Morning Of January Research Articles

Characteristic Analysis and Short-Impending Prediction of Aircraft Bumpiness over Airport Approach Areas and Flight Routes

Based on the Quick Access Recorder (QAR) data covering over 9000 routes in China, the monthly and intra-day distribution characteristics of aircraft bumpiness at different levels were analyzed, and the relationships between the eddy dissipation rate (EDR) and other aircraft flight status elements during bumpiness occurrence were also analyzed. Afterward, aircraft bumpiness routes were constructed using 19 machine learning models. The analyses show that (1) aircraft bumpiness was mainly concentrated between 0:00 a.m. and 17:00 p.m. Severe aircraft bumpiness occurred more frequently in the early morning in January, especially between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m., and moderate bumpiness always occurred from 3:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. (2) The relationship between the left and right attack angles and aircraft bumpiness on the routes was more symmetrical, with a center at 0 degrees, unlike in the approach area where the hotspots were mainly concentrated in the range of −5 to 0 degrees. In the approach area, the larger the Mach number, the more severe the bumpiness. (3) The performances of the Automatic Relevance Determination Regression (ARD), Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS), Elastic-Net Regression (ENR), Classification and Regression Tree (CART), Passive Aggressive Regression (PAR), Random Forest (RF), Stochastic Gradient Descent Regression (SGD), and Tweedie Regression (TWD) based models were relatively good, while the performances of the Huber Regression (HUB), Least Angle Regression (LAR), Polynomial Regression (PLN), and Ridge Regressor (RR) based models were very poor. The aircraft bumpiness prediction models performed best over the approach area of ZBDT (airport in Datong), ZULS (airport in Lhasa), ZPPP (airport in Kunming), and ZLQY (airport in Qingyang). The model performed best in predicting the ZLLL-ZBDT air route (flight routes for Lanzhou to Datong) with different prediction times.

A Grade Ⅲ Severe Hypersensitivity Caused by Gadopentatic Acid Injection: A Case Report

BackgroundGadopentetic acid is a common contrast agent for enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Adverse reactions due to gadolinium-based contrast agents are rare and easily overlooked by medical staff. A patient developed a rash as the first symptom and quickly developed a severe allergic reaction after receiving gadopentetic acid. Patient presentationA 74-year-old female patient was admitted on January 11, 2022, for femur magnetic resonance imaging. At 12:05 pm, a routine intravenous rapid injection of gadopentetic acid (15 ml) was given. Two minutes after administration, the patient developed skin itching. No obvious rash was found, but a 10 mg intravenous injection of dexamethasone was given. Recount of eventsAfter 1 minute, skin pruritus had not improved significantly, saliva secretion had increased significantly, and a general discomfort appeared. At 12:10 pm, outside the scanning room, the patient suddenly became unconscious; 1 mg of EPINEPHrine was injected intramuscularly, and oxygen was given through a mask. Heart rate, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation steadily dropped. The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit. After EPINEPHrine, norepinephrine, terlipressin, and dexamethasone treatments, the vital signs eventually stabilized. The patient was judged to have had a grade III severe allergic reaction according to the first aid guidelines for severe allergic reactions in China. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the morning of January 14. ConclusionThis case stresses the importance of being equipped with the medicines, items, supplies, and equipment needed for emergency treatments in all departments where contrast agents are used. Patients with apparently mild adverse reactions to contrast agents should not be overlooked.

