The Problem of Choice

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Wahl
Keyword(s):  
Extended Discussion

First published in 1934 in Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale and later republished with minor revisions in Études kierkegaardiennes, this extended discussion of Karl Jaspers’s three-volume Philosophie (1932) was among the first to address Jaspers’s work in France. While ranging widely over Jaspers’s three volumes, this essay is also strangely personal, addressing those topics in Jaspers’s work that most matter to Wahl: the question of choice, being in a situation, the limited, fragmented, and tragic character of existence. Wahl makes a point of drawing a distinction, one not always recognized, between philosophers of existence like Jaspers and Heidegger and existential philosophers like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche. While not always agreeing with Jaspers, Wahl nevertheless recognizes that Jaspers’s thought is “situated in a place where some of the most eternal and most real philosophical problems are located.”

scholarly journals RT-01 Treatment results of salvage gamma knife and bevacizumab (AVAgamma therapy) for recurrent glioblastoma

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. ii11-ii11
Author(s):  
Kenichi Sato ◽  
Taku Asanome ◽  
Yuuki Ishida ◽  
Hironori Sugio ◽  
Yoshimaru Ozaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Knife ◽  
Initial Treatment ◽  
Progression Free Survival ◽  
Recurrent Glioblastoma ◽  
Treatment Results ◽  
Free Survival ◽  
Life Prognosis ◽  
Irradiation Volume ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Extended Discussion

Abstract Purpose: We report the treatment results of AVAgamma therapy combining gamma knife (GK) and bevacizumab for recurrent glioblastoma. Subjects: From August 2013 to April 2020, 44 patients (88 lesions) with recurrent glioblastoma treated with AVAgamma therapy as salvage therapy at the time of relapse after initial treatment. The average age is 61.5 years, with 26 men and 18 women. The tumor volume is 150 ml or less, and KPS is 40% or more as the indication of AVAgamma therapy. When the irradiation volume of GK is 15 ml or less, a single irradiation with a boundary dose of 20 to 26 Gy was performed, and when the irradiation volume was 15 ml or more, a single irradiation boundary dose was divided into two divided irradiations of 12 to 15 Gy. The mean therapeutic borderline dose was 24 Gy. Bevacizumab was administered 10 mg / kg or 15 mg / kg 1 to 10 times after GK. Methods: Median progression-free survival (mPFS), 6-month progression-free survival (PFS-6m), 6-month survival (OS-6m), median survival (mOS) from treatment with AVAgamma Considered mOS from initial treatment. Results: The mPFS from AVAgamma therapy was 5 months, PFS-6m was 37%, OS-6m was 79%, and mOS was 9 months. The mOS from initial treatment were 25 months. In relapsing glioma RPA classification, NABTT CNC class 5 mOS is 5.6 months, class 6 mOS is 6.4 months, but mOS from AVAgamma therapy is 9 months in class 5, 9 months in class 6. The survival time has been extended. Discussion: By AVAgamma therapy, it was thought that recurrent lesions were locally controlled and life prognosis was prolonged. Conclusion: AVAgamma therapy is thought to prolong the survival of recurrent glioblastoma and play an important role as salvage treatment.

The Treaty-Making Powers of the Senate

1924 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 459-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles C. Tansill
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Extended Discussion

The section of the Constitution dealing with the treaty-making power was the result of extended discussion and consideration. In the so-called Virginia Plan presented on May 29, 1787, by Edmund Randolph, there is no mention of the subject of treaties, the inference being that he assumed that Congress, as the treaty-making power under the Confederation, would continue to exercise the same powers under the Constitution.

Feminist (Theatre) Historiography / Canadian (Feminist) Theatre: A Reading of some Practices and Theories

1992 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-151
Author(s):  
Susan Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Position Paper ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Feminist Theatre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Theatre Historiography ◽  
Theoretical Analyses ◽  
Extended Discussion

Through this position paper the author seeks to provide a focus for extended discussion of some of the key issues arising from feminist approaches to theatre research. She indicates some of the insights made possible by feminist theoretical analyses of theatre historiography as well as some of the implications of the various positions inscribed in articles on Canadian feminist theatre historiography over the past ten years. The author hopes to facilitate more discussion of the wide variety of feminist challenges to and transformation of the theory and practice of theatre research and theatre historiography.

Testing for Language Teachers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Hughes ◽  
Jake Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Adaptive Testing ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Experienced Teachers ◽  
Automated Scoring ◽  
Testing Methods ◽  
The Third ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Extended Discussion ◽  
Straightforward Approach ◽  
Practical Recommendations

This book provides an accessible guide to concepts in language testing and the testing of specific skills and systems. It combines theory and practical recommendations to help teachers understand the principles of testing and how they can be applied, supporting them to write better tests. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated to reflect recent developments in the field, while retaining the straightforward approach that made the earlier editions essential reading for trainee and experienced teachers alike. It features new content on technology, including computer adaptive testing and the use of automated scoring for all skills. It also includes an extended discussion of language testers' responsibilities, new chapters on non-testing methods of assessment and a checklist to help teachers choose tests.

scholarly journals Indirect capabilities and complex performance

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Spring ◽  
Luis Araujo
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Firm Strategy ◽  
Organizational Networks ◽  
Boundary Management ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Endogenous Innovation ◽  
Theoretical Paper ◽  
Extended Discussion

