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His banner over me is love: More dynamic designs for worship settings. St. Louis, Mo: CPH, 1995.
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Balagangadhara, S. N. "The heathen in his blindness"--: Asia, the West, and the dynamic of religion. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Manohar, 2005.
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"The heathen in his blindness"--: Asia, the West, and the dynamic of religion. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1994.
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Otieno, Wellington A. Why Africa has fallen short of building dynamic agro-processing capabilities: Constraints, options, and prospects. Nairobi: African Technology Policy Studies Network, 2006.
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Reinhard, Köhler, ed. Synergetic linguistics: Text and language as dynamic systems : to Reinhard Köhler on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Wien: Praesens, 2012.
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Danfaer, Allan. A dynamic model of nutrient digestion and metabolism in lactating dairy cows =: En dynamisk model af næringsstoffernes fordøjelse og omsætning hos malkekøer. Frederiksberg [Denmark]: i kommission hos Landhusholdningsselskabets forlag, 1990.
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Revolution in Quebec: A past rejected- a future in doubt- : an American reflects on the dynamic but divided society of his heritage. Portmouth, NH: P.E. Randall, 1995.
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Perednya, Dmitriy, Aleksandr Belyaev, and Oleg Filimonov. Dynamic aspects of the managerial culture of the internal affairs bodies of Russia. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1872859.
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In the monograph, the focus of research interest is primarily focused on the dynamic aspects of the managerial culture of the internal affairs bodies. The understanding of the object-subject area was carried out based on empirical data accumulated in recent years concerning changes in the managerial culture of internal affairs bodies.
At all times, management has been important for social structures. The fact is that the effective functioning of the organization is based on reasons directly or indirectly related to management issues, the form of existence of which is managerial culture. It is a complex phenomenon that is relevant both in research and in applied terms.
For a wide range of readers interested in the issues of managerial culture of internal affairs bodies. It can be useful for students, postgraduates and teachers of law schools.
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Caldwell, Michael. Dynamic entrepreneurs of the 21st century: The Canadians : the compelling stories of 20 Canadian companies whose explosive growth has launched them onto the world stage. Kelowna, B.C: Creative Classics Inc., 2009.
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Prodi, Enrico Emanuele, and Stefano Vecchiato. ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70° compleanno. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-548-3.
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The volume collects thirty-six essays honouring Ettore (‘Willy’) Cingano, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Current and former colleagues, students, and friends have contributed new studies on various aspects of Classical antiquity to celebrate his seventieth birthday. The work consists of seven main sections, mirroring and complementing Willy’s research interests. We start with the subjects to which Willy has contributed the most during his career, early Greek hexameter poetry (chapters 2-6: Calame, Coward, Currie, Meliadò, Sider) and lyric, broadly intended (chapters 7-15: Spelman, Cannatà Fera, Le Meur, Prodi, Tosi, Vecchiato, Hadjimichael, D’Alessio and Prauscello, de Kreij). Next come tragedy (Lomiento, Dorati), Hellenistic and later Greek poetry (Perale, Hunter, Bowie, Franceschini), historiographical and other Greek prose (Andolfi, De Vido, Gostoli, Cohen-Skalli, Kaczko), Latin poetry (Barchiesi, Garani, Mastandrea, Mondin), and finally linguistics and the history of scholarship, ancient and modern (Benuzzi, Cassio, Giangiulio, Guidorizzi, Tribulato). The volume is bookended by a collection of translations from medieval and modern Greek poetry (Carpinato) and a reflection on the dynamic aspect of the sublime (Schiesaro).
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Crespellani, Teresa, ed. Terremoto e ricerca. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-819-2.
