American Societies Impact on American Deaf Culture

A brief summary of where Deaf Culture is affected by the hearing American culture

Humanitarianism : between realism and utopia

The main claim in this article is that humanitarianism can be depicted as an attempt at establishing a realistic utopia. This is supported by a comparison between More’s Utopia and Dunant’s A Memory of Solferino. Despite the differences in style and context, both authors demonstrate a sensitive understanding of human nature and war. They both show that war should be conducted in a way that reduces suffering. Several of their ideas that seemed far-fetched at the time have entered the political mainstream. This, in turn, demonstrates that some visions of utopia can turn out to be practical. Dunant’s text illustrates this by making concrete proposals that brought about long lasting changes in the way war is carried out. Despite coming short of abolishing war, his text presents a realistic utopia that broadened ideas around what may be politically possible.peer-reviewe

A scalable software framework for solving PDEs on distributed octree meshes using finite element methods

Tracking particle motion in inertial flows (especially in obstructed geometries) is a computationally daunting proposition. This is further complicated by that fact that the construction of migration maps for particles (as a function of particle location, flow conditions, and particle size) requires several thousands of simulations tracking individual particles. This calls for the development of an efficient, scalable approach for single particle tracking in fluids. We bring together three distinct elements to accomplish this: (a) a parallel octree based adaptive mesh generation framework, (b) a variational multiscale (VMS) based treatment that enables flow condition agnostic simulations (laminar or turbulent)~\cite{Bazilevs07b}, and (c) a variationally consistent immersed boundary method (IBM) to efficiently track moving particles in a background octree mesh~\cite{Xu:2015ig}. This project builds on our existing codes for adaptive meshing (\dendro) and finite elements (\talyfem). We present our adaptive meshing framework that is tailored for the immersed boundary method and experiments demonstrating the scalability of our code to over 1k compute nodes

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Jurors\u27 Judgments of Business Liability in Tort Cases: Implications for the Litigation Explosion

Criticisms of the civil jury, including charges that the jury is biased against business, have been central to debates over the litigation explosion and demands for tort reform. This article seeks to inform these ongoing controversies by examining tort jurors\u27 accounts of how they reached decisions in cases with business parties. Interviews and questionnaire data showed that jurors were skeptical of plaintiff tort cases against businesses, organized their accounts more on the actions and motivations of plaintiffs than on the responsibilities of business, and spoke often of the litigation crisis and the importance of limiting awards