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Letter from Frank G. Muench, May 25, 1942
No full textAnnotated form letter from Frank G. Muench regarding the fact that Lincoln Christian Center in Sacramento, California helped their Japanese friends move safely to Walerga camp [= Sacramento Assembly Center] about 10 miles from Sacramento.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Photograph of Frank Muench in front of school bus
No full textA photograph of Frank Muench in front of a school bus. Frank Muench en-route to California in new school bus for Japanese Christian Center, Sacramento California. Bus was purchased in Detroit, Michigan and Lebanon, Indiana through donations from the Denomination and friends.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Letter soliciting funds for "Patron Program" to support CBC production of "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black"
No full textSteve Muench, president of the Student Government Association, solicited donors to help defray the ticket costs of a performance of Lorraine Hansberry's "To Be Young, Gifted, and Black," which was performed at Memphis' Ellis Auditorium with the sponsorship of the SGA
Effects of hypervolemia and hypertension on regional cerebral blood flow, intracranial pressure, and brain tissue oxygenation after subarachnoid hemorrhage
No full textObjective: Hypertensive, hypervolemic, hemodilution therapy (triple-H therapy) is a generally accepted treatment for cerebral vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage. However, the particular role of the three components of triple-H therapy remains controversial. The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of the three arms of triple-H therapy on regional cerebral blood flow and brain tissue oxygenation. Design: Animal research and clinical intervention study. Setting: Surgical intensive care unit of a university hospital. Subjects and Patients: Experiments were carried out in five healthy pigs, followed by a clinical investigation of ten patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Interventions: First, we investigated the effect of the three components of triple-H therapy under physiologic conditions in an experimental pig model. In the next step we applied the same study protocol to patients following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Mean arterial pressure, intracranial pressure, cerebral perfusion pressure, cardiac output, regional cerebral blood flow, and brain tissue oxygenation were continuously recorded. Intrathoracic blood volume and central venous pressure were measured intermittently. Vasopressors and/or colloids and crystalloids were administered to stepwise establish the three components of triple-H therapy. Measurements and Main Results: In the animals, neither induced hypertension nor hypervolemia had an effect on intracranial pressure, brain tissue oxygenation, or regional cerebral blood flow. In the patient population, induction of hypertension (mean arterial pressure 143 +/- 10 mm Hg) resulted in a significant (P <.05) increase of regional cerebral blood flow and brain tissue oxygenation at all observation time points. In contrast, hypervolemia/hemodilution (intrathoracic blood volume index 1123 :L 152 mL/m(2)) induced only a slight increase of regional cerebral blood flow while brain tissue oxygenation did not improve. Finally, triple-H therapy failed to improve regional cerebral blood flow more than hypertension alone and was characterized by the drawback that the hypervolemia/hemodilution component reversed the effect of induced hypertension on brain tissue oxygenation. Conclusions: Vasopressor-induced elevation of mean arterial pressure caused a significant increase of regional cerebral blood flow and brain tissue oxygenation in all patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Volume expansion resulted in a slight effect on regional cerebral blood flow only but reversed the effect on brain tissue oxygenation. In view of the questionable benefit of hypervolemia on regional cerebral blood flow and the negative consequences on brain tissue oxygenation together with the increased risk of complications, hypervolemic therapy as a part of triple-H therapy should be applied with utmost caution
Composable Q- functions for pedestrian car interactions
No full textWe propose a novel algorithm that predicts the interaction of pedestrians with cars within a Markov Decision Process framework. It leverages the fact that Q-functions may be composed in the maximum-entropy framework, thus the solutions of two sub-tasks may be combined to approximate the full interaction problem. Sub-task one is the interaction-free navigation of a pedestrian in an urban environment and sub-task two is the interaction with an approaching car (deceleration, waiting etc.) without accounting for the environmental context (e.g. street layout). We propose a regularization scheme motivated by the soft-Bellman-equations and illustrate its necessity. We then analyze the properties of the algorithm in detail with a toy model. We find that as long as the interaction-free sub-task is modelled well with a Q-function, we can learn a representation of the interaction between a pedestrian and a car
Kierkegaard's Socratic Point of View
No full textThis chapter contains sections titled: Kierkegaard's Socratic Stance: “I am Not a Christian” Socratic Ignorance Kierkegaard as Writer and Thinker
Kierkegaard's Socratic Task
