Saint or Politician: A Gendered Analysis of Catherine Benincasa’s Letters

Over the nearly seven hundred years since Catherine Benincasa’s death there has been a flow of almost continuous scholarly and spiritual work that has been written about her. Catherine is one of the few well documented women, of her historical period, in history. However, there is a large gap in the historiography of Catherine, and that is looking at the effect of her letters on her audience and possible implications of her letters on the political and spiritual landscape of her time and beyond. An important piece of looking at Catherine’s spiritual and political career is using a feminist or subaltern methodology to understand how Catherine’s gender influenced the outcome of her career. This thesis approaches the political and spiritual career of Catherine Benincasa through her many letters. In particular, this thesis will trace how she uses two particular rhetorical devises to call her audience to action. Further this thesis will examine how her audiences’ gender impacted the meaning of the rhetorical devises she used

New optimal tests of quantum nonlocality

We explore correlation polytopes to derive a set of all Boole-Bell type conditions of possible classical experience which are both maximal and complete. These are compared with the respective quantum expressions for the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) case and for two particles with spin state measurements along three directions.Comment: 10 page

Minnesota's 2022 Post-Election Review: Report and Recommendations

Minnesota's post-election review (PER), also called a post-election audit, refers to election officials hand counting votes on randomly selected paper ballots and comparing the totals to the corresponding Election Day voting machine totals. This procedure is an important check on the accuracy of the machines. The review also provides information used to improve election processes, and it provides the public with an opportunity to observe the verification of our elections. Minnesota's PER was first implemented in 2006 and is conducted in general elections every two years in congressional and key statewide races.Since 2006, Citizens for Election Integrity Minnesota (CEIMN) has organized eight non partisan observations of Minnesota's PERs. In 2022 CEIMN partnered with the League of Women Voters Minnesota as we had done in 2006 and 2008, to organize 40 non-partisan volunteers to observe the review in 11 counties.Our observers filled out a detailed questionnaire (Appendix A) during the 2022 review. That survey data indicated that the review was conducted in a transparent, efficient and professional manner. Observers expressed confidence in the accuracy and integrity of the PER.Â

Provider perspectives on treatment decision-making in nephrotic syndrome

Managing patients with nephrotic syndrome (NS) remains difficult for the practicing nephrologist. This often young patient population is faced with a debilitating, relapsing and remitting disease with non-specific treatment options that are often poorly tolerated. Clinicians managing these complex patients must attempt to apply disease-specific evidence while considering the individual patient's clinical and personal situation

Learning to live with nephrotic syndrome: experiences of adult patients and parents of children with nephrotic syndrome

People living with nephrotic syndrome (NS) need to develop an in-depth understanding of their condition in order to participate in treatment decisions, develop self-management skills and integrate illness into daily life. However, the learning needs of adult patients and parents of children with NS are unknown. We therefore explored patient and parent perspectives on learning needs related to NS as part of a larger study to develop a shared learning tool for NS

Roots and (re)sources of value (in)definiteness versus contextuality. A contribution to the Pitowsky Volume in memory of Itamar Pitowsky (1950--2010)

In Itamar Pitowsky's reading of the Gleason and the Kochen-Specker theorems, in particular, his Logical Indeterminacy Principle, the emphasis is on the value indefiniteness of observables which are not within the preparation context. This is in stark contrast to the prevalent term {\em contextuality} used by many researchers in informal, heuristic yet omni-realistic and potentially misleading ways. This paper discusses both concepts and argues in favor of value indefiniteness in all but a continuum of contexts intertwining in the vector representing a single pure (prepared) state. Even more restrictively, and inspired by operationalism but not justified by Pitowsky's Logical Indeterminacy Principle or similar, one could identify with a "quantum state" a single quantum context -- aka the respective maximal observable, or, in terms of its spectral decomposition, the associated orthonormal basis - from the continuum of intertwining context, as per the associated maximal observable actually or implicitly measured.Comment: 11 pages, revised and polished, discussion on joint probabilities of observables in different contexts adde

Natural deduction and arbitrary objects

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