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I, Robot: You Gotta Have Heart, Richard C. Trussell

Journal of Religion & Film

I Robot is a rousing sci-fi action story which explores Artificial Intelligence and its consequences. Deep philosophical themes abound, such as existential crisis and identity-defining choice, the nature of personhood, purpose in life, cognition and mental interpretive structures, faith vs. reason, divine command theory, and freedom vs. determinism. It also brims with biblical symbolism, including the fall, messianic figures, the exodus from bondage, theophany, ambiguity of the feminine, sacrificial death and the trinity. Finally it is about personal and collective redemption, making a clear statement about the heart and emotions as the seat of will, faith, and morality.

Machine Design Considerations For The Future Energy Challenge, Jonathan W. Kimball, Marco Amrhein

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Motors consume a significant fraction of electricity in the United States and in the world. As part of the International Future Energy Challenge, student teams are endeavoring to improve the efficiency of fractional-horsepower machines. The present work summarizes the motor design and construction process for a 500 W prototype induction machine targeting efficiency above 80%. Analytical and finite-element results are shown.

The Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter, Vol. 14, No. 1, The Sinclair Lewis Society

Sinclair Lewis Society Newsletter

“Society Sponsors Third Lewis Conference in Sauk Centre,” by Robert L. McLaughlin, Illinois State University

“Erumaa Gantorii,” by Rusty Allred (discussion of Japanese translation of Elmer Gantry)

“The German Translator of It Can’t Happen Here,” by Frederick Betz, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

“The Lorinda Mystique,” by Mary Krones, Illinois State University (about women in It Can’t Happen Here)

“On a First Name Basis,” by Michael Carroll Dooling (a friendship that Lewis shared with E. Robert Stevenson)

“Clearing the Smoke: Babbitt’s ‘Curious Inscription,'” by Michael Carroll Dooling

Fact Book 2005, Planning, Research, And Policy Analysis

Fact Book (1988-2019)

Fact Book 2005 for Illinois State University

Achievement Of Judicial Effectiveness Through Limits On Judicial Independence: A Comparative Approach, Jessica Conser

North Carolina Journal of International Law

No abstract provided.

The Patriot, V. 02, N. 02, Stony Brook University. Patriot.

The Patriot

v.: ill.; 32 cm (original analog pub.)

Cahe Outcomes Calculator: An Allied Health Initiative To Improve Practice, Karen Grimmer, Andrea Bialocerkowski, Steven Milanese, Saravana Kumar, Barrie Mulley, Yamini Deenadayalan, Patricia Neumann, Lauren Dryden, Trisha Maddison, Susan Hiller

Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice

This paper reports on the process of developing a low-cost initiative for therapists to assist in the collection and evaluation of information on outcome of care, using a selection of standard health outcome measures. An episode of care approach has been taken, in which repeated measures of outcome can be collected whenever the patient presents for treatment for a specific condition. The MS Access-based software is available for download free of charge on the website of the Centre for Allied Health Evidence, University of South Australia (CAHE Outcomes Calculator). The calculator currently incorporates common measures of outcome for musculoskeletal problems, …

Using Sociocultural Theory To Guide Teacher Use And Integration Of Instructional Technology In Two Professional Development Schools, Joan Whipp, Ellen Eckman, Leigh A. Van Den Kieboom

College of Education Faculty Research and Publications

This article demonstrates how sociocultural theories can be used to support strategic structuring of professional development activities for preservice and practicing teachers on technology use and integration. Examples are drawn from the authors' experiences with teachers in two professional development schools that participated in a four-year Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers in Technology (PT³) project. After a review of sociocultural theory and their context, the authors describe three "activity systems" in these schools: one for practicing teachers, one for preservice teachers, and a joint preservice/practicing teacher system. Important supports for use and integration of technology built into each of these …

Ten Commandments, Nine Judges, And Five Versions Of One Amendment - The First. ("Now What?"), William W. Van Alstyne

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

The Supreme Court And The Ten Commandments: Compounding The Establishment Clause Confusion, Jay A. Sekulow, Francis J. Manion

William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal

No abstract provided.

