Qualified Life Research Articles

THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL MACHINE AND ITS REVERSAL

In this article, I shall outline a thought experiment aimed at reversing the relationship between bíos and zoē established by the anthropological machine. Giorgio Agamben resorts to the notion of “anthropological machine” to define the mechanism that produces the qualified life of human beings (bíos), through the inclusive exclusion of their biological life (zoē). My experiment does not render the exclusionary logic of the anthropological machine inoperative, but reverses the hierarchy it establishes between bíos and zoē. The result is what I shall call the machine of biologism, or simply the biological machine. If the anthropological machine establishes its perimeters of exclusion/inclusion on the grounds of bíos, the biological machine resorts to zoē. Thus, the biological machine does not operate according to the anthropological difference, which deems the human being as essentially not an animal, but according to what I shall define as the biological difference.

The nonhuman and coming community in the selected works of Olga Tokarczuk

ABSTRACT This paper explores the plight of nonhumans and the form of the coming community through the status quo of border-crossing bodies in selected works by Olga Tokarczuk in light of biopolitics. It highlights the link between dehumanization and biopolitics and argues that the nonhuman becomes a foundation of modern sovereignty. The nonhuman is produced by an inclusive exclusion, where the violence enters in and maintains the sovereign, and this anthropocentric mechanism becomes the fundamental political paradigm. To resist this anthropocentrism, Tokarczuk proposes a new form of community, the ‘airport-republic’ with fluid trans-borders, for opening up a new subject construction model and human organization form for post-Holocaust humanity. However, it is easy for these people who are invisible or becoming nonhuman to fall into the indistinguishable zone between humans and animals, between bios (politically qualified life) and zoē (bare life). They cannot be guaranteed by the sovereignty power, thereby falling back again into the logic of the Holocaust.

With all the talk of entry into the profession and the training experience, what about Black clinical psychologists post qualification?

The focus on how Whiteness and racism exclude racialised individuals from entering the profession, and adversely impact the experiences of racialised trainees, has led to an oversight of the experiences of racialised, specifically Black, qualified clinical psychologists. The doctoral research this article is based on aimed to address this gap by exploring Black Clinical Psychologists’ (BCPs’) experiences of racism and its discussion at work and in the profession. The accounts provided illustrate the ways in which Whiteness continues to permeate the professional context and remain a consistent feature of the lives of our Black colleagues following their transition into qualified life. Their testimony highlights the detrimental impact of Whiteness and racism on their emotional and psychological wellbeing, and willingness to remain within the profession and the NHS. In sharing their experiences, they remind us that, although the profession is keen to celebrate its efforts to tackle racism during the pre-qualification phase, the work of addressing Whiteness and becoming anti-racist is far from complete; our Black qualified colleagues continue to endure ongoing harm.

Aging of Power Cables in Nuclear Power Plant due to Influence of Local Temperature Conditions

A significant number of operating nuclear power plants (NPP) is approaching the end of the initially estimated design life. Considering that plants are stable and competitive, it may be possible to extend design lives to 60 years (perhaps even longer). Before expending life time, ageing in NPPs must be effectively managed to ensure the availability of design functions throughout the plant service life. From the safety perspective, this means controlling ageing degradation and wear-out within acceptable safety limits so that adequate safety margins remain, i.e. integrity and functional capability in excess of normal operating requirements. Even though cables are not active component, they are vital components in NPPs since they link the system components with instruments and control equipment used to monitor and control the plant. Consequently, the functionality of the cable necessary for nuclear safety is necessity for ensuring the functionality of equipment relevant to nuclear safety. Since the cable ageing have been recognized as potential threat to safe operation of NPP, this paper deals with cable ageing aimed at identifying effects of aging and to determine whether the degradation caused by aging is within the stipulated tolerance limits. Also, it analyses the impact of ambient temperature changes on the cable ageing comparing to a qualified life. For an illustration, Arrhenius’s model was used to calculate cable ageing in hot spot with the increased local temperature.

