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Luther On Tamar: A Subaltern Response, Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics After Christendom, Allen Jorgenson

Consensus

No abstract provided.

November 25, 2017 (Pages 7165-7294), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 47 (2017)

No abstract provided.

Reformation Is Germane To African Women: An African Lutheran Woman’S Imagination, Faith Laguzia

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Total Molecular Gas Masses Of Planck – Herschel Selected Strongly Lensed Hyper Luminous Infrared Galaxies, K. C. Harrington, M. S. Yun, B. Magnelli, D. T. Frayer, A. Karim, A. Weiß, D. Riechers, E. F. Jiménez-Andrade, D. Berman, James Lowenthal, F. Bertoldi

Astronomy: Faculty Publications

We report the detection of CO(1–0) line emission from seven Planck and Herschel selected hyper luminous (LIR(8−1000μm) > 1013 L⊙) infrared galaxies with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). CO(1–0) measurements are a vital tool to trace the bulk molecular gas mass across all redshifts. Our results place tight constraints on the total gas content of these most apparently luminous high-z star-forming galaxies (apparent IR luminosities of LIR > 1013 − 14 L⊙), while we confirm their predetermined redshifts measured using the Large Millimeter Telescope, LMT (zCO = 1.33–3.26). The CO(1–0) lines show similar profiles as compared to Jup = 2–4 transitions previously …

Quality Improvement Project Examining Nurses' Perceptions Regarding The Use Of Technology For Interpretation For Patients With Limited English Proficiency, Jessica Marcus

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Translational and Clinical Research Projects

This study measured the positive and negative aspects of perceptions in nurses regarding technology used in language interpretation for patients who have limited English proficiency (LEP). A sample of forty-seven nurses participated in the study. A trial of Video Remote Interpretation (VRI) was implemented and perceptions were measured for VRI technology as compared to the telephone interpretation technology that was available before the trial. Instrumentation included demographic questionnaires measuring participant characteristics, and questionnaires measuring positive and negative perceptions of technology were administered pre-trial for telephone interpretation technology and post-trial for the VRI technology. Each perception questionnaire included four open ended …

An Examination Of The Instruction Of Religion Clause Issues In Massachusetts Teacher Education Programs, Matthew E. Henry

Educational Studies Dissertations

The prevailing research, as well as reported complaints of academic, civic, personal, and social harm, indicates that public school teachers do not exhibit the professional knowledge, skills, and attitudes grounded in the religion clauses of the U.S. Constitution. This study investigated how TEPs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts document their instruction of preservice teachers on religion clause issues as they apply to grade 6-12 content area pedagogy, curriculum, and professional ethos. The institutional documents presented to preservice teachers were collected from four teacher education programs in the Commonwealth. An evaluation tool— synthesized from the leading scholarship and research on the …

A Missiology Of Love: In Action, Wendy L. Fletcher

Consensus

No abstract provided.

Crack The Egg, Mayah Reaveley

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

Me: How do you play “crack the egg?”

Ashton: You have one person in the middle of the tramp...and they would have their hands around their knees, and other people would try to bounce them around and no matter what happened they couldn’t let... their knees away from their hands – like they couldn’t spread out, they had to stay in their position and we always played it with our... um, my sister and our cousins.

On The Propagation Of Gravity Currents Over And Through A Submerged Array Of Circular Cylinders, Jian Zhou, Claudia Cenedese, Tim Williams, Megan Ball, Subhas K. Venayagamoorthy, Roger I. Nokes

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

The propagation of full-depth lock-exchange bottom gravity currents past a submerged array of circular cylinders is investigated using laboratory experiments and large eddy simulations. Firstly, to investigate the front velocity of gravity currents across the whole range of array density (i.e. the volume fraction of solids), the array is densified from a flatbed towards a solid slab under a particular submergence ratio, where is the flow depth and is the array height. The time-averaged front velocity in the slumping phase of the gravity current is found to first decrease and then increase with increasing. Next, a new geometrical framework consisting …

“Broken Promises: A History Of Conscription In Canada Revised Edition (Book Review)” By J.L. Granatstein And J.M. Hitsman, Caroline D’Amours

Canadian Military History

Review of Broken Promises: A History of Conscription in Canada (Revised Edition) by J.L. Granatstein and J.M. Hitsman

“Our Artillery Would Smash It All Up:” Canadian Artillery During The Battle Of The Somme, September-November 1916, Brendan Hogan

Canadian Military History

The historiography of the First World War has produced no recent comprehensive study of the Canadian artillery, despite its importance on the battlefield. This article seeks to explain how Canadian artillery evolved on the Somme. The central conclusions of this article are that the Canadian artillery’s performance during the battle was mixed, and that a number of technological, tactical, and organizational changes, not all of them Canadian, in the Canadian Corps that we recognize from the artillery of 1917-1918 were developed during, or as a result of, the Somme.

