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Statewide drought and heat needs assessment with Oregon farmers and ranchers
No full textlead author: Berit Dinsdale, Ph.D. ; project supervisors and co-contributors: María Zamora Re, Ph.D. and Abigail Tomasek, Ph.D.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-70).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
Various Meanings of the Hebrew Term Berit and Its Ambiguity in The Second Book of Kings
No full textSavez, na hebrejskom berit, jedan je od središnjih pojmova Starog zavjeta, i nalazi se gotovo u svim starozavjetnim biblijskim knjigama. U svom prilogu autor nakon uvodnih riječi, gdje općenito govori o savezu, pojmu koji ima široku lepezu značenja i može značiti: privatni zavjet, ugovor dviju (jednakih) osoba, ugovor dvaju kraljeva ili država, savez između Boga i izraelskog naroda, najprije govori o etimologiji riječi berit, koja još uvijek nije dovoljno razjašnjena te navodi primjere prevođenja te riječi u starijim prijevodima (Targum, Septuaginta, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Vulgata, Vetus Latina) te u starijim hrvatskim prijevodima (Matija Petar Katančić, Ivan Matija Škarić, Bartol Kašić, Valentin Čebušnik, Antun Sović, Ivan Evanđelist Šarić). Autor zatim govori o značenju pojma berit unutar hebrejske Biblije. Taj pojam nalazimo kako u sakralnoj tako u profanoj sferi. Nakon toga autor analizira tekstove iz Druge knjige o Kraljevima gdje se ta riječ pojavljuje ukupno 12 puta. U toj knjizi se nalaze mlađi starozavjeti tekstovi koji su pisani u vrijeme kada taj izraz postaje sinonim za Toru, Zakon. Većina tekstova u 2 Kr odnosi se na Savez Boga i naroda, Jahve i Izraela, a u danom kontekstu Savez je sinonim za Toru. Držanje Saveza zapravo znači držanje Dekaloga, odnosno prije svega prve Božje zapovijedi.Covenant, in Hebrew berit, is one of the central notions of the Old Testament and can be found in all the Old Testament's Biblical books. In this article, after a brief introduction with general reference to the covenant - a notion that has a wide range of meanings and can mean a private covenant, treaty between two (equal) people, a treaty between two kings or countries, the covenant between God and the Israelites - the author first speaks of the etymological notion berit, which however, is not a sufficient explanation and so the author presents examples of translations of this notion in ancient translations (Targum, Septuaginta, Aquila, Symmachus, Theodotion, Vulgata, Vetus Latina), as well as older Croatian translations by Matija Petar Katančić, Ivan Matija Skarić, Bartol Kašić, Valentin Čebusnik, Antun Sović, Ivan Evandelist Sarić. The author then speaks of the meaning of the notion berit within the Hebrew Bible. We find this notion in the sacral as well as the profane context. With reference to the profane context, the author notes the examples of David and Jonathan, Solomon and King Hiram, Gibeonites who make a false covenant with Joshua. When referring to the sacral context then this is the covenant between God and people, Yahweh and Israel. Here the author mentions the covenant with Noah, later the covenant with Abraham and the most significant covenant made on Sinai where Moses has the role of a mediator between Yahweh and Israel. The author then analyses individual sections in the 2nd Book of Kings - twelve in all. As the author claims exegesis on the most agree that the 2nd Book of Kings refers to more recent levels of the Old Testament which emerge when the notion berit, was used in sacral spheres and was a synonym for the Torah. Even though only 12 sections are treated they too are quite varied. In 2 K 11:4 Jehoada plans a revolution in the temple, here berit is an ordinary agreement. In the next act (2 K 11:17), once again Jehoada is in the role of a mediator in making a pact between Yahweh on the one side and the king and people on the other. In the conflict between Israel and Aramea the Israelites lost some cities but Yahweh was merciful because of his covenant and the Israeli king - King Joash manages to return these cities to the ownership of the Israelites. Here berit is a synonym for the Hebrew term hesed. In 2K 17:15 there is reference to the Israelites unfaithfulness who abandoned berit, here this is a synonym for God's law. Texts in 2 K 17:35 and 2 K 17:38 speak about the covenant that is known to the people and exists in writing and signifies the fundamental relationship of the Israeli people as a whole towards God. The covenant in that context is a synonym for the Decalogue, i.e. above all keeping God's first commandments. The text 2 K 18:12 relates to the invasion of Samaria by the Assyrian king Salmanasar and the theological reason that the author cites lies in the fact that the people did not listen to Yahweh's voice because they »violated his covenant« and so God punished them. Finally, 2 K 23: 2-3 and 2 K 23:21 speak about the positive king, King Josiah who found the Book of the Covenant while working in the temple in Jerusalem. He then renewed the covenant with God and celebrated the Passover in Jerusalem together with his people as written in the Book of the Covenant. The renewal of the covenant here means remembering the event on Sinai and renewing the obligations to follow only Yahweh and to abandon other gods.
