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"Infrastructure Investment for Tomorrow, A Financing Plan to Eliminate the Deferred Maintenance on the Nation's Roads"
No full textRegan presents a long-term public investment proposal to preserve and upgrade the nation's infrastructure system. He offers a unique financing plan to eliminate much of the backlog of deferred maintenance that plagues America's roads and bridges. The plan would allow states and municipalities to get out from under this burden with a one-time upgrading program and then attain a new capacity to maintain and improve their infrastructure networks. Regan concludes that the goal of long-term investing is "to make possible sustained growth, improved productivity, and a strengthened private sector" for the next generation. A program to upgrade the nation's infrastructure base could help the United States achieve this goal.
Blonde Builds Suburbia: Ouida Baggett Regan and the Alternate Construction of Femininity
No full textOuida Baggett Regan (1927-2017) was a developer, from Pensacola, FL in the mid-twentieth century.
• A white woman's place was as a homemaker and mother; yet she built thousands of homes and the tallest building in the FL panhandle.
• How did she navigate gender norms, as a divorcee mother and self-made millionaire?
• Regan strategically deployed gendered tropes, at times emphasizing her domesticity and femininity, and others the bootstrap, masculine approach to a traditionally male field
The neural instantiation of spontaneous counterfactual thought
No full textDec 2023 Revision:
This revision contains the scripts for the revised behavioral analyses, the script for the parametric modulation neuroimaging analysis (and relevant timing and behavioral files), and the parametric modulation significance testing. The neuroimaging data is available by contacting the author.
Original Submission:
This dataset contains the script and clean data for running the analyses on the relationship between the behavioral results and the within ROI multi-variate results in R. It also contains the scripts for running the single subject and group level neuroimaging analyses in AFNI, MATLAB, and R, as well as the scripts for running the experimental paradigm in MATLAB.
Additional data and scripts are available by request
The bookseller and the basketball player: tales from the French Polonia
No full textAuthor has checked copyrightAD 09/01/201
Infrastructure investment for tomorrow: A financing plan to eliminate the deferred maintenance on the nation's roads
No full textThe author presents a long-term public investment proposal to preserve and upgrade the nation's infrastructure system, offering a unique financing plan to eliminate much of the backlog of deferred maintenance that plagues America's roads and bridges. The plan would allow states and municipalities to get out from under this burden with a one-time upgrading program, and then attain a new capacity to maintain and improve their infrastructure networks. Regan concludes that the goal of long-term investing is to make possible sustained growth, improved productivity, and a strengthened private sector for the next generation. A program to upgrade the nation's infrastructure base could help the United States achieve this goal
Deontologia e egoísmo : uma perspectiva sobre a ética animal de Tom Regan
No full textTese de doutoramento, Filosofia (Filosofia da Natureza e do Ambiente), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010Tom Regan é mundialmente reconhecido como o melhor defensor contemporâneo dos direitos dos animais. Esta dissertação visa salientar as principais virtudes da sua teoria ética, bem como apontar e superar os seus principais defeitos. Num primeiro momento, com o intuito de corroborar muitas das conclusões de Regan sobre a consciência animal, são desenvolvidos analogismos anatómico-fisiológicos e colhidas evidências comportamentais em defesa da tese de que os animais de variadíssimas espécies (muitos dos quais o autor não contempla adequadamente na sua teoria) possuem consciência e que, de entre esses animais, muitos deles possuem capacidades psicofísicas bastante semelhantes às nossas em sofisticação. Num segundo momento, é realçada a importância fundante que o ideal de justiça e a coerência racional assumem no âmbito da ética animal de Regan por via a determinar o estatuto moral dos indivíduos