The usefulness of Marxism and Critical Theory to International RelationsOwen Bell
Outlines Marxism and Critical Theory as frameworks used to understand relations between states. Assess the extent to which the liberal international order can be understood as a capitalist construct.
Executive Perspective with Tony DiBenedetto, Tribridge CEOLLR Partners
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The usefulness of Marxism and Critical Theory to International RelationsOwen Bell
Outlines Marxism and Critical Theory as frameworks used to understand relations between states. Assess the extent to which the liberal international order can be understood as a capitalist construct.
Executive Perspective with Tony DiBenedetto, Tribridge CEOLLR Partners
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Good day. Welcome to self-reflection!
Goodness is innate in humans - however, the daily grind leaves little time for us to relate with it / our own self. This self-reflection is an attempt to connect with oneself, and being aware of one’s connect with society and nature. The incidents / anecdotes / situations and the questions that follow, are to help the process - kindly fill-in the response boxes with your thoughts (for each of the posers) and feel free to save them for future reference / reflections.
Thank you-
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Goodness is innate in humans - however, the daily grind leaves little time for us to relate with it / our own self. This self-reflection is an attempt to connect with oneself, and being aware of one’s connect with society and nature. The incidents / anecdotes / situations and the questions that follow, are to help the process - kindly fill-in the response boxes with your thoughts (for each of the posers) and feel free to save them for future reference / reflections.
All things should be looked at from the perspective of behaviour.
And it doesn’t matter what is going on in the mind, it just matters what the behaviour
So there is no difference in the behaviourist mind between external behaviour and internal thoughts.
Ivan Pavlov
Edward Lee Thorndike
John B. Watson
B.F. Skinner
Good day. Welcome to self-reflection!
Goodness is innate in humans - however, the daily grind leaves little time for us to relate with it / our own self. This self-reflection is an attempt to connect with oneself, and being aware of one’s connect with society and nature. The incidents / anecdotes / situations and the questions that follow, are to help the process - kindly fill-in the response boxes with your thoughts (for each of the posers) and feel free to save them for future reference / reflections.
Thank you-
www.vset.org
Goodness is innate in humans - however, the daily grind leaves little time for us to relate with it / our own self. This self-reflection is an attempt to connect with oneself, and being aware of one’s connect with society and nature. The incidents / anecdotes / situations and the questions that follow, are to help the process - kindly fill-in the response boxes with your thoughts (for each of the posers) and feel free to save them for future reference / reflections.
All things should be looked at from the perspective of behaviour.
And it doesn’t matter what is going on in the mind, it just matters what the behaviour
So there is no difference in the behaviourist mind between external behaviour and internal thoughts.
Ivan Pavlov
Edward Lee Thorndike
John B. Watson
B.F. Skinner
The following lecture - given at the Colombo Institute for Research and Psychology - covers an introduction to behaviorism, key thinkers, an introduction to classical conditioning, key mechanisms in classical conditioning and some applications including conditioned emotion and drug response.
Introductory Psychology: Learning Part II (Operant)Brian Piper
lecture 19 from a college level introduction to psychology course taught Fall 2011 by Brian J. Piper, Ph.D. (psy391@gmail.com) at Willamette University, operant conditioning
Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and contexts have consistently demonstrated that setting specific, challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance.
This presentation explores a brief idea about the structural and functional attributes of nucleotides, the structure and function of genetic materials along with the impact of UV rays and pH upon them.
ANAMOLOUS SECONDARY GROWTH IN DICOT ROOTS.pptxRASHMI M G
Abnormal or anomalous secondary growth in plants. It defines secondary growth as an increase in plant girth due to vascular cambium or cork cambium. Anomalous secondary growth does not follow the normal pattern of a single vascular cambium producing xylem internally and phloem externally.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Earliest Galaxies in the JADES Origins Field: Luminosity Function and Cosmic ...Sérgio Sacani
We characterize the earliest galaxy population in the JADES Origins Field (JOF), the deepest
imaging field observed with JWST. We make use of the ancillary Hubble optical images (5 filters
spanning 0.4−0.9µm) and novel JWST images with 14 filters spanning 0.8−5µm, including 7 mediumband filters, and reaching total exposure times of up to 46 hours per filter. We combine all our data
at > 2.3µm to construct an ultradeep image, reaching as deep as ≈ 31.4 AB mag in the stack and
30.3-31.0 AB mag (5σ, r = 0.1” circular aperture) in individual filters. We measure photometric
redshifts and use robust selection criteria to identify a sample of eight galaxy candidates at redshifts
z = 11.5 − 15. These objects show compact half-light radii of R1/2 ∼ 50 − 200pc, stellar masses of
M⋆ ∼ 107−108M⊙, and star-formation rates of SFR ∼ 0.1−1 M⊙ yr−1
. Our search finds no candidates
at 15 < z < 20, placing upper limits at these redshifts. We develop a forward modeling approach to
infer the properties of the evolving luminosity function without binning in redshift or luminosity that
marginalizes over the photometric redshift uncertainty of our candidate galaxies and incorporates the
impact of non-detections. We find a z = 12 luminosity function in good agreement with prior results,
and that the luminosity function normalization and UV luminosity density decline by a factor of ∼ 2.5
from z = 12 to z = 14. We discuss the possible implications of our results in the context of theoretical
models for evolution of the dark matter halo mass function.
