Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Solidarity and Difference: A Contemporary Reading of Paul's Ethics

Preface Abbreviations Introduction 1. Approaches to Pauline Ethics: from Bultmann to Boyarin 1.1 Theology and ethics: indicative and imperative 1.2 Pauline ethics as halakah 1.3 Pauline ethics and Greco-Roman moral philosophy 1.4 Pauline ethics and the teaching of Jesus 1.5 Morals and community: Pauline ethics in social context 1.6 Appropriating Pauline ethics 1.7 Paul beyond the church: political ethics and cultural criticism 1.8 Conclusion 2. Liberals and Communitarians: Contrasting Approaches in Contemporary Ethical Theory 2.1 The liberal-communitarian debate 2.2 Jurgen Habermas's discourse ethics 2.3 Stanley Hauerwas's ecclesial ethics 2.4 Critical reactions 2.5 Common ground? 3. Reading Paul: Myth, Ritual, Identity, and Ethics 3.1 Symbolic universe, story, and myth 3.2 Ritual and practice 3.3 Identity, world-view, and ethos 3.4 Ethics and morality 3.5 Conclusion 4. The Construction of Community: Corporate Solidarity in Christ 4.1 Baptism and Lord's supper 4.2 A community of adelphoi: identity and ethos 4.3 Appeals for unity in the face of division 4.4 The body: whole and parts 4.5 Solidarity in practice: what difference does it make? 4.6 Conclusion 5. Purity, Boundaries and Identity: the Rhetoric of Distinction 5.1 The language of distinction 5.2 Distinction and positive group identity 5.3 Boundaries and the body: sexual ethics and idolatry 5.4 Social interaction with outsiders 5.5 Ethical norms: distinctive or shared? 5.6 Conclusion: distinct identity, shared ethics 6. Solidarity, Difference, and Other-Regard: the Strong and the Weak (1 Cor 8-10, Rom 14-15) 6.1 Idol food at Corinth: 1 Cor 8.1-11.1 6.2 The Strong and the Weak in Rome: Rom 14.1-15.13 6.3 Significant themes 6.3.1 Conscience, faith, and stumbling 6.3.2 Freedom 6.3.3 Tolerance and intolerance 6.3.4 Identity and difference 6.4 Conclusion 7. Other-Regard and Christ as Moral Paradigm 7.1 Philippians 2.5-11 and Christ as examplar 7.2 1 Corinthians 9.14-15 and Paul's imitation of Christ 7.3 The law of Christ (Gal 6.2 1 Cor 9.21) 7.4 The Collection (2 Cor 8.9-15): self-giving and equality 7.5 Conclusion 8. Ethics and Outsiders 8.1 Universal knowledge (Romans 1-2) 8.2 Universal obligations (Rom 13.1-7) 8.3 Concern for the reaction of outsiders 8.4 Doing good to all 8.5 Conclusion 9. Solidarity and Difference: Paul Among Liberals and Communitarians 9.1 The character of Pauline ethics 9.2 Paul among liberals and communitarians 9.3 Models for the appropriation of Pauline ethics Bibliography Indexes Index of ancient references Index of modern authors
Antinociceptive Effects of Novel A2B Adenosine Receptor Antagonists

Caffeine, an adenosine A1, A2A, and A2B receptor antagonist, is frequently used as an adjuvant analgesic in combination with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or opioids. In this study, we have examined the effects of novel specific adenosine receptor antagonists in an acute animal model of nociception. Several A2B-selective compounds showed antinociceptive effects in the hot-plate test. In contrast, A1- and A2A-selective compounds did not alter pain thresholds, and an A3 adenosine receptor antagonist produced thermal hyperalgesia. Evaluation of psychostimulant effects of these compounds in the open field showed only small effects of some antagonists at high doses. Coadministration of low, subeffective doses of A2B-selective antagonists with a low dose of morphine enhanced the efficacy of morphine. Our results indicate that analgesic effects of caffeine are mediated, at least in part, by A2B adenosine receptors.
Toward Large-Scale Vulnerability Discovery using Machine Learning

