Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo Kitts
Keyword(s):  
Religious Legends ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Self Immolation

All of the terms in this volume’s title may be contested, not the least of which is “suicide.” Broadly condemned as cowardice across the world’s moral codes, suicide under different rubrics—such as martyrdom, self-sacrifice, or self-immolation—is conferred a dynamic quality in a number of religious legends, some tragic and others uplifting. Audiences respond to those legends presumably because choosing death in certain circumstances is seen as heroic and often as catalyzing redemption, for the individuals who die, for their communities, or for humanity. Yet this choice is rarely unambiguous. This chapter surveys some of those ambiguities. It ponders the themes and controversies associated with each of the title’s terms, as well as the religious ardor implicated in some celebrated elective deaths.

Ecology, Dharma and Direct Action: A Brief Survey of Contemporary Eco-Buddhist Activism in Korea

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-311
Author(s):  
Young-Hae Yoon ◽  
Sherwin Jones
Keyword(s):  
Social Engagement ◽  
Direct Action ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Hunger Strike ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Reclamation Project ◽  
Self Immolation

Over the last few decades there has emerged a small, yet influential eco-Buddhism movement in South Korea which, since the turn of the millennium, has seen several S?n (J. Zen) Buddhist clerics engage in high-profile protests and activism campaigns opposing massive development projects which threatened widespread ecological destruction. This article will survey the issues and events surrounding three such protests; the 2003 samboilbae, or ‘threesteps- one-bow’, march led by Venerable Suky?ng against the Saemangeum Reclamation Project, Venerable Jiyul’s Anti-Mt. Ch?ns?ng tunnel hunger-strike campaign between 2002 and 2006, and lastly Venerable Munsu’s self-immolation protesting the Four Rivers Project in 2010. This article will additionally analyze the attempts by these clerics to deploy innovative and distinctively Buddhist forms of protest, the effects of these protests, and how these protests have altered public perceptions of the role of Buddhist clergy in Korean society. This study will additionally highlight issues relevant to the broader discourse regarding the intersection of Buddhism and social activism, such as the appropriation of traditional Buddhist practices as protest tactics and the potential for conflict between social engagement and the pursuit of Buddhist soteriological goals.

A Mechanism for Reversibly Pausing a Self-Immolation Cascade in Response to pH Changes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derrick Roberts ◽  
Ben S. Pilgrim ◽  
Tristan Dell ◽  
Molly Stevens
Keyword(s):  
Local Environment ◽  
Chemical Signals ◽  
Ph Sensitive ◽  
First Report ◽  
Ph Changes ◽  
Self Immolation

We describe the first report of a self-immolation cascade that can be reversibly paused and reactivated in response to pH changes. This system employs a triazole-based self-immolative linker, which expresses a pH-sensitive intermediate during its elimination sequence. This allows the system to respond to pH cues within its local environment, thus establishing a new way to gate self-immolative release using fluctuating or transient chemical signals.<br>

To Extract the Essence from this Essenceless Body

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reiko Ohnuma
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Self Immolation

While ordinary suicide and ascetic self-torture are both condemned outright, and martyrdom seems irrelevant as a category, there are nevertheless several forms of elective death that are legitimated in Buddhist narrative sources from India, including self-sacrifice on behalf of others, and self-immolation as a religious offering. Both of these acts are generally attributed to the bodhisattva, or the being who is working to attain full buddhahood. Even so, while elective death in the form of either self-sacrifice or self-immolation can be rationalized and even celebrated, it is surrounded by ambivalence and anxiety, and accepted only with difficulty. This chapter focuses on the ambivalence surrounding self-sacrifice and self-immolation, an ambivalence that is particularly evident in these stories’ discourse of self and other, and in their discourse of the body that is sacrificed and the body one hopes to achieve.

Coleridge and Contemplation

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Background ◽  
New Developments ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Renaissance Man ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Philosophical Writings

In his philosophical writings, Coleridge increasingly developed his thinking about imagination, a symbolizing precursor to contemplation, to a theory of contemplation itself, which for him occurs in its purest form as a manifestation of ‘Reason’. Coleridge is a particularly challenging figure because he was a thinker in process, and something of an omnimath, a Renaissance man of the Romantic era. The dynamic quality of his thinking, the ‘dark fluxion’ pursued but ultimately ‘unfixable by thought’, and his extensive range of interests make essential an approach that is philosophical yet also multi-disciplinary. This is the first collection of essays to be written mainly by philosophers and intellectual historians on a wide range of Coleridge’s philosophical writings. With a foreword by Baroness Mary Warnock, and original essays on Coleridge and Contemplation by prominent philosophers such as Sir Roger Scruton, David E. Cooper, Michael McGhee, and Andy Hamilton, this volume provides a stimulating collection of insights and explorations into what Britain’s foremost philosopher-poet had to say about the contemplation that he considered to be the highest of the human mental powers. The essays by philosophers are supported by new developments in philosophically minded criticism from Coleridge scholars in English departments, including Jim Mays, Kathleen Wheeler, and James Engell. They approach Coleridge as an energetic yet contemplative thinker concerned with the intuition of ideas and the processes of cultivation in self and society. Other essays, from intellectual historians and theologians, clarify the historical background, and ‘religious musings’, of Coleridge’s thought regarding contemplation.

scholarly journals Dynamic Quality of an Aerostatic Thrust Bearing with a Microgroove and Support Center on Elastic Suspension