No full textThe Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) conceived of himself as the Socrates of nineteenth century Copenhagen. Having devoted the bulk of his first major work, *The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates*, to the problem of the historical Socrates, Kierkegaard maintained at the end of his life that it is to Socrates that we must turn if we are to understand his own philosophical undertaking: "The only analogy I have before me is Socrates; my task is a Socratic task." The overall aim of my dissertation is to examine and critically assess this claim, and ultimately to argue that the Socratic nature of Kierkegaard's endeavor finds its fullest expression in the activity and writings of one of his best-known literary creations, Johannes Climacus, the pseudonymous author of *Philosophical Fragments* and *Concluding Unscientific Postscript*. The first part of my dissertation addresses Kierkegaard's own status as a Socratic figure. I examine Kierkegaard's claim that his refusal to call himself a Christian--in a context where it was the social norm to do so--is methodologically analogous to Socrates' stance of ignorance. I also consider how the use of a pseudonymous manner of writing allows Kierkegaard to employ a Socratic method. In the second part of my dissertation I focus on Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes Climacus and his claim that his contemporaries suffer from a peculiar kind of ethical and religious forgetfulness. I argue that Climacus adopts two Socratic stances in order to address this condition. In *Philosophical Fragments* he adopts the stance of someone who has intentionally "forgotten" the phenomenon of Christianity, whereas in the *Postscript* he adopts the stance of someone who openly declares that he is not a Christian. In the process, he develops a conception of philosophy that places a premium on self-restraint and an individual's ability to employ the first personal "I." As Climacus emerges as Kierkegaard's Socratic pseudonym par excellence, we obtain two significant results: a deeper understanding of Kierkegaard's conception of Socrates and Socratic method, and a compelling conception of philosophy rooted in Greek antiquity
Learning to Predict Motion from Raw 3D Object Detections
No full textWe show how to design a motion prediction algorithm that works with 3D object detections and map locations. In particular, we obtain object id’s – even though the training data does not contain any object id’s – across multiple time-steps into the future by propagating a Gaussian Mixture of likely object (e.g., vehicle) locations through time.We validate our approach on the nuScenes dataset. First, we find that a motion prediction algorithm without tracking id’s performs as well as motion prediction algorithm with tracking id’s in the training data. Second, the 3D labels of an on-board perception system are inferior (e.g., loss of detections, positional uncertainty) to those generated by offline labelling (automatic labelling pipeline, manual labelling). Even so, we find that a moderate increase in the size of the training data offsets the deterioration in prediction performance (with no additional offline labelling).Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Intelligent Vehicle
Kierkegaard's Socratic Task
No full textThe Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) conceived of himself as the Socrates of nineteenth century Copenhagen. Having devoted the bulk of his first major work, *The Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates*, to the problem of the historical Socrates, Kierkegaard maintained at the end of his life that it is to Socrates that we must turn if we are to understand his own philosophical undertaking: "The only analogy I have before me is Socrates; my task is a Socratic task." The overall aim of my dissertation is to examine and critically assess this claim, and ultimately to argue that the Socratic nature of Kierkegaard's endeavor finds its fullest expression in the activity and writings of one of his best-known literary creations, Johannes Climacus, the pseudonymous author of *Philosophical Fragments* and *Concluding Unscientific Postscript*. The first part of my dissertation addresses Kierkegaard's own status as a Socratic figure. I examine Kierkegaard's claim that his refusal to call himself a Christian--in a context where it was the social norm to do so--is methodologically analogous to Socrates' stance of ignorance. I also consider how the use of a pseudonymous manner of writing allows Kierkegaard to employ a Socratic method. In the second part of my dissertation I focus on Kierkegaard's pseudonym Johannes Climacus and his claim that his contemporaries suffer from a peculiar kind of ethical and religious forgetfulness. I argue that Climacus adopts two Socratic stances in order to address this condition. In *Philosophical Fragments* he adopts the stance of someone who has intentionally "forgotten" the phenomenon of Christianity, whereas in the *Postscript* he adopts the stance of someone who openly declares that he is not a Christian. In the process, he develops a conception of philosophy that places a premium on self-restraint and an individual's ability to employ the first personal "I." As Climacus emerges as Kierkegaard's Socratic pseudonym par excellence, we obtain two significant results: a deeper understanding of Kierkegaard's conception of Socrates and Socratic method, and a compelling conception of philosophy rooted in Greek antiquity
Animations: The Photospheric Footpoints of Solar Coronal Hole Jets
No full textThis repository provides the individual animations of the SDO/AIA and HMI magnetograms of Jets 1, 2, 3, corresponding to jets 14, 32, 35 in Table 1 of the accepted manuscript, "The Photospheric Footpoints of Solar Coronal Hole Jets".
jet1-aia193.mp4: AIA 193A movie of Jet 1
jet1-hmimag.mp4: HMI magnetograms movie of Jet 1
jet1-aia193-hmi-contour.mp4: AIA 193A with HMI contours movie of Jet 1
fig1anim.mp4: Concatenation of Jet 1 movies shown in Figure 1 of the accepted manuscript.
jet2-aia193.mp4: AIA 193A movie of Jet 2
jet2-hmimag.mp4: HMI magnetograms movie of Jet 2
jet2-aia193-hmi-contour.mp4: AIA 193A with HMI contours movie of Jet 2
fig4anim.mp4: Concatenation of Jet 2 movies shown in Figure 4 of the accepted manuscript.
jet3-aia193.mp4: AIA 193A movie of Jet 3
jet3-aia304.mp4: AIA 304A movie of Jet 3
jet3-hmimag.mp4: HMI magnetograms movie of Jet 3
jet3-aia193-hmi-contour.mp4: AIA 193A with HMI contours movie of Jet 3
fig6anim.mp4: Concatenation of Jet 3 movies shown in Figure 6 of the accepted manuscript.This work has been supported by NSF (AGS-1159353) and NASA (project 80NSSC18K0716). AIA and HMI data are courtesy of NASA/SDO and the AIA and HMI science teams. The author would like to thank P.R. Young for the analysis of the EIS data. This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System
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