scholarly journals SENSES AND “SENSUAL DATA”

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (S1) ◽  
pp. 97-105
Author(s):  
Andrzej Półtawski
Keyword(s):  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Gestalt Psychology ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
Nineteen Thirties ◽  
The Road ◽  
Plausible Account ◽  
Intellectual Intuition ◽  
Human Intellect ◽  
Insight Into

One of the main goals of modern philosophy was to achieve an in-depth insight into the foundations of empirical knowledge. The problem was expected to be resolved by the analysis of experience. However, the road to a plausible account of experience was at the very beginning obstructed by turning the analysis into a search for clear and distinctive elements of experience and by sticking to purely intellectual intuition as means of this analysis. Moreover, clear and distinctive elements of experience were thought of as the basis of cognitive certainty. Both psychology and philosophy, at least until the nineteen-thirties, were deeply influenced by this essentially rationalistic conception of sensor experience. It is gestalt psychology and phenomenology that should be merited for overcoming that ill-conceived model. Only by taking into account the immediate sensor relation between the human subject and the environment, it is possible to show the kind of unity which is the prerequisite of human intellect.

Green Synthesized Nanomaterials as Theranostic Platforms for Cancer Treatment: Principles, Challenges and the Road Ahead

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 1311-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pala Rajasekharreddy ◽  
Chao Huang ◽  
Siddhardha Busi ◽  
Jobina Rajkumari ◽  
Ming-Hong Tai ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nanoparticle Synthesis ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Synthesis Methods ◽  
Synthetic Approach ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
The Road ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Theranostic Applications ◽  
Insight Into

With the emergence of nanotechnology, new methods have been developed for engineering various nanoparticles for biomedical applications. Nanotheranostics is a burgeoning research field with tremendous prospects for the improvement of diagnosis and treatment of various cancers. However, the development of biocompatible and efficient drug/gene delivery theranostic systems still remains a challenge. Green synthetic approach of nanoparticles with low capital and operating expenses, reduced environmental pollution and better biocompatibility and stability is a latest and novel field, which is advantageous over chemical or physical nanoparticle synthesis methods. In this article, we summarize the recent research progresses related to green synthesized nanoparticles for cancer theranostic applications, and we also conclude with a look at the current challenges and insight into the future directions based on recent developments in these areas.

scholarly journals Gender and the transsexual body in Transamerica

Literator ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy A. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Gender Performance ◽  
Gender Theory ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Road ◽  
Female Protagonist ◽  
Self Discovery ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Insight Into

Transamerica, by Duncan Tucker, released in 2005, addresses lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer- (LGBTQ-) related themes through a transsexual female protagonist, Bree. This article discusses the film as an important step in the direction of representing the complexity of gender, which, by today’s standards, is more generally appreciated. Because of its subject matter, Transamerica is a contentious film, lauded and condemned in mainstream media for how it dealt with and represented transsexual identities. Despite nominations for a number of awards, the film’s portrayal of transsexual identities was largely ignored in academic discourse at the time. I argue here that the film provides insight into the challenges, requirements, concerns, as well as the consequences of gender-fluid expression, which has been recognised in academia for years and has become a more discussed topic in mainstream society, but the manner in which the film examines these insights was overlooked. I do this by contextualising the film in terms of contemporary examples of transgender existence, which have brought the topic to mainstream discourse, and by applying gender theory concepts to the film. I discuss the protagonist’s physical and emotional journey to self-discovery in the context of the road movie trope. I then look into the protagonist’s gender performance, as well as how the protagonist negotiates this performance in the various places she visits while on the journey. I show that the film encourages open and honest discourse about gender identity and expression; the opportunity for this discussion was not taken in the year of the film’s release.

‘To Speak of Cattle is to Speak of Man’: Anthroparchal Interactions in John Connell’s The Farmer’s Son

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 329-351
Author(s):  
Paul Mihai Paraschiv ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Relations ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Insight Into

“To Speak of Cattle is to Speak of Man”: Anthroparchal Interactions in John Connell’s The Farmer’s Son. The present paper intends to build a critique of contemporary farming practices, based on Erika Cudworth’s theory of “anthroparchy.” By exemplifying how anthroparchal interactions function in John Connell’s memoir, I will outline the becoming of a posthuman farmer that awakens certain sensibilities towards nonhuman animals, in ways that compel a rethinking of gendered relations, patriarchy, violence, and capitalist interests. The analysis provides a needed insight into recent developments in Irish rural farming, detailing the position of the human subject in relation to nonhuman otherness and describing some of the changes that need to be made regarding the power relations that are at work within patriarchal systems. To this extent, Cudworth’s theoretical framework and Connell’s memoir are proven to be contributing to the necessary restructuring of farming practices and of human-nonhuman interactions. Keywords: anthroparchy, posthumanism, gender relations, zoomorphism, capitalism, farming

