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Persson, Martin E., Vaughan S. Radcliffe, and Mitchell Stein. "ALVIN R. JENNINGS: MANAGING PARTNER, POLICY-MAKER, AND INSTITUTE PRESIDENT." Accounting Historians Journal 42, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 85–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/0148-4184.42.1.85.
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Alvin R. Jennings (1905–1990) was a rare breed of an accountant. He was trained as a practitioner and rose to become a managing partner at Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery, but he kept a constant watch on the academic field of accounting research. Jennings served on the influential American Institute of Accountants' Committee on Auditing Procedure (1946–49) and later as the president of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (1957–58). This paper explores these activities and Jennings' contribution to the professional, academic, and institution discourse of the accounting discipline.
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Raskin, Richard. "Art and the Holocaust: Positioning Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto." Short Film Studies 4, no. 2 (October 1, 2014): 223–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sfs.4.2.223_1.
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Seven Minutes in the Warsaw Ghetto will be considered here in the light of two radically different views of the relationship between art and the Holocaust – one proposed by Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, the other by the film-maker Alain Resnais.
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Morton, Paul. "A Comic Book by Other Means: Alain Resnais and Stan Lee's The Monster Maker." JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61, no. 2 (2022): 138–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cj.2022.0019.
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Stalkfleet, Kenneth. "Gettiering Goldman." Stance: an international undergraduate philosophy journal 4, no. 1 (September 11, 2019): 69–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.33043/s.4.1.69-78.
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This paper examines the causal theory of knowledge put forth by Alvin Goldman in his 1967 paper “A Causal Theory of Knowing.” Goldman contends that a justified, true belief is knowledge if and only ifit is causally connected to the fact that makes it true. This paper provides examples, however, of justified, true beliefs with such causal connections that are clearly not knowledge. The paper further shows that attempts to salvage the causal theory are unsatisfactory.
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MCNABB, TYLER DALTON. "Warranted religion: answering objections to Alvin Plantinga's epistemology." Religious Studies 51, no. 4 (September 18, 2014): 477–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s003441251400033x.
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AbstractAlvin Plantinga over the decades has developed a particular theory of warrant that would allow certain beliefs to be warranted, even if one lacked propositional arguments or evidence for them. One such belief that Plantinga focuses on is belief in God. There have been, however, numerous objections both to Plantinga's theory of warrant and to the religious application that he makes of it. In this article I address an objection from both of these categories. I first tackle an objection that attempts to show that proper function isn't a necessary condition for warrant. After tackling this, I move on to interact with the Pandora's Box Objection. This objection argues that Plantinga's epistemology is weakened by the fact that all sorts of serious religious beliefs could be warranted by using his system.
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Jing, Lulu, Ming Chen, and Qinglong An. "Study on Performance of PVD AlTiN Coatings and AlTiN-Based Composite Coatings in Dry End Milling of Hardened Steel SKD11." Metals 11, no. 12 (December 14, 2021): 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met11122019.
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Dry milling of hardened steel is an economical and environmentally friendly machining process for manufacturing a mold and die. Advances in coating technology makes the dry milling a feasible approach instead of a traditional grinding process. However, the cutting condition is particularly severe in a dry machining process. High-performance coating is desired to meet the requirement of green and highly efficient manufacturing. This study concerned the performance of AlTiN-based coatings. The effect of Al content, and the AlTiN composite coating on the cutting performance of tools are investigated in terms of friction force at the tool–chip interface, specific cutting energy, cutting temperature on the machined surface, tool wear pattern and mechanism, and surface integrity. The results show that advanced AlTiN-based coatings reduce the force and cutting energy and protect the cutters from the high cutting temperature effectively. The main wear mechanisms of the coated tools are adhesive wear, chipping induced by fatigue fracture and abrasive wear. In general, the dry milling of hardened steel with AlTiN-based coatings gains a quite satisfactory surface quality. Furthermore, AlTiN-WC/C hard-soft multilayer coating performs well in reducing cutting force, preventing adhesion wear and isolating the cutting heat, being suitable for dry milling of hardened SKD11.
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Roeser, Sabine. "Great Pumpkins, Externalisme en Religieuze Twijfel." Philosophia Reformata 65, no. 2 (December 17, 2000): 183–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116117-90000198.
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Alvin Plantinga verdedigt een externalistische kentheorie ten aanzien van religieus geloof. In dit artikel beargumenteer ik dat een internalistische benadering meer recht doet aan de manier waarop veel mensen hun relatie ten aanzien van geloven ervaren: geloven gaat vaak gepaard met twijfel, en iemand moet in zijn of haar (on)geloof vaak afwegingen maken tussen argumenten voor en tegen het bestaan van God. In Plantinga’s theorie wordt er aan het metafysische probleem of er al dan niet een God bestaat te weinig recht gedaan, waardoor er tevens te weinig ruimte wordt geboden voor wederzijds respect tussen gelovigen en niet gelovigen.
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Silva, Ignacio. "GREAT MINDS THINK (ALMOST) ALIKE THOMAS AQUINAS AND ALVIN PLANTINGA ON DIVINE ACTION IN NATURE." Philosophia Reformata 79, no. 1 (November 17, 2014): 8–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116117-90000559.
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In the first part of this paper I argue that even if at first Alvin Plantinga’s reasons for allowing special divine action seem similar to those of Thomas Aquinas, particularly in De Potentia Dei for allowing miracles, the difference in their metaphysical language makes Aquinas’ account less prone to the objections raised against Plantinga’s. In the second part I argue that Plantinga errs when recurring to quantum mechanics for allowing special divine action, making God to be a cause among causes. Thomas Aquinas, by speaking of primary and secondary causality when referring to God’s activity, avoids taking this step, evading the conclusion that God could be seen as a cause among causes. Aquinas, however, maintains in a statement which goes beyond Plantinga’s, that God’s providence requires the universe to be indeterministic because this indeterministic feature makes the universe more perfect.
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Czardybon, Marcin. "„Twice two makes fi ve is sometimes a very charming thing too” Some remarks on Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky and his work on the 200th anniversary of the writer’s birth." Tekstualia 4, no. 67 (November 25, 2021): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0015.5262.
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This introductory article refl ects on the relevance of issues raised in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novels within the horizon of the 21st century. It refers to a range of other writers, among others: Ryszard Przybylski, Czesław Miłosz, Cezary Wodziński, Hannah Arendt, Alain Finkielkraut and Peter Sloterdijk.
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Moraes de Assis, Saulo. "Por um naturalismo moderado?; For a moderate naturalism?" Sofia 11, no. 2 (August 1, 2022): e11231861. http://dx.doi.org/10.47456/sofia.v11i2.31861.