que se revelam susceptíveis de serem afectados pelas nossas acções, sejam eles humanos ou não, em função de possuirem aquelas capacidades psicofísicas apontadas como sendo moralmente relevantes. Atendendo a esse mesmo ideal de justiça e às exigências da coerência racional, é ampliado o universo de consideração moral explorado por Regan, a fim de incluir não só alguns animais, aqueles sobre os quais se debruça o autor, mas também todos os seres vivos. Num último momento, procurando não ignorar as limitações da nossa natureza egoísta, questiono o poder de persuasão da argumentação deontológica de Regan, apostada tão-só em definir os nossos deveres éticos relativamente aos animais. Assim, termino com o apelo a alguns dos mais importantes benefícios humanos que poderíamos auferir a partir do nosso respeito pelos direitos dos animais, benefícios esses que se encontram relacionados com a inversão da actual crise do ambiente.Tom Regan is world-renowned as the greatest defender of animal rights of our time. This study's purpose is to stress the main virtues of his ethical theory, as well as to point out and overcome its main flaws. First, looking to corroborate many of Regan's conclusions regarding animal consciousness, anatomic and physiological analogies are developed, and behavioral evidence is collected to support the theory that the animals of a large variety of species (many of which the author doesn't properly cover in his theory) possess a consciousness, and that, amongst those animals, many have psicophysical capabilities similar to ours in sophistication. Second, I highlight the importance given to the ideal of justice and rational coherence as the foundations for Regan's animal ethics, used to determine the moral status of the individuals that show themselves susceptible to being affected by our actions due to the fact that they possess those morally relevant psicophysical capabilities, be they human or not. Taking into account the afore-mentioned ideal of justice and the need for rational coherence, the universe of moral consideration explored by Regan is enlarged, so as to include not only the animals covered by the author, but also all living beings. Finally, trying not to ignore the limitations of our selfish nature, I question Regan's ethical arguments' power to persuade, seeing as they limit themselves to defining our moral duties to animals. Therefore, I finish by stressing some of the most important human benefits we could acquire through the respect for animal rights, benefits which are connected to the reversal of the present environmental crisis
Deontologia e egoísmo : uma perspectiva sobre a ética animal de Tom Regan
No full textTese de doutoramento, Filosofia (Filosofia da Natureza e do Ambiente), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010Tom Regan é mundialmente reconhecido como o melhor defensor contemporâneo dos direitos dos animais. Esta dissertação visa salientar as principais virtudes da sua teoria ética, bem como apontar e superar os seus principais defeitos. Num primeiro momento, com o intuito de corroborar muitas das conclusões de Regan sobre a consciência animal, são desenvolvidos analogismos anatómico-fisiológicos e colhidas evidências comportamentais em defesa da tese de que os animais de variadíssimas espécies (muitos dos quais o autor não contempla adequadamente na sua teoria) possuem consciência e que, de entre esses animais, muitos deles possuem capacidades psicofísicas bastante semelhantes às nossas em sofisticação. Num segundo momento, é realçada a importância fundante que o ideal de justiça e a coerência racional assumem no âmbito da ética animal de Regan por via a determinar o estatuto moral dos indivíduos que se revelam susceptíveis de serem afectados pelas nossas acções, sejam eles humanos ou não, em função de possuirem aquelas capacidades psicofísicas apontadas como sendo moralmente relevantes. Atendendo a esse mesmo ideal de justiça e às exigências da coerência racional, é ampliado o universo de consideração moral explorado por Regan, a fim de incluir não só alguns animais, aqueles sobre os quais se debruça o autor, mas também todos os seres vivos. Num último momento, procurando não ignorar as limitações da nossa natureza egoísta, questiono o poder de persuasão da argumentação deontológica de Regan, apostada tão-só em definir os nossos deveres éticos relativamente aos animais. Assim, termino