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2. Obituary

Author

Watkins, Daniel J.

Published
2023

8. The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment.

Author

Watkins, Daniel J.

Subjects
*SPIRITUALITY, *ECONOMIC history, *HISTORY of capitalism, *EARLY modern history, *RELIGIOUS literature, *LORD'S Supper, *ALCHEMY
Abstract

"The Spirit of French Capitalism: Economic Theology in the Age of Enlightenment" by Charly Coleman explores the influence of Catholicism on the development of capitalism in France. Coleman argues that French economic theologians played a significant role in shaping the adoption of capitalist principles by discussing economic matters in theological terms and vice versa. The book traces the intellectual history of economic theology in France from the sixteenth century to the French Revolution, highlighting the ways in which theologians created ideological space for practices such as usury, material consumption, and the accumulation of luxury goods. However, the book lacks emphasis on the influence of colonialism on economic theology, which could have provided insights into the spiritual dimensions of property, ownership, and labor. Overall, the book contributes to the understanding of the intellectual history of early modern France. [Extracted from the article]

Published
2024
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23. First scientific application of the membrane cryostat technology

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Montanari, David, primary, Adamowski, Mark, additional, Baller, Bruce R., additional, Barger, Robert K., additional, Chi, Edward C., additional, Davis, Ronald P., additional, Johnson, Bryan D., additional, Kubinski, Bob M., additional, Mahoney, Ryan, additional, McCluskey, Elaine G., additional, Najdzion, John J., additional, Norris, Barry L., additional, Rucinski, Russel A., additional, Schmitt, Rich L., additional, Stewart, James, additional, Tope, Terry E., additional, and Watkins, Daniel J., additional

Published
2014
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27. First Scientific Application of the Membrane Cryostat Technology.

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Montanari, David, Adamowski, Mark, Baller, Bruce R., Barger, Robert K., Chi, Edward C., Davis, Ronald P., Johnson, Bryan D., Kubinski, Bob M., Mahoney, Ryan, McCluskey, Elaine G., Najdzion, John J., Norris, Barry L., Rucinski, Russel A., Schmitt, Rich L., Stewart, James, Tope, Terry E., and Watkins, Daniel J.

Subjects
ARTIFICIAL membrane design & construction, CRYOSTATS, NEUTRINOS, LIQUID argon, INDUSTRIAL contamination, CRYOGENICS
Abstract

We report on the design, fabrication, performance and commissioning of the first membrane cryostat to be used for scientific application. The Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment (LBNE) has designed and fabricated a membrane cryostat prototype in collaboration with IHI Corporation (IHI). Original goals of the prototype are: to demonstrate the membrane cryostat technology in terms of thermal performance, feasibility for liquid argon, and leak tightness; to demonstrate that we can remove all the impurities from the vessel and achieve the purity requirements in a membrane cryostat without evacuation and using only a controlled gaseous argon purge; to demonstrate that we can achieve and maintain the purity requirements of the liquid argon during filling, purification, and maintenance mode using mole sieve and copper filters from the Liquid Argon Purity Demonstrator (LAPD) R&D project. The purity requirements of a large liquid argon detector such as LBNE are contaminants below 200 parts per trillion oxygen equivalent. This paper gives the requirements, design, construction, and performance of the LBNE membrane cryostat prototype, with experience and results important to the development of the LBNE detector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014
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31. Enteric nervous system abnormalities are present in human necrotizing enterocolitis: potential neurotransplantation therapy.

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Yu Zhou, Jixin Yang, Watkins, Daniel J., Boomer, Laura A., Matthews, Mika A., Yanwei Su, and Besner, Gail E.

Abstract

Introduction: Intestinal dysmotility following human necrotizing enterocolitis suggests that the enteric nervous system is injured during the disease. We examined human intestinal specimens to characterize the enteric nervous system injury that occurs in necrotizing enterocolitis, and then used an animal model of experimental necrotizing enterocolitis to determine whether transplantation of neural stem cells can protect the enteric nervous system from injury. Methods: Human intestinal specimens resected from patients with necrotizing enterocolitis (n = 18), from control patients with bowel atresia (n = 8), and from necrotizing enterocolitis and control patients undergoing stoma closure several months later (n = 14 and n = 6 respectively) were subjected to histologic examination, immunohistochemistry, and real-time reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction to examine the myenteric plexus structure and neurotransmitter expression. In addition, experimental necrotizing enterocolitis was induced in newborn rat pups and neurotransplantation was performed by administration of fluorescently labeled neural stem cells, with subsequent visualization of transplanted cells and determination of intestinal integrity and intestinal motility. Results: There was significant enteric nervous system damage with increased enteric nervous system apoptosis, and decreased neuronal nitric oxide synthase expression in myenteric ganglia from human intestine resected for necrotizing enterocolitis compared with control intestine. Structural and functional abnormalities persisted months later at the time of stoma closure. Similar abnormalities were identified in rat pups exposed to experimental necrotizing enterocolitis. Pups receiving neural stem cell transplantation had improved enteric nervous system and intestinal integrity, differentiation of transplanted neural stem cells into functional neurons, significantly improved intestinal transit, and significantly decreased mortality compared with control pups. Conclusions: Significant injury to the enteric nervous system occurs in both human and experimental necrotizing enterocolitis. Neural stem cell transplantation may represent a novel future therapy for patients with necrotizing enterocolitis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013
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34. Paenibacilluswound infection in a pediatric trauma patient

