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Conversational Data Analysis as an Altered State of Consciousness
Norman Nie was nothing if not candid as to the reasons why I was chosen to speak to you this evening. He said, We want somebody who doesn\u27t know a bit from a bite, but who has had a lot of experience with SCSS. I qualify on both counts. Biting is something you do to a bullet, and bit is what\u27s left over in the paycheck after the government takes its taxes away. As for the use of SCSS I\u27ve done most of a book relying solely on my portable T1 terminal and, with some risk of having a giant skyhook come down and removing me from the scene tonight, I think I can say I have analyzed more data with it than Norman has
Images of God in the Movies
In the following essay I identify some of the images of God I have found in contemporary, popular movies. Some of these are visual images of God, while others are conceptions of what God expects from us or for us. I conclude that the God of the movies is both gentle and tough, merciful and stern, caring and just. Movies may emphasize the merciful, but the images of God include both mercy and justice and the emphasis mirrors the emphasis on mercy in our own culture. We are, on the whole, optimists, and the images of God in the movies support such optimism
The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change in the United States
U.S. Protestants are less likely to belong to “mainline” denominations and more likely to belong to “conservative” ones than used to be the case. Evidence from the General Social Survey indicates that higher fertility and earlier childbearing among women from conservative denominations explains 76% of the observed trend for cohorts born between 1903 and 1973: conservative denominations have grown their own. Mainline decline would have slowed in recent cohorts, but a drop‐off in conversions from conservative to mainline denominations prolonged the decline. A recent rise in apostasy added a few percentage points to mainline decline. Conversions from mainline to conservative denominations have not changed, so they played no role in the restructuring
Against Artificial Education: Towards an Ethical Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Use in Education
The arrival of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally different from prior technologies used in educational settings. Educators and researchers of online, blended, and in-person learning are still coming to grips with possible applications of AI in the learning experience with existing technologies; let alone understanding the potential consequences that future developments in AI will produce. Despite potential risks, AI may revolutionize previous models of teaching and learning and perhaps create opportunities to realize progressive educational goals. Given the longstanding tradition of philosophy to examine questions surrounding ethics, ontology, technology, and education, the purpose of this critical reflection paper is to draw from prominent philosophers across these disciplines to address the question: how can AI be employed in future educational contexts in a humanizing and ethical manner? Drawing from the work of Gunther Anders, Michel Foucault, Paolo Freire, Benjamin Bloom, and Hannah Arendt, we propose a framework for assessing the use and ethics of AI in modern education contexts regarding human versus AI generated textual and multimodal content, and the broader political, social, and cultural implications. We conclude with applied examples of the framework and implications for future research and practice
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Gain-of-Function Mutations in the K<sub>ATP</sub> Channel (KCNJ11) Impair Coordinated Hand-Eye Tracking
Background: Gain-of-function mutations in the ATP-sensitive potassium channel can cause permanent neonatal diabetes mellitus (PNDM) or neonatal diabetes accompanied by a constellation of neurological symptoms (iDEND syndrome). Studies of a mouse model of iDEND syndrome revealed that cerebellar Purkinje cell electrical activity was impaired and that the mice exhibited poor motor coordination. In this study, we probed the hand-eye coordination of PNDM and iDEND patients using visual tracking tasks to see if poor motor coordination is also a feature of the human disease.Methods: Control participants (n = 14), patients with iDEND syndrome (n = 6 or 7), and patients with PNDM (n = 7) completed three computer-based tasks in which a moving target was tracked with a joystick-controlled cursor. Patients with PNDM and iDEND were being treated with sulphonylurea drugs at the time of testing.Results: No differences were seen between PNDM patients and controls. Patients with iDEND syndrome were significantly less accurate than controls in two of the three tasks. The greatest differences were seen when iDEND patients tracked blanked targets, i.e. when predictive tracking was required. In this task, iDEND patients incurred more discrepancy errors (p = 0.009) and more velocity errors (p = 0.009) than controls.Conclusions: These results identify impaired hand-eye coordination as a new clinical feature of iDEND. The aetiology of this feature is likely to involve cerebellar dysfunction. The data further suggest that sulphonylurea doses that control the diabetes of these patients may be insufficient to fully correct their neurological symptoms.</p
First-principles extrapolation method for accurate CO adsorption energies on metal surfaces
We show that a simple first-principles correction based on the difference
between the singlet-triplet CO excitation energy values obtained by DFT and
high-level quantum chemistry methods yields accurate CO adsorption properties
on a variety of metal surfaces.
We demonstrate a linear relationship between the CO adsorption energy and the
CO singlet-triplet splitting, similar to the linear dependence of CO adsorption
energy on the energy of the CO 2* orbital found recently {[Kresse {\em et
al.}, Physical Review B {\bf 68}, 073401 (2003)]}. Converged DFT calculations
underestimate the CO singlet-triplet excitation energy ,
whereas coupled-cluster and CI calculations reproduce the experimental . The dependence of on is used
to extrapolate for the top, bridge and hollow sites for the
(100) and (111) surfaces of Pt, Rh, Pd and Cu to the values that correspond to
the coupled-cluster and CI value. The correction
reproduces experimental adsorption site preference for all cases and obtains
in excellent agreement with experimental results.Comment: Table sent as table1.eps. 3 figure
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