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The profound cultural transformation that has taken place in Italian seismic studies in the last ten years is distinguished by the growing interest in the problem of assessing the effects of earthquakes linked to local conditions, and in the related issue of a precise definition of the properties of the soil in the sphere of the dynamic and cyclical stresses induced by seismic actions. Despite the profound awareness of the extent to which the nature of the soil contributes to the destructive effects of earthquakes, we are still a long way from the possibility of a realistic forecast of the seismic behaviour of the Italian soils. This is because the identification of the dynamic properties calls for experimental equipment that is technologically complex and costly as well as lengthy observation and qualified personnel. The rare experimental data that have been acquired to date hence represent a fundamental element for scientific reflection. This book has been conceived with a view to setting at the disposal of a broader public the results of the tests conducted on site and in the laboratory on the soil of certain significant seismic areas using the dynamic-type apparatus of the Geotechnical Laboratory of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICeA) of the University of Florence. It presents a selection of the works of the Geotechnical section of the DICeA that have been published in various specialist international and national ambits. These studies were largely launched following the seismic sequence in Umbria and the Marches, in collaboration with several Regional Authorities and Research Institutes for the reduction of the seismic risk in Italy (GNDT, IRRS, INGV). In addition to the experimental techniques and the results obtained, the models and the geotechnical procedures adopted for assessing the effects of site and soil instability in certain specific deposits of the Italian territory are also expounded.
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Nigro, Giampiero, ed. La moda come motore economico: innovazione di processo e prodotto, nuove strategie commerciali, comportamento dei consumatori / Fashion as an economic engine: process and product innovation, commercial strategies, consumer behavior. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-565-3.
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The study of the textile sector has always been central to economic history: from reconstructions of the dynamic growth in the medieval wool industry, to the rise of silk and light and mixed fabrics in the modern era, to the driving role of cotton in the industrialisation process. Although the dynamics of textile manufacturing are closely linked to the transformations of fashion, economic history has long neglected its role as a factor in economic change, treating it primarily as a kind of exogenous catalyst. This book makes a decisive contribution to the understanding of a fundamental transformation, the consequences of which are projected into contemporary society, but which matured in pre-industrial times: the advent of fashion.
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Austin, Alan. After His Sister: A Dynami Society Story. Independently Published, 2019.
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Knapp, Courtney Elizabeth. Constructing the Dynamo of Dixie. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469637273.001.0001.
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What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future? Courtney Elizabeth Knapp chronicles the politics of gentrification and culture-based development in Chattanooga, Tennessee, by tracing the roots of racism, spatial segregation, and mainstream “cosmopolitanism” back to the earliest encounters between the Cherokee, African Americans, and white settlers. For more than three centuries, Chattanooga has been a site for multiracial interaction and community building; yet today public leaders have simultaneously restricted and appropriated many contributions of working-class communities of color within the city, exacerbating inequality and distrust between neighbors and public officials. Knapp suggests that “diasporic placemaking”—defined as the everyday practices through which uprooted people create new communities of security and belonging—is a useful analytical frame for understanding how multiracial interactions drive planning and urban development in diverse cities over time. By weaving together archival, ethnographic, and participatory action research techniques, she reveals the political complexities of a city characterized by centuries of ordinary resistance to racial segregation and uneven geographic development.
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Peteraf, Margaret, and Haridimos Tsoukas. Rethinking Dynamic Capabilities. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198806639.003.0008.
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This chapter discusses the development path of the dynamic capabilities construct, calling attention to two ways in which the path has become bifurcated. In particular it pays attention to the widening chasm between Teece’s original conception of dynamic capabilities and his revised conception, as expressed in some of his more recent works. The roots of these divergent, and yet theoretically consequential understandings are explored, as are the ways they have developed in the literature: the need to reconcile the routine nature of dynamic capabilities on the one hand with the need to account for the ability of organizations to intentionally alter their resource base on the other. The chapter argues that such a reconciliation is possible, once a process (or performative) approach is adopted. In particular, the authors argue that in so far as capabilities fully exist in performance, each particular performance may enact capabilities differently over time and in particular contexts.
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Cavanagh, Patrick, Lorella Battelli, and Alex Holcombe. Dynamic Attention. Edited by Anna C. (Kia) Nobre and Sabine Kastner. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675111.013.016.
