ON THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP OF KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION

Episteme ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charity Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Pragmatic Encroachment ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Practical Factors ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractPragmatic encroachment offers a picture of knowledge whereby knowledge is unstable. This paper argues that pragmatic encroachment is committed to more instability than has been hitherto noted. One surprising result of the arguments in this paper is that pragmatic encroachment is not merely about changes in stakes. All sorts of practical factors can make for the presence or absence of knowledge on this picture – stakes are just one factor among many that are knowledge-depriving. In this way, the focus in the literature on ‘stakes-sensitivity’ is misleading. Furthermore, insufficient attention has been paid to the variety of ways in which on this view pragmatic factors affect knowledge: pragmatic factors are not merely knowledge-depriving but are also knowledge-inducing.

scholarly journals Identifying Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve in Thyroid Surgery Using Relationship with Superior Parathyroid Gland and Tubercle of Zuckerkandl

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 99-103
Author(s):  
Somesh Mozumder ◽  
Shirish Dubey ◽  
Aniruddha Dam ◽  
Anup Kumar Bhowmick
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Study ◽  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Parathyroid Gland ◽  
Thyroid Surgery ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Laryngeal Nerve ◽  
Laryngeal Nerves ◽  
Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Relationship Of

Introduction: Recurrent laryngeal nerves (RLN) are particularly prone to injury during thyroid surgeries due to its intimate relationship and proximity with the gland. Zuckerkandl’s tubercle (ZT) helps in preserving RLN intra operative. Material and Methods: A prospective study for identifying RLN in thyroid surgery using relationship with superior parathyroid gland and tubercle of Zuckerkandl was conducted on 50 thyroidectomy patients between August 2013 and February 2014. Results: In all cases ZT was identified. Temporary paralysis of RLN was seen in 3 (6%) cases and permanent paralysis in 2 (4%) of cases. Discussion: The site of greatest risk during thyroidectomy to the RLN is in the last 2-3 cm extralaryngeal course of the nerve. Relationship of recurrent laryngeal nerve with superior parathyroid gland and tubercle of Zukerkandl (ZT) is known. Conclusion: Use of ZT and superior parathyroids as a landmark allows safe dissection of RLN.

scholarly journals Taking Stock of Suffragists: Personal Reflections on Feminist Appraisals

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-89
Author(s):  
Veronica Strong-Boag
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Important Test

Standpoint theory has made today’s feminist historians especially conscious of the ‘situatedness’ of all approaches. The intimate relationship of scholars with their human subjects means that choices and interpretations readily become sites of engagement in modern contests of principles and practice. Because the franchise campaigns were a leitmotif of the first women’s movement, suffragists have a particular purchase on the feminist imagination. This special significance makes appraisals of Canadian activists an important test of scholarly and popular standpoints in the construction of a meaningful past. This paper sets forth one feminist historian’s reflections on engagement with the suffragists.

Big Collusion

2016 ◽  
pp. 127-144
Author(s):  
Garry Robson ◽  
C. M. Olavarria
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Individual Privacy ◽  
Digital Surveillance ◽  
Financial Benefits ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The U.S

In the post-Snowden digital surveillance era, insufficient attention has been paid to the role of corporations and consumers in the onslaught on digital privacy by the largest surveillance state – the U.S. The distinction between corporations and the government is increasingly difficult to pinpoint, and there exists an exclusive arrangement of data sharing and financial benefits that tends towards the annihilation of individual privacy. Here the role of consumers in facilitating this alliance is examined, with consideration given to the “social” performances treated as free and exploitable data-creating labor. While consumers of the digital economy often assume that everything should be free, the widespread tendency to gratify desires online inevitably leads to hidden costs and consequences. The permanent data extracted from consumer behavior helps agencies sort and profile individuals for their own agendas. This trilateral relationship of ‘Big Collusion' seems to have gained an irreversibly anti-democratic momentum, producing new transgressions of privacy without proper consent.

Genesis of kaolin deposits of Birbhum, West Bengal, India

Clay Minerals ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bibhuti Mukherjee ◽  
M. G. Rao ◽  
C. Karunakaran
Keyword(s):  
Trace Elements ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Element Distribution ◽  
Trace Element Distribution ◽  
Minor And Trace Elements ◽  
Clay Deposit ◽  
Mineral Phases ◽  
Clay Deposits ◽  
Relationship Of

The mineral phases and the distribution of major, minor and trace elements in the clays and bed rocks of two bore-holes at Adda and Chaubatta of the Birbhum area have revealed an intimate relationship of the kaolin-rich clays with the bed-rock of Adda. The possibility of a common origin for the clay deposits at Chaubatta, lying close to the Rajmahal trap formations, and at Adda, lying close to the Archaean boundary, has been inferred from trace element distribution and other factors. A genetic relationship of the clay deposit at Adda with the bed-rock, altered Archaean gneiss, has been established, but there is no significant relationship of the Chaubatta clay deposit with its bed-rock, the weathered basalt.The lateritic cappings above the kaolin-rich clays of Adda and Chaubatta areas are explained as being formed from kaolinite in the weathering sequence as the end-product of intensive desilication under conditions of intensive leaching and increasing acidity near the surface.