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Neste artigo, discutiremos o naturalismo de Alvin Goldman em relação à questão da normatividade da epistemologia. Para isso, revisamos a apresentação que este autor faz do conhecimento e da justificação entendidas sob um enfoque naturalista. Pretende-se entender como Goldman incorpora elementos da epistemologia especulativa tradicional ao seu ponto de vista naturalista. Apresentamos algumas distinções, feitas pelo próprio Goldman, a fim de esclarecer as diferentes abordagens que uma postura naturalista na epistemologia pode ter e discutir sua formulação de um naturalismo moderado. No final, procuramos apresentar algumas fragilidades dessa pretensão para pensar sobre a questão de se um naturalismo moderado é necessário. Abstract In this paper, we will discuss Alvin Goldman's naturalism in relation to the question of the normativity of epistemology. For this, we review the presentation that this author makes of knowledge and justification understood under a naturalistic approach. It is intended to understand how Goldman incorporates elements of traditional speculative epistemology to his naturalistic point of view. We present some distinctions, made by Goldman himself, in order to clarify the different approaches that a naturalist stance in epistemology can take and to discuss his formulation of a moderate naturalism. In the end, we try to present some weaknesses of this pretension to think about the question of whether a moderate naturalism is necessary.
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Kukuryk, Agnieszka. "(Re)passer la mémoire à travers le rire – le cas d’Alain Berenboom." Romanica Cracoviensia 21, no. 3 (2021): 197–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843917rc.21.020.14192.
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(Re)passing memory through laughter: The case of Alain Berenboom Laughter, a term that at first sight seems incompatible with the Holocaust, has overcome some seemingly insurmountable barriers and has paradoxically become the essence of many literary and cinematographic works dealing with this painful subject. The aim of this article is to present the role of humor in the transmission of the memory of the Holocaust from selected novels by Belgian writer Alain Berenboom. By analyzing his works, we will show that laughter makes it possible to break with the horror experienced during the Shoah and to protect oneself from a real trauma. We will also highlight its role in demystifying and revealing the illusions of post-war society that can lead to its destruction.
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Thomas, Gary. "What's the Use of Theory?" Harvard Educational Review 67, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 75–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.67.1.1x807532771w5u48.
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In this article, Gary Thomas makes a provocative argument against the use of theory in educational inquiry. He examines the allure of theory for researchers and scholars in education, despite the emergence of strong anti-theoretical strands in postmodern thought. Thomas contends that the word "theory" is used to mean many different things in education, and that ideas about theory are thereby confused. He draws a distinction between personal theory and "grand" theory, and argues that both types of theory circumscribe methods of thinking about educational problems and inhibit creativity among researchers, policymakers, and teachers. He concludes by making a case for less structured problem-solving, thought experiments, and "ad hocery," a term he borrows from Alvin Toffler.
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Pinnell, Richard. "Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: 24–29 November 2015." Tempo 70, no. 276 (April 2016): 83–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298215001035.
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Roughly midway through this year's Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, a solo recital performance by the glissando flautist Erik Drescher somehow managed to capture simultaneously much of what makes today's hcmf// both interesting and infuriating. Drescher's choice of four pieces, obviously severely limited by the finite number of works scored for his unusual instrument, managed to forge divisions even through what seemed a somewhat partisan audience. Pairing the by-now somewhat familiar and perhaps predictable stylings of Salvatore Sciarrino's Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio with his fight to be heard over the wall of blasting electronic noise featured in Dror Feiler's Questions and Stones 3, and then again against the subtle simplicity of Alvin Lucier's Double Himalaya meant that most left in parts satisfied and in parts irritated.
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Smykovskaya, Tatyana E. "The literary journal of Arseny Alving “Zhatva” or About one forgotten edition of the Silver Age." Philological Sciences. Scientific Essays of Higher Education, no. 1 (January 2022): 73–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.20339/phs.1-22.073.
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The paper is devoted to the literary magazine “Zhatva” which was published in Moscow from 1911 to 1916. Its creator and editor was a talented poet, critic and translator Arseny Alving. The tragic fate of Alving, who was repressed in 1933, did not make “Zhatva” possible to take a firm place among the outstanding periodicals of the first quarter of the 20th century. The magazine, as well as the poet, was forgotten and did not come in view of literary critics. This research paper makes the first attempt to restore the history of “Zhatva”, to characterize its aesthetic program, to outline the circle of writers grouped around the periodical. The six-year existence of the journal testifies to the constant creative search of the editor. “Zhatva”, initially presented as a literary album, existed in different genre guises (from an almanac to a literary herald), varied the composition and differed in content tolerance towards the representatives of certain artistic movements. “Zhatva” had a branched structure, the literary department published such masters of the word as A. Akhmatova, K. Balmont, V. Bryusov, S. Gorodetsky, M. Kuzmin, A. Kuprin, A. Remizov and many others. Although he was a poet, Alving strove for a balance between lyrical and prosaic material. The latter material often prevailed in the magazine. The critical section was especially popular among the writers and readers. Alving himself often published his articles there. The literary works and the criticism of the magazine give a volumetric idea of the literature of the early twentieth century as of a living, dynamic system where the literary dominants of the era were developed and the great reputation of the writers, who were declared as the classics of the Silver Age decades later, was being formed.
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Muthuswamy, Padmakumar, and Vijaya Ganesa Velan Murugesan. "Machinability analysis in high speed turning of Ti–6Al–4V alloy and investigation of wear mechanism in AlTiN PVD coated tungsten carbide tool." Engineering Research Express 3, no. 4 (October 22, 2021): 045011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2631-8695/ac2e12.
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Abstract Titanium alloys are one of the most critical and prominently used materials in automotive, aerospace, and biomedical application due to their superior strength to weight ratio. The very property that makes it a suitable material for such applications also makes it challenging to machine. In this study, an attempt has been made to understand the machinability of Ti–6Al–4V titanium alloy at high cutting speeds in turning. A full factorial method and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) technique were used to conduct 18 different experimental runs and determine the significance of variables that are responsible for the variation in average surface roughness (Ra) and forces. The results show that feed rate is the single most significant factor for Ra, whereas the contribution of feed and depth of cut are more for the forces, followed by cutting speed. Tool life tests were conducted with AlTiN PVD coated tools at three different cutting speeds, and SEM analysis to evaluate the wear mechanism revealed that abrasive wear, notching, and diffusion were predominant which accelerated the wear rate. Although machining studies on Ti6Al4V at low cutting speeds are well established, the novelty of the study is to perform a comprehensive analysis to evaluate the machinability and study wear mechanism using AlTiN coated tungsten carbide tool at high cutting speeds.
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Boianovsky, Mauro. "Domar, expectations, and growth stabilization." Cambridge Journal of Economics 45, no. 4 (June 8, 2021): 723–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cje/beab019.
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Abstract Evsey Domar investigated in the 1940s the implementation of growth stabilization policy under the assumption that policy makers and businessmen alike believed his theoretical growth model. Economic policy was supposed to work merely through the impact of its announcement on expectations. He claimed that confident expectations, generated by government’s assurance of future growth through fiscal policy, would induce private investment decisions in a scale that would bring about the required growth rate and by that justify the expectations, without putting the guarantee to test. Domar’s policy framework contrasts with the policy-ineffectiveness proposition of New Classical macroeconomics advanced in the 1970s. Domar’s stabilization plan is discussed in detail in the context of his growth model, together with similar ideas put forward by Roy Harrod, as the latter modified aspects of his original growth model, and critical reactions by Alvin Hansen.
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Johnson, Timothy C. "The necessity of multi-disciplinary scholarship for finance: On Ayache and Roffe." Finance and Society 2, no. 2 (December 19, 2016): 189–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v2i2.1733.
