Continental Realism and Its Discontents

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421140.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Continental Philosophy ◽

German Idealism ◽

History Of Philosophy ◽

Human Consciousness ◽

The Real ◽

New Realism ◽

History Of

A new realist movement in continental philosophy has emerged to challenge philosophical approaches and traditions ranging from transcendental and speculative idealism to phenomenology and deconstruction for failing to do justice to the real world as it is ‘in itself’, that is, as independent of the structures of human consciousness, experience, and language. This volume presents a collection of essays that take up the challenge of realism from a variety of historical and contemporary philosophical perspectives. This volume includes essays that engage the fundamental presuppositions and conclusions of this new realism by turning to the writings of seminal figures in the history of philosophy, including Kant, Schelling, and others. Also included are essays that challenge anti-realist readings of Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, and Nancy. Finally, several essays in this volume propose alternative ways of understanding realism through careful readings of key figures in German idealism, pessimism, phenomenology, existentialism, feminism, and deconstruction.

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EXPLORING HEALTHCARE ARCHITECTURE THROUGH THE MEDIUM OF FILM: Motives and Techniques

International Journal of Architectural Research Archnet-IJAR ◽

10.26687/archnet-ijar.v8i1.311 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 29

Author(s):

Stephen Verderber

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

The Real ◽

Healthcare Settings ◽

Interdisciplinary Field ◽

Body Of Knowledge ◽

Behavior Setting ◽

Physical Environments ◽

Scant Attention ◽

History Of

The interdisciplinary field of person-environment relations has, from its origins, addressed the transactional relationship between human behavior and the built environment. This body of knowledge has been based upon qualitative and quantitative assessment of phenomena in the “real world.” This knowledge base has been instrumental in advancing the quality of real, physical environments globally at various scales of inquiry and with myriad user/client constituencies. By contrast, scant attention has been devoted to using simulation as a means to examine and represent person-environment transactions and how what is learned can be applied. The present discussion posits that press-competency theory, with related aspects drawn from functionalist-evolutionary theory, can together function to help us learn of how the medium of film can yield further insights to person-environment (P-E) transactions in the real world. Sampling, combined with extemporary behavior setting analysis, provide the basis for this analysis of healthcare settings as expressed throughout the history of cinema. This method can be of significant aid in examining P-E transactions across diverse historical periods, building types and places, healthcare and otherwise, otherwise logistically, geographically, or temporally unattainable in real time and space.

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Ontology Versioning Driven by Instance Evolution in the τOWL Framework

Journal of Information & Knowledge Management ◽

10.1142/s0219649222500022 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zouhaier Brahmia ◽

Fabio Grandi ◽

Abir Zekri ◽

Rafik Bouaziz

Keyword(s):

Semantic Web ◽

Real World ◽

Ontology Construction ◽

Web Based ◽

The Real ◽

Initial Design ◽

Design Time ◽

Schema Versioning ◽

History Of ◽

Over Time

Like other components of Semantic Web-based applications, ontologies are evolving over time to reflect changes in the real world. Several of these applications require keeping a full-fledged history of ontology changes so that both ontology instance versions and their corresponding ontology schema versions are maintained. Updates to an ontology instance could be non-conservative that is leading to a new ontology instance version no longer conforming to the current ontology schema version. If, for some reasons, a non-conservative update has to be executed, in spite of its consequence, it requires the production of a new ontology schema version to which the new ontology instance version is conformant so that the new ontology version produced by the update is globally consistent. In this paper, we first propose an approach that supports ontology schema changes which are triggered by non-conservative updates to ontology instances and, thus, gives rise to an ontology schema versioning driven by instance updates. Note that in an engineering perspective, such an approach can be used as an incremental ontology construction method driven by the modification of instance data, whose exact structure may not be completely known at the initial design time. After that, we apply our proposal to the already established [Formula: see text]OWL (Temporal OWL 2) framework, which allows defining and evolving temporal OWL 2 ontologies in an environment that supports temporal versioning of both ontology instances and ontology schemas, by extending it to also support the management of non-conservative updates to ontology instance versions. Last, we show the feasibility of our approach by dealing with its implementation within a new release of the [Formula: see text] OWL-Manager tool.

