Humility in Personality and Positive Psychology

A case could be made that the practice of philosophy demands a certain humility, or at least intellectual humility, requiring such traits as inquisitiveness, openness to new ideas, and a shared interest in pursuing truth. In the positive psychology movement, the study of both humility and intellectual humility has been grounded in the methods and approach of personality psychology, specifically the examination of these virtues as traits. Consistent with this approach, the chapter begins with a discussion of the examination of intellectual humility as a “character trait,” comparing intellectual humility to various well-known traits in the personality psychology literature (e.g the “Big 5” and the “Big 2”) as well as other key traits such as the need for cognition and the need for closure. The chapter then turns to the proverbial issue of whether virtues in general, and intellectual humility in particular, are a matter of “nature”- that is, an innate trait determined by heritability, or “nurture” – a trait mostly shaped by situation and environment. While the chapter does not resolve the issue, it provides occasion for an examination of the role of situations in the expression of intellectual humility, and for the interaction of “situation” and “trait.” The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the interaction of trait with situation provides the most robust understanding of the psychology of any character virtue, including humility and intellectual humility

Sound as performance: from the periphery to performance form

A thesis submitted to the University of Bedfordshire, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts by ResearchIn the light of a growing body of work during the last decade created by performance makers that seems to foreground sound within the performance montage, this research has sought to address the emergence of sound as orientation in performance where orientation can be understood as both the performance maker and the audience approaching the work through the “frame” of aurality. In drifting across the work of practitioners making during the twentieth century who engaged with sounds ability to perform, a number of proclivities were identified that would go on to inform work that takes sound as an orientation. Namely, an engagement with audiences as the co-creators of the work, a concern with generative structures, a sense of the hauntological qualities of sound transmission and relationality in it’s political guise. These factors were then seen to be structuring elements at play in I was there… (2010: 2013), the work considered as a case study from this practice based research. It emerged that central to the work of sound as orientation were a series of practices engaging with the nature of an audiences’ encounter with a sound as orientation piece, the way in which such works create a performative subject and the political quality of the sociality they produc

Carbohydrate effects on the inducement of the arginine deiminase pathway enzymes in wine lactic acid bacteria : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Microbiology at Massey University

Pages i-ii not in originalCharacterised by a fermentative sugar metabolism resulting in lactic acid as a major end product, the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) may be isolated from a broad range of sources. Dairy products, fermented vegetables, meats and baking products such as sourdough bread involve these organisms in a consistent and intentional manner in present times, no matter how accidental or fortuitous their initial involvement may have been. Alcoholic beverages such as beer, cider and, most pertinently here, wine are also affected by the presence of particular LAB. As conditions differ between nutrient environments so do the LAB found in wine differ to those isolated elsewhere - being both ethanol tolerant to the degree where growth is capable in 10% v/v ethanol and aciduric, able to maintain an active presence at acidic levels as great as pH 4 or less. This ability to remain viable during the primary yeast fermentation of juice into wine leads to these LAB being of no small practical interest in the wine industry. The process of malolactic fermentation (MLF) involves the wine LAB altering the law materials present in the juice and wine further, increasing the intricacies of the winemaking and final product. Primarily encouraged due to its effect of reducing wine acidity, MLF also alters flavour and aroma in what is generally thought to be an advantageous manner when applied correctly. Another factor thought to be of significance is an increase in biological stability. Found, for example, among the lactobacilli, pediococci and leuconostocs, the wine LAB are classed as either homofermentative or heterofermentative. Homofermenters commonly produce two moles of lactic acid per mole of glucose fermented, while heterofermenters form one mole each of lactic acid and carbon dioxide and varied quantities of ethanol and acetic acid from one mole of glucose. Natural or chance occurrences of wine LAB, whether as part of the microbiological community on the raw materials or from other sources - such as inoculation from contaminated equipment - were the original manner in which these organisms were introduced into the vinification equation. With the predilection towards quality control, standardisation and safety in the present day, the use of pure microbial starter cultures to initiate MLF has become increasingly widespread. In order to optimise the manipulation of wine LAB in both the laboratory and industry a thorough insight into their physiology and metabolism is an obvious necessity. Certain areas of interest have undergone more intensive study than others, with, for example, the catabolism of carbohydrates in both wine (Davis et al., 1986) and model wine systems (Liu et al., 1995a) having had a considerable amount of research compared to less primary sources of energy such as nitrogen metabolism

On the Relationship of Weight, Length and Girth of the Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida) of the Canadian Arctic

Analyzes the relationships between the standard length, max girth, axillary girth and blubber thickness of 73 ringed seals, 71 of them taken at Sachs Harbour, Aug-Sept 1966. Data for the 61 seals from SW Baffin Island first studied by MacLaren, No 53026, are reanalyzed to determine which relationships give the most reliable prediction of weight. A formula using length and max girth as factors is the most precise, and the best single indicator is girth. Tables showing the relationship between weight, length and girth, as derived from two of the six formulas presented are given supra.Rapports entre le poids, la longueur et la circonférence du phoque annelé (Pusa hispida) de l'Arctique canadien. On analyse les rapports entre plusieurs mesures du corps chez le phoque annelé, de façon à déterminer lesquelles de ces mesures permettent de déduire le poids de l'animal. La formule qui relie les deux paramètres longueur et circonférence maximale est la plus précise, alors que la circonférence est le meilleur indice isolé

Large-Scale Goodness Polarity Lexicons for Community Question Answering

We transfer a key idea from the field of sentiment analysis to a new domain: community question answering (cQA). The cQA task we are interested in is the following: given a question and a thread of comments, we want to re-rank the comments so that the ones that are good answers to the question would be ranked higher than the bad ones. We notice that good vs. bad comments use specific vocabulary and that one can often predict the goodness/badness of a comment even ignoring the question, based on the comment contents only. This leads us to the idea to build a good/bad polarity lexicon as an analogy to the positive/negative sentiment polarity lexicons, commonly used in sentiment analysis. In particular, we use pointwise mutual information in order to build large-scale goodness polarity lexicons in a semi-supervised manner starting with a small number of initial seeds. The evaluation results show an improvement of 0.7 MAP points absolute over a very strong baseline and state-of-the art performance on SemEval-2016 Task 3.Comment: SIGIR '17, August 07-11, 2017, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan; Community Question Answering; Goodness polarity lexicons; Sentiment Analysi

Graduate Recital:Peter Dahlstrom, Horn

Kemp Recital Hall Saturday Afternoon March 24, 2001 3:30p.m

Location Analytics for Transitioning to Fire Resilient Landscapes

Wildfire risk is significant for forest and vegetative landscapes, particularly in regions where climate change is resulting in prolonged droughts and extended fire seasons that are a fire risk to people and property. An important component of mitigation is restoration programs that transition landscapes to be more fire resilient. A collaborative partnership between the US Forest Service and university researchers is reported that takes advantage of location intelligence. This paper reviews this general planning problem and details location analytic based approaches for informing mitigation efforts. Application of results highlight the ability to optimize goals and objectives while maintaining project area needs and treatment thresholds

Records of Services; 1962-1978

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Pamphlet; About the Church; nd

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Membership Directory; undated

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