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2023 Visiting Scholar Fellowship: Jack Mulder
No full textJack Mulder, philosophy professor and philosophy department chair at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, received the 2023 Visiting Scholar Fellowship for his project centered on Marian philosophical theology, or as he calls it, philosophical Mariology. Mulder’s existing scholarship has brought about dialogue between Protestant and Catholic thinkers concerning the Blessed Virgin Mary through several particular Marian chapters in books he has authored.
Mulder spent several weeks at the Marian Library to work on a forthcoming book project.
“I\u27ve never been to the library before, but I look forward to my visit,” Mulder says. “I’m simply eager to be in a place devoted to reflection on the Blessed Mother. I plan to begin my time at the library working on how the tilma of Our Lady of Guadalupe relates to icons and the view we should take of them. I also hope to devote some time to Montfortian spirituality and how philosophically we might understand things such as Marian consecration.”
Mulder noted the benefit of having access to a range of materials in one place.
“The ready availability of texts focused on Mariology — in somewhat shorter supply on a Protestant campus — would be a great aid to my work,” he said in his application.
The visiting scholar fellowship includes a $3,000 stipend and the expectation that the researcher will document their experience working with the collection in some form, such as a blog post or newsletter article
Mujeres en las Ciudades: Jakoba H. Mulder, Urbanista
No full textLas mujeres arquitectas y urbanistas no han estado representadas a lo largo de la historia en igualdad de condiciones, ni siquiera en orden de igualdad por méritos. Por ello, es necesario revisar la historia de la arquitectura y de las ciudades, para reescribirla incorporando a las mujeres que han formado parte de ella, pero cuyas voces han quedado invisibilizadas. Una de las muchas figuras que la historiografía y, con ella, la academia han dejado en el olvido a la hora de construir la historia del urbanismo moderno es Jakoba Helena (Ko) Mulder (1900–1988), una de las primeras mujeres graduadas en la especialidad de urbanismo por la Technische Hogeschool de Delft. Jakoba Mulder trabajo en el Departamento de Planificación Urbana de Amsterdam desde 1930 hasta 1965, llegando a ser directora del mismo en 1958. Sus aportaciones fueron esenciales en los proyectos de conjuntos residenciales construidos en la ciudad, dado que incorporaba al planeamiento el detalle de la vida cotidiana, incorporando una manera de trabajar transescalar, que consideraba el impacto que tendrían las configuraciones del planeamiento urbano en la vida de las personas que habitarían los espacios resultantes.Postprint (author's final draft
Mujeres en las Ciudades: Jakoba H. Mulder, Urbanista
No full textLas mujeres arquitectas y urbanistas no han estado representadas a lo largo de la historia en igualdad de condiciones, ni siquiera en orden de igualdad por méritos. Por ello, es necesario revisar la historia de la arquitectura y de las ciudades, para reescribirla incorporando a las mujeres que han formado parte de ella, pero cuyas voces han quedado invisibilizadas. Una de las muchas figuras que la historiografía y, con ella, la academia han dejado en el olvido a la hora de construir la historia del urbanismo moderno es Jakoba Helena (Ko) Mulder (1900–1988), una de las primeras mujeres graduadas en la especialidad de urbanismo por la Technische Hogeschool de Delft. Jakoba Mulder trabajo en el Departamento de Planificación Urbana de Amsterdam desde 1930 hasta 1965, llegando a ser directora del mismo en 1958. Sus aportaciones fueron esenciales en los proyectos de conjuntos residenciales construidos en la ciudad, dado que incorporaba al planeamiento el detalle de la vida cotidiana, incorporando una manera de trabajar transescalar, que consideraba el impacto que tendrían las configuraciones del planeamiento urbano en la vida de las personas que habitarían los espacios resultantes.Postprint (author's final draft
Parasyntax and the sentential level in axiomatic functionalism
No full textThis thesis is presented as a contribution to the St Andrews School
of Linguistics, Axiomatic Functionalism, as developed by Mulder and
Hervey. It is essentially a piece of Theoretical Linguistics which
outlines an approach to the hitherto undeveloped areas of Parasyntax
and the Sentential Level in Axiomatic Functionalism.
The theoretical arguments are supported by descriptive hypotheses
concerning the nature of Spoken English. These descriptions are
corpus-based.
The conclusion reached by the author is that not only are Parasyntax
and the Sentential Level distinct in theory (this is axiomatic), but
they are also distinct in their application as regards methodology
and description. This conclusion will undoubtedly prove to be
controversial in the light of recent developments in Axiomatic
Functionalism concerning the Postulates in particular (of which the
author was at the time of writing unaware), and in the light of
other Functionalist approaches to the nature of intonation and
sentences.