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 1492
Author(s):  
Vladimir Kodnyanko ◽  
Stanislav Shatokhin ◽  
Andrey Kurzakov ◽  
Lilia Strok ◽  
Yuri Pikalov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Characteristics ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Aerostatic Bearing ◽  
Elastic Suspension ◽  
Variable Parameters ◽  
Aerostatic Bearings ◽  
Improved Design ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Bearing Layer

The disadvantage of aerostatic bearings is their low dynamic quality. The negative impact on the dynamic characteristics of the bearing is exerted by the volume of air contained in the bearing gap, pockets, and microgrooves located at the outlet of the feeding diaphragms. Reducing the volume of air in the flow path is a resource for increasing the dynamic quality of the aerostatic bearing. This article presents an improved design of an axial aerostatic bearing with simple diaphragms, an annular microgroove, and an elastic suspension of the movable center of the supporting disk. A mathematical model is presented and a methodology for calculating the static characteristics of a bearing and dynamic quality indicators is described. The calculations were carried out using dimensionless quantities, which made it possible to reduce the number of variable parameters. A new method for solving linearized and Laplace-transformed boundary value problems for transformants of air pressure dynamic functions in the bearing layer was applied, which made it possible to obtain a numerical solution of problems sufficient for practice accuracy. The optimization of the criteria for the dynamic quality of the bearing was carried out. It is shown that the use of an elastic suspension of the support center improves its dynamic characteristics by reducing the volume of compressed air in the bearing layer and choosing the optimal volume of the microgroove.

scholarly journals Objective Rating of the Launch Behavior of Conventional, Hybrid and Electric Vehicles

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dorsch ◽  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Ferit Küçükay
Keyword(s):  
Electric Vehicle ◽  
Electric Vehicles ◽  
Hybrid Electric Vehicle ◽  
Automatic Transmission ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Important Process ◽  
Dual Clutch Transmission ◽  
Conventional Vehicle ◽  
Objective Rating ◽  
Dynamic Quality

AbstractThe calibration of conventional, hybrid and electric drivetrains is an important process during the development phase of any vehicle. Therefore, to optimize the comfort and dynamic behavior (known as driveability), many test drives are performed by experienced drivers during different driving maneuvers, e.g., launch, re-launch or gear shift. However, the process can be kept more consistent and independent of human-based deviations by using objective ratings. This study first introduces an objective rating system developed for the launch behavior of conventional vehicles with automatic transmission, dual-clutch transmission, and alternative drivetrains. Then, the launch behavior, namely comfort and dynamic quality, is compared between two conventional vehicles, a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle and a battery electric vehicle. Results show the benefits of pure electric drivetrains due to the lack of launch and shifting elements, as well as the usage of a highly dynamic electric motor. While the plug-in hybrid achieves a 10% higher overall rating compared to the baseline conventional vehicle, the pure electric vehicle even achieves a 21% higher overall rating. The results also highlight the optimization potential of battery electric vehicles regarding their comfort and dynamic characteristics. The transitions and the gradient of the acceleration build-up have a major influence on the launch quality.

Autonomous Technology and Dynamic Obligations: Uncrewed Maritime Vehicles and the Regulation of Maritime Military Surveillance in the Exclusive Economic Zone

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Simon MCKENZIE
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regime ◽  
Coastal State ◽  
Maritime Surveillance ◽  
Legal Obligations ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Exclusive Economic Zones ◽  
Dynamic Quality ◽  
Economic Zones ◽  
Environmental Interests ◽  
Autonomous Technology

Abstract The development of uncrewed maritime vehicles [UMVs] has the potential to increase the scale of military maritime surveillance in the exclusive economic zones of foreign coastal states. This paper considers the legal implications of the expanded use of UMVs for this purpose. It shows how features of the legal regime—namely how its application depends on determining the intent of a vessel's operation (to distinguish marine scientific research from military surveillance), as well the obligation to have due regard—have a “dynamic” quality that will pose a challenge to UMVs operated by autonomous technology. The legal obligations will require equipping UMVs with the capacity to communicate something about their identity, the purpose of their mission, and to be able to have some capacity to be responsive to the economic and environmental interests of the coastal state.

The Simulation Analysis of Semi-Active Suspension System in Vehicle Based on Sliding Mode Control with Varying Structure

2011 ◽  
Vol 216 ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Jing Jun Zhang ◽  
Wei Sha Han ◽  
Li Ya Cao ◽  
Rui Zhen Gao
Keyword(s):  
Control Method ◽  
Simulation Analysis ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Sliding Mode ◽  
Tracking Error ◽  
Active Suspension ◽  
Suspension System ◽  
Sliding Mode Controller ◽  
Error Dynamics ◽  
Dynamic Quality

A sliding mode controller for semi-active suspension system of a quarter car is designed with sliding model varying structure control method. This controller chooses Skyhook as a reference model, and to force the tracking error dynamics between the reference model and the plant in an asymptotically stable sliding mode. An equal near rate is used to improve the dynamic quality of sliding mode motion. Simulation result shows that the stability of performance of the sliding-mode controller can effectively improve the driving smoothness and safety.

scholarly journals Dynamic Quality Control for Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sören Sofke ◽  
Fernando Pereira ◽  
Erika Müller
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Video Coding ◽  
Transform Domain ◽  
Dynamic Quality
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