War against Prohibition: Italians and Booze in New York City, 1920–1933

War against Prohibition: Italians and Booze in New York City, 1920–1933

Living Law

Living Law Eugene Avrutin and Bruce Rosenstock (bio) Jewish Political Theology from Hermann Cohen to Hannah Arendt By Miguel Vatter. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 348 pp. IN MEMORIAM Professor Bruce Rosenstock (1951–2023), passed away on the morning of January 5, 2023 after a long battle with cancer. A passionate activist for justice, equality, and pluralism, Professor Rosenstock taught at the University of California, Davis and at Stanford University before joining the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty in 2002. Professor Rosenstock was the author of numerous well-received books on political theology and modern Jewish philosophy, including New Men: Conversos, Christian Theology, and Society in Fifteenth-Century Castile (2002), Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Beyond (2010), and Transfinite Life: Oskar Goldberg and the Vitalist Imagination (2017). Most recently, Rosenstock was at work on a book titled "Hegel and the Holocaust," an exploration of four thinkers who have attempted to respond to the Holocaust in the terms of Hegel's philosophy. An inspiring teacher, Rosenstock was a longtime member of the Executive Committee in the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and served as the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Religion. [End Page 213] _______ Over the last couple of decades, miguel vatter has established him-self as one of the most original and penetrating scholars of Continental political thought working today. Since 2014, he has published three monographs that cover the most significant themes in the field, from biopolitics, the constitutional basis of state sovereignty and international law, to human rights and political theology (Republic of the Living: Biopolitics and the Critique of Civil Society, Fordham University Press, 2014; Divine Democracy: Political Theology after Carl Schmitt, Oxford University Pres, 2020; and the volume under review). In his always illuminating and thought-provoking close readings of the major figures of modern political philosophy, Vatter returns again and again to a set of fundamental claims around which his argument is structured: the ontological grounding of human rights in the unique emergent property (my phrasing) of humanness; state sovereignty as the usurpation of the power residing in humanness; republican democracy as the political expression of humanness; and Jewish and Christian political theology as competing discourses about the divinity of humanness versus the divinity of sovereignty. I read Vatter's work as being squarely located within the tradition of Ludwig Feuerbach and the early Marx of the Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, and their concern to liberate humanness (they call it the human "species being") from its political-theological alienation. For Vatter, the deification the human sovereign is the quintessential alienation of humanness, whereas the "living law" that vests humanity with inalienable dignity restores humanness to its rightful place in the scheme of creation. What makes Vatter's work so richly rewarding is that his engagement with his chosen themes is always mediated through deep and erudite readings of the primary sources of modern political thought. The book under review here is a tour de force exposition of the major Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, from Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig to Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Hannah Arendt (with [End Page 214] a brief discussion of Martin Buber and his influence on Arendt). Vatter's stress on the centrality of the category of Creation as the ground of human dignity makes his book a fitting complement to Benjamin Lazier's treatment of the anti-Gnostic tendency of these thinkers in God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars (Princeton University Press, 2008). Each of Vatter's chapters builds toward a synthetic understanding of modern Jewish political theology as founded on the principle that divine sovereignty is revealed in the power of the human to freely form republican communal life under an egalitarian legal order grounded in dignity as a natal property of every human. In the book's epilogue, Vatter argues that, with the creation of the human, the "Throne of God" is emptied of its glory and transferred to the human being. Each new human birth inaugurates a new rights-bearing creature who is the only sovereign power on earth. In a synoptic statement near the conclusion of...

Beholding Ourselves

The bus was full of excited chatter as it pulled up in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known universally as The Met) on Fifth Avenue on a cold morning in January. Thirteen girls, along with invited loved ones, had traveled for nine-and-a-half hours from Durham, NC, to view their art displayed in the exhibit, “Pens, Lens, and Soul: The Story of The Beautiful Project” (hereafter, “Pens, Lens, and Soul”). First, the girls filed off the bus to take a photograph on the steps of The Met. As their family and friends waited to disembark, they laughed and shivered while posing for numerous photographs and videos on the cold steps. As they stood at the bottom of the steps of the grand prestigious museum, the impressiveness of their accomplishment was just beginning to dawn on many of them. As she walked around the exhibit one of the artists would comment, “I feel surprised because I didn’t realize it was this big of a thing and I was here and it’s a thing, it’s a big thing … we are capable of doing anything.”

“But He Was Good for Israel, Wasn’t He?” A Reassessment of the Jewish State’s Embrace of Donald Trump

After a sleepless night wishing that the frightening scenes from the US Capitol were just a grotesque nightmare, the morning of January 7, 2021, brought some initial comic relief. Israeli politicia...