Modal Analysis of a Utility Bicycle From the Perspective of Riding Comfort

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Doria ◽  
Edoardo Marconi ◽  
Pierluca Cialoni
Keyword(s):  
Modal Testing ◽  
Vibration Modes ◽  
Response Functions ◽  
The Road ◽  
Power Spectral ◽  
Vehicle Structure ◽  
Power Spectral Densities ◽  
On The Road ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract The correlation between the modal properties and the comfort characteristics of a utility, step-through frame bicycle are investigated. In-plane modal testing of the vehicle is carried out both without and with the rider, and the major differences between the results obtained with the two conditions are highlighted. In order to have an insight into the contribution of the various bicycle components to the transmission of vibrations, the frequency response functions (FRFs) between the main interface points in the vehicle structure are measured and studied. Finally, the modal characteristics are compared with road tests data, emphasizing the relationship between the in-plane vibration modes and the main peaks in the acceleration power spectral densities (PSDs) measured on the road.

British Library document supply – a fork in the road

2010 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Appleyard
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
British Library ◽  
Improvement Strategy ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Road ◽  
Current Thinking ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Future Plans

PurposeThis paper seeks to provide an overview of recent developments within the British Library's document supply service and offer an insight into future plans.Design/methodology/approachThe paper takes the form of a general review.FindingsThe British Library Document Supply Centre (BLDSC) has made tremendous gains in optimising the service in its current guise. As with similar organisations, challenges are presenting themselves that require a completely new look at the way the business model is designed. Although the long‐term plan is not completely formed, this paper aims to give an insight into current thinking.Originality/valueThe paper spells out the improvement strategy that the BL has adopted for document supply in the light of the worldwide decline.

scholarly journals Genetic and functional odorant receptor variation in the Homo lineage

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire A. de March ◽  
Hiroaki Matsunami ◽  
Masashi Abe ◽  
Matthew Cobb ◽  
Kara C. Hoover
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Odorant Receptor ◽  
Odorant Receptors ◽  
Receptor Function ◽  
Functional Variation ◽  
Receptor Proteins ◽  
Local Adaptations ◽  
The Road ◽  
Specific Anosmia ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractThe largest and rapidly evolving gene family of odorant receptors detect odors to variable degrees due to amino acid sequence and protein structure. Hybridization between humans, Neandertals, and Denisovans implies shared behavior1,2, although some speculate that Neandertals were poor smellers 3,4. We identified genetic and functional variation in humans and extinct lineages in 30 receptors with known function. We show that structural changes in receptor proteins altered odor sensitivity not specificity, indicating a common repertoire across lineages. In humans, variation in receptors may change odor perception or induce odor-specific anosmia 5,6. Variation in sensitivity may reflect local adaptations (e.g., Denisovan sensitivity to honey, Neandertals sensitivity to grass and sulphur). Extinct human lineages had highly conserved receptor genes and proteins. We observe a similar pattern in the Neandertal OR5P3 variant, which produced no response to ∼350 odors. Our data suggest that receptor structure was highly conserved in our closest relatives, but not in living humans. The diversity of geographic adaptations in humans may have produced greater functional variation, increasing our olfactory repertoire and expanding our adaptive capacity 5. Our results provide insight into odorant receptor function and shed light on the olfactory ecology of ancient humans and their extinct relatives. By studying the function of ancient odorant receptor genes, we have been able to get a glimpse of the sensory world of our extinct ancestors and relatives, with some of the variants giving specific insights into potential adaptations shown by these long-dead populations. The functional variability we have identified in the molecular structure of the odorant receptor proteins will aid in the more general problem of understanding the function of odorant receptor proteins and the neurons they are carried by, opening the road to linking receptor function to perception.

