The Aftermath of GRIEF

Grief ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 61-93
Author(s):  
David Shneer
Keyword(s):  
War Crimes ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Nikita Khrushchev ◽  
War Crimes Trials ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road ◽  
India And China

This chapter is engaged with photography’s fundamental challenge: it is both documentary evidence, in which the camera is a tool of a technician, and a work of art, in which the click of the shutter is but one step on the road to creating an art photograph. It opens with Baltermants’s soaring career with Izvestiia until June 1942, when he was fired for mislabeling a photograph of a blown-up tank and was sent to a penal battalion that fought at Stalingrad. The experience nearly cost him his life. After the victory by the Allies, photographs were used as evidence in war crimes trials, including Baltermants’s. At the end of the war, he returned to photographic preeminence. After Stalin’s death, he became a leading documenter of global Soviet power under Nikita Khrushchev. He took pictures in Vietnam, India, and China, and his work appeared in domestic and international art exhibitions.

Telomerase activation: one step on the road to cancer?

1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol W Greider
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road

The evolution of public policy attitudes: comparing the mechanisms of policy support across the stages of a policy cycle

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 428-448
Author(s):  
Sverker C. Jagers ◽  
Simon Matti ◽  
Katarina Nordblom
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
Policy Cycle ◽  
Governance System ◽  
The Road ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Policy Attitudes ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Political Decisionmaking

AbstractWe analyse the importance of legitimacy on public policy support by comparing how drivers of public policy attitudes evolve across the policy process consisting of the input (the processes forgoing acquisition of power and the procedures permeating political decisionmaking), throughput (the inclusion of and interactions between actors in a governance system) and output (the substantive consequences of those decisions) stages. Using unique panel data through three phases of the implementation of a congestion tax in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, we find that legitimacy is indeed important in explaining policy support. Moreover, we find a lingering effect where support in one phase depends on legitimacy both in the present and in previous phases. Hence, our study takes us one step further on the road to understand the complicated dynamic mechanisms behind the interactions between policymaking, policy support, and the legitimacy and approval of politicians and political processes.

scholarly journals Reviving Hedonism about Well-Being: Refuting the Argument from False Pleasures and  Restricting the Relevance of Intuitive 'Evidence'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Michael Turton
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Warning Sign ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
The Road ◽  
Experience Machine ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road

<p>Throughout the vast majority of its history, hedonism about well-being has been perennially unpopular (Feldman 2004). The arguments in this essay take steps towards reviving the plausibility of hedonism about well-being. The main argument currently used to refute hedonism about well-being, the Argument from False Pleasures, is shown to lack sufficient evidence to be compelling. The main evidence provided for the Argument from False Pleasures comes in the form of two thought experiments, the Experience Machine (Nozick 1974) and the Deceived Businessman (Kagan 1998). These thought experiments typically produce strong intuitive responses, which are used to directly support the Argument from False Pleasures. This essay investigates how theories of well-being are currently evaluated by moral philosophers, with a specific focus on the place our intuitions have in the process. Indeed, the major role that moral intuitions play in evaluating theories of well-being, despite their sometimes dubious epistemic credentials, leads to an in-depth enquiry into their inner workings and potential for containing normatively significant information. The investigation, which draws on the work of Woodward and Allman (2007), concludes that intuitions about unrealistic thought experiments should not play an important role in evaluating theories of well-being. Rather, they should only act as a warning sign, highlighting moral propositions for further analysis. Based on these findings, a new method for assessing theories of well-being is suggested and applied to a specific internalist account of hedonism about well-being to show how the Deceived Businessman and Experience Machine thought experiments lack normative significance, leaving the Argument from False Pleasures without sufficient evidence to be compelling. Indeed, this essay concludes that the Argument from False Pleasures should no longer be thought to provide any good reason to believe that hedonism about well-being is implausible. This result is only one step on the road to reviving hedonism about well-being, but it is a very important one.</p>

scholarly journals Discretization, the Road to Quantum Computing?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesús Lacalle
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Computing ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Error Control ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
The Road ◽  
Road Map ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Concrete Model

