Cultural Astronomy for Inspiration

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 265-268
Author(s):  
Steven R. Gullberg
Keyword(s):  
Public Attention ◽  
The Many

AbstractCultural astronomy is the study of the astronomy of ancient cultures and is sometimes called the anthropology of astronomy. The many ways that astronomy was used by ancient cultures are fascinating and this can be used to inspire interest in all astronomy, as well as astronomy in culture. Archaeoastronomy is interdisciplinary and among its practitioners are not only astronomers and astrophysicists, but also anthropologists, archaeologists, and Indigenous scholars. Much can be learned about ancient cultures though examination of how and why they used astronomy. This paper will highlight several examples that can capture public attention.

Fostering a new industry in the Industrial Revolution: Boulton & Watt and gaslight 1800–1812

2012 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
LESLIE TOMORY
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Status ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Industrial Use ◽  
The Many ◽  
Almost All ◽  
New Industry

AbstractGaslight emerged as a new industry after 1800 in Britain, but not in other countries in Europe where the technology existed as well. Among the many groups trying, it was only the firm of Boulton & Watt that succeeded in commercializing the invention for two important reasons. The first was that they possessed skills and experience related to ironworking and to making scientific instruments, both of which they used as they developed gaslight apparatus. This development involved an extensive series of experiments that ultimately had its root in James Watt's own work with pneumatic chemistry. The second reason was that they possessed many resources such as access to capital, their existing network of industrial customers, and their abilities to publicize their work. As with the steam engine, the firm proved adept at advertising. Boulton & Watt did not give their full attention to gaslight except in two spurts between 1805 and 1809, and by around 1812 they had lost almost all interest in the technology. By this time, however, they had solved many problems associated with scaling up gaslight apparatus for industrial use, they had trained many people who would go on to do further important work in the early years of the industry, and they had drawn extensive public attention to the new invention. Finally, their advertising involved elevating the status of William Murdoch as an inventor while minimizing the role of the firm.

scholarly journals Compositional and structural features of the narration in the prose of M. Mamakaev (based on the novels "Murid of the Revolution" and "Zelimkhan")

2021 ◽  
pp. 122-129
Author(s):  
Тамара Белаловна Джамбекова ◽  
Джамиля Салавдиевна Товсултанова
Keyword(s):  
Structural Features ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Many ◽  
Persuasive Speech ◽  
The Revolution

Творчество выдающегося чеченского писателя, мастера лирического и убеждающего слова, Магомеда Мамакаева (1910-1973) в наши дни вновь притягивает внимание общественности и приобретает статус объекта не только для отклика критиков, но и для научного исследования в связи с актуализацией многолетней проблемы социально-политических конфликтов, охватывающих весь мир, а также в связи с новой волной переоценки исторических событий в России начала ХХ века, в частности роли Октябрьской революции 1917 г. в истории горских народов. Целью исследования является характеристика жизненных и эстетических событий романов «Мюрид революции» и «Зелимхан» М. Мамакаева. В задачи исследования входит анализ сюжета и стиля романов, характеристика образов главных героев, определение особенностей художественного мастерства писателя. Полученные результаты подтверждают мысль о единстве противоположностей в структуре повествования, о диалектической сбалансированности частей целого в произведении, о доминирующем тоне автора, что придает художественной структуре «дух целого», придавая всем элементам признаки фрактальности. The work of an outstanding Chechen writer, master of lyrical and persuasive speech, Magomed Mamakaev (1910-1973), nowadays again attracts public attention and acquires the status of an object not only for the response of critics, but also for scientific research in connection with the actualization of the many-year problem of social political conflicts covering the whole world, as well as in connection with a new wave of reassessment of historical events in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, in particular, a reassessment of the role of the October Revolution of 1917, including its role in the history of mountain peoples. The aim of the study is to characterize the life and aesthetic events of the novels "Murid of the Revolution" and "Zelimkhan" by M. Mamakaev. The research objectives include: an analysis of the plot and style of the novels; characterization of the images of the main characters; determination of the features of the writer's artistic skill. The results obtained confirm the idea of the unity of opposites in the structure of the narrative, of the dialectical balance of the parts of the whole in the work, of the dominant tone of the author, which surrounds the artistic structure with the “spirit of the whole”, giving all elements the signs of fractality.

Warrior for Clean Skies: Anti-Geoengineering Activist Rosalind Peterson’s Environmental Legacy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 309-328
Author(s):  
Rob Williams
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Data ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Citizen Scientist ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Environmental Legacy ◽  
Public Repositories ◽  
The Many

US citizen scientist, researcher, and anti-geoengineering activist Rosalind Peterson of Mendocino, California, proved both pioneer and prophet. She helped catalyze a global grassroots anti-geoengineering movement through her decades-long work crusading for clearer skies, cleaner water, healthier trees and plants, and a more resilient planet free of geoengineering fallout. Peterson combined scientific data collection and research, publishing, public speaking, and political advocacy to educate the world about the many negative environmental consequences of clandestine geoengineering. In 2002 Peterson founded California Skywatch (CSW), and in 2006 the Agricultural Defense Coalition (ADC). The two organizations merged in January 2011 and remain vital online public repositories of scientific data, legislative documents, and visual evidence of covert geoengineering programs. Peterson’s indefatigable efforts over three decades to call global public attention to the environmental consequences of geoengineering exemplify the potential power of the citizen scientist to shape scientific and political processes and outcomes. Peterson’s decades-long effort to uncover the myriad toxic environmental impacts of clandestine geoengineering also provides a compelling, scientifically researched alternative to the widely accepted theory advanced by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that global warming is primarily caused by anthropogenically released carbon dioxide.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTASI CERTAINTY FACTOR UNTUK DIAGNOSA PENYAKIT PARU – PARU

