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After a vehicle ran a red light in the 6800 block of Platt Ave in West Hills, it collided with a truck driven by a 79-year-old, Mr. Dennis Platt. Mr Platt was ejected from his truck onto the asphalt with such force, he suffered severe head trauma, countless fractures, and went into cardiac arrest.
At this very moment, LAFD Fire Cadet Leo Kaufman was driving by and witnessed the accident. Leo instinctively pull over and jumped out of his vehicle into a chaotic scene. He quickly evaluated his surroundings and noticed a crowd standing around a patient that was face down, bloody, and severely injured. Bystanders stood by in shock, not knowing what to do. It was clear to Leo that if no action was taken, the patient would not survive.
Fortunately, Leo knew exactly what to do thanks to his LAFD Cadet Program CPR training. He relied on his training and rolled the trauma patient onto his back, initiating life-saving CPR. Despite some vocal people in the crowd second guessing his actions and contradicting his life-saving efforts, Cadet Kaufman worked relentlessly, performing chest compressions and circulating oxygen to the brain and heart of Mr. Platt. He did not know if his actions were going to be effective but he did know it was the only way to give this patient a chance at life.
Meanwhile, your LAFD firefighters were rushing to this scene with lights and sirens. As elite medical professionals they immediately rendered scene-safety, took over medical aid, quickly triaged, treated, and transported the patient to Kaiser hospital where a team of skilled healthcare workers took over.
Mr. Platt sustained very serious injuries which are too gruesome to share in detail but it was clear, his prognosis was not promising. Mr. Platt and his wife were told he should expect to be a quadriplegic, reliant on a wheelchair for the rest of his life. However, he regained full cognition (with mild memory loss) and is able to walk assisted (mechanical and human). His incredible rehabilitation and recovery at Kaiser Hospital is a story for another time.
This incident serves as a powerful example of the importance of Bystander CPR and the Chain of Survival. The "Chain of Survival" is a metaphor used to educate the public about their vital role in helping victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).
The six steps in the chain of events that must occur in rapid succession to maximize the chances of survival from SCA are reliant on bystanders helping. Recognizing SCA, Calling 9-1-1 and Starting CPR are the first three steps and Cadet Kaufman's efforts to ensure all three were implemented gave Mr Platt his chance. The arrival of Your LAFD firefighter/paramedics ensured the remaining steps in the Chain of Survival were expediated, delivering Mr Platt into the skilled hands of the Kaiser Hospital staff.
Cadet Leo Kaufman, a 17-year-old young man, valiantly did what he was trained to do when it mattered most, and he did it extremely well!
Today, Your LAFD Fire Chief Kristen Crowley, with Mr and Mrs Platt, the LAFD crews on scene and Kaiser Hospital members present, was honored to present him with a Certificate of Appreciation which reads as follows:
" Leo J. Kaufman, LAFD Cadet. In recognition of your heroic courage and immediate assistance in saving a man's life during a cardiac arrest emergency on July 26, 2021, in the West Hills Community. The Los Angeles City Fire Department commends your extraordinary life-saving efforts of a citizen of the City of Los Angeles. Presented this 9th Day of August, 2022"
We hope reading about the actions of Cadet Leo Kaufman encourages you to Learn CPR because you could be the difference between life and death for someone needing help as desperately as Mr Platt did that fateful day
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I feel like this is missing something. I have an idea, but it will have to wait until I can use one of the tablets in the pub room at school. Anyway, I wanted to upload this tonight because I felt like I should make a public apology for my video I posted a few days ago. It seems I offended some people and, although I really didn't mean to, I shouldn't have. I made a few comments in the video that could have been taken the wrong way and I didn't think about it beforehand. Really, the video was just supposed to be humorous, somewhat satirical, and overly exaggerated and sarcastic. I didn't mean to offend anyone, and if I did, then I am truly sorry. I certainly didn't intend to hurt anyone and I really didn't think anyone would take the video seriously. I would also like to make sure that everyone knows I was not mad or "lashing out" on anyone. Finally, I would like to point out that art is entirely subjective, therefore, no photographer can actually be "better" than the other.
If you were wondering about the photo...it's a slow shutter speed shot of some tye dye sheets.
This image represents a section of a rat hippocampal tissue mounted on a glass coverslide. Cells are stained for neuronal (NeuN, red) and proliferation markers (BrdU, green; Ki67 blue). Images are acquired using the InCell Analyzer 1000™. This is a representative image from BCI’s cutting edge ex-vivo platform. BCI uses this assay along with several other in vivo behavioral assays in its neurogenesis platform to identify clinical-stage compounds, novel targets and compounds optimal for CNS indications.
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Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behavior impair their social or occupational functioning. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood.
There are many issues with classifying a personality disorder, is it really a disorder; or just hard to get along with. There are many categories of definition, some mild and some extreme. Because the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders stem from prevailing cultural expectations, their validity is contested by some experts on the basis of invariable subjectivity. They argue that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on social, or even sociopolitical and economic considerations. Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)
Not to be confused with Type A personality.
Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others, anhedonia, introspection.
Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)
Not to be confused with Type B personality.
Antisocial personality disorder: a pervasive disregard for the rights of others, lack of empathy, and (generally) a pattern of regular criminal activity.
Borderline personality disorder: extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.
Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriately seductive behavior and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and social inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.
All In The Mind - About Us
We humans are such complex beasts. Why is it that we can be so wonderful and yet so awful, eccentric and prosaic, enigmatic and obvious, witty and dull, and all of these at once?
All in the Mind, presented by Natasha Mitchell, is Radio National's weekly foray into all things mental – a program about the mind, brain and behaviour. From dreaming to depression, addiction to artificial intelligence, consciousness to coma, psychoanalysis to psychopathy, free will to forgetting – All in the Mind explores the human condition through the mind's eye.
Our mental machinery remains one of the greatest mysteries of this or any other age, performing for us the most incredible feats of perception, cognition and coordination. Scientists, theologians, philosophers and armchair psychologists alike have long debated its form and function. And yet, the mind, in all its madness and brilliance, continues to elude us.