Views on Reading and Research Habits of Veterinary Medicine Students in Turkey.

Reading and research habits, together with individual and social development, some of the most important criteria of a qualified life in our age, are among the characteristics university students are expected to have. As in every profession, veterinary professional development is possible with individual development by continuous studying and researching professional topics starting in students' graduate years. This research provides perspectives from the veterinary students of six faculties in Turkey on reading and research interests. The researchers developed a 39-item questionnaire-type instrument, which was given to 1,359 students studying at Ankara, Aydın, Burdur, Samsun, Erzurum, and Bursa in Turkey; data were analyzed using statistical tests. The number of books veterinary students read in a year did not exceed five by 34% of respondents. Only 22.3% read more than 11 books. Students were most likely to read novels (26.1%) and least likely to read religious books (0.5%). We also found that more than half the students were willing to join the scientific research community (56.3%) and become research assistants (57.8%). The researchers found a positive increase in students' views on reading and research interests as grade level increased, in favor of female and urban-based participants. In conclusion, the authors recommend that students be encouraged to do research, given assignments for researching various scientific topics, and provided environments to gain lifelong learning skills. Individuals who prefer reading and research will likely contribute to their personal and professional development and to their country in general.

Consumir e ser consumido, novos olhares sobre a relação entre homens e animais na literatura latino-americana contemporânea

A Ecopolítica pode ser compreendida como um novo campo de produção de poder/saber relacionado a tecnologias de governo do planeta que incidem nas relações entre capitalismo e ambiente e entre democracia e gestão do planeta. Uma das dimensões que participam da Ecopolítica é a afi rmação, expansão e consolidação dos direitos dos animais como fundamento da coexistência ética das espécies, sobretudo através da problematização da fronteira entre humanidade/animalidade. Paralelamente ao desenvolvimento da Ecopolítica, também se destaca a contínua inserção do Estado de Exceção como forma contemporânea de governo, limiar de indistinção entre direito e violência sob a qual qualquer cidadão pode ser elevado à categoria de homo sacer (Agamben, 2002). Essas são as duas dimensões que constituem a obra distópica Cadáver Exquisito (2018) da escritora argentina contemporânea Agustina Bazterrica. Neste artigo, pretendemos analisar como se fi guram no romance da autora: a) a legitimação do estado de exceção; e b) a fronteira humanidade/animalidade e as dimensões da ecopolítica que estruturam o romance. Para tal fi m, utilizamos como aportes teóricos Giorgio Agamben, Peter Sloterdijk, Michel Foucault, Gabriel Giorgi entre outros. A partir da análise, observamos que a problematização da diferença ontológica entre humano e animal, no romance, aponta à tendência contemporânea de humanização do segundo, elevado à vida qualifi cada, enquanto, na relação entre seres humanos, ainda se destaca a defi nição e normatização dos contornos do humano, relegando à dimensão da vida nua aqueles que excedem tais margens.

Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Cable Prognostics Using Indenter Modulus Measurements

As the fleet of nuclear power plants (NPPs) approach their1 original qualified life (typically 40 years) and operators seek license extensions, regulators require assurance that they can continue to operate safely in the decades to come. Some of the most important, yet often overlooked components, are the cables that provide the signal paths for instrumentation and control (I&C) systems used to ensure safe and efficient operation of NPPs.In response to this, the authors explore the use of expanding indenter modulus (IM), an industry-accepted technique for cable condition monitoring, into a prognostic tool for predicting the remaining useful life (RUL) of I&C cables. Not only is this technique non-destructive, but it can be performed while NPP cables are in service, thus making it practical for adoption into existing cable condition monitoring programs. In this paper, the authors describe an accelerated aging cable test bed used to acquire several types of measurement parameters as cables age. Additionally, practical techniques are described in which simple IM measurements can be leveraged for condition monitoring and RUL estimation.Error analysis indicates the proposed method is superior to conventional RUL estimation techniques, such as simple trending and curve fitting. The authors demonstrate that using IM can potentially provide a non-destructive, in-situ estimation of RUL for I&C cables. As described in this paper, the IM data clearly shows trends as a function of cable age, and shows promising performance for RUL estimation especially compared with conventional techniques.

