When they Come Home: Posttraumatic Stress, Moral Injury, and Spiritual Consequences for Veterans

Clergy supervisors, as they live out their various roles as models, educators, consultants, and direct providers of pastoral care, have powerful opportunities to influence and shape the responses of religious communities to the needs of returning veterans. Four key suggestions are offered to assist in ministry to/with veterans

Martyrologists without boundaries: the collaboration of John Foxe and Heinrich Pantaleon

Amid the great Protestant martyrologies of the mid-sixteenth century, Heinrich Pantaleon’s Martyrvm historia (1563) has been comparatively overlooked. This article argues that Pantaleon’s martyrology acted as a capstone to the narrative framework of Protestant suffering and resistance. Pantaleon’s command of vernacular languages gave him access to a wider range of material than other martyrologists, material which his Latin text made accessible to learned readers across Europe. This article also examines the collaboration between Pantaleon and John Foxe, which directly inspired Pantaleon’s martyrology and enabled Foxe to give a cohesive, trans-European account of Protestant martyrs in his Acts and monuments

Field-testing UV disinfection of drinking water

A recently invented device, “UV Waterworks,” uses ultraviolet (UV) light to disinfect drinking water. Its novel features are: low cost, robust design, rapid disinfection (12 seconds), low electricity use (40W), low maintenance (every 6 months), high flow rate (15 l/min) and ability to work with unpressurized water sources. The device could service a community of 1000 persons, at an annual total cost of less than 10 cents US per person. UV Waterworks has been successfully tested in the laboratory. Limited field trials of an early version of the device were conducted in India in 1994-95. Insights from these trials led to the present design. Extended field trials of UV Waterworks, initiated in South Africa in February 1997, will be coordinated by the South African Centre for Essential Community Services (SACECS), with technical and organizational support from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the Natural Resources Defence Council (both USA). The first of the eight planned sites of the year long trial is an AIDS hospice near Durban. Durban Metro Water and LBNL lab-tested a UV Waterworks unit prior to installing it at the hospice in August, 1997. We describe the field test plans and preliminary results from Durban

Perceptual Context in Cognitive Hierarchies

Cognition does not only depend on bottom-up sensor feature abstraction, but also relies on contextual information being passed top-down. Context is higher level information that helps to predict belief states at lower levels. The main contribution of this paper is to provide a formalisation of perceptual context and its integration into a new process model for cognitive hierarchies. Several simple instantiations of a cognitive hierarchy are used to illustrate the role of context. Notably, we demonstrate the use context in a novel approach to visually track the pose of rigid objects with just a 2D camera

JETstream Volume 3 Issues 1

It was the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus that once said: the only thing that is constant is change.” Over the last several years, we have certainly witnessed many exciting changes here at Molloy and the library is no exception. At the JET Library we are constantly evolving and transforming to best provide the Molloy community with premium resources, high-level services and accommodating spaces. Although the library lost a stack room this past summer with recent campus renovations, we did gain some space when we repurposed one of our stack rooms into a much needed and highly requested by students, Quiet Study Area. This past year we also welcomed our first Access Services Librarian, David Nochimson, per diem librarians Leslie Wong Look and Debra Bernstein and a new per diem staff member, Iain Mawhinney. Among other library news, included in this issue you will learn about several new electronic resources added to the collection, as well as innovative systems to help make your visit more time-efficient. Our students have been very excited and appreciative of the addition of test prep books and textbooks to our collection for both their convenience and cost savings. Need to use a laptop but you left yours at home? No worries, the library now offers laptop lending. In being consistent with change, this year also marks the end of Bob Martin’s career at the JET Library as he embarks on a new chapter of his life as a retiree. Although Bob will certainly be missed at the JET Library and by so many at Molloy College, we are forever grateful for his valuable contributions to Molloy and the JET Library. As always, we welcome you to stop by the library to check out our new resources, perhaps read one of the books from our collection reviewed in this issue or to stop by and say hello to our new JET Library members

Tool Wear Prediction Upgrade Kit for Legacy CNC Milling Machines in the Shop Floor

The operation of CNC milling is expensive because of the cost-intensive use of cutting tools. The wear and tear of CNC tools influence the tool lifetime. Today’s machines are not capable of accurately estimating the tool abrasion during the machining process. Therefore, manufacturers rely on reactive maintenance, a tool change after breakage, or a preventive maintenance approach, a tool change according to predefined tool specifications. In either case, maintenance costs are high due to a loss of machine utilization or premature tool change. To find the optimal point of tool change, it is necessary to monitor CNC process parameters during machining and use advanced data analytics to predict the tool abrasion. However, data science expertise is limited in small-medium sized manufacturing companies. The long operating life of machines often does not justify investments in new machines before the end of operating life. The publication describes a cost-efficient approach to upgrade legacy CNC machines with a Tool Wear Prediction Upgrade Kit. A practical solution is presented with a holistic hardware/software setup, including edge device, and multiple sensors. The prediction of tool wear is based on machine learning. The user interface visualizes the machine condition for the maintenance personnel in the shop floor. The approach is conceptualized and discussed based on industry requirements. Future work is outlined