All in the Mind brings together unexpected voices, themes and ideas and engages with both leading thinkers and personal stories. Psychology and human behaviour are only part of the equation. The program's scope is considerably broader and explores themes in science, religion, health, philosophy, education, history and pop culture, with the mind as the key focus.
Natasha Mitchell
Natasha Mitchell joined the ABC as a science journalist and broadcaster in 1997. As host of All In The Mind she reaches a wide international audience on ABC Radio National and Radio Australia.
In 2005/6 Natasha was awarded a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, a mid-career fellowship for journalists to spend a year at MIT and Harvard University. She is on the board of the World Federation of Science Journalists, the global organisation representing science and technology journalists' associations. She was a recipient of a 2006 Marine Biological Laboratory Science Journalism Fellowship at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Natasha won the Grand Prize (2008) and four World Gold Medals at the New York Radio Festivals (2008, 2005, 2003), for 'Brain Under Seige' broadcast on All in the Mind, for a four-part series 'An Indian Mental Health Odyssey', and jointly for 'Science in a Suitcase', a series broadcast on ABC Radio National's The Science Show.
Natasha presented and co-produced 'Parched Lands' with the BBC World Service. The four-part series travelled to desert lands in China, India, the USA and Australia's Red Centre and won a Gold World Medal at the New York Radio Festivals (2005).
African Wild Donkey - Equus africanus asinus
Ngepi Lodge, near the RIver Kavango, seen here with two Ox Peckers.
The donkey or ass is a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae. The wild ancestor of the donkey is the African wild ass, E. africanus. The donkey has been used as a working animal for at least 5000 years. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world, mostly in underdeveloped countries, where they are used principally as draught or pack animals. Working donkeys are often associated with those living at or below subsistence levels. Small numbers of donkeys are kept for breeding or as pets in developed countries.
A male donkey or ass is called a jack, a female a jenny or jennet; a young donkey is a foal. Jack donkeys are often used to mate with female horses to produce mules; the biological "reciprocal" of a mule, from a stallion and jenny as its parents instead, is called a hinny.
Asses were first domesticated around 3000 BC, probably in Egypt or Mesopotamia, and have spread around the world. They continue to fill important roles in many places today. While domesticated species are increasing in numbers, the African wild ass is an endangered species. As beasts of burden and companions, asses and donkeys have worked together with humans for millennia.
Donkeys are adapted to marginal desert lands. Unlike wild and feral horses, wild donkeys in dry areas are solitary and do not form harems. Each adult donkey establishes a home range; breeding over a large area may be dominated by one jack. The loud call or bray of the donkey, which typically lasts for twenty seconds and can be heard for over three kilometres, may help keep in contact with other donkeys over the wide spaces of the desert. Donkeys have large ears, which may pick up more distant sounds, and may help cool the donkey's blood. Donkeys can defend themselves by biting, striking with the front hooves or kicking with the hind legs.
Donkeys have a notorious reputation for stubbornness, but this has been attributed to a much stronger sense of self-preservation than exhibited by horses. Likely based on a stronger prey instinct and a weaker connection with humans, it is considerably more difficult to force or frighten a donkey into doing something it perceives to be dangerous for whatever reason. Once a person has earned their confidence they can be willing and companionable partners and very dependable in work.
Although formal studies of their behaviour and cognition are rather limited, donkeys appear to be quite intelligent, cautious, friendly, playful, and eager to learn.
With a population of a little over two million people, Botswana is one of the most sparsely populated countries in the world. Almost three quarters of the country is covered by the arid Kalahari desert and droughts are a common problem in the country. The population is made up of a variety of ethnic groups, the largest of which is the Tswana. For Botswanan farmers, working animals such as donkeys, horses and cows are integral to their survival. In the northern town of Maun alone, there are more than 24,000 donkeys which due to their abundance, tend to be considered ‘low status’ animals. Donkeys, mules, and horses are used for transportation while over 50 per cent of households depend on cattle as their largest source of rural income.
The biggest problems for working animals in Botswana are poor treatment due to lack of education and the lack of equipment. The average person in the region where we work lives on less than one dollar a day, and there are often six people living in a single mud hut without water or electricity. People just don’t have the resources to look after all of their animals.
SPANA is the world’s leading charity helping all species of working animals – and, for many animals, SPANA vets are the only ones they’ll ever see. SPANA protects working animals today by vet treatment and help in emergencies. SPANA is building a better future for working animals by teaching children compassion and training owners in proper care.
Most people consider themselves above average on any characteristic you ask them about. This is the Lake Wobegon effect.
(Weinstein, 1987)
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"City Hall
The structural fabric of the town hall dates back to 1560 and was changed after the city had been elevated to a royal free-trade zone in 1648.
The architectural basis is thought to go back to early renaissance. The diamond-shaped ashlar of the portal points to this era, too.
The one-storey building with a broad front featuring two round oriels on the sides and a rectangular oriel in the centre has been refurbished during the baroque; a massive attic has been built on top of it during the same period.
The murals discovered in 1926 probably also go back to the early renaissance period and have been adapted to fit the baroque tastes later on.
In 1949 Rudolf Holzinger repainted them by closely sticking to old patterns. He also completed the missing pictures.
The allegorical paintings of women represent the cardinal virtues Fides (faith), Spes (hope), Charitas (charity), as well as Justitia (justice), Sapientia (wisdom), Fortitudo (strength) and Temperantia (moderation).
To the right of the centre oriel there are biblical scenes:
Solomon's judgement (allegory of judicial wisdom)
Judith and Holofernes (allegory of love to one's birthplace)
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (renunciation of dignity for the sake of wisdom and cognition).
The rectangular oriel holds a sundial and the coat of arms of the city of Eisenstadt.
The interior of the town hall has been rebuilt several times, e.g. in 1939/40 and 1959.
The magnificent renaissance ceiling of the vestibule dates back to the 17th century.
