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In Conversation with Seth Pollack
No full textIn November 2016, EPiCHE Editor Marshall J. Welch sat down with service-learning scholar and practitioner Seth Pollack. They explored how the spiritual and religious dimensions of Seth’s life have influenced his personal passions and academic career.
Seth Pollack is Professor of Service Learning, and the founding faculty director of the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB). For the past 17 years, Seth has provided overall leadership for the Service Learning Institute at CSUMB. In 2005, he received the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, recognized as the nation’s outstanding faculty in the field of community service and civic engagement. Seth comes to his work in civic engagement after a decade working in grassroots rural development in West Africa, South Asia and Central America. In 2008-09, he served as a Fulbright Scholar in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked with the University of Cape Town and the University of the Western Cape to strengthen their service- learning and community engagement
Interview with Seth Pollack
No full textThe interview details the last year of Seth’s life. He was a recipient of the Fulbright Award and spent a year with his family in Cape Town, South Africa. Seth is also the Director of Service Learning at California State University Monterey Bay. He spoke about his history with CSUMB as the Director of Service Learning and the school’s impact on the community surrounding our region. Seth is also a major figurehead in the Chinatown Renewal Project.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/ohcma_chinatown/1040/thumbnail.jp
Interview with Seth Pollack
No full textInterview with Seth Pollack, Professor and Director of Service Learning Service Learning Institutehttps://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/oralhist_founding-faculty/1022/thumbnail.jp
More Than 50 Subtypes of Soft Tissue Sarcoma: Paving the Path for Histology-Driven Treatments
No full text Sarcomas are a diverse group of cancers with mesenchymal origin. Although sarcomas comprise less than 1% of cancers, there are more than 50 different subtypes that are quite different from one another in terms of both their biology and clinical behavior. Historically, the need for adequate patient numbers in clinical trials has pushed sarcoma researchers to lump these very different malignancies together and treat the patients using a “one-size-fits-all” approach. However, with improvements in our scientific understanding, we are finally ready for a histology-tailored therapeutic approach to these complex diseases. In this review, we discuss key advances in our understanding of the biology underlying selected sarcoma subtypes and how targeting these subtypes is relevant therapeutically with respect to both molecularly targeted agents as well as immunotherapy. </jats:p
Levins and the lure of artificial worlds
No full textWhat is it about simulation models that has led some practitioners to treat them as potential sources of empirical data on the real-world systems being simulated; that is, to treat simulations as ‘artificial worlds’ within which to perform computational ‘experiments’? Here we use the work of Richard Levins as a starting point in identifying the appeal of this model building strategy, and proceed to account for why this appeal is strongest for computational modellers. This analysis suggests a perspective on simulation modelling that makes room for ‘artificial worlds’ as legitimate science without having to accept that they should be treated as sources of empirical dat
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Hit By a Horse
No full textThe document "Hit By a Horse" by Robert Pollack recounts a personal experience in which the author was struck by a horse-drawn carriage in New York City. Pollack uses this incident to explore broader themes of morality, human behavior, and the distinction between ignorance and evil. He contrasts the indifference of bystanders with the kindness of his wife and the emergency room staff, suggesting that moral choices are not determined by education or knowledge but are instead independent and intrinsic decisions. Pollack reflects on the necessity of addressing moral questions within the intersection of science and religion, emphasizing that understanding what is right and good remains a crucial, albeit data-resistant, aspect of human life. He concludes by linking this personal reflection to the mission of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion (CSSR), advocating for the importance of integrating moral inquiry into scientific and educational endeavors
Combating coevolutionary disengagement by reducing parasite virulence
No full textWhile standard evolutionary algorithms employ a static, absolute fitness metric, coevolutionary algorithms assess individuals by their performance relative to populations of opponents that are themselves evolving. Although this arrangement offers the possibility of avoiding long-standing difficulties such as premature convergence, it suffers from its own unique problems, cycling, over-focusing and disengagement. Here, we introduce a novel technique for dealing with the third and least explored of these problems. Inspired by studies of natural host-parasite systems, we show that disengagement can be avoided by selecting for individuals that exhibit reduced levels of "virulence", rather than maximum ability to defeat coevolutionary adversaries. Experiments in both simple and complex domains are used to explain how this counterintuitive approach may be used to improve the success of coevolutionary algorithms
Uncertainty principles connected with the Mobius inversion formula
No full textWe say that two arithmetic functions and form a \emph{M\"{o}bius pair} if for all natural numbers . In that case, can be expressed in terms of by the familiar M\"{o}bius inversion formula of elementary number theory. In a previous paper, the first-named author showed that if the members and of a M\"{o}bius pair are both finitely supported, then both functions vanish identically. Here we prove two significantly stronger versions of this uncertainty principle. A corollary of our results is that in a nonzero M\"{o}bius pair, one cannot have both $\sum_{f(n) \neq 0}\frac{1}{n
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On the Fourier-Jacobi Expansion of Quaternionic Modular Forms on Spin(8)
No full textIn this dissertation, we study a class of non-holomorphic, cohomological automorphic functions on the split, simply connected, spin group G=Spin(4,4). Following ideas of Gross-Wallach, Gan-Gross-Savin, M. Weissman, and A. Pollack, we term these automorphic functions quaternionic modular forms on G, and analyze a theory of scalar-valued Fourier coefficients associated to them. Our results build parallels between the theory of quaternionic modular forms on G, and the arithmetically rich theory of genus two Siegel modular forms. The main result states that a level one quaternionic modular form on G is determined by its primitive Fourier coefficients. As an input to this result, we develop a theory of Fourier-Jacobi expansions for quaternionic modular forms, in which the non-degenerate coefficients are themselves genus two Siegel modular forms. Our primary application strengthens earlier joint work of the author with J. Johnson-Leung, I. Negrini, M. Roy, and A. Pollack. More precisely, in this dissertation we show that the level one quaternionic modular forms on SO(4,4) that arise as theta lifts from Sp(4) admit an elementary Fourier coefficient theoretic characterization, which is akin to a characterization of the classical Saito-Kurokawa subspace proven by D. Zagier
Rudy warkocz. Martin Pollack: Skażone krajobrazy. Przeł. Karolina Niedenthal. Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, ss. 112
No full textA red plait. Martin Pollack: Skażone krajobrazy. Przeł. Karolina Niedenthal. Wołowiec, Wydawnictwo Czarne, 2014, ss. 112.
The present essay is devoted to a book by Martin Pollack entitled Skażone krajobrazy. In this volume the Austrian reporter and essayist creates a peculiar map of Central and EasternEurope. The former includes the sites of mass murders which were perpetrated in strict secrecy, and which until today have not been commemorated. Pollack argues that until this happens, the perpetrators who attempted at all costs to commit their crimes without any witnesses will prevail. A separate trait of Pollack’s essay has to do with a reflection about the “topography of terror”: the author presents with a poet’s devotion the landscapes in which acts of genocide were perpetrated. This enables the readers to examine the process of the Shoah from yet another perspective – a post‑anthropocentric perspective
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