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Lucien Mattison: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textLucian Mattison is a US-Argentinian poet and translator and the author of three books of poetry, Curare (C&R Press, 2022), 2023 International Latino Book Awards, Silver Medal Winner; Reaper\u27s Milonga (YesYes Books, 2018); and Peregrine Nation (Dynamo Verlag, 2017). His work has won the Puerto Del Sol Poetry Prize, nomination for the Pushcart Prize, and appears in numerous journals, including The Adroit Journal, The Cincinnati Review, CutBank, Fugue, Hayden\u27s Ferry Review, and The South Carolina Review. He received his MFA in 2015 from Old Dominion University and is currently based out of Oakland, California
An Archivist's Weblog from Canada: Ten Thousand Year Blog
No full textThe Ten Thousand Year Blog is written by David Mattison. He writes about his weblog (born 2001): Electronic records and digital preservation catch your fancy? If you're an archivist or historian or just plain anyone worried about the digital future, The Ten Thousand Year Blog is for you. The title is inspired by physicist and speculative fiction author Gregory Benford's DEEP TIME: HOW HUMANITY COMMUNICATES ACROSS MILLENNIA (1999)
Understanding the 'Other' in an East Greek Context
No full textThis thesis looks to re-evaluate the East Greek intellectual view of non-Greeks in
the middle to late fifth century. To do this I examine how ethnic difference is understood
in the Hippocratic treatise Airs, Waters, Places (as well as the rest of the fifth-century
Hippocratic corpus) and Herodotus' Histories, which together represent the new
ethnographic thought of the fifth century. I will argue that neither author understood there
to be any essential difference between Greeks and non-Greeks, nor represented non-
Greeks as anti-Greeks, as many scholars today hold. Furthermore, I will argue that the
idea of a Greek/barbarian dichotomy was to a considerable extent a construction of
Athenian ideology, which stood in contrast to an East Greek cosmopolitanism that
understood ethnic difference not in terms of differences in nature but of cultural variation
within a common human condition.ThesisMaster of Arts (MA
AN ANALYSIS OF ROMAN MUTINY NARRATIVES THROUGH MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES
No full textThis paper is concerned with the use of mutiny narratives in historical texts as a microcosm of the historians’ goal of the work as a whole. This study is built upon the recent trend in scholarship, where a particular feature of a text has been studied to provide an analysis on the author or the underlying purpose of his work. Mutinies and, more specifically, mutiny narrative patterns have not been studied to a great extent for this type of analysis. However, based upon their tradition delineation and explanation of events and their ubiquitous speeches, mutiny narratives are capable of providing a new avenue for this type of analysis. The first chapter will look at the mutiny of Scipio Africanus’ troops at Sucro in 206 B.C.E. as presented by the historians Polybius and Livy. Both attempted to organize their works upon particular moral and didactic lines, the results of which are clearly expressed in their construct of the mutiny. This intentional framework is also present in the poet Lucan’s historical epic the Bellum Civile, who shaped the mutiny of Caesar’s troops in 47 B.C.E. in order to express his own belief in the inherent cataclysm and paradox of civil war. Finally these same themes of chaos and contradiction are also present in my third chapter and its analysis of five mutinies found in Tacitus, two in 14 C.E. and three in 69 C.E. under Galba, Otho and Vocula. Tacitus deliberately engineered the earlier mutinies in order to create both thematic and linguistic echoes to the later seditions in order to prove that the same problems that caused the later civil war were present under the earliest emperors.Master of Arts (MA
Jewish Identity, Exclusion of Foreigners, and Group Survival:Jubilees’ Recasting of Circumcision for the Hellenistic Age
No full textJubilees’ treatment of circumcision provides a powerful illustration of how the author reimagined the foundational past to speak to the present. The Pentateuch had depicted circumcision as a sign of the Abrahamic covenant required of each of his (male) descendants, violation of which will lead to expulsion from the group (Gen 17:9–14). Unique among ancient Jewish literature, Jubilees characterizes circumcision as Mosaic law, transforming this individual requirement for inclusion in the group into a communal requirement for group survival (Jub 15:28–34). The Pentateuch had also presented circumcision as a means for foreigners to join the Israelite community, at least under certain conditions (Gen 34:13–17; Exod 4:24–26; Exod 12:44, 48). Jubilees implicitly negates any such possibility by eliding circumcision from its retelling of these stories (Jub 30; 48:2–4; 49) and by emphasizing that only circumcision on the eighth day is legitimate (Jub 15:25–26; 16:14).<div/