Over the course of the rebuilding of the town hall (1999-2001) the buildings dating back to the 1950s were torn down and replaced by a suitable, modern building. The historic substance was renovated and integrated into the modern complex." (sursa: eisenstadt-leithaland.at/city-hall.html)
Researchers with the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) Team calibrate the Brainsight Neuronavigation System to an Airman's head before attaching electrodes to administer directed electrical brain stimulation in the NIBS lab at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jul 19, 2016. Researchers working in the NIBS lab, led by Dr. Richard A. McKinley, Ph.D., are exploring how directed electrical stimulation to the human brain affects cognition, fatigue, mood and other areas with the end goal of improving warfighter awareness, memory and focus. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
KABK Graduation Festival
Den Haag 2016
“Circumstances” consists of two installations: Circumstance #1 and #2. Circumstance #1 deals with saturation and stress. Circumstance #2 is about filtering feedback.
THESIS: Noise About What
There will always be noise. Its definitions claim a strong will to obstruct it, its omnipresence works as awkward condition around which our rationality has to find its way out, it leads to an indeterminacy which exalts its contrast with all the rest. Here I attempt to mould the extended concept of noise by rephrasing, reinterpreting and reacting to it. More extensively I argue of that noise is capable to embody the conflicts and parallelisms between rational and irrational cognition, it contains the clash between words and sensations. I consider my thesis being a summary of all the impressions, thus reflections, raised by the topic of noise within the research I have carried throughout my bachelor.
KABK Graduation Festival
Den Haag 2016
“Circumstances” consists of two installations: Circumstance #1 and #2. Circumstance #1 deals with saturation and stress. Circumstance #2 is about filtering feedback.
THESIS: Noise About What
There will always be noise. Its definitions claim a strong will to obstruct it, its omnipresence works as awkward condition around which our rationality has to find its way out, it leads to an indeterminacy which exalts its contrast with all the rest. Here I attempt to mould the extended concept of noise by rephrasing, reinterpreting and reacting to it. More extensively I argue of that noise is capable to embody the conflicts and parallelisms between rational and irrational cognition, it contains the clash between words and sensations. I consider my thesis being a summary of all the impressions, thus reflections, raised by the topic of noise within the research I have carried throughout my bachelor.
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(Photo x Randy Scott Slavin w/ Text Uploaded: June 17, 2013)
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RE: THE FIRST HUMALIEN 'RELEASE'!
THE OSCARS? PUHH...
HISTORIC ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE BEYOND!
THE ACADEMY IS NOW DESIGNATED VIA FACELESS, VOICELESS, TEXT-ONLY GLOBAL SCREEN-HACK 'OFFER'
BY A NON-HUMAN INTELLIGENCE TO CHOOSE WHO
WILL "DIRECT" THE GREATEST "MOVIE" IN & ON THE HISTORY OF THE PLANET EARTH, AND, THEREIN, WHO ALONE WILL HAVE "IN-THE-FLESH" FIRST CONTACT / FACETIME WITH: ALIEN ANONYMOUS
THEIR OFFER: www.flickr.com/photos/29101747@N07/8847416108/
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~BANNED AID FOR DIRECTOR'S CUT To Include "Advo-Blitz" Campaign-Finance Limits & "Enforced" NDAs:
RULES ARE "AMENDED" TO COUNT THE VOTE OF FULL ACADEMY MEMBERSHIP--('Specialty Notwithstanding) PAMPAS IS THRUST INTO THE UNSOUGHT ROLE OF A VIRTUAL HEAD-OF-STATE, ADDRESSING THE UN WITH THE "AFFIRMATIVE" AMPAS VOTE TO RESPOND TO THE A.A. "OFFER" @: bit.ly/10WlECi
--The "Campaigns" Of A-List Contenders Appear In Trade Media, Then National (Lavish Ads In NY Times, Etc-- Directors Unleash Their Publicists, Who Form "Front-Groups" For What Becomes "Full-Court Press" Pitches To The Academy & General Public, Far Beyond The 'Best-Pic, Best Director' Oscar "Sell". . .
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FUN FACT: PITCH & ROLL--ALIEN ANONYMOUS--A SEMI-GRAPHIC NOVELLA Produced In A Reality That Includes {WAIT-For-it} ..."ETERNITY!"
--Random-Sequence Episode 'Flashcards' In The Downscroll
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POV: Bold-Strokes...
SO: you're in a theater, 40 minutes into, say, a 'romantic comedy'...
SUDDENLY: PALEOLITHIC cave painters appear on screen @ work on the most breathtaking mural ever seen...no explanation...an ineffable gravitas, a virtually palpable sense of history alive, including even (widely reported) the scent of smoke and human sweat...
FOR 12 INEXPLICABLE MINUTES...speaking in a language never heard by modern humanity, one artist even apparently making a joke that elicits loud collective laughter echoing through invisible chambers of an unknown cave (the location soon after discovered, further removing the prospect of a grand hoax & emphasizing a non-human intelligence behind it)
...SOME of the (unknowingly global) audience is intrigued and even mesmerized, others, after a minute or two, irritated, descend across time-zones (but mostly PST, West Coast U.S) to multiplex lobbies to complain, demand an explanation, what'-s-this-TRAILER doing interrupting what-I-Paid-To-SEE, etc...
WELL who knew? it's FIRST CONTACT...but nothing follows for weeks...as the world rocks in the vast roll of a wholly unforeseen Sea Change...
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HUMANITY'S FIRST COLLECTIVE OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE?
FOR THE RECORD:
"...THE WORLD WILL BE BESIDE ITSELF--
THERE WILL BE FEAR...SHOCK...MYSTERY...AWE...REVERENCE...HILARITY...
NEW RELIGIOUS DIVIDES, THRILLING SOLIDARITY, ASTONISHING 'FAULT-LINES' THROUGH EVERY ESTABLISHED POWER-BASE,
ROBUST & UNPREDICTABLE SOCIAL UPHEAVAL
ACROSS THE GLOBE.
MEANWHILE, INCREASINGLY 'FORWARD-LEANING' 'COMPETITION' AMONG HOLLYWOOD'S MOST ILLUSTRIOUS "CANDIDATES" FOR "DIRECTOR'S CUT"
WILL REDEFINE OLD FRIENDSHIPS & RIVALRIES...
AND YES, HOW COULD IT BE OTHERWISE?--
THERE WILL BE DINOSAURS..."
