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David Martyn Lloyd-Jones 1899-1981 and twentieth-century evangelicalism.
No full textThe purpose of this thesis was to demonstrate the significance of the life and ministry of David Martyn Lloyd-Jones in post-war British evangelicalism and to show that, so far as Protestant churches in England and Wales were concerned, no history of the period can afford to ignore him. It is our contention that despite differences of opinion and self- marginalization Lloyd-Jones was and has remained a major force in evangelical thinking. In order to understand how this developed the thesis has been structured along thematic lines highlighting events, persons and questions. The study begins by setting the stage with a biographical chapter and goes on to examine the kind of impact that Lloyd-Jones's preaching had on Christians of all denominations. He believed preaching to be the greatest need of the day and the position of this thesis is that preaching was Lloyd-Jones's greatest contribution to twentieth- century Christianity. As a preacher he attracted one of London's largest congregations and in chapter three we look at the history and nature of Westminster Chapel comparing it with neighbouring ministries, and establishing the kind of people who went to hear him. Chapters four and five ascertain the factors which shaped Lloyd-Jones's views on the church and show how his Reformed evangelicalism led in a separatist as opposed to an ecumenical direction and finally, to a position which was neither Congregational nor Presbyterian. Our further argument is that while he favoured unity among believers his separatist ecclesiology only exacerbated the situation and left evangelicals more divided than before. Chapters six to eight evaluate Lloyd-Jones's background, the nature of his leadership and the extent of his influence - factors which either shaped or were the outcome of his ministry - and looks at the issues which these questions raise
Non-stationary models for optimal sampling and mapping of terrain in Great Britain
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Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, and David W. Wong (eds), Social-spatial segregation. Concepts, processes and outcomes
No full textSocial-spatial segregation. Concepts, processes and outcomes, edited by Christopher D. Lloyd, Ian G. Shuttleworth, and David W. Wong, Bristol, Policy Press, 2015, xiv + 438 pp., £70.00 (Paperback), ISBN 9781447301356
The effect of valley confluence and bedrock geology upon the location and depth of glacial overdeepenings
No full textOverdeepenings are erosional landforms, cut by glaciers into bedrock in basins and valleys. Overdeepening is the glaciological and geomorphological process that produces these landforms. The overdeepening process is important because it has the potential to influence the response of ice masses to climatic changes. In this paper, we analyze topographic and bathymetric digital elevation models to examine several hundred glacial overdeepenings in Labrador, Canada. We investigate controls upon the location and depth of overdeepenings. Our analyses show that the location of overdeepenings correlate strongly with confluences of glacial valleys and, importantly, that the correlation is strongest where confluence geometry requires the speed-up of ice-flow due to change in valley cross-sectional area. Further, we find that the magnitude of ice-flow speed-up correlates with depth of overdeepenings only for confluences situated in or near major geological fault-zones. Our findings therefore support the hypothesis that overdeepening can be initiated by an increase in ice velocity. Further, we conclude that overdeepening is most efficacious where fractured bedrock enables efficient quarrying. In summary, we find that the primary control upon the location of overdeepenings arises from confluences of glacial valleys due to ice speeding up at these locations, and that the depth of overdeepenings are controlled by rock mass strength. These findings are relevant for landscape evolution modelling and may be used in model testing
Literacy: A Continuously Evolving Concept
No full textAngelo P. Giardino, Robert Sanborn, William V. Flores and E. Christopher Lloyd discuss the latest issue of the Journal of Family Strengths
Application of mobile data capture with imagery support
No full textRemote sensing technology and mobile devices are two data collection approaches that are proving invaluable in the disaster response phase of the hazard event. The adoption of these approaches is not universal and still faces significant challenges.
The user community must understand the technology, learn how to acquire it, and be trained on its use before the disaster event. Much has been written about volunteered, unvolunteered, and crowd-sourcing of geospatial information for disaster response and recovery. While research in these areas continues, most U.S. federal and state agencies rely on authoritative data collected by authorized personnel.
This research focuses on the use of geospatial technology with mobile devices by appointed users—those individuals with authorization to collect geospatial information for a governmental agency with authority in the disaster response process.
