His actions are the antithesis of heroism

Nursing heroism in the 21st Century'

BACKGROUND The Vivian Bullwinkel Oration honours the life and work of an extraordinary nurse. Given her story and that of her World War II colleagues, the topic of nursing heroism in the 21st century could not be more germane. DISCUSSION Is heroism a legitimate part of nursing, or are nurses simply 'just doing their job' even when facing extreme personal danger? In this paper I explore the pl...

antiTHESIS : the dialectics of software art

theoretical level. 34 # software cultural criticism A working principle has been established in the previous section: that any terms of reference are not definitive but only function as ideas in progress for further development. Criticism of the terms under discussion is an expected part of any critical work. The parenthesised subtitle of Matthew Fuller’s essay ‘Behind the Blip’ suggests as muc...

'Heroism' in Warfare

The willingness of people to risk their lives fighting on behalf of their nation (which we call heroism) is a background assumption in the study of war, thus of international relations, but also an evolutionary puzzle. We use two computer simulations to explore the possibility that heroism could have evolved as a domain specific form of altruism, selected through humans’ ancient past as a conse...

Heroism, Suffering, and Change

The category of monoid actions in Cpo

In this paper, some categorical properties of the category ${bf Cpo}_{{bf Act}text{-}S}$ of all {cpo $S$-acts}, cpo's equipped with actions of a monoid $S$ on them, and strict continuous action-preserving maps between them is considered. In particular, we describe products and coproducts in this category, and consider monomorphisms and epimorphisms. Also, we show that the forgetful functor from...