It is anticipated that this thesis will be of value to those
interested in Functionalism as well as those concerned with
intonation and the levels of language beyond syntax
Linguistic meta-theory the formal and empirical conditions of acceptability of linguistic theories and descriptions
No full textMost linguists acknowledge, explicitly or implicitly,
the relevance of epistemological questions in
linguistics but relatively few have given more than a
cursory, ad hoc or incomplete consideration to them.
The work of one of those few, Jan Mulder, forms the
starting point for much of the present discussion.
Epistemological considerations arise in many contexts
in linguistics and in many guises. It is an epistemological
matter whenever we test the adequacy of a
description or the acceptability of a theory. Epistemological
considerations are latent whenever we discuss
the form or the content of linguistic theories
and descriptions or their interrelations. The comparison
of different approaches to linguistics inevitably
raises epistemological questions concerning our
approach to linguistics or our presuppositions about it.
These questions are of a general nature and transcend
questions about particular linguistic theories and descriptions.
These epistemological questions force us to
consider what we take linguistics to be. In considering
questions of the type mentioned we are forced, for
example, to analyse what we mean by a "linguistic
theory", a "linguistic description" and what phenomena
we are aiming to understand. We are, furthermore,
forced to analyse the constraints which a scientific
attitude places upon linguistic theorising
and description-building. It is these questions concerning
the acceptability of linguistic theories and
descriptions which we call linguistic meta-theory.
This thesis falls into five main parts. Firstly,
in Chapter One, we consider the nature and scope of
linguistic meta-theory. Secondly, in Chapter Two, we
look at a number of previous approaches to the subject.
Other important contributions are discussed as they
arise in the text. Thirdly, in Chapters Three and
Four, we consider in detail the major meta-theoretical
distinctions in linguistics and their consequences.
In particular, we distinguish linguistic theories
from linguistic descriptions and discuss the nature of
linguistic phenomena. The view is put forward that
linguistics is a scientific subject. The meaning of
this assertion is analysed and the interrelations of
linguistic theories, descriptions and phenomena are
considered in the light of this analysis. The main
epistemological requirement that is put forward and
defended is that of the empiricism of linguistics.
Certain changes in our view of the philosophy of science
and in our view of the form of linguistic theories
and descriptions follow from the conjunction of
these major meta-theoretical positions.
Fourthly, we consider the main meta-theoretical
considerations concerning theories (Chapter Five) and
reject a widespread view of linguistic theory as a
non-empirical study (Chapter Six) and we consider the
main meta-theoretical conditions relating to linguistic
descriptions and some practical examples of description
-building consonant with the general positions adopted
in Chapter Seven. In Chapter Eight, we look at a concrete
example of theory-building in the light of the
meta-theoretical conditions of acceptability previously
set up. We are especially concerned to show how a
theory can meet the condition of being "applicable" or
"indirectly scientific" through the establishment of
acceptable empirical descriptions consonant with the
meta-theoretical conditions on descriptions considered
earlier.
The view that linguistics is a science implies
that we must be concerned with the empirical testing of
descriptions and, so, the fifth part of the work is
devoted to methodology. In Chapter Nine, we defend
the role and necessity of methodology in linguistics
and set up the logical framework of relations between
the methodology and theory descriptions and phenomena.
In Chapter Ten, we examine two of the known types of
empirical testing and their shortcomings. Finally, in
Chapter Eleven, we give an example of the successful
and correct application of a methodology in order to
bring out the nature of empirical testing and to demonstrate
its feasibility within a scientific linguistics
of the sort we imagine
Haptic gas pedal feedback for active car-following support
No full textThe research presented in this dissertation focuses on supporting drivers in the longitudinal control of their vehicle during car-following. The goal of the research is the human-centred development of a haptic gas pedal interface that comfortably supports drivers in maintaining a safe separation with a leading vehicle during car-following. Two different approaches were found to be suitable for implementation as haptic information providers through the gas pedal. The first approach was to add a force to the gas pedal dynamics which would have to be related to the safe-field-of-travel ahead of the own vehicle and changes therein. The gas pedal dynamics, that is, the force/pedal-position relationship is not changed by this approach. The second approach was to change the stiffness of the gas pedal by adding a virtual stiffness to the inherent stiffness of the gas pedal. By doing so, the dynamics of the gas pedal are changed depending on the changes detected in the safe-field-of-travel. In both approaches, an electrical actuator provides the additional force or stiffness. The main hypothesis of this dissertation is the assumption that with the appropriate haptic feedback of longitudinal traffic information drivers will adopt a force-task in controlling the haptic gas pedal. Experimental verification leads to the conclusion that the stiffness feedback design with time-to-contact information scaled by time headway performs best in this respect.Aerospace Engineerin
Phonology of San Martin Quechua
No full textWhile the present work is far from being a definitive one,
it does aim at providing a fairly complete phonology of San
Martin Quechua. The author has tried to give a satisfactory account
of the descriptive problems and their possible solutions for the
dialect. The theoretical principles used to solve the problems
are explained, the notions of the theory are defined, and their
application to the data is outlined in every case, and explained
in some detail in many cases as well.