Because of Bostock

On a below-freezing January morning, Jennifer Chavez, an automobile technician, sat in a car that she was repairing to keep warm while waiting for delayed auto parts to arrive. Without intending to, she nodded off. Her employer promptly fired her for sleeping on the job. At least, that is the justification her employer gave. But Chavez had reason to believe that her coming out as transgender motivated the termination. In the months leading up to the January incident, Chavez’s supervisor had told her to “tone things down” when she talked about her gender transition. The repair-shop owner said that the transition made him “nervous” and could “impact his business,” claiming that it had prompted a prospective employee to decline a job offer. The owner had also instructed Chavez not to wear “a dress or miniskirt” or “too feminine attire” to and from work. Before coming out as transgender, Chavez was an “excellent employee” with a spotless disciplinary history. After coming out, things changed. The repair-shop management acted on advice from an attorney to begin writing up Chavez for issues “one at a time” with a “focus on work and performance.” The accidental nap may have been exactly the opportunity they needed.

Diagnosis and treatment investigation of one confirmed COVID-19 case

Objective We investigated the CT changes, clinical manifestations, and epidemiological characteristics of patients′ lung, which is contribute to perform the five early principle as soon as possible for similar cases in the future, and to avoid misdiagnosis, missed diagnosis, and reduce the contact with unprotected infectious sources, reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Additionally, we explore the new approach of traceable epidemiological investigations by carry out the epidemiological investigations in different ways. Methods Diagnosis and treatment of a 53-year-old male patient who was diagnosed as COVID -19 by the Tianlin County People’s Hospital on January 30, 2020 and epidemiological history were retrospectively analyzed. Results Clinical symptoms including fever, fatigue and cough with a little sputum. The patient was admitted to the hospital for treatment of respiratory tract infection, and the CT showed ground-glass opacity and the lesions increased progressively. The radiologist highly suspected the case as COVID-19 by comparing the CT imagine before and after different dates, and then the patient was isolated for treatment and collected sputum for nucleic acid detection. The patient was a positive case of COVID-19. The patient has been living in Ding′an Town, Tianlin County for a long time. Neither himself nor his family members had a history of traveling or staying in epidemic areas such as Wuhan. The patient has been running a breakfast shop with his wife before onset of the disease, and he denied contact with the suspected people. Departments of Public Security investigated the suspected individuals who have meals in the restaurant during the incubation period of the patient through big data. It was found that on the morning of January 20, 2020, a citizen, named Lu, from Huangshi City, Hubei Province (Ministry of Public Security detected Lu was confirmed case for Huangshi City) in the restaurant with breakfast which cooked by the patient. Generally, customers through the small window of food delivery have a short-term face-to-face conversation with the patient. Conclusion The clinical symptoms of this patient were not obvious, and the severity of chest CT lesions was inconsistent with the clinical manifestations, which was consistent with the common features of COVID-19. The route of infection of the patient was transmitted by a close distance airborne droplet transmission from the COVID-19 patient (source of infection), who returned from the epidemic area to the local temporary residence before onset of illness (late incubation period). 摘要：目的 分析广西田林县人民医院首例新型冠状病毒肺炎 (COVID-19) 患者肺部 CT 变化、临床表现特征和流 行病学特点, 为 COVID-19 防控提供经验依据。 方法 采用描述性流行病学方法对 2020 年 1 月 30 日在田林县人民医 院收治的 1 例 COVID-19 确诊病例的诊疗经过和流行病史进行分析。 结果 患者临床表现为发热、乏力、咳嗽伴少许 咳痰, 入院以“呼吸道感染”收治, CT 显示磨玻璃影, 病灶进行性增大, 通过对不同日期肺部 CT 对比高度怀疑新冠疑似 病例, 进而对患者隔离治疗并取样送检, 该患者新冠肺炎病毒核酸检测阳性。患者长期居住田林县定安镇, 其本人及 家属均无武汉等旅居史; 患者发病前同其妻一直经营一家早餐店。经大数据手段对患者潜伏期内到其经营粉店用餐 的可疑人员逐一排查发现, 2020 年 1 月 20 日上午来自湖北省黄石市卢某某 (卢某某为黄石市确诊病例) 在患者经营的 粉店用早餐, 用餐人员一般情况下均通过递粉小窗口与患者面对面有近距离短暂交流对话。 结论 患者临床症状不 明显, 肺部 CT 病灶严重程度与临床表现不一致, 符合新冠病毒感染肺炎普通型特征。该患者感染途径是通过自疫区的 当地短暂旅居者 (感染源) 发病前 (潜伏期后期) 近距离空气飞沫途径传播。