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Ayache presents a view of markets and mathematics that attempts to conform to the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux. However, this attempt is unsuccessful because Ayache adopts a view of probability rooted in nineteenth-century conceptions that cannot accommodate the radical uncertainty of the markets. This is unfortunate as it is reasonable to believe that the ideas of Badiou and Meillassoux, when synthesised with contemporary ideas of probability, could offer interesting insights. Roffe presents a better argued synthesis of Deleuze and markets, however he makes similar assumptions about contemporary probability that undermine his conclusions.
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Weber, Eugen. "Reviews of Books:The Life of an Unknown: The Rediscovered World of a Clog Maker in Nineteenth-Century France Alain Corbin, Arthur Goldhammer." American Historical Review 107, no. 3 (June 2002): 950–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/532614.
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Paccoud, Antoine. "Badiou, Haussmann and Saint-Simon: Opening spaces for the state and planning between ‘post-politics’ and urban insurgencies." Planning Theory 18, no. 3 (March 19, 2018): 339–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473095218764224.
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The post-political literature – which equates ‘the political’ with insurgencies directed against the state – has only limited relevance for planning, focused as it is on the ways in which conflict is displaced from the functioning of the state apparatus. The post-political literature has however neglected a significant change in Alain Badiou’s conceptualisation of the relation between the political and the state: the introduction of a political subject which acts from the within the state – what he calls the state revolutionary. This figure, which makes ‘evental’ planning possible, is fleshed out through a Saint-Simonian reading of Haussmann’s planning practice in his first years as Prefect of the Seine.
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Ewelina Serwońska, Sylwia. "Book review: Faces of Conflicts: Collection of Analyses and Case Studies. Under the edition of Jarosław J. Piątek and Renata Podgórzańska. Adam Marszałek Publishing House, Toruń 2008, pp. 330." Polish Political Science Yearbook 37, no. 1 (March 31, 2008): 227–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2008019.
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At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries the notion of conflict took a new meaning. The issues of wars, terrorism and nationalism have created a new model of civilization, which is aggressive and imperialist towards others. Particular human populations are trying to take priority over others, using all accessible means to achieve that. In times when globalization is an inevitable factor, a conflict determines the existence and development of various cultures, nations and civilizations. We are a small turbine in this great machine. The multidimentional character of the above mentioned nations makes us contemplate and think them over. Paradoxically, a conflict and a war following it, is not less terrible than several dozen years ago. As Alvin Toffler wrote “If the war used to be a very important occupation left to generals, now it is too important to be dealt with by ignorants no matter if they wear a uniform or not. The issue of conflict used to be, is, and will be the nightmare of mankind. Will we win it, the time will only show”.
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de Ridder, Jeroen. "DESIGN DISCOURSE AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF DESIGN." Philosophia Reformata 79, no. 1 (November 17, 2014): 37–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116117-90000561.
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Much of Alvin Plantinga’s Where the Conflict Really Lies(2011) will contain few surprises for those who have been following his work over the past decades. This —I hasten to add — is nothing against the book. The fact alone that his ideas on various topics, which have appeared scattered throughout the literature, are now actualized, applied to the debate about the (alleged) conflict between science and religion, and organized into an overarching argument with a single focus makes this book worthwhile. Moreover, I see this book making significant progress on two opposite ends of the spectrum of views about science and religion. On the one end, we find the so-called new atheists and other conflict-mongers. Compared to the overheated rhetoric that oozes from their writings, this book is a breath of fresh air. Plantinga cuts right to the chase and soberly exposes the bare bones of the new atheists’ arguments. It immediately becomes clear how embarrassingly bare these bones really are. On the other end of the spectrum are theologians and scientists who envisage harmony and concord between science and religion.
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Edmonds, Richard Louis. "Resource Management, Urbanization and Governance in Hong Kong and the Zhujiang Delta. Edited by Kwan-yiu Wong and Jianfa Shen. [Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2002. viii+307 pp. ISBN 962-996-026-5.]." China Quarterly 179 (September 2004): 816–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741004250603.
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This book is a collection of 14 articles from a workshop held in Hong Kong in May 2000. While the greatest number of papers comes from urban geographers, there are a smattering of chapters by economists, sociologists, political scientists and physical geographers. The editors have grouped the papers according to the three topics stated in the title with a good numerical balance among them. Three of the contributions are the opening addresses, a keynote speech, and a summation paper.In many ways, the summation chapter by Alvin So functions as a good overview of most of the contributions and there is little need to again go over the ground thus covered. Even a reading of this summation reveals the key problem of the book: it is still a series of conference proceeding papers rather than a fully integrated volume. As evidence of that point, So's summation makes no reference to the two entries by physical geographers that fall into the resource management section of the book. Both of these very thorough reports deal with vegetation in Hong Kong. Neither, however, makes any contribution to our understanding of resource management of the Zhu (Pearl) River Delta as a whole. So also makes no reference to the third paper in this section on a comparison of waste management between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. Thus one whole section of the book is ignored in the summation, perhaps because So is a sociologist but also because none of those papers addresses issues of the Delta as a whole.
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Quax, Peter, Jeroen Dierckx, Bart Cornelissen, and Wim Lamotte. "ALVIC versus the Internet: Redesigning a Networked Virtual Environment Architecture." International Journal of Computer Games Technology 2008 (2008): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/594313.
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The explosive growth of the number of applications based on networked virtual environment technology, both games and virtual communities, shows that these types of applications have become commonplace in a short period of time. However, from a research point of view, the inherent weaknesses in their architectures are quickly exposed. The Architecture for Large-Scale Virtual Interactive Communities (ALVICs) was originally developed to serve as a generic framework to deploy networked virtual environment applications on the Internet. While it has been shown to effectively scale to the numbers originally put forward, our findings have shown that, on a real-life network, such as the Internet, several drawbacks will not be overcome in the near future. It is, therefore, that we have recently started with the development of ALVIC-NG, which, while incorporating the findings from our previous research, makes several improvements on the original version, making it suitable for deployment on the Internet as it exists today.
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Rizal, Dimas, and A. Zarkasi. "Analisis Kegagalan Dinasti Politik di Kota Sungai Penuh Tahun 2020." Jurnal Ilmiah Universitas Batanghari Jambi 22, no. 3 (October 31, 2022): 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33087/jiubj.v22i3.2893.
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A good democracy can be seen from the opportunities of all people involved in the political process. Opening opportunities for public participation to compete for political positions at the regional and national levels according to applicable regulations. In fact, the community is hampered by social status as a result of the existence of a political dynasty. The presence of political dynasties at the regional and national levels makes the substance of democracy difficult to implement. The approach taken in this study uses a descriptive qualitative approach with purposive sampling technique with interview techniques with direct sources of information. As well as secondary data that comes from various references such as documents and websites that contain the data needed by the author in this study. The results of the research of the Ahmadi-Alvia Pair were significantly superior in demographic factors, because this pair came from the Pesisir Bukit and Pondok Tinggi sub-districts which were very lucky demographically. And the tagline "change" is also the key to the couple's success, because Fikar Azami was the son of the Mayor of Sungai Full two previous terms. So that people see the Ahmadi-Alvia figure as a figure who can change the Full River City with the vision of "Creating a Fully Advanced River City (Independent, Religious, Honest, Superior) and Just".
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Wołowiec, Tomasz. "ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF PROGRESSIVE AND PROPORTIONAL TAXATION OF INCOMES." International Journal of New Economics and Social Sciences 8, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 161–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0012.9939.