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The authors review how attention helps track and process dynamic events, selecting and integrating information across time and space to produce a continuing identity for a moving, changing target. Rather than a fixed ‘spotlight’ that helps identify a static target, attention needs a mobile window or ‘pointer’ to track a moving target, picking up pieces of evidence along the way to determine not just what the target is, but what it is doing. Behavioural studies show that this dynamic version of attention is model-based, using familiar trajectories to help identify a target and to guide encoding of continuing input from its path. Attention has very coarse temporal resolution for both static and moving targets. However, when the focus of selection is on the move, a given location on a moving target’s path can be selected for extremely brief instants, as little as 50 ms, compared to the typical ‘dwell time’ or minimum duration of attention selection at a fixed location, of 200 ms or more. To determine the path of a moving object, attention must accurately process and sort the onsets and offsets in order to match an offset to the subsequent onset. This aspect of dynamic attention has been called the ‘when’ pathway and patient studies show that it is a qualitatively different system from spatial attention, being completely based in the right parietal lobe for events in both hemifields. Finally, like the salience map of spatial attention, temporal attention may have its own map that guides allocation to upcoming, current, and recent moments to select information at the appropriate time, changing the experience of time as it does so.
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Wolde, Dibu. The Dynamic Speeches of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I. Aeon Publishing Inc., 2010.
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Pearson, Ronald K. Discrete-time Dynamic Models. Oxford University Press, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195121988.001.0001.
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Fueled by advances in computer technology, model-based approaches to the control of industrial processes are now widespread. While there is an enormous literature on modeling, the difficult first step of selecting an appropriate model structure has received almost no attention. This book fills the gap, providing practical insight into model selection for chemical processes and emphasizing structures suitable for control system design.
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Zick, Timothy. The Dynamic Free Speech Clause. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190841416.001.0001.
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This book examines the relational dynamics between the U.S. Constitution’s Free Speech Clause and other constitutional rights. The free speech guarantee has intersected with a variety of other constitutional rights. Those intersections have significantly influenced the recognition, scope, and meaning of rights ranging from freedom of the press to the Second Amendment right to bear arms. They have also influenced interpretation of the Free Speech Clause itself. Free speech principles and doctrines have facilitated the recognition and effective exercise of constitutional rights, including equal protection, the right to abortion, and the free exercise of religion. They have also provided mediating principles for constructive debates about constitutional rights. At the same time, in its interactions with other constitutional rights, the Free Speech Clause has also been a complicating force. It has dominated rights discourse and subordinated or supplanted free press, assembly, petition, and free exercise rights. Currently, courts and commentators are fashioning the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in the image of the Free Speech Clause. Borrowing the Free Speech Clause for this purpose may turn out to be detrimental for both rights. The book examines the common and distinctive dynamics that have brought free speech and other constitutional rights together. It assesses the products and consequences of these intersections, and draws important lessons from them about constitutional rights and constitutional liberty. Ultimately, the book defends a pluralistic conception of constitutional rights that seeks to leverage the power of the Free Speech Clause but also to tame its propensity to subordinate, supplant, and eclipse other constitutional rights.
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Zachhuber, Johannes. The Soul as Dynamis in Gregory of Nyssa’s On the Soul and Resurrection. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0008.
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This chapter investigates Gregory of Nyssa’s understanding of the soul in his dialogue De Aanima et Rresurrectione. This text has often been interpreted against the backdrop of Platonic doctrine. Close attention to Gregory’s wording and especially his use of the concept of power (dynamis) in this connection, however, shows that his argument is better explained on the basis of the doctrine of the resurrection of the body which he set out to defend in his treatise.
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Mackaye, Percy. Steele Mackaye, Dynamic Artist of the American Theatre: An Outline of His Life Work. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2015.
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Mackaye, Percy. Steele Mackaye, Dynamic Artist of the American Theatre: An Outline of His Life Work. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2018.
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Forsyth, Alexander C. Mission by the People: Re-Discovering the Dynamic Missiology of Tom Allan and His Scottish Contemporaries. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017.
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Mission by the People: Re-Discovering the Dynamic Missiology of Tom Allan and His Scottish Contemporaries. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017.
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Forsyth, Alexander C. Mission by the People: Re-Discovering the Dynamic Missiology of Tom Allan and His Scottish Contemporaries. Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2017.
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McClymond, Michael J. “Of His Fullness Have All We Received”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249496.003.0010.
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Michael J. McClymond traces Johannine themes in Jonthan Edwards’ theology. He first introduces some such themes in Edwards’ writings, particularly the notion of God’s continually increasing grace into eternity. Then he explores how Edwards understood the Gospel of John as a book that emphasizes spiritual meanings. He goes on to consider “the logic of fullness” in Edwards’ theology as seen in his Johannine exegesis, a logic that highlights the work of the Holy Spirit and the inexhaustible, ever-increasing grace that comes in Christ. McClymond highlights how Edwards’ treatments of Johannine themes cross multiple theological subdisciplines and thus defy neat categorization. Instead, Edwards integrated (at least) three Johannine themes into his theology—realized eschatology, interpersonal indwelling, and dynamic union—using the original concept of “the eternal and yet ever-increasing union of blessed creatures with God.”