Author

Mannava, Sindhu V., DeCou, James, Watkins, Daniel J., Crumb, Teri, Pardington, Emily, and Pennington, Elliot C.

Abstract

We report a case of Paenibacilluswound infection in an immunocompetent and otherwise healthy nine-year-old boy who sustained a laceration following an all-terrain vehicle crash. During his course, he failed non-operative management and required multiple wound washouts and a thirty-six-day course of antibiotics. While this pathogen is most known for causing honeybee disease known as American Foulbrood (AFB), Paenibacillushas been implicated in a handful of human wound complications in the post-traumatic setting. This is a rare, opportunistic bacteria that is resistant to many commonly prescribed antibiotics. Less than twenty cases of human Paenibacilluswound infections have been reported in the literature and when they do occur, they often affect immunocompromised patients or those with chronic medical co-morbidities. In the last ten years, there have been four case reports of neonatal sepsis caused by this pathogen. This appears to be the first pediatric Paenibacilluswound infection reported.

Published
2022
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36. Enlightenment, Catholicism, Conservatism: The Isaac-Joseph Berruyer Affair and the Culture of Orthodoxy in France, ca. 1700-1830

Author

Watkins, Daniel J.

Subjects
History, Religious History, European History, Philosophy, Berruyer, Isaac-Joseph, Enlightenment, Catholicism, France, Hardouin, Jean, Catholic Enlightenment, orthodoxy, censorship, Society of Jesus, Jesuits
Abstract

When the second-century Church Father Tertullian asked the provocative questions, “What is there in common between Athens and Jerusalem? What between the Academy and the Church?” he opened up a line of inquiry to which the Church has been responding for nearly two millennia. How has the Church negotiated its relationship with the constantly changing world of non-ecclesiastical cultures, and what are the ramifications of the Church’s decisions either to embrace or eschew cultural norms? The answers to these questions explain how the Church’s role in European society has transformed over time. This dissertation examines the complex relationship between the Catholic Church and the cultural and intellectual movement of the Enlightenment over the course of the long eighteenth century (ca. 1700-1830). More specifically, it focuses on the Enlightenment in France—where many historians have located the birthplace of modern secularism—to track the unlikely ways that members of the French Society of Jesus interacted with the sensibilities of the Enlightenment and employed them for the purposes of the Church. Providing the case study for this examination is the French Jesuit Isaac-Joseph Berruyer (1681-1758) whose magnum opus, the Histoire du peuple de Dieu, promoted a unique blend of traditionally Catholic and enlightened values. Berruyer’s Jesuit style of “Catholic Enlightenment” differed from the ways by which other groups in the Catholic Church sought to accommodate the new perspectives and cultural assumptions of the Age of Enlightenment. When his Histoire underwent fierce opposition and eventual censorship at both state and ecclesiastical levels, Berruyer’s negotiation of ecclesiastical and non-ecclesiastical cultures became intertwined in the political disputes of mid-century France, including most especially the long standing quarrel between Jansenists and the Society of Jesus that ended in the expulsion of the Jesuits from France and all of Catholic Europe. Berruyer’s legacy, however, persisted past the suppression of the Jesuits and the French Revolution into the nineteenth century where it laid the foundation for a new set of conservative political sensibilities. In this way, the unlikely figure of a French Jesuit helped connect the ideals of the Enlightenment to the mentalities of post-revolutionary conservatism and nineteenth-century Catholic culture.

Published
2014

37. Religion and Trade through Jesuit Eyes: Bringing Early Modern Central Asia into the World History Classroom.

Author

Watkins, Daniel J.

Subjects
WORLD history, MISSIONARIES, RELIGION, INTERNATIONAL trade
Abstract

An essay is presented on the incorporation of Central Asia into the world history classroom by the Jesuit missionaries. The author states that the Jesuit missionaries came to Central Asia to learn, engage, and proselytize the local populations. He says that the Jesuit missionaries have associated Central Asia into the experience of new religious cultures and the proliferation of international trade which were the two major themes in the study of world history.

Published
2013

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