Talk at Culture and Politics Seminar Series, Georgetown University Qatar (30 Oct 2024)

Transcript of the opening remarks offered during the seminar “Plato for Clinicians” sponsored and hosted by Boston College’s Lynch School of Education, on July 30, 2021.

International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer Science and Technology, 2024

Drive shaft or propeller shaft is the essential part of Automobiles. It is used to deliver torque from transmission to the differential and further to the wheel to cause the motion of the vehicle. The drive shaft is used to connect with the transmission shaft with the help of universal joint whose axis intersects and the rotation of one shaft about its own axis results in the rotation of the other shaft about its axis. In present work the model of the drive shaft has been generated in Solid works and further imported in ANSYS workbench. A finite element analysis of the drive shaft has been carried out as a case study. In the present work the static analysis of a drive shaft has been carried out with the new design changes. The results for equivalent von-Mises stress, strain and deformation have been calculated by applying boundary conditions and compared with the existing results.

2020

La construction de bâtiment en beton de chanvre est une technique ancienne qui connait un nouvel essor aujourd’hui en France grâce a sa performance energetique dans tout le cycle de vie d’un bâtiment. Ce point fort permet de considerer le beton de chanvre comme un materiau prometteur pour la construction durable a l’avenir. Ce beton est un materiau de construction renouvelable et ecologique relativement recent au Canada et inutilise en Afrique de l’ouest, plus precisement au Burkina Faso. Cependant, le beton de chanvre s’inscrit dans la tendance actuelle de l’utilisation des materiaux biosources. Il a une empreinte ecologique favorable, contribuant a la reduction des emissions de GES. De ce fait, l’integration de ce beton dans la construction canadienne et burkinabe est primordiale et benefique du point de vue developpement durable. Ce travail consiste a trouver une alternative de construction traditionnelle par l’integration de materiaux nouveaux et surtout avec une empreinte ecolo...

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"Vers une société sensible? Morale, Politique, Réflexivité", 2ème colloque international du GT 07 Émotions & Société, Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Rouen, Juin, 2023

L’anthropologie structuro-fonctionnaliste qualifie de « sanctions diffuses » les jugements d’approbation et de désapprobation d’une conduite (Radcliffe-Brown, 1952). Leur fonction est de maintenir l’ordre. Néanmoins, quel est le mécanisme de modification de la conduite ? Quelles sont les réactions possibles au-delà du simple effet mécanique de se conformer ? Pour y répondre, mon objectif est d’examiner les procédés élémentaires de la vie quotidienne pour affecter l’état d’une personne par un sentiment moral : les reproches (inspirant honte et remords) et les compliments (inspirant fierté et confiance). Je vais partir de mon travail de terrain qui exacerbe l’attention aux sanctions diffuses pour deux raisons : la première est classique et méthodologique, il s’agit de devenir membre d’un groupe étudié. La seconde est théorique, lorsque le groupe étudié produit des manières de dire la santé mentale, il s’agit non seulement d’analyser les transformations des jugements moraux de la vie quotidienne en jugements cliniques, mais aussi les procédés pour modifier les conduites affectées. Structural-functionalist anthropology describes judgments of approval and disapproval of conduct as 'diffuse sanctions' (Radcliffe-Brown, 1952). Their function is to maintain order. However, what is the mechanism of conduct modification? What are the possible reactions beyond the simple mechanical effect of conforming? To answer this, I aim to examine the elementary operations of everyday life to affect a person's state through moral sentiment: reproaches (inspiring shame and remorse) and compliments (inspiring pride and confidence). I will start with my fieldwork which exacerbates the attention to diffuse sanctions for two reasons: the first is classical and methodological; it is about becoming a group member. The second is theoretical; when the group studied produces ways of saying mental health, it is not only a question of analyzing the transformations of moral judgments of everyday life into clinical judgments, but also the techniques for modifying the affected conduct.

2014

Advanced oxidation processes holds a promising future for the treatment of wastewater containing organic compounds that are not easily removable. All AOPs are designed to produce hydroxyl radicals. It is the hydroxyl radical that reacts to disintegrate organic compounds. AOP combine ozone, UV, hydrogen peroxide and/or catalyst to offer effective wastewater treatment solution for the reduction and/or removal of residual organic compounds that are measured by COD, BOD or TOC. This paper presents basic review of efficient AOPs developed to decolorize and/or degrade organic pollutants for environmental protection. Fundamentals of typical methods such as fenton, electro-fenton and photo-fenton, are discussed.

Patriarch Photios, the first one to systematise the Eastern arguments against the Filioque addition, had perceived it as a toned down echo of Pneumatomachism, Sabelian Modalism and Plotinian emanationism and as an innovation which introduced the diarchy within the Holy Trinity. The Tomos of the Constantinople Council of 1285 is extremely significant; drafted by the Ecumenical Patriarch Gregory II, it is the single synodal document of the Orthodox Church which makes a direct, detailed and soundly argued reference to the Filioque, as a teaching in its own right, and vigorously condemns it. Its polemic features aside, the trinitarian theology of the 1285 Tomos has an authentic ecumenical perspective, as it offers the only positive solution to the Filioque controversy: while the Filioque is inacceptable with respect to the divine being, it may be valid with regard to the divine uncreated energies, the eternal manifestation of the divine nature in the Holy Spirit, through and from the Son. Saint Gregory Palamas provided solid biblical, patristic and logical arguments against the Filioque in his two Apodictic Treatises on the Procession of the Holy Spirit of 1333-1334, where he identified within the Latin theology a logic of separation which determines the exegetic de-contextualization, the philological thoroughness, the semantic reduction exclusively compliant to the text’s analysis and internal logic (on a hermeneutic level), and the autonomous rational construction (on a theological level). Consequently, the separation between Orthodox and Filioquist triadology resides in the very theological method. In the latter, dialectic thinking and essentialism prevail, whereas in the former, what takes precedence is the trinitarian understanding of the Holy Spirit, equally apodictic and apophatic, personalistic and ontological: it is the dogmatic of the holistic ‘ecclesial experience’ (spiritual, contemplative and rational) versus the dogmatic of speculative reasoning. To conclude, the Orthodox Church believes that the Filioque has been and still is a trinitarian heresy condemned by the pan-Orthodox councils of 879-880, 1285, 1484, 1583, 1838, as well as by the Holy Fathers of the Church, especially Photios the Great, Gregory II of Cyprus and Gregory Palamas.