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Song, Zhaoli, Shu Hua Sun, and Xian Li. Job-Search Behavior of the Unemployed: A Dynamic Perspective. Edited by Ute-Christine Klehe and Edwin van Hooft. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199764921.013.023.
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Unemployment is a major social issue in modern societies. Unemployed workers obtain reemployment mainly through their job-search activities. This chapter documents the literature on the uniqueness, antecedents, and outcomes of job-search behaviors of the unemployed. Because job-search behavior has recently been examined as a dynamic process, we summarize theoretical models, research designs, and analytical approaches in studying job-search dynamics, particularly with regard to unemployed job seekers. We further suggest conceptualizing and empirically examining job-search as behavioral episodes to enhance our understanding of job-search dynamics.
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Wolfgang, Wildgen, Graumann Andrea, Holz Peter, and Plümacher Martina 1958-, eds. Towards a dynamic theory of language: A Festschrift for Wolfgang Wildgen on occasion of his 60th birthday. Bochum: Brockmeyer, 2004.
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Railton, Peter. Learning as an Inherent Dynamic of Belief and Desire. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199370962.003.0010.
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On the orthodox view, action is the joint product of belief and desire. We naturally assume that evolution would have equipped us for learning in belief, yet accurate beliefs would be of no avail if our desires were not adapted to our needs, capacities, and circumstances. Should we not, then, expect there to be mechanisms of adaptive learning in desire? A chief obstacle to this line of thought has been the idea that desire is an affective-conative state, incapable of truth or falsity. However, degrees of belief likewise are not true or false, and yet we can learn by revising degrees of belief in light of experience. This chapter presents philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific considerations in favor of a strong parallel between belief and desire; each is a compound state involving both a degree of affect (confidence or attraction, respectively) regulating action-guiding expectations, which then permit learning through discrepancy-reduction.
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Tanaka, H. Phase separation in soft matter: the concept of dynamic asymmetry. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789352.003.0015.
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In this article, we review the basic physics of viscoelastic phase separation including fracture phase separation. We show that with an increase in the ratio of the deformation rate of phase separation to the slowest mechanical relaxation rate the type of phase separation changes from fluid phase separation, to viscoelastic phase separation, to fracture phase separation. We point out that there is a physical analogy of this to the transition of the mechanical fracture behaviour of materials under shear from liquid-type, to ductile, to brittle fracture. This allows us to discuss phase separation and shear-induced instability of disordered materials including soft matter, on the same physical ground. Finally it should be noted that what we are going to describe in this article has not necessarily been firmly established and there still remain many open problems to be studied in the future.
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Busi, Kimberly, and Kristin Berman. Integration and Dynamic Adaptation in the Formation of a Novel 2e School Model. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190645472.003.0020.
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Education for twice exceptional (2e) children has proven to be a dilemma for many institutions as these children bring many complexities requiring a diverse and integrated group of professionals working together. As 2e children grow in a setting that can address their need for self-regulation, executive functioning, support of learning differences, and advanced level academics, professionals must continually assess and adapt their practices. The Quad Preparatory School has developed a model that integrates best practices from the fields of psychology, speech pathology, occupational therapy, special education, and gifted pedagogy employing instruction in a one-on-one setting adding group work when children are ready. The model uses a curriculum framework providing a context for studies in all disciplines leading to project work initiated by the strengths and interests of the students. The model has been successful in its use of dynamic adaptation to personalize the educational experience of 2e children.
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Engell, James. Coleridge and Contemplation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.003.0015.