John Hart V. Christopher Oppman

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Jessica Roseberry V. City Of Philadelphia

2017 Decisions

USDC for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Suspension-Driven Gravity Surges On Horizontal Surfaces: Effect Of The Initial Shape, ‪Nadim Zgheib, T. Bonometti, S. Balachandar

Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

We present results from highly resolved direct numerical simulations of canonical (axisymmetric and planar) and non-canonical (rectangular) configurations of horizontal suspension-driven gravity surges. We show that the dynamics along the initial minor and major axis of a rectangular release are roughly similar to that of a planar and axisymmetric current, respectively. However, contrary to expectation, we observe under certain conditions the final extent of the deposit from finite releases to surpass that from an equivalent planar current. This is attributed to a converging flow of the particle-laden mixture toward the initial minor axis, a behaviour that was previously reported for …

Why Roma Children Need Language Assessments In Romani, Hristo Kyuchukov, Jill De Villiers, Andrea Takahesu Tabori

Psychology: Faculty Publications

In this paper we make one major point: that Roma children in Europe need to be tested in their mother tongue before school placement. Roma children are in a particularly perilous position with respect to their education. We describe the problematic linguistic situation of Roma children, who are bilingual and often bidialectal, but are frequently evaluated in the language of the state for educational placement, a process that has been shown to significantly compromise their chance of success. We then review the considerable empirical evidence that bilingual children must be evaluated in both languages to give a fair assessment of …

An Exactly Solvable Quench Protocol For Integrable Spin Models, Diptarka Das, Sumit R. Das, Damián A. Galante, Robert C. Myers, Krishnendu Sengupta

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

Quantum quenches in continuum field theory across critical points are known to display different scaling behaviours in different regimes of the quench rate. We extend these results to integrable lattice models such as the transverse field Ising model on a one-dimensional chain and the Kitaev model on a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice using a nonlinear quench protocol which allows for exact analytical solutions of the dynamics. Our quench protocol starts with a finite mass gap at early times and crosses a critical point or a critical region, and we study the behaviour of one point functions of the quenched operator at …

Substitution Of Formal And Informal Home Care Service Use And Nursing Home Service Use: Health Outcomes, Decision-Making Preferences, And Implications For A Public Health Policy, Chia-Ching Chen, T Yamada, T Nakashima, I Chiu

NYMC Faculty Publications

Objectives: The purposes of this study are: (1) to empirically identify decision-making preferences of long-term health-care use, especially informal and formal home care (FHC) service use; (2) to evaluate outcomes vs. costs based on substitutability of informal and FHC service use; and (3) to investigate health outcome disparity based on substitutability. Methodology and data: The methods of ordinary least squares, a logit model, and a bivariate probit model are used by controlling for socioeconomic, demographic, and physical/mental health factors to investigate outcomes and costs based substitutability of informal and formal health-care use. The data come from the 2013 Japanese Study …

“I Never Planned To Be A Teacher!” An Interview With Margaret Hill, President Of The Board Of The San Bernardino City Unified School District, John M. Winslade, Margaret Hill

Journal of Critical Issues in Educational Practice

An interview with Margaret Hill, President of the Board of San Bernardino City Unified School District

The Mental Homologies Of Mammals. Towards An Understanding Of Another Mammalsworld View, Marthe Kiley-Worthington

Theory of Mind Collection

Mammals’ mental homologies include that they look after their young, suckle and protect them; they acquire information about the world by learning. They have five types of sensory receptors and a brain to analyze the information and they feel: that is they are sentient. Mental homologies have been largely ignored by behavioural scientists since Darwin because of certain historical beliefs. This however has not been the case for people who have had to do with non-human mammals who have long recognized their mental similarities to humans. As a result, behavioural science has sponsored some inappropriate research (examples are given). The …

Emu Today, November 23, 2016, Eastern Michigan University

EMU Today

No abstract provided.