Thomas Aquinas on The Sense Appetite as Participating in Reason
No full textDegree awarded: Ph.D. Medieval and Byzantine Studies. The Catholic University of AmericaFor Aquinas and Aristotle, moral virtue and vice, and also continence and incontinence, concern the manner in which the sense appetites (the seat of the passions or emotions) participate in reason. This dissertation examines exactly how this participation works in Aquinas's thought. The first chapter examines how reason and the sense appetites are parts of the soul and the manner in which the soul can be spoken of as a whole composed of parts. The second chapter investigates how these parts can be ordered or disordered and the manner in which moral virtue is an ordering of the parts of the soul. The third chapter examines the metaphysical status of these parts of the soul and their habits and it also examines Aquinas's doctrine of participation. The fourth and fifth chapters examine Aquinas's doctrine of how the sense appetites participate in reason in his early texts (1251-1259) and his late texts (1268-1274) respectively and charts development in Aquinas's thought. The sixth chapter discusses Aquinas's mature thinking in light of the current scholarship on this topic. The conclusion explains exactly what kind of participation Aquinas has in mind when he says that the sense appetites participate in reason.Made available in DSpace on 2014-02-11T18:36:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Men and Women Becoming Virtuous: An Examination of Aquinas's Theory of Virtue in Light of a Contemporary Account of Sexual Difference
No full textDegree awarded: Ph.D. Moral Theology/Ethics. The Catholic University of AmericaRecent years have seen a renewed interest in virtue theory, particularly in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Despite the resurgence of Thomistic virtue ethics, relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between his philosophy of woman and his theory of virtue. The majority of scholars have simply overlooked or dismissed Aquinas's view of women, because he appears to adopt Aristotle's antiquated androcentric biology, which places him at odds with the modern emphasis on the equal rights and dignity of women and men. However, Aquinas's view of sexual difference seems to give rise to internal inconsistencies within his own account of virtue that cannot be addressed by merely discounting his reliance on Aristotelian biology. Therefore, this study maintains that in order to resolve some of the internal inconsistencies between his theory of virtue and his philosophy of woman, Aquinas needs an account of sexual difference, such as the one offered by Carol Gilligan, that focuses more on the experience of women and upholds their equality with men even while recognizing the differences between the sexes. It also argues that this new account has implications for the acquisition and exercise of the virtue of chastity. The first chapter of this study offers a brief overview of Thomistic virtue ethics as well as Aquinas's philosophy of woman, focusing specifically on how sexual difference affects the acquisition of virtue according to his moral theory. The second part summarizes the salient points in the work of Carol Gilligan and situates her account more broadly within the feminist discussion of sexual difference. In addition, this part examines some of the findings from other disciplines that confirm her account. While the third chapter of the study explores places in Aquinas's work that leave room to incorporate Gilligan's insights, the fourth part will suggest some ways in which Aquinas's treatment of chastity and lust might be refined in order to include the experience of women more fully. This study concludes by posing some questions for further exploration, including how sexual difference affects the acquisition and exercise of the cardinal virtues.Made available in DSpace on 2013-06-25T14:58:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Measurement of B -> X gamma Decays and Determination of |V-td/V-ts|
No full textUsing a sample of 383x10(6) BB events collected by the BABAR experiment, we measure sums of seven exclusive final states B -> X-d(s)gamma, where X-d(X-s) is a nonstrange (strange) charmless hadronic system in the mass range 0.6-1.8 GeV/c(2). After correcting for unmeasured decay modes in this mass range, we obtain a branching fraction for b -> d gamma of (7.2 +/- 2.7(stat)+/- 2.3(syst))x10(-6). Taking the ratio of X-d to X-s we find Gamma(b -> d gamma)/Gamma(b -> s gamma)=0.033 +/- 0.013(stat)+/- 0.009(syst), from which we determine |V-td/V-ts|=0.177 +/- 0.043
