187 research outputs found
“La buona novella della morte di Dio”: ricognizioni e campionature dell\u27opera del “primo” Altizer nella temperie storico-culturale del sessantotto
No full textThis brief essay want to be a concise introduction to the thought of Thomas Altizer, the “first” Altizer (between the Sixties and the Seventies), religious author very prolific. His membership in Theological world of United States is always critical. Altizer is the “prophet” of The-Death-of-God Theme, if one could say so, almost a misunderstood religious genius.This brief essay want to be a concise introduction to the thought of Thomas Altizer, the “first” Altizer (between the Sixties and the Seventies), religious author very prolific. His membership in Theological world of United States is always critical. Altizer is the “prophet” of The-Death-of-God Theme, if one could say so, almost a misunderstood religious genius
ADULT MONARCH BUTTERFLIES SHOW HIGH TOLERANCE TO NEONICOTINOID INSECTICIDES
No full textData and analysis for adult exposure to neonicotinoids. Personal data collected under supervision of Sonia Altizer. Analyses for experiment 1 in collaboration with Lewis Bartlett
Majewska_etal-10.1098.rspb.2019.01630_R project
No full textThe compressed folder contains R project with code (4 scripts), metadata, and data (4 .csv files) to accompany Multiple transmission routes sustain high prevalence of a virulent parasite in a butterfly host (Majewska, Sims, Schneider, Altizer, Hall 2019, Proceedings B; DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2019.1630
Linking social and pathogen transmission networks using microbial genetics in giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
No full textAlthough network analysis has drawn considerable attention as a promising tool for disease ecology, empirical research has been hindered by limitations in detecting the occurrence of pathogen transmission (who transmitted to whom) within social networks. Using a novel approach, we utilize the genetics of a diverse microbe, Escherichia coli, to infer where direct or indirect transmission has occurred and use these data to construct transmission networks for a wild giraffe population (Giraffe camelopardalis). Individuals were considered to be a part of the same transmission chain and were interlinked in the transmission network if they shared genetic subtypes of E. coli. By using microbial genetics to quantify who transmits to whom independently from the behavioural data on who is in contact with whom, we were able to directly investigate how the structure of contact networks influences the structure of the transmission network. To distinguish between the effects of social and environmental contact on transmission dynamics, the transmission network was compared with two separate contact networks defined from the behavioural data: a social network based on association patterns, and a spatial network based on patterns of home-range overlap among individuals. We found that links in the transmission network were more likely to occur between individuals that were strongly linked in the social network. Furthermore, individuals that had more numerous connections or that occupied 'bottleneck' positions in the social network tended to occupy similar positions in the transmission network. No similar correlations were observed between the spatial and transmission networks. This indicates that an individual's social network position is predictive of transmission network position, which has implications for identifying individuals that function as super-spreaders or transmission bottlenecks in the population. These results emphasize the importance of association patterns in understanding transmission dynamics, even for environmentally transmitted microbes like E. coli. This study is the first to use microbial genetics to construct and analyse transmission networks in a wildlife population and highlights the potential utility of an approach integrating microbial genetics with network analysis
"Theology and the Contemporary Sensibility," America and the Future of Theology Lecture
No full textThis audio recording consists of three speakers Dr. Thomas Altizer, Rabbi Richard L. Rubenstein, and Charles H. Long. Dr. Altizer speaks first, giving a lecture on the disappearance of theological language. Altizer uses multiple prominent literary authors to illustrate how humanity cannot exist without brotherhood. The second speaker, Rabbi Rubenstein, delivers a critique and analysis of Dr. Altizers lecture in his own terms. He is followed by Charles H. Long who also critiques Altizers lecture and stresses that America needs to confront its problems of the past if it expects to make it in the future. The recording closes with a question and answer session with the panel of lecturers. Various short 2-4 second breaks during audio recording