What is greenhouse gasses and how many gasses are there to affect the Earth.moosaasad1975
What are greenhouse gasses how they affect the earth and its environment what is the future of the environment and earth how the weather and the climate effects.
Phenomics assisted breeding in crop improvementIshaGoswami9
As the population is increasing and will reach about 9 billion upto 2050. Also due to climate change, it is difficult to meet the food requirement of such a large population. Facing the challenges presented by resource shortages, climate
change, and increasing global population, crop yield and quality need to be improved in a sustainable way over the coming decades. Genetic improvement by breeding is the best way to increase crop productivity. With the rapid progression of functional
genomics, an increasing number of crop genomes have been sequenced and dozens of genes influencing key agronomic traits have been identified. However, current genome sequence information has not been adequately exploited for understanding
the complex characteristics of multiple gene, owing to a lack of crop phenotypic data. Efficient, automatic, and accurate technologies and platforms that can capture phenotypic data that can
be linked to genomics information for crop improvement at all growth stages have become as important as genotyping. Thus,
high-throughput phenotyping has become the major bottleneck restricting crop breeding. Plant phenomics has been defined as the high-throughput, accurate acquisition and analysis of multi-dimensional phenotypes
during crop growing stages at the organism level, including the cell, tissue, organ, individual plant, plot, and field levels. With the rapid development of novel sensors, imaging technology,
and analysis methods, numerous infrastructure platforms have been developed for phenotyping.
The ability to recreate computational results with minimal effort and actionable metrics provides a solid foundation for scientific research and software development. When people can replicate an analysis at the touch of a button using open-source software, open data, and methods to assess and compare proposals, it significantly eases verification of results, engagement with a diverse range of contributors, and progress. However, we have yet to fully achieve this; there are still many sociotechnical frictions.
Inspired by David Donoho's vision, this talk aims to revisit the three crucial pillars of frictionless reproducibility (data sharing, code sharing, and competitive challenges) with the perspective of deep software variability.
Our observation is that multiple layers — hardware, operating systems, third-party libraries, software versions, input data, compile-time options, and parameters — are subject to variability that exacerbates frictions but is also essential for achieving robust, generalizable results and fostering innovation. I will first review the literature, providing evidence of how the complex variability interactions across these layers affect qualitative and quantitative software properties, thereby complicating the reproduction and replication of scientific studies in various fields.
I will then present some software engineering and AI techniques that can support the strategic exploration of variability spaces. These include the use of abstractions and models (e.g., feature models), sampling strategies (e.g., uniform, random), cost-effective measurements (e.g., incremental build of software configurations), and dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., transfer learning, feature selection, software debloating).
I will finally argue that deep variability is both the problem and solution of frictionless reproducibility, calling the software science community to develop new methods and tools to manage variability and foster reproducibility in software systems.
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ISI 2024: Application Form (Extended), Exam Date (Out), EligibilitySciAstra
The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) has extended its application deadline for 2024 admissions to April 2. Known for its excellence in statistics and related fields, ISI offers a range of programs from Bachelor's to Junior Research Fellowships. The admission test is scheduled for May 12, 2024. Eligibility varies by program, generally requiring a background in Mathematics and English for undergraduate courses and specific degrees for postgraduate and research positions. Application fees are ₹1500 for male general category applicants and ₹1000 for females. Applications are open to Indian and OCI candidates.