WEB ACCESSIBILITY OF MOOCS FOR ELDERLY STUDENTS: THE CASE OF TURKEY

Learning, eLearning and distance education has a significant function on the elderly for advancing well-being, which has indicated in the literature. In addition to this, e-learning provides an opportunity to become unified with the rest of society to older people. In this context, older people have extensive opportunities to raise the qualified life and enable lifelong learning and inclusion in learning communities by using Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). The number of users over age 65 has more than doubled since 2000. Currently elderly users represent less than 10 % of MOOC users. Besides, the certain outcome of younger participants aging will raise the number of older people using the Internet the next decades. And, there is no study has been carried out on the accessibility of MOOCs for elderly users in Turkey context.

The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life

With the notion of the form-of-life as a counter-figure to the notion of bare life, Agamben seems to invite us to place at the center of a critical theory of capitalism a reflection on bios. To envisage a form of emancipation that unfolds against bare life suggests, at first glance, another relation to the living body. Such a gesture seems to be inspired by the desire to think a natural life that would also be a politically qualified life. The idea with which Agamben closes the Homo Sacer series, namely that of a use of bodies, also gestures in this direction. In this paper I show how the categories of bare life and of the use of bodies fail to live up to their promise, before demonstrating in what sense the idea of a subtraction of law as a political project which subsumes all others ends up weakening the critical potential of the idea of a form-of-life that is to be realised against the force of production of bare lives.

MORAL EDUCATION TO EMPOWER CONSCIENCE, MIND AND VOLITION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN BEINGS

Human beings are the highest form of God’s creation among other creatures. Moral education is carried out to enable human beings to live up to their noble purpose of life as destined by God. In order to strive for their noble destiny, human beings have three spiritual powers that must be empowered and utilized in their lives, namely conscience, mind, and volition. In order for those powers to be useful optimally, they must be empowered. In order to empower conscience, it is necessary to cultivate silence in life so that we are able to listen to the gentle whisper of conscience which leads to a good life as the purpose in the journey of life. To prevent the conscience from straying, it needs to have a moral compass which would be the basis to determine the next steps. Furthermore, one should have clear mind to determine the ways, steps, means, and directions to arrive at the expected goal. Finally, in order to realize the qualified life, which has been determined to be done, human beings have willpower to follow up. To determine and decide something, human beings must be courageous to take action. In order to be courageous to take action, we need to have a strong consideration that what we are doing is good and right. Thus, we will dare to be held accountable for any outcomes of the actions we have taken as right and just. That is, essentially, the true human destiny, namely to strive for goodness and truth. DOI : https://doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2018.020109

MORAL EDUCATION TO EMPOWER CONSCIENCE, MIND AND VOLITION TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF HUMAN BEINGS

Human beings are the highest form of Gods creation among other creatures. Moral education is carried out to enable human beings to live up to their noble purpose of life as destined by God. In order to strive for their noble destiny, human beings have three spiritual powers that must be empowered and utilized in their lives, namely conscience, mind, and volition. In order for those powers to be useful optimally, they must be empowered. In order to empower conscience, it is necessary to cultivate silence in life so that we are able to listen to the gentle whisper of conscience which leads to a good life as the purpose in the journey of life. To prevent the conscience from straying, it needs to have a moral compass which would be the basis to determine the next steps. Furthermore, one should have clear mind to determine the ways, steps, means, and directions to arrive at the expected goal. Finally, in order to realize the qualified life, which has been determined to be done, human beings have willpower to follow up. To determine and decide something, human beings must be courageous to take action. In order to be courageous to take action, we need to have a strong consideration that what we are doing is good and right. Thus, we will dare to be held accountable for any outcomes of the actions we have taken as right and just. That is, essentially, the true human destiny, namely to strive for goodness and truth.DOI:https://doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2018.020109

A Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o conhecimento como commodity

This article problematizes the epistemological dimension that underpins the proposal of the National Curriculum Standard. In doing so, it discusses the conceptions of competences and knowledge that are presented in MEC’s document exploring the concept of knowledge economy as the matrix of the curricular proposal. This makes possible to structure and understand the curricular conception that one wishes to implant in Brazilian schools. The conclusion was that every discursive apparatus of the right to education does nothing more than constitute competitiveness as the foundation of education. The impoverishment of knowledge, reduced to mere competence, does not operate for qualified life by culture, but for economic productivism, since an entire ethical and aesthetic dimension is neglected in the educational process. Keywords: curriculum, National Curricular Common Base, knowledge economy, epistemology.

A Base Nacional Comum Curricular e o conhecimento como commodity

This article problematizes the epistemological dimension that underpins the proposal of the National Curriculum Standard. In doing so, it discusses the conceptions of competences and knowledge that are presented in MEC’s document exploring the concept of knowledge economy as the matrix of the curricular proposal. This makes possible to structure and understand the curricular conception that one wishes to implant in Brazilian schools. The conclusion was that every discursive apparatus of the right to education does nothing more than constitute competitiveness as the foundation of education. The impoverishment of knowledge, reduced to mere competence, does not operate for qualified life by culture, but for economic productivism, since an entire ethical and aesthetic dimension is neglected in the educational process. Keywords: curriculum, National Curricular Common Base, knowledge economy, epistemology.

The German Beast Unleashed: Kleist’s Hermannsschlacht and the Suspension of 'Human Rights' in the Era of Nationalism

This article scrutinises the aporetic confrontation of different ultimate values in Kleist’s infamous Die Hermannsschlacht, namely nationalism and a basic notion of ‘human rights’. Kleist’s play does not settle for one of these priorities, but conceptualizes the nation as a facilitator, promulgator, and protector of rights and — at the very same time — as an inexorable principle of selection which ties the notions of exclusion and elimination closely to those of inclusion and participation. In this respect, Die Hermannsschlacht not only prepares and anticipates elements of Carl Schmitt’s political theory, but also comes very close to Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of sovereignty and the production of politically qualified life in his Homo Sacer series. However, it does so without completely abandoning the universal ideas of human rights.

Qualification of Electric Penetration Assemblies for CAP Series Nuclear Power Plant

Qualification of electric penetration assemblies for CAP series nuclear power plant is introduced, including identification of qualification requirements, selection of representative specimens, development of qualification test plan, and implementation of qualification tests. The main elements of the qualification program are the clauses given in IEEE Std. 317, combined with testing parameters enveloping normal, abnormal and design basis accident operating environment in the CAP series nuclear power plant. In this qualification program, two representative specimens of successfully passed all the design tests and qualified-life tests, and thus the desired safety function and a qualified life of 60 years were demonstrated for the electric penetration assemblies.

Inglês

The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) was developed in the 20th century, on the need to recover / stabilize seriously wounded patients. With the increasing life expectancy, the raise on chronic diseases and high complexity treatments, as well as invasive procedures, the ICU comes with a more qualified life bearer. The ICU is the appropriate place to recoverable severe patients, who need assistance and monitoring 24 hours a day. The aim of this research is to characterize the profile of patients hospitalized in the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Cascavel/PR. It was a quantitative, documental study of descriptive and retrospective approach. 296 medical records were studied from January to April 2015. The observed variables in this study were gender, age, city of origin, length of stay, main causes for hospitalization, release / death. Among the main findings, there is the prevalence of males, in both cases, number of ICU admissions and number of deaths. The main cause of death for women and men was the cardiovascular diseases and expressive prevalence of elderly, representing 66.55% of total admissions. The characterization of ICU patients can aid in the guidelines of admissions and releases of this unit, as the knowledge of critical patients' profile favors the establishment of objective criteria for this end, helping all multidiscipline team.