Moral Responsiveness And Discontinuity In Therapy: A Qualitative Study, Jason B. Whiting Phd, R. Scott Nebeker, Stephen T. Fife

Faculty Publications

Phenomenological qualitative methods were used to identify and describe moral elements in therapeutic relationships. Using the relational philosophy of E. Levinas (1961/1969, 1979/1987) as a base, data in which therapists and clients identified and described morally responsive experiences in therapy sessions were analyzed. These moments were often unexpected and included categories of surprise, interruption, willingness to change, and clarifications/repairs. Additional moral phenomena related to therapists' attitudes included asymmetrical indebtedness, attitude of serving, and tentativeness of diagnosis. Identified moments of moral responsiveness were frequently associated with clients' progress in therapy. This suggests that conceptually smooth and uninterrupted therapy may be less …

Application Of Information-Theoretic Data Mining Techniques In A National Ambulatory Practice Outcomes Research Network, Adam Wright, Thomas N. Ricciardi, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

The Medical Quality Improvement Consortium data warehouse contains de-identified data on more than 3.6 million patients including their problem lists, test results, procedures and medication lists. This study uses reconstructability analysis, an information-theoretic data mining technique, on the MQIC data warehouse to empirically identify risk factors for various complications of diabetes including myocardial infarction and microalbuminuria. The risk factors identified match those risk factors identified in the literature, demonstrating the utility of the MQIC data warehouse for outcomes research, and RA as a technique for mining clinical data warehouses.

Ordering Genetic Algorithm Genomes With Reconstructability Analysis: Discrete Models, Stephen Shervais, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

The building block hypothesis implies that genetic algorithm effectiveness is influenced by the relative location of epistatic genes on the chromosome. We demonstrate this with a discrete-valued problem, based on Kauffman’s NK model, and show that information-theoretic reconstructability analysis can be used to decide on optimal gene ordering.

Acoustic And Spectral Characteristics Of Young Children's Fricative Productions: A Developmental Perspective, Shawn L. Nissen, Robert Allen Fox

Faculty Publications

Scientists have made great strides toward understanding the mechanisms of speech production and perception. However, the complex relationships between the acoustic structures of speech and the resulting psychological percepts have yet to be fully and adequately explained, especially in speech produced by younger children. Thus, this study examined the acoustic structure of voiceless fricatives (/f, θ, s, ʃ/) produced by adults and typically developing children from 3 to 6 years of age in terms of multiple acoustic parameters (durations, normalized amplitude, spectral slope, and spectral moments). It was found the acoustic parameters of spectral slope and variance (commonly excluded from …

2005 October, Office Of Communications & Marketing, Morehead State University.

Morehead State Press Release Archive, 1961 to the Present

Press releases for October 2005.

The Historical Amendability Of The American Constitution: Speculations On An Empirical Problematic, Darren R. Latham

American University Law Review

No abstract provided.

Openline Newsletter, October 2005, Civil Service Council

OpenLine Newsletter

A monthly newsletter for Civil Service employees, Volume XXX, Number 4, October 2005.

The Property Status Of Fishing Licences, David G. Henley

Dalhousie Law Journal

The property status of a fishing licence has for a long time been undecided. The judicial decisions have varied significantly on whether a fishing licence is property at common law or pursuant to various statutory definitions. The significance ofthe issue lies primarily in the financial arena. It is most often the case that the preponderance of the value in a fishing enterprise lies with the fishing licence rather than in the vessel. It is not uncommon for a lobster licence to approach one million dollars in value.' When quota is allocated to groundfish licences, the value of the package can …

Compendium: Recent Graduate Student Dissertation And Thesis Abstracts, Editors Of Osgoode Hall Law Journal

Osgoode Hall Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Improving Pro Forma Analysis Through Better Terminal Value Estimates, Tom Arnold, David S. North, Roy A. Wiggins

Finance Faculty Publications

Basic pro forma analysis often estimates the terminal value input using a simple growing perpetuity assumption. While this assumption is easy to implement, it potentially creates an upward bias in some inputs leading to lower firm or project value outputs. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate a more accurate way to estimate the terminal value input. Further, by allowing for multiple sales growth rates and by not restricting other input variables to necessarily grow at these same rates, a more accurate, flexible, compact, and thorough analysis is possible.