--Wyatt Matturs
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FLICKR POOLED @ PARALLEL UNIVERSAL PRESENT
S: ALIEN ANONYMOUS www.flickr.com/groups/2227183@N25
PAUSE-AS-NEEDED, CONTEMPLATE AS SPIRIT MOVES:
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Even when onlookers are told that answers people gave in a test were randomly allocated, the impression of an individual’s performance persists and affects predictions about future performance.
(Ross, Lepper & Hubbard, 1975)
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Jagust Lab - William Jagust
Research on cognition and neurodegeneration makes use of positron emission tomography (PET) with a number of different radiotracers that are aimed at understanding brain biochemistry and how biochemistry interacts with both brain structure and function in aging. Studies are ongoing looking at the deposition of beta-amyloid, the protein deposited in Alzheimer’s disease, in normal older subjects. Specifically, it is evaluated how this amyloid deposition affects brain structure, measured using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and memory function, with a view towards detecting signs of AD in normal healthy older people. Brain dopamine function is also studied using PET in both normal older people and in those with Parkinson’s disease with the goal of understanding how dopamine is related to working memory and brain function using functional MRI. These are just some of the studies designed to assess relationships between in vivo measures of biochemistry, structure, and function to understand the aging brain.
credit: Lawrence Berkeley Nat'l Lab - Roy Kaltschmidt, photographer
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We were cruising the Strait of Georgia from Nanaimo to Comox on the eastern shore of Vancouver Island last week when we sighted a solitary Orca (Orcinus orca) in the distance.
At first, I thought I was seeing a crab-pot float with a very tall spindle. Then I realized it was moving, and I knew I was looking at a cetacean.
Actually, my first impression - a fishing float spindle - is an interesting example of how the mind supplies explanations for novel information. The fact I've never seen a float with a spindle in these waters didn't deter the little gray cells from offering an interpretation - any interpretation - when put on the spot.
But enough about cognition. While I am a novice when it comes to observing Orcas, I understand Orcas usually travel in pods. This Orca appeared to be alone, because I didn't sight any other fins. I don't know enough about Orcas to explain the significance of sighting a lone male. If any viewer has insights about this, please let us know.
As you will see from the next series of photos, this individual's tall, vertical fin marked it as a male.
You might have supposed that either I reverted to using my old Kodak Brownie camera for this shot, or lighting conditions were less than favorable at the time.
Well, as someone once said, you go with the Orca sighting you have, not the Orca sighting you'd like to have.
KABK Graduation Festival
Den Haag 2016
“Circumstances” consists of two installations: Circumstance #1 and #2. Circumstance #1 deals with saturation and stress. Circumstance #2 is about filtering feedback.
THESIS: Noise About What
There will always be noise. Its definitions claim a strong will to obstruct it, its omnipresence works as awkward condition around which our rationality has to find its way out, it leads to an indeterminacy which exalts its contrast with all the rest. Here I attempt to mould the extended concept of noise by rephrasing, reinterpreting and reacting to it. More extensively I argue of that noise is capable to embody the conflicts and parallelisms between rational and irrational cognition, it contains the clash between words and sensations. I consider my thesis being a summary of all the impressions, thus reflections, raised by the topic of noise within the research I have carried throughout my bachelor.
Mutant Vehicle (name unknown) and the Head Maze
Head Maze
by: Matthew Schultz and The Pier
from: Reno, NV
year: 2019
The Head Maze is a purposeful juxtapositions of two forms, a peaceful meditative reflection and our inevitable struggle with the nature of cognition; a monolithic mind caught in time between multiple selves. The head towers four stories over the playa floor, encased in mulberry paper and epoxy modeled after the work of Yoshio Ikezaki. The head rests in repose while its left hand claws at its mind fighting to reveal a crystalline stained glass structure akin to the “Space Whale” inside.
A series of hidden doors in the mouth, wrists and head open into a four story, 18 room maze. Each modular room creates a unique space dedicated to the nature of our minds, our struggles with being and the weird and fanciful process of dreaming.
URL: www.headmaze.com
Contact: headmaze2019@gmail.com
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Are you artistic, like a tidy home, like to arrange furniture and have good spatial cognition? Then you might want to consider getting an online interior design degree.
The quote “visual reality is in itself a carefully constructed optical illusion” is taken from an article published on the website of the AXNS (Arts X Neuroscience) Collective, 18 May 2016. More detail was added in a companion piece which appears on the website of the “Rorschach Audio” research project, published 12 June 2016. The AXNS Collective have since ceased operation, so the article has been re-published on-line by Clot Magazine, 3 Oct 2022...
Feature in Clot Magazine – tinyurl.com/mr7vxmtk
rorschachaudio.com/2016/06/12/visual-reality-optical-illu...
The “Rorschach Audio” research project initially focussed on ambiguities and mechanisms of perception of sound, however, in the book “Rorschach Audio - Art & Illusion for Sound”, which was published in 2012, and elsewhere, the discourse is expanded to incorporate diverse phenomena of aural, visual and linguistic perception. The ideas about visual perception also relate to a kinetic art installation called “The Analysis of Beauty”, which was first exhibited at Kettle’s Yard gallery in Cambridge, in January 2000. The quote from the AXNS / Clot Magazine article expresses, in condensed form, ideas which were also articulated in the “Rorschach Audio” book – where the article states that “visual reality is in itself a carefully constructed optical illusion”, the way the book put it was as follows…
“If it may seem counterintuitive to suggest that the mind is really capable of imagining, or, even more dramatically, of actually inventing aspects of what we perceive as (and rely upon to be) reality, in fact such inventions are among the most fundamental aspects of visual experience, and again we are normally oblivious to vision’s imaginary aspects precisely because those inventions are in fact so convincing. A good example of this is that (as is well-known) the visual image transmitted into the eye, through the pupil, appears projected onto the retina at the back of the eye upside-down. This is also the case with images projected onto the insides of photographic cameras and the camera-obscura. In the case of our visual system however, it is the mind alone which re-inverts that upside-down image, so that we perceive our visual world as being the right way up. Such corrected images may therefore be considered in one sense to be forms of illusion...” (page 170)
“The aspect of the blind-spot phenomenon that is most interesting here, is not the obvious physiological truism, that the visual system passively fails to perceive a particular point, but first the fact that the mind actively creates images which it uses to fill-in the missing information, and second the fact that we perceive these illusory fill-ins not only as amusing visual novelties and experimental anomalies, but as necessary elements of everyday reality. The ramifications of this last aspect are profound – not so much from the point of view of “proving” that reality (or at least some aspect of reality) is comprised of illusions, but more from the point of view of showing how some illusions have been evolved to help us to construct and to navigate reality accurately...” (page 173)
The same ideas were also explored in an article by Joe Banks for an artist publication called “The Starry Rubric Set”, produced by Wysing Arts Centre and An Endless Supply in Feb 2012, which states that…
“The blind-spot experiment is well-known, however, beyond the physiological truism that a section of the retina is insensitive to visual information, what's less well understood is that the images the mind places over blind-spots are illusions that we experience not only as experimental anomalies or visual novelties, but as part of everyday visual reality.”
