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Comparing Functions, Costs And Rewards Of Quality Engineers And Six Sigma Black Belts, C. Grant Short
Comparing Functions, Costs And Rewards Of Quality Engineers And Six Sigma Black Belts, C. Grant Short
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The respective Bodies of Knowledge (BoKs) as described by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for Certified Quality Engineers (ASQ, 2015a) and Certified Six Sigma Black Belts (ASQ, 2015b) are quite similar, yet anecdotally, six sigma black belts are recognized and consequently rewarded more highly than are quality engineers. While Quality Engineering work is typically regarded as preventive in nature, work performed by six sigma black belts is in the realm of improvement, hence is reactive in nature. Consequently, a dichotomy exists in that preventive actions, which are less costly by their nature, are not rewarded as well as costlier …
The Gendering Of Voice In Medieval Hindu Literature, Nancy M. Martin
The Gendering Of Voice In Medieval Hindu Literature, Nancy M. Martin
Religious Studies Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"To fully grasp the implications of the gendering of voice in this literature, we must first understand the religious context that generates these voices and the life stories of the saintly figures in whose names these voices continue to be spoken. Accordingly, we will trace the origins and nature of devotional Hinduism. Theologically gender inclusive and embracing a feminine spiritual identity, the stories and songs of its saints will nevertheless reveal an ongoing bias against women and upholding of patriarchal norms that is continually challenged, particularly by women saints whose life stories follow very different trajectories than their male counterparts, …
Carrying Buddha Into The Streets: Buddhist Socialist Thought In Meiji Japan, James Mark Shields
Carrying Buddha Into The Streets: Buddhist Socialist Thought In Meiji Japan, James Mark Shields
Faculty Contributions to Books
No abstract provided.
Chang (Beer): A Social Marker, Ritual Tool, And Multivalent Symbol In Tibetan Buddhism, Kayla J. Jenkins
Chang (Beer): A Social Marker, Ritual Tool, And Multivalent Symbol In Tibetan Buddhism, Kayla J. Jenkins
Graduate Theses/Dissertations
In this thesis, I analyze the use of beer (Tib. chang) in Tibetan tantric Buddhism and emphasize its importance for studying themes of purity and pollution, meaning, and power in this context. In doing so, I argue that beer functions as a social marker and influences gender dynamics in Tibet. Beer also functions as a religious ritual tool for transactions of power. Lastly, beer is present as a multivalent symbol in Tibetan tantric songs and stories, useful as both a negative and positive metaphor for qualities or states of mind. As something that informs social, religious, and literary worlds within …
Syrian Crisis Representation In The Media: The Cnn Effect, Framing, And Tone, Savannah S. Day
Syrian Crisis Representation In The Media: The Cnn Effect, Framing, And Tone, Savannah S. Day
Venture: The University of Mississippi Undergraduate Research Journal
Over the past seven years of the Syrian Civil War, Syrian refugees have been painted in a negative light by news media outlets around the world. History of media coverage regarding global humanitarian crises shows that with various tools and processes, media can shape public opinion and policy in whichever direction it desires, and oftentimes policymakers and the public are quick, as well as emotional, to react. In this paper, my objectives are to analyze specific examples of this CNN Effect phenomena within news coverage of the Syrian refugee crisis, as well as generally explain the negatively correlating relationship between …
An Evaluation Of A Biometric Enabled Credit Card For Providing High Authenticity Identity Proofing During The Transaction Authentication Process, Laura F. Poe
All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Credit card fraud has continued to grow despite efforts to protect financial data from data breaches of financial institutions. Data breaches of financial transactional records over the past decade have impacted millions of U.S. consumers, resulting in decreased consumer confidence in security. Banking institutions losing money due to fraud are forced to raise interest rates and increase fees to their cardholders. The costs of fraud are passed to the banking institution’s customers to offset the losses. The requisite to detect and eliminate fraud before it occurs is mutually beneficial to both the banking institution and cardholders. Credit card companies continue …
Osvobození Jako Revoluční Praxe: Opĕtovné Promyšlení Buddhistického Materialism, James Mark Shields
Osvobození Jako Revoluční Praxe: Opĕtovné Promyšlení Buddhistického Materialism, James Mark Shields
Faculty Journal Articles
In this article, first published in English in the Journal of Buddhist Ethics 20 (2013), pp. 461–99, James Mark Shields analyzes the possibilities and problems of a “Buddhist materialism” constructed along Marxian lines, by focusing in particular on Buddhist and Marxist conceptions of “liberation.” Although it is only in recent decades that scholars have begun to reconsider and problematize Buddhist conceptions of “free- dom” and “agency,” the thought traditions of Asian Buddhism have for many centuries struggled with questions related to the issue of “liberation”—along with its fundamental ontological, epistemological and ethical implications. With the development of Marxist thought in …
Islam And Buddhism: The Arabian Prequel?, Anna Akasoy
Islam And Buddhism: The Arabian Prequel?, Anna Akasoy
Publications and Research
Conventionally, the first Muslim-Buddhist encounters are thought to have taken place in the context of the Arab-Muslim expansions into eastern Iran in the mid-seventh century, the conquest of Sind in 711 and the rise of the Islamic empire. However, several theories promoted in academic and popular circles claim that Buddhists or other Indians were present in western Arabia at the eve of Islam and thus shaped the religious environment in which Muhammad’s movement emerged. This article offers a critical survey of the most prominent arguments adduced to support this view and discusses the underlying attitudes to the Islamic tradition, understood …
Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination, James Mark Shields
Review: Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Pure Land, Real World: Modern Buddhism, Japanese Leftists, And The Utopian Imagination, James Mark Shields
Other Faculty Research and Publications
No abstract provided.
