Value and selfhood: pragmatism, Confucianism, and phenomenology

This article articulates a dialogue between Edward Casey, Cheng Chung‐ying, and me that began at the Eastern Division annual meeting in Philadelphia of the American Philosophical Association, in a session sponsored by the International Society for Chinese Philosophy. There, we read brief versions of the papers presented in this issue and commented on one another. Casey represented Continental phenomenology, Cheng the Chinese tradition as he has developed it into onto‐generative hermeneutics, and I the melding of American pragmatic and Confucian traditions that I have been developing

Tale of a theologian without walls

This article provides a detailed autobiographical account of two oddly coupled things. On the one hand, the author has been firmly committed to theology without walls since early childhood, including high school publications in a church newsletter and comingdown to a three-volume philosophical theology based on world religions, vulnerable to all perspectives. On the other hand, the author has been actively and deeply religious, including ordination in the United Methodist Church and being the dean of the United Methodist School of Theology at Boston University. Being religious in a particular way is compatible with pursuing theology without walls

Clinical trials on medicinal products in Malta following EU accession

Following EU Accession, Malta has to adopt EU Directives as part of its own legislation. Three such directives concern the conduct of clinical trials in European countries ­ 2001/20/EC, 2003/94/EC and 2005/28/EC. These directives, and the respective guidelines explaining their implementation, have considerably changed the way clinical trials are conducted. While the participation of Malta in clinical trials is to be encouraged for various reasons, these have to be regulated according to the legislation set out by the European Union. In themselves, what these Directives strive to achieve are mainly the safety of the study subject and the protection of the investigators from serious consequences. This short article aims to give a brief overview of these changes to prospective investigators and hospital administrators.peer-reviewe

Closed-Flux Solutions to the Constraints for Plane Gravity Waves

The metric for plane gravitational waves is quantized within the Hamiltonian framework, using a Dirac constraint quantization and the self-dual field variables proposed by Ashtekar. The z axis (direction of travel of the waves) is taken to be the entire real line rather than the torus (manifold coordinatized by (z,t) is RxR rather than $S_1$ x R). Solutions to the constraints proposed in a previous paper involve open-ended flux lines running along the entire z axis, rather than closed loops of flux; consequently, these solutions are annihilated by the Gauss constraint at interior points of the z axis, but not at the two boundary points. The solutions studied in the present paper are based on closed flux loops and satisfy the Gauss constraint for all z.Comment: 18 pages; LaTe

Tunneling Currents in Zinc Oxide

An examination of the current-voltage characteristics of gold and palladium surface barriers on degenerate zinc oxide has been made. Both chemically prepared and cleaved surfaces were studied. The current conduction mode is shown to be thermionic-field emission at room temperature and to be pure field emission at liquid-nitrogen temperatures. The voltage dependence of the current is in good agreement with theory. The observed current magnitudes in both current modes were approximately one-tenth that calculated by simple theory

Functional Analysis of the Peroneus Longus and Tibialis Posterior Using Over-Stimulation

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Surface Barriers on Zinc Oxide

The surface barrier systems consisting of gold and palladium on chemically prepared zinc oxide have been investigated in detail. Surface barrier energies have been determined by photoresponse, forward current versus voltage, thermal activation energy, and capacitance-voltage methods. Agreement in barrier energies obtained by the four methods is excellent. The barrier energy for gold is 0.66 eV and for palladium is 0.60 eV. Forward current-voltage characteristics were in quantitative agreement with simple Bethe diode theory as modified by the presence of image force lowering. The reverse current-voltage characteristic is in quantitative agreement with that expected from the simple image force lowering of the barrier, over a bias range of from 0.1 to 3 V. Carrier concentration derived from resistivity and Hall measurements agreed with that obtained from capacitance-voltage measurements. We believe this represents the first comprehensive study where such quantitative consistency has been demonstrated on a compound semiconductor barrier system. Existence of a deep level trap is indicated via the effects on capacitance measurements

Surface barrier energies on strontium titanate

The metal-semiconductor surface-barrier systems consisting of the metals gold, palladium, copper, or indium on chemically prepared or cleaved strontium titanate surfaces have been investigated in detail. Surface-barrier energies have been studied by photoresponse, forward current versus voltage, and thermal activation energy techniques yielding values in excellent agreement with each other. Forward current-voltage characteristics ~ere in quantitative agreement with simple diode thermionic theory as modified by the inclusion of image force lowering. The reverse current-voltage characteristic of these stable barriers also is in agreement with that expected from thermionic theory including simple image force lowering over a bias range from -0.1 to -4 V