The Value and Role of the Infection Control & Prevention Department During a Catastrophic Hospital Fire

<h3>Background</h3> On the evening of January 15, 2019, a 719-bed adult and pediatric hospital experienced a fire on a patient care building roof. Firefighters were on the scene within minutes and thousands of gallons of water were used to extinguish the blaze. Hospital administrators and the Infection Control & Prevention Department (ICPd) manager and medical director were on site within an hour to assess damage to five pediatric operating rooms (OR) and pediatric endoscopy suite. <h3>Methods</h3> The initial role of the ICPd management team was to develop a plan. This included environmental controls needed to protect patients, staff and visitors and to guide step wise implementation that evening. Throughout the ordeal, the ICPd continued to establish operational needs and coordination of care. Support from expertise in ICPd continued throughout the project multi phases, beyond rebuilding, into decision support related to supplies, equipment and reuse of space. <h3>Results</h3> Within the hour of administrative assessment, ICPd issued a high priority plan that involved shutting down all pediatric ORs, sealing off a corridor connecting the adult and pediatric ORs, creating an anteroom in the post-anesthesia care unit leading to the pediatric ORs, shutting down air handlers until facilities management was able to isolate and direct exhaust air out of the area, and setting up negative-pressure pressure within the damaged area/future work space. The plan outlined ICPd needs for the following day and a risk assessment to utilize the adjacent ORs. The morning of January 16, remediation plans were in place, minimizing disruption to scheduled OR cases. <h3>Conclusions</h3> A quick response, expertise and a collaborative ICPd is important to minimize the potential negative impact of a destructive event such as a hospital fire. The ability to make sound decisions in a timely fashion allowed for administrative support and ultimately maintained the safety of patients, staff and visitors.

Radiance in Reclamation

In the sharp frosty winds of the morning of January 9th, 2019, Indigenous activist group Idle no More and their allies shut down the Bloor Viaduct, a well-used truss arch bridge in Tkaronto, Ontario, Kanata (Three Fire Territories) that connects the city’s east-side to its downtown core. The action took place during rush hour in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The Canadian government was once again violating unceded land by mobilizing armed federal law enforcement to forcibly remove the nation from their land in order to build a gas pipeline. In response to this violence, allies throughout the city, myself among them, decided to show Tkaronto that it was not business as usual by bringing traffic on the Viaduct to a halt. Importantly, the bridge looms over the Don River. Reclamation of this space was therefore a reminder of the sanctity of water, gesturing to the fact that it is a privilege to be able to access clean water, while also reminding us of the threat of contamination posed by the pipelines’ development. As the day came to an end and the sun retreated, cycling through its farewell hues of yellow and orange, the elders began to sing. We round danced, our bodies flowing as one like the river beneath us. Our melodic voices of hope and mourning, joining the gusts of wind that whistled between the bridge supports. After the protest, we continued to chant as we walked back, fists raised with the awareness that, although this action was over, our spirits had been rekindled for the next one. This photo essay seeks to echo the calls of resistance of that day. I capture the warm hopeful tones of the sunset in an otherwise frigid colour scheme, while using wide angles to capture the scope of attendance, and a low depth of field to center the role of femme-identifying water protectors in the movement.

Bulgaristan’ın Asimilasyon Politikalarına Karşı Alvanlar (Yablanovo) Direnişi (17-18-19 Ocak 1985)

Between 1984 and 1989, the Communist Party of Bulgaria launched a campaign called the Rebirth (Back To Basics) Process, which claimed that the Turks living in the country were originally Bulgarian. With this campaign, Turks in Bulgaria were prohibited from speaking Turkish, listening to Turkish music, slaughtering sacrifices, circumcising their children, religious and traditional practices at their funerals or weddings, and wearing wearing certain clothes that were seen as symbols of Turkishness. In addition to these prohibitions, as of December 1984, the names of our citizens living in Bulgaria began to be replaced with Bulgarian names. The name change was implemented in Alvanlar (Yablonova), a village of Kazan (Kotel) district of Islimye (Sliven) province on 17-18-19 January. However, the people of the village of Alvanlar (Yablanovo) massively resisted the leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party who came to change their names. Other villages in the Gerlovo region did not leave the Alvanlar alone in this resistance. On January 17 and 18, the Bulgarian communist rulers could not enter the village, and on the morning of January 19, they were able to enter the village with the help of the Sliven Armored Unit, the largest armored unit in Bulgaria. Resisting the tanks of the Bulgarian army with stones and sticks in their hands for three days, the Alvanlar people showed a great example of heroism and left a very important mark in the history of the Bulgarian Turks.

