-invariants
Get PDFLet G be a linear algebraic group acting linearly on a vector space (or more generally, an affine variety) V, and let k[V]^G be the corresponding algebra of invariant polynomial functions. A separating set S ⊆ k[V]^G is a set of polynomials with the property that for all v, w ∈ V, if there exists f ∈ k[V]^G separating v and w, then there exists f ∈ S separating v and w. In this article we consider the action of G = SL2(C) × SL2(C) on the C-vector space M of n-tuples of 2 × 2 matrices by multiplication on the left and the right. Minimal generating sets S_n of C[M]^G are known, and |S_n| = 1/24 (n^4 − 6n^3 + 23n^2 + 6n). In recent work, Domokos showed that for all n ≥ 1, S_n is a minimal separating set by inclusion, i.e. that no proper subset of S_n is a separating set. This does not necessarily mean that S_n has minimum cardinality among all separating sets for C[M]^G. Our main result shows that any separating set for C[M]^G has cardinality ≥ 5n−9. In particular, there is no separating set of size dim(C[M]^G) = 4n − 6 for n ≥ 4. Further, S_4 has indeed minimum cardinality as a separating set, but for n ≥ 5 there may exist a smaller separating set than S_n
Interior Futures - strategic visions and innovative solutions
No full textInterior Futures - strategic visions and innovative solutions Interior Architecture and Design matter!
How Education, Research and Knowledge Exchange plays an important role at Middlesex with Industry, Communities, and Public Institutions.
The talk aims to delve into the crucial role that Interior Design and Interior Architecture play in shaping the future. These two disciplines possess a complex set of competencies that have the potential to address global challenges, particularly those outlined in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. These challenges include but are not limited to sustainable cities and communities and responsible consumption and production.
During the talk, students' and staff' works, briefs, and projects will be presented to demonstrate how Interior Design and Interior Architecture can contribute to addressing these challenges. These collaborations involve various industries, communities, and public institutions, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary partnerships in creating solutions for a better tomorrow. By exploring how these two disciplines can impact the world, the talk aims to provide insight into their growing significance for the future