Showing papers by "John Carroll University published in 1986"
TL;DR: This article proposed committed impartiality as the most defensible teacher role and presented four perspectives on that debate: exclusive neutrality, exclusive partiality, neutral impartiality, and committed neutrality.
Abstract: Much debate exists over the role teachers should assume in the discussion of controversial issues. This paper presents and critiques four perspectives on that debate. The-perspectives are characterized as exclusive neutrality, exclusive partiality, neutral impartiality and committed impartiality. Synthesizing research and scholarship from a number of fields, the paper proposes committed impartiality as the most defensible teacher role.
241 citations
TL;DR: A coherent-optical time-of-flight range-finding technique is proposed which uses a simple inexpensive device and experimental evidence is presented to show the feasibility of measuring distance with subcentimeter resolution over a 1.5-m range.
Abstract: A coherent-optical time-of-flight range-finding technique is proposed which uses a simple inexpensive device. Target range is determined by modulating a laser diode's optical frequency and measuring the change in the phase of the light reflected back into the laser. Target velocity as well as range can be measured using this approach. The device is described, and experimental evidence is presented to show the feasibility of measuring distance with subcentimeter resolution over a 1.5-m range.
150 citations
TL;DR: A novel concept for a digital optical position transducer that is electrically passive and requires only a dual-fiber optical link and has a 10-dB on–off contrast ratio and a 12-dB insertion loss.
Abstract: A novel concept for a digital optical position tranducer is presented. This compact and rugged device is electrically passive and requires only a dual-fiber optical link. Wavelength division of a broad-spectrum semiconductor light source is employed to multiplex the channels of a 10-bit digital position encoder. A preliminary design was evaluated and found to have a 10-dB on-off contrast ratio and a 12-dB insertion loss.
46 citations
TL;DR: It is argued that the principle of the survival of the fittest has no place in Darwin's theory and is shown that the propensity interpretation cannot rescue the principle from the critics' charges.
Abstract: Susan Mills and John Beatty proposed a propensity interpretation of fitness (1979) to show that Darwinian explanations are not circular, but they did not address the critics' chief complaint that the principle of the survival of the fittest is either tautological or untestable. I show that the propensity interpretation cannot rescue the principle from the critics' charges. The critics, however, incorrectly assume that there is nothing more to Darwin's theory than the survival of the fittest. While Darwinians all scoff at this assumption, they do not agree about what role, if any, this principle plays in Darwin's theory of natural selection. I argue that the principle has no place in Darwin's theory. His theory does include the idea that some organisms are fitter than others. But greater reproductive success is simply inferred from higher fitness. There is no reason to embody this inference in the form of a special principle of the survival of the fittest.
27 citations
15 citations
TL;DR: Comparisons between women physicians and nurses in Japan show that neither women physicians nor nurses are likely to reject the sociocultural expectations of Japanese women and most define their role as housewife/mother as their first priority.
14 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided an updated estimate of the GDP elasticity of energy consumption for LDCs using a production function approach in determining this elasticity, which is explained in terms of economic activity, capital intensity and structure of economy.
11 citations
25 Nov 1986
TL;DR: In this article, a pulse of short duration sent into the loop results in a series of pulses of different amplitudes, and the information about the measured parameter is retrieved from the relative amplitudes of pulses in the same train.
Abstract: Intensity modulation sensors are classified depending on the way in which the reference and signal channels are separated: in space, wavelength (frequency), or time domains. To implement the time domain referencing different types of fiber optic (FO) loops have been used. A pulse of short duration sent into the loop results in a series of pulses of different amplitudes. The information about the measured parameter is retrieved from the relative amplitudes of pulses in the same train.
11 citations
TL;DR: Although vasopressin-deficient animals with 23 or 22 h of food deprivation survived for a significantly shorter period of time, had a greater decrease in body weight, and developed significantly more ulcers than the other subjects, survival was not enhanced, body weight was not elevated, and ulceration was not ameliorated in these animals.
Abstract: Vasopressin-deficient rats and Long-Evans rats were subjected to one of the following treatments: (1) ad-lib access to food each day, (2) 23 h of food deprivation each day, or (3) 22 h of food deprivation each day. Vasopressin-deficient animals with 23 or 22 h of food deprivation survived for a significantly shorter period of time, had a greater decrease in body weight, and developed significantly more ulcers than the other subjects. Although vasopressin-deficient animals with 22 h of food deprivation consumed a higher percentage of food than vasopressin-deficient animals with 23 h of food deprivation, survival was not enhanced, body weight was not elevated, and ulceration was not ameliorated in these animals.
6 citations
TL;DR: For instance, this article found that males in three psychology classes endorsed significantly more aggressive acts than did females in sport competition, and participants were given descriptions of behaviors from six sport competition situations and asked to judge those behaviors as acceptable or unacceptable.
Abstract: Aggression is a common topic in sport psychology courses. Research has revealed a gender difference in the acceptance of aggressive behavior during sport competition. This article presents a classroom activity to demonstrate that difference. Participants were given descriptions of behaviors from six sport competition situations and were asked to judge those behaviors as acceptable or unacceptable. Males in three psychology classes endorsed significantly more aggressive acts than did females. A number of relevant discussion topics are suggested.
4 citations
TL;DR: The history of critical care medicine's cooperation with ethics is described, some lessons learned are related, and some suggestions for governmental and social input into the solution of the difficult ethical questions faced by contemporary medicine are given.