Found in Translation: A Phenomenology of Translation

Congreso Internacional celebrado en la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid del 24 al 26 de septiembre de 2012Effective philosophical discussion requires an awareness of the nuances of language and the process of translating between different modes of communication. In this increasingly globalized academic forum, many feel that today’s linguistic challenges are more extreme than those of the past. Yet translation has been a necessary part of the work of philosophy for centuries, whether translating from Greek to Latin or German to Spanish. Because of this, I would like to explore the relationship between translation and philosophy by undertaking a phenomenology of translation. By investigating the way in which translation affects the growth of philosophers, we may be able to come to some understanding of how translation informs philosophy as a field and find out what qualities make a translation good

Data-driven Models for Remaining Useful Life Estimation of Aircraft Engines and Hard Disk Drives

Failure of physical devices can cause inconvenience, loss of money, and sometimes even deaths. To improve the reliability of these devices, we need to know the remaining useful life (RUL) of a device at a given point in time. Data-driven approaches use data from a physical device to build a model that can estimate the RUL. They have shown great performance and are often simpler than traditional model-based approaches. Typical statistical and machine learning approaches are often not suited for sequential data prediction. Recurrent Neural Networks are designed to work with sequential data but suffer from the vanishing gradient problem over time. Therefore, I explore the use of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks for RUL prediction. I perform two experiments. First, I train bidirectional LSTM networks on the Backblaze hard-disk drive dataset. I achieve an accuracy of 96.4\% on a 60 day time window, state-of-the-art performance. Additionally, I use a unique standardization method that standardizes each hard drive instance independently and explore the benefits and downsides of this approach. Finally, I train LSTM models on the NASA N-CMAPSS dataset to predict aircraft engine remaining useful life. I train models on each of the eight sub-datasets, achieving a RMSE of 6.304 on one of the sub-datasets, the second-best in the current literature. I also compare an LSTM network\u27s performance to the performance of a Random Forest and Temporal Convolutional Neural Network model, demonstrating the LSTM network\u27s superior performance. I find that LSTM networks are capable predictors for device remaining useful life and show a thorough model development process that can be reproduced to develop LSTM models for various RUL prediction tasks. These models will be able to improve the reliability of devices such as aircraft engines and hard-disk drives

Chicago Music City

Chicago Music City compares the strength and vitality of music industries and scenes across the United States. Sociologists, urban planners, and real-estate developers point to quality of life and availability of cultural amenities as important indicators of the health and future success of urban areas. Economic impact studies show the importance of music to local economies. This publication compares Chicago's musical strength with the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the U.S., focusing on 11 comparison cities: Chicago and its demographic peers, New York and Los Angeles, and eight other cities with strong musical reputations -- Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Las Vegas, Memphis, Nashville, New Orleans and Seattle

Some Effects Of The Federal Reserve System On The American Economy

The Federal Reserve System is considered by many people to be a mysterious organization because most people have only a vague idea of the functions and operations of the Federal Reserve System. The purpose of this study is to study the organization of the Federal Reserve System and to investigate the effects that the system has upon the American economy. In seeking the origin of the reform legislation known as the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, the economic historian usually begins with the year 1893, It was that year that the panic and the depression brought to American bankers, businessmen, and statesmen a realization of the weaknesses of the American banking system. In a very real sense, the people of this country began to look in the direction of foreign systems to discover the reasons for their superiority. The complacency which had marked American banking thought was severely shaken

Differential patterns in comparative education discourse

This dissertation study argues that 'policy advice formation', as a discourse development, is a differentiated hybrid resultant from merger between comparative education and policy studies disciplines. Through discourse analysis based on John Creswell's format, this study identifies revisions, restatements and shifts in emphasis of theories, methodological models and challenge topics of comparative education and policy studies. Findings which display the development of policy advice formation' discourse. In conclusion, this study found differential patterns seemingly formed because of collaborative affects of standardization in education science knowledge expressed within discourse

The New Man: Evolving Masculinity in F. Scott Fitzgerald\u27s \u3cem\u3eThis Side of Paradise\u3c/em\u3e, Winter Dreams, and The Swimmers

The evolving culture and ethos of American capitalist modernity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was marked by a nervousness, or neurasthenia. Strongly gendered, it was characterized among men by effeminacy and an anxiety about masculinity. Confronted by the eroding ideals of Victorian American self-reliance and independence, a stout-hearted willingness to labor to establish one\u27s masculinity seemed an increasingly doubtful prospect for men in the new modern age. Under the twin influences of industrial capitalism and a market economy and a fledgling women\u27s movement, affecting, especially, the work place, the American male felt nervous, anxious, and emasculated. In response to what Greg Forter calls the feminizing effects of bourgeois modernity, early twentieth-century America saw the emergence of a new form of manhood that is best described by Forter as hard, aggressive, physically dominant, potent. Under the dispensations of the commercial civilization of industrial, materialistic America, manliness and definitions of manhood were now measured by riches, inherited or acquired through business activities; through athleticism that stressed such masculine attributes as physical endurance, integrity, self-control, and teamwork. Finally, this ambiguously reconceived masculinity was also defined by a complex web of man-woman relationships, based on power and dominance, which was different from the Victorian patriarchal partition of society along domestic and public spheres. Also important was how men established relationships, or bonded with each other, which would enhance their public image as a man. This complex and fraught social history of masculinity, and its connections to the literary culture of the times, find their articulations in F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his life and in much of his works, Fitzgerald takes an ambivalent attitude toward the self-assertive, aggressive manliness of his times. In This Side of Paradise, Winter Dreams, and The Swimmers, the male protagonists attempt to exhibit the masculine traits of virility, aggressiveness, and potency, but fall short in some way, either because they are not wealthy, athletic, or do not display a manly dominance in their relationships. Thus, these men form new spaces for themselves in Fitzgerald\u27s re-conceptualized masculinity, that is both informed and enriched by softer feminine attributes

Bioinformatic analysis of miRNA mechanisms in circadian rhythm using a zebrafish (Danio Rerio) model

MicroRNAs are noncoding RNAs found in cells and the bloodstream, which help to maintain proper protein production and overall gene expression1. Typically, microRNAs bind to messenger RNA (mRNA) in the cell cytoplasm, acting as post-transcriptional regulators, and either degrade or repress mRNA2. Due to microRNAs playing a vital role in gene expression by repressing protein production of target genes, if they are underexpressed then the protein it regulates could be overexpressed as a result. miRNAs have the potential to be biomarkers for numerous neurodegenerative diseases. Neurodegeneration can be seen in many forms such as Dementia, Alzheimer’s (AD), Huntington’s Disease (HD), Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), Vascular Dementia (VD), Dementia With Lewy Bodies (DLB), and Parkinson\u27s Disease Dementia (PD). Early diagnosis of neurodegenerative disease is difficult due to the inability to analyze the diseased tissue. Tissue in the central nervous system cannot be biopsied without using invasive techniques. miRNAs originating from not easily accessible locations, such as neurons in the brain and spinal cord, have the ability to detect early biomarkers for dementia. With the analysis of miRNAs as biomarkers for dementia, early diagnosis of neurodegeneration may be facilitated. Sleep deprivation (SD) is one of the many side effects, and causes, of neurodegeneration and it adversely affects the circadian physiology3. To investigate abnormal microRNA expression, Danio rerio (zebrafish) will be used as a model organism and will be exposed to altered circadian rhythms in order to mimic SD. Collection of brain tissue from zebrafish will be conducted to assess for dysregulation of miRNAs