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The case for a flat tax has been around for over two decades. In the early 1980s, Robert Hall and Alvin Rabush-ka of the Hoover Institution developed a tax system that is based on a single rate of taxation for all sources of income, as close as possible to the source. All income is classified as either business income or wages and taxed at one rate, except for a personal allowance exempting lower income individuals and families from taxation (this makes the Hall-Rabushka proposal to some extent progressive). There are no other exemptions, no deductions, no loopholes. The other essential aspect of the flat tax system developed by Hall-Rabushka is radical simplification of the tax system, by removing any deductions or reliefs, and by eliminating double taxation. This proposal repre-sents a fundamental change in the way governments would collect tax revenue. Flat tax is believed to help reduce red tape and associated difficulties and confusion. With tax form down to size of postcard the flat tax system makes tax filling much simpler and more efficient; achieve simplicity, economic efficiency and fairness (same rate for all) – three principle of effective/sound taxation; reduce tax evasion and cheating, by lowering opportunity cost of avoiding taxes. Flat tax systems means elimination of relief, allowances and thus eliminates loopholes in the sys-tem and provide incentives to work, save and invest that trigger an economic boom.
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Ledovskih, Natalya P., and Olga G. Belomoeva. "Existential analysis philosophy of art creation." Aspirantskiy Vestnik Povolzhiya 19, no. 7-8 (April 7, 2020): 50–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/2072-2354.2019.19.7-8.50-53.
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The article is devoted to the principles of existential analysis and the possibility of its application, when we study the art creation. We present the methods of existential analysis: the selection of semantic matrices, the search for a rational grain, including in a situation of semantic uncertainty, which makes it possible to reveal the embedded meanings in any sign-symbolic systems, to analyze the reality created by a person/society. Existential analysis is particularly productive for the study of artistic creation. The authors demonstrate the possibilities of using existential analysis in the visual arts, tracing the evolution of Christian images. Three images of the Crucifixion are analyzed Dionysius, Matthias Grunewald and Alain Wilbox paintings from the collection of Robert Harris Rothschild.
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Syaebani, Muhammad Irfan, and Embun Kenyowati Ekosiwi. "COMING OUT SEBAGAI STRATEGI PRESENTASI PEKERJA MINORITAS SEKSUAL MELAWAN DISKRIMINASI MENURUT ONTOLOGI MATEMATIKA ALAIN BADIOU." Jurnal Filsafat 27, no. 2 (February 27, 2018): 213. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jf.24228.
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Sexual minority workers often choose to hide their true sexual identity to avoid discriminative action towards them. This leads to their invisible position in the workers presentation. Hiding true sexual identity of sexual minority workers creates exclusive relationship between heteronormative majority workers and non-heteronormative minority workers because of unavailability of intensive and personal interactions between them. Thus it makes sexual minority workers are excluded from the workers presentation and preserving discrimination based on sexuality. Using mathematical theory formulated by Alain Badiou, this writing tries to propose a strategy for sexual minority workers to be visible in the workers presentation through coming out action as an event. Coming out in the end is a strategy to fight for equality and an action for discrimination based on sexuality to end.
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Klimina, E. M., and A. V. Ostroukhov. "Municipal Districts in the System of Landscape-Ecological Zoning of the Northern Sikhote-Alin." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 895, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/895/1/012015.
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Abstract The process of landscape-ecological zoning of a large natural object makes it possible to represent spatial combinations of geosystems that perform the most important ecological functions. To preserve them at the level of municipal district government, it is necessary to identify ecologically significant landscapes that can be optimally used in the economy and at the same time being part of the regional system for preserving the natural environment. This is a case study of two municipal districts of Khabarovsk Territory – Vanino and Sovetskaya Gavan, their place in the landscape-ecological zoning of the Northern Sikhote-Alin, the dynamics of spatio-temporal changes in the categories of regional landscape-ecological zoning within these districts have been considered.
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Sajjad, Hamna, Muhammad Umar Manzoor, Hafsa Zafar, Khurram Shahzad, and Faraz Hussain. "Effect of Tribological and Electrochemical properties of AlTiN Coating for Medical Application." Journal of the Pakistan Institute of Chemical Engineers 49, no. 1 (March 26, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.54693/piche.04911.
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Physical Vapor Deposition technique is always an important technique to deposit metallic and ceramic coatings on different metallic substrates. The glow discharge process can be improved in a physical vapor deposition coating process by using least 2 lateral rotating cathodes with targets. Lateral Arc Rotating Cathode (LARC) technology was used to deposit AlTiN coating on stainless steel samples for biomedical implant application. The lateral rotation of cathode makes the uniform consumption of the cathodes in the coating chamber to get the maximum yield. The coating was characterized by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) for their uniformity and thickness. Open circuit potential (OCP), Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) and Cyclic polarization test were performed for their corrosion behavior in ringer lactate solution. Tribological testing was also performed at three different load to evaluate the coefficient of friction of the coating. The Electrochemical tests indicated that corrosion resistance of the coated sample was better, than the uncoated substrate and it behaved like cathodically protected coating and showed more resistivity. The tribological test also showed improved coating quality with respect to the applied load.
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Spencer, Joseph M. "Rancièrean Atomism: Clarifying the Debate between Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 23, no. 2 (December 7, 2015): 98–121. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jffp.2015.691.
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In the late 1970s and the 1980s, a number of radical left political theorists focused their philosophical attention on the relevance of ancient atomism, revitalizing a tradition that went back to Karl Marx's work on his dissertation. This essay looks at the uses of atomism by two thinkers in particular, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, in order to see how their discussions of and references to ancient materialism help to shed light on their fundamental disagreements about the nature of community and equality.First, this paper argues that what Badiou and Rancière most obviously share in their assessments of atomism is a negative judgment regarding the post-swerve constitution of the world, while what most obviously distinguishes their positions is their differing judgments regarding the preswerve rain of the atoms in the void (which Badiou assesses negatively and Rancière positively). Becoming clear both about how Badiou and Rancière respond to what comes before and after the atomistic swerve helps to clarify an implicit response on Rancière’s part to what has become Badiou’s chief objection to Rancière’s political theory. Second, this paper argues that the fact that Badiou assesses both what comes before and what comes after the swerve as negative, while Rancière assesses only what comes after the swerve as negative (because he assesses the pre-swerve rain of the atoms in the void positively), makes clear that their most essential point of difference concerns the status of the swerve that mediates between before and after. Working through the complexities of Badiou’s analysis of the swerve and uncovering Rancière’s extremely subtle analysis of the swerve helps to clarify a major aspect of what has become Rancière’s chief criticism of Badiou’s conception of philosophy.
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Colditz, Graham A. "Carpe Diem: Time to Seize the Opportunity for Cancer Prevention." American Society of Clinical Oncology Educational Book, no. 34 (May 2014): 8–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.14694/edbook_am.2014.34.8.