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Chapter 14 concludes the section on metaphysics with a comprehensive and illuminating treatment of Coleridge’s philosophy as a series of processes, beings, and relations that are contemplative and yet, most fundamentally, active. Giving central place to the ‘originating Act of self-affirmation’, which has profound implications for Coleridge’s religious views and also for his philosophic thought, this essay considers Coleridge’s metaphysics and his philosophy of religion as one. Coleridge holds that the ‘Act’ links philosophy and religion so that they are inseparable. Moreover, his insistence on a series of related acts, on agency, as central to religious and philosophical thought has implications for his emphasis on the Will and the Trinity, as well as for his principle of the Lógos and what he calls the ‘Dynamic Philosophy’ and its ‘polar logic’. Coleridge may be seen as a modified Platonist, yet also something of a pragmatist, and a Trinitarian Christian.
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Moreira, Fabiano de Araujo, Michele Dalla Fontana, Tadeu Fabrício Malheiros, and Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, eds. The Water-energy-food nexus: what the Brazilian research has to say. Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Saúde Pública, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/9786588304075.
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The Food-Water-Energy (FWE) nexus represents, above all, a perspective, a way of looking at the world, the problems, the solutions, providing a view of the three main resource systems of food, water and energy, not in isolation, but as a system, with many and diverse cross-links between the subsystems. So, analytically speaking, it is a unifying concept, an antidote to the relentless pressures towards reductionism. Human society and its interactions with the natural environment form a dynamic socio-ecological system of such impressive complexity that reductionist approaches seem inevitable to make research and management on the subject viable. This development is not just an illusion - this book already presents some real examples of inter and transdisciplinary approaches, with the FWE nexus as a shared lens to better observe where problems occur and where sustainable solutions can be found.
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Germana, Michael. “Modulate, Daddy, Modulate!”. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682088.003.0005.
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Chapter 4 examines Ellison’s use of rhythm—specifically his incorporation of polyrhythms and his application of an advanced rhythmic concept called metric modulation—to express his beliefs about virtual temporalities and social change. The chapter illustrates how Ellison often places temporal constructs, including the static time of official history and the dynamic time of duration, into polyrhythmic relation in order to challenge an entrenched ideology of historical determinism. This process, and the critique that emerges from it, depend upon a related rhythmic concept, metric modulation, which creates metronomic instability within a musical composition and, in so doing, produces nodes of temporal bifurcation. Ellison’s use of polyrhythms and metric modulation are, like his ekphrastic references to the visual media examined in Chapters 2 and 3, expressions of his commitment to dynamic time and to the promotion of social changes that the actualization of hitherto virtual temporalities makes possible.
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Church, Jeffrey. Kant, Liberalism, and the Meaning of Life. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197633182.001.0001.
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Abstract This book is the first extended treatment of Kant’s understanding of the meaning of life. It focuses on his largely neglected early lectures on anthropology from the 1760s and 1770s in the crucial years leading up to his Critique of Pure Reason. These lectures feature Kant at his least metaphysical, abstract, and legalistic. Instead, in these lectures, Kant adopts a naturalistic perspective, examining the purpose of the human being as an embodied, needy creature. This book argues that for the early Kant, human nature has two conflicting ends—that of wholeness and perfection—a conflict that justifies humanity in giving itself its own moral purpose to bring harmony to our nature and meaning to our lives. It then argues that Kant’s early view of the meaning of life has important implications for understanding his political theory. Kantian liberalism has in recent years been virtually synonymous with John Rawls’ liberalism, which has been criticized for abstracting from concerns about meaning in life and from debate and contestation in democratic politics. This book argues that Kant’s liberalism involves a more dynamic and contestatory politics than Rawls’ liberalism, because of the tensions in our nature as revealed by Kant’s anthropology. In addition, Kant’s anthropology points to a perfectionist dimension in Kantian liberalism, that politics on Kant’s view is not only a framework for pursuing our own view of the good, but also a partnership that fosters a meaningful life.
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Waldmann, Carl, Neil Soni, and Andrew Rhodes. Respiratory monitoring. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199229581.003.0006.
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Pulmonary function tests in critical illness 90End-tidal CO2 monitoring 92Pulse oximetry 94Pulmonary function test results in critically ill patients can be important prognostically and guide ventilatory and weaning strategies. However, they are not straightforward to measure in mechanically ventilated patients and remain limited to dynamic volumes. Fortunately, most modern mechanical ventilators are able to calculate and display static and dynamic lung volumes, together with derived values for airway resistance, compliance and flow/volume/time curves. The ability to monitor these changes after altering ventilatory parameters has enabled more sophisticated adjustments of ventilation, to prevent potentially damaging mechanical ventilation....