Engaging stakeholders through social media and emergent organizations: The West Virginia Water Crisis Recovery as a case study.

The West Virginia water contamination crisis began on the morning of January 9, 2014, and left approximately 300,000 customers of the West Virginia American Water Company unable to use the water in their homes for any purpose other than flushing their toilets. Given the lack of appropriate response from the established organizations involved, many emergent organizations formed to help fill unmet informational and physical needs of the affected population. Crisis researchers have observed these ephemeral organizations for decades, but the recent proliferation of information communication technologies have made their activities more widespread and observable. In West Virginia, their activities were indispensable to the affected population and helped restore a sense of normalcy. This article analyzes four emergent organizations that formed in response to the West Virginia water contamination and the functions they performed in different phases of this crisis.

Walter Mitty Meets Bert Blyleven: What Happens When a Middle-Aged Guy Attempts to Revive His High School Baseball Career

Walter Mitty Meets Bert BlylevenWhat Happens When a Middle-Aged Guy Attempts to Revive His High School Baseball Career John Rosengren (bio) genesis: in the big inning “I want to pitch from that mound,” my buddy Tom Knickelbine said. He pointed to where Glen Perkins stood at Target Field. “Guys who attend fantasy camp get to play a game here next summer.” “You’re going to fantasy camp?” “Yeah.” TK had pitched in high school, taken thirty years off to go to college, finish med school, get married and have three children, but resumed his career last summer on our thirty-five-and-over baseball team. “You should come, too.” Sounded fun, but I knew my wife would never go for me leaving her alone with our two young kids for a week. And I couldn’t justify writing a check for $4,195. Besides, much as I loved the game, I didn’t want to become some Walter Mitty parody. “Nah.” I thought that was it until a couple of months later when TK sent an email telling me he’d registered and told the camp director about his writer friend. “Call him.” I did. The director invited me as his guest. Then my wife surprised me–she agreed to the idea. So on a January morning with temps registering ten below in Minneapolis, I boarded the plane bound for fantasy camp in Fort Myers. enter at your own risk The sign on the door at the Player Development Complex read: “RESTRICTED AREA: Staff, players, and coaches only!!!!” Like every other one of the 132 campers there (including four women), TK and I had not gained access with [End Page 87] our talents but could now enter the previously forbidden sphere. We opened the door and walked into the clubhouse. My locker was larger than any I’d ever had: a wooden cubicle three-feet wide with a nameplate above it and a metal folding chair tucked inside. There were two Twins jerseys–home and away–the blue one with my name across the back and the other with the number thirteen. I had been too self-conscious to pick the number of my boyhood hero, Rod Carew, so I had chosen that of John Roseboro, a fellow catcher who had played two seasons with the Twins and was the subject of my latest book. There was also a Louisville Slugger with my name engraved on it. The camp format had us divided into ten teams, each coached by a pair of pros. TK and I played for Greg Gagne, shortstop on the Twins’ two World champion teams, and Frank Viola, the ace of the ’87 team. I had met Viola at the camp dinner the night before. He’s a big guy, 6′4″ and heavier than the two hundred pounds he played at—all of these pros are bigger in real life than they appeared on television and the field. Viola sported a hoodie, red curly mop, thick mustache and New York accent. Despite the diamond-studded number sixteen hanging from a thin gold chain around his neck, he seemed more a happy-go-lucky galumph than a three-time All Star and the 1988 Cy Young Award winner. “Good to meet you,” Sweet Music said, like it had been on his bucket list. “I hope you have some fun.” Still, my first at bat, I felt the nerves. I wanted to prove I wasn’t a total imposter in my Twins uniform. The guy on the mound was throwing about the speed of the pitchers I had faced in my summer league since resuscitating my high school baseball career two years ago, but I have never been confident about my hitting. It didn’t calm me to hear Viola yell from the first base coaches’ box, “Okay, John, make a good debut.” I flied out to right center. But at least I didn’t embarrass myself during the game—beyond bouncing a throw past the third baseman when starting the ball around the horn following a strikeout. I blocked plenty of balls in the dirt, though when I told Viola I was frustrated I’d...