Finally an article in Shoppinghour magazine, issue 10, Spring 2013, states that...
“An easier way to show that normal perception is partly illusory, is to point out that the sense-data projected into the eyes consists of two images and is optically upside-down - it is the mind that fuses these images into a single perception and which inverts them so they can be of practical use. A simple demonstration can be used to show that the mind copies-and-pastes information to fill-in blind-spots on the retina, to help us construct and navigate everyday reality. Likewise, as soon as our attention is drawn to certain visual obstructions, we notice them - glasses and our own noses for instance; so, as with blind-spots, normally the mind edits-out such obstructions, to create the perception of an uninterrupted visual field, which is itself partly an illusion.”
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Bridging science, philosophy, and cognition
Bohm's scientific and philosophical views seemed inseparable. In 1959, his wife Saral recommended to him a book by the Indian philosopher J. Krishnamurti that she had seen in a library. He found himself impressed by the way his own ideas on quantum mechanics meshed with the philosophical ideas of Krishnamurti. Bohm's approach to philosophy and physics receive expression in his 1980 book Wholeness and the Implicate Order, and in his 1987 book Science, Order and Creativity. Bohm and Krishnamurti went on to become close friends for over 25 years, with a deep mutual interest in philosophy and the state of humanity.
[edit] The holonomic model of the brain
Bohm also made significant theoretical contributions to neuropsychology and the development of the holonomic model of the functioning of the brain.[1] In collaboration with Stanford neuroscientist Karl Pribram, Bohm helped establish the foundation for Pribram's theory that the brain operates in a manner similar to a hologram, in accordance with quantum mathematical principles and the characteristics of wave patterns. These wave forms may compose hologram-like organizations, Bohm suggested, basing this concept on his application of Fourier analysis, a mathematical method for decomposing complex waves into component sine waves. The holonomic brain model developed by Pribram and Bohm posits a lens defined world view— much like the textured prismatic effect of sunlight refracted by the churning mists of a rainbow— a view which is quite different from the more conventional "objective" approach. Pribram held that if psychology means to understand the conditions that produce the world of appearances, it must look to the thinking of physicists like Bohm.[1]
[edit] Thought as a System
Bohm was alarmed by what he considered an increasing imbalance of not only 'man' and nature, but among peoples, as well as people, themselves. Bohm: "So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction." And he goes on to ask: "What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition. Yet it looks as if the thing we use to solve our problems with is the source of our problems. It's like going to the doctor and having him make you ill. In fact, in 20% of medical cases we do apparently have that going on. But in the case of thought, it's far over 20%."
In Bohm's view: "the general tacit assumption in thought is that it's just telling you the way things are and that it's not doing anything - that 'you' are inside there, deciding what to do with the info. But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us."
"Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally. This is another major feature of thought: Thought doesn't know it is doing something and then it struggles against what it is doing. It doesn't want to know that it is doing it. And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.'"
Bohm proposes thus in his book "Thought as a System" (TAS) a pervasive, systematic nature of thought:
What I mean by 'thought' is the whole thing - thought, 'felt', the body, the whole society sharing thoughts - it's all one process. It is essential for me not to break that up, because it's all one process; somebody else's thoughts becomes my thoughts, and vice versa. Therefore it would be wrong and misleading to break it up into my thoughts, your thoughts, my feelings, these feelings, those feelings... I would say that thought makes what is often called in modern language a system. A system means a set of connected things or parts. But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence. A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department. They don't have any meaning separately; they only can function together. And also the body is a system. Society is a system in some sense. And so on.
Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thoughts, 'felts' and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times. A system is constantly engaged in a process of development, change, evolution and structure changes...although there are certain features of the system which become relatively fixed. We call this the structure....Thought has been constantly evolving and we can't say when that structure began. But with the growth of civilization it has developed a great deal. It was probably very simple thought before civilization, and now it has become very complex and ramified and has much more incoherence than before.
Now, I say that this system has a fault in it - a 'systematic fault'. It is not a fault here, there or here, but it is a fault that is all throughout the system. Can you picture that? It is everywhere and nowhere. You may say "I see a problem here, so I will bring my thoughts to bear on this problem". But 'my' thought is part of the system. It has the same fault as the fault I'm trying to look at, or a similar fault.
Thought is constantly creating problems that way and then trying to solve them. But as it tries to solve them it makes it worse because it doesn’t notice that it's creating them, and the more it thinks, the more problems it creates. (P. 18-19)
Wholeness and the Implicate Order, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-7100-0971-2, 1983 Ark paperback: ISBN 0-7448-0000-5, 2002 paperback: ISBN 0-415-28979-3
1985. Unfolding Meaning: A weekend of dialogue with David Bohm (Donald Factor, editor), Gloucestershire: Foundation House, ISBN 0-948325-00-3, 1987 Ark paperback: ISBN 0-7448-0064-1, 1996 Routledge paperback: ISBN 0-415-13638-5
1985. The Ending of Time, with Jiddu Krishnamurti, San Francisco, CA: Harper, ISBN 0-06-064796-5.
1987. Science, Order and Creativity, with F. David Peat. London: Routledge. 2nd ed. 2000. ISBN 0-415-17182-2.
1991. Changing Consciousness: Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political and Environmental Crises Facing our World (a dialogue of words and images), coauthor Mark Edwards, Harper San Francisco, ISBN 0-06-250072-4
1992. Thought as a System (transcript of seminar held in Ojai, California, from November 30 to December 2, 1990), London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-11980-4.