This work is unusual among works on Quechua as regards the
space it devotes to explaining and solving problems in the description.
Existing descriptions of Quechua may be characterised as
supposedly problem-less descriptions. The present work treats
Phonology, not as a subsidiary to grammar but as a universe in
its own right, with its own problems and solutions. The European
background of the work, and the 'axiomatic' approach of Mulder,
have undoubtedly contributed in, great measure to the nature of this
description, and to what some might call its 'preoccupation' with
problems. Without wishing to tag derogatory labels on Bloomfieldian
linguistics (enough writers have done so already). I have written
the present work as a possible answer to what I believe to be an
inadmissable ‘gap’ in Quechua linguistic description as it stands
the lack of a rigorous autonomous phonology, which attempts to
recognise, state and solve descriptive problems. It is to be hoped
that the present work provides a beginning for a fully-fledged
discipline of Quechua phonology. [Taken from the forward not from the abstract]
Cybernetics of Tunnel-in-the-Sky Displays
No full textConsensus is growing that the flexibility gained with the introduction of programmable, electronic cockpit displays in the 1980s must be exploited to the full extent. An important candidate to become the primary flight display of future flight decks is the tunnel-in-the-sky display, a perspective flight-path display that shows the reference trajectory to be flown in a synthetic three-dimensional world. The usefulness of the tunnel display in the pilot manual aircraft control task is the subject of this thesis. The mainstream of tunnel display research is confined to empirical comparisons of the tunnel display with conventional displays. The approach taken in the present theoretical and experimental study is original and new as it is conducted from the perspective of cybernetics. A four-stage methodology is developed to study the fundamental characteristics of pilot/display interaction, based on a theoretical analysis of information, in particular the information used for control. The information analysis is conducted within the context of Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. The information analysis provides novel insights into how the tunnel display geometric design variables can affect pilot behavior. To examine the validity of the theoretical hypotheses, six experiments have been conducted. Three experiments examined the effects of manipulating some of the main display design variables, such as the tunnel size, the viewing volume and the presence of guidance symbology. Another three experiments investigated the fundamental characteristics of the tunnel geometrical design in the tasks of following a trajectory that is either straight or circular, and in the task of conducting a curve-interception maneuver. The experiments show that the cybernetic, information-centered approach is indeed very successful in pin-pointing the important characteristics of pilot/display interaction. The experimental methodology employed in this thesis aimed at integrating the model-based approach with the common approach of collecting mainly performance-related data. It is described in detail how experiments can be designed with the objective of conducting a control-theoretic analysis. The limitations of some non-parametric identification methods in multi-axis, multiple loop tracking tasks are described. The use of criterion functions, in both the frequency and the time domain, in the parametric identification methods is also exemplified.Aerospace Engineerin
Transit functions on graphs (and posets)
No full textThe notion of transit function is introduced to present a unifying approachfor results and ideas on intervals, convexities and betweenness in graphs andposets. Prime examples of such transit functions are the interval function I andthe induced path function J of a connected graph. Another transit function isthe all-paths function. New transit functions are introduced, such as the cutvertextransit function and the longest path function. The main idea of transitfunctions is that of ‘transferring’ problems and ideas of one transit functionto the other. For instance, a result on the interval function I might suggestsimilar problems for the induced path function J. Examples are given of howfruitful this transfer can be. A list of Prototype Problems and Questions forthis transferring process is given, which suggests many new questions and openproblems.graph theory;betweenness;block graph;convexity;distance in graphs;interval function;path function;induced path;paths and cycles;transit function;types of graphs
Complicated Coeliac Disease : Diagnosis and Management
No full textDit proefschrift geeft een gedetailleerd overzicht van het management van gecompliceerde vormen van coeliakie, met name refractaire coeliakie, met de huidige onderverdeling in twee categorieën (RCD type I en II), en enteropathie geassocieerd T-cel lymfoom (EATL).Mulder, C.J.J. [Promotor
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