The Weekly Challenger, November 23, 2017, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The November 23, 2017, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Experimental Analysis Of Reintroduction Strategies To Conserve The Vulnerable Plains Topminnow Fundulus Sciadicus In Nebraska, David A. Schumann, W. Wyatt Hoback, Keith D. Koupal, Casey W. Schoenebeck, Steven C. Schainost, Tammy L. Wilson

Nebraska Game and Parks Commission: Staff Research Publications

Plains topminnow Fundulus sciadicus are endemic to the Great Plains (USA), and because of declines in their geographic range and local abundance, are granted protection throughout their native range. Experimental reintroductions were conducted to improve conservation techniques and enhance the long-term outlook for plains topminnow persistence in Nebraska. Reintroductions were attempted at 17 extirpated stream reaches using low and high founder densities (no. of fish per suitable area) and during 2 seasons (spring and fall) to identify successful techniques for future conservation efforts. Reintroduced populations were sampled monthly (excluding winter) for 2 yr to monitor population persistence. Repeated presence− absence …

Effect Of Oxide On Surface Tension Of Molten Metal, Chunkai Li, Yu Shi, Yufen Gu, Fuqian Yang

Chemical and Materials Engineering Faculty Publications

Oxides as one of the commonly activating fluxes used in active tungsten inert gas welding (A-TIG welding) can dramatically increase the penetration depth to 2–4 times that of conventional welding. Using the oscillation principle of inviscid fluid, a robust method is developed to measure the average surface tension of molten metal during A-TIG welding for four different oxide activating fluxes of B₂O₃, TiO₂, SiO₂, and MgO. The experimental results suggest that the oxygen released from the decomposition of oxides is the dominant factor contributing to the change of the surface tension, which …

State V. Gonzales Clerk's Record Dckt. 45434

Not Reported

No abstract provided.

Level 1 Before Level 2 – The Irish Bim Mandate, Robert Moore

Conference papers

Government Contracts Committee for Construction (GCCC) has prepared a position paper titled ‘A Public Sector BIM Adoption Strategy’, which outlines the context and rationale for the adoption of BIM and puts forward a proposed timeline for adoption, the purpose of this position paper is to invite a response from industry [1]. This paper analyses the position paper on the subject of the implementation of the proposed mandate. The author defines what is implied by UK BIM Levels 0, 1, 2 and 3, and collates the responses from industry to the position paper regarding the implementation plan. This position paper is …

Stewardship Of International Bim Programmes: Lessons For Ireland, Barry Mcauley, Alan Hore, Roger West, Shiyao Kuang

Conference papers

The support by central government of national Building Information Modelling (BIM) programmes is common throughout the developed world today. To further understand how the different international governments have supported their BIM programmes the BIM Innovation Capability Programme (BICP) research team in Ireland recently completed a comprehensive Global BIM Study to help inform the National BIM Council (NBC) of Ireland in developing a Roadmap to Digital Transition for Ireland’s Construction Sector. This paper details the findings of a more concentrated investigation on a selection of jurisdictions on how particular international BIM programmes are orgainsed, managed and the level of governmental support …

Ireland’S Bim Macro Adoption Study: Establishing Ireland’S Bim Maturity, Barry Mcauley, Alan Hore, Roger West, Mohamad Kassem, Shiyao Kuang

Conference papers

Since 2016 the BIM Innovation Capability Programme (BICP) has captured the capability of the Irish Construction Industry’s and the Higher Education Institutes’ (HEIs) response to the increased requirement for BIM on Irish construction and engineering projects. One of the primary responsibilities of the BICP research team is to collate data to assist the National BIM Council of Ireland in the formulation of a National BIM Roadmap. To assist the Council with this task the BICP research team applied five macro BIM maturity conceptual models to assess Ireland’s BIM maturity. The results from the models were further utilised to develop a …

Semi-Automated Surface Water Detection With Synthetic Aperture Radar Data: A Wetland Case Study, Amir Behnamian, Sarah Banks, Lori White, Brian Brisco, Koreen Millard, Jon Pasher, Zhaohua Chen, Jason Duffe, Laura Bourgeau-Chavez, Michael Battaglia

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

In this study, a new method is proposed for semi-automated surface water detection using synthetic aperture radar data via a combination of radiometric thresholding and image segmentation based on the simple linear iterative clustering superpixel algorithm. Consistent intensity thresholds are selected by assessing the statistical distribution of backscatter values applied to the mean of each superpixel. Higher-order texture measures, such as variance, are used to improve accuracy by removing false positives via an additional thresholding process used to identify the boundaries of water bodies. Results applied to quad-polarized RADARSAT-2 data show that the threshold value for the variance texture measure …

State V. Spencer Respondent's Brief Dckt. 45212

Not Reported

No abstract provided.