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Imsejhin ghall-qadi tal-komunita` Nisranija permezz tal-ministeru sacerdotali
No full textThe article focuses upon the call to service through the exercise of the priestly ministry. The point of departure of the study is the Johannine pericope which describes the washing of the disciples' feet by Jesus (Jn 13:1-20). The article describes how the celebration of the liturgy is a fount of vocations to the ordained ministry. The author then studies three documents of the Second Vatican Council -- Optatam Totius, Presbyterorum Ordinis and Christus Dominus -- in order to depict the centrality of service to priestly ministry. A number of evocative texts are referred to, as well as formation documents from the local Church of Malta. Furthermore, the respective contributions of Bishop Tonino Bello, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis are also given pride of place, as more light is thrown on the theme of the article.peer-reviewe
Grajjiet is-Santwarju tal-Madonna tal-Grazzji
No full textContents: Xewqa mitmuma - Mit-tempji pagani ghas-Santwarju tal-lum - Santwarju li jfakkar fil-grajja tal-ordni u ta' missirijietna - Strangieri devoti tal-Madonna - Mir-registru tal-offertiThe Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Grace is without doubt the most prominent building in Zabbar. The author gives a detailed description of the history of the Zabbar Sanctuary and illustrates important facts on the history of Zabbar.
Is-Santwarju tal-Madonna tal Grazzji huwa bla dubju l-aktar bini prominenti fiż-Żabbar. L-awtur jagħti deskrizzjoni dettaljata tal-istorja tas-Santwarju u jaghti fatti importanti dwar l-istorja ta’ Zabbar.
Contents: Xewqa mitmuma - Mit-tempji pagani ghas-Santwarju tal-lum - Santwarju li jfakkar fil-grajja tal-ordni u ta' missirijietna - Strangieri devoti tal-Madonna - Mir-registru tal-offertipeer-reviewe
Sharing a laugh: sitcoms and the production of post-imperial Britain, 1945-1980
No full textSharing a Laugh examines the social and cultural roles of television situation comedy in Britain between 1945 and 1980. It argues that an exploration of sitcoms reveals the mindset of postwar Britons and highlights how television developed both as an industry and as a public institution. This research demonstrates how Britain metamorphosed in this period from a welfare state with an implicit promise to establish a meritocratic and expert-based society, into a multiracial, consumer society ruled by the market. It illustrates how this turnabout of British society was formulated, debated, and shaped in British sitcoms. This dissertation argues that both democratization (resulting from the expansion of the franchise after World War I) and decolonization in the post-World War II era, established culture as a prominent political space in which interaction and interconnection between state and society took place. Therefore, this work focuses on culture and on previously less noticed parties to the negotiation over power in society such as, media institutions, media practitioners, and their audiences. It demonstrates how British sitcom writers turned a form which was seen as frivolous entertainment into an inquiry that questioned the most fundamental structures of their society. Sitcoms thus addressed and engaged with the critical issues of British life: postwar consumer aspirations and shortage of housing, fears of Americanization, racism and the end of empire. Sitcoms’ incredible outreach extended these debates across the nation, and enabled a conversation that took place in the privacy of the home to resonant in the public sphere. The dissertation looks both at institutions and at trailblazing individuals who shaped the genre. It considers the role of audiences and of technological innovation in turning a staple of broadcasting into a site of public debate, education, and memory. It maintains that vintage sitcoms still shape contemporary audiences, and their understanding of the past through sitcoms’ repeated transmission on television, their availability on DVD, and via services such as YouTube.Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Tal Zalmanovic
Phase-controlled, speckle-free holographic projection with applications in precision optogenetics
No full textPhase-controlled, speckle-free holographic projection with applications in precision optogenetics
No full textWe present an iterative phase retrieval algorithm that allows the projection of amplitude-controlled speckle-free one-dimensional patterns with a high degree of pattern uniformity.Other acknowledgments: U.S. National Institutes
of Health (Award No. 1U01NS090498-01)
Are independent regulatory agencies necessarily better for efficient regulation? The case of communications regulation in Israel
No full textDelegation of communications regulation to independent authorities seems to be a well-accepted norm these days; the ‘best way to go’. In this post, Tal Sokol reflects on different regulatory models and offers an assement based on the case of Israel. Afetr all, the author suggests, the general dislike that undelegated regulators seem to have received in the literature may be overrated
Qigong Sensory Training for Autism: Promising Effects on Sensory Processing, Self-Regulation, and Parenting Stress
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 4/1/2017
Preliminary results of an evidence-based pilot project with young children with or at risk for autism demonstrated that Qigong Sensory Training promoted participation in everyday occupations by improving sensory processing and self-regulation by 18% and decreasing parenting stress by 30%.