The Whiteness of the Weasel

The Whiteness of the Weasel E. J. Myers (bio) We are not alone. I've known since boyhood that houses often have critters—that the structures we humans perceive as ours often contain other denizens who don't happen to share this proprietary attitude. The resulting interspecies disagreement often leads to conflict. During twenty-five years of residence in suburban New Jersey, for instance, I fought a low-intensity war against the squirrels on the property that my wife and I owned there. These cute troublemakers persistently invaded and nested in our attic, and I resolutely set traps to catch and relocate them to a nearby nature preserve. The result: nearly three hundred squirrels deported over the course of a quarter century. Following this and other experiences, I'm not surprised that when we moved to Vermont, the old house we bought would appeal to wildlife, nor am I shocked to hear scratchy sounds coming from the ceiling and the walls. Neither am I astonished one January morning when Edith announces: "There's a rat in the bathroom!" She utters these words emphatically but without alarm. "A rat? Are you sure?" "It's big, it's white, and it has huge black eyes." Having closed the door, Edith has trapped this critter in the room. [End Page 131] I'm puzzled by her description. It's true that a large rodent might well be a rat, but I'm surprised by the color. Most wild rats are gray, brown, or black. I've never heard of one that's white. I tell Edith I'll investigate; I ease into the bathroom; I look around. I sit on the closed toilet for a while and wait in silence. There's neither sight nor sound of an intruding animal. I don't doubt that she has spotted something, but whatever she saw has somehow escaped. A day later, after Edith has left Vermont for a work assignment, I prepare the house for my own week out of town. One of my chores is to move firewood from the attached garage into the house and then stock two racks near the wood stoves. I make multiple trips into the garage. On my third or fourth trip, something catches my attention: a rustling sound in the far right corner. I can't see what's making it. Then, after fifteen or twenty seconds, I catch sight of the intruder. A small creature, long and lithe, emerges from beneath the ride-on mower and slinks into view. Altogether white except for its black eyes and the black tip of its tail, this animal rears up on hind legs and stares at me. I grasp that it's a weasel of some sort. I'm struck at once by its beauty. This animal is agile, supple, and alert. Despite my total ignorance of weasels, I decide that this one is female. She stares at me with interest but without any sign of alarm. I realize just then what has drawn her out: a bag of frozen garbage that I had carelessly left on the garage floor the previous night. One corner has been chewed open. This little beast has clearly been exploring the trash. Even as I watch, she scampers over to the bag, pokes her head inside, and returns to pilfering whatever she can extract. I step closer. She startles at once and darts under the mower. There's no sign of her for several minutes. Impatient, I return to my task of stocking firewood. Each time I return to the garage, however, I find her exploring the garbage, so I walk over, surprise her with my approach, pick up the bag, and remove it. My later visits to the garage show her still present as she attempts to figure out what happened to her smorgasbord. It's clear to me that I can't let this animal remain here. For all I know, she is the source of the scratching sounds that Edith and I heard on the second floor. Spotting one such creature probably means that [End Page 132] others are present—an entire family, even. Very well, then: they have to go...