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INTRODUCTION In his plea for increased resources to implement cancer prevention strategies, Graham Colditz, MD, states that half or more of cancers in the U.S. and other high-income countries are preventable with information already available. He describes the data-driven possibilites: screening, vaccination, exercise, smoking cessation, sun protection, safe sexual practices, and moderate to no alcohol intake, as well as approaches to implement these strategies and makes a compelling case for using resources for this purpose. Dr. Colditz is Associate Director of Prevention and Control in the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, and Niess-Gain Professor in the Department of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine. He received his PhD in epidemiology from Harvard University, and his Internal Medicine Training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Australia. Dr. Colditz has an enormous volume of publications, with over 800 original research articles. He has worked to identify lifestyle and environmental factors that affect people's health, and to develop and teach cancer prevention strategies at the individual and community levels. His research also powers a website— www.yourdiseaserisk.wustl.edu —that helps people assess their risk of developing cancer, diabetes and other diseases as well as suggesting ways to lead longer, healthier lives. His work is inspirational in combining excellent scientific investigation with dedication to making results available and useful to non-scientists. Gini F. Fleming, MD, Cancer Education Committee Chair
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von Eggers, Nicolai. "Federalist Fascism." Fascism 10, no. 2 (November 26, 2021): 298–322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22116257-bja10003.
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Abstract This article analyses the New Right’s understanding of the French Revolution. Since the most prominent intellectual of the New Right, Alain de Benoist, frames ‘Jacobinism’ as the New Right’s main enemy, the New Right may be understood as a counter-tradition to what it understands as Jacobinism. De Benoist defines Jacobinism as an ideology that makes people essentially equal and identical by means of the state. Against this, he posits what he calls ‘federalism’—a project which aims at promoting and defending ethnic, cultural and other differences. In this article, the author shows how the New Right creates a mythical counter-tradition of federalism. We should understand this as a ‘federalist fascism’: instead of mass parties and an authoritarian nation-state, the New Right seeks the mythical rebirth of an Indo-European community consisting of various regional peoples who will supposedly realise their authentic nature through ethnically purified societies governed by a federal European-wide system.
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Stromback, Dennis. "Is there a Post-Marxist Criticism to the Decolonial Critique?" Journal of Decolonising Disciplines 1, no. 2 (February 20, 2021): 121–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.35293/jdd.v1i2.24.
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This article makes explicit a hidden tension between post-Marxism and decolonial studies, which points to a challenge for intercultural dialogue. While post-Marxism seeks to rehabilitate a universal foundation for the construction of truth claims—a universal already formed within Western modernity—the decolonial critique seeks to dismantle all universals connected to the myths of modernity and therefore demands a departure from the standpoint of the cultural periphery. In fact, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, like other post-Marxists, have been rather critical of the standpoints articulated by decolonialists who strive to include cultural differences and marginalised identities in the process of knowledge production, but the reality is that the decolonial critique, more so than post-Marxism, is well-supported by the historical evidence, thus demonstrating the need for Enrique Dussel calls a ‘transmodern pluriverse’ in the academic world. In pursuit of diffusing this tension between the post-Marxists and the decolonialists, this article calls for further investigation in terms of determining if real dialogue is possible between these two trajectories of thought.
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Karim, Lanja Najmalddin. "Nihilism and Event in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming." Journal of University of Human Development 8, no. 3 (August 4, 2022): 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.21928/juhd.v8n3y2022.pp97-102.
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In Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming, Lenny and Ruth are represented as two characters who seek the utter destruction of all moral and social values. By drawing on Nietzsche’s concept of nihilism this paper claims that Ruth and Lenny are being totally nihilistic as they are seeking the devaluation of any tradition or system of values that is created within and beyond the spaces they inhabit. This paper explores what constitutes the concept of ‘event’ by drawing on Alain Badiou and Gilles Deleuze’s conceptualization of event to claim that the way Pinter creates event in the play is what gives it its nihilistic aspect. According to Deleuze in The Logic of Sense: “The event is always that which has just happened and that which is about to happen, but never that which is happening” (2). However, in The Homecoming the event is what is happening, and what had happened with complete disregard to what will happen, thus, the lack of reference to the future makes this play nihilistic. As the characters are constantly trying to destroy present they also become oblivious to future.
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Blair, Paula. "Accommodating the Mess: The Politics of Appropriation in It for Others (2013)." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 12, no. 1 (September 1, 2016): 149–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ausfm-2016-0008.
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Abstract In response to Chris Marker and Alain Resnais’s collaborative meditation on art and colonialism in Statues Also Die (1953), Duncan Campbell’s video installation It for Others (2013) takes a complex approach to presenting a Marxist criticism of the commoditization of art and culture. This article considers the intermedial and intertextual properties of It for Others as an example of convergence culture that transcends postmodern quotation and pastiche. While the film is apparently a bricolage of visual artefacts, it is in fact an intricately woven audiovisual essay concerned with the appropriation of not only colonized objects as its narration makes clear, but also of still images, moving images, written texts, sound samples, and the labour that produced them. The article examines how the film troubles notions of documentary realism and truth through its acts of appropriation that reflexively criticize the commercial appropriation and commoditization of artworks and histories. It also reflects on the film’s Marxist approach to related issues around authorship, ownership and access to artworks, particularly in the light of the film’s acknowledgement in prize culture.
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Katsaiti, Marina-Selini, Khalifa Abdulrahman Abdulla Ahmad, Hamid Mohammadi Tajuddin, and Shahabuddin Abdulrouf. "Determinant of Households Consumption Behavior in UAE: A Comparison of Nationals and Expatriates." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 13, no. 16 (June 30, 2017): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2017.v13n16p84.
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The United Arab Emirates during the past 45 years has achieved startling economic growth rates; therefore, it is crucial to examine the consumption pattern in the UAE. This study aims to introduce the pattern of the household consumption behavior to the literature. The outcome of this study can provide useful information to policy makers by allowing them to gain important insights on household’s consumption needs and expenditure allocation. This study used survey data collected from interviewing random household participants in malls in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Alain. On March 2015 a sample of 254 were examined, of men and women, and expatriates and nationals. We investigate consumption habits of the type of goods and services people buy, normal against luxuries. Then, we use empirical estimations to examine the determinants of household expenditures. In our study, we find that in general nationals spend more than expatriates do; for the whole sample, most expenditure is concentrated on food, education, and housing. Our results show that household structure does not affect the consumption behavior of a national household as it does to the expatriates. In addition, younger people consume more than the older ones, while married consume more than the rest.
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Tan, Chunyang, Kang Ding, and William E. Seyfried. "Development and Application of a New Mobile pH Calibrator for Real-Time Monitoring of pH in Diffuse Flow Hydrothermal Vent Fluids." Marine Technology Society Journal 50, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 37–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4031/mtsj.50.2.2.
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AbstractIn situ measurement of pH in diffuse flow hydrothermal vent fluids is necessary to investigate the feedback between geochemical and biochemical processes. Accurate pH determination has been unusually challenging owing to temperature and pressure effects that place severe constraints on the performance of a wide variety of pH sensor systems. In this paper, we describe a newly developed mobile pH calibrator (MpHC), which makes use of In situ calibration protocols that enhance the accuracy of pH measurement and monitoring on the ocean floor at deep-sea hydrothermal vents. The MpHC combines the physically robust and highly sensitive iridium solid-state pH electrode with a flow control system to perform 2-point calibration with on-board pH buffer solutions. The small size and novel design of the sensor probe allow more effective access to seafloor hydrothermal vent fluids and their associated sulfide structures and biological communities. The MpHC is capable of In situ deployment by submersible via ICL (inductively couple link) communication around hydrothermal vents at pressures and temperatures up to 45 MPa and 100°C, respectively. In this paper, we also present results of In situ calibration methods used to correct the standard potential and slope (mV/pH) of the solid-state electrode for temperature effects. The MpHC has been deployed most recently using the submersible Alvin during cruise AT26-17 to Axial Seamount and Main Endeavour Field, Juan De Fuca Ridge in the NE Pacific. With In situ calibration functionality, the MpHC offers the prospect of more successful longer-term measurements in keeping with power availability provided by cabled seafloor observatories coming online in the NE Pacific.