With sustained growth of software complexity, finding security vulnerabilities in operating systems has become an important necessity. Nowadays, OS are shipped with thousands of binary executables. Unfortunately, methodologies and tools for an OS scale program testing within a limited time budget are still missing. In this paper we present an approach that uses lightweight static and dynamic features to predict if a test case is likely to contain a software vulnerability using machine learning techniques. To show the effectiveness of our approach, we set up a large experiment to detect easily exploitable memory corruptions using 1039 Debian programs obtained from its bug tracker, collected 138,308 unique execution traces and statically explored 76,083 different subsequences of function calls. We managed to predict with reasonable accuracy which programs contained dangerous memory corruptions. We also developed and implemented VDiscover, a tool that uses state-of-the-art Machine Learning techniques to predict vulnerabilities in test cases. Such tool will be released as open-source to encourage the research of vulnerability discovery at a large scale, together with VDiscovery, a public dataset that collects raw analyzed data.
A TRANSIENT PERIOD FOR ENABLING MOTION VISION PRECEDES THE CRITICAL PERIOD FOR OCULAR DOMINANCE PLASTICITY

The premise that mature visual function depends upon the nature of visual experience during development is based primarily on experiments showing that visual deprivation during a 'critical' period early in life causes abnormalities in visual cortex and an enduring loss of spatial vision (amblyopia). There is, however, little evidence that early visual experience actually enables mature vision. Experiments in this thesis provide such evidence. The measurement of optomotor responses daily from eye opening permanently enhances optomotor sensitivity and the perception of visual motion. The plasticity allowing this enhancement is transient and peaks in efficacy before the start of the classical 'critical 'period for ocular dominance plasticity. The enhancement is dependent upon optomotor responses generated by the movement of high spatial frequency visual stimuli, and is mediated by the visual cortex. These studies show that a form of experience-dependent plasticity, distinct from that of the critical period, enables mature motion vision.
Trapping of waves by a submerged elliptical torus

An investigation is made into the trapping of surface gravity waves by totally submerged three-dimensional obstacles and strong numerical evidence of the existence of trapped modes is presented. The specific geometry considered is a submerged elliptical torus. The depth of submergence of the torus and the aspect ratio of its cross-section are held fixed and a search for a trapped mode is made in the parameter space formed by varying the radius of the torus and the frequency. A plane wave approximation to the location of the mode in this space is derived and an integral equation and a side condition for the exact trapped mode are obtained. Each of these conditions is satisfied on a different line in the plane and the point at which the lines cross corresponds to a trapped mode. Although it is not possible to locate this point exactly, because of numerical error, existence of the mode may be inferred with confidence as small changes in the numerical results do not alter the fact that the lines cross. If the torus makes small vertical oscillations, it is customary to try to express the fluid velocity as the gradient of the so-called heave potential, which is assumed to have the same time dependence as the body oscillations. A necessary condition for the existence of this potential at the trapped mode frequency is derived and numerical evidence is cited which shows that this condition is not satisfied for an elliptical torus. Calculations of the heave potential for such a torus are made over a range of frequencies, and it is shown that the force coefficients behave in a singular fashion in the vicinity of the trapped mode frequency. An analysis of the time domain problem for a torus which is forced to make small vertical oscillations at the trapped mode frequency shows that the potential contains a term which represents a growing oscillation.
Comparison of the Insecticidal Characteristics of Commercially Available Plant Essential Oils Against Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae (Diptera: Culicidae)

ABSTRACT Aedes aegypti and Anopheles gambiae are two mosquito species that represent significant threats to global public health as vectors of Dengue virus and malaria parasites, respectively. Although mosquito populations have been effectively controlled through the use of synthetic insecticides, the emergence of widespread insecticide-resistance in wild mosquito populations is a strong motivation to explore new insecticidal chemistries. For these studies, Ae. aegypti and An. gambiae were treated with commercially available plant essential oils via topical application. The relative toxicity of each essential oil was determined, as measured by the 24-h LD50 and percentage knockdown at 1 h, as compared with a variety of synthetic pyrethroids. For Ae. aegypti, the most toxic essential oil (patchouli oil) was ∼1,700-times less toxic than the least toxic synthetic pyrethroid, bifenthrin. For An. gambiae, the most toxic essential oil (patchouli oil) was ∼685-times less toxic than the least toxic synthetic pyrethroid. A wide variety of toxicities were observed among the essential oils screened. Also, plant essential oils were analyzed via gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) to identify the major components in each of the samples screened in this study. While the toxicities of these plant essential oils were demonstrated to be lower than those of the synthetic pyrethroids tested, the large amount of GC/MS data and bioactivity data for each essential oil presented in this study will serve as a valuable resource for future studies exploring the insecticidal quality of plant essential oils.
Role of Nonstructural Protein NS2A in Flavivirus Assembly