R.I.P. Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M., 1929–2019

R.I.P. Alexander A. Di Lella, O.F.M., 1929–2019 Joseph E. Jensen, Ph.D. It is with deep sadness that OTA notes the passing on March 23 of this year of The Reverend Alexander S. Di Lella, O.F.M. who has served as an Associate Editor of OTA from its very first issue in February of 1978 until his death. Scattered among the pages of the forty-one previous volumes of OTA readers will find more than 120 book abstracts contributed by Dr. Di Lella. Also to be found there are abstracts of his ten books, including major commentaries on Ben Sira and Daniel, and of many of his more than fifty scholarly articles and essays. Alexander A. Di Lella began his academic career in 1958 at The Catholic University of America, earning his Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1959, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1962. His dissertation, a text-critical historical study of the Cairo Geniza Hebrew fragments of Sirach, established the authenticity of the fragments as witnesses to Ben Sira's original Hebrew text, and thereby provided the foundation for all future Ben Sira research. A fellowship with the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem provided the young scholar with experience in archaeological excavation and time for research. Next, study at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome led to a Licentiate of Sacred Scripture in 1964. Professor Di Lella spent the following forty-six years in Washington, DC, primarily teaching Semitic languages and biblical studies at Catholic University, with additional courses at Holy Name College, Washington Theological Union, and the Education for Parish Service program at what is now Trinity-Washington University. In 1992 he was awarded Catholic University's Andrews-Kelly-Ryan Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies chair. Professor Di Lella retired from teaching at Catholic University in 2005, but continued for another five years as professor emeritus, directing doctoral dissertations. Along with his academic endeavors Professor Di Lella was active at all levels as a member of The Catholic Biblical Association of America, serving as its President in 1975-76. He contributed multiple translations for the revision of the New American Bible. As one of a committee of 14 leading Jewish, Protestant and Catholic biblical scholars Professor Di Lella reviewed hundreds of recommended improvements in translation and wording that led to the 1989 New Revised Standard Version Bible, now the most widely used modern English translation. Professor Di Lella's Catholic Edition of the NRSV appeared in 1993. On a personal note, as one among the more than a generation of scholars who was molded and shaped under Alexander A. Di Lella's careful, demanding direction and mentorship I am forever grateful. After I defended my dissertation, Social Justice in the Wisdom of Ben Sira, prepared under his direction, Fr. Di Lella became Alex. I relish fond memories of attending an occasional opera together always followed with dinner at a fine restaurant. Together we shared a love of books. At one point Alex expressed his intention to leave his professional library to me in his will. Then about four years ago I arrived at home to find unannounced nineteen large cartons of books on my porch. My first encounter with Alex was on the morning of January 21, 1993. I was a new graduate student awaiting the start of my first seminar in Room 432 of The Catholic University of America's Caldwell Hall. At precisely 9:00 a.m. Alex appeared in the doorway and proclaimed, "Peace." Alex now rests in the "peace that is beyond all understanding" that Alex always wished for others. [End Page 812] Joseph E. Jensen Assistant General Editor, OTA Copyright © 2019 The Catholic Biblical Association of America

Cleaning up Cosmos: Satellite Debris, Radioactive Risk, and the Politics of Knowledge in Operation Morning Light

The Northern Review 48 (2018): 81–109In the early morning of January 24, 1978, the nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 crashed on the barrens of the Northwest Territories. The crash dispersed radioactive debris in a wide trajectory across northern Canada, with multiple communities falling within the debris field.The lengthy clean-up that followed was shaped by government understandings of the northern environment as mediated through authoritative science and technology. This authority was to be challenged from the very beginning of Operation Morning Light. Constant technological failures under northern environmental conditions only increased the uncertainty already inherent in determining radioactive risk. Communication of this risk to concerned northerners was further complicated by language barriers in the predominantly Indigenous communities affected. Although Operation Morning Light was shaped by uncertainties, archival records of this clean-up are still ultimately defined by government narratives of scientific authority, narratives which leave little room for the concerns of affected Indigenous communities.

Framing the challenges of artificial intelligence in medicine

On a clear January morning in Florida, a Tesla enthusiast and network entrepreneur was driving his new Tesla Model S on US Highway 27A, returning from a family trip. He...

