What is a Merciful Heart? Affective-Motivational Aspects of the Second Love Command

In this paper, I argue that Christ’s second love command implies not only that people’s volitions and actions be Christ-like, but also that their affective-motivational dispositions be Christ-like. More specifically, I argue that the command implies that people have aretaic obligations to strive to cultivate a merciful heart with the kind of affective depth described by St. Isaac of Syria in his 71st ascetical homily—i.e., one that is disposed to becoming inflamed, such that it is gripped by “strong and vehement mercy.

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Evaluation of the discrete vortex wake cross flow model using vector computers. Part 2: User's manual for DIVORCE

The users manual for the Discrete Vortex Cross flow Evaluator (DIVORCE) computer program is presented. DIVORCE was developed in FORTRAN 4 for the DCD 6600 and CDC 7600 machines. Optimal calls to a NASA vector subroutine package are provided for use with the CDC 7600

Bonanza or False Riches: Changing Mexican Imaginaries of The Tropics and the Civilizing Impulse

Existing scholarship on “tropicality” emphasizes how Europeans and US-Americans constructed the tropics discursively and visually in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scientists, investors, and travelers denigrated tropical spaces to legitimize imperialism, labeling them backwards, racially degenerative, disease-ridden, and unconducive to civilization without white European intervention These works unwittingly reproduce a central assumption of the very imperialists they critique: namely, that North Atlantic elites controlled knowledge production. They thus marginalize the important theorizing and conceptualizing that transpired in tropical spaces. Following independence, Latin American national elites agonized over how to integrate their tropical territories, many of which remained isolated, and make them legible for economic modernization. This article uses Mexico as a case study for Latin American representations about the tropics given its diverse temperate and tropical geography, its key role in the global commercial economy, and its robust intellectual production. I argue that the ways in which Mexican intellectuals—public officials, geographers, philosophers, and others—thought about their low-lying tropical lands molded nation-building projects and contributed to the global production of environmental knowledge at a time when notions of tropical peril and degeneracy were giving way to the promise of tropical bonanza. By tracing the changes and continuities of Mexicans’ tropical discourses in a global context, I underscore the underappreciated environmental and geographic thought of influential Mexicans—from Matías Romero and Francisco Bulnes to José Vasconcelos—who rarely appear in environmental historiography. A focus on these different imaginaries regarding the significance, purpose, and place of Mexico’s tropical lands also reveals the extent to which material interventions in the tropics and discursive representations of the tropics have co-constituted each other.Existing scholarship on “tropicality” emphasizes how Europeans and US-Americans constructed the tropics discursively and visually in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scientists, investors, and travelers denigrated tropical spaces to legitimize imperialism, labeling them backwards, racially degenerative, disease-ridden, and unconducive to civilization without white European intervention These works unwittingly reproduce a central assumption of the very imperialists they critique: namely, that North Atlantic elites controlled knowledge production. They thus marginalize the important theorizing and conceptualizing that transpired in tropical spaces. Following independence, Latin American national elites agonized over how to integrate their tropical territories, many of which remained isolated, and make them legible for economic modernization. This article uses Mexico as a case study for Latin American representations about the tropics given its diverse temperate and tropical geography, its key role in the global commercial economy, and its robust intellectual production. I argue that the ways in which Mexican intellectuals—public officials, geographers, philosophers, and others—thought about their low-lying tropical lands molded nation-building projects and contributed to the global production of environmental knowledge at a time when notions of tropical peril and degeneracy were giving way to the promise of tropical bonanza. By tracing the changes and continuities of Mexicans’ tropical discourses in a global context, I underscore the underappreciated environmental and geographic thought of influential Mexicans—from Matías Romero and Francisco Bulnes to José Vasconcelos—who rarely appear in environmental historiography. A focus on these different imaginaries regarding the significance, purpose, and place of Mexico’s tropical lands also reveals the extent to which material interventions in the tropics and discursive representations of the tropics have co-constituted each other.Existing scholarship on “tropicality” emphasizes how Europeans and US-Americans constructed the tropics discursively and visually in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Scientists, investors, and travelers denigrated tropical spaces to legitimize imperialism, labeling them backwards, racially degenerative, disease-ridden, and unconducive to civilization without white European intervention These works unwittingly reproduce a central assumption of the very imperialists they critique: namely, that North Atlantic elites controlled knowledge production. They thus marginalize the important theorizing and conceptualizing that transpired in tropical spaces. Following independence, Latin American national elites agonized over how to integrate their tropical territories, many of which remained isolated, and make them legible for economic modernization. This article uses Mexico as a case study for Latin American representations about the tropics given its diverse temperate and tropical geography, its key role in the global commercial economy, and its robust intellectual production. I argue that the ways in which Mexican intellectuals—public officials, geographers, philosophers, and others—thought about their low-lying tropical lands molded nation-building projects and contributed to the global production of environmental knowledge at a time when notions of tropical peril and degeneracy were giving way to the promise of tropical bonanza. By tracing the changes and continuities of Mexicans’ tropical discourses in a global context, I underscore the underappreciated environmental and geographic thought of influential Mexicans—from Matías Romero and Francisco Bulnes to José Vasconcelos—who rarely appear in environmental historiography. A focus on these different imaginaries regarding the significance, purpose, and place of Mexico’s tropical lands also reveals the extent to which material interventions in the tropics and discursive representations of the tropics have co-constituted each other

