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Selected Abstracts

Violence in Bloomsbury: A Theological Challenge

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, Issue 3 2006
OLIVER DAVIES
The terrorist attacks in London on 7 July 2005 are subjected to hermeneutical analysis as cultural and political signs, and are seen to reflect an extreme version of religious and social incommensurability. They present a theological challenge, the response to which is the development of a positive theological account of world. This comes into view in London, the ,City of the Incommensurable', in a special way, since it is nevertheless a domain of negotiated time and space and an environment held by many in common. This environment of pluralism and proximity is taken to be both iconic of globalization and a particularly dynamic locus of its many instantiations. The intersection of global and local, and the kinds of encounters it supports, argue for a new kind of theology which, with all its proper resources in scripture, doctrine and tradition, can recognize the world as sphere of common human interests and practices, and can allow itself to become, in accordance with its own incarnational ground, an agent of transformation within it. [source]

Computations of eigenpair subsets with the MRRR algorithm,,

NUMERICAL LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH APPLICATIONS, Issue 8 2006
Osni A. Marques
Abstract The main advantage of inverse iteration over the QR algorithm and Divide & Conquer for the symmetric tridiagonal eigenproblem is that subsets of eigenpairs can be computed at reduced cost. The MRRR algorithm (MRRR=multiple relatively robust representations) is a clever variant of inverse iteration without the need for reorthogonalization. STEGR, the current version of MRRR in LAPACK 3.0, does not allow for subset computations. The next release of STEGR is designed to compute a (sub-)set of k eigenpairs with ,,(kn) operations. Because of the special way in which eigenvectors are computed, MRRR subset computations are more complicated than when using inverse iteration. Unlike the latter, MRRR sometimes cannot ignore the unwanted part of the spectrum. We describe the problems with what we call ,false singletons'. These are eigenvalues that appear to be isolated with respect to the wanted eigenvalues but in fact belong to a tight cluster of unwanted eigenvalues. This paper analyses these complications and ways to deal with them. Published in 2006 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

I,Virtues of Art and Human Well -Being

ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME, Issue 1 2008
Peter Goldie
What is the point of art, and why does it matter to us human beings? The answer that I will give in this paper, following on from an earlier paper on the same subject, is that art matters because our being actively engaged with art, either in its production or in its appreciation, is part of what it is to live well. The focus in the paper will be on the dispositions,the virtues of art production and of art appreciation,that are necessary for this kind of active engagement with art. To begin with, I will argue that these dispositions really are virtues and not mere skills. Then I will show how the virtues of art, and their exercise in artistic activity, interweave with the other kinds of virtue which are exercised in ethical and contemplative activity. And finally, I will argue that artistic activity affords, in a special way, a certain kind of emotional sharing that binds us together with other human beings. [source]

Practitioner-researchers in occupational therapy

AUSTRALIAN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY JOURNAL, Issue 1 2000
Anne Cusick
Few occupational therapy clinicians are research productive even though their involvement in research is encouraged. The role of ,research-practitioner' is put forward as a means by which practitioners can be research productive. There is, however, an absence of studies exploring experience of the minority of practitioners who do produce research. This study used a qualitative approach to do this in occupational therapy. Purposive sampling was conducted of all research productive clinicians in acute-care hospitals in one Australian city. Of the 20 possible researchers, 15 participated in in-depth interviews which explored their experience of research. Results were analysed using the constant comparative method and six conceptual categories were developed to describe their experience. The key findings were that clinicians who did research perceived themselves to be different from other clinicians in terms of attributes; and they described special ways of getting research done, and ways of reflecting on outcomes of their research involvement. The study provides an empirical foundation to further consider the practitioner-researcher role in practice professions such as occupational therapy. [source]