A review of progress in thermophotovoltaic generation of electricityfnafnaI began writing this paper immediately after the Third nrel Conference on Thermophotovoltaic Genertion of materials, devices, and systems; substantial gains in fundamental understanding and performance of the quaternary alloy GaInAsSb; the introduction of new radiator concepts; and more attention being paid to modeling of both real and conceptual systems. There was also further evidence of interest in non-military applications, particularly from the European and Japanese attendees.

1999 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 77-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.J. Coutts
Keyword(s):  
Quaternary Alloy ◽  
Conceptual Systems ◽  
The Third ◽  
Military Applications ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
And Performance

Epistemic self-esteem of philosophers in the face of philosophical disagreement

Human Affairs ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-342
Author(s):  
László Bernáth ◽  
János Tőzsér
Keyword(s):  
Self Esteem ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
Fourth Section ◽  
Philosophical Beliefs ◽  
Low Level ◽  
The Third ◽  
Epistemic Peers ◽  
The Face ◽  
And Performance

AbstractOur paper consists of four parts. In the first part, we describe the challenge of the pervasive and permanent philosophical disagreement over philosophers’ epistemic self-esteem. In the second part, we investigate the attitude of philosophers who have high epistemic self-esteem even in the face of philosophical disagreement and who believe they have well-grounded philosophical knowledge. In the third section, we focus on the attitude of philosophers who maintain a moderate level of epistemic self-esteem because they do not attribute substantive philosophical knowledge to themselves but still believe that they have epistemic right to defend substantive philosophical beliefs. In the fourth section, we analyse the attitude of philosophers who have a low level of epistemic self-esteem in relation to substantive philosophical beliefs and make no attempt to defend those beliefs. We argue that when faced with philosophical disagreement philosophers either have to deny that the dissenting philosophers are their epistemic peers or have to admit that doing philosophy is less meaningful than it seemed before. In this second case, philosophical activity and performance should not contribute to the philosophers’ overall epistemic self-esteem to any significant extent.

Material Culture and the Dance of Agency

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Pickering
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Self ◽  
Linguistic Turn ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Performance

This article revolves around the discovery of matter. The first section concerns science studies. It emphasizes the importance of a focus on practice and performance as a way of undoing the ‘linguistic turn’ in the humanities and social sciences. The key concept here is that of a dance of agency. The second section reviews a variety of examples of this dance in fields beyond the natural sciences — civil engineering, pig farming, and convivial relations with dogs, architecture, technologies of the self, biological computing, brainwave music, and certain hylozoist and Eastern spirituality. This article focuses on contrasting forms that dances of agency and their products can take, depending on the presence or absence of an organizing telos of self-extinction. The third and final section reflects on the significance of this contrast for a politics of theory. This article traces the discovery of matter followed by the concepts of method, time, and agency.

scholarly journals Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Buikema ◽  
C. Cahillane ◽  
G. L. Mansell ◽  
C. D. Blair ◽  
R. Abbott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
And Performance

scholarly journals A Case of Advanced Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Metastasis Treated Successfully with Nivolumab

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 523-528
Author(s):  
Hirofumi Tazawa ◽  
Takahisa Suzuki ◽  
Toshiaki Komo ◽  
Haruna Kubota ◽  
Shunya Tahara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gastric Cancer ◽  
Ct Scan ◽  
Advanced Gastric Cancer ◽  
Peritoneal Metastasis ◽  
Performance Status ◽  
Tumor Biomarkers ◽  
Ureteral Stenosis ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Line ◽  
And Performance

Peritoneal metastasis (PM) is detected in 14% of gastric cancers at the time of initial diagnosis, with a median survival time of 4 months. A 66-year-old woman diagnosed with cT4a(SE) N2M1(LYN) cStage IV was treated with three lines of chemotherapy for a year. During the third line of chemotherapy, computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a large amount of ascites, periportal collar sign, and bilateral ureteral stenosis owing to PM. The tumor biomarkers (CEA and CA 19–9) remained elevated similar to the initial levels. The patient was administered 3 mg/kg nivolumab intravenously biweekly as the fourth line of chemotherapy. Three months after the nivolumab treatment, gastroscopy revealed an extreme reduction of the tumor size, while CT scan revealed the absence of ascites and a well-controlled tumor. There was no immune-related adverse event with nivolumab during and after the treatment, and performance status improved to 0. The patient has been alive for about 2.5 years since her first visit with her sixth line of chemotherapy (docetaxel). We report a case of advanced gastric cancer with PM that was treated successfully with nivolumab.

Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance

1978 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 1232
Author(s):  
L. W. Lichty ◽  
Elihu Katz
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Third World

Broadcasting in the Third World: Promise and Performance.

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
John K. Mayo ◽  
Elihu Katz. ◽  
George Wedell
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Third World

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Performance

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
Sound Recording ◽  
The Third ◽  
Performance Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Final Group

Shakespearean performance criticism has undergone a sea change in recent years, and strong tides of discovery are continuing to shift the contours of the discipline. The essays in this volume, written by scholars from around the world, reveal how these critical cross-currents are influencing the ways we now view Shakespeare in performance. Essays are divided into four groups. The first group interrogates how Shakespeare continues to achieve contemporaneity for Western audiences by exploring modes of performance, acting styles, and aesthetic choices that are regarded as experimental. The second group tackles the burgeoning field of reception: how and why audiences respond to performances, or actors to the conditions in which they perform; how immersive productions turn spectators into actors; how memory and cognition shape and reshape the performances we think we saw. The third group addresses the ways in which technology has altered our views of Shakespeare, both through the mediums of film and sound recording, and through digitalizing processes which have caused a profound reconsideration of what performance is and how it is accessed. The final group grapples with intercultural Shakespeare, considering not only matters of cultural hegemony and appropriation in a ‘global’ importation of non-Western productions to Europe and North America, but also how Shakespeare has been made ‘local’ in performances staged or filmed in African, Asian, and Latin American countries. Together, these groundbreaking essays attest to the richness and diversity of Shakespearean performance criticism as practised today, and point the way to critical continents not yet explored.

scholarly journals Concluding remarks: progress toward the design of solid catalysts

2016 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 591-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce C. Gates
Keyword(s):  
Heterogeneous Catalysts ◽  
Performance Testing ◽  
Catalyst Design ◽  
Rapid Progress ◽  
Catalyst Structure ◽  
Solid Catalysts ◽  
Catalytic Materials ◽  
Fundamental Understanding ◽  
Scientists And Engineers ◽  
And Performance

The 2016 Faraday Discussion on the topic “Designing New Heterogeneous Catalysts” brought together a group of scientists and engineers to address forefront topics in catalysis and the challenge of catalyst design—which is daunting because of the intrinsic non-uniformity of the surfaces of catalytic materials. “Catalyst design” has taken on a pragmatic meaning which implies the discovery of new and better catalysts on the basis of fundamental understanding of the catalyst structure and performance. The presentations and discussion at the meeting illustrate the rapid progress in this understanding linked with improvements in spectroscopy, microscopy, theory, and catalyst performance testing. The following text includes a statement of recurrent themes in the discussion and examples of forefront science that evidences progress toward catalyst design.

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