162 research outputs found
Virtually real : problems of authenticity in religion on the internet
No full textBibliography: leaves 205-213.This study explores the vexed problem of authenticity in religion. In making that exploration, the study uses for its data the multitude of diverse and disparate religious formations found in the relatively disordered and anarchic spaces created with Internet technologies, formations that I have tentatively called virtual religions. The theoretical framework applied here is developed from the unique and original critical theory of Walter Benjamin. This study is therefore located at a number of important intersections: between religion and popular culture, between religion and politics, between religion and philosophy, and between religion and art. The argument is comprised of three major parts, corresponding to Chapters Two, Three and Four respectively. The first part approaches authenticity from the perspective of empiricism, with its scientific methods of verification and falsification. The keyword here is forensics because it implies both the scientific paradigm and police detection. This second implication is an important addition to the first because it draws attention to power in the vexed problem of religious authenticity
Flow Modelling for Wind Farm Control: 2D vs. 3D
No full textControl-oriented models provide a basis for wind farm control to improve power production and reduce structural loading. Wake steering is considered to be one of the most promising techniques to achieve this. Wind turbine wakes under yaw misalignment are deflected downstream and have been shown to produce a curled or kidney-shaped structure. A Navier-Stokes based code called FRED was developed to model wind farm flow in 2D to perform yaw control. To tackle the differences between 2D and 3D flow, this work introduces a generalised continuity correction and wind turbine force scaling terms to the FRED framework. The effectiveness of approximating 3D results is tested by comparison with 3D simulations in the same framework. The continuity correction is now applicable to general wind directions and effective in reducing wake width and speed-up effects. The magnitude of wake deflection can be tuned using a force scaling term. However, we show that there remains a qualitative difference in the deflection profile downstream, as well as a difference in the propagation of yaw effects over time. From this study we can conclude that there is a fundamental difference between 2D and 3D flow physics in spatial and temporal dynamics which makes the 2D modelling approach challenging for control without further empirical adjustments. The necessary corrections are likely to be complex and non-physical, leading to a departure from the first principles foundation that FRED is developed from. Team Jan-Willem van Wingerde
Letter from Harrop A. Freeman, College of William and Mary, to Ernest Besig, Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, April 14, 1944
No full textLetter from Harrop A. Freeman to Ernest Besig, suggesting attorneys Wendell Willke, Homer Cummings, Benjamin, and Grenville Clark as possible options to represent the Korematsu case in the Supreme Court.The ACLU-Northern California case file records contain legal documents and correspondence pertaining to the case argued before the Supreme Court in Korematsu v. United States (1944), challenging the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066
Terry Rey: The Priest and the Prophetess [Audio interview]
No full textTemple Religion professor Terry Rey is the author of The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbe Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World (Oxford University Press, 2017). In The Priest and the Prophetess he tells unlikely story about Abbe Ouviere, a politically astute, shapeshifting French priest, and Romaine Riviere, a religiously-inspired, cross-dressing, slave-owning Black military leader, whose lives briefly intersected in the chaotic early days of the Haitian Revolution at the latter’s coffee plantation turned mountain redoubt. Their encounter spanned a few days in which they celebrated the Catholic mass and concluded a military agreement. The fates of Abbe Ouviere, later known as Doctor Pascalis, and Romaine Riviere, whose nom de guerre was Romaine la Prophetess, turned out very differently. While Romaine was soon lost to history, the Abbe made his way to Philadelphia where he launched his medical career by caring for the sick during the 1793 yellow fever epidemic. In part one of this interview, Professor Rey tells the story of Abbe Ouviere and Romaine Riviere at the start of the Haitian Revolution.
In the second part of my interview with Professor Terry Rey on his new book, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbe Ouviere, Romaine Riviere, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, we leave Haiti and the Haitian Revolution behind. Romaine la Prophetess has disappeared and will soon perish in the flames of the revolution. That terrible conflict will continue alongside its European cousin, the French Revolution, until the early years of the next century. A hemisphere away, an exhausted Felix Alexander Pascalis Ouviere washes up on Philadelphia’s shores, having survived an attack on the British brig Catherine by a French privateer in Delaware Bay. Among his few possessions is a letter of introduction addressed to George Washington. Soon Dr. Pascalis will be treating yellow fever victims in that miasmic summer of 1793 in the company of such luminaries as Benjamin Rush. Abbe Ouviere is nowhere to be found.
Fred Rowland interviewed Terry Rey on September 25, 2017.Temple University. College of Liberal ArtsTemple University. LibrariesLearning & Research ServicesReligionAudacityAudacit
Enhanced energy maneuverability for attack helicopters using continuous, variable rotor speed control
No full textThe results of this research indicate that continuous, variable rotor speed control is a viable solution to increased helicopter maneuverability and agility. Of the rotor speed control laws investigated, the RCDR and T (RC) types seem the most promising. In particular, these control laws demonstrated a 31% improvement in time-to-turn 180 degrees, a 38% improvement in turn penetration distance, a 42% improvement in turn cross track distance, and a pointing margin advantage of nearly 94 degrees. In addition, the rotor speed control law parameters could be optimized such that the helicopter exited a maximum performance decelerating turn at or above its power bucket speed, affording the helicopter a distinct maneuvering advantage. It was also shown that different rotor speed control laws would most likely be required for the air combat and ground attack mission scenarios.