Surmising we can say that in 2 K berit can mean an agreement between two parties on the one hand or relations between God and Israel on the other. The context of berit in the latter case is a synonym for the Decalogue in general or specifically a synonym for God's First Commandment
Sefer ha-Berit : [berakhah ha-meshuleshet o las tres luzes...el kual avla de los siete sielos, de los diez gilgulim...]
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Phinehas Elijah Hurwitz was a Hebrew writer and early advocate of Haskalah. Born in Lvov, Hurwitz wandered through Poland, Hungary, Germany, and England. He gained extensive secular knowledge without even knowing a single European language (it seems that a friend acted as translator), and wrote Sefer ha-Berit (1797), the first part of which was an anthology of the sciences, while the second half dealt with metaphysical questions. Sefer ha-Berit went into many editions since it was a source of basic scientific information for Jews who knew no European languages. The author condemned the fact that Jews engaged only in study and commerce which could not provide them with the proper livelihood and which exposed them to antisemitism and urged that they turn to manual labor.212 pagesPrayerbook
Can there be a philosophy of hate?
No full textHate groups, hate mongers, hate crimes. Self-hatred. Being stuck between love and hate. No emotion inspires as visceral a reaction as hatred. It is, after all, a plague on society that divides people and stokes violence. But does it have to be? Is hate irredeemable? Could it not serve important moral and social purposes if we only knew more about it? Listen to this episode to find out, and to see how hate relates to our other emotions and even our some of our mental disorders.
Berit “Brit” Brogaard is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Brogaard Lab at the University of Miami. Her areas of research include philosophy of perception, philosophy of emotions, and philosophy of language. She is the author of numerous books including, Transient Truths, On Romantic Love, The Superhuman Mind, Seeing & Saying, and the forthcoming Hatred: Understanding Our Most Dangerous Emotions.https://commons.und.edu/why-radio-archive/1141/thumbnail.jp
On the relevance of personal responsibility in priority setting: a cross-sectional survey among Norwegian medical doctors
No full textThe debate on responsibility for health takes place within political philosophy and in policy setting. It is increasingly relevant in the context of rationing scarce resources as a substantial, and growing, proportion of diseases in high-income countries is attributable to lifestyle. Until now, empirical studies of medical professionals' attitudes towards personal responsibility for health as a component of prioritisation have been lacking. This paper explores to what extent Norwegian physicians find personal responsibility for health relevant in prioritisation and what type of risk behaviour they consider relevant in such decisions. The proportion who agree that it should count varies from 17.1% ('Healthcare priority should depend on the patient's responsibility for the disease') to 26.9% ('Access to scarce organ transplants should depend on the patient's responsibility for the disease'). Higher age and being male is positively correlated with acceptance. The doctors are more willing to consider substance use in priority setting decisions than choices on food and exercise. The findings reveal that a sizeable proportion have beliefs that conflict with the norms stated in the Norwegian Patient Act. It may be possible that the implementation of legal regulations can be hindered by the opposing attitudes among doctors. A further debate on the role personal responsibility should play in priority setting seems warranted. However, given the deep controversies about the concept of health responsibility and its application, it would be wise to proceed with caution. DESIGN: Nationally representative cross-sectional study. SETTING: Panel-data. PARTICIPANTS: 1072 respondents, response rate 65%
Antimicrobial stewardship: a qualitative study of the development of national guidelines for antibiotic use in hospitals
No full textAbstract Background As effective antibiotics are becoming a scarce resource, governmental regulation is needed to promote responsible use. Implementation of antibiotic stewardship and practice guidelines in health care facilities seems to be crucial to this effort. Empirical studies suggest, however, that guidelines have limited influence on health professionals’ behavior and practice. Barriers and facilitators to guideline implementability are much studied, but little attention has been given to health professionals’ perceptions of normative acceptability of guidelines as a condition for compliance. The aim of the present study was first, to examine if and how aspects potentially promoting acceptability and compliance among clinical target users were addressed during development of Norwegian national guidelines for antibiotic use in hospitals and second, to identify procedural characteristics of the development process that were perceived by target users to yield legitimate guidelines. Methods Qualitative deductive thematic analysis was used. A