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Lecours, André. Nationalism, Secessionism, and Autonomy. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192846754.001.0001.
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The strength of secessionism in liberal democracies varies in time and space. Inspired by historical institutionalism, this book argues that such variation is explained by the extent to which autonomy evolves in time. If autonomy adjusts to the changing identity, interests, and circumstances of an internal national community, nationalism is much less likely to be strongly secessionist than if autonomy is a final, unchangeable settlement. Developing a controlled comparison of, on the one hand, Catalonia and Scotland, where autonomy has been mostly static during key periods of time, and, on the other hand, Flanders and South Tyrol, where it has been dynamic, and also considering the Basque Country, Québec, and Puerto Rico as additional cases, this book puts forward an elegant theory of secessionism in liberal democracies: dynamic autonomy staves off secessionism while static autonomy stimulates it.
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Potter, Vincent G. Charles S. Peirce. Fordham University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823217090.001.0001.
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In recent years, Charles Sanders Peirce has emerged as one of America's major philosophical thinkers. His work has invited philosophical reflection about those basic issues that inevitably confront us as human beings, especially in an age of science. Peirce's concern for experience, for what is actually encountered, means that his philosophy forms a reflective commentary on actual life and on the world in which it is lived. This book argues that Peirce's doctrine of the normative sciences is essential to his pragmatism. No part of Peirce's philosophy is bolder than his attempt to establish esthetics, ethics, and logic as the three normative sciences and to argue for the priority of esthetics among the trio. The book shows that Pierce took seriously the trinity of normative sciences and demonstrates that these categories apply both to the conduct of man and to the workings of the cosmos. It combines sympathetic and informed exposition with straightforward criticism and deals with the gaps and inconsistencies in Peirce's thought. It shows that Peirce was above all a cosmological and ontological thinker, one who combined science both as a method and as result with a conception of reasonable actions to form a comprehensive theory of reality. Peirce's pragmatism, is not a glorification of action but rather a theory of the dynamic nature of things in which the “ideal” dimension of reality has genuine power for directing the cosmic order, including man, toward reasonable goals.
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McNaughton, James. Taking Them at their Word. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198822547.003.0005.
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This chapter works in two directions. First, it examines how Beckett’s artistic techniques reflect political aspiration. Beckett’s literalizing techniques—for instance, his making ironically literal, corporeal, and physical various rhetorics—partly reflect and engage a fear about political power: that authoritarian power aims to have the leader’s words enacted, something Beckett notes in Nazi Germany. Second, the chapter examines how Beckett has narrators perform the reverse: how they aim to preserve words and categories from denotations acquired by recent historical violence. In Malone Dies, the narrator seeks to contain connotations safely for aesthetic meanings that anesthetize the past. But Beckett has Malone fail. And this dynamic—where a narrator tries to neutralize violent history on the level of interpretation while sentences nevertheless have it resurface—expresses The Three Novels’ mistrust for aesthetic attempts to process trauma and dramatizes the complicity of art and language in covering up the past.
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McLynn, Neil B. The Two Gregories. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826422.003.0003.
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Eight letters from Gregory of Nazianzus, over two decades, provide our principal evidence for his relationship with Gregory of Nyssa, supplemented by an oration which the former addressed to the latter, and indications of their activities at the Council of Constantinople in 381. Though one of the better-attested relationships between major ecclesiastical authors, it has received little critical attention, no doubt because the tensions between each Gregory and Basil of Caesarea, overbearing friend to one and overbearing brother to the other, are more straightforwardly interesting. But the standard view that the two Gregories stood shoulder to shoulder throughout their careers, united by shared ascetic experience and by shared exposure to Basil’s domineering personality, has little to recommend it. In this chapter each item in the dossier of evidence for the relationship is reviewed; it is argued that these texts suggest a much more complex, boisterous, and dynamic series of interactions.
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Vanderschraaf, Peter. A Limited Leviathan. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199832194.003.0006.