Teacher Mental Health: The Relationships between Teacher Philosophies of Happiness, Emotions and Indicators of Psychological Wellness
No full textThe author has granted permission for their work to be available to the general public.Teaching primary and secondary students can be a fulfilling career helping children learn and grow. However, teachers also experience stress, anxiety and negative emotions that make it difficult to maintain their psychological wellness. Their stress, anxiety and negative emotions come from, among other things, the pressure for students to perform on standardized tests, student misbehavior, emotional labor from showing empathy and processing the trauma of others. Up until the mid-1980's research on teacher psychological wellness focused on reducing teacher stress and anxiety. Since then, some researchers have reframed teacher psychological wellness as the fulfillment of psychological needs for relatedness (relationships with other people), competency and autonomy. This dissertation examines the results of a quantitative study to uncover the relationship between teachers' philosophies of happiness, emotions and indicators of psychological wellness defined as the fulfillment of basic psychological needs. The study involved a survey administered to Kindergarten to 12th grade teachers from one urban school district in Texas. The survey included items from a variety of psychological scales to measure the following 10 constructs: teachers' philosophies of happiness (virtue ethics, deontology, utilitarianism and physiological), emotions (anger, anxiety and satisfaction) and indicators of psychological wellness (relatedness, autonomy and competency). The study also involved structural equation modeling to determine the relationships between constructs. This structural equation modeling revealed complex relationships between constructs that in some cases conflicted with what existing theories say should be the nature of these connections. Chapters 4 and 5 of the dissertation discuss those unexpected results.Educational Leadership and Policy Studie
High-Resolution Label Free Imaging of Endogenous Chromophore via Non-Linear Photoacoustic Microscopy
No full textMolecular specific subcellular imaging of biological tissues is vital for understanding the mechanisms of various pathologies. Current technologies for subcellular absorption contrast imaging, such as fluorescence confocal microscopy, require exogenous contrast agents to gain access to relevant biomolecules. All non-fluorescing biomolecules must therefore be tagged by a fluorescent marker to be visible in fluorescence confocal images. While these markers are effective, they can change the local environments, and any exogenous contrast agent must first achieve FDA approval for wide-spread use in humans.
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is a hybrid imaging modality combining optical absorption imaging with ultrasonic detection capable of endogenous absorption contrast. Unfortunately, traditional photoacoustic microscopy suffers from poor axial resolution, precluding it from three-dimensional subcellular imaging. High axial resolution may be lent to PAM through the addition of a pump-probe spectroscopy technique known as transient absorption. This high resolution PAM technique, known as transient absorption ultrasonic microscopy (TAUM) enables three-dimensional subcellular imaging of endogenous biomolecules.
The pump-probe spectroscopy properties inherent to TAUM provide optically resolved point spread functions, access to ground state recovery time, and access to transient absorption spectrum measurements. This manuscript describes the author���s efforts to improve the processing capabilities of both PAM and TAUM.
In this manuscript various TAUM systems are designed and characterized in detail. A second generation TAUM system improves the processing speed of TAUM to enable processing in parallel with data acquisition. Following the improvements to processing, a novel optical schematic of TAUM is developed, greatly simplifying the design requirements of TAUM images. This system is validated by collecting volumetric images of erythrocytes in blood smears. This work enables any PAM system to be converted to a TAUM system through the addition of an optical modulator. The culmination of this work is a multispectral TAUM system hybridized with a confocal microscope to enable high resolution imaging with both scattering and absorption contrast of biological tissues. The capabilities of this PAM and TAUM are demonstrated by obtaining high resolution images of the endogenous chromophores: hemoglobin, melanin, and cytochrome C
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