Synthesis of Artificial Coating Images and Parameter Data Sets in Electrode Manufacturing

Driven by continuous cost pressure and increasing market requirements, the optimisation of the lithium-ion battery production is focus of attention. In order to save time and costs, machine learning (ML) represent a promising tool. ML methods are able to analyse highly complex correlations and abstract data sets. But a considerable amount of training data is needed. Since data is not always available to the required extent, approaches for synthesising artificial data were investigated. In this study, the quality and corresponding measurement parameters in electrode production were assessed and selected. Based on this selection, coating trials have been conducted and the corresponding data set collected. The data set forms the basis for synthesis of artificial coating images and parameters. The selection and design of the synthesis models was divided into two sub-steps. First, the synthesis of artificial coating images was investigated. This was followed by the consideration of a procedure for the synthesis of structured data sets. A promising method for data synthesis of (coating) images are Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The basic idea of GANs is to oppose two models: a discriminator and a generator. The generator generates artificial data samples that match the input of the training dataset. Afterwards those data samples (both input and artificial data) are introduced to the discriminator. The discriminator's function is to identify whether the data presented originates from the training dataset or whether it is a counterfeit (artificial data) of the generator. The requirements for the synthesis of tabular data sets correspond in principle to those for a multivariate regression analysis. The combination of the models resulted in a method that allows the prediction of the corresponding measured quality values for arbitrarily selected process parameters, as well as the visualisation of the associated coating result in the form of an artificial image

Computer-Aided Assembly Sequence Planning for High-Mix Low-Volume Products in the Electronic Appliances Industry

Electronic appliance manufacturers are facing the challenge of frequent product orders. Based on each product order, the assembly process and workstations need to be planned. An essential part of the assembly planning is defining the assembly sequence, considering the mechanical product’s design, and handling of the product’s components. The assembly sequence determines the order of processes for each workstation, the overall layout, and thereby time and cost. Currently, the assembly sequence is decided by industrial engineers through a manual approach that is time-consuming, complex, and requires technical expertise. To reduce the industrial engineers’ manual effort, a Computer-Aided Assembly Sequence Planning (CAASP) system is proposed in this paper. It compromises the components for a comprehensive system that aims to be applied practically. The system uses Computer-Aided Design (CAD) files to derive Liaison and Interference Matrices that represent a mathematical relationship between parts. Subsequently, an adapted Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm generates an optimized assembly sequence based on these relationships. Through a web browser-based application, the user can upload files and interact with the system. The system is conceptualized and validated using the CAD file of an electric motor example product. The results are discussed, and future work is outlined

JETstream Volume 5

And just like that, spring has finally arrived and with that, the end of the spring 2023 semester! But before transitioning into summer mode and hopefully some well-deserved time off, the JET Library would like to fill you in on some of the things we have been up to; welcoming Molloy’s Archives & Special Collections to JET, several new resources including the First-Generation LibGuide, Medical and Nursing Journal Collection and other resources specifically aimed to help improve accessibility and access for anyone entering the library. This past year, the JET Library and its cross-functional partners within Learning Services, the Writing Center, and Tutoring Services were sincerely honored to receive this year’s Molloy Team Award! We would also like to congratulate the winners of all the other categories. The JET library also welcomed several new members to our team in addition to one returning member who you will get to know a bit better in this issue. So as we prepare for the last few weeks of the semester, we would like to wish all of our students the best on their upcoming finals and to the entire Molloy University community, a safe and enjoyable summer

On the Importance of Countergradients for the Development of Retinotopy: Insights from a Generalised Gierer Model

During the development of the topographic map from vertebrate retina to superior colliculus (SC), EphA receptors are expressed in a gradient along the nasotemporal retinal axis. Their ligands, ephrin-As, are expressed in a gradient along the rostrocaudal axis of the SC. Countergradients of ephrin-As in the retina and EphAs in the SC are also expressed. Disruption of any of these gradients leads to mapping errors. Gierer's (1981) model, which uses well-matched pairs of gradients and countergradients to establish the mapping, can account for the formation of wild type maps, but not the double maps found in EphA knock-in experiments. I show that these maps can be explained by models, such as Gierer's (1983), which have gradients and no countergradients, together with a powerful compensatory mechanism that helps to distribute connections evenly over the target region. However, this type of model cannot explain mapping errors found when the countergradients are knocked out partially. I examine the relative importance of countergradients as against compensatory mechanisms by generalising Gierer's (1983) model so that the strength of compensation is adjustable. Either matching gradients and countergradients alone or poorly matching gradients and countergradients together with a strong compensatory mechanism are sufficient to establish an ordered mapping. With a weaker compensatory mechanism, gradients without countergradients lead to a poorer map, but the addition of countergradients improves the mapping. This model produces the double maps in simulated EphA knock-in experiments and a map consistent with the Math5 knock-out phenotype. Simulations of a set of phenotypes from the literature substantiate the finding that countergradients and compensation can be traded off against each other to give similar maps. I conclude that a successful model of retinotopy should contain countergradients and some form of compensation mechanism, but not in the strong form put forward by Gierer