1993. The Undivided Universe: An ontological interpretation of quantum theory, with B.J. Hiley, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-12185-X (final work)
1996. On Dialogue. editor Lee Nichol. London: Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-415-14911-8, paperback: ISBN 0-415-14912-6, 2004 edition: ISBN 0-415-33641-4
1998. On Creativity, editor Lee Nichol. London: Routledge, hardcover: ISBN 0-415-17395-7, paperback: ISBN 0-415-17396-5, 2004 edition: ISBN 0-415-33640-6
1999. Limits of Thought: Discussions, with Jiddu Krishnamurti, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-19398-2.
1999. Bohm-Biederman Correspondence: Creativity and Science, with Charles Biederman. editor Paavo Pylkkänen. ISBN 0-415-16225-4.
2002. The Essential David Bohm. editor Lee Nichol. London: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26174-0. preface by the Dalai Lama
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Presenters:
Opening Presentation. Jenny Muilenburg, Data Curriculum and Communications Librarian
Should We Bother? Prioritizing New Cancer Technologies. Jeanette Birnbaum, Health Services.
Tsunami Prediction using Adjoint Methods. Brisa Davis, Applied Mathematics.
Looking Beyond Grades: Predicting Academic Success with Student Personality Traits. Chaya Jones, Evans School of Public Affairs.
Predicting Gender in Social Media. Gayathri Vasudevan, Institute of Technology.
Attempting to Know What We Don't Know: Combating Wage Theft in Washington State. Isaac Sederbaum, Evans School of Public Affairs.
The Rhetoric of Digital Futures. Ian Porter, Communication.
Augmenting Social and Spatial Cognition: Integrative Analysis Processes for San Francisco’s Bayview District. Rafa Murillo, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments.
Predicting Costs of Medical Episodes using Analytics. Si-Chi Chin, Institute of Technology.
Computational Design of Protein-Based Nanomaterials. Jacob Bale, Biochemistry.
Forecasting the Future of Library Leadership. Sofia Leung, Information School and Evans School of Public Affairs.
The Japanese do not linguistically self enhance (Heine, Lehman, Markus, & Kitayama, 1999) and since language is generally considered to be the universal modality of self, it is often argued that the Japanese do not self enhance at all. However from inspection of their autophotography (Leuers & Sonoda, 1999), collage, and self-manga (such as those of manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi) it seems that Japanese do enhance their visual self representations. I argue that this is due to fact that Japanese identify with self-manga but not with verbal self representations.
What is it to identify with a self-representation? Many psychologists claim that in order to have or cognise a self we need to see it, and identify with that self-representation, from the point of view of another within self: "the generalised other" of Mead, the "super-addressee" of Bakhtin, the "alter ego" of Derrida, the "Other" of Lacan, the "impartial spectator" of Smith, "the third person perspective" of Mori (1999), and the "super ego" of Freud.
Bataille (1992, p31) for example says "We do not know ourselves distinctly and clearly until the day we see ourselves from the outside as another."
The Flashed Face Distortion (FFD) effect (Tangen, Murphy, & Thompson, 2011) is a trippy newly discovered illusion in which when faces are flashed side by side we seem distorted, to an extent in caricature (see videos here and here). It is not clear why. I suggest that it is probably that this caricaturization of faces is not limited to times when faces are flashed, but that we become aware of the caricaturisation when faces are flashed.
Still more recent brain neuro-imaging research (Wen and Kung, 2014) finds that the FFD effect is mediated by at least two neural networks: "one that is likely responsible for perception and another that is likely responsible for subjective feelings and engagement".
Why should subjective feelings and engagement processing take place? Again, it is not clear to me, but it seems likely that "subjective feelings and engagement" would differ for ones own face as opposed to the faces of others.
I created therefore a similar video except with my own face as one of the target faces. The video is far from ideal but it seems that the FFD is much weaker in this situation. The face that I am comparing various versions of my own face to is only slightly distorted or caricaturized whereas my own face does not appear to be caricaturized at all. I presume that this is a function of a variation in subjective feelings and engagement, and because I do not see my own face as the face of another, and either do not bother or feel inclined to caricaturize my own face. But then, I don't think of my face is my self. I think of that which is described by my self narrative as my self.
I hypothesize that from the way in which Japanese enhance their visual self-representations, from the way it is claimed that their "mask" is the centre of their persona (Watsuji, 2011), and from in their self-enhancing self-manga ("jimanga") that Japanese will feel the Flashed Face Distortion (Tangen, Murphy, & Thompson, 2011) effect even when watching a video of their own face flashed. This is because they are seeing their own face as another and this is, paradoxically, a condition of seeing ones face as ones "self."
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Dr. Richard A. McKinley, Ph.D., is the leader of the Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) Team in the Cognitive Performance Optimization Section, Applied Neuroscience Branch, Warfighter Interface Division, Human Effectiveness Directorate of the 711th Human Performance Wing at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, Jul 19, 2016. Researchers working in the NIBS lab are exploring how directed electrical stimulation to the human brain affects cognition, fatigue, mood and other areas with the end goal of improving warfighter awareness, memory and focus. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)
A hypnopompic state (or hypnopomp) is the state of consciousness leading out of sleep, a term coined by the psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Its twin is the hypnagogic state at sleep onset; though often conflated, the two states are not identical. The hypnagogic state is rational waking cognition trying to make sense of non-linear images and associations; the hypnopompic state is emotional and credulous dreaming cognition trying to make sense of real world stolidity. They have a different phenomenological character. Depressed frontal lobe function in the first few minutes after waking – known as "sleep inertia" – causes slowed reaction time and impaired short-term memory. Sleepers often wake confused, or speak without making sense, a phenomenon the psychologist Peter McKeller calls "hypnopompic speech". When the awakening occurs out of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, in which most dreams occur, the hypnopompic state is sometimes accompanied by lingering vivid imagery. Some of the creative insights attributed to dreams actually happen in this moment of awakening from REM.
