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Equipping Members at First Baptist Church, Centerton, Arkansas to Evangelize and Assimilate Internationals
No full textEQUIPPING MEMBERS OF FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH CENTERTON, ARKANSAS TO EVANGELIZE AND ASSIMILATE INTERNATIONALS
Stuart Allen Bell, D.Min.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2016
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. William F. Cook, III
This project seeks to lead First Baptist Church, Centerton, Arkansas, to understand, accept, and act upon their responsibility of reaching the growing international community living in the Northwest Arkansas region. Chapter 1 introduces the need to reach and assimilate internationals into the life and ministry of First Baptist Centerton. Chapter 2 gives a biblical and theological basis for evangelism by examining the commissions of Jesus found in the gospels, as well as a culmination text in Revelation. Chapter 3 deals with theoretical and practical issues associated with evangelism. Chapter 4 describes the details of the project. Chapter 5 evaluates the results of the project, including personal reflections on the project
Featuring Australia : the cinema of Charles Chauvel
No full textThis study follows the career of Charles Chauvel, one of Australia's pioneer film-makers, and the films he made between the 1920s and 1950s. Believing that Chauvel has not received the attention he deserves, the author probes the obstacles to a deeper appreciation of Chauvel's strange, ambitious and fascinating films, and the industrial and cultural environment from which they emerged. "Featuring Australia" shows that Chauvel's career and films were shaped by issues of colonialism, nationalism and internationalism, by the attractions and difficulties of independence, and by stylistic options very much alive today. "Featuring Australia" tells a story of remarkable relevance to today's film industry, showing that Chauvel's career and films are shaped by issues of colonialism, nationalism, and internationalism, by the attractions and difficulties of independence, and by stylistic options very much alive today. Students and teachers of Australian culture, history and film will welcome the book, while film-industry personnel, policy-makers and fans will find much to interest them in this informative study of one of Australia's greatest film-makers. Stuart Cunningham gained postgraduate qualifications from universities in Canada, the United States and Australia, and is presently Senior Lecturer in Communication and Cultural Studies, Queensland University of Technology. He is a well known writer on the history, products and policy of Australian film and television; he has also been a full-time policy analyst and part-time video maker and poet. He has worked on the editorial boards of several jourmals and magazines, including Cinema papers, Filmnews, Culture and policy, Metro, Continuum, and Cultural studies. This book is intended for students and researchers in cultural studies and film studies
Beauty for the Present: Mill, Arnold, Ruskin and Aesthetic Education
No full textThe present thesis examines the idea of aesthetic education of three eminent Victorians: John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin. By focusing on the essence of what they meant with ‘the cultivation of the beautiful’ and, more importantly, the way their ideas of beauty informed their criticism of society, my study aims to contribute to our understanding of the idea of aesthetic education in the Victorian context and, further, to participate in a recent debate about the nature of beauty and aesthetic education.
Chapter One focuses on John Stuart Mill’s concept of ‘feeling’ in a series of essays. I will demonstrate how Mill’s idea of ‘aesthetic education’ was an ‘education of feelings,’ and moreover, how this idea was integrated into his literary criticism, his later critique of democratisation, his description of an ideal liberal society and even his own style of writing. Chapter Two contains a comparative study of Matthew Arnold and Friedrich Schiller. Through a rereading of Arnold, I will argue that his idea of aesthetic education is essentially Schillerian and that their resemblance consists primarily in their stress on the importance of aesthetic unity for modern life, which was becoming increasingly fragmentary and multitudinous. Chapter Three examines John Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education and concentrates particularly on the cultivation of perception. Perception, as I shall show, was pivotal in Ruskin’s idea of aesthetic education. Just as what happened in Mill and Arnold, the emphasis on the education of seeing continued from his early writings well into his art and social criticisms. It not only differentiated him from his fellow art critics; the conviction that people should perceive with a pure heart also enabled him to link observation of artistic details with moral criticism of contemporary society and, thereby, to turn the cultivation of the beautiful into a moral-aesthetic experience
Mental health consultation in state government: a program evaluation
No full textThe Clinical Consultant position was established by the New Jersey Division of Child Behavioral Health (DCBHS) to provide clinical guidance to caseworkers from the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) tasked with the job of managing the complex needs of the children and families under their supervision. Due to the urgency of the need for this service the Clinical Consultant position was created and implemented with a loose job definition while an extensive needs assessment and program evaluation was conducted that would form the basis for an informed, comprehensive and detailed training manual. This needs assessment and program evaluation was carried out by the author eighteen months after the position was formally implemented, with the goals of a) identifying the most critical issues that the clinical consultants face, b) clarifying and refining the organizational conceptualization of the position, c) providing a resource for the clinical consultants to assist them in carrying out their duties effectively and efficiently and d) standardizing practice. The methods used in carrying out this program evaluation were modeled on those described by Hepburn, Kaufmann, Perry, Allen, Brennan and Green in Early childhood mental health consultation: An evaluation tool kit, and involved an extensive review of the consultation and organizational diagnosis literature, semi-structured