Critical Pragmatism: Peirce and Marcuse on the Socio-Political Influences on Human Development in Advanced Industrial Societies

My dissertation brings together representatives from two otherwise antagonistic traditions: Charles Peirce of the pragmatists and Herbert Marcuse of the critical theorists. I demonstrate the affinities between the two philosophers with a focus on their contributions to socio-political thought in advanced industrial societies. After addressing the antagonisms between the two traditions I offer a reading that allows for a Peircean complement to Marcuse\u27s One-Dimensional Man and a Marcusean complement to Peirce\u27s critique of the method of authority in his seminal essay, The Fixation of Belief

Examining the mortality effects of the Irish National Smoking Ban.

Secondhand smoke causes disease and death in those exposed, with cardiovascular and respiratory problems as the most likely outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine the mortality effects of the Irish national smoking ban of 2004

A Comparison Study of Certain Aspects of Development, Achievement, and Adjustment Between Children of Working Mothers and Children of Non-working Mothers

With the ever present change in our society more and more mothers are leaving their homes to seek employment. While some women must of necessity work outside the home, the number of those who work for other reasons, such as satisfaction, companionship, and relief from boredom, is becoming greater daily. The national manpower council in its publication, Womanpower, reported the impact of mothers working on the welfare of their children has probably received more widespread attention than any other issue resulting from the increased number of women in the labor market. If the overall development of the child is best nurtured in the warm, intimate, and continuous relationship with the mother, as child psychiatrists believe, the writer feels that substitute care outside the home or even within the home is something less than desirable. The writer being the mother of two pre-school children, was concerned about the children of mothers employed outside the home. The writer’s purpose was to determine the effects of maternal employment upon the child’s development as a whole person. One outstanding limitations of this study was the probability that the effects would be small and difficult to attribute to maternal employment. This research was limited to children of parents who were living together, as separation, divorce, and death of the father would involve an entirely different set of problems and effects concerning the children and the activation for the mother’s working

A Tapestry of War: Three Veterans' Stories

The purpose of this thesis is to record and preserve the memories of American war veterans living in the Oxford area. The researcher interviewed local veterans and recorded their recollections in a narrative way, similar to how a feature story is written for publication in a newspaper or magazine. The results of this project demonstrate the stark contrast in a veterans’ experiences based on differences in background, faith, family and decision-making. The stories are written so that they might be passed on to future generations

A Tapestry of War: Three Veterans\u27 Stories

The purpose of this thesis is to record and preserve the memories of American war veterans living in the Oxford area. The researcher interviewed local veterans and recorded their recollections in a narrative way, similar to how a feature story is written for publication in a newspaper or magazine. The results of this project demonstrate the stark contrast in a veterans\u27 experiences based on differences in background, faith, family and decision-making. The stories are written so that they might be passed on to future generations

Multispectral imaging of organ viability during uterine transplantation surgery in rabbits and sheep

Uterine transplantation surgery (UTx) has been proposed as a treatment for permanent absolute uterine factor infertility (AUFI) in the case of the congenital absence or surgical removal of the uterus. Successful surgical attachment of the organ and its associated vasculature is essential for the organ’s reperfusion and long-term viability. Spectral imaging techniques have demonstrated the potential for the measurement of hemodynamics in medical applications. These involve the measurement of reflectance spectra by acquiring images of the tissue in different wavebands. Measures of tissue constituents at each pixel can then be extracted from these spectra through modeling of the light–tissue interaction. A multispectral imaging (MSI) laparoscope was used in sheep and rabbit UTx models to study short- and long-term changes in oxygen saturation following surgery. The whole organ was imaged in the donor and recipient animals in parallel with point measurements from a pulse oximeter. Imaging results confirmed the re-establishment of adequate perfusion in the transplanted organ after surgery. Cornual oxygenation trends measured with MSI are consistent with pulse oximeter readings, showing decreased StO2 immediately after anastomosis of the blood vessels. Long-term results show recovery of StO2 to preoperative levels

The Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA) dataset V1.0

The Mars Analysis Correction Data Assimilation (MACDA) dataset version 1.0 contains the reanalysis of fundamental atmospheric and surface variables for the planet Mars covering a period of about three Martian years (a Martian year is about 1.88 terrestrial years). This has been produced by data assimilation of observations from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft during its science mapping phase (February 1999–August 2004). In particular, we have used retrieved thermal profiles and total dust optical depths from the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on board MGS. Data have been assimilated into a Mars global climate model (MGCM) using the Analysis Correction scheme developed at the UK Meteorological Office. The MGCM used is the UK spectral version of the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD, Paris, France) MGCM. MACDA is a joint project of the University of Oxford and The Open University in the UK