Even in a medium that allowed for perfect interactivity for all participants (something we have a reasonable approximation of today), the limits of human cognition will mean that the scale alone will kill conversations. In such a medium, even without any professional bottlenecks or forced passivity, fame happens.
Clay Shirky | Here Comes Everybody | p.95
Scholars’ Studio is a fun, informal event that features 10 rapid-fire ignite-style presentations (5 minutes each) given by graduate students and postdocs doing research on topics related to an interdisciplinary theme. Hosted by the UW Libraries Research Commons and The Graduate School, Scholars' Studio gives students the opportunity to share their research across disciplines, make connections and build presentation skills.
Presenters:
Opening Presentation. Jenny Muilenburg, Data Curriculum and Communications Librarian
Should We Bother? Prioritizing New Cancer Technologies. Jeanette Birnbaum, Health Services.
Tsunami Prediction using Adjoint Methods. Brisa Davis, Applied Mathematics.
Looking Beyond Grades: Predicting Academic Success with Student Personality Traits. Chaya Jones, Evans School of Public Affairs.
Predicting Gender in Social Media. Gayathri Vasudevan, Institute of Technology.
Attempting to Know What We Don't Know: Combating Wage Theft in Washington State. Isaac Sederbaum, Evans School of Public Affairs.
The Rhetoric of Digital Futures. Ian Porter, Communication.
Augmenting Social and Spatial Cognition: Integrative Analysis Processes for San Francisco’s Bayview District. Rafa Murillo, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments.
Predicting Costs of Medical Episodes using Analytics. Si-Chi Chin, Institute of Technology.
Computational Design of Protein-Based Nanomaterials. Jacob Bale, Biochemistry.
Forecasting the Future of Library Leadership. Sofia Leung, Information School and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Scholars’ Studio is a fun, informal event that features 10 rapid-fire ignite-style presentations (5 minutes each) given by graduate students and postdocs doing research on topics related to an interdisciplinary theme. Hosted by the UW Libraries Research Commons and The Graduate School, Scholars' Studio gives students the opportunity to share their research across disciplines, make connections and build presentation skills.
Presenters:
Opening Presentation. Jenny Muilenburg, Data Curriculum and Communications Librarian
Should We Bother? Prioritizing New Cancer Technologies. Jeanette Birnbaum, Health Services.
Tsunami Prediction using Adjoint Methods. Brisa Davis, Applied Mathematics.
Looking Beyond Grades: Predicting Academic Success with Student Personality Traits. Chaya Jones, Evans School of Public Affairs.
Predicting Gender in Social Media. Gayathri Vasudevan, Institute of Technology.
Attempting to Know What We Don't Know: Combating Wage Theft in Washington State. Isaac Sederbaum, Evans School of Public Affairs.
The Rhetoric of Digital Futures. Ian Porter, Communication.
Augmenting Social and Spatial Cognition: Integrative Analysis Processes for San Francisco’s Bayview District. Rafa Murillo, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments.
Predicting Costs of Medical Episodes using Analytics. Si-Chi Chin, Institute of Technology.
Computational Design of Protein-Based Nanomaterials. Jacob Bale, Biochemistry.
Forecasting the Future of Library Leadership. Sofia Leung, Information School and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Ret. Army Col. Timothy L. Kopra was selected as an astronaut in July 2000, and began his initial training the following month. Kopra then completed two years of intensive Space Shuttle, Space Station, and T-38 flight training. He then served in the Space Station Branch of the Astronaut Office, where his primary focus involved the testing of crew interfaces for two ISS pressurized modules as well as the implementation of support computers and operational Local Area Network on ISS.
After completing a Russian language immersion course in Moscow, Russia, Kopra began training in July 2005 for a long duration space flight mission. In September 2006, Kopra served with a six person crew aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Aquarius underwater laboratory as part of NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations (NEEMO) 11. During the week long mission that served as an analog for lunar operations, the crew tested space suit design concepts, communication protocols, construction techniques, and the use of robotic devices. Kopra completed training in Russia, Japan, Germany, and Canada at each of the international partner training sites and served as a backup crewmember to Expeditions 16 and 17 and a prime crewmember for Expedition 20. Kopra completed his first space flight in 2009, logging two months in space and completing one spacewalk.
He had been assigned to STS-133. But Kopra was injured in a bicycle accident during the training period, and replaced by Steve Bowen, who made the only back-to-back shuttle flights.
Kopra served with the Expedition 20 crew as a Flight Engineer aboard the International Space Station. He launched with the STS-127 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on July 15, 2009 and returned to Earth with the STS-128 crew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery on September 11, 2009. During the two shuttle missions and tour of duty aboard station, Kopra performed one spacewalk totaling 5 hours and 2 minutes, executed assembly tasks with the Space Station and Japanese robotic arms, and conducted numerous science experiments.
Recently, Kopra returned from the International Space Station on June 19, 2016, after serving as a flight engineer on Expedition 46 and commander of Expedition 47.
His crewmates were European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake and Russian Space Agency cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko. During their 186 days aboard the International Space Station, the crew completed the in-flight portion of NASA human research studies in ocular health, cognition, salivary markers and microbiome.
The three crew members also welcomed four cargo spacecraft, including one that delivered the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM), an expandable habitat technology demonstration.
During his time on the orbital complex, Kopra ventured outside for two spacewalks, totaling 7 hours 59 minutes. This gives Kopra a cumulative time of 13 hours 31 minutes on spacewalks. The objective of the first spacewalk was to move the station’s mobile transporter rail car to a secure position. On the second spacewalk, Kopra and Peake replaced a failed voltage regulator to restore power to one of the station’s eight power channels.
He has logged a total of 244 days in space on two spaceflights. Signed 17 November 2016, Columbia University, New York, NY.
To the last,
heartbeat of belief
to the last
breath of life
to the last
hope that never fades...
by anglia24
21h30: 29/12/2007
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Personality disorder refers to a class of personality types and enduring behaviours associated with significant distress or disability, which appear to deviate from social expectations particularly in relating to other humans.
Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40-60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood
Scholars’ Studio is a fun, informal event that features 10 rapid-fire ignite-style presentations (5 minutes each) given by graduate students and postdocs doing research on topics related to an interdisciplinary theme. Hosted by the UW Libraries Research Commons and The Graduate School, Scholars' Studio gives students the opportunity to share their research across disciplines, make connections and build presentation skills.
