Tell The Children: No Talking At The Dinner Table

Tell the children no talking at the dinner table Ivory chopsticks striked down to sever unfinished Articulations, into pieces of broken syllables. All not knowing what malice they had inflicted, Hurried with their sustenance and scattered Behind walls. Try to make amends In uncertain ways. Promise No talking back, nor back-talking. ~excerpt from poe

Ought Cats Be Tuesday? Reflections on the Neutrality of Philosophers

Should walls be brown. or white? The question is ridiculous because, as it stands, it is unanswerable. Why should walls be brown rather than white, or white rather than brown? On what basis can we decide that one color is more fitted than another for walls? In order for the question to become truly intelligible and answerable, its context needs to be specified. Tell me whether you are talking about the walls of a house or the walls of an industrial plant, whether the industry is a clean one or a dirty one, whether you have in mind the walls of an office or the walls of a shop. … Then we will be in business. Ought philosophers be neutral or committed? I am afraid that this question may sound to some ears as unanswerable and, therefore, as ridiculous as the question about walls. As I happen to be the one who proposed it as the subject for our colloquium, I feel that the least I owe you and myself is to place the question in a context in which it becomes answerable and to share with you for further discussion my answer to it

Numerical prediction of the effect of thermal plume of a standing human on the airborne aerosol flow in a room: assessment of the social distancing rule.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to investigate the dispersion of droplet nuclei/aerosol which are produced during coughing and continuous talking in order to quantify the risk of infection due to airborne disease transmission. Methods: A three-dimensional modelling of aerosol transport due to human respiratory activities such as coughing and talking within a room environment has been simulated using CFD technique. An inert scalar transport equation was used to represent aerosol cloud, while turbulence was modelled with the k-ϵ turbulence model. A modified Wells-Riley equation was used to calculate the risk of infection based on quanta emission concept. Results: The spatial and temporal distribution of aerosol cloud within the room is initially driven by the upward flowing thermal plume surrounding the human, but later driven by the flow field constrained by the walls and cooler air movement. While the cough generated aerosols are concentrated in a smaller space within the room, the continuous talk generated aerosols are distributed throughout the room. Conclusion: Within an indoor environment, 2m distancing will not be enough to protect healthy people from aerosols coming from an infected person due to continuous talking with prolonged exposure

Publishing without Perishing: Sharing Ideas & Challenging the Closed System of Academic Anthropology

Why do we publish anthropology? Do we publish to communicate our ideas, or to move up the ranks of academia? We all know the basic narrative: In order to land a job and move up the socio-economic ladder of academicanthropology, we all need to publish. As the saying goes: publish or perish. So everyone — from graduate students onward — joins in and perpetuates this particular academic habitus. But is the current system working? We may all be publishing (or working toward it), but that does not mean that we have really avoided the “perish” part of the equation. The problem, as Harry Wolcott pointed out almost two decades ago, is that we are stuck in an insular, closed system. Our current publication regime is primarily geared toward internal conversations and our own political economies. We are, in essence, talking to ourselves. We keep our conversations separated from wider audiences through habit, and also via a slew of self-imposed barriers (journal articles closed off through pay walls, writing style, overall use of media). This paper is about rethinking not only why we publish, but also how we publish. The goal is not to dismiss the importance of traditional venues for publication (books, journal articles, edited volumes), but instead to explore how we can start opening up and sharing our anthropological conversations with wider audiences through the creative use of a range of media-based tools and platforms

Mediated culture / mediated education

It took tens of thousands of years for writing to emerge after humans spoke their first words. It took thousands more before the printing press and a few hundred again before the telegraph. Today a new medium of communication emerges every time somebody creates a new web application. A Flickr here, a Twitter there, and a new way of relating to others emerges. New types of conversation, argumentation, and collaboration are realized. Using examples from anthropological fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, YouTube, classrooms, and "the future," this presentation will demonstrate the profound yet often unnoticed ways in which media "mediate" our conversations, classrooms, and institutions. We will then apply these insights to an exploration of the implications for how we may need to rethink how we teach, what we teach, and who we think we are teaching

Effect of magnetic field on peristaltic flow of Walters B fluid through a porous medium in a tapered asymmetric channel.

The problem of peristaltic transport of an incompressible non-Newtonian fluid in a tapered a symmetric channel through a porous medium is presented under long-wave length and low Reynolds number assumptions, the fluid is considered to be Walters B fluid and electrically conducting by a transverse magnetic field.The tapered asymmetric channel in the flow induced by talking peristaltic wave imposed on the non-uniform boundary walls to possess different amplitudes and phases. Series solutions for stream function, axial velocity and pressure gradient are given using regular perturbation technique. Numerical computations have been performed for the pressure rise per wave length. The effect of the physical parameters of the problem on these distributions are discussed and illustrated graphically through a set of figures

THE INFLUENCE OF USING WORD WALLS ON THE STUDENTS’ ABILITY IN ENGLISH VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF MTsN SUKARAJA MAJALENGKA

T. ASTRIA RUMADI: The Influence of Using Word Walls on The Students’ Ability in English Vocabulary Acquisition at The Second Grade Students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka Nowadays, English is the international language used to communicate with people around the world. The pronunciation of English vocabulary is also necessary to assist us in talking. This is important especially for junior high school students in which many tools suggestion media who helped in teaching learning process. The main function of it is for interaction and communication, which can be done in spoken or written form. In our country, English being taught to the students from elementary school up to University students. Although English has been taught to the second grade students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka, but most of the students there still do not have a great interest in learning English vocabulary. So, in this case the writer would like to build up their motivation in learning English vocabulary. The writer also wants make a new condition on their English, and uses word walls to help their vocabulary. The field of the research in this thesis is vocabulary and the methodology of the research is quantitative because the researcher uses the formula of statistic, especially by using formula of product moment. The aim of the research carried out by the writer are to find out the data about the students’ response of using word walls, to find out the data about students’ ability in English vocabulary, and to find out the data about the influence of using word walls on the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition at the second grade students of MTsN Sukaraja Majalengka. The techniques of collecting the data used by the writer are observation, interview, questionnaire and test. The data which have been collected and analyzed by means of analyzing some English and Indonesian book for the theoretical data. The objective condition of the school and by means of product moment for a quantitative data. After the research finding have been found out and analyzed, the writer finds that there is positive influence between x variable to y variable. First, the students’ response using word walls is good categorized, the point is 8.4. The second is the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition is good as the result is 7.3 and there is positive influence of using word walls on the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition. The influence is good between two variables because the result of correlation coefficient is 0.99. And the third is using word walls contribution the students’ ability in English vocabulary acquisition are very high 98% and 2% is determined by the other factors. And response using word walls is influence positively, it is supported by the value t count (40.3) > t table (2.021) or (Ha) > (Ho)

Integration of ejectors into high-speed aircraft

The integration of ejectors into forebodies is considered for transonic and supersonic flight. Topics discussed include mixing flow in ducts, prediction of flow fields and external aerodynamics

Towards Multi-Modal Interactions in Virtual Environments: A Case Study

We present research on visualization and interaction in a realistic model of an existing theatre. This existing ‘Muziek¬centrum’ offers its visitors information about performances by means of a yearly brochure. In addition, it is possible to get information at an information desk in the theatre (during office hours), to get information by phone (by talking to a human or by using IVR). The database of the theater holds the information that is available at the beginning of the ‘theatre season’. Our aim is to make this information more accessible by using multi-modal accessible multi-media web pages. A more general aim is to do research in the area of web-based services, in particu¬lar interactions in virtual environments