interviews with involved personnel, and observation. A qualitative database was created from the semi-structured interviews identifying important themes and analyzing them within the larger context of the theoretical foundations of mental health consultation. Specific duties and tasks associated with these dimensions were isolated and examined in light of these theoretical foundations and within the framework of practical and logistic considerations. Presentations of findings were made to major stakeholder groups. The significant themes that arose from the evaluation included differing organizational understandings of the Clinical Consultant position, varying conceptions of the important dimensions of the position and associated tasks, and significant inter-system dynamics influencing communication and utilization of the position at large. These are considered with relevant observations from the author’s own experience serving as a consultant to the larger system in which the Clinical Consultants operate.Psy. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Kathryne Stuart Blauvel
Conscious machines: memory, melody and muscular imagination
No full textA great deal of effort has been, and continues to be, devoted to developing consciousness artificially (A small selection of the many authors writing in this area includes: Cotterill (J Conscious Stud 2:290–311, 1995, 1998), Haikonen (2003), Aleksander and Dunmall (J Conscious Stud 10:7–18, 2003), Sloman (2004, 2005), Aleksander (2005), Holland and Knight (2006), and Chella and Manzotti (2007)), and yet a similar amount of effort has gone in to demonstrating the infeasibility of the whole enterprise (Most notably: Dreyfus (1972/1979, 1992, 1998), Searle (1980), Harnad (J Conscious Stud 10:67–75, 2003), and Sternberg (2007), but there are a great many others). My concern in this paper is to steer some navigable channel between the two positions, laying out the necessary pre-conditions for consciousness in an artificial system, and concentrating on what needs to hold for the system to perform as a human being or other phenomenally conscious agent in an intersubjectively-demanding social and moral environment. By adopting a thick notion of embodiment—one that is bound up with the concepts of the lived body and autopoiesis (Maturana and Varela 1980; Varela et al. 2003; and Ziemke 2003, 2007a, J Conscious Stud 14(7):167–179, 2007b)—I will argue that machine phenomenology is only possible within an embodied distributed system that possesses a richly affective musculature and a nervous system such that it can, through action and repetition, develop its tactile-kinaesthetic memory, individual kinaesthetic melodies pertaining to habitual practices, and an anticipatory enactive kinaesthetic imagination. Without these capacities the system would remain unconscious, unaware of itself embodied within a world. Finally, and following on from Damasio’s (1991, 1994, 1999, 2003) claims for the necessity of pre-reflective conscious, emotional, bodily responses for the development of an organism’s core and extended consciousness, I will argue that without these capacities any agent would be incapable of developing the sorts of somatic markers or saliency tags that enable affective reactions, and which are indispensable for effective decision-making and subsequent survival. My position, as presented here, remains agnostic about whether or not the creation of artificial consciousness is an attainable goal
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No full textIntestinal infections impact millions of people each year, often with ineffective treatments available. There is a lack of models capable of studying these infections that recapitulate the guts cellular environment. Addressing this, we placed biopsies from human colon into culture, and maintained the cellular environment observed in vivo, in a dish. Using this model, sex differences in colonic T-cell responses to Salmonella were observed. When culturing biopsy tissue at ~1% oxygen there was an increase in epithelial cell birth compared to atmospheric oxygen. These results signal the need for controlling oxygen and tracking sex when studying colon-microbiome interactions. Purpose: Mammalian intestines maintain a highly complex physiology that survives an extreme oxygen gradient, a mixed population of commensal and pathogenic bacteria, and a heterogeneous cell composition that includes immune, neural, and epithelial elements. Understanding disorders and developing treatment modalities for intestinal disease and infection states requires balancing multiple factors, including sex-dependence. This study begins to account for the impacts of oxygen concentrations in the context of sex, pathogen, and antibiotic exposure. Procedure: Organotypic slices from human colon biopsies provided three-dimensional environments that maintained cellular morphology and relationships, ex vivo. Biopsy slices were used to study impacts of pathogen exposure on lymphocyte counts, and oxygen and antibiotic treatments on epithelial proliferation rates. Results: Sex differences were observed in basal CD3+ T lymphocyte count in human colon, with male patients having over 2-fold more CD3+ T cells than females. When exposed to a strain of Salmonella enterica, male cell counts did not change, while there was a significant increase in CD3+ T cells in biopsy slices taken from females (P < 0.05). For intestinal mucosa, there were greater rates of epithelial cell proliferation in lowered oxygen conditions (1%) than under more standard atmospheric conditions (20%)(P < 0.05). Antibiotic treatment decreased epithelial proliferation in slices maintained in 1% oxygen, but not 20% (P < 0.05). Implications: These results show a baseline T cell sex difference in the human colon that showed a sex-dependent response to pathogen ex vivo. In addition, oxygen concentration impacted colonic epithelial cell proliferation. Together, these results point towards the need to account for oxygen concentration and sex when studying gut-microbe interactions
The Layburnes and their world, circa 1620-1720: the English Catholic community and the House of Stuart
No full textThis thesis concerns Catholics in north-western England in the late
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Layburne family
of Cunswick, Cumbria. It examines their role in local society and at the courts
of the Stuart queens in London and St Germains. It traces their growing
commitment to the Jacobite cause and their hopes of thereby regaining
positions of influence at court and in the country.