The Radical Theology of Thomas Altizer: an Overview and Problems
No full textDijalektička napetost između fenomena ateizma i fenomena vjere nalazi se u temelju čovjekova religioznog iskustva svijeta oko sebe. Ta uvijek aktualna napetost kulminirala je u Nietzscheovoj kritici kršćanstva, prozivajući samo kršćanstvo. Šezdesetih godina XX. stoljeća teološki odgovor dan je Nietzscheu na Drugome vatikanskom koncilu i u teološkom pokretu zvanom »radikalna teologija«. Pokazalo se da je radikalna teologija skupni naziv za teološku misao nekolicine autora koji su sve samo ne jedinstveni što se tiče temeljnih ideja. Najznačajniji autor koji je doista radikalno shvatio Nietzscheov
proglas Božje smrti, i to u ontološkom smislu, jest Thomas Altizer. No,
on je glavne teološke teme, kao što su smrt Boga, utjelovljenje i nauk o Isusu, promišljao na nesustavan i nerijetko fragmentaran način obilježen ponajprije kritikom kršćanskoga klasičnog nauka o Bogu. Iz takvoga teološkog sustava proizišli su razni problemi: svođenje teologije na antropologiju, nauk o Bogu koji počiva na krivim predodžbama o Bogu, nelegitimno preuzimanje književne literature kao teološkog izvora, jednostrano kenotičko tumačenje uloge Isusa Krista u povijesti kršćanske teologije i neutemeljeno razumijevanje ekleziologije kao specifične univerzalne ekleziologije. Iako su temelji radikalne teologije vrlo upitni, ona je pridonijela tomu da se teologija okrenula intenzivnijem proučavanju fenomena ateizma. No, još više od toga, radikalna teologija se može tumačiti kao pokret koji je nastao unutar protestantske teologije kao kritički odgovor i tumačenje teologije Božje riječi Karla Bartha.Dialectical tension between atheism and faith is based upon human being´s religious experience of the world and himself/herself. This tension has culminated in Nietzsche´s critique of Christianity that denounced it. During the sixties of the last century theology answered Nietzsche at the II Vatican Council and through a theological movement called »radical theology«. It was shown that »radical theology«, as the common term for the group of authors, is far from uniform when it comes to the core ideas associated with it. It was a heterogeneous movement and its most important author was Thomas Altizer who understood Nietzschean proclamation of God’s death radically and in the ontological sense. He tried to reflect about the main theological ideas, like death of God, the Incarnation and the doctrine of Jesus Christ by accepting the ontological and theological fact of God’s death and he did it often in unsystematic and fragmentary way. Altizer begins his theology from the critique of traditional doctrine of God which is transcendent and distant. It became obvious that his theology will lead to several theological problems: it reduces theology to anthropology, his doctrine of God is based upon false image of God which appears from the lack of respect for the doctrine of God in the Christian Tradition, it takes over literature as a theological source, it holds one-sided interpretation of the kenosis of Jesus Christ in history of theology, and it interprets ecclesiology as a specific universal ecclesiology. Although foundations of »radical theology« were highly questionable, it made theology attentive to atheism. But, more than that, it can be interpreted as a movement within protestant theology that emerged as a revolt against the dominant dialectic theology of Karl Barth
Occurrence and host specificity of a neogregarine protozoan in four milkweed butterfly hosts (Danaus spp.)
No full textOccurrence and host specificity of a neogregarine protozoan
in four milkweed butterfly hosts (Danaus
spp.)
Paola A. Barriga1*, Eleanore D. Sternberg2,3
Thierry Lefèvre2,
4, Jacobus C. de Roode2, Sonia Altizer1
1 Odum School of Ecology, University of
Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
2 Biology Department, Emory University,
1510 Clifton road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
3 Center for Infectious Disease
Dynamics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
4 MIVEGEC lab
(Maladies Infectieuses et Vecteurs: Ecologie, Génétique, Evolution et
Contrôle), CNRS-IRD,
911, Av. Agropolis 34394 Montpellier France
*Corresponding author: E-mail address: [email protected]
Metadata
The “complete survey” file compiles information about
prevalence of Ophryocystis elektroscirrha
(OE) infection in wild populations of four butterfly species in the family
Danainae (Danaus plexippus, D. gilippus, D. eresimus, and D. petila).
