Hypothesis Satisfaction

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Murray, C.d., and J. Fox. "Body Image and Prosthesis Satisfaction in the Lower Limb Amputee." Disability & Rehabilitation 24.17 (2002): 925-31. Web.
The authors and researchers behind the studies discussed in this article got their data by utilizing three established questionnaires; Trinity amputation and prosthesis experience scales (TAPES), the amputee body image scale (ABIS), and the McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ). The data collected from mixed-gendered subjects (24 male, 17 female, 3 unidentified) would be used to test a correlation between “prosthesis satisfaction and body image in lower limb prosthesis users” (Body Image and Prosthesis Satisfaction in the Lower Limb Amputee). The TAPES are made to help understand a patients’
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Rutsky explains that what he will attempt to relate through the following chapters is that the relationship between a supposed “technoculture” and other (“nontechnological”) cultures has changed drastically. After introducing his topic Rutsky moves directly into defining the Greek term techne, meaning art, skill, or craft. This is important, as Rutsky will continue to argue that our relationship with technology has blended with our relationship to an aesthetic. He also begins to argue that technology (specifically the “high tech”) widens the divide between higher and lower socioeconomic classes. Next, Rutsky moves further into defining his terms by discussing Heidegger’s concept of the “essence” of technology. He argues that technology’s essence is the ongoing process of advancement, and that technology by design moves beyond itself. The author also discusses the idea that in modern times people have begun to technologize aesthetics, making art functional or at least appear to be functional, as well as to aestheticize technology, making technology pleasing to the senses. It is around this point where he brings the aesthetic development of technology back to the definition of techne. Recombining art and technology seems, in his piece, to be an inevitable reclamation of the original meaning of “high tech”. Rutsky also makes mention of a “mutational” technology as one that, in a sense, evolves. This technology would advance in erratic, unpredictable, and even chaotic ways. As a response to this, the author asserts the idea of the “science-fictional” and pushes the idea that human beings must be creative in order to see what developments may come next in this “chaos” ridden