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Orel, Barbara. "Fusing the Fictional and the Real in the Contemporary Performing Arts." Nordic Theatre Studies 26, no. 1 (October 1, 2018): 44–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/nts.v26i1.109739.
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The exploration of the relationship between the fictional and the real in projects by ViaNegativa, a performance group from Slovenia, is based on the presumption that therecognition of what we experience as fictional or real is decisively influenced by the perceptualactivity of the spectator. The article argues that the exchange between the elements of fictionand reality takes place in two different concepts of representation: theatricality and absorption.These are two opposing notions used for defining the relationship between the imagerepresented and the spectator. Theatricality is the effect of the address that the image makes tothe spectators and thus makes them conscious of their own act of perceiving. Absorption, inturn, describes the context in which the image is put to view as a closed, self-sufficientsign-system establishing such conditions of perception that make the spectator focuscompletely upon the object represented; the audience is so overcome by the presented imagethat they experience this as if they were absorbed into the staged world. These two concepts areelaborated on the basis of Denis Diderot's essays on theatre and fine art. The essay provesuseful for the argumentation of the thesis since they testify that theatricality and absorption,each in their own way, include the spectator's personal investment into what comes across asfictional or real. A detailed analysis of selected performances by Via Negativa shows that thereal assuch (i.e. theauthenticity of the real that isconfirmed in the identity with its own self)is impossible to achieve. Under the gazeof the spectator, the real is always compelled to revealitself through some kind of representation. As also found by Alain Badiou, the authenticity ofthe real can only be presented through the role of semblance, mask or fiction.
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Blanton, Ward. "Economy’s New Myth Formations." Religion & Theology 23, no. 3-4 (2016): 313–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15743012-02303008.
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In recent decades, comparative discussions of early Jewish and Christian traditions were dominated by questions of “political theology,” in which Paul, say, appeared as a kind of repressed touchstone within apparently secular conceptualizations and practices of the political (i.e., Jacob Taubes, Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou). Economic crises since 2000, however, have produced more recently a wide-ranging philosophical fascination with the possibility of addressing similar structures of political life by way of a comparative and genealogical exploration of “economic theology.” The philosophical examples tell this tale of shift in focus. If early philosophical explorations of political theology were steeped in allusions to American exceptionalism, the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq, the emergency suspension of laws prohibiting torture or the detentions at Guantanamo Bay, then more recent discussions of “economic theology” are similarly steeped in the massive proliferation of student and consumer debts, the European Union’s dramatic enforcement of austerity measures against the democratic will of individual member states, and the political implications of publically funded bailouts of banking corporations in the United States of America and Europe. This essay analyzes contemporary repetitions of early Jewish and Christian discourse as a way of understanding contemporary economic crises. With this backdrop, the essay makes suggestions about the important new role for an academic study of religion which is both comparative and experimental.
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Gubareva, T. S., B. I. Gartsman, V. V. Shamov, T. N. Lutsenko, A. G. Boldeskul, N. K. Kozhevnikova, and S. Yu Lupakov. "Runoff components of small catchments in Sikhote-Alin: summarizing the results of field measurements and tracer modeling." Izvestiya Rossiiskoi akademii nauk. Seriya geograficheskaya, no. 6 (December 17, 2019): 126–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s2587-556620196126-140.
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The article summarizes results of the systematic study of the streamflow formation of two small catchments in the upper part of the Ussuri River. The study was carried out by the hydrograph separation technique (using detailed data of the hydrochemical and hydrological monitoring) and the use of a tracer mixing model in conjunction with EMMA. Performed in the period from 2011 to 2016 the studies allowed to calculate the river runoff components of the summer-autumn period at 3 gauge-stations and evaluate their mutual dynamics at different time scales. It is shown that in the case of landscape uniformity of the catchment (the Medvezhiy Creek), the river flow can be represented as a result of 3 sources mixing. This, the most common, scheme for the hydrograph separation includes following sources: a direct rainfall flow, an organic soil water component, and an underground baseflow. If the catchments landscape structure is clearly heterogeneous (the Elovy Creek), the river flow can be represented as a result of 4 sources mixing. In this case, the fourth source appears as a result of the separation of soil water component into individual components organic and mineral. This separation is due to the spread in the basin of the cold upper belt of fir-spruce forests, whose soils are characterized by a lower rate of organic matter destruction and a deeper illuviation process of DOC. Statistically significant dependencies of the some runoff components proportions against river discharges were identified, systematization of which makes them promising for practice in hydrological monitoring and forecasting.
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Rakonjac, Stevan. "Plantinga on warrant and acceptability of Christian Belief." Theoria, Beograd 63, no. 2 (2020): 103–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/theo2002103r.
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Alvin Plantinga wants to answer the following question: Is Christian belief intellectualy or rationaly acceptable? We will present the answer John Locke gives, based on his evidentialism, to the aforementioned question, as well as Plantinga?s critique of Locke?s evidentialist approach. Plantinga thinks that the question ?Is Christian belief intellectualy or rationaly acceptable?? is best understood as meaning ?Is Christian belief warranted??. We will analyze Plantinga?s argument for the claim that Christian belief probably has warrant if it is true, which implies that we first have to show that Christian belief (probably) is false in order to show that it (probably) has no warrant. But than that means that we have to show that Christian belief is false in order to show that it is unacceptable, making it very hard, if not impossible, to show that Christian belief is unacceptable. We will then present one objection to Plantinga?s argument, ?the Great Pumpkin Objection?. Relying on Linda Zagzebski?s analysis, we will claim that the Great Pupmpkin objection shows that Plantinga?s notion of ?warrant? does not adequately capture the meaning of the relevant notion of ?intellectual or rational acceptability? of beliefs, and that, hence, his conclusion about warrant of Christian belief are not necessary relevant for the claims about intellectual or rational acceptability of Christian belief. We will also analyze a solution given by Kyle Scott. He thinks that if we have, in addition to Plantinga?s argument showing that Christian belief is warranted if true, favouring evidence in support of Christian belief, which he thinks we obviously have, than Christian belief is acceptable. We will point out that Scott does not elaborate what makes adequate favouring evidence in support of some belief, and we will calim that adequate understanding of favouring evidence will, in some respects, be very similar to Locke?s evidentialism. If so, than Scott proposal will reintroduce some elements of Locke?s evidentialism, and the question of whether there is favouring evidence in support of Christian belief will not have an obvious and easy answer.
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Petersson, Sonya, and Anna Dahlgren. "Seeing Images." Culture Unbound 13, no. 2 (February 16, 2022): 104–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.3562.
