Papers by Harold P Sjursen
BRILL eBooks, Nov 7, 2023
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> <p>Pre-symptomatic imported COVID-19 case... more <sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> <p>Pre-symptomatic imported COVID-19 cases play an important role in border control strategies for containing their further spread to community outbreaks.</p> </sec> <sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> <p>A pre-symptomatic incubation model was proposed to develop precision screening, quarantine, and isolation strategies for containing imported COVID-19 case.</p> </sec> <sec> <title>METHODS</title> <p>The natural history model of pre-symptomatic and symptomatic COVID-19 was constructed by using 727 imported cases of COVID-19 in Taiwan, consisting of the first pandemic period (March-June), the second containment period (July-September), and the third pandemic period (October-December) in parallel with the evolution of new virus variants. We collected the valuable information on symptomatic cases ascertained upon the arrival and the natural transition from pre-symptomatic RT-PCR detectable phase (RT-PCRDP) to symptomatic phase during 14-day quarantine period. We estimated the incidence of pre-symptomatic disease and the dwelling time from pre-symptomatic RT-PCRDP to symptomatic phase on which we were based to simulate various strategies of screening with RT-PCR test and the optimal interval of quarantine and isolation for the vaccinated and unvaccinated travelers.</p> </sec> <sec> <title>RESULTS</title> <p>The overall daily rate (per 100,000) of pre-symptomatic COVID-19 cases was 106 (95% CI: 95-118) in the first period (March-June), fell to 37 (95% CI: 27.9-47.2) in the second period (July-September), and resurged to 141 (95% CI: 117-164) in the third period (October-December). Given the median dwelling time, over 82% of the transition from pre-symptomatic to symptomatic phase were noted in 5-day quarantine. The length of quarantine given two tests can be reduced from 14 to 5 days for the unvaccinated traveler. It can be precisely determined by the classification of country-specific risk and may be reduced to two days or lifting, depending on country-specific risk, after vaccination.</p> </sec> <sec> <title>CONCLUSIONS</title> <p>Precision strategies for imported COVID-19 cases provide a solution to the trade-off between border control and re-opening to travel before vaccination to reach herd immunity worldwide.</p> </sec>
Kierkegaardiana, 1971
Kierkegaard is nearly universally acknowledged among philosophers as an interesting, if sometimes... more Kierkegaard is nearly universally acknowledged among philosophers as an interesting, if sometimes tendentious thinker. He is not so universally accorded the distinction of philosopher. That there is philosophical content in his work is readily admitted, yet this is only incidental, it is said, to his primary import as a religious thinker. Such commentators can point to numerous places throughout Kierkegaard's authorship where he makes it unquestionably clear that his overwhelming concern, both personally and qua author, is with the problem of becoming a Christian. This problem, according to Kierkegaard, is one of fidus not intellectus and one of the greatest weaknesses within the professed community of faith was their all too willing acceptance of the philosophical systems of Kant and Hegel. Thus, it could seem easily concluded, Kierkegaard's authorship is fundamentally non-philosophical, his spurious critique of certain theological applications of philosophy aside. His profundity lies in his deft analysis of that significant range of human experience sur rounding personal faith but this-and on his own ground-is outside the purview of reason and is therefore, ipso facto, outside philosophy. Briefly stated this viewpoint finds Kierkegaard a religious irrationalist, if not voluntarist, who constituted faith and reason as separate and immisible domains, the first of ultimate concern and the latter of only minor interest. As a religious thinker concerned with the thus formulated problem of Christian faith, it is similarly sometimes said that Kierkegaard's ethics are private and aesthetic and that he therefore has little or nothing to contribute 1 B olin , Torsten, Søren Kierkegaards etiske åskådning med sårskild hansyn til begreppet 'den enskilde\ academic dissertation, Stockholm , 1918, passim. Buber, M artin, Between Man and Man, R outledge K egan Paul, London, 1947, p. 40. Mackey, Louis, ''T h e Loss o f the W orld in Kierkegaard's Ethics," The Review of Meta physics, X V ,
Conference Proceedings, Aug 15, 2014
New York University characterizes itself as a global-network university. It currently offers (or ... more New York University characterizes itself as a global-network university. It currently offers (or soon will) engineering and business/management curricula leading to baccalaureate degrees on campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai. The programs are designed to be interoperable, i.e., students (and faculty) can move from campus to campus while staying on track in their particular course of study. This objective of interoperability raises interesting issues regarding the internationalization of engineering and technical education. Additionally, at Abu Dhabi and Shanghai, the engineering and business management programs are tightly integrated with classical, western liberal arts education. This paper will explore the variety of educational and philosophical issues of this approach. The paper will offer a favourable assessment of the approach while acknowledging the profound challenges it entails.