The author feels that successful variable rotor speed control can be achieved through an appropriate marriage of FADEC engine control and high performance flight control systems. But numerous questions remain relative to the successful integration of this technology to existing and/or future helicopter designs, (addressed in the Recommendations for Future Research section). Nevertheless, this technology shows considerable promise and it is hoped that this study will be a stepping stone to future investigations in this area.Master of Engineerin
The visceral screen: Between the cinemas of John Cassavetes and David Cronenberg, a Barthesian perspective
No full textThe thesis discusses two directors who are never considered together in academic discourse. Cassavetes’ perceived focus on events led by the dynamics of performance and his looseness of technique opposes the calculated compositions of the Cronenberg film, with its aesthetic of horrific images and its gallery of emotionally detached protagonists. Yet it is between such opposing methods of cinematic expression that the ineffable qualities of film aesthetics can be discovered. Cassavetes’ cinema achieves this by revelling in a surplus of activity that exceeds narrative, while the indescribable characteristics of the Cronenberg oeuvre is achieved through a systematic emptying of the image’s meaning through a simultaneous commitment to paring back emotion and portraying of images that are controversial and inconceivable. Taken together, the thesis identifies these aspects of film as ‘the visceral,’ a facet of the moving image that most certainly exists, but is resolutely, and disturbingly resistant to interpretation.
Roland Barthes’ writings are integral to a theory of the visceral. His re-evaluation of Saussurean semiology as a method of analyzing and undoing ideologically-imposed meanings informs readings of sequences from Cassavetes and Cronenberg’s films. Following Barthes, the thesis suggests that the existence of the visceral is realized as a resistance to ideological interpretations of the image, and so cannot be described. Ultimately, the inability of semiology to fully grasp certain aspects of the filmed image is put forward as a rejoinder to theories of the fiction film as principally a narrative medium
Imports From China and Food Safety Issues
No full textThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) increased attention to food imports from China is an indicator of safety concerns as imported food becomes more common in the United States. U.S. food imports from China more than tripled in value between 2001 and 2008. Addressing safety risks associated with these imports is difficult because of the vast array of products from China, China’s weak enforcement of food safety standards, its heavy use of agricultural chemicals, and its considerable environmental pollution. FDA import refusal data highlight food safety problems that appear to recur in trade and where FDA has focused its import alerts and monitoring efforts. FDA refusals of food shipments from China suggest recurring problems with “filth,” unsafe additives, labeling (typically introduced in food processing and handling), and veterinary drug residues in fish and shellfish (introduced at the farm). Chinese authorities try to control food export safety by certifying exporters and the farms that supply them. However, monitoring such a wide range of products for the different hazards that can arise at varying points in the supply chain is a difficult challenge for Chinese and U.S. officials.China, food imports, food safety, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, FDA, misbranding, labeling, refusals, shipment, violation., Agricultural and Food Policy, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, International Relations/Trade,
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 1937
No full textWarren Harrison Alden, Roy Johnson Allen, Lennart Emmanuel Almer, Max Gordon Altschuler, LeRoy Charles Askwig, Cecil Francis Baisinger, Harry Edward Beaghler, Richard Coar Boyer, Willard Clouse Brinegar, Carroll Adkins Brown, James Matthews Brown, Clayton Edwin Buhl, Lester James Buis, Ruth Reuben Burroughs, Louis Scott Campbell, George Colling Cash, Willard Joseph Chandler, George Paul Charlton, Raymond Cornell Chatfield, Donald Walker Cheff, William Richard Coleman, Donald Orie Craig, Ralph Thomas Cunningham, James Zimmiri Davis, John Barnes Dressler, Richard Leonidas Dunlap, Wilbur Smith Eaton, Harold Everett Eggers, Jr., Russell William Enos, Jack Matthews Farris, Alister Ian Finlayson, James Vincent Flaherty, Maurice Doyle Frazer, Shelby Garrett Gambie, Edward Thomas Gerin, Walter Ernest Goehring, Harold Buffington Graves, Richard Walter Gray, John Dayton Hamer, Joe Tynt Alimo Harma, Richard Spaulding Heath, John Warren Henderson, Joe Maurice Horwich, Charles Gregory Ingham, Robert Benjamin Johnson, Karl George Kastl, Harold Douthitt Kautz, Max Rudolph Kiesselbach, Jack Adrian Killins, Clair Michale Kos, Don Clare Koser, John Bell Krahl, Orville Charles Kroger, John Dewey LeMar, Robert William LeVine, Joseph Francis McDonough, Lee Fred Martinson, Paul Donald Marx, Ralph Cory Moore, Horace Varnum Munger, Henry Dey Myers, Donald McColl Norquist, Harold Jay Panzer, George Francois Pinne, Nicholas Peter Plechas, Lester Junior Pope, William Bently Potter, George William Pugsley, Raymond Ralph Rembolt, William Jay Resniek, Robert Rolland Rigg, Anthony Theodore Rose, William Joseph Rosenbladt, Harold Richard Rossmiller, Louis Franklin Saylor, Woodrow Warner Schmela, Floyd Wayne Schow, Marcellus Clay Shurtleff, Rolland Bernard Sigafoos, Guy Peter Slaughter, Dorothy Helen Thompson, Frank Blaine Truesdell, Donald Cay Vroman, Glenn Harvey Walker, Robert Edward Williams, Theodore Winship, Floyd Lem Woolcott, Jr.https://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1018/thumbnail.jp
Author Correction: Lipoarabinomannan antigenic epitope differences in tuberculosis disease subtypes
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