Calibration Of The Structural Model Of Corporate Bond Spreads, Lerner Peter, Chunchi Wu

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

No abstract provided.

The Enterprise Model Of Managing Conflicts Of Interest In The Tripartite Insurance Defense Relationship, Aviva Abramovsky

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Whose Ownership? Which Society?, Robert Hockett

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Initial Interest Confusion: Standing At The Crossroads Of Trademark Law, Jennifer E. Rothman

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue: A New Tradition In Nontraditional Trademark Registrations, Melissa E. Roth

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, And Asymmetric Warfare, Max G. Manwaring Dr.

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

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Military Review translated this study to Spanish. View the translated study. The author answers questions regarding "Who is Hugo Chavez?" "How can the innumerable charges and countercharges between the Venezuelan and U.S. governments be interpreted?" "What are the implications for democracy and stability in Latin America?" In an attempt to answer these and related questions, the analysis centers on the contemporary geopolitical conflict context of current Venezuelan "Bolivarian" (bolivarianismo) policy. To accomplish this, a basic understanding of the political-historical context within which Venezuelan national security policy is generated is an essential first step toward understanding the situation …

Close Calls, Jeffrey G. Hanna

Illinois Wesleyan University Magazine, 2002-2017

With a toss of his flag, field judge Doug Rosenbaum ’80 keeps NFL teams playing by the rules.

Samats: Edge Highlighting And Intersection Rating Explained, Joe Hegarty, James Carswell

Conference papers

The creation of detailed 3D buildings models, and to a greater extent the creation of entire city models, has become an area of considerable research over the last couple of decades. The accurate modeling of buildings has LBS (Location Based Services) applications in entertainment, planning, tourism and e-commerce to name just a few. Many modeling systems created to date require manual correspondences to be made across the image set in order to determine the models 3D structure. This paper describes SAMATS, a Semi-Automated Modeling And Texturing System, which has the capability of producing geometrically accurate and photorealistic building models without …

Relativistic Electron Correlation, Quantum Electrodynamics, And The Lifetime Of The 1s²2s²2p²PO3/2 Level In Boronlike Argon, Alain Lapierre, Ulrich D. Jentschura, Jose R. Crespo Lopez-Urrutia, Jean Pierre Braun, Gunter Brenner, Hjalmar Bruhns, Daniel A. Fischer, Antonio J. Gonzalez, Zoltan Harman, Walter Johnson, Christoph H. Keitel, Vladimir Sergeyevich Mironov, C. J. Osborne, Guenther Sikler, R. Soria Orts, Vladimir M. Shabaev, Hiroyuki Tawara, I. I. Tupitsyn, Joachim Hermann Ullrich, Andrey V. Volotka

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

The lifetime of the Ar¹³⁺ 1s²2s²2p²P^o_3/2 metastable level was determined at the Heidelberg Electron Beam Ion Trap to be 9.573(4)(5)ms(stat)(syst). The accuracy level of one per thousand makes this measurement sensitive to quantum electrodynamic effects like the electron anomalous magnetic moment (EAMM) and to relativistic electron-electron correlation effects like the frequency-dependent Breit interaction. Theoretical predictions, adjusted for the EAMM, cluster about a lifetime that is approximately 3σ shorter than our experimental result.

Renormalization-Group Analysis Of Layered Sine-Gordon Type Models, I. Nandori, Sandor Alex Nagy, Kornel Sailer, Ulrich D. Jentschura

Physics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We analyze the phase structure and the renormalization group (RG) flow of the generalized sine-Gordon models with nonvanishing mass terms, using the Wegner-Houghton RG method in the local potential approximation. Particular emphasis is laid upon the layered sine-Gordon (LSG) model, which is the bosonized version of the multi-flavour Schwinger model and approaches the sum of two "normal", massless sine-Gordon (SG) models in the limit of a vanishing interlayer coupling J. Another model of interest is the massive sine-Gordon (MSG) model. The leading-order approximation to the UV (ultraviolet) RG flow predicts two phases for the LSG as well as for the …