Purpose – The paper argues that indirect capabilities – the ability to access other organizations' capabilities – are an important and neglected part of firm strategy in procuring complex performance (PCP) settings, and that this is especially so if these settings are treated as genuinely complex, rather than merely complicated. Elements of indirect capabilities are identified. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This is a theoretical paper, drawing on complexity notions and Penrose's analysis of endogenous innovation to drive a disequilibrium-oriented discussion of the capabilities required by firms in a PCP setting. Findings – Six inter-related elements of indirect capabilities are proposed and discussed: IT infrastructure, boundary management practices, contracting, interface artefacts, valuing others' capabilities and relating direct to indirect capabilities. These are important in PCP settings and in other operations and supply settings characterised by complexity. Originality/value – This paper reconsiders the way complexity has been treated in the PCP literature and develops an extended discussion of the notion of indirect capabilities. It potentially provides the basis for an operations and supply strategy more attuned to the demands of shifting inter-organizational networks.

An Introduction, Review, and Conceptual Analysis of Mattering as an Essential Construct and an Essential Way of Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 073428292110576
Author(s):  
Gordon L. Flett
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Societal Level ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sense Of Mattering ◽  
Extended Discussion

While the importance of having self-esteem is widely recognized and has been studied extensively, another core component of the self-concept has been relatively neglected—a sense of mattering to other people. In the current article, it is argued that mattering is an entirely unique and complex psychological construct with great public appeal and applied significance. The various ways of assessing mattering are reviewed and evidence is summarized, indicating that mattering is a vital construct in that deficits in mattering are linked with consequential outcomes at the individual level (i.e., depression and suicidal tendencies), the relationship level (i.e., relationship discord and dissolution), and the societal level (i.e., delinquency and violence). Contemporary research is described which shows that mattering typically predicts unique variance in key outcomes beyond other predictor variables. Mattering is discussed as double-edged in that mattering is highly protective but feelings of not mattering are deleterious, especially among people who have been marginalized and mistreated. The article concludes with an extended discussion of key directions for future research and an overview of the articles in this special issue. It is argued that a complete view of the self and personal identity will only emerge after we significantly expand the scope of inquiry on the psychology of mattering.

A cookbook for the investigation of coordination polymers by transition metal K-edge XMCD

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Adama N'Diaye ◽  
Amélie Bordage ◽  
Lucie Nataf ◽  
François Baudelet ◽  
Thierry Moreno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Transition Metal ◽  
Coordination Polymers ◽  
Magnetic Circular Dichroism ◽  
Systematic Investigation ◽  
Experimental Conditions ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Structural Distortions ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
Prussian Blue Analogs ◽  
Extended Discussion

In order to disentangle the physical effects at the origin of transition metal K-edge X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) in coordination polymers and quantify small structural distortions from the intensity of these signals, a systematic investigation of Prussian blue analogs as model compounds is being conducted. Here the effects of the temperature and of the external magnetic field are tackled; none of these external parameters modify the shape of the XMCD signal but they both critically modify its intensity. The optimized experimental conditions, as well as a reliable and robust normalization procedure, could thus be determined for the study of the intrinsic parameters. Through an extended discussion on measurements on other XMCD-dedicated beamlines and for other coordination compounds, we finally provide new transition metal K-edge XMCD users with useful information to initiate and successfully carry out their projects.

The Effect of Hacked Content on the Last Two Presidential Debates

Cyberwar ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 187-195
Author(s):  
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Debates ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Open Borders ◽  
Aligned Media ◽  
Extended Discussion ◽  
Made In

In Chapter 11, Jamieson examines how the hacked content affected the last two presidential debates of the election, in which the moderators took excerpts of Clinton speeches from the emails released via WikiLeaks and deployed them out of context in their questions. One hacked excerpt was spun into a debate question directed at Clinton about whether it’s acceptable for a politician to be “two-faced”; her response and the subsequent framing by Trump, Russian trolls, and Trump-aligned media fueled the supposition that the Democratic nominee had different public and private stances. In the final debate, a line from another Russian-gotten speech was used to imply that Clinton wanted “open borders,” serving both to create an extended discussion of one of Trump’s central campaign appeals and to further the idea that Clinton’s statements in private diverged from those she made in public.

Extended Discussion and Analytical Tools

2021 ◽  
pp. 119-169
Author(s):  
Anders Melander ◽  
David Andersson ◽  
Fredrik Elgh ◽  
Fredrik Fjellstedt ◽  
Malin Löfving
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Extended Discussion

Lens

2018 ◽  
pp. 335-379
Keyword(s):  
Cataract Surgery ◽  
Clinical Features ◽  
Intraocular Lens ◽  
Practical Approach ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Related Disease ◽  
Surgical Options ◽  
Extended Discussion

‘Lens’ provides the reader with a practical approach to the assessment and management of lens-related disease. After outlining the relevant anatomy and physiology of this structure, the chapter discusses the key clinical features, investigations and surgical options for cataract and other disorders of the lens. There is an extended discussion around phacoemulsification, intraocular lens options and the potential complications of cataract surgery.

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