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P0901REAL-WORLD ASSESSMENT: CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY OF VITAMIN D THERAPIES IN ND-CKD PATIENTS

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation ◽

10.1093/ndt/gfaa142.p0901 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 35 (Supplement_3) ◽

Author(s):

Michael J Germain ◽

Subir K Paul ◽

Varshasb Broumand ◽

George Fadda ◽

Andy Nguyen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Vitamin D ◽

Serum Calcium ◽

Real World ◽

Clinical Effectiveness ◽

Vitamin D Insufficiency ◽

The Real ◽

Hydroxyvitamin D ◽

Included Patient ◽

Ckd Stage ◽

History Of

Abstract Background and Aims Extended-release calcifediol (ERC), active vitamin D analogs (VDA), and nutritional vitamin D (NVD) are the predominant vitamin D therapies (VDTs) commonly used for treatment (Tx) of secondary hyperparathyroidism (SHPT) in adults with stage 3 or 4 non-dialysis chronic kidney disease (ND-CKD) and vitamin D insufficiency (VDI). Clinical trials have demonstrated varying efficacy on serum total 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25D) and intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) across VDTs. This study aimed to descriptively assess the real-world experience of various VDTs in increasing 25D, reducing iPTH, and modifying serum calcium (Ca). Method Medical records of the first 376 adult patients with stage 3 or 4 CKD and a history of SHPT and VDI who met study criteria from 18 geographically representative United States nephrology clinics were reviewed from 1 year before through 1 year after initiation of VDT. Key study variables included patient demographics, medication usage, and laboratory results. The study population had a mean age of 69.5 years with gender and racial distributions representative of the US ND-CKD population. Patients were stratified into cohorts based on their index therapy at index date: ERC (n=174), VDA (n=55) and NVD (n=147). Results Patients treated with NVD were predominantly CKD Stage 3 (69.4%), while CKD Stage 4 were the majority of those treated with ERC (53.4%) and VDA (61.8%). The ERC Tx’ed subjects demonstrated an increase in 25D by 23.7 ± 1.6 ng/mL (p<0.001) and a decrease iPTH by 35 ± 6.2 pg/mL (p<0.001) without statistically significant impact on serum calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) levels. The VDA Tx’ed group demonstrated an increase in 25D by 5.5 ± 1.3 ng/mL (p<0.001) without statistically significant impact on iPTH and serum phosphorus levels. Additionally, serum Ca increased by 0.2 ± 0.1 pg/mL (p<0.001) among VDA recipients. The NVD Tx’ed group demonstrated an increase in 25D by 9.7 ± 1.6 ng/mL (p<0.001) without statistically significant impact on iPTH and serum Ca and P levels (Table 1). Conclusion Clinical effectiveness and safety varied across VDTs. ERC was the only VDT which significantly reduced mean iPTH in the real world setting despite highest mean levels at baseline among the three cohorts. Additionally, subjects treated with ERC demonstrated the largest mean increase in 25D and ERC was the only VDT which raised mean 25D to the normal range (>30 ng/mL). Patients treated with ERC and NVD saw no statistically significant impact on serum Ca and P levels; however, those treated with VDAs saw a small, but statistically significant increase in serum Ca levels.

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The Oxford Handbook of Hegel

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355228.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Keyword(s):

Political Philosophy ◽

German Idealism ◽

History Of Philosophy ◽

Phenomenology Of Spirit ◽

Science Of Logic ◽

The Past ◽

Philosophical Movement ◽

History Of ◽

The Many ◽

Systematic Importance

The Oxford Handbook of Hegel is a comprehensive guide to the philosophy of G. W. F. Hegel, the last major thinker in the philosophical movement known as German Idealism. Beginning with chapters on his first published writings, the authors draw out Hegel’s debts to his predecessors and highlight the themes and arguments that have proven the most influential over the past two centuries. There are six chapters each on the Phenomenology of Spirit and The Science of Logic, and in-depth analyses of the Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sciences. Five chapters cover Hegel’s philosophy of law, action, and the ethical and political philosophy presented in his Philosophy of Right. Several chapters cover the many recently edited lecture series from the 1820s, bringing new clarity to Hegel’s conception of aesthetics, the philosophy of religion, and the history of philosophy. The concluding part focuses on Hegel’s legacy, from his role in the formation of Marx’s philosophy to his importance for contemporary liberal political philosophy. The Handbook includes many essays from younger scholars who have brought new perspectives and rigor to the study of Hegel’s thought. The essays are marked by close engagement with Hegel’s difficult texts and by a concern with highlighting the ongoing systematic importance of Hegel’s philosophy.

