Mannequin Renewal

Jessica Suphan was one of two prize winners in the 2017-2018 Douglas R. Skopp Creative Competition on the Theme of the Holocaust.In a small, sheltered home of modern day United States, an older man named Josef paints those slaughtered in the Holocaust on mannequins. But his solitary passion is interrupted by a high schooler named Lydia; she bursts into his home in a flurry of excitement and hope. Her aunt sent her to Josef, with the teenager hoping he’ll help her create a birthday present for her elderly grandmother. Her sweetheart, Lydia’s grandfather, was lost in a concentration camp. Josef takes on this custom order. At her grandmother’s birthday he experiences the bittersweet effect his art can have on the family of those long lost, and is inspired.SUNY Plattsburg

Paragraph 175

Short storyRationale: No one wants to talk about LGBT+ history. As if we didn't exist outside the AIDS crisis and our suffering in the Holocaust is just the word "homosexual" in the list of those who were wronged, easily skipped over. This piece was inspired by those whose suffering is seen as a footnote, because they deserve to be brought back to life. Paragraph 175 refers to a longstanding provision of the German Criminal Code that outlawed homosexual acts between men. Synopsis: Our main character Aloys and his lover Otto begin the story by hiding from the SS in an alleyway. They're torn apart but reunited months later, with whispers of Allied forces amongst homosexual-specific horrors. As expectations mount the two dare to dream of a life together, of happiness. When the Allies attack the camp a soldier gets into the homosexual part of the camp and orders them all inside so they're not shot. But once they obey he locks them in, rescuing everyone else while leaving them all to die.SUNY Plattsburg

A Guide to Ground in Kant's Lectures on Metaphysics

While scholars have extensively discussed Kant’s treatment of the Principle of Sufficient Ground in the Antinomies chapter of the Critique of Pure Reason, and, more recently, his relation to German rationalist debates about it, relatively little has been said about the exact notion of ground that figures in the PSG. My aim in this chapter is to explain Kant’s discussion of ground in the lectures and to relate it, where appropriate, to his published discussions of ground

Design and Construction of a Cassava Tuber Knife Peeling Unit

AbstractPeeling of cassava tubers is one of the important steps in processing of cassava chips. The peeling is still manual, which has low capacity and is therefore insufficient for production needs. This project aims to design and fabricate a unit for cassava tuber knife peeling. The unit consists of a structure, power and transmission, and a knife peeling set. The study conditions were at 70, 80 and 90 rpm of knife rotating speed, with 3 different knife peeling types and 2 levels of spring stiffness of knife peeling (8.21 and. 17.19 N/m). The result shows that the most suitable conditions were 90 rpm of knife peeling speed, using a second knife peeling type and a spring stiffness of 17.19 N/m. The capacity was 10.43 seconds/tuber. The peeling efficiency was 90.3 and the percentage of flesh loss was 3.6

Hemolysis of human blood cells induced by gasohol in vitro model: the preliminary study

Background:Ethanol has been shown to inhibit spontaneous cell-mediated cytotoxicity and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity in vitro in a dose-dependent manner. A mixture of ethanol in biofuel may show interaction with respect to spontaneous and cell-mediated cytotoxicity.Methods:The cytotoxicity on Human Red Blood Cells (RBCs) and White Blood Cells (WBCs) was studied in vitro model of 4 types of biofuels (gasohol) (octane 91, octane 95, E 20, and E 80) in serial dilutions. The lysis and abnormal morphology of cells were analyzed by colorimetric and microscopic methods.Results:Quantitative hemolysis of RBCs was increased with rising ethanol concentration as well as abnormal morphology of RBCs like spherocyte. Moreover, ethanol might effect to lysis and morphology of WBCs.  Conclusion:It is suggested that the gasohol-induced cytotoxicity may be related to concentration of ethanol in gasohol. However, it is possible to future study on mechanism of action leading to cell lysis and kinetic of morphological change in RBCs and WBCs

Ontology as Transcendental Philosophy

How does the critical Kant view ontology? There is no shared scholarly answer to this question. Norbert Hinske sees in the Critique of Pure Reason a “farewell to ontology,” albeit one that took Kant long to bid (Hinske 2009). Karl Ameriks has found evidence in Kant’s metaphysics lectures from the critical period that he “was unwilling to break away fully from traditional ontology” (Ameriks 1992: 272). Gualtiero Lorini argues that a decisive break with the tradition of ontology is essential to Kant’s critical reform of metaphysics, as is reflected in his shift from “ontology” to “transcendental philosophy,” two notions that Lorini takes to be related by mere “analogy” (Lorini 2015). I agree with Lorini that a thorough reform of ontology is a pivotal part of Kant’s critical plan for metaphysics and that ontology somehow “survives within the critical philosophy” (Lorini 2015: 76). To make this case, however, I deem it important to identify “ontology” and “transcendental philosophy” in the sense of extensional equivalence. While we can detect this identification in Kant’s writings, only from his metaphysics lectures can we get a full sense of its historical and philosophical significance. In this chapter I focus on how it represents a definitive turn from as well as notable continuity with traditional treatments of ontology, particularly the Wolffian one