MENERAPKAN ETIKA NILAI MAX SCHELER DALAM PERKULIAHAN PENDIDIKAN PANCASILA UNTUK MEMBANGUN KESADARAN MORAL MAHASISWA

The universities, not only can develop the academic skill, also give lectures that are able to build the students' characters in complete. Pancasila Education, one of the subjects of character building, is hoped to be able to build the students' moral consciousness to create a high qualified life that is in accordance with Pancasila. Max Scheler is a moral philosopher who offers the material valueethic; offers the values as the basis thought for human action. According to Max Scheler's thought, the basic moral action of human beings hopefully does not stop at the consciousness to seek personal enjoyment (hedonist), and at the consciousness to obey the rules and do the obligations (deontologist), but do moral action based on their consciousness to create positive, high and objective values in human life. This piece of writing is aimed to explain the application of the Max Scheler's value-ethic as a base for Pancasila Education lecture to build students' moral consciousness. The students' moral consciousness is not only based on the moral consciousness to seek personal enjoyment and the obedience to regulations or institutions, but also the consciousness of the existence of a moral obligation to create positive, high and objective values in human life i.e. the high values of Pancasila.

Raw Life and Respectability

Through close ethnographic attention to modes of world making among people living in a very impoverished community in Cape Town, South Africa, in this paper I explore the histories of two key concepts—rouheid and ordentlikheid (Afrikaans; rawness and respectability)—and the social practices they enjoin. These distinctions and the modalities of living they generate produce relations between living and dying that complicate the prevailing theoretical picture of power over life and death, particularly that posited by Giorgio Agamben’s (1998) distinction between bare and qualified life. They also foreground the ways in which gender is implicated in practices of world making that James Holston (2008) describes as “insurgent” and “differentiated” citizenship. Exploring the ways that people seek to craft lives in contexts that undermine many possibilities, I demonstrate ethnographically both the forms of exposure that poverty produces and the ways that these are countered. I propose a genealogy of bareness that,...

An Itô model of pit corrosion in pipelines for evaluating risk-informed decision making

The purpose of this paper is to present a stochastic model based on the Itô differential equation to the time evolution of pit corrosion depth in nuclear power plant piping systems. The stochastic solution obtained by analytical and numerical methods (for comparison purposes) is compared to the deterministic solution, which is obtained by setting the stochastic term of the Itô equation equal to zero. The study of extended qualified useful life of nuclear power plants has two components, one deterministic and another probabilistic and one complements the other. The evaluation based on deterministic methods defines the difference between the current state and condition of the item in the qualifying phase, but does not define its probability of continuing performing its function adequately for a period longer than the one defined by its qualified life. The corrosion process is modeled by the Itô stochastic equation, which describes the time evolution of pit corrosion depth among different states. The Itô equation is determined by the knowledge of two functions known as the drift and diffusion coefficients. This work shows that these functions can be used to estimate pit corrosion depths from plant inspection data. An Itô modeling of pit corrosion can also be developed for any component of a nuclear power plant for which corrosion depth data is available. The above proposed approach provides a precise and easy way in which pit corrosion depth can be monitored over time, which is critical for developing reliability and risk-informed models for inspection and maintenance planning of corroded pipelines. The stochastic model presented is developed considering the influence of the Gaussian white noise on corrosion. The equations of the stochastic model are solved analytically based on the Itô integral. The maximum operating time of a piping before its wall reaches the minimum allowable thickness is calculated. This study uses pit corrosion depth data from the Angra I nuclear power plant.

Derecho a la educación: sobre la co-formación para una vida cualificada

In the light of the student's strike in 2011, the education is rephrased as conformación for a qualified life towards the treatment with others as free and equal agents, while the social right to education is proposed as a right of qualified life which requires more intervention by the State for it´s satisfaction.