The main challenge we face in making quantum computing a reality is error control. For this reason it is necessary to study whether the hypotheses on which the threshold theorem has been proved capture all the characteristics of quantum errors. The extraordinary difficulties that we find to control quantum errors effectively together with the little progress in this endeavor, compared to the enormous effort deployed by the scientific community and by companies and governments, should make us reflect on the road map to quantum computing. In this work we analyze error control in quantum computing and suggest that discrete quantum computing models should be explored. In this sense, we present a concrete model but, above all, we propose that Quantum Physics should be taken one step further, in order to allow discretization of the quantum computing model.

scholarly journals A Grid-Based Framework for Collective Perception in Autonomous Vehicles

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 744
Author(s):  
Jorge Godoy ◽  
Víctor Jiménez ◽  
Antonio Artuñedo ◽  
Jorge Villagra
Keyword(s):  
Object Tracking ◽  
Autonomous Vehicles ◽  
Line Of Sight ◽  
The Road ◽  
Occupancy Grid ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road ◽  
High Level ◽  
Share Information ◽  
Grid Based

Today, perception solutions for Automated Vehicles rely on sensors on board the vehicle, which are limited by the line of sight and occlusions caused by any other elements on the road. As an alternative, Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications allow vehicles to cooperate and enhance their perception capabilities. Besides announcing its own presence and intentions, services such as Collective Perception (CPS) aim to share information about perceived objects as a high-level description. This work proposes a perception framework for fusing information from on-board sensors and data received via CPS messages (CPM). To that end, the environment is modeled using an occupancy grid where occupied, and free and uncertain space is considered. For each sensor, including V2X, independent grids are calculated from sensor measurements and uncertainties and then fused in terms of both occupancy and confidence. Moreover, the implementation of a Particle Filter allows the evolution of cell occupancy from one step to the next, allowing for object tracking. The proposed framework was validated on a set of experiments using real vehicles and infrastructure sensors for sensing static and dynamic objects. Results showed a good performance even under important uncertainties and delays, hence validating the viability of the proposed framework for Collective Perception.

scholarly journals Reviving Hedonism about Well-Being: Refuting the Argument from False Pleasures and  Restricting the Relevance of Intuitive 'Evidence'

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Daniel Michael Turton
Keyword(s):  
Good Reason ◽  
Thought Experiments ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Warning Sign ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
The Road ◽  
Experience Machine ◽  
One Step ◽  
On The Road

<p>Throughout the vast majority of its history, hedonism about well-being has been perennially unpopular (Feldman 2004). The arguments in this essay take steps towards reviving the plausibility of hedonism about well-being. The main argument currently used to refute hedonism about well-being, the Argument from False Pleasures, is shown to lack sufficient evidence to be compelling. The main evidence provided for the Argument from False Pleasures comes in the form of two thought experiments, the Experience Machine (Nozick 1974) and the Deceived Businessman (Kagan 1998). These thought experiments typically produce strong intuitive responses, which are used to directly support the Argument from False Pleasures. This essay investigates how theories of well-being are currently evaluated by moral philosophers, with a specific focus on the place our intuitions have in the process. Indeed, the major role that moral intuitions play in evaluating theories of well-being, despite their sometimes dubious epistemic credentials, leads to an in-depth enquiry into their inner workings and potential for containing normatively significant information. The investigation, which draws on the work of Woodward and Allman (2007), concludes that intuitions about unrealistic thought experiments should not play an important role in evaluating theories of well-being. Rather, they should only act as a warning sign, highlighting moral propositions for further analysis. Based on these findings, a new method for assessing theories of well-being is suggested and applied to a specific internalist account of hedonism about well-being to show how the Deceived Businessman and Experience Machine thought experiments lack normative significance, leaving the Argument from False Pleasures without sufficient evidence to be compelling. Indeed, this essay concludes that the Argument from False Pleasures should no longer be thought to provide any good reason to believe that hedonism about well-being is implausible. This result is only one step on the road to reviving hedonism about well-being, but it is a very important one.</p>

Community Colleges: Vital Partners on the Road to Diversity

ASHA Leader ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelly S. Chabon ◽  
Ruth E. Cain
Keyword(s):  
Community Colleges ◽  
The Road ◽  
On The Road

The Role of Crushes on the Road to Autonomy

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (9) ◽  
pp. 18-19
Author(s):  
MICHAEL S. JELLINEK
Keyword(s):  
The Road ◽  
On The Road
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