Critiques of Kohlberg's model of moral development: a summary

Este artículo hace una exposición de las críticas más relevantes que ha recibido el conocido modelo de desarrollo moral de Kohlberg. Concretamente, las críticas que se presentan son las siguientes: la crítica del sí mismo completamente bueno, la crítica feminista, la crítica del relativismo moral, la crítica de la carencia de responsabilidad, la crítica del ateísmo del autor, la crítica de la empatía y la emoción, la crítica empírica sobre los estadios, la crítica de la excesiva dependencia de Kohlberg respecto al lenguaje, la crítica normativa, la crítica sobre metodología de los estudios, la crítica acerca de la relación entre estructura y contenido, la crítica ideológica, la crítica sobre su tratamiento de la moral sexual, la crítica narrativa y la crítica acerca de las virtudes. Estas críticas son expuestas y valoradas en el desarrollo del artículo. Los autores principales con los que se dialoga, aparte de Kohlberg y Piaget, son: Gilligan, Hoffman, Rushton y Schweder. También son tenidos especialmente en cuenta Bruner, Flanagan, Hartshorne, Kalam, Kurtines y Gewirtz, Maclntyre, Rawls, Rest, Vitz y Wolterstorff

Medieval storytelling and analogous oral traditions today : Two digital databases

We are pleased to present two open-access digital databases of video clips from performances of medieval narratives and analogous living oral storytelling traditions: Performing Medieval Narrative Today: A Video Showcase (http://www.nyu.edu/pmnt, [PMNT]) and Arthurian Legend in Performance (https://vimeo.com/ArthurPerform, [ALP]).Not

Adenokarzinome des Ösophagus: Neoadjuvante Radiochemotherapie und radikale Operation

Zusammenfassende Darstellung der Publikation Adenokarzinome des Ösophagus: Neoadjuvante Radiochemo-therapie und radikale Operation Hintergrund und Ziele: Dies ist eine retrospektive Auswertung der langfristigen Behandlungergebnisse von Patienten mit fortgeschrittenem Adenokarzinom der Speiseröhre und des gastro-ösophagealen Übergangs nach neoadjuvanter Radiochemotherapie und anschließender radikaler Operation. Patienten und Methoden: Im Zeitraum von 2005 bis 2015 wurden insgesamt 102 konsekutive Patienten mit einem Adenokarzinom des Ösophagus und einem Durchschnittsalter von 64 Jahren (Spanne: 44-86 Jahre) ausgewertet. Von diesen Patienten erhielten 84 Patienten eine komplette Radiochemotherapie. Insgesamt 51 dieser Patienten wurden in neoadjuvanter Intention behandelt mit nachfolgender radikaler Operation. Während der neoadjuvanten Radiochemotherapie wurde meist eine Gesamtdosis (GD) von 50,4Gy erreicht bei simultaner wöchentlicher Chemotherapie mit 5-FU und Paclitaxel. Nach 6-8 Wochen erfolgte dann die transthorakale Ösophagus- und Magenresektion. Mögliche prognostische Faktoren wurden durch den Long-Rank-Test bewertet sowie durch eine Cox-Regressionsanalyse. Nach Kaplan-Meier wurden die Überlebenskurven für das Gesamtüberleben und das krankheitsfreie Überleben (NED) berechnet. Ergebnisse und Beobachtungen: Für die überlebenden Patienten betrug die mittlere Nachbeobachtungszeit 48 Monate (Spanne: 4-134 Monate). Nach 5 Jahren waren die Gesamt -und NED-Überlebensraten der Studiengruppe mit 51 Patienten 40% und 32%. Als marginal unabhängige prognostische Variablen mit Auswirkung auf das Überleben konnten drei Variablen identifiziert werden: Alter(p=0,04), ypT-Kategorie(p=0,1) und die Entwicklung von Fernmetastasen(p=0,05). Die mediane Überlebenszeit betrug 45+/-18Monate (95%, CI 9-81 Monate) für die Patienten der Studiengruppe(n=51). Eine R0-Resektion wurde bei 46 von 51 Patienten erzielt. 33% der Patienten hatten eine vollständige Regression, 41% eine Regression mit vereinzelten residuellen Tumorzellen und 10% eine Regression mit einer höheren Anzahl von residuellen Tumorzellen, aber weiterhin überwiegender Fibrose. Im Hinblick auf die Rezidivmuster zeigten sich Lokalrezidive mit Fernmetastasierung in 2 von 51(4%) Fällen, ein regionäres Rezidiv allein in 2 von 51(4%) Fällen und Fernmetastasen allein bei 27 von 51 (53%) der Patienten. Schlussfolgerungen: Bei Patienten mit einem Adenokarzinom des Ösophagus ist die neoadjuvant durchgeführte Radiochemotherapie mit nachfolgender radikaler thorakoabdomineller Operation ein lokal sehr effektives Konzept. Aufgrund der hohen Rate an Fernmetastasen sind weitere Studien bezüglicher effektiver systemischer Therapien sinnvoll. Die signfikante Tumorregression bei fast 75% der Patienten kann zu prospektiven Studien hinsichtlich des Verzichts auf eine Operation bei inoperablen und älteren Patienten mit einem hohen Mortalitätsrisiko anregen