To collect these butterflies, milkweed
and other flowering plants attractive to Danaus
spp. were identified and butterflies were collected using an aerial net during
nectar feeding or active flight in all the locations mentioned. Butterfly
abdomens were sampled non-destructively to obtain scales and parasite spores to
determine infection status. Spore load was determined by counting all of the
spores in a 2.5 cm diameter transparent adhesive tape pressed against monarch
abdomens and transferred to index cards as described in Altizer et al. (2000). Spore samples were
identified as OE or OE-like parasites based on amber coloration and shaped as
ovals with tapered ends, and, with dimensions of 10-14 mm length and 7-10 mm
width (Leong et al., 1997; Sander et al., 2013). Since molecular
analyses have not yet been performed to test whether OE parasites found on
monarchs belong to the same species as those found on queens or other species,
we categorized parasites as OE parasites when found on monarchs, and as OE-like
parasites when found on other butterfly species. Samples with more than 100
spores per adhesive tape were considered heavily infected, as previous monarch
experiments demonstrated that these butterflies likely ingested spores as
larvae (Altizer et al., 2000). Heavily infected
butterflies were marked in the infected column of the dataset as “1.” In
contrast, spore loads of less than 100 spores can result from passive spore
transfer between adult butterflies (De
Roode et al., 2009, 2007), and we refer to
butterflies with these lower numbers of spores as exposed, but not necessarily
infected. Therefore, those samples were marked as no infected and represent the
“0s” in the database.
Data
columns represent:
Species: Butterfly species collected
Year: Year when butterflies were collected
Population: Location where the butterflies were collected
Infected: 0 = no infected and 1= infected
The other four files compile the results of five experiments
performed in laboratory conditions to test the specificity of OE or OE-like
parasites infection in D. plexippus
(monarchs) and D. gilippus (queens). Specifically,
Experiments 1 and 2 focused on monarch and queen hosts, challenging each
species with monarch parasite strains; the first experiment used a parasite
dose of 10 spores and the second experiment used a dose of 100 spores per
larva. Experiments 3 and 4 focused on a fully reciprocal cross-infection design
challenging monarchs and queens with parasites collected from each of the two
host species. Results from Experiment 3 and 4 were pooled to analyze infection
probability. For experiment 3, we further analyzed adult monarch lifespan
(without pooling the data, as lifespan was not measured for experiment 4). This
file is labeled as “Experiment 3 adult life span.” In Experiment 5, we challenged
monarchs from each of two populations (Georgia/U.S. and Queensland/Australia)
with parasites from each of three sources: monarch parasites from North
Florida, monarch parasites from Australia and an OE-like parasite from the
lesser wanderer (D. petilia) in Australia, to compare the
specificity of parasites in relation to host species and source location.
Data
columns represent (on files Experiment 1 to 5, and Experiment 3 life span):
Host: Butterfly species studied
Treatment: Treated to emphasize that only
treated butterflies were analyzed
Infection: 0 = no infected and 1= infected
Dose: Number of parasite spores inoculated
Year: When experiments were performed
Monarchp: Explains the population where monarchs
were collected (Georgia, US, or Australia).
Parasite: Origin of the parasite. In Experiments
3 and 4 it refers to if those were collected from monarch or queen butterflies.
In Experiment 5 it refers to if collected from monarchs in Australia, Florida
or from “Other butterfly” and in that case comes from Danaus petilia.
Sex: whether the butterfly was male (M) or
female (F)
Life_span: number of days that butterflies
lived.
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Estimating the climate signal in monarch population decline: no direct evidence for climate change?
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