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Sep 1, 1976
Irony as a mastered moment, t r a n s m u t e a y pathos and suffering into Socratic and humane r... more Irony as a mastered moment, t r a n s m u t e a y pathos and suffering into Socratic and humane religion is exemplied as humor and by our hypothesis is negated by the incarnation, but it is also fulfilled thereby. By both marks, distance and contradiction, our hypothesis is more humorous than the Socratic. The only way the humor of our hypothesis could be further intensified is that it is not merely a hypothesis of thought, an experiment, etc, but that it is also actually true. The truth-claim is not set forth by Kierkegaard or by Hong, for that would be comic. N.B. The author preceives that it would be comic to offer long and learned footnotes in a reply to a paper which may be only whimsey and humor. We will reveal this much to those who must have the marks of scholarship: The references to Kierkegaard's works are to those currently in print (Capel's translation of The Concept of Irony, Lowrie and Swenson's Concluding Unscientific Postscript and Lowrie's Eitherlor). The references to Plato's dialogues were quite general and so went without page references.
SpringerBriefs in Geoethics, 2023
2018 World Engineering Education Forum - Global Engineering Deans Council (WEEF-GEDC), 2018
Many universities, faculties and departments provide training and education to its new and existi... more Many universities, faculties and departments provide training and education to its new and existing faculty in pedagogical areas. Many are informal and internal courses, workshops and seminars, a few are more formal and recognized initiatives like the US National Effective Teaching Institutes established by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. This paper describes one of the latter programs – the one that has been developed by InnovaHiEd (www.innovahied.com) – which focuses on training engineering and other disciplines professors in obtaining the recognized International Engineering Educator Certification granted by IGIP (International Society for Engineering Pedagogy – www.igip.org). It is called the International Engineering Educator Certification Program (IEECP). This paper includes a description of its novel curriculum, its developmental framework for teaching expertise, the student learning experiences, its assessment strategy as well as the learning outcomes of the first cohort o...
A Developmental Framework for Teaching Expertise for Engineering and Related Disciplines, 2018
Many universities, faculties and departments provide training and education to its new and existi... more Many universities, faculties and departments provide training and education to its new and existing faculty in pedagogical areas. Many are informal and internal courses, workshops and seminars, a few are more formal and recognized initiatives like the US National Effective Teaching Institutes established by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. This paper describes one of the latter programs-the one that has been developed by InnovaHiEd (www.innovahied.com)-which focuses on training engineering and other disciplines professors in obtaining the recognized International Engineering Educator Certification granted by IGIP (International Society for Engineering Pedagogy-www.igip.org). It is called the International Engineering Educator Certification Program (IEECP). This paper includes a description of its novel curriculum, its developmental framework for teaching expertise, the student learning experiences, its assessment strategy as well as the learning outcomes of the first cohort offered in 2017. The program and framework presented can help universities interested in developing and demonstrating teaching expertise among its faculty.
Journal of Coal Science and Engineering (China), 2013
Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 1976
Balkan Region Conference on Engineering and Business Education, 2014
Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants, 2008
Abstracts for the Fifth International Conference: Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Apr 3, 2009
From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a c... more From the presumed biological evolutionary origins of a urmorality, there eventually developed a conscious set of morality concepts and rules that became less immediate and more abstract, and increasingly shaped by social factors. Today the concepts and precepts of morality have come to form a complex system in which each specialized professional ethics respond with a certain degree of latitude to conditions within its own domain. The raison d''etre of morality is the connection between actions and their possible ...
Drafts by Harold P Sjursen
Pinyin, and the addition of Chinese characters for key terms.] I.These reflections address two pe... more Pinyin, and the addition of Chinese characters for key terms.] I.These reflections address two perennial topics of philosophy the self and practicality within the context of the neoConfucian tradition in general and Zhu Xi's commentary on classic texts in particular. Only
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