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God and Politics: A Spiritual State of the Union
No full textRecent years have witnessed a dangerous resurfacing of racial tension, religious intolerance, and political divisiveness in American life. Outbursts of venomous anger, often expressed in the name of God, have produced an ugly new standard in public discourse. At the same time, Americans, often inspired by their faith in God, have seen through racial, religious, and national fault lines and have responded courageously and contributed generously to others in the wake of disasters at home and abroad. In this presentation, Rabbi Sharon Brous will reflect on how different views of God serve to foster different types of public discourse, action, and culture.
Rabbi Sharon Brous is the founding rabbi of IKAR, a Jewish spiritual community in Los Angeles whose mission is to promote the integration of soulful prayer, serious learning, and social justice. A graduate of Columbia University with a B.A. in history and an M.A. in human rights and conflict resolution, she was ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where she received several awards in Talmud and homiletics. She has been named to The Jewish Daily Forward\u27s list of the 50 most influential American Jews and to Newsweek\u27s list of America\u27s leading rabbis. Rabbi Brous is a frequent contributor to The Washington Post\u27s On Faith and she has been a guest on Krista Tippet\u27s National Public Radio program Speaking of Faith. She serves on the board of Rabbis for Human Rights, on the rabbinic advisory board of American Jewish World Service, on the regional council of Progressive Jewish Alliance, and as a member of the Task Force to Advance Multireligious Collaboration on Global Poverty
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Asset Management DataInfrastructures
No full textMany organizations tasked with managing public utility infrastructure routinely collect and store large volumes of data for decision making purposes in their management and maintenance processes. This data is collected, stored and analyzed within asset management data infrastructures, however, traditional data management methods are becoming increasingly inadequate. More and more, data is being provided by new sources that can communicate over the internet, collectively known as the Internet of Things (IoT). IoT may benefit the management of public utility infrastructures by providing enough quality data to generate trusted information required to make the right decisions at the right time, helping asset management organizations improve their decision-making capability. The extensible asset management data infrastructure model presented in this dissertation aims at improving our understanding of asset management through IoT. Using a Duality of Technology lens, this research takes the view that IoT is continually being socially and physically constructed, and discriminates between human activity that affects IoT, and human activity that is affected by IoT. Explorative case studies in the asset management domain are used as the main research method. Taking the view that asset management data infrastructures are complex adaptive systems ensures that the resulting model is capable of dealing with the evolution of asset management data infrastructures in the face of new technologies and new requirements. The usability of the model is tested by means of test case studies. The tests indicate that the model can be used to improve our understanding of asset management through IoT and to provide actionable insights for the achievement of expected benefits and mitigation of risks of asset management through IoT.Information and Communication Technolog
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Judge R. B. Young with daughter, Jane, and Margaret Brous
No full textJudge R. B. Young of 48th District Court got in the mood at Paschal\u27s homecoming and joined his cheerleading daughter, Jane, left, and Margaret Brous in a yell. The judge graduated from Central High School, now Paschal, in 1916.https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/specialcollections_startelegram1950s/22806/thumbnail.jp
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Infiltration Condition and Mouldability Diagram in Resin Injection Moulding
No full textThis paper deals with the modelling of injection moulding processes taking into account the deformability of the preform and the polymerisation of the resin. The coupled flow-deformation problem in the infiltrated and dry region is formulated with the corresponding boundary conditions and with the proper evolution equations determining the motion of the boundaries. An approximated analytical discussion is performed to obtain some estimates on the infiltration velocity, helping in identifying a window of applicability in the parameters space (i.e., the mouldability diagram), which fits well with the numerical simulations
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