408 research outputs found
Aid: a mixed blessing
No full textDespite a growing emphasis by aid agencies on local participation and consultation, the recipients of aid commonly have mixed, if not hostile, responses to relief assistance. Agencies need to acknowledge the inequalities that are inherent in an aid relationship, and be more judicious in determining their proper role. The author calls for aid providers and recipients to accept our innate human equality and our circumstantial inequality in order to establish relationships of mutual respect and contemporaneous enjoyment of each other.This article is hosted by our co-publisher Taylor & Francis.</p
God’s Ultimate Purpose to His People: To be blessed and to be a blessing
No full textWhen God called Abraham in Genesis chapter 12:1-3, He blessed Abraham with a promise. The promise of God is fulfilled and as he departs from the land. From this passage, the promise has spiritual aspect and temporal blessing, particularly the latter. God says, “I will bless you.” It is an assurance of the Creator to His creation and through him, the nations will be blessed. In the context of the local church in Tondano, Indonesia, there are causes that hinder the development of God’s mission such as the false assumption of what mission is, the lack of responsibility in doing the mission, challenges that come from inside and outside, lack of faith, and many others. If they know what the mission of God is as what is written in the Bible, they will realize that they are the people of