com o apelo a alguns dos mais importantes benefícios humanos que poderíamos auferir a partir do nosso respeito pelos direitos dos animais, benefícios esses que se encontram relacionados com a inversão da actual crise do ambiente.Tom Regan is world-renowned as the greatest defender of animal rights of our time. This study's purpose is to stress the main virtues of his ethical theory, as well as to point out and overcome its main flaws. First, looking to corroborate many of Regan's conclusions regarding animal consciousness, anatomic and physiological analogies are developed, and behavioral evidence is collected to support the theory that the animals of a large variety of species (many of which the author doesn't properly cover in his theory) possess a consciousness, and that, amongst those animals, many have psicophysical capabilities similar to ours in sophistication. Second, I highlight the importance given to the ideal of justice and rational coherence as the foundations for Regan's animal ethics, used to determine the moral status of the individuals that show themselves susceptible to being affected by our actions due to the fact that they possess those morally relevant psicophysical capabilities, be they human or not. Taking into account the afore-mentioned ideal of justice and the need for rational coherence, the universe of moral consideration explored by Regan is enlarged, so as to include not only the animals covered by the author, but also all living beings. Finally, trying not to ignore the limitations of our selfish nature, I question Regan's ethical arguments' power to persuade, seeing as they limit themselves to defining our moral duties to animals. Therefore, I finish by stressing some of the most important human benefits we could acquire through the respect for animal rights, benefits which are connected to the reversal of the present environmental crisis
Deontologia e egoísmo : uma perspectiva sobre a ética animal de Tom Regan
No full textTese de doutoramento, Filosofia (Filosofia da Natureza e do Ambiente), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2010Tom Regan é mundialmente reconhecido como o melhor defensor contemporâneo dos direitos dos animais. Esta dissertação visa salientar as principais virtudes da sua teoria ética, bem como apontar e superar os seus principais defeitos. Num primeiro momento, com o intuito de corroborar muitas das conclusões de Regan sobre a consciência animal, são desenvolvidos analogismos anatómico-fisiológicos e colhidas evidências comportamentais em defesa da tese de que os animais de variadíssimas espécies (muitos dos quais o autor não contempla adequadamente na sua teoria) possuem consciência e que, de entre esses animais, muitos deles possuem capacidades psicofísicas bastante semelhantes às nossas em sofisticação. Num segundo momento, é realçada a importância fundante que o ideal de justiça e a coerência racional assumem no âmbito da ética animal de Regan por via a determinar o estatuto moral dos indivíduos que se revelam susceptíveis de serem afectados pelas nossas acções, sejam eles humanos ou não, em função de possuirem aquelas capacidades psicofísicas apontadas como sendo moralmente relevantes. Atendendo a esse mesmo ideal de justiça e às exigências da coerência racional, é ampliado o universo de consideração moral explorado por Regan, a fim de incluir não só alguns animais, aqueles sobre os quais se debruça o autor, mas também todos os seres vivos. Num último momento, procurando não ignorar as limitações da nossa natureza egoísta, questiono o poder de persuasão da argumentação deontológica de Regan, apostada tão-só em definir os nossos deveres éticos relativamente aos animais. Assim, termino com o apelo a alguns dos mais importantes benefícios humanos que poderíamos auferir a partir do nosso respeito pelos direitos dos animais, benefícios esses que se encontram relacionados com a inversão da actual crise do ambiente.Tom Regan is world-renowned as the greatest defender of animal rights of our time. This study's purpose is to stress the main virtues of his ethical theory, as well as to point out and overcome its main flaws. First, looking to corroborate many of Regan's conclusions regarding animal consciousness, anatomic and physiological analogies are developed, and behavioral evidence is collected to support the theory that the animals of a large variety of species (many of which