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The state social contract relationship between rulers and the ruled in civil society is fruitfully understood as a governing convention. This relationship is modeled with an indefinitely repeated Humean Sovereignty game, where subjects and their sovereign maintain a governing convention by respectively obeying and providing adequate government. The ruled and their rulers maintain an implicit contract that is self-enforcing rather than an explicit contract requiring third-party enforcement. This model is motivated by the Trust problem in game theory and dynamic programming models of employment search. The governing convention idea has roots in Hume’s discussions of government. The closely allied Leadership Selection problem has roots in Hobbes’ account of commonwealth by institution. Hobbes’ original analysis fails, but his general strategy of justifying government by identifying an isomorphism between an actual regime and the regime of hypothetical choice motivates justifying democratic government via the salience of a democratic leadership convention.
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Lloyd, Howell A. Jean Bodin, ‘This Pre-eminent Man of France’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198800149.001.0001.
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This book presents the only rounded treatment of a key figure in the intellectual history of France and Europe. Jean Bodin (1529/30–1596), jurist, associate of kings and courtiers, and participant in key political events, was the author of works of lasting interest and enduring significance in the fields of political science, historical writing, witchcraft, and a great deal else besides. Best known for his contribution to formulating the modern doctrine of sovereignty, Bodin has also been credited with developing the quantity theory of money and with advocating religious toleration at a decidedly unpropitious time. Yet, while certain aspects of his thought have long attracted and continue to receive a great deal of lively attention, no attempt has been made until now to approach this challenging thinker on a broad front, to consider all his writings, major and minor, and to examine his ideas contextually and in the round. That is precisely what is offered in this deeply researched and wide-ranging study. Deploying a multilingual array of source materials, it devotes particular attention to Bodin’s own use of sources and modes of discourse in the course of analysing each of his works in turn and in considerable detail. And, beyond Bodin himself and his writings, the book sheds far-reaching light on the intellectual world of the late Renaissance writ large—a dynamic environment shaped through the interaction of multiple traditions of thought.
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Knight, David. Coleridge and Chemical Philosophy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.003.0007.
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Chapter 6 begins the section on Coleridge’s contemplative worldviews, and chronologically follows Coleridge’s lifetime fascination with medicine as its focus shifted from anatomy, the analysis of structures, towards physiology, elucidating the processes of life. He believed that all sciences should progress from a static to a dynamic worldview, making them worthy of contemplation, feeding Reason rather than just understanding. Coleridge met Humphry Davy, whose dynamical researches on laughing gas and electrochemistry delighted him. Coleridge became a critic of science as well as literature, rejoicing as Davy isolated new metals, cast light on acidity, and invented the miners’ safety lamp. But after 1820 Davy turned haughty, and Coleridge deplored chemists’ empire-building as science became a professional career; while in medicine French materialism threatened the dynamic vitalism of John Hunter that Coleridge and his host James Gillman favoured. Sadly science, once so promising, looked decreasingly suitable for his kind of philosophical contemplation.
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Lorbiecki, Marybeth. A Fierce Green Fire. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965038.001.0001.
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For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up. Since first publication, Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire has remained the classic short, inspiring biography of Leopold--the perfect companion to reading his ever popular A Sand County Almanac. Winning numerous awards, this comprehensive account of his life story is dynamic and readable, written in the context of the history of American conservation and illustrated with historic photographs. Marybeth Lorbiecki has now enriched A Fierce Green Fire in a way no other biography on Leopold has, adding numerous chapters on the ripple effects of his ideas, books, ecological vision, land ethic, and Shack, as well as of the ecological contributions of his children, graduate students, contemporary scholars, and organizations--and the wilderness lands he helped preserve. Lorbiecki weaves these stories and factual information into the biography in a compelling way that keeps both lay and academic readers engaged. In the introduction to this edition, Lorbiecki makes it clear how much better our lives are because Leopold lived and why today we so radically need what he left us to bring about paradigm shifts in our ethical, economic, and cultural thinking. Instead of losing relevance, Leopold's legacy has gained ever more necessity and traction in the face of contemporary national and world challenges, such as species loss and climate change. Even the phenological studies he started at as a hobby are proving valuable, showing the climatic shifts that have occurred at the Shack lands since the 1930s, recognized by the plants and animals.
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Hinshelwood, R. D. Projection and Introjection. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Werdie (C W. ). van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732372.013.34.