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zulyan Herlani ◽  
Bebas Widada ◽  
Wawan Laksito Yuli Saptomo
Keyword(s):  
Lung Disease ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Functional System ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Certainty Factor ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Many ◽  
Lung Health

The lungs are one of the most important organs in the human body. Many people today pay less attention to the health of these vital organs. This is evidenced by the many people who consume cigarettes which will have a negative impact on lung health. The lack of public attention to lung health and the high cost of examinations make this problem slow to deal with, by because it requires a system that can be used to diagnose lung disease that can be accessed by the public in general. The Certainty Factor method is a classification algorithm that uses the principles of the assessment of an expert to assess each variable or symptom in each disease in this case and has the accuracy is quite good in conducting data classification, so this method is considered appropriate for diagnosing lung disease based on the symptoms experienced. Data used in this study is expert assessment data on symptoms in each disease, this data is obtained from l interview with pulmonary specialist doctors at Moewardi Hospital Surakarta. The results obtained in this study are the accuracy of the certainty factor algorithm for diagnosing lung disease with diagnostic testing data of 10 data patients with an accuracy of 70%. While the results of functional system testing using the Black Box, it was found that all components of the system have been tested and in accordance with the expected output.Keywords: Diagnose, Certainty Factor, Lung Disease

scholarly journals Animals in the Public Debate: Welfare, Rights, and Conservationism in India

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 475
Author(s):  
Daniela Berti
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Species Survival ◽  
The Many ◽  
Legal Battle ◽  
Written Sources

This paper proposes a survey of the many ways in which people look at and deal with animals in contemporary India. On the basis of ethnographic research and of multiple written sources (judgments, newspapers, websites, legal files, activist pamphlets, etc.), I present some of the actors involved in the animal debate—animal activists, environmental lawyers, judges, and hunter-conservationists—who adopt different, though sometimes interconnected, approaches to animals. Some of them look at animals as victims that need to be rescued and treated in the field, others fight for animals in Parliament or in Court so that they can be entitled to certain rights, others are concerned with the issue of species survival, where the interest of the group prevails on the protection of individual animals. In the context of a predominantly secularist background of the people engaged in such debates, I also examine the role that religion may, in certain cases, play for some of them: whether as a way of constructing a Hindu or Buddhist cultural or political identity, or as a strategic argument in a legal battle in order to obtain public attention. Lastly, I raise the question of the role played by animals themselves in these different situations—as intellectual principles to be fought for (or to be voiced) in their absence, or as real individuals to interact with and whose encounter may produce different kinds of sometimes conflicting emotions.

After the Revolution

2000 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Jeffrey Jacobsohn
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Fundamental Law ◽  
The Many ◽  
Constitutional Revolution ◽  
Do So

The man who embraces a new paradigm at an early stage must often do so in defiance of the evidence provided by problem-solving. He must, that is, have faith that the new paradigm will succeed with the many large problems that confront it, knowing only that the older paradigm has failed with a few.Only a brief interval separated the signing into law of the two Basic Laws of 1992 and the rhetorical elevation of that moment to revolutionary significance. However, use of the term “constitutional revolution” to describe the addition of the Basic Laws on Freedom of Occupation and Human Dignity and Freedom to the corpus of Israeli fundamental law was destined to have more than rhetorical significance. Had the characterization been made by someone other than the next President of the Supreme Court, it might have attracted a modicum of public attention before fading from view, perhaps to be remembered only as a felicitous example of wishful thinking.

PRIMATES, DRUGS AND FETAL SAFETY

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 953-955
Author(s):  
J. F. LUCEY
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin A ◽  
Congenital Anomalies ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Teratogenic Effects ◽  
Fetal Safety ◽  
The Many

IT WAS WELL KNOWN to teratologists at least, prior to the thalidomide disaster, that congenital anomalies could be produced in animals by a wide variety of therapeutically useful substances (thyroxine, vitamin A, caffein, salicylates, cortisone, insulin, penicillin, and streptomycin). Very little public attention was paid to these data. The teratologists remained quiet and well aware of the many pitfalls involved in interpreting such studies. When the thalidomide disaster struck there was an understandable stampede back to the study of the teratogenic effects of drugs in animals. We now find ourselves in an apparently bottomless pit confronted with studies indicating that in some animals, at some time, under certain conditions, any drug with pharmacologic action is capable of causing anomalies.

Identifying suboptimalities with factorial model comparison

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Ji Ma
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Model Comparison ◽  
Process Models ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
Factorial Experimental Design ◽  
Factorial Model ◽  
Multiple Components ◽  
The Many

AbstractGiven the many types of suboptimality in perception, I ask how one should test for multiple forms of suboptimality at the same time – or, more generally, how one should compare process models that can differ in any or all of the multiple components. In analogy to factorial experimental design, I advocate for factorial model comparison.

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

The many faces of obligation

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tomasello
Keyword(s):  
Third Party ◽  
The Many ◽  
Sense Of Obligation

Abstract My response to the commentaries focuses on four issues: (1) the diversity both within and between cultures of the many different faces of obligation; (2) the possible evolutionary roots of the sense of obligation, including possible sources that I did not consider; (3) the possible ontogenetic roots of the sense of obligation, including especially children's understanding of groups from a third-party perspective (rather than through participation, as in my account); and (4) the relation between philosophical accounts of normative phenomena in general – which are pitched as not totally empirical – and empirical accounts such as my own. I have tried to distinguish comments that argue for extensions of the theory from those that represent genuine disagreement.

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