This essay rejoins Merinda Simmons’s protection of Russell McCutcheon’s critic vs. caretaker dichotomy in her response to my “Can a Critic be a Caretaker Too? Religion, Conflict and Conflict Transformation” (JAAR 2011). While Simmons aims to preserve McCutcheon’s binary as a purportedly benignly unavoidable opposition, I expose the perils of epistemic anti-realism at the heart of that dichotomy...

one of the most important issues concerned with causation is that of ultimate cause. the ultimate in philosophy is used in two senses; one means: “something to which movement is directed”; the other means: “something for which movement takes place.” there are three theories with regand to “what is ultimate cause?” 1. the external existence of the ultimate of act; 2. the conception of the ultima...

Abstract I explain how philosophy, science and theology can continue to work together concerning the issue of ultimate origins. In reply objection that we should try find a scientific explanation rather than accepting conclusion design, KCA-TA demonstrates cannot be one, because first event must have been brought about by First Cause with libertarian freedom not mechanism describable law nature...

Thin layers derived from t he matrix are produced in the frac ture plane of son1(' pol \'1llC'rs prior to ultimate failure. A certain amount of t he evidence would indicate t hat these iayC'rs consist of an oriented array of molecules. Fracture isolates t hese molecular segmen ts 'i n a t hin filtn with physical properties differing from tha t of t he matrix in "\\'hi c h they origillatC'cI. Th...

Sheared toroidal rotation is found to increase the ideal external kink stability limit, thought to be the ultimate performance limit in fusion tokamaks. However, at rotation speeds approaching a significant fraction of the Alfvén speed, the toroidal rotation shear drives a Kelvin–Helmholtz-like global plasma instability. Optimizing the rotation profile to maximize the pressure before encounteri...

corrosion of steel reinforcement is one of the most prevalent causes of reinforced concrete (rc) structures deterioration in chloride-contaminated environments. as a result, evaluating the impact of any possible corrosion-induced damages to reinforced concrete bridges strongly affects management decisions: such as inspection, maintenance and repair actions. the corrosion propagation phase is a ...

corrosion of reinforcing steel and other embedded metals is the main cause of severe deterioration in reinforced concrete structures which subsequently imposes adverse effects on ultimate and serviceability limit state performance of the whole structure. in this paper, a new corrosion detection method for reinforced concrete beams, based on wavelet analysis is presented. to evaluate the capabil...

By coupling a single-electron transistor to a high-quality factor, 19.7-megahertz nanomechanical resonator, we demonstrate position detection approaching that set by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle limit. At millikelvin temperatures, position resolution a factor of 4.3 above the quantum limit is achieved and demonstrates the near-ideal performance of the single-electron transistor as a lin...

We present a new tool for imaging spin properties. We show that a spatially averaged spin signal, measured as a function of a scanned magnetic probe's position, contains information about the local spin properties. In this first demonstration we map the injected spin density in GaAs by measuring spin photoluminescence with a resolution of 1.2  μm. The ultimate limit of the technique is set by t...