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Rev. Dr. Jeremy Summers, Director of Church and Community Engagement, Evangelical Environmental Network
No full textBride Abduction in Rural Ethiopia: A Multilevel Analysis of Influences, Impact, and Intervention Strategies
No full textBride abduction in rural Ethiopia is a harmful traditional practice that often goes unchallenged by both communities and law enforcement. This paper provides a multilevel analysis of legal frameworks, cultural influences, and socioeconomic factors sustaining the practice, and discusses the far-reaching impact on affected individuals and communities. Examining interventions that have successfully addressed gender-based violence in other contexts suggests that multicomponent community mobilization, improved procedural frameworks, and engagement with local leaders are essential to effectively addressing bride abduction in rural Ethiopia
A Divine Conceptualist Interpretation of Modal Structuralism
Get PDFStructuralism is a contemporary philosophy of mathematics which asserts that the content of mathematics is not located in the objects of its study but rather the relations which hold between those objects. Modal Structuralism, in turn, emphasizes that mathematical truth concerns modal statements about what would be necessarily true of a system if such relations held. Finally, Theistic Conceptual Realism argues that possible worlds are in fact instances of divine self-knowledge, and thereby provides a means of grounding modality in the mind of God. In this paper, we argue that Modal Structuralism, as interpreted via Theistic Conceptual Realism, provides a satisfying view of mathematics which we hope will appeal to Christian mathematicians in particular
Managing Cubesat Payloads Using LEGO®
No full textTaylor University Computer Science & Engineering, in collaboration with NearSpace Education, is initiating a broad-participation, multi-year effort to enhance space-awareness and offer students career-impacting opportunities to build and fly satellites that have a LEGO®-robotics-based payload.
We built a prototype flat sat to test and demonstrate our LEGO satellite concept. The satellite uses NearSpace Launch’s Dream Big 1/2U bus to manage power, radio communications, and any other non-payload activity such as attitude control. Using the Dream Big bus makes building the satellite technically and financially feasible for a small team without significant satellite experience.
The payload consists of the LEGO robotics Spike Prime and LEGO EV3 control boards jointly managing a set of sensors. We have three categories of sensors: actual LEGO sensors, 3rd party sensors build to work with LEGO robotics, and sensors that are not designed to work with LEGO. Some sensors are connected to the Spike Prime, and some to the EV3. The Spike Prime controls payload operations, such as collecting data from sensors connected to the SPIKE Prime, requesting sensor data from the EV3, collating the data into a packet, and handing the packet to the flight radio for transmission to Earth via the Iridium satellite network.
Back on earth, we receive the packets, storing and processing them. Finally, we can automatically post mission information – including sensor data charts – to X (Twitter) and plan to post to other social media platforms. We can make satellite orbit tracking Internet-available using a 3-D model of the Earth. We plot the packet transmission locations and display the contents for each received packet.
A successful full-path test from the flat sat — through the Iridium network and back down to earth — took place at NearSpace Education took place on Thursday, July 17.
Conference site: https://www.smallsateducation.org
The Catholic Church and Their Response to the Rise of Human Rights Abuses by the Military Regimes in Argentina and Brazil: A Comparative Analysis on the Argentine and Brazilian Church from the 1960’s to the 1980’s
No full textThis study is primarily focused on the Catholic Church\u27s role in Argentina and Brazil throughout the 1960\u27s to 1980\u27s. It explores the historical and political context of Latin America amidst Cold War influence which resulted in the rise of military dictatorships who resorted to violence due to their strong political views. The Catholic Church, at the time, was experiencing deep internal tension which, in some cases, lead to an unfortunate lack of action despite their vast influence and their ability to aid their communities in need