Anne Conway’s Response to Cartesianism

2019 ◽  
pp. 706-720
Author(s):  
Christia Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Modern Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Early Modern Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Radical Ideas ◽  
Insight Into

Anne Conway (1631–79) was an English philosopher whose only work, The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy, was published posthumously in 1690. Conway’s arguments against Descartes’s account of matter constitute a cutting criticism of his views and offer significant insight into an important and under-studied anti-Cartesian trend in the second half of the seventeenth century. Conway’s response to Descartes helps us discern some of the more original and radical ideas in her philosophy. Like so many other significant early modern women, Conway was left out of the history of philosophy by later thinkers.

scholarly journals The Textual Ecology of Christine Montalbetti’s Journée américaine

Humanities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Anne McConnell
Keyword(s):  
Human Subject ◽  
Basic Structure ◽  
Outer Edge ◽  
Road Trip ◽  
The Road ◽  
Final Destination ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
Ecological Implications ◽  
Linear Manner

Christine Montalbetti’s 2009 novel, Journée américaine, depicts a road trip, as Donovan travels from Oklahoma to visit his college friend, Tom Lee, who lives on a ranch in Colorado. While the road trip provides a basic structure for the narrative, as the text unfolds, we realize that Montalbetti’s narrator prefers to meander, rather than taking us in a linear manner towards a final destination. The narrator dives into memories, digressions, philosophical reflections, and backstories of seemingly peripheral characters in order to flesh out a complex narrative mesh. Timothy Morton’s notion of “the ecological thought” provides a compelling lens through which we can read Montalbetti’s novel, encouraging us to consider the ecological implications of a text that might not at first strike us as having anything to do with ecology. Journée américaine pushes against the outer edge of the text, spilling over into the world and also demonstrating the ways that the environment participates in the text. Montalbetti’s attention to objects, nonhuman animals, and landscapes further emphasizes how narrative does not necessarily require a human subject at the center. In the end, the narrative mesh of Journée américaine demonstrates a sprawling, complex network of relations that unfolds outward and defies boundaries.

Auslagerung des Intellekts

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-144
Author(s):  
Christina Vagt
Keyword(s):  
Technological Complex ◽  
Alternative Facts ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Machine Systems ◽  
Matters Of Concern ◽  
Human Intellect ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Insight Into

Worum geht es in den aktuellen Vorwürfen, die Postmoderne hätte den aktuellen populistischen Diskurs um alternative Fakten vorbereitet? Ausgehend von Latours Elend der Kritik diskutiert der Artikel die Genealogie von Wahrheits- und Evidenzkritik vor und nach den Anfängen des Computers. Dabei lässt sich zeigen, dass vor aller Wahrheits- und Evidenzkritik zunächst ein Misstrauen in den menschlichen Intellekt steht, welches in den frühen Entwürfen künstlicher Intelligenz und der Auslagerung des Intellekts in lernende Maschinensysteme ein vermeintliches Ende findet. Nicht zufällig ruft Herbert A. Simon 1969 in seinem Standardwerk The Sciences of the Artifical Arthur Schopenhauers Welt als Wille und Vorstellung auf, wenn er schreibt, dass die Welt viel mehr eine künstliche, vorgestellte als eine natürliche sei. Anders als im 19. Jahrhundert verspricht jedoch nun die Computersimulation Einsichten in bisher unzureichend verstandene Komplexitäten menschlichen Verhaltens. Das Resultat dieser maschinellen Kritik ist ein ökonomisch-technologischer Komplex, in dem Rationalität nicht mehr als Funktion des Subjektes, sondern als Funktion der Maschine interpretiert und das Politische auf die Ebene des Affektiven reduziert wird. What is really behind the recent accusations of postmodernism being responsible for preparing the current populistic argument about alternative facts? Based on Bruno Latour’s »Why has Critique Run out of Steak? From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern«, this article discusses the genealogy of truth- and evidentness critique before and after the beginnings of the computer. This will lead to the realization that before all critique concerning truth and evidentness there is already a distrust in the human intellect which comes to an alleged end in the early drafts of artificial intelligence as well as in the outsourcing of intellect into adaptive machine-systems. It is not by accident that Herbert A. Simon refers to Arthur Schopenhauer’s Welt als Wille und Vorstellung in his standard reference work The Sciences of the Artificial from 1969 when he states that the world resembles more of an artificial, imagined one than a natural. Different from the 19th century, the computer simulation these days promises insight into the complexities of human behaviour that have until now been understood only incompletely and insufficiently. The result of machine-based critique is an economic-technological complex in which rationality is no longer interpreted as the function of the subject but as the function of the machine, while politics is reduced to the level of affect

The Road to Rizong

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris H. J. M. Brummans
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Actual Case ◽  
The Road ◽  
Mindful Organizing ◽  
The Face ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Indian Himalayas

This study describes how a small group of Buddhist monks and nuns in a remote monastery and nunnery in the Indian Himalayas interacted during and after a landslide. In so doing, it provides rare insight into an actual case of Buddhist mindful organizing in the face of natural disaster.

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