Refusal of Killing a Stranger to Save Five Brothers: How Are Others’ Judgments Anticipated and Favored in a Moral Dilemma Situation?

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Ryo Oda
Keyword(s):  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Trolley Problem ◽  
Computational System ◽  
Rule Based System ◽  
Coordination System ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

One evolutionary theory of morality, examined here, is based on theories of kin selection while another has proposed that moral judgment is based on a Kantian rule-based system. Using the Trolley Problem, Kurzban et al. (2012) asked subjects to decide whether they would kill one person to save five others, varying the relationship of the subject with the others involved. They revealed that nearly half of the subjects reported that they would be unwilling to push one stranger to his/her death to save five brothers in a footbridge version of the Trolley Problem. In the present study, I tried to replicate this somewhat surprising result in Japanese participants, to investigate the robustness of the finding. I also examined how participants anticipated and favored the moral judgment of other people. If a Kantian decision was made according to the coordination system suggested by Kurzban et al. (2012), a Kantian decision, rather than a Hamiltonian decision, would be anticipated and favored as the decision of people generally. The results seem to support the discussion of Kurzban et al. (2012), that the computational system that delivers Kantian moral judgment functions to coordinate condemnation decisions.

Probing the unexpected behavior of AuNPs migrating through nanofibers: a new strategy for the fabrication of carbon nanofiber–noble metal nanocrystal hybrid nanostructures

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (30) ◽  
pp. 11728-11741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Zhu ◽  
MingLiang Du ◽  
Ming Zhang ◽  
MeiLing Zou ◽  
TingTing Yang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Noble Metal ◽  
Electrocatalytic Activity ◽  
Electrochemical Sensors ◽  
Carbon Nanofiber ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Hybrid Nanostructures ◽  
Intensive Research ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Relationship Of

The intimate relationship of electrochemical sensors with high sensitivity and reliability has stimulated intensive research on developing versatile materials with excellent electrocatalytic activity.

Animating Joyce: Tim Booth’s Ulys

Animation ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-99
Author(s):  
Thomas Walsh
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Writing Process ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Image Schemas ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
Animated Film ◽  
Relationship Of

According to Paul Wells, the lengthy and intimate relationship of the animation auteur to the animated text is similar to the writing process, and the animated form’s sense of its own artifice highlights the transformative aspects of adapting literary sources for the cinema. It is this expression of interiority, translation and textual process that makes the animated film a perfect vehicle for an adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922), which utilizes multiple narrators to construct and deconstruct representations of urban, Dublin society in the early 20th century. It is the purpose of this article to consider Tim Booth’s animated short Ulys (1998), which is in part a commentary on Joyce’s writing authorship, and also an adaptation of Joyce’s novel. The author considers Booth’s use of animation to recover the ‘image-schemas’ that underpin Ulysses, and the ‘small spatial stories’ that inform human cognition of both the literary and animated text.

scholarly journals Infection by bact. radicicola in relation to the microchemistry of the host's cell walls

1932 ◽  
Vol 110 (768) ◽  
pp. 514-533 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cell Walls ◽  
Intimate Relationship ◽  
Nodule Bacteria ◽  
Plant Chemistry ◽  
Histological Evidence ◽  
Chemical Work ◽  
The Past ◽  
Physiological Chemistry ◽  
Leguminous Crops ◽  
Relationship Of

The intimate relationship of the nodule bacteria to their hosts, the Leguminosæ, offers some fascinating problems in plant chemistry, which have been only partially solved by the researches of the past 50 years. These investigations have been mainly botanical and bacteriological, and such chemical work as there is has been done from an agricultural standpoint, with a view to discovering and explaining the fertilising action of leguminous crops. Consequently our hypotheses of the more detailed physiological chemistry of the nodule have been deduced largely from cytological and histological evidence. The microchemical mode of attack has been almost entirely neglected. Even though methods in botanical microchemistry are still very unsatisfactory, it seemed possible that a microchemical study of nodule tissues might throw new light on the nodule problem. The results to be reported here are admittedly qualitative and, in some cases, not conclusive, but the author feels that her expectation was justified, and that the field is a fertile one for the future. In general, the methods used were based on those of Molisch (1923) and Tunmann (1913) and on an outline of methods by Dr. Sophia Eckerson (unpublished notes lent by an associate). Additional methods, based on known properties of the substances in question, were devised when necessary.

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