Presenters:
Opening Presentation. Jenny Muilenburg, Data Curriculum and Communications Librarian
Should We Bother? Prioritizing New Cancer Technologies. Jeanette Birnbaum, Health Services.
Tsunami Prediction using Adjoint Methods. Brisa Davis, Applied Mathematics.
Looking Beyond Grades: Predicting Academic Success with Student Personality Traits. Chaya Jones, Evans School of Public Affairs.
Predicting Gender in Social Media. Gayathri Vasudevan, Institute of Technology.
Attempting to Know What We Don't Know: Combating Wage Theft in Washington State. Isaac Sederbaum, Evans School of Public Affairs.
The Rhetoric of Digital Futures. Ian Porter, Communication.
Augmenting Social and Spatial Cognition: Integrative Analysis Processes for San Francisco’s Bayview District. Rafa Murillo, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, College of Built Environments.
Predicting Costs of Medical Episodes using Analytics. Si-Chi Chin, Institute of Technology.
Computational Design of Protein-Based Nanomaterials. Jacob Bale, Biochemistry.
Forecasting the Future of Library Leadership. Sofia Leung, Information School and Evans School of Public Affairs.
Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behavior impair their social or occupational functioning. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood.
There are many issues with classifying a personality disorder, is it really a disorder; or just hard to get along with. There are many categories of definition, some mild and some extreme. Because the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders stem from prevailing cultural expectations, their validity is contested by some experts on the basis of invariable subjectivity. They argue that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on social, or even sociopolitical and economic considerations. Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)
Not to be confused with Type A personality.
Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others, anhedonia, introspection.
Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)
Not to be confused with Type B personality.
Antisocial personality disorder: a pervasive disregard for the rights of others, lack of empathy, and (generally) a pattern of regular criminal activity.
Borderline personality disorder: extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.
Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriately seductive behavior and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and social inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.
Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense.
Edited by Caroline A. Jones, David Mather and Rebecca Uchill
Photo by Mariam Dembele
Please Join us for an artist's reception on Saturday October 20th, 2012 from 5 to 7pm, for an Exhibition of Black and White Silver Gelatin prints from medium format film photographed by Rodney Johnson at the Milkbar North Gallery.
Artist Statement: 'Do What Thou Wilt' is the title of this show because that's what we Humans do: whatever we will. Humanity evolved its cognition, self-awareness, language, innovation, etc. because it allowed us to survive the harshness of the relentless onslaught of nature and the universe. It allowed us to have a minute amount of control of our surroundings so we could exist for yet another generation. After awhile, after our basic needs were met, our will carried us in many different, more contemplative directions. Yet the more we learned and thought we achieved, the more we realized the full breadth of nature, the sheer precipitous sovereignty of the universe, and the infinitesimal part we play in it. Like ants trying to hold up their hill colony in the inescapable and seemingly obstinate wind and rain. In the end, everything washes into the sea; no matter if that sea is the deep blue waters of the ocean or the dust floating in blackness of interstellar space. Although during that flow, we swim in that river of time, doing what we will. As a consequence, at times we think that we are odds with nature and the universe, that we must rampage against it, control it and tame it, or be another victim of its ceaseless entropy. Of course, and quite paradoxically, nature and the universe is doing the same thing we are: bestowing its will. Nevertheless, the fundamental difference is that we are aware of our will, we have volition.
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Personality disorders are included as mental disorders on Axis II of the diagnostic manual of the American Psychiatric Association and in the mental and behavioral disorders section of the ICD manual of the World Health Organization. Personality, defined psychologically, is the set of enduring behavioral and mental traits that distinguish human beings. Hence, personality disorders are defined by experiences and behaviors that differ from societal norms and expectations. Those diagnosed with a personality disorder may experience difficulties in cognition, emotiveness, interpersonal functioning or control of impulses. In general, personality disorders are diagnosed in 40–60 percent of psychiatric patients, making them the most frequent of all psychiatric diagnoses.
These behavioral patterns in personality disorders are typically associated with substantial disturbances in some behavioral tendencies of an individual, usually involving several areas of the personality, and are nearly always associated with considerable personal and social disruption. A person is classified as having a personality disorder if their abnormalities of behavior impair their social or occupational functioning. Additionally, personality disorders are inflexible and pervasive across many situations, due in large part to the fact that such behavior may be ego-syntonic (i.e. the patterns are consistent with the ego integrity of the individual) and are, therefore, perceived to be appropriate by that individual. This behavior can result in maladaptive coping skills, which may lead to personal problems that induce extreme anxiety, distress or depression. The onset of these patterns of behavior can typically be traced back to early adolescence and the beginning of adulthood and, in some instances, childhood.
There are many issues with classifying a personality disorder, is it really a disorder; or just hard to get along with. There are many categories of definition, some mild and some extreme. Because the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders stem from prevailing cultural expectations, their validity is contested by some experts on the basis of invariable subjectivity. They argue that the theory and diagnosis of personality disorders are based strictly on social, or even sociopolitical and economic considerations. Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)
Not to be confused with Type A personality.
Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by irrational suspicions and mistrust of others.
Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest in social relationships, seeing no point in sharing time with others, anhedonia, introspection.
Schizotypal personality disorder: characterized by odd behavior or thinking.
Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders)
Not to be confused with Type B personality.
Antisocial personality disorder: a pervasive disregard for the rights of others, lack of empathy, and (generally) a pattern of regular criminal activity.
Borderline personality disorder: extreme "black and white" thinking, instability in relationships, self-image, identity and behavior often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.
Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive attention-seeking behavior including inappropriately seductive behavior and shallow or exaggerated emotions.
Narcissistic personality disorder: a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy. Characterized by self-importance, preoccupations with fantasies, belief that they are special, including a sense of entitlement and a need for excessive admiration, and extreme levels of jealousy and arrogance.
Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and social inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation and avoidance of social interaction.
Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological dependence on other people.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (not the same as obsessive-compulsive disorder): characterized by rigid conformity to rules, moral codes and excessive orderliness.