Fifty-Plus Years of Watching Asia: An American Perspective

Fifty-Plus Years of Watching Asia: An American Perspective Sheldon W. Simon (bio) As a prelude to this personal rumination on the issues in Asian international politics that have occupied my professional life, I wish to express appreciation to See Seng Tan for asking so many well-qualified colleagues to contribute their own assessments to this compendium. My fascination with Asian politics began as an undergraduate in the 1950s at the University of Minnesota, where on a cold, snowy morning in January, Professor Werner Levi—a German-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who held three doctorates, including one in politics—stated that the world’s future would lie in Asia. A combination of ancient civilizations, historical grandeur, and a strong work ethic among its populations, he argued, would transform Asia in due course into the world’s most dynamic region. He went on to say that those of us who planned for a career in public affairs should consider becoming students of Asia. I was convinced. Upon completing my PhD in political science, I took a position with the U.S. government for three years analyzing Soviet and Chinese commentary on Asia. During this time, I honed the research interests that characterized my subsequent academic life—the interface between the great powers and Asian states as well as the dynamics of the developing Asian actors in dealing with great-power pressures and blandishments. Of course, the Asia-Pacific was home to three of those great powers—the United States in the aftermath of World War II, China under the aegis of its Communist Party, and the Soviet Union. This essay addresses these dynamics in two sections—one on the security arrangements in North and Southeast Asia and one on recent U.S. relations with states in both subregions—before concluding with some final thoughts. Northeast and Southeast Asian Security Arrangements From an American perspective, it is useful to divide the analysis of East Asia into its northern and southern components. The United States’ Cold War and post–Cold War attention to the region may be assessed through its security arrangements. For Northeast Asia, this would be the ongoing presence of U.S. forces in the aftermath of World War II. Japan and the [End Page 74] Republic of Korea (ROK) became junior partners in Washington’s East Asia strategy opposing the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and North Korea. Thus, the U.S. hub-and-spoke security arrangement came into existence. Unlike NATO, a multilateral European military alliance requiring each member to come to the others’ defense in the event of an attack, Washington was unable to effect a similar arrangement between Japan, the ROK, and the United States. Korean bitterness over Japan’s colonial legacy meant that Seoul was unwilling to engage in any security agreement with Tokyo. The alternative was separate U.S. bilateral defense treaties between the United States and each country. The United States was the “hub” and its bilateral partners were the separate “spokes.” These spokes for the most part did not interact militarily with each other. For example, until recently, the Japanese and ROK navies only directly interacted with each other through U.S. intersession in multilateral maritime exercises such as the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC). By contrast, the Southeast Asian states assayed a number of times to create multilateral institutions beginning in the 1950s—for example, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization, the Association of Southeast Asia, and Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia (MAPHILINDO). None were successful, but all demonstrated a realization among non-Communist elites in the region that some form of political collaboration was necessary to deal with both extraregional and intraregional challenges from China, the Soviet Union, and North Vietnam. Southeast Asian leaders were also concerned that Western states might leave the region as the Indochina wars of the 1950s and 1960s ended with Communist victories. Southeast Asian leaders conceived a new regional organization in 1967, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), composed of Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia. In the mid-1960s, Indonesia’s president and founding father Sukarno had attempted to destroy Malaysia, which he saw as a neocolonialist country...

Short-term passive tracer plume dispersion in convective boundary layer using a high-resolution WRF-ARW model

High-resolution Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecast model is used to understand the role of atmospheric stability on the short-term transport of a continuous release passive scalar plume in three different convective boundary layer regimes: highly convective, combined shear- and buoyancy and shear dominated. Friction velocity to convective velocity ratio and atmospheric stability parameter are used to classify the boundary layer regimes. The effect of release height on the plume transport is addressed by releasing the plumes at surface, near-surface and elevated heights. Total 144 simulations are performed by releasing the plume in the morning and afternoon times of January and August months and at three release heights. Results show that horizontal transport of the plume scales with the initial wind conditions for surface and near-surface releases, and the vertical transport scales with atmospheric stability parameter. Mean plume height and vertical dispersion parameter obtained by convective scaling laws reached their asymptotic values after getting well-mixed in the boundary layer. The dimensionless downwind distance for the mean plume height to reach its asymptote is found to follow a power-law with respect to the atmospheric stability paramter. The coefficient and exponent of the power-law observed are found to be functions of the plume release height normalized by the boundary layer depth.

Marano: una fortezza contesa

Venice’s reconquest of Marano in 1542 was a key moment in the history of the Republic. The fortress of Marano was in fact at the top of its glory between the XV and XVI century, when it was contested between Austria and Venice. When it fell in the hands of Austria in 1513, Venice tried to reconquest it with every possible means. After years of unsuccessful attempts, the feat was carried out by Beltrame Sacchia, an ambitious and adventurous merchant from Udine, who occupied the fortress in 1542 in name of the King of France. This article analyses the repercussions of Marano’s reconquest on European political equilibrium. What happened on the morning of January 2, 1542, as well as making a turning point in the boundary dynamics between Venice and the Austrian, deeply damaged the diplomatic relations between the main powers of Europe: the Venetian Republic, France, the Empire and the Ottomans.