Primary Author and Speaker: Orit Tal-Atzili</jats:p
Unbiased Gradient Estimation for Differentiable Surface Splatting via Poisson Sampling
No full textWe propose an efficient and GPU-accelerated sampling framework which enables unbiased gradient approximation for differentiable point cloud rendering based on surface splatting. Our framework models the contribution of a point to the rendered image as a probability distribution. We derive an unbiased approximative gradient for the rendering function within this model. To efficiently evaluate the proposed sample estimate, we introduce a tree-based data-structure which employs multipole methods to draw samples in near linear time. Our gradient estimator allows us to avoid regularization required by previous methods, leading to a more faithful shape recovery from images. Furthermore, we validate that these improvements are applicable to real-world applications by refining the camera poses and point cloud obtained from a real-time SLAM system. Finally, employing our framework in a neural rendering setting optimizes both the point cloud and network parameters, highlighting the framework’s ability to enhance data driven approaches.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer Graphics and Visualisatio
Visual Cross-View Metric Localization with Dense Uncertainty Estimates
No full textThis work addresses visual cross-view metric localization for outdoor robotics. Given a ground-level color image and a satellite patch that contains the local surroundings, the task is to identify the location of the ground camera within the satellite patch. Related work addressed this task for range-sensors (LiDAR, Radar), but for vision, only as a secondary regression step after an initial cross-view image retrieval step. Since the local satellite patch could also be retrieved through any rough localization prior (e.g. from GPS/GNSS, temporal filtering), we drop the image retrieval objective and focus on the metric localization only. We devise a novel network architecture with denser satellite descriptors, similarity matching at the bottleneck (rather than at the output as in image retrieval), and a dense spatial distribution as output to capture multi-modal localization ambiguities. We compare against a state-of-the-art regression baseline that uses global image descriptors. Quantitative and qualitative experimental results on the recently proposed VIGOR and the Oxford RobotCar datasets validate our design. The produced probabilities are correlated with localization accuracy, and can even be used to roughly estimate the ground camera’s heading when its orientation is unknown. Overall, our method reduces the median metric localization error by 51%, 37%, and 28% compared to the state-of-the-art when generalizing respectively in the same area, across areas, and across time.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Intelligent Vehicle
Understanding the roles of TAL effectors in Xanthomonas oryzae interactions with rice
No full text2013 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.Transcription activator like (TAL) effector proteins are virulence factors that are secreted by Xanthomonas oryzae. Some TAL effectors contribute to virulence by activating transcription of plant host susceptibility genes thereby modulating the plant's physiology and creating a more pathogen favorable environment. Some TAL effectors activate transcription of disease resistance genes. Because most X. oryzae strains encode many (between 8 and 26) genes for TAL effectors, it is difficult to evaluate the function of individual TAL in the plant-pathogen interaction. In this study, we introduced the use of a TAL deficient strain of X. oryzae that allows study of individual TAL effectors. We demonstrated that the TAL deficient strain could deliver TAL to rice, and that subtle differences in TAL virulence functions could be measured in interactions with rice when delivered by this strain. Plants have evolved resistance genes that detect or recognize TAL effectors and activate resistance responses. Using the TAL deficient X. oryzae delivery system, we isolated a TAL that activates resistance in plants which are homozygous for the recessive resistance gene xa5. The TAL, Avrxa5P86, is predicted to target many transcription factors. Avrxa5P86 not only interacted with xa5 to confer resistance, but also exhibited a novel resistance interaction with Azucena and Nipponbare, both homozygous for the Xa5 allele. Our discovery of Avrxa5P86 is of presents a novel interaction that raises new evolutionary questions about TAL effectors and/or resistance genes in rice
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