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In the cultural heritage digital archive, descriptive metadata makes images (re)searchable. Text-based searches seek terms that match metadata terms or terms referring to aspects of images that have previously been considered essential to select and describe in metadata terms. Such considerations are bound up with historically changing institutional agendas, ideas about user preferences, and implementation of metadata standards. This study approaches image accessibility from a different perspective. It aims to investigate how the infrastructure of the digital archive, comprising metadata and interface, intervenes with, circumscribes as well as enables, the images’ visibility and knowledge-producing capacity. The starting points are: first, that images in digital archives, exemplified by the online image collections in Alvin and DigitaltMuseum, are mediated, mediating, and “mixed” media objects that simultaneously represent the past and the present; second, that the digital archive in a media history of images functions as both a tool and an object of research. Using the platforms as tools of research, this study is based on test searches that aim to find viable search strategies for mixed media objects. The chosen search terms represent media-historically significant and common traits such as images that are combined with text and images that represent and/or mediate other images. The study discloses that the platforms give both false negatives and false positives. They do not support searches that focus media terms and relations between media elements. These problems are further related both to heterogenous metadata practices and to the simultaneously restricted and broad image concept behind them. As objects of research, both platforms are considered in relation to a future construction of a media history of images, where the digital archive is a particular node. The study demonstrates how the “hypermedial” environment associated with new media is prefigured by media interrelations in analog images – or images that are accessible as mediated through the archive’s interface and as policed by the archive’s metadata structure.
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Bar-On, Tamir. "The Alt-Right’s continuation of the ‘cultural war’ in Euro-American societies." Thesis Eleven 163, no. 1 (April 2021): 43–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07255136211005988.
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In this paper, I argue that the Alt-Right needs to be taken seriously by the liberal establishment, the general public, and leftist cultural elites for five main reasons: 1) its ‘right-wing Gramscianism’ borrows from the French New Right ( Nouvelle Droite – ND) and the French and pan-European Identitarian movement. This means that it is engaged in the continuation of a larger Euro-American metapolitical struggle to change hearts and minds on issues related to white nationalism, anti-Semitism, and racialism; 2) it is indebted to the metapolitical evolution of sectors of the violent neo-Nazi and earlier white nationalist movements in the USA; 3) this metapolitical orientation uses the mass media, the internet, and social media in general to reach and influence the masses of Americans; 4) the ‘cultural war’ means that the Alt-Right’s spokesman Richard Spencer, French ND leader Alain de Benoist, and other intellectuals see themselves as a type of Leninist vanguard on the radical right, which borrows from left-wing authors such as Antonio Gramsci and their positions in order to win the metapolitical struggle against ‘dominant’ liberal and left-wing political and cultural elites; and 5) this ‘cultural war’ is intellectually and philosophically sophisticated because it understands the crucial role of culture in destabilizing liberal society and makes use of important philosophers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Carl Schmitt, Julius Evola and others in order to give credence to its revolutionary, racialist, and anti-liberal ideals.
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Cvejić, Bojana. "From Odd Encounters to a Prospective Confluence: Dance-Philosophy." Performance Philosophy 1, no. 1 (April 10, 2015): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/pp.2015.1129.
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This text inquires into the relationship between Western philosophy and Western theatre dance from their odd encounters in modernity to the current affiliations between contemporary choreographic poetics, critical theory and contemporary philosophical thought. The point of departure for the inquiry is a discussion of the three problems that have structured the historically vexed relationship between dance and philosophy: dance’s belated acquisition of the status of an art discipline, the special ontological status of the work of dance, and the limits of dance’s meaning-production set by the theme of bodily movement’s “ephemerality” and “disappearance.” After critically examining the approaches of Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière in whose philosophies dance is relegated to a metaphor or, even worse, to an ahistorical conduit for a general ontology, the author makes a case for another movement of thought that arises in dance practice and is at the same time philosophical, rooted in Spinoza’s (and Deleuze’s) principle of expression. Demonstrating how choreographers, like Xavier Le Roy and Jonathan Burrows, create by “posing problems,” Cvejić presents a theory of “expressive concepts,” whereby choreography contributes to a philosophical rethinking of the relationship between the body, movement and time. This points to the new prospects of a kind of “dance-philosophy,” in which the epistemic hierarchy is reversed: the stake is no longer in what philosophy could do for dance, but how an experimental, radically pragmatic orientation in dance offers a practical framework for theorizing perception, concept-formation and other philosophical issues.
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Josephson, Tristan, Marcin B. Stanek, Tallie Ben Daniel, Jeremy Ash, Liz Millward, Caroline Luce, Regine Buschauer, Amanda K. Phillips, and Javier Caletrío. "Book Reviews." Transfers 8, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 133–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2018.080210.
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Tracking the Mobility of Carceral LogicsJennifer Turner and Kimberley Peters, eds., Carceral Mobilities: Interrogating Movement in Incarceration (New York: Routledge, 2017), 256 pp., 9 illustrations, $49.95 (paperback)An Exciting Invitation to Rethink Knowledge MobilitiesLudovic Tournès and Giles Scott-Smith, eds., Global Exchanges: Scholarships and Transnational Circulations in the Modern World (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 356 pp., 9 illustrations, $130 (hardback)Theorizing Mobilities between Disability Studies and PalestineJasbir Puar, Th e Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017), 296 pp., $26.95 (paperback)Beyond Borders: Mobility in Australia’s Northern Maritime NetworkJulia Martínez and Adrian Vickers, Th e Pearl Frontier: Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australia’s Northern Trading Network (Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2015), 227 pp., $28 (paperback)Backpacking toward European IntegrationRichard Ivan Jobs, Backpack Ambassadors: How Youth Travel Integrated Europe (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017), 352 pp., 32 illustrations, $35 (paperback)Recovering Mobility in American Jewish HistoryShari Rabin, Jews on the Frontier: Religion and Mobility in Nineteenth-Century America (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 208 pp., $40 (hardback)Which Mobilities? Critical Perspectives on Mobility, Norms, and KnowledgeMarcel Endres, Katharina Manderscheid, and Christophe Mincke, eds., Th e Mobilities Paradigm: Discourses and Ideologies (London: Routledge, 2016), 235 pp., £36.99 (paperback)What Makes a Trail?Robert Moor, On Trails: An Exploration (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2016), 340 pp., $16 (paperback)Airports: Cathedrals of Unsustainable Dreams?Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary (London: Profi le Books, 2009), 112 pp., £8.99 (paperback)
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Srivastava, Avi, Laraib Malik, Hirak Sarkar, and Rob Patro. "A Bayesian framework for inter-cellular information sharing improves dscRNA-seq quantification." Bioinformatics 36, Supplement_1 (July 1, 2020): i292—i299. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa450.
