This study investigates the role of criminal dismemberment in sexual homicide crime-commission process. Specifically, this research aims to empirically determine whether criminal dismemberment is a ...rational behavior aimed at avoiding detection or an expression of sexual deviance. The sample used in this study comes from the Sexual Homicide International Database (SHIelD). Bivariate and multivariate analyses are performed to examine the differences between the crime commission process of sexual murderers who dismembered their victims (n = 77) and those who did not (n = 585). Findings indicate that criminal dismemberment occurred more often as part of a sexual deviance. Specifically, this behavior is strongly associated with the intention to kill the victim, necrophilia, mutilation of genitals, and commission of extreme acts committed on/with victims' bodies. Moreover, findings showed that these offenders are more likely to follow an organized modus operandi. Theoretical and practical implications in terms of criminal investigations are discussed.
La sillería de la catedral de Toledo fue tallada a finales del siglo XV por un maestro del norte de Europa conocido como Rodrigo Alemán por un posible origen de Renania. Existía en estos momentos un ...rico comercio entre Flandes y los reinos de la península ibérica, que propició la llegada de numerosos artistas extranjeros al rico y emergente reino de Castilla. La sillería del coro de Toledo es especialmente conocida por los relieves que narran la reciente conquista de Granada; sin embargo, nuestro estudio se centrará en dilucidar el significado hermético oculto en los relieves complementarios de la marginalia tallada por el maestro Rodrigo Alemán en esta misma obra. En concreto, analizaremos las misericordias que incorporan conocidas imágenes de los Bestiarios medievales y la cultura popular con la intención de advertir al clero de los peligros de la tentación carnal. Si bien es cierto que Rodrigo Alemán fue un maestro extranjero, las imágenes que talló en el coro de la catedral toledana gozaban de una consolidada trayectoria en el arte medieval europeo, luego podemos asumir que el clero fue en gran parte consciente de su significado moral. El presente trabajo estudiará esta iconografía marginal como una guía visual contra el pecado de la lujuria con el fin de garantizar la salvación eterna a sus potenciales espectadores.
The primal affects are intrinsic brain value systems that unconditionally and automatically inform animals how they are faring in survival. They serve an essential function in emotional learning. The ...positive affects index "comfort zones" that support survival, while negative affects inform animals of circumstances that may impair survival. Affective feelings come in several varieties, including sensory, homeostatic, and emotional (which I focus on here). Primary-process emotional feelings arise from ancient caudal and medial subcortical regions, and were among the first subjective experiences to exist on the face of the earth. Without them, higher forms of conscious "awareness" may not have emerged in primate brain evolution. Because of homologous "instinctual" neural infrastructures, we can utilize animal brain research to reveal the nature of primary-process human affects. Since all vertebrates appear to have some capacity for primal affective feelings, the implications for animal-welfare and how we ethically treat other animals are vast.
Experiential Tourism: A Conceptual Framework Dalimunthe, Gallang Perdhana; Taufik, Henry Meytra
Turkish journal of computer and mathematics education,
04/2021, Volume:
12, Issue:
8
Journal Article
Open access
Experiential Tourism is a tourism concept that prioritizes the subjectivity aspect in its consumption patterns. This aspect of subjectivity affects tourists' interpretation of each destination ...visited. This study discusses four concepts of postmodern tourism as well as the patterns of sun-lust and wanderlust tourist visits. This research is expected to open a new perspective on tourism based on experience to be used as research material in the future_
This article focuses on Foucault’s and Agamben’s readings of Augustine’s account of human nature and original sin. Foucault’s analysis of Augustine’s account of sexual acts in paradise, subordinated ...to will and devoid of lust, highlights the way it constitutes the model for the married couple, whose sexual acts are only acceptable if diverted by the will away from desire and towards the tasks of procreation. While Agamben rejects Augustine’s doctrine of original sin and reclaims paradise as the original homeland of humanity, his reappropriation of paradise remains conditioned by our turn towards our true nature, from which we have been estranged by sin. Agamben’s politics of reclaiming paradise necessarily involves the demand for obedience to this originary model of human nature. It therefore follows to the letter Augustine’s description of paradisiacal sex, in which the will prevails over desire by applying itself to and curtailing itself.
We present a numerical investigation on the influence of the numerical arrangement in the accuracy of the NREL 5 MW wind turbine rotor performance evaluation in full scale, using a Computational ...Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methodology which employs the Finite Volume Method (FVM) implemented in the OpenFOAM software. The nonlinearity of the Navier–Stokes equation, which requires special treatment and still represents a subject under intense debate in the scientific community, is tackled by using two different discretization schemes for computing the convective term. In addition, since the advection scheme numerically interacts with the turbulence closure model employed in the numerical simulations, we considered the URANS k-ω SST and DES k-ω SST models to perform the blade-resolved simulations. A hybrid central/upwind scheme, namely the LUST scheme, was considered for discretizing the convective term for both URANS and DES simulations, while the second order accurate upwind given by the LUD scheme was considered only in the URANS simulation. Considering the LUST scheme, an investigation on the temporal and spatial discretization was performed for both turbulence closure models. The performance of the NREL 5 MW rotor for offshore application in full scale was assessed in terms of power production, generated thrust, and forces distribution along the blade span, for the operation condition of optimal wind-power conversion efficiency. We provide detailed information regarding the flow features and computational cost, and verified the results from each case by comparing the CFD results against values obtained using the blade element momentum theory implemented in OpenFAST. For the spatial discretization considered in one of the meshes, the LUD scheme showed low accuracy in the results, being more susceptible to the grid influence for the URANS simulations compared to LUST, while the URANS-LUST and DES-LUST approaches were both suitable options for all the meshes investigated. The DES-LUST approach was less affected by the variation in the size of the time step employed. Additionally, finer flow structures were captured with the DES-LUST simulations at an affordable computational cost.
•Different schemes were tested to find the best discretization of the nonlinear terms.•The effect of discretization procedures on the CFD results are verified with a different numerical method.•Blade-resolved simulations are used to study a 5 MW wind turbine in full scale with different turbulence methods.•The results were evaluated for power, thrust, and forces distribution along the blade span in all cases.
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