This chapter describes a project to develop a web-app that allows appointed users to collect geospatial data in the field with Google Maps and user-supplied imagery and with pre-defined and user-defined structured forms. Although the original purpose focused on disaster response and recovery activities, such as the Urban Search and Rescue (USaR) house-to-house searches, the user-groups, purposes, and technologies rapidly changed in this two year project. Technology for the web environment rapidly changes, particularly for mobile devices. Our focus on the USaR teams changed to all parishes in the state of Louisiana. This project used an agile software development approach, which permitted the evolving nature of
the user requirements.Without this agile approach the user community would not have adopted the application for emergency response
Multi-level personalization of neuromusculoskeletal models to estimate physiologically plausible knee joint contact forces in children
No full textNeuromusculoskeletal models are a powerful tool to investigate the internal biomechanics of an individual. However, commonly used neuromusculoskeletal models are generated via linear scaling of generic templates derived from elderly adult anatomies and poorly represent a child, let alone children with a neuromuscular disorder whose musculoskeletal structures and muscle activation patterns are profoundly altered. Model personalization can capture abnormalities and appropriately describe the underlying (altered) biomechanics of an individual. In this work, we explored the effect of six different levels of neuromusculoskeletal model personalization on estimates of muscle forces and knee joint contact forces to tease out the importance of model personalization for normal and abnormal musculoskeletal structures and muscle activation patterns. For six children, with and without cerebral palsy, generic scaled models were developed and progressively personalized by (1) tuning and calibrating musculotendon units' parameters, (2) implementing an electromyogram-assisted approach to synthesize muscle activations, and (3) replacing generic anatomies with image-based bony geometries, and physiologically and physically plausible muscle kinematics. Biomechanical simulations of gait were performed in the OpenSim and CEINMS software on ten overground walking trials per participant. A mixed-ANOVA test, with Bonferroni corrections, was conducted to compare all models' estimates. The model with the highest level of personalization produced the most physiologically plausible estimates. Model personalization is crucial to produce physiologically plausible estimates of internal biomechanical quantities. In particular, personalization of musculoskeletal anatomy and muscle activation patterns had the largest effect overall. Increased research efforts are needed to ease the creation of personalized neuromusculoskeletal models.sponsorship: Open access funding provided by Alma Mater Studiorum -Universita di Bologna within the CRUI-CARE Agreement. This work was partly supported by the Mobilise-D project that has received funding from the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No. 820820. This JU receives support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA). Content in this publication reflects the authors' view and neither IMI nor the European Union, EFPIA, or any associated partners are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein. (Alma Mater Studiorum -Universita di Bologna within the CRUI-CARE Agreement, Mobilise-D project - Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 Joint Undertaking (JU)|820820, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA))status: Publishe
Non-stationary approaches for mapping terrain and assessing uncertainty
No full textIt is well known that terrain may vary markedly over small areas and that statistics used to characterise spatial variation in terrain may be valid only over small areas. In geostatistical terminology, a non-stationary approach may be considered more appropriate than a stationary approach. In many applications, local variation is not accounted for sufficiently. This paper assesses potential benefits in using non-stationary geostatistical approaches for interpolation and for the assessment of uncertainty in predictions with implications for sampling design. Two main non-stationary approaches are employed in this paper dealing with (1) change in the mean and (2) change in the variogram across the region of interest. The relevant approaches are (1) kriging with a trend model (KT) using the variogram of residuals from local drift and (2) locally-adaptive variogram KT, both applied to a sampled photogrammetrically derived digital terrain model (DTM). The fractal dimension estimated locally from the double-log variogram is also mapped to illustrate how spatial variation changes across the data set. It is demonstrated that estimation of the variogram of residuals from local drift is worthwhile in this case for the characterisation of spatial variation. In addition, KT is shown to be useful for the assessment of uncertainty in predictions. This is shown to be true even when the sample grid is dense as is usually the case for remotely-sensed data. In addition, both ordinary kriging (OK) and KT are shown to provide more accurate predictions than inverse distance weighted (IDW) interpolation, used for comparative purposes
Non-commutative iwasawa theory for d-Fold false tate extensions
No full textFor the (d+1)-dimensional Lie group G=Z_p^{imes}ltimes Z_p^{oplus d}, we determine through the use of p-power congruences, a necessary and sufficient set of conditions whereby a collection of abelian p-adic L-functions arises from an element in K_1(Z_p[[G]]).
We construct an additive theta map which produces additive p-power congruences, and then using the Taylor Oliver logarithm, we arrive at a multiplicative version of these congruences.
If E is a semistable elliptic curve over Q with good ordinary reduction at p, the abelian p-adic L-functions already exist, therefore one can predict many new families of higher order congruences. The first layer congruences are then verified computationally in a variety of cases.
The final chapter contains computations for elliptic curves with bad multiplicative
reduction at p, that the author performed for Delbourgo and Lei in [10].
All of the computations were done using the package MAGMA
Relazioni ed entità emergenti: da Broad e Lloyd Morgan a Kim
No full textThe author tries to argue that J. Kim’s exclusion argument is not incompatible with the acceptance of a certain form of ontological emergence and that C. D. Broad’s and C. Lloyd Morgan’s doctrines should be actually taken as weakly emergentist doctrines – even if Lloyd Morgan’s doctrine can be also interpreted in strongly emergentist terms. The crucial point of such versions of emergentism – what grounds the very occurrence of emergence – lies in external relations’ being involved in the emergence bases. First, the author distinguishes between weak and strong ontological emergence and between internal and external relations. Secondly, he reconstructs Broad’s and Lloyd Morgan’s doctrines. Thirdly, he examines Kim’s exclusion argument and he argues for the general conclusion of the article. In conclusion, insofar as physicalists accept that non-physical entities can depend in special ways on physical ones (e.g., by involving irreducible, external relations in the dependence bases), they can also accept certain forms of ontological emergence
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