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Abstract Motivation Droplet-based single-cell RNA-seq (dscRNA-seq) data are being generated at an unprecedented pace, and the accurate estimation of gene-level abundances for each cell is a crucial first step in most dscRNA-seq analyses. When pre-processing the raw dscRNA-seq data to generate a count matrix, care must be taken to account for the potentially large number of multi-mapping locations per read. The sparsity of dscRNA-seq data, and the strong 3’ sampling bias, makes it difficult to disambiguate cases where there is no uniquely mapping read to any of the candidate target genes. Results We introduce a Bayesian framework for information sharing across cells within a sample, or across multiple modalities of data using the same sample, to improve gene quantification estimates for dscRNA-seq data. We use an anchor-based approach to connect cells with similar gene-expression patterns, and learn informative, empirical priors which we provide to alevin’s gene multi-mapping resolution algorithm. This improves the quantification estimates for genes with no uniquely mapping reads (i.e. when there is no unique intra-cellular information). We show our new model improves the per cell gene-level estimates and provides a principled framework for information sharing across multiple modalities. We test our method on a combination of simulated and real datasets under various setups. Availability and implementation The information sharing model is included in alevin and is implemented in C++14. It is available as open-source software, under GPL v3, at https://github.com/COMBINE-lab/salmon as of version 1.1.0.
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Weisberger, A. M. "Depravity, Divine Responsibility and Moral Evil: A Critique of a New Free Will Defence." Religious Studies 31, no. 3 (September 1995): 375–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034412500023726.
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One of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of religion is the existence of moral evil in light of an omnipotent and wholly good deity. A popular mode of diffusing the argument from evil lies in the appeal to free will. Traditionally it is argued that there is a strong connection, even a necessary one, between the ability to exercise free will and the occurrence of wrong-doing. Transworld depravity, as characterized by Alvin Plantinga, is a concept which has gone far to explain this relationship. Essentially, the notion of transworld depravity involves the claim that in any world where a person is significantly free that person would, on some occasion, act morally wrongly, or as Plantinga phrases it: ‘If S' were actual, P would go wrong with respect to A’ (where S' is a possible world, P is a person and A is an action). Not only, Plantinga claims, is it possible that there are persons who suffer from transworld depravity, but ‘it is possible that everybody suffers from it’. If transworld depravity obtains, Plantinga notes, God ‘might have been able to create worlds in which moral evil is very considerably outweighed by moral good; but it was not within His power to create worlds containing moral good but no moral evil – and this despite the fact that He is omnipotent’. On this view, God could not instantiate perfect-person essences who would not ever sin. Although Plantinga argues that these instantiated beings are significantly free in that they could have done otherwise (i.e. not sinned), it does seem that his claim about transworld depravity amounts to a claim about transworld depravity amounts to a claim about the existence of a necessary connection obtaining between freedom and evil. For even though it makes sense to claim that an individual may have unactualized dispositions, to claim that everyone, past, present and future, has unactualized dispositions seems to be a significantly different claim. It is therefore difficult to see how this latter claim differs in substance from the claim of a necessary connection obtaining between the capacity for free will and the commission of evil acts.
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Tam, Kwok-kan. "Cinematography in Motherhood: a Hong Kong film adaptation of Ghosts." Nordlit, no. 34 (February 24, 2015): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.7557/13.3384.
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<p>This is a study of a Hong Kong Chinese film adaptation of <em>Ghosts</em> made in 1960. It deals with processes of cross-cultural and cross-media adaptation, and probes issues of how stage techniques are turned into cinematographic devices. Ibsen’s plays, except <em>Ghosts</em>, have been adapted numerous times for the Chinese stage and screen in Hong Kong and China. Unlike in China, the reception of Ibsen in Hong Kong is not meant for political purposes. In most Hong Kong adaptations, Ibsen is valued for the purpose of theatrical experimentation. Among the stage adaptations, <em>A Doll’s House</em> and <em>The Master Builder</em> are the most popular. However, there was a film adaptation of <em>Ghosts</em> in 1960, which has never been discussed in Ibsen scholarship. In this adaptation, Director Tso Kea borrowed the plot from <em>Ghosts</em> and made a perfect Chinese melodrama film highlighting the Chinese emotions and relations in a wealthy family that undergoes a crisis. In traditional Chinese drama, there is the lack of psychological rendering in characterization and characters act according to moral considerations. In Tso Kea’s film, the portrayal of the mother provides a new sense of characterization by combining Mrs Alving with the traditional Chinese mother figure. The borrowing from Ibsen makes it possible for the Chinese film to create a character with emotional and psychological complexities. Images from the film are selected as illustration in the article.</p>
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Gardner, Colin. "The Losey–Moscow Connection: Experimental Soviet Theatre and the Living Newspaper." New Theatre Quarterly 30, no. 3 (August 2014): 249–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x14000499.
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Although Joseph Losey is best known as the blacklisted director of films such as the Pinter-scripted The Servant, The Go-Between, and Accident, as well as Mr Klein starring Alain Delon, he also had an important career in leftist theatre prior to making his Hollywood film debut in in the late 1940s. Because of his collaboration with Bertolt Brecht on the 1947 Hollywood production of Galileo, it is assumed that Losey learned from him most of his stagecraft – particularly the use of Verfremdungseffekt and self-reflexivity. However, as this article shows, Losey's apprenticeship was rooted not in the Epic Theatre (which was largely a second-hand phenomenon) but in the Soviet theatrical avant garde, observed at first hand during a 1935 Moscow visit studying the techniques of Meyerhold, Vakhtangov, and Pavlovich Okhlopkov, whose ‘theatre in the round’ stagings and use of complex ramps and projections provided the basis for Losey's subsequent Federal Theatre Project ‘Living Newspaper’ productions – notably Triple-A Plowed Under and Injunction Granted! Under the aegis of co-founder Hallie Flanagan, the Living Newspaper proved to be the model of 1930s political theatre: topical, didactic, fast-paced – and almost immediately obsolete as events superseded the plays' relevance. Colin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of critical studies on Joseph Losey and Karel Reisz for Manchester University Press's ‘British Film Makers’ series and of Beckett, Deleuze, and the Televisual Event: Peephole Art for Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently working with Felicity Colman on a three-volume Encyclopedia of Film-Philosophy.
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Maziarczyk, Anna. "Les enjeux du décentrement narratif dans « Mémoires de porc-épic » d’Alain Mabanckou." Romanica Wratislaviensia 69 (November 29, 2022): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.19195/0557-2665.69.14.
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In his rich and varied work, Alain Mabanckou takes up themes widely explored by French-speaking authors, such as the difficult experience of immigration and the presentation of the native country embracing its cultural specificity. The writer’s fame, however, does not come solely from the fact that he offers novels which, through the perspective of direct experience and an unusual style, deal with major subjects of our time. Mabanckou works particularly on the novelistic form; he transforms and refreshes it in an ingenious way, drawing inspiration from both the oral African tradition, whose expressiveness and vigour he seeks to convey, and the Western literary culture, to which he regularly refers by allusions, quotations and borrowings of all kinds. Apart from creating a hybrid novel, in which opposing stylistics intertwine, the writer reorganizes the sphere of storytelling, proceeding with a kind of creative decentering which, paradoxically, places his work at the heart of current novelistic aesthetics. Replacing the impersonal and omniscient narrator who dominates Western fictions with homodiegetic narrators, literary counterparts of an African storyteller, he exploits and develops techniques of unreliable narration, widespread in contemporary novels. Memoirs of a Porcupine is a particularly interesting example in this regard: based on an African belief, it goes so far as to reproduce the impossible narrative situation and makes an animal tell the story. The present article explores this off-center, irrational and logically implausible storytelling that narratologists simply call “unnatural.” Relying on their theories and selected works concerning the literary animal, we will seek to identify the peculiarities of animal discourse and the textual meanings that it implicitly conveys.