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Shari D. Harper vs. Kenneth Burton, Amy Dutson, Ryan Bushell, Burton Law Firm, Cragun, Burton & Bushell : Brief of Appellant
No full textThe Brief of Siiari D. Harper for case number 070902281 filed in the Second District Court in Weber County, Utah m the case load of Parley Baldwin
Amy-Jill Levine's 2014 Book about Jesus's Parables, and Walter J. Ong's Thought
No full textSee the above abstract.In my 3,325-word review essay "Amy-Jill Levine's 2014 Book about Jesus's Parables, and Walter J. Ong's Thought," I highlight the self-described "Yankee Jewish feminist" biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine's 2014 book Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi (New York: Harper One/ Harper Collins). In addition, I highlight the relevant mature work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and media ecology theorist Walter J. Ong (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955), including his posthumously published uncompleted book Language as Hermeneutic: A Primer on the Word and Digitization, edited and with commentaries by Thomas D. Zlatic and Sara van den Berg (Cornell University Press, 2017).N/AFarrell, Thomas. (2022). Amy-Jill Levine's 2014 Book about Jesus's Parables, and Walter J. Ong's Thought. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/226596
Modified Cooper Harper scales for assessing unmanned vehicle displays
No full textUnmanned vehicle (UV) displays are often the only information link between operators and vehicles, so their design is critical to mission success. However, there is currently no standardized methodology for operators to subjectively assess a display's support of mission tasks. This paper proposes a subjective UV display evaluation tool: the Modified Cooper-Harper for Unmanned Vehicle Displays (MCH-UVD). The MCH-UVD is adapted from the Cooper-Harper aircraft handling scale by shifting focus to support of operator information processing. An experiment was conducted to evaluate and refine the MCH-UVD, as well as assess the need for mission-specific versus general versions. Participants (86%) thought that MCH-UVD helped them identify display deficiencies, and 32% said that they could not have identified the deficiencies without the tool. No major additional benefits were observed with mission-specific versions over the general scale.U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Cente
Shari D. Harper v. Kenneth Burton, Amy Dutson, Ryan Bushell, Cragun, Burton and Bushell, P.C., and Burton Law Firm, P.C. : Brief of Appellee Amy Dutson
No full textBRIEF FOR APPELLEE AMY DUTSON Utah Court of Appeals Case No: 20070905 Appeal from the Second District Court, Weber County, Judge Baldwi
Teaching and implementing effective mission and outreach ministry through Christian education at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, 2004
No full textThis dissertation addressed the teaching and implementation of effective mission and outreach ministry at the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia. The mission statement of the church has always reflected the importance of remaining mission focused when carrying out the work of Christ and reads as follows: 'We win souls to Christ. We develop Christian growth in grace, knowledge, and service. We build a community, to reach a community.'1 The intent of this dissertation was to provide a Christian Education ministry that identified the beliefs, attitudes, and actions, whereby the ministries of Mount Pleasant could implement effective mission and outreach ministry programs through the discipline of Christian Education. The implementation portion in this project were carried out in two phases: planning/teaching and implementation/praxis. Methodology for this implementation model included the combined efforts of the Office of the Pastor, the Board of Christian Education, and the Social Services Ministry of the Mount Pleasant Baptist Church. The teaching and implementation for effective mission and outreach ministry will be addressed using the following five components: (A) God's vision for mission and outreach ministry; (B) Board of Christian Education planning; (C) ministry education and training; (D) mission project development; and (E) mission and outreach praxis implementation. 1 O. L. Blackshear, Sr., Michael T. Barnes and Charles A. Harper, III, 'Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Mission Statement' (Atlanta, Ga., 2 August 1995)
Phase transitions in a non-Hermitian Aubry-André-Harper model
No full textThe Aubry-André-Harper model provides a paradigmatic example of aperiodic order in a one-dimensional lattice displaying a delocalization-localization phase transition at a finite critical value Vc of the quasiperiodic potential amplitude V. In terms of the dynamical behavior of the system, the phase transition is discontinuous when one measures the quantum diffusion exponent δ of wave-packet spreading, with δ=1 in the delocalized phase VVc (dynamical localization). However, the phase transition turns out to be smooth when one measures, as a dynamical variable, the speed v(V) of excitation transport in the lattice, which is a continuous function of potential amplitude V and vanishes as the localized phase is approached. Here we consider a non-Hermitian extension of the Aubry-André-Harper model, in which hopping along the lattice is asymmetric, and show that the dynamical localization-delocalization transition is discontinuous, not only in the diffusion exponent δ, but also in the speed v of ballistic transport. This means that even very close to the spectral phase transition point, rather counterintuitively, ballistic transport with a finite speed is allowed in the lattice. Also, we show that the ballistic velocity can increase as V is increased above zero, i.e., surprisingly, disorder in the lattice can result in an enhancement of transport.The author acknowledges the Spanish State Research Agency through the Severo Ochoa and Maríade Maeztu Program for Centers and Units of Excellence inR&D (Grant No. MDM-2017-0711).Peer reviewe