ABSTRACT Flavivirus nonstructural (NS) proteins are involved in RNA replication and modulation of the host antiviral response; however, evidence is mounting that some NS proteins also have essential roles in virus assembly. Kunjin virus (KUN) NS2A is a small, hydrophobic, transmembrane protein that is part of the replication complex and inhibits interferon induction. Previously, we have shown that an isoleucine (I)-to-asparagine (N) substitution at position 59 of the NS2A protein blocked the production of secreted virus particles in cells electroporated with viral RNA carrying this mutation. We now show that prolonged incubation of mutant KUN NS2A-I59N replicon RNA, in an inducible BHK-derived packaging cell line (expressing KUN structural proteins C, prM, and E), generated escape mutants that rescued the secretion of infectious virus-like particles. Sequencing identified three groups of revertants that included (i) reversions to wild-type, hydrophobic Ile, (ii) pseudorevertants to more hydrophobic residues (Ser, Thr, and Tyr) at codon 59, and (iii) pseudorevertants retaining Asn at NS2A codon 59 but containing a compensatory mutation (Thr-to-Pro) at NS2A codon 149. Engineering hydrophobic residues at NS2A position 59 or the compensatory T149P mutation into NS2A-I59N replicon RNA restored the assembly of secreted virus-like particles in packaging cells. T149P mutation also rescued virus production when introduced into the full-length KUN RNA containing an NS2A-I59N mutation. Immunofluorescence and electron microscopy analyses of NS2A-I59N replicon-expressing cells showed a distinct lack of virus-induced membranes normally present in cells expressing wild-type replicon RNA. The compensatory mutation NS2A-T149P restored the induction of membrane structures to a level similar to those observed during wild-type replication. The results further confirm the role of NS2A in virus assembly, demonstrate the importance of hydrophobic residues at codon 59 in this process, implicate the involvement of NS2A in the biogenesis of virus-induced membranes, and suggest a vital role for the virus-induced membranes in virus assembly.
Attitudes towards Refugees: The Dark Side of Prejudice in Australia

Australia has a significant intake of refugees each year. The majority enter through the humanitarian entrants program and a small percentage arrive seeking asylum. These processes have resulted in considerable debate, which has sometimes been associated with negative attitudes within the mainstream community. Research has indicated that realistic threat and symbolic threat are important components of the integrated threat theory for understanding opposition towards immigrants and refugees. Social desirability has also been indicated as potentially influential in the expression of negative attitudes. The current study examined the prevalence and correlates of negative attitudes towards refugees in an Australian sample. Participants comprised 261 volunteer university students (119 males and 142 females). Participants were assessed on a prejudicial attitude measure, measures of symbolic and realistic threat and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale. The results indicated over half (59.8%) of participants scored above the mid-point on prejudicial attitudes. Males reported less favourable attitudes towards refugees than females. Analysis revealed both realistic and symbolic threats were influential in predicting prejudicial attitudes and, of these, realistic threat was the better predictor. The results are discussed in relation to the integrated threat theory of prejudice and in the context of addressing prejudice towards refugees in Australia.
Consciousness and cerebral baseline activity fluctuations

The origin of within‐subject variability in perceptual experiments is poorly understood. We here review evidence that baseline brain activity in the areas involved in sensory perception predict subsequent variations in sensory awareness. We place these findings in light of recent findings on the architecture of spontaneous BOLD fluctuations in the awake human brain, and discuss the possible origins of the observed baseline brain activity fluctuations. Hum Brain Mapp 2008. © 2008 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty with 1-year follow-up: factors predictive of success

