Could good care mean withholding information from patients?

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The role of the American corporate media in U.S. policy: framing Hezbollah

The American corporate media has proven to play a significant role in U.S. policy formation. Operating as a member of the power elite, as defined by C. Wright Mills, the corporate media serve the crucial functions of creating, implementing, and maintaining politically motivated policies sought to serve the parochial interests of the power elite. Disrupting a critical element of democracy â providing the public with the information needed for intelligent discharge of ones political responsibilities â the corporate media, filtered by a â guided-market system,â operate to â inculcate and defend the economic, social, and political agenda of privileged groups that dominate the domestic society and the state.â Developing this â guided-market systemâ within their Propaganda Model (PM), Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman have provided an abundance of data displaying this function of the corporate media. The PM is utilized in this thesis, testing the corporate media\u27s role in sustaining and maintaining U.S. policy toward the Shi\u27a organization, Hezbollah. This thesis argues that the current policy toward Hezbollah, defined by it\u27s designation on the U.S. State Department Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) list, is outdated, yet maintained by the corporate media serving the interests of the power elite. The PM states that where there is consensus among the power elite, the corporate media will offer its unconditional support for its chosen policy by creating narrow parameters for debate, or the bounds of â thinkable thought,â and marginalizing any and all voices of dissent. The â leftâ or â liberalâ boundary of debate will be set by what is perceived to be the â liberalâ media. This thesis conducted a content analysis of the â liberalâ corporate media outlet, the New York Times, and its coverage of Hezbollah. Further, in order to argue that the current policy is outdated, yet maintained by the corporate media serving the interests of the power elite, this thesis included a historical analysis of Hezbollah, an investigation into the political nature of the FTO designation process, and the interests of the power elite that guides the outdated policy. The findings demonstrated that the New York Times consistently supported the current policy and never questioned its validity. Further, the Times remained silent on all voices of dissent, marking out the left, liberal parameter. This thesis proved that the current U.S. policy toward Hezbollah is outdated, yet maintained by the corporate media operating as a significant member of the power elite

Supercongruences and Complex Multiplication

We study congruences involving truncated hypergeometric series of the form_rF_{r-1}(1/2,...,1/2;1,...,1;\lambda)_{(mp^s-1)/2} = \sum_{k=0}^{(mp^s-1)/2} ((1/2)_k/k!)^r \lambda^k where p is a prime and m, s, r are positive integers. These truncated hypergeometric series are related to the arithmetic of a family of algebraic varieties and exhibit Atkin and Swinnerton-Dyer type congruences. In particular, when r=3, they are related to K3 surfaces. For special values of \lambda, with s=1 and r=3, our congruences are stronger than what can be predicted by the theory of formal groups because of the presence of elliptic curves with complex multiplications. They generalize a conjecture made by Rodriguez-Villegas for the \lambda=1 case and confirm some other supercongruence conjectures at special values of \lambda.Comment: 19 page

A Monolithic Gm-C Filter based Very Low Power, Programmable, and Multi-Channel Harmonic Discrimination System using Analog Signal Processing

A highly selective monolithic band-pass filter with programmable characteristics at micro-power operation is presented. Very low power signal processing is of great interest in wireless sensing and Internet-of-Things applications. This filter enables long-term battery powered operation of a highly selective harmonic signal discriminator for an analog signal processing system. The Gm-C biquadratic circuits were fabricated in a 0.18-μm [micrometer] CMOS process. Each 2nd-order biquad filter nominally consumes 20 μW [microwatt] and can be programmed for the desired gain (0db3dB), quality factor (5 to 20), and center-frequency from 1kHz to 100kHz. The 8th-order filter channel achieved an effective quality factor of 30 at 100kHz with an overall power consumption of 108 μW

Designing Observables for Measurements with Deep Learning

Many analyses in particle and nuclear physics use simulations to infer fundamental, effective, or phenomenological parameters of the underlying physics models. When the inference is performed with unfolded cross sections, the observables are designed using physics intuition and heuristics. We propose to design optimal observables with machine learning. Unfolded, differential cross sections in a neural network output contain the most information about parameters of interest and can be well-measured by construction. We demonstrate this idea using two physics models for inclusive measurements in deep inelastic scattering.Comment: Submitted to EPJ

Realization of a feedback controlled flashing ratchet

A flashing ratchet transports diffusive particles using a time-dependent, asymmetric potential. Particle speed is predicted to increase when a feedback algorithm based on particle positions is used. We have experimentally realized such a feedback ratchet using an optical line trap, and observed that use of feedback increases velocity by up to an order of magnitude. We compare two different feedback algorithms for small particle numbers, and find good agreement with simulations. We also find that existing algorithms can be improved to be more tolerant to feedback delay times