Lewis Powell

Lewis Powell
Norwich University College of the Arts | nuca · School of Design

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This study argues that the communicative behavior of the Boston Marathon bombers is consistent with the rhetoric of sacrifice, i.e., those who use religion as justification for killing others. Specifically, this paper notes that six attributes of the rhetoric of sacrifice are consistent with the known communications of the two suspects, particularl...
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David Hume fancied himself the Newton of the mind, aiming to reinvent the study of human mental life in the same way that Newton had revolutionized physics. And it was his view that the novel account of belief he proposed in his Treatise of Human Nature was one of that work’s central philosophical contributions. From the earliest responses to the T...
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This study examined the role of the Wai from the perspective of people in Thailand. The Wai, the most common greeting used by natives of Thailand, consists of bringing one's palms together while bowing or dipping one's head. Data, gathered by having participants write an essay on the role of the Wai in Thailand, were subjected to content analysis....
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Background: Anastomotic leakage remains a concern in general surgical practice. The significance lies in the resultant abdominal sepsis, related morbidity and mortality, risk of anastomotic loss, permanent stoma creation and the effect on local recurrence and overall patient survival in colorectal cancer cases. Objectives: This study serves to d...
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Dengue fever is an acute viral disease, which usually presents as a mild febrile illness. Patients with severe disease present with dengue haemorrhagic fever or dengue toxic shock syndrome. Rarely, it presents with abdominal symptoms mimicking acute appendicitis. We present a case of a male patient presenting with right iliac fossa pain and suspect...
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In his Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man, Thomas Reid offers a barrage of objections to the view, held by David Hume, that conceivability implies possibility. In this paper, I present Reid's first two objections to the ‘maxim of conceivability’ and defend Hume from them. The first objection concerns our ability to understand impossible claim...
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In this paper, I investigate the prospects for using the distinction between rejection and denial to resolve Saul Kripke’s puzzle about belief. One puzzle Kripke presents in “A Puzzle About Belief” poses what would have seemed a fairly straightforward question about the beliefs of the bilingual Pierre, who is disposed to sincerely and reflectively...
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Dage, a low- to medium volume contract electronics manufacturer, implemented the EFACS enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for reducing change-overs, stream lining production processes and building flexible, fast-response business processes. The authors describe how substantial improvements can be made in delivery performance while simultaneo...
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Dage is a low- to medium-volume contract electronics manufacturer (CEM) that specializes in fast reaction to changing customer requirements. Starting in 2001, the company implemented several changes to address the need to improve responsiveness and costs. The projected improvements were achieved through close cooperation among the personnel and the...
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Attention is given to evaluations of the relative impacts on and benefits to the Space Station Program of various levels of robotics devices for space servicing operations. The leading robotic candidate concept for the IOC Space Station, the Smart Front End, uses a small, stiff and highly dexterous work effector controlled by a human-in-the-loop fr...
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The Space Platform System has completed Phase B preliminary design. The mission intent is to support the shuttle orbiter in a sortie configuration with Power, Communications, Thermal and Attitude Control capability for up to 30 days while supporting payloads within the shuttle bay or mounted directly on the platform. The platform in a free flier mo...
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A discussion is presented of the preliminary design of the Space Platform System, which is being developed to support the Shuttle Orbiter in a sortie configuration with power, communications, and thermal and attitude control capability for up to 30 days while supporting payloads within the Shuttle bay or mounted directly on the platform. Three payl...

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