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Review of Kevin Decker and Jeffery Ewing, Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am. Oxford
Jared Call
Jan 07, 2020
The movie Alien first hit the box office in the spring of 1979, and it was met with critical acclaim; in 2008, it ranked seventh best film in the science fiction genre by the American Film Institute. The chestburster scene is...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Framework for Additive Manufacturing Technology Selection
Additive manufacturing is a popular emerging technology of producing parts directly from digital models. This technology has presented benefits such as freedom of design, the ability to customise, and shortened process chains....
Published by: IGI Global
Assembling the Meaning of Probability
My positioning focuses on the meaning of a single word, probability. As in the prior exercise,1 my tasks are to (i) make explicit, to talk about, that which I am capable of talking about; (ii) to identify that which I am not...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Doing Mad Studies
Richard A. Ingram
Dec 29, 2016
I am the person who is credited with having coined the term Mad Studies; here I explore how this new concept took shape.
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Gedenkwort von 1991 für Ludwig Landgrebe
Klaus Held
Apr 27, 2021
Nach dem Tod von Ludwig Landgrebe am 14. August 1991 fand eine Wochespäter in seinem Wohnort Bergisch-Gladbach (nahe der Stadt Köln, an derenUniversität er gelehrt hatte) am 22. August ein Trauergottesdienst statt. DieFamilie...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dialectic and the Emergence of Explicit Metaphysics
David Oyler
Feb 24, 2020
I am going to sketch the personal role of dialectic in the emergence of explicit metaphysics. Of necessity, it is a sketch since a full account would require more than an essay. If we consider the full sweep of Lonergan’s views...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Architecture of the biofilm-associated archaic Chaperone-Usher pilus CupE from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Jan Böhning, Adrian W Dobbelstein, Nina Sulkowski, Kira Eilers, Andriko von Kügelgen, Abul K Tarafder, Sew-Yeu Peak-Chew, Mark Skehel, Vikram Alva, Alain Filloux, Tanmay AM Bharat
Apr 14, 2023
Moving Towards JMDA Volume 14
Philip McShane
Dec 10, 2020
I note at this get-go that I am writing to those who are participating in the scramble for new controls of meaning that is to be this volume. Perhaps it, and its pressures towards the effective engineering, will reach others....
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
How the Heritage of Postcolonial Studies Thinks Colonialism Today
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Nov 11, 2021
I have been asked to write on the heritage of postcolonial studies. I separated myself from postcolonial studies in A Critique of Postcolonial Reason, published in 1999. I am still separated from it. But “separation” is, of...
postcolonialism; politics; Marxism; anthropology; colonization; colonialism; Gayatri Spivak; politics; sociology; literature; postcolonialism; colonial studies; postcolonialism; politics; Marxism; anthropology; colonization; colonialism; Gayatri Spivak; politics; sociology; literature; postcolonialism; colonial studies; postcolonialism; politics; Marxism; anthropology; colonization; colonialism; Gayatri Spivak; politics; sociology; literature; postcolonialism; colonial studies;
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Effect of Preventive Maintenance on Machine Reliability in a Beverage Packaging Plant
This paper investigates the effect of preventive maintenance on the reliabilities of devices in a bottling plant. Six months of real-time maintenance data were analyzed quantitatively. Based on the breakdown events obtained for...
Published by: IGI Global
THE ELEMENT OF VOCAL DISGUISE IN SOCIOPHONETIC DECEPTION
Brittany Sobol
Sep 21, 2015
This paper is a report on my current findings within my M.A. (Linguistics) research, which focuses on vocal disguise within forensic linguistics. Specifically, I aim to answer the question of what individuals are most likely to...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
A Positioning
Frank Braio
Feb 24, 2020
Rather than getting into the spread of components in my own positioning, I want to pick up on a point made by Phil McShane in a communication sent Saturday, November 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM to: ‘lonergan_l @skipperweb.org’—re ...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Idea of God
Peter Harris
Feb 05, 2018
In this paper I intend to look at a debate arising in the early Middle Ageswhich focused on the divine names. The topic was so formulated in the 6thcentury by the writer who came to be known as the “pseudo-Dionysius” who wasin...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Topic Sensitive User Clustering Using Sentiment Score and Similarity Measures
Social media data (SMD) is driven by statistical and analytical technologies to obtain information for various decisions. SMD is vast and evolutionary in nature which makes traditional data warehouses ill suited. The research...
Published by: IGI Global
Professional for a Day
Rosalynd Smith
Nov 19, 2013
This paper deals with a kind of music-making that is in a sense quite commonplace. Most large cities and many smaller ones have choirs of the kind I have referred to as symphonic choirs, and which are sometimes called...
Published by: Faculty of Education
Ludwig Landgrebe’s Phenomenology of Moods
Ignacio Quepons
Apr 21, 2021
In a letter dated February 5, 1933, Husserl shares his disagreements over anattempt to connect the notion of the horizon with the Heideggerian philosophy ofmoods with Landgrebe. Husserl claims that for him, moods are founded in...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Jaywalking Through Intersectionalities
Gerald A. J. de Montigny
Dec 23, 2016
Social workers, especially those who call for anti-oppressive practice, have embraced and promoted an analysis of intersectionality or the interlocking of oppression. These proponents view their work as critical, postmodern...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Uvvatuq Naluallangniaqtugut (I Humbly Hope We Run Into Game)
Uvvatuq naluallangniaqtugut (I humbly hope we run into game) is a phrase an Iñupiaq person would say before going out hunting in the Selawik dialect. We believe all things have a spirit, including animals. If a hunter announces...
Published by: The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis
The Missing Dimension
George Tibbetts
Nov 19, 2013
A story that has become part of musical folklore telIs of the rehearsal of a Beethoven piano concerto by the pianist Artur Schnabel and the conductor Qtto von Klemperer. As Klemperer was conducting the orchestra, he noticed...
Published by: Faculty of Education
My Entire Life is Online
Anne O'Connell
Feb 02, 2016
Research protocols require that informed consent is secured before a project is underway. In the collision of online and offline worlds, researchers continue to offer research participants forms of confidentiality and privacy...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Eclectic System in Cousin and Schelling
Daniel Whistler
Aug 29, 2018
On 29 June 1832, Victor Cousin announced to F.W.J. Schelling, “In a few days, I will send you a new edition of my Fragments with an introduction that speaks much of you. It is one of the most important things I have written and...
Published by: Memorial University Libraries
“MacIntyre and Lonergan” Revisited
James Duffy
Feb 24, 2020
In the fall of 1999, I drafted two essays for the annual meeting of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (ACPA), which took place in St. Paul, Minnesota during the first week of November 1999. The essay that I...
Published by: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Variation Across Three Generations in Australian English
Minna Korhonen
Sep 26, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to show how present-day Australian English (henceforth AusE) usages vary with regard to certain linguistic features that have been reported to differ in their usage in British English (BrE) and...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
Geolinguistic Patterns in a Vast Speech Community
J. K. Chambers
Sep 26, 2014
The Dialect Topography of Canada has reached a kind of plateau. After ten years of data-gathering, from 1992 to 2002, we have assembled large databases on language variants in regions across Canada. The databases are accessible...
Published by: Atlantic Provinces Linguistic Association
An Approach in Big Data Analytics to Improve the Velocity of Unstructured Data Using MapReduce
Big Data Analytics is an innovative approach for extracting the data from a huge volume of data warehouse systems. It reveals the method to compress the high volume of data into clusters by MapReduce and HDFS. However, the data...
Published by: IGI Global
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