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Magnetobiology and possible implications for awareness research
No full textMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1967. B.S.Includes bibliographical references.by Alan Stuart Gevins.B.S
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
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Long-Term Neurophysiologic Impact of Childhood Sleep Disordered Breathing on Neurocognitive Performance
No full textCitation: Quan SF, Archbold K, Gevins AS, Goodwin JL. Long-term neurophysiologic impact of childhood sleep disordered breathing on neurocognitive performance. Southwest J Pulm Crit Care. 2013;7(3):165-75.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.13175/swjpcc110-13Study Objective. To determine the impact of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) in children on neurocognitive function 5 years later.
Design, Setting, and Participants. A subgroup of 43 children from the Tucson Children’s Assessment of Sleep Apnea Study (TuCASA) who had SDB (RDI > 6 events/hour) at their initial exam (ages 6-11 years) were matched on the basis of age (within 1 year), gender and ethnicity (Anglo/Hispanic) to 43 children without SDB (Control, RDI < 4 events/hour). The Sustained Working Memory Task (SWMT) which combines tests of working memory (1-Back Task), reaction time (Simple Reaction Time) and attention (Multiplexing Task) with concurrent electroencephalographic monitoring was administered approximately 5 years later.
Results. There were no differences in performance on the working memory, reaction time and attention tests between the SDB and Control groups. However, the SDB group exhibited lower P300 evoked potential amplitudes during the Simple Reaction Time and Multiplexing Tasks. Additionally, peak alpha power during the Multiplexing Task was lower in the SDB Group with a similar trend in the Simple Reaction Time Task (p=0.08).
Conclusions. SDB in children may cause subtle long-term changes in executive function that are not detectable with conventional neurocognitive testing and are only evident during neuroelectrophysiologic monitoring.Version of Recor
Correlates of androgens in wild male Barbary macaques: Testing the challenge hypothesis
No full text© 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The attached document (embargoed until 17/08/2018) is an author produced version of a paper published in the American Journal of Primatology, uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Ownership Masks, Evolving Views and Cooperative Templates in Template Tracking
No full textI hereby declare that I am the sole author of this thesis. This is a true copy of the thesis, including any required final revisions, as accepted by my examiners. I understand that my thesis may be made electronically available to the public. Alan Stuart Angold ii A template tracker is a tracker based on matching a pre-initialised view of an object with the object’s view in an image sequence. Using an error function, the intensity difference between the template view and the templated region in the image is measured. This error measure is used as the basis for a template alignment algorithm that will adjust the template’s pose to more accurately register the template view with the view of the object in the image. Some significant problems present themselves with this simple tracker. Extraneous, or non-object, pixels within the template boundaries can cause bias in the registration of the template. Partial occlusions of the object’s view in the image can also cause serious bias in the template’s pose. Beyond simple occlusions there are transits of occlusions across an object. Occlusion transits are significant because over time they can occlude the entire object in an incremental fashion. If initially the template view is not completely known this kind of occlusion can easily cause a total tracking failure for an object. In this thesis three enhancements of the basic template tracker are proposed: Own-ership Masks, Cooperative Templates, and Evolving Views. Ownership Masks are aimed at eliminating the extraneous pixels from the template view. Cooperative templates are used to separate the intensity probabilities when more than one template covers a pixel. Building upon both Ownership Masks and Cooperative Templates, Evolving Views update the template views when occlusion transits are a problem. With these enhancements we have been able to increase the accuracy of tracking objects where large portions of a template contain background pixels. Also occlusions and some types of unocclusions can be detected and discriminated. Finally, some failures in the basic tracker due to occlusion transits have been overcome. ii
Rugby League Talent Development: How to make Chicken soup out of chicken poop: not battery farming for rugby league champions
No full textThis is a personal view of talent development in rugby league, as it has been experienced by the author over many years of involvement in that sport at an elite level (see contributors note at the start of the book). These sport-specific reflections were stimulated from my mentoring the previous chapter with Luke Ellis which discussed some general issues around talent identification and talent development in sport. Working with him on his chapter caused me to reflect more closely about my own involvement in this area, in rugby league and to formulate some wisdom which has proven successful for me in the past, in order that it might be share
A necessary fiction: The ritualisation of stakeholder practices in New Zealand cinema