Recapture, Transparency, Negation And A Logic For The Catuṣkoṭi, Adrian Kreutz
Recapture, Transparency, Negation And A Logic For The Catuṣkoṭi, Adrian Kreutz
Comparative Philosophy
The recent literature on Nāgārjuna’s catuṣkoṭi centres around Jay Garfield’s (2009) and Graham Priest’s (2010) interpretation. It is an open discussion to what extent their interpretation is an adequate model of the logic for the catuskoti, and the Mūla-madhyamaka-kārikā. Priest and Garfield try to make sense of the contradictions within the catuskoti by appeal to a series of lattices – orderings of truth-values, supposed to model the path to enlightenment. They use Anderson & Belnaps's (1975) framework of First Degree Entailment. Cotnoir (2015) has argued that the lattices of Priest and Garfield …
Tucker, W. Dennis, Jr. Jonah: A Handbook On The Hebrew Text. Baylor Handbook On The Hebrew Bible. Waco, Tx: Baylor University Press, 2018. Xii + 120 Pp. Softcover. Usd 26.95., Ranko Stefanovic
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
Levering, Matthew. Engaging The Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit: Love And Gift In The Trinity And The Church. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2016. V + 440 Pp. Hardcover. Usd 45.00., Gerardo Oudri
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
The Commentators’ Bible: The Rubin Jps Miqra’Ot Gedolot [Review] / Carasik, Michael., Felipe A. Masotti
The Commentators’ Bible: The Rubin Jps Miqra’Ot Gedolot [Review] / Carasik, Michael., Felipe A. Masotti
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
Angels And Sub-Divine Supernatural Beings: Their Characteristics, Function, And Relationship To God And Humanity In Deuteronomy-Kings, Amanda J. Mcguire-Moushon
Angels And Sub-Divine Supernatural Beings: Their Characteristics, Function, And Relationship To God And Humanity In Deuteronomy-Kings, Amanda J. Mcguire-Moushon
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Dissertation Abstract
Harwood, Adam, And Kevin E. Lawson, Eds. Infants And Children In The Church: Five Views On Theology And Ministry. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2017. Xiv + 218 Pp. Softcover. Usd 24.99., Timothy J. Arena
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Academy
Being Biblical In A Pluralistic Academy
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This essay examines two senses of what it means to be biblical in a pluralistic academy. The first is to examine the Bible as a document of the university, susceptible to many kinds of critical probing. The rest of the essay explores the second way, which is to use the Bible as the authoritative control story that articulates how Christians view Jesus Christ as the ground, grammar, and goal of both the university and the universe itself. I examine how biblical authority should and should not be deployed in the academy by looking at the natural and human sciences. I …
Law And Order In Ancient Athens [Review] / Lanni, Adriaan., Kenneth Bergland
Law And Order In Ancient Athens [Review] / Lanni, Adriaan., Kenneth Bergland
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
John Wesley Kelchner, Founder Of The Temple Restoration Movement: A Freemason’S Attempt To Build A World Chain Of Solomon’S Temples For Global Peace, Kevin M. Burton
John Wesley Kelchner, Founder Of The Temple Restoration Movement: A Freemason’S Attempt To Build A World Chain Of Solomon’S Temples For Global Peace, Kevin M. Burton
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
John Wesley Kelchner (1866–1942) was a visionary promoter, elocutionist, and entertainer in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Freemasons regarded him as an authority on sacred space and a leading expert on the architecture and design of the tabernacle of Moses and King Solomon’s temple. An active promoter of American Orientalism, Kelchner began his career as a Seventh-day Adventist minister who spent tens of thousands of dollars to build an elaborate model of the wilderness tabernacle. He traveled throughout the United States of America, attracting thousands of spectators to local churches, art galleries, and World’s Fairs that featured his models, …
The Christian Debate On Same-Sex Marriage And Taylor’S Immanent And Transcendent Goods: Lessons From Adventist Approaches, David J. Hamstra
The Christian Debate On Same-Sex Marriage And Taylor’S Immanent And Transcendent Goods: Lessons From Adventist Approaches, David J. Hamstra
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Arguments made for and against affirming same-sex marriage in Christian communities rely on typical moral background preconceptions about immanent and transcendent goods identified by Charles Taylor in A Secular Age. Arguments made only in terms of marriage’s immanent goods have the potential to diminish the plausibility of a uniquely Adventist way of imagining the transcendent good: apocalyptic consciousness focused on the imminent-immanent restoration of Eden by Jesus Christ following the second coming. Comparing marriage to divergent sets of Sabbath-keeping practices—those that provide benefits exclusive to this world and those that aim at goods beyond this world—foregrounds the availability of …