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Psychiatry straddles a medical approach to the mentally ill, and a dynamic approach to the experiences of severely disturbed people. One consequence of this is that ethical principles apply in different ways. The understanding of processes known as introjection, projection, and splitting seriously disrupt the functioning of a person and his ability to make adequate, responsible decisions. Severe mental illness can be regarded as the disruption of a moral agent, and in a sense treatment has to focus on the resumption of those functions that enable the person to take responsibility again. This chapter explores the ethics of the person’s loss of his personal functioning. Paternalism does not have a free rein, and needs to be carefully used as it supplants autonomy. Over-extended paternalistic care leads to excessive depletion of the patient, and was apparent in the old mental hospital as it still is in contemporary community care as specific organizational dynamics.
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Sen, Amiya P. Chaitanya. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199493838.001.0001.
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This is a short yet critical biography of a major religious figure from Hindu Bengal, Krishna Chaitanya (1486–1533), based on extant hagiographical sources from medieval Bengal as also recent scholarly studies. It relies on both Bengali and English language sources, creating a dialogic and dynamic relationship between the two. The book primarily addresses graduate students and interested general readers in an easily accessible and intelligible manner, without taking recourse to copious notes and citations. The intention of this project was to produce a narrative that was both gripping and enjoyable. However, there is also ample material in this book that will interest and motivate the researcher as well. A significant part of this work is a critical evaluation of just how Chaitanya has been perceived and understood after his time, particularly in colonial Bengal where he has come to assume the place of an iconic figure. Interested readers will find the painstakingly compiled appendices quite useful.
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Mody, Sujata S. The Making of Modern Hindi. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489091.001.0001.
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The Making of Modern Hindi examines the politics and processes of making Hindi modern at a formative moment in India’s history, when British imperialism was at its peak and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. It centres on the figure of Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (1864-1938), an enterprising and contentious Hindi litterateur, and his project of constructing Hindi as a national language with a modern literature in the early twentieth century. Dwivedi’s unprecedented multimedia literary campaign as long-time editor of the Hindi journal Sarasvatī paved the way for Hindi’s progress into the modern era. This study casts new light on Dwivedi as an innovative and dynamic arbiter of literary modernity. He advanced his agenda by exploring the collaborative potential of art and literature, a critical element in national language and literary reform that has received little attention in other studies. This book also considers tensions between the editor and others in his realm of influence. His project sparked contest amongst a range of authorities who participated alongside Dwivedi in constructing Hindi modernity. Despite a common enthusiasm for Hindi, they challenged some aspects of his endeavour, based on their differing agendas and perspectives. Dwivedi’s responses to their challenges were pragmatic and strategically varied.
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Forst, Rainer. One Court and Many Cultures. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198798873.003.0007.
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This chapter considers the conflicts presided over by constitutional courts in multicultural societies or in societies undergoing cultural change. In making their decisions, constitutional courts find themselves in a special situation, because controversies over the basic understanding of the political community are refracted in the conflicts ruled upon in constitutional cases like in a prism. A peculiar dynamic of the constitutional state also becomes apparent: its basic principles sometimes require that the existing constitution of social life be rethought from the ground up. The chapter illustrates this point through a case study of the German Federal Constitutional Court. Throughout its history, this court has been at the center of the abovementioned dynamic, so that at times it is drawn into a maelstrom of decentering that exposes those involved to a severe test.
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Roberts, Simon. Articular cartilage. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199533909.003.0005.
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Synovial joints allow the efficient and controlled movement necessary for sport with a biological shock-absorbing bearing of hyaline cartilage. This is an extremely low friction surface, with a coefficient of one-sixth of that of ice on ice, lower than most man-made bearing materials. It has viscoelastic properties allowing dynamic congruity and minimization of transmitted pressure and impact....
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Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann, Anna D. Antoni A. Paryski. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039096.003.0002.
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This chapter traces Paryski's years in Poland and the influences which shaped him as a person, including the ideals of Polish Positivism, as well as motivations for his departure from Poland. It follows Paryski through his turbulent and surprising early years in America, during his search for employment and development of his views regarding labor unions, socialism, and politics in the United States. The chapter closes with Paryski establishing his publishing empire, complete with Ameryka-Echo. Paryski's years in Poland, and his first steps in the United States and in Polonia in the tumultuous decades of the 1880s and 1890s, revealed a personality that some might describe as thoroughly American: independent, driven by ambition, hard-working and risk-taking, dynamic, optimistic, resourceful, and confident.