Global patterns of diapycnal mixing from measurements of the turbulent dissipation rate
No full textThe authors present inferences of diapycnal diffusivity from a compilation of over 5200 microstructure profiles. As microstructure observations are sparse, these are supplemented with indirect measurements of mixing obtained from (i) Thorpe-scale overturns from moored profilers, a finescale parameterization applied to (ii) shipboard observations of upper-ocean shear, (iii) strain as measured by profiling floats, and (iv) shear and strain from full-depth lowered acoustic Doppler current profilers (LADCP) and CTD profiles. Vertical profiles of the turbulent dissipation rate are bottom enhanced over rough topography and abrupt, isolated ridges. The geography of depth-integrated dissipation rate shows spatial variability related to internal wave generation, suggesting one direct energy pathway to turbulence. The global-averaged diapycnal diffusivity below 1000-m depth is O(10?4) m2 s?1 and above 1000-m depth is O(10?5) m2 s?1. The compiled microstructure observations sample a wide range of internal wave power inputs and topographic roughness, providing a dataset with which to estimate a representative global-averaged dissipation rate and diffusivity. However, there is strong regional variability in the ratio between local internal wave generation and local dissipation. In some regions, the depth-integrated dissipation rate is comparable to the estimated power input into the local internal wave field. In a few cases, more internal wave power is dissipated than locally generated, suggesting remote internal wave sources. However, at most locations the total power lost through turbulent dissipation is less than the input into the local internal wave field. This suggests dissipation elsewhere, such as continental margins
Dorothy Must Die by D. Paige
No full textPaige, D. Dorothy Must Die. Full Fathom Five: Harper Collins, 2014. Print.Once you enter Oz there is no turning back. Be Brave. Be Angry. Don’t trust anyone. Trust yourself. You’ll know what to do. Danielle Paige takes the classic tale of the Wizard of Oz and twists the characters with evil to leave the reader anxiously waiting for the next magical revelation in her novel Dorothy Must Die.As an average teen from a trailer park in Kansas, Amy Gumm believes that the realities of her mother’s addiction, an absent father and the bully at school are the worst scenario a girl could face. She couldn’t be more wrong. The collision of a classic tale with the magic and horror that Amy requires to fulfill her destiny forms a novel that is a fast paced adventure along the yellow brick road. Amy considers the storm rolling in on her life in the trailer park, and the possibility of life as someone other than Salvation Amy: Bring it on. There’s no place like anywhere but here. When she is swept away in the tornado and lands in the Land of Oz she is met with something more sinister than she can imagine. It turns out that all Amy finds in this new version of Oz has been created by her predecessor Dorothy, the other girl from Kansas. With acts of evil and desperation, Dorothy\u27s attempt to harness all magic and power over the land have caused desolation. With such a dismal reality for the Land of Oz, Amy is recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked with a single mission: Dorothy must die.As Amy asks the question “Who am I supposed to be?” she deals with her haunting past back home, her identity as a teen, lessons in managing magic, and ultimately her role as an assassin. But Dorothy has clearly declared that there can only be one, and both Amy and Dorothy intend for that one to be them. In Danielle Paige\u27s debut as a YA writer she creates a tornado in its own right, carrying the reader up and away only to drop them on their head when the storm dies down. Oz - Where all your worst nightmares can come true.Highly Recommended: 4 out of 4 starsReviewer: Rachelle Buch-GoncalvesRachelle is the Teacher Librarian at Southern Okanagan Secondary School in Oliver, BC. She is currently completing her Masters degree in Teacher Librarianship and enjoys sharing her studies with her colleagues, students, and her two young daughters who are reading ‘just like mom’
Realization of high-Q/V photonic crystal cavities defined by an effective Aubry-André-Harper bichromatic potential
No full textWe report on the realization of high-Q/V
photonic crystal
cavities in
thin silicon
membranes, with resonances around 1.55 μm wavelength. The cavity designs are based
on a recently proposed photonic
crystal implementation of the Aubry-André-Harper bichromatic potential,
defined from the superposition of two one-dimensional lattices with a non-integer ratio
between their periodicity constants. In photonic crystal nanocavities, this confinement mechanism
is such that optimized figures of merit can be straightforwardly achieved, in particular
an ultra-high-Q factor and diffraction-limited mode volume. Several silicon membrane photonic crystal nanocavities
have been realized with measured
Q-factors in the 1 × 106 range, as evidenced by resonant scattering. The
generality of the proposed designs and their easy implementation and scalability make
these results particularly interesting for realizing highly performing photonic nanocavities on
different material
platforms and operational wavelengths
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