Vertical Distribution of Aersols and Water Vapor Using CRISM Limb Observations

Near-infrared spectra taken in a limb-viewing geometry by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on-board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide a useful tool for probing atmospheric structure. Specifically, the observed radiance as a function of wavelength and height above the limb allows the vertical distribution of both dust and ice aerosols to be retrieved. These data serve as an important supplement to the aerosol profiling provided by the MRO/MCS instrument allowing independent validation and giving additional information on particle physical and scattering properties through multi-wavelength studies. A total of at least ten CRISM limb observations have been taken so far covering a full Martian year. Each set of limb observations nominally contains about four dozen scans across the limb giving pole-to-pole coverage for two orbits at roughly 100 and 290 W longitude over the Tharsis and Syrtis/Hellas regions, respectively. At each longitude, limb scans are spaced roughly 10 degrees apart in latitude, with a vertical spatial resolution on the limb of roughly 800 m. Radiative transfer modeling is used to model the observations. We compute synthetic CRISM limb spectra using a discrete-ordinates radiative transfer code that accounts for multiple scattering from aerosols and accounts for spherical geometry of the limb observations by integrating the source functions along curved paths in that coordinate system. Retrieved are 14-point vertical profiles for dust and water ice aerosols with resolution of 0.4 scale heights between one and six scale heights above the surface. After the aerosol retrieval is completed, the abundances of C02 (or surface pressure) and H20 gas are retrieved by matching the depth of absorption bands at 2000 nm for carbon dioxide and at 2600 run for water vapor. In addition to the column abundance of water vapor, limited information on its vertical structure can also be retrieved depending on the signal available from aerosol scattering

L’Afrique du Nord à l’époque coloniale : migration, agriculture et échec de l’innovation, 1830-1914

Cet article présente une première réflexion autour des liens entre colonisation, innovation et mobilités en l’Afrique du Nord en cherchant à faire varier les échelles d’observation. Il vise à mettre au jour les lieux et les circuits d’échange, de transfert et d’appropriation, en particulier dans le milieu agricole, du point de vue des acteurs sociaux nord-africains. L’étude des sociétés rurales offrirait peut-être un tout autre récit des transferts de techniques, précaires et souvent à moitié dissimulés, depuis les fermiers et bergers nord-africains vers l’agriculture coloniale. Cet article veut ainsi montrer que l’Afrique du Nord, et plus particulièrement l’Algérie française, consti tue un exemple frappant d’échec de l’innovation dans certains secteurs socio-économiques de l’agriculture qui paradoxalement servit d’emblée à valider la colonisation.This paper represents a view from the 19th-century Maghreb within larger frameworks of colonialism, innovation, and mobility in different scales and registers. It aims to uncover sites and circuits of exchange, transfer, and appropriation, notably in subsistence agriculture, from the perspective of North African social actors in the rural sectors. It argues that these sectors offer a different narrative about the unsteady, frequently semi-concealed, transfers of technologies from North African farmers and pastoralists to colonial agriculture within the context of military campaigns, land seizures, and forced re-settlement. The single greatest challenge facing France was not luring settlers across the Mediterranean to people North Africa but rather to furnish the multitude of agrarian economies—each dictated by local ecological and environmental structures--with farmers versed in semi-arid land management. Paradoxically, the French imperial project in the Maghreb failed in many, but not all respects, to innovate in precisely the realm that justified settler colonialism—agriculture.Dieser Artikel bietet eine multiperspektivische Annäherung an den Maghreb des 19. Jahrhunderts unter den Gesichtspunkten Kolonialismus, Innovation und Mobilität. Er legt Orte und Kreisläufe offen, an denen Austausch, Wissenstransfer und Aneignung speziell in der Agrarwirtschaf stattfanden, wobei vor allem der Blick der sozialen nordafrikanischen Akteure eingenommen wird. Eine Analyse der ländlichen Gesellschaften bietet vielleicht eine anderes Narrativ des technischen Transfers zwischen nordafrikanischen Farmern und Schäfern zu einer kolonialen Landwirtschaft, der zumeist prekär und halb im Verborgenen ablief. Der Artikel zeigt ebenso, dass Nordafrika und vor allem das französische Algerien ein erstaunliches Beispiel für gescheiterte Innovationen in einigen sozio-ökonomischen Bereichen der Landwirtschaft war, was paradoxer Weise zu einer Stärkung der Kolonialisierung führte