Background and study aims: Bariatric endoscopy has emerged as an aid in the nonsurgical treatment of obesity. The objective of this study is to critically provide the results and follow-up of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty 1 year after the procedure. Patients and methods: Prospective single-center follow-up study of 25 patients (5 men, 20 women) who underwent flexible endoscopic suturing for endoluminal gastric volume reduction. A multidisciplinary team provided post-procedure care. Patient outcomes were recorded at 1 year after the procedure. Linear regression analysis was done to evaluate the variables associated with best results at 1 year of follow-up. Results: Mean body mass index (BMI) was 38.5 ± 4.6 kg/m2 (range 30 – 47) and mean age 44.5 ± 8.2 years (range 29 – 60). At 1 year, 22 patients continued with the follow-up (2 dropped out at 6 months and 1 at 3 months). There were no major intra-procedural, early, or delayed adverse events. Mean BMI loss was 7.3 ± 4.2 kg/m2, and mean percentage of total body weight loss was 18.7 ± 10.7 at 1 year. In the linear regression analysis, adjusted by initial BMI, variables associated with %TBWL involved the frequency of nutritional (β = 0.563, P = 0.014) and psychological contacts (β = 0.727, P = 0.025). The number of nutritional and psychological contacts were predictive of good weight loss results. Conclusions: Endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty is a feasible, reproducible, and effective procedure to treat obesity. Nutritional and psychological interaction are predictive of success.
The Newell Test for a Theory of Mind

Newell (1980, 1990) proposed that cognitive theories be developed trying to satisfy multiple criteria to avoid theoretical myopia. He provided two overlapping lists of 13 criteria that the human cognitive architecture would have to satisfy to be functional. We have distilled these into 12: flexible behavior, real-time performance, adaptive behavior, vast knowledge base, dynamic behavior, knowledge integration, natural language, learning, development, evolution, and brain realization. There would be greater theoretical progress if we evaluated theories by a broad set of criteria such as these and attended to the weaknesses such evaluations revealed. To illustrate how theories can be evaluated we apply them to both classical connectionism (McClelland & Rumelhart, 1986; Rumelhart & McClelland, 1986) and the ACT-R theory (Anderson & Lebiere, 1998). The strengths of classical connectionism on this test derive from its intense effort in addressing empirical phenomena in domains like language and cognitive development. Its weaknesses derive from its failure to acknowledge a symbolic level to thought. In contrast, ACT-R includes both symbolic and subsymbolic components. The strengths of the ACT-R derive from its tight integration of the symbolic with the subsymbolic. Its weaknesses largely derive from its failure as yet to adequately engage in intensive analyses of issues related to certain criteria on Newell’s list.
Reports of Emotional Expressivity and Willingness to Associate in Peers of Social Anhedonics.

Title of Document: Reports of Emotional Expressivity and Willingness to Associate in Peers of Social Anhedonics. Jaime T. Carreno, Master of Arts, 2006 Directed By: Professor, Jack J. Blanchard, Psychology Despite promising research on social anhedonia as an indicator of schizotypy, little is known about the social correlates of this construct. The current study examined peer relationships and emotional expressivity of individuals classified as socially anhedonic. Specifically, this study sought to examine to what degree diminished emotional expressivity in anhedonics occurs, and if it may contribute to social difficulties. Social anhedonics and controls were recruited from a college sample. The roommates of participants were also contacted and asked to complete ratings of emotional expressivity, willingness to interact, and a social pleasure scale. Social anhedonics reported diminished emotional expressivity and also reported poorer social adjustment when compared to controls. Anhedonics did not differ from controls in their ratings of school or familial adjustment. Contrary to expectations, groups did not differ with respect to peer-rated expressivity, willingness to associate or social pleasure. REPORTS OF EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIVITY AND WILLINGNESS TO ASSOCIATE IN PEERS OF SOCIAL ANHEDONICS.
The Routledge Companion to Visual Organization