The use of Nauplii and metanauplii artemia in aquaculture (brine shrimp).pptxMAGOTI ERNEST
Although Artemia has been known to man for centuries, its use as a food for the culture of larval organisms apparently began only in the 1930s, when several investigators found that it made an excellent food for newly hatched fish larvae (Litvinenko et al., 2023). As aquaculture developed in the 1960s and ‘70s, the use of Artemia also became more widespread, due both to its convenience and to its nutritional value for larval organisms (Arenas-Pardo et al., 2024). The fact that Artemia dormant cysts can be stored for long periods in cans, and then used as an off-the-shelf food requiring only 24 h of incubation makes them the most convenient, least labor-intensive, live food available for aquaculture (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021). The nutritional value of Artemia, especially for marine organisms, is not constant, but varies both geographically and temporally. During the last decade, however, both the causes of Artemia nutritional variability and methods to improve poorquality Artemia have been identified (Loufi et al., 2024).
Brine shrimp (Artemia spp.) are used in marine aquaculture worldwide. Annually, more than 2,000 metric tons of dry cysts are used for cultivation of fish, crustacean, and shellfish larva. Brine shrimp are important to aquaculture because newly hatched brine shrimp nauplii (larvae) provide a food source for many fish fry (Mozanzadeh et al., 2021). Culture and harvesting of brine shrimp eggs represents another aspect of the aquaculture industry. Nauplii and metanauplii of Artemia, commonly known as brine shrimp, play a crucial role in aquaculture due to their nutritional value and suitability as live feed for many aquatic species, particularly in larval stages (Sorgeloos & Roubach, 2021).
Toxic effects of heavy metals : Lead and Arsenicsanjana502982
Heavy metals are naturally occuring metallic chemical elements that have relatively high density, and are toxic at even low concentrations. All toxic metals are termed as heavy metals irrespective of their atomic mass and density, eg. arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, thallium, chromium, etc.
Comparing Evolved Extractive Text Summary Scores of Bidirectional Encoder Rep...University of Maribor
Slides from:
11th International Conference on Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (IcETRAN), Niš, 3-6 June 2024
Track: Artificial Intelligence
https://www.etran.rs/2024/en/home-english/
hematic appreciation test is a psychological assessment tool used to measure an individual's appreciation and understanding of specific themes or topics. This test helps to evaluate an individual's ability to connect different ideas and concepts within a given theme, as well as their overall comprehension and interpretation skills. The results of the test can provide valuable insights into an individual's cognitive abilities, creativity, and critical thinking skills
2. Important Events in Behaviorism
1. 1863 - Ivan Sechenov's Reflexes of the Brain was published. Sechenov
introduced the concept of inhibitory responses in the central nervous system.
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3. 1913 - John Watson's Psychology as a Behaviorist Views It was published. The
article outlined the many of the main points of behaviorism.
4. 1920 - Watson and assistant Rosalie Rayner conducted the famous "Little
Albert" experiment.
5. 1943 - Clark Hull's Principles of Behavior was published.
6. 1948 - B.F. Skinner published Walden II in which he described a utopian
society foundssed upon behaviorist principles.
7. 1959 - Noam Chomsky published his criticism of Skinner's behaviorism,
"Review of Verbal Behavior."
8. 1971 - B.F. Skinner published his book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, in which
he argued that free will is an illusion.
3. 3 basic ideas about learning are:
1. Conditioning:
(pavlov and the dribbling dogs).learning is
seen as a question of developing
connections(known as stimulus response
bonds) between events.
2. Habit formation:
(skinner and the sporty pigeons):
3. Importance of environment:
(writing on a clean slate)
4. Behaviorism can perhaps be best summed up by the
following quote from the famous psychologist John
B. Watson:
"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and
my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll
guarantee to take any one at random and train him
to become any type of specialist I might select --
doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even
beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents,
penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race
of his ancestors."
5. There are two major types of
conditioning:
1.Classical conditioning is a technique
used in behavioral training in which a naturally
occurring stimulus is paired with a response.
Next, a previously neutral stimulus is paired with
the naturally occurring stimulus. Eventually, the
previously neutral stimulus comes to evoke the
response without the presence of the naturally
occurring stimulus. The two elements are then
known as the conditioned stimulus and
the conditioned response.
6. conditionings
2.Operant conditioning Operant
conditioning (sometimes referred to as
instrumental conditioning) is a method
of learning that occurs through rewards
and punishments for behavior. Through
operant conditioning, an association is
made between a behavior and a
consequence for that behavior.
1959 - Noam Chomsky published his criticism
of Skinner's behaviorism, "Review of Verbal
Behavior."
7. conclusion
• While behaviorism is not as dominant
today as it was during the middle of
the 20th-century, it still remains an
influential force in psychology.
Outside of psychology, animal
trainers, parents, teachers, and
many others make use of basic
behavioral principles to help teach
new behaviors and discourage
unwanted ones.