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Religions and social progress: critical assessments and creative partnerships
This extended version of the published version is also available at www.ipsp.org/downloads.This chapter starts from the premise that some 80 percent of the worldâs population
affirms some kind of religious identification, a percentage that is growing rather than
declining. Emphasizing the significance of belief and practice in everyday lives and local
contexts, we analyze the impact of religion and its relevance to social progress in a wide
variety of fields: family, gender, and sexuality; diversity and democracy; conflict and peace;
everyday wellbeing; and care for the earth. We also identify a series of cross-cutting themes
that establish a foundation for policy-making
Estimation of fractal dimension for a class of Non-Gaussian stationary processes and fields
We present the asymptotic distribution theory for a class of increment-based
estimators of the fractal dimension of a random field of the form g{X(t)},
where g:R\to R is an unknown smooth function and X(t) is a real-valued
stationary Gaussian field on R^d, d=1 or 2, whose covariance function obeys a
power law at the origin. The relevant theoretical framework here is ``fixed
domain'' (or ``infill'') asymptotics. Surprisingly, the limit theory in this
non-Gaussian case is somewhat richer than in the Gaussian case (the latter is
recovered when g is affine), in part because estimators of the type considered
may have an asymptotic variance which is random in the limit. Broadly, when g
is smooth and nonaffine, three types of limit distributions can arise, types
(i), (ii) and (iii), say. Each type can be represented as a random integral.
More specifically, type (i) can be represented as the integral of a certain
random function with respect to Lebesgue measure; type (ii) can be represented
as the integral of a second random functio
Using the PhotoStory method to understand the cultural context of youth victimisation in the Punjab
Bullying is an international issue that is only just beginning to be researched in India and
anecdotal evidence in Punjab, India, has suggested that most schools in the Punjab are in denial about bullying on campus. Our aim was to investigate the nature of bullying in
this region using the PhotoStory Method. We sought to discover how young people in
India perceived and experienced incidents of bullying. Three Punjabi schools were
issued with ipads that students could use to email the researchers their illustrated stories
about bullying. Using the Pic Collage App, 33 students aged 12-15 sent PhotoStories
about experiences of victimization. Many stories described incidents of physical
harassment, name calling and âEve teasingâ, which left students feeling sad,
embarrassed, depressed and helpless. However, only four PhotoStories described
incidents that met the definition of bullying i.e. that involved repetitive, hurtful
behaviour perpetrated by a person or persons that could be considered more âpowerfulâ
than the victim. Nonetheless, the stories, while not lengthy and overly descriptive, did
indicate that physical acts of aggression between peers were common in and outside
school. The findings are discussed in relation to definitional issues and the need to
implement anti-violence programs in Indian schools.peer-reviewe
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The Objectivity of Ordinary Life
Metaethics tends to take for granted a bare Democritean world of atoms and the void, and then worry about how the human world that we all know can possibly be related to it or justified in its terms. I draw on Wittgenstein to show how completely upside-down this picture is, and make some moves towards turning it the right way up again. There may be a use for something like the bare-Democritean model in some of the sciences, but the picture has no standing as the basic objective truth about the world; if anything has that standing, it is ordinary life. I conclude with some thoughts about how the notion of bare, âthinâ perception of non-evaluative reality feeds a number of philosophical pathologies, such as behaviourism, and show how a âthickerâ, more value-laden, understanding of our perceptions of the world can be therapeutic against them
Optimizing an array of antennas for cellular coverage from a high altitude platform
In a wireless communications network served by a high altitude platform (HAP) the cochannel interference is a function of the antenna beamwidth, angular separation and. sidelobe level. At the millimeter wave frequencies proposed for HAPs, an array of aperture type antennas on the platform is a practicable solution for serving the cells. We present a method for predicting cochannel interference based on curve-fit approximations for radiation patterns of elliptic beams which illuminate cell edges with optimum power, and a means of estimating optimum beamwidths for each cell of a regular hexagonal layout. The method is then applied to a 121 cell architecture. Where sidelobes are modeled As a flat floor at 40-dB below peak directivity, a cell cluster size of four yields carrier-to-interference ratios (CIRs), which vary from 15 dB at cell edges to 27 dB at cell centers. On adopting a cluster size of seven, these figures increase, respectively, to 19 and 30 dB. On reducing the sidelobe level, the. improvement in CIR can be quantified. The method also readily allows for regions of overlapping channel coverage to be shown
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