No full textThis thesis argues that stability of the concept ‘national cinema’ is located in the discursive positioning of individual films in such a way that they are connected to a national ‘common ground’, one which is ritually accessed via engagement with media such as cinema. This positioning, however, is not quantifiable and may not be identified as arising from any particular production practice, dimension of popularity, theme, style, characteristic of production personnel, and so on. By synthesising the work of several theorists and applying this synthesis to a selection of films, a framework of ideas (around the ritualised ‘flagging’ of the national via the expression of stakeholder interests) is applied to cinema in New Zealand. In particular, an ideoscape is ultimately mapped as a result of applying this framework of ideas. The normative assumptions of national cinema are examined in this way and found to be lacking despite the weight that the term ‘national cinema’ continues to have
What am I doing and why Philosophy to practice -personal observations about coaching rugby
No full textThis paper is a reflective account about a personal approach to coaching rugby by the first author, Stuart Wilkinson. His ongoing academic research in 2010 has prompted a fresh consideration of his coaching style which is shared interactively with his players and staff in the world of professional rugby league. This has brought about some deeper questioning of the reasons behind his approach to coaching which has led to a formulation of his coaching philosophy. His coaching philosophy; „a caring guide to athlete self-discovery and self-improvement‟ may be regarded as a summative statement of his beliefs and values at this moment in time, to coach others in order that they might play the game well. The paper is written largely in first person, a trait of its reflective nature and incorporates some data from an interview with a player. The paper concludes that if players are equipped with the confidence and knowledge to question their own actions they may be able to self-correct their errors on the field of play and see more options to act independently instead of relying upon directives from the coach at the sideline
Libertad de expresión: la perspectiva de John Stuart Mill
No full textEl presente trabajo tiene como propósito analizar el concepto de libertad de expresión en el pensamiento filosófico de John Stuart Mill. El estudio se centra en la formulación y argumentación que lleva a cabo el autor en el ensayo “Sobre la libertad”, texto que ha sido reconocido como uno de los pilares fundamentales del pensamiento político liberal. Se aborda el estudio del principio de libertad, concebido por Mill como una barrera necesaria incluso en las democracias representativas, con el fin de fijar límites al poder de coacción del estado y de la sociedad sobre el individuo. Como una derivación del principio de libertad, emerge la libertad de pensamiento y discusión –o libertad de expresión- la que de acuerdo con Mill representa una base sólida para el descubrimiento de la verdad y el progreso en el debate público. Se incluye un análisis de la crítica de Martha Nussbaum sobre la supuesta excesiva amplitud que implica el concepto de libertad de expresión en Mill, y se argumenta que el concepto que Mill defiende no es tan ilimitado como esta pensadora lo supone. El trabajo plantea la hipótesis de que si bien Mill hizo un esfuerzo muy valioso para fijar la frontera entre la libertad y la autoridad, a través de la noción del “daño”, éste no alcanza a lograr su cometido, debido a la ambigüedad o vaguedad misma del concepto, que le hace susceptible de múltiples interpretaciones subordinadas a intereses subjetivos.The purpose of this paper is to analyze the concept of freedom of expression in the philosophical thought of John Stuart Mill. The study focuses on the formulation and argumentation carried out by the author in the essay "On Liberty", a text that has been recognized as one of the fundamental pillars of liberal political thought. The study of the principle of freedom is addressed, conceived by Mill as a necessary barrier even in representative democracies, in order to set limits to the coercive power of the state and society over the individual. As a derivation of the principle of freedom, freedom of thought and discussion –or freedom of expression- emerges, which according to Mill represents a solid basis for the discovery of truth and progress in public debate. An analysis of Martha Nussbaum's criticism of the alleged excessive breadth implied by the concept of freedom of expression in Mill is included, and it is argued that the concept that Mill defends is not as unlimited as this thinker supposes. The work proposes the hypothesis that although Mill made a very valuable effort to establish the border between freedom and authority, through the notion of "harm", it does not achieve its goal, due to ambiguity or vagueness of the concept itself, which
makes it susceptible to multiple interpretations subordinated to subjective interests.TABLA DE CONTENIDO
PRÓLOGO 5
1. LA NECESIDAD DE UN PRINCIPIO. La autoridad y la libertad 13
1.1. La tiranía de la mayoría 20
1.2. El principio de libertad 23
1.3. El papel del “daño” en el principio de la libertad 26
2. LA LIBERTAD DE EXPRESIÓN. Consideraciones preliminares 35
2.1. La defensa de la libertad de expresión: la perspectiva gnoseológica 38
2.2. El énfasis está ¿en el oyente o en el hablante? 49
3. ¿TODO VALE? Los límites de la libertad de expresión 53
3.1. La mirada crítica de Martha Nussbaum 60
REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS 69MaestríaMagíster en Filosofí
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