the author doesn't properly cover in his theory) possess a consciousness, and that, amongst those animals, many have psicophysical capabilities similar to ours in sophistication. Second, I highlight the importance given to the ideal of justice and rational coherence as the foundations for Regan's animal ethics, used to determine the moral status of the individuals that show themselves susceptible to being affected by our actions due to the fact that they possess those morally relevant psicophysical capabilities, be they human or not. Taking into account the afore-mentioned ideal of justice and the need for rational coherence, the universe of moral consideration explored by Regan is enlarged, so as to include not only the animals covered by the author, but also all living beings. Finally, trying not to ignore the limitations of our selfish nature, I question Regan's ethical arguments' power to persuade, seeing as they limit themselves to defining our moral duties to animals. Therefore, I finish by stressing some of the most important human benefits we could acquire through the respect for animal rights, benefits which are connected to the reversal of the present environmental crisis
Year 13 Statistics (Level 3) Workshop 2003 - Department of Statistics
No full textCreated by Rachel Cunliffe, Ross Parsonage and Matt Regan, faculty members at Auckland University (New Zealand), this page is a resource for a series of workshops held by the Department of Statistics at the before mentioned school. The page contains links to worksheets, applets, and articles. The author include such topics as: regression, time series analysis, the central limit theorem, and dice experiments. Additionally, the authors provide links to suggested textbooks for the class. This is a great resource for not only planning a class, but actually finding material for a class already in existence
The life history of an Eleotrid goby, Parioglossus taeniatus Regan
No full textParioglossus taeniatus Regan is a small Eleotrid goby, some 35 mm in total length. It was previously known collected from Aldabra in the Indian Ocean (T. Regan : 1912) and the Palao Islands in the Pacific Ocean (T. Abe : 1939). The author collected over one hundred specimens of this fish, containing juveniles from the coasts of Kyushu and Shikoku, Japan (Fig. 1). The fish lives a gregarious and semi-pelagic life in the middle stratum of the water of inlets, feeding on the planktonic copepods. Twenty-one mature fish, collected with a small pit-net, were kept for thirteen days in a table-aquarium. During this period, it was observed that the fish swimmed in the aquarium in day time, and at night they rested under a vacant hollow of a valve of a large shell, lying on the sand-floor of the aqarium. After they were kept some time, the ripe fish were used for artifical insemination. The spawning-season seems to extend from the beginning of July to the beginning of September in the Amakusa Islands, Kyushu. The black, nuptial coloration appeared in the anal fin of the ripe male fish. The number of ripe ovarian eggs was enumerated as from 947 to 2,4E3 according to the size of the parent fish (Table 1). The fertilized egg by artifical insemination is elipsoid in shape, 1.3 mm in long axis and 0.6 mm in short axis, demersal and adhesive, with a boundle of the adhesive filaments at its basal end. The numerous oil-globules in the yolk are grouped in some eggs, or scattered in others (Fig. 2). The incubationperiod extended about four days at the water-temperature 25～28℃. The newly hatched larva is about 2 mm in total length possessing characteristics of gobiid larvae (Fig. 3, A). The juveniles were observed to live swimming life with adults late summer on the coast of the Amakusa Islands (Fig. 3, B～D). The fish seems to grow 20～37 mm in total length in one year, some individuals becoming mature. The life-span seems to be over two years.Parioglosszts taeniatus は Eleotridae に属する小型のハゼ類で, T. Regan(1912) が印度洋のAldabraで採集した全長25mm, 30mmの2尾によつて新種として報告した種類である. 阿部宗明(1939)は南洋パラオ諸島の海岸でカキ殼の中に潜んでいた全長25～30mmの3尾を採集して, 同じくパラオ諸島で得た近縁種 Ptereleotris taeniatus rainfordi(McCulloch) と共に Ptereleotris rainfordi の亜種としてP. taeniatus taeniatus(Regan) という亜種名をつけて報告しているが, これ迄に日本で獲れた記録はない. 筆者はここ数年間に, 福岡県糸島郡机島, 長崎市土升首, 長崎県西彼杵郡茂木町, 同県五島列島浜の浦村, 熊本県苓北町富岡, 徳島県日和佐町の各地で稚魚を包む合計百余尾の標本を得て, その生活史の大要を知ることが出来たのでここに報告する
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