Introduction: Mapping the Field of Visual Organization (Emma Bell, Samantha Warren and Jonathan Schroeder) Part I: Thinking Visually About Organization 1. Between the Visible and Invisible in Organizations (Wendelin Kupers) 2. The Visual Organization: Barthesian Perspectives (Jane Davison) 3. The Method of Juxtaposition: Unfolding the Visual Turn in Organization Studies (Bent M. Sorensen) 4. The Limits of Visualization: Occularcentrism and Organization (Donncha Kavannagh) Part II: Strategies of Visual Organization 5. Constructing the Visual Consumer (Lisa Penaloza and Alex Thompson) 6. Cultural Production and Consumption of Images in the Marketplace (Laurie Meamber) 7. Portraiture and the Construction of Charismatic Leadership (Beatriz Acevedo) 8. The Signs and Semiotics of Advertising (Norah Campbell) 9. Art, Artist and Aesthetics For Visual Organizational Strategy (Pierre Guillet de Monthoux) Part III: Visual Methodologies and Methods 10. Methodological Ways of Seeing and Knowing (Dvora Yanow) 11. Navigating the Scattered and Fragmented: Visual Rhetoric, Visual Studies and Visual Communication (Kelly Norris Martin) 12. Using Video Ethnography to Study Entrepreneurship (Jean Clarke) 13. Ethnographic Videography and Filmmaking for Consumer Research (Ekant Veer) 14. Drawing as a Method of Organizational Analysis (David R. Stiles) 15. Visual Sociology and Work Organization: An Historical Approach (Tim Strangleman) Part IV: Visual Identities and Practices 16. Arts-Based Interventions and Organizational Development: It's what you don't See (Ariane Berthoin Antal, Steven S. Taylor and Donna Ladkin) 17. Towards an Understanding of Corporate Web Identity (Carole Elliott and Sarah Robinson) 18. Visual Workplace Identities: Objects, Emotion and Resistance (Harriet Shortt, Jan Betts and Samantha Warren) 19. Managing Operations and Teams Visually (Nicola Bateman) 20. Social Media and Organizations (Pauline Leonard) 21. Simulated Organizational Realities (Steve G. Hoffman) Part V: Representing Organizations Visually 22. The Organization of Vision within Professions (Alexander Styhre) 23. Visual Authenticity and Organizational Sustainability (Emma Bell and McArthur) 26. (Seeing) Organizing in Popular Culture: Discipline and Method (Martin Parker)
Natural material adsorbed onto a polymer to enhance immune function

Background In this study, we produced poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) microspheres of different sizes and adsorbing a medicinal plant mixture, and verified their effect in vitro on the viability, superoxide production, and bactericidal activity of phagocytes in the blood. Methods The medicinal plant mixture was adsorbed onto PEG microspheres and its effects were evaluated by flow cytometry and fluorescence microscopy. Results Adsorption of the herbal mixture onto the PEG microspheres was achieved and the particles were internalized by phagocytes. PEG microspheres bearing the adsorbed herbal mixture stimulated superoxide release, and activated scavenging and microbicidal activity in phagocytes. No differences in functional activity were observed when the phagocytes were not incubated with PEG microspheres bearing the adsorbed herbal mixture. Conclusion This system may be useful for the delivery of a variety of medicinal plants and can confer additional protection against infection. The data reported here suggest that a polymer adsorbed with a natural product is a treatment alternative for enhancing immune function.
Barrel Cortex Microcircuits: Thalamocortical Feedforward Inhibition in Spiny Stellate Cells Is Mediated by a Small Number of Fast-Spiking Interneurons

Inhibitory and excitatory neurons located in rodent barrel cortex are known to form functional circuits mediating vibrissal sensation. Excitatory neurons located in a single barrel greatly outnumber interneurons, and form extensive reciprocal excitatory synaptic contacts. Inhibitory and excitatory networks must interact to shape information ascending to cortex. The details of these interactions, however, have not been completely explored. Using paired intracellular recordings, we studied the properties of synaptic connections between spiny neurons (i.e., spiny stellate and pyramidal cells) and interneurons, as well as integration of thalamocortical (TC) input, in layer IV barrels of rat thalamocortical slices. Results show the following: (1) the strength of unitary excitatory connections of spiny neurons is similar among different targets; (2) although inhibition from regular-spiking nonpyramidal interneurons to spiny neurons is comparable in strength to excitatory connections, inhibition mediated by fast-spiking (FS) interneurons is 10 times more powerful; (3) TC EPSPs elicit reliable and precisely timed action potentials in FS neurons; and (4) a small number of FS neurons mediate thalamocortical feedforward inhibition in each spiny neuron and can powerfully shunt TC-mediated excitation. The ready activation of FS cells by TC inputs, coupled with powerful feedforward inhibition from these neurons, would profoundly influence sensory processing and constrain runaway excitation in vivo.