theoretical framework inspired by the AGREE II Instrument and the Accountability for reasonableness framework assisted data gathering and interpretation. Archival data was collected and used to detail the guideline development process. Semi-structured, in-depth interviews with eight clinicians with extensive knowledge of the guidelines were carried out. Results Guideline development was characterized by i) broad agreement about scope and purpose, ii) broad involvement of stakeholders in the development process, iii) use of systematic methods to search for and apply evidence, iv) easily identifiable and specific recommendations, v) provision of tools on how to put recommendations into practice, and vi) editorial independence. Several procedural characteristics were perceived by the interviewees as promoting guideline legitimacy; i) diverse perspectives systematically involved in the process, ii) accessibility and transparency of the rationales for decision making, iii) opportunities for appeals and reconsiderations, and iv) regulative authority. Conclusions This study provides insights as to how guidelines that are intended to promote responsible use of antibiotics in hospitals can be carefully developed to facilitate perceptions of relevance, transparency, and authority by health professionals
No conflicting results in the article “HPV vaccination and risk of chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis: A nationwide register-based study from Norway”
No full textAircraft Cruise Alternative Trajectories Generation: A Mixed RRG-Clustering Approach
No full textWeather obstacles in the airspace can interfere with an aircraft’s flight plan. Pilots, assisted by air traffic controllers (ATCs), perform avoidance maneuvers that can be optimized. This paper addresses the generation of alternative aircraft trajectories to resolve unexpected events. The authors propose a solution based on the RRG algorithm, K-means clustering, and Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) similarity metric to address the problem. The mixed algorithm succeeds in generating a set of paths with diversity in an obstacle constrained airspace between Paris-Toulouse and London-Toulouse airports. This tool could help to reduce the workload of pilots and ATCs when such a situation arises.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.Control & Simulatio
Post-feminist fatherhood and the marginalization of the mother in Cormac McCarthy's the road
No full textCritics have tended to dismiss feminist analyses of Cormac McCarthy's works as misguided, labelling investigations of potential narrative misogyny in his novels as irrelevant. In this article, the author argues that such investigations are, on the contrary, highly relevant in the current climate of mother-blaming. The author specifically explains how McCarthy’s 2006 dystopian novel The Road uses post-feminist fatherhood to valorize the father and vilify the mother, thus participating in a continuing cultural trend of privileging fathers over mothers. The Road invokes traditional cultural expectations of motherhood and fatherhood, presenting the mother as unable and unwilling to care for the boy, in stark contrast to the very competent and able father. Many literary analyses of this highly acclaimed novel have unquestioningly accepted the post-feminist marginalization of the mother, and critics have elaborated on and developed the mother-blaming in the novel in a move that the author terms ‘critical co-writing’. Critical co-writing occurs when critics ally themselves with an author, rather than retaining a critical distance, and represent the author's ideas without problematizing them. In the case of The Road, many critics build on post-feminist cues in the novel, adding their own, unreflected, understandings of motherhood and fatherhood. In so doing, they reinterpret and rewrite the novel into an even more forceful presentation of flawed mothering. In a critical discussion of these readings, the author demonstrates how these critics transform the novel's implicit criticism of the mother character into explicit condemnation.Special issue</p
Network Robustness Improvement Based on Alternative Paths Consideration
No full textMany transportation networks have complex infrastructures (road, rail, airspace, etc.). The quality of service in air transportation depends on weather conditions. Technical failures of the aircraft, bad weather conditions, strike of the company’s staff cause delays and disrupt traffic. How can the robustness of such networks be improved? Improving the robustness of air transportation would reduce the cascading delays between airports and improve the passenger journey. Many studies have been done to find critical links and nodes, but not so many analyze the paths. In this paper, we propose a new method to measure network robustness based on alternative paths. Besides improving the robustness of the French (respectively Turkish Airlines and European) low-cost flight network by 19% (respectively 16% and 6.6%), the method attempts to show the relevance of analyzing the network vulnerability from a path-based approach.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.Control & Simulatio
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