Biclustering Readings And Manuscripts Via Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, With Application To The Text Of Jude, Joey Mccollum
Biclustering Readings And Manuscripts Via Non-Negative Matrix Factorization, With Application To The Text Of Jude, Joey Mccollum
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
The text-critical practice of grouping witnesses into families or texttypes often faces two obstacles: the methodological question of how exactly to isolate the groups, given the chicken-and-egg relationship between “good” group readings and “good” group manuscripts, and contamination in the manuscript tradition. I introduce non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) as a simple, automated, and efficient solution to both problems. Within minutes, NMF can cluster hundreds of manuscripts and readings simultaneously, producing an output that details potential contamination according to an easy-to-interpret mixture model. I apply this method to Wasserman’s extensive collation of the Epistle of Jude, showing that the resulting clusters …
Shoemaker, Stephen J. The Apocalypse Of Empire: Imperial Eschatology In Late Antiquity And Early Islam. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 272 Pp. Hardcover Usd 59.95., Andre Reis
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
Siqueira, Reinaldo, And Alberto R. Timm, Eds., Pneumatologia: Pessoa E Obra Do Espírito Santo. Engenheiro Coelho, Sp: Unaspress, 2017. 741 Pp. Hardcover. Brl 140.00., Rodrigo De Galiza Barbosa
Siqueira, Reinaldo, And Alberto R. Timm, Eds., Pneumatologia: Pessoa E Obra Do Espírito Santo. Engenheiro Coelho, Sp: Unaspress, 2017. 741 Pp. Hardcover. Brl 140.00., Rodrigo De Galiza Barbosa
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
Capes, David B., Rodney Reeves, And E. Randolph Richards. Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction To His World, Letters And Theology. 2nd Ed. Downers Grove, Il: Intervarsity Press, 2017. 462 Pp. Hardcover. Usd 34.20., Edwin Payet
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
Book Notices, Jonatas L. Ferreira
Book Notices, Jonatas L. Ferreira
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
No abstract provided.
"Let Us Make אדם": An Edenic Model Of Personal Ontology, Marla A. Samaan Nedelcu
"Let Us Make אדם": An Edenic Model Of Personal Ontology, Marla A. Samaan Nedelcu
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Dissertation Abstract
The Nature Of David’S Kingship At Hebron: An Exegetical And Theological Study Of 2 Samuel 2:1–5:5, Christian Vogel
The Nature Of David’S Kingship At Hebron: An Exegetical And Theological Study Of 2 Samuel 2:1–5:5, Christian Vogel
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Dissertation Abstract
Adventists And Military Service: Biblical, Historical, And Ethical Perspectives [Review] / Hasel, Frank M., Barna Magyarosi, And Stefan Höschele, Eds., Oleg Kostuyk
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
The Blackwell Companion To Substance Dualism [Review] / Loose, Jonathan J., Angus J. L. Menuge, And J. P. Moreland, Eds., Flavio Prestes Iii
The Blackwell Companion To Substance Dualism [Review] / Loose, Jonathan J., Angus J. L. Menuge, And J. P. Moreland, Eds., Flavio Prestes Iii
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
Zondervan Handbook Of Biblical Archaeology: A Book By Book Guide To Archaeological Discoveries Related To The Bible [Review] / Price, J. Randall And H. Wayne House., Elizabeth Emswiler
Zondervan Handbook Of Biblical Archaeology: A Book By Book Guide To Archaeological Discoveries Related To The Bible [Review] / Price, J. Randall And H. Wayne House., Elizabeth Emswiler
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
Book Review
"Study To Show Thyself Approved": Seventh-Day Adventism's Legacy Of Careful Biblical Scholarship, Ginger Hanks Harwood, Beverly Beem
"Study To Show Thyself Approved": Seventh-Day Adventism's Legacy Of Careful Biblical Scholarship, Ginger Hanks Harwood, Beverly Beem
Andrews University Seminary Studies (AUSS)
This article, based largely on the writings of early Adventist leaders, examines the sources of Adventist hermeneutics primarily as they are revealed through the articles of the Advent Review and Sabbath Herald and the writings of Ellen G. White. It briefly surveys the interpretative methods of William Miller, recognizing the influence that his contemporary cultural setting had upon him, and identifying major practices that characterized early Adventist biblical interpretation. The article’s focus is on the hermeneutical practices of the nineteenth-century Sabbatarian/Seventh-day Adventist spokespersons and the importance they gave to honest inquiry, the role of reason and revelation, and the practices …