Laughter and the Moral Guide

2019 ◽  
pp. 145-162
Author(s):  
Michael Trapp
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Tool ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Careful Monitoring ◽  
Dio Chrysostom ◽  
Imperial Period ◽  
Important Diagnostic Tool ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Modes Of Engagement

In the perspective of the moralist, laughter is both an important diagnostic tool (it matters with whom and at whom one laughs), and a potentially dangerous propensity requiring careful monitoring and control. Though differing in their modes of engagement with their target audiences, Dio Chrysostom and Plutarch share a concern with well- and ill-directed laughter at both the level of the individual and that of whole communities: Dio above all (though by no means only) in his Euboean and Alexandrian Orations (Orr. 7 and 32); Plutarch both in his texts on ethical self-improvement in the Moralia and, most colorfully, in his Life of Antony (which shares with Dio’s Or. 30 a particular anxiety about Alexandria as a city of morally dubious laughter). Close reading of these texts has thus much to tell us about the fine texture of moral philosophical engagement with laughter in the Roman Imperial period.

scholarly journals Distributed Drives Monitoring and Control: A Laboratory Setup

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mini Sreejeth ◽  
Parmod Kumar ◽  
Madhusudan Singh
Keyword(s):  
Supervisory Control ◽  
Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor ◽  
Operating Conditions ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Laboratory Setup ◽  
Scada System ◽  
Three Phase ◽  
Integrated Operation ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control

A laboratory setup of distributed drives system comprising a three-phase induction motor (IM) drive and a permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) drive is modeled, designed, and developed for the monitoring and control of the individual drives. The integrated operation of IM and PMSM drives system has been analyzed under different operating conditions, and their performance has been monitored through supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system. The necessary SCADA graphical user interface (GUI) has also been created for the display of drive parameters. The performances of IM and PMSM under parametric variations are predicted through sensitivity analysis. An integrated operation of the drives is demonstrated through experimental and simulation results.

ST22 and ST239 MRSA duopoly in Singaporean hospitals: 2006–2010

2012 ◽  
Vol 141 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. TEO ◽  
T. Y. TAN ◽  
P. Y. HON ◽  
W. LEE ◽  
T. H. KOH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Variable Number Tandem Repeat ◽  
Variable Number ◽  
Small Subset ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Data Compilation ◽  
Laboratory Surveillance ◽  
Mrsa Infection ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Selection Of

SUMMARYSurveillance is integral for the monitoring and control of infectious diseases. We conducted prospective laboratory surveillance of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) in five Singaporean public-sector hospitals from 2006 to 2010, using WHONET 5.6 for data compilation and analysis. Molecular profiling using multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, staphylococcal cassette chromosomemecclassification and multilocus sequence typing was performed for a random selection of isolates. Our results showed overall stable rates of infection and bacteraemia, although there was significant variance among the individual hospitals, with MRSA rates increasing in two smaller hospitals and showing a trend towards decreasing in the two largest hospitals. The proportion of blood isolates that are EMRSA-15 (ST22-IV) continued to increase over time, slowly replacing the multi-resistant ST239-III. A new MRSA clone – ST45-IV – is now responsible for a small subset of hospital infections locally. More effort is required in Singaporean hospitals in order to reduce the rates of MRSA infection significantly.

U. S. Navy Ship Service Gas Turbine Generator Thermocouple Logic Enhancements to Improve Reliability

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Viercinski ◽  
Matthew Hoffman ◽  
Ivan Pineiro ◽  
Dennis Russom ◽  
Helen Kozuhowski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gas Turbine ◽  
Gas Turbines ◽  
Temperature Monitoring ◽  
The Other ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Control Logic ◽  
Turbine Generator ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Control ◽  
Improve Reliability

The U. S. Navy uses Rolls-Royce gas turbines for ship service power on the DDG-51 class destroyer and the CG-47 class cruiser. Both engines have duplex thermocouples (T/Cs) and redundant T/C harnesses for turbine temperature monitoring and control. One harness provides an average of all the installed T/Cs, while the other provides the full authority digital control (FADC) with an individual signal from each. The legacy FADC algorithm allows up to four T/Cs to be out of average on the individual harness. Any additional T/C failures will cause the control to ignore the entire individual harness and rely on the averaging harness alone. This logic has inadvertently led to multiple over-temp conditions and subsequent engine removals. A change to control logic has been developed that aims to prevent these over-temp scenarios and is currently being introduced to the fleet. This paper will discuss in depth the cause of the over-temp, the examination of the control logic and the correction that is designed to prevent it from recurring.

Computers for data, control and simulation

1988 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 920-921
Author(s):  
David C. Joy
Keyword(s):  
Personal Computers ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Data Logger ◽  
Operational Conditions ◽  
Data Control ◽  
The Many ◽  
And Control

Personal computers (PCs) are a powerful resource in the EM Laboratory, both as a means of automating the monitoring and control of microscopes, and as a tool for quantifying the interpretation of data. Not only is a PC more versatile than a piece of dedicated data logging equipment, but it is also substantially cheaper. In this tutorial the practical principles of using a PC for these types of activities will be discussed.The PC can form the basis of a system to measure, display, record and store the many parameters which characterize the operational conditions of the EM. In this mode it is operating as a data logger. The necessary first step is to find a suitable source from which to measure each of the items of interest. It is usually possible to do this without having to make permanent corrections or modifications to the EM.

The magnitude and cost of groundwater monitoring and control in agriculture.

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giacomo Giannoccaro ◽  
Armando Ursitti ◽  
Maurizio Prosperi
Keyword(s):  
Groundwater Monitoring ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
And Control

MONITORING AND CONTROL OF THE “ANIMAL” SUBSYSTEM IN THE COMPLEX BIOTECHNICAL SYSTEM “MAN-MACHINE-ANIMAL” OF A DAIRY FARM

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-10
Author(s):  
VLADIMIR V. KIRSANOV ◽  
◽  
DMITRIY YU. PAVKIN ◽  
FEDOR E. FEDOR E. VLADIMIROV ◽  
EVGENIY А. NIKITIN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Reproductive Organs ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Lactating Cows ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Mutual Adaptation ◽  
Biotechnical System ◽  
Complex Project ◽  
And Control

A modern dairy farm is a complex biotechnical “man-machine-animal” system, where purposeful human activity concentrates mainly on the control of the “machine” and “animal” subsystems, thus making the whole system ergatic. Increasing the interaction effi ciency of machine subsystems with biological objects (animals) requires an in-depth study of the properties and characteristics of the latter, their behavior, adaptive and refl ex mechanisms that ensure the mutual adaptation of machine and biological subsystems. The paper considers general functionality of the “animal” subsystem, which includes lists of monitored parameters (functions) in pre-weaning, pre-lactation and lactation periods. In a similar way, functionals of the subsystems of the general musculoskeletal development of the animal’s body, respiratory and digestive organs, comfort of the habitat, development and control of the reproductive organs of lactating cows were obtained accompanied with a list of controlled functions and parameters. To carry out a set of research activities in this fi eld, FSAC VIM is planning to carry out a complex project that will increase the levels of automation, digitalization and intellectualization of animal husbandry, provide for comfortable environment, optimal rediced-impact service modes for animals and their extended productive longevity, increased quality of milk and autonomous functioning of individual local biotechnical subsystems.

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