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Baudrillard's Nonrepresentational Theory: Burn the Signs and Journey without Maps

Environment and Planning D Society and Space ◽

10.1068/d280t ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 67-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Richard G Smith

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

The Real ◽

History Of

Can we burn the signs and journey without maps? In other words, can we travel from representational theories, through Baudrillard's critique of representation, to forms of theory that are somehow nonrepresentational? In this paper I hijack and go beyond Baudrillard's concepts of the precession and orders of simulacra to illustrate two main things: first, how the history of geographical thought has been one of representational theory, where there was seen to be a relationship, and then commutation, of theory and the real world; second, how representational theories are perhaps out of tune, unable to explain adequately, or change, our digital and commodity—sign soaked culture of simulacra, simulations, and reproductions. Overall, I attempt to show clearly how, through his poststructuralist critique of representation, Baudrillard is challenging us to rethink theory as doubly nonrepresentational.

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Irreversibility

An Introduction to Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198853237.003.0022 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 271-282

Author(s):

Robert H. Swendsen

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Ideal Gas ◽

Position Distribution ◽

The Real ◽

History Of ◽

H Theorem ◽

Liouville’S Theorem ◽

The Ideal

The phenomenon of irreversibility is explained on the basis of an analysis by H. L. Frisch. The history of the debate over irreversibility is briefly discussed, including Boltzmann’s H-theorem, Zermelo's Wiederkehreinwand, Poincaré recurrences, Loschmidt's Umkehreinwand and Liouville’s theorem. The derivation of irreversible behavior for the ideal gas position distribution is carried out explicitly. Using this derivation, the Wiederkehreinwand and the Umkehreinwand are revisited and explained. The first thing we must establish is the meaning of the term ‘irreversibility’. This is not quite as trivial as it might seem. The irreversible behavior I will try to explain is that which is observed. Every day we see that time runs in only one direction in the real world,.

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The Real World: Conserving Biocultural Diversity: A Profile of Katy Moran

Practicing Anthropology ◽

10.17730/praa.22.1.e91378314v25186r ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 47-48

Author(s):

Rob Winthrop

Keyword(s):

Public Policy ◽

Real World ◽

First Century ◽

Biocultural Diversity ◽

History Of Anthropology ◽

Bureau Of Indian Affairs ◽

Franz Boas ◽

The Real ◽

Policy Domain ◽

History Of

The challenge of forging connections between anthropology and public policy is a lesson each generation must apparently relearn. The history of anthropology certainly offers good examples. But we also need to look to our contemporaries for models of successful practice. However impressive figures such as Franz Boas or Philleo Nash (Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, among other posts) may be, they faced different challenges and employed different strategies to reach their goals. As we stagger across that bridge to the twenty-first century, efforts to utilize anthropology in the policy domain appear far more challenging—both ethically and practically—than they did fifty or eighty years ago.

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Educating Billy

The Garden of Leaders ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190883645.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 47-60

Author(s):

Paul Woodruff

Keyword(s):

Real World ◽

Job Training ◽

History Of Ethics ◽

The Real ◽

Billy Budd ◽

History Of ◽

Wide Experience ◽

To Come

What sort of education would overcome the ignorance that is fatal to Billy Budd? He needs job training, of course, but also knowledge of evil in the real world. He needs to come to a better self-understanding. He needs to cultivate his independence as a counter to his obedience. He also needs to learn to communicate effectively under stress, and for that he will have to master the proper uses of guile. For the Billys in our classroom, I recommend wide experience outside the classroom, as well as training appropriate to their ambitions. Inside the classroom, I recommend classic readings about evil, such as can be found in Thucydides and Machiavelli. I also recommend the most important texts in the history of ethics, especially by Plato and Kant.

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