The north-western Tory gentry's sympathy with their Catholic counterparts is
contrasted with the treatment given to the Quakers in the same area. The latter
were regarded as a danger to the fabric of society, representing an economic
and political threat to the government. As an example of how integrated the
Catholics were, the services in Kendal parish church were more Papist than
non-conformist, even under the Protectorate. At the Restoration the Catholics
continued to contribute to the upkeep of the church and were well-regarded in
the area.
The Layburnes occupied positions during the reign of James II, both in the
north-west and at court. Bishop John Laybume acted as James II's Catholic
bishop, and had also been involved in the Secret Treaty of Dover in 1670,
under Charles II. during James II's reign bishop Layburne had organised the
funding of Catholic chapels, clergy and education. This activity was
discovered and used in the prosecution of Catholic gentry in the trials
following the Lancashire Plot (1694). On acquittal, the Jacobites vigorously
renewed their plotting in Lancashire. Planning for a Jacobite invasion reached
its culmination in the 1715 Rising, only to end with the siege of Preston.
Despite some executions and the forfeiture of estates, many Catholic Jacobite
families survived the 1715 rising. Few rose in 1745 and many Catholic
families, with the exception of the Layburnes, prospered and continue to this
day
Aspects of the history of the Catholic gentry of Yorkshire from the Pilgrimage of Grace to the First Civil War
No full textThis study looks at the responses of the Yorkshire Catholic gentry to the immense
changes to their religious landscape in the early modem period, between 1536 and
1642. It examines how they continued to adhere to the Catholic religion, despite all
attempts first to induce and then compel conformity and highlights the ways in which
they managed to survive and prosper throughout the period, demonstrating that
previously neglected groups such as women and younger sons had a crucial role to
play in this process. The overwhelming theme to their actions was one of pragmatism,
rather than the heroic and self-destructive behaviour that was much admired by earlier
historians who wanted to identify martyrs to the Catholic cause.
The areas that are to be examined reflect both public and private gentry activities. In
the public sphere the Yorkshire gentry's part in the rebellions of the Tudor and Stuart
eras are studied along with their rejection of plots. The importance of marriage as an
early modem tool for building alliances and social advancement is acknowledged and
the impact that a continuing adherence to Catholicism had on this is considered. The
gentry and the church are examined through a study of the Catholic gentry's
involvement with their local parishes, their reaction to the dissolution and their
continuing adherence to monasticism, as shown through their devotion to English
orders on the continent. To reflect the changes that were occurring in this period
Catholic involvement in education, the law and medicine are also explored showing
that the Catholic community was not isolated from the wider society. Lastly the role
of Catholic women is given specific consideration in order both to redress the
imbalance in previous studies and due to the crucial role that women played in the
continuation of the Catholic community within Yorkshire
Development of a cycle simulation for a coal-fueled, direct-injected, internal combustion engine
No full textTypescript (photocopy).An engine cycle simulation for a coal-fueled internal combustion, reciprocating engine was developed. The primary objective of this work was to develop the simulation for evaluating the viability of coal fuels for engines. The cycle simulation was used to investigate details of the combustion process to identify controlling phenomena and to establish directions for future evaluations. Models for coal particle combustion and devolatilization, liquid droplet vaporization, fuel vapor combustion, cylinder heat transfer, piston work, and mass flow rates were combined with a thermodynamic analysis of the engine to yield instantaneous cylinder conditions and overall indicated engine performance. For selected engine and operating conditions, sensitivity of engine performance on fuel characteristics such as coal reactivity, devolatilization, liquid carriers, atomization, and pilot fuels for ignition were investigated. Several commercially manufactured engines were also simulated with the model. The major conclusions of this work include: (1) devolatilization can have a significant effect on the ignition and combustion processes, (2) liquid carriers can have a significant effect on the ignition and combustion processes, (3) the cylinder gas temperature and pressure at fuel injection are important engine operating parameters for coal fuels, (4) the characteristics of the coal fuel (such as particle size and reactivity) can have a significant impact on the ignition and combustion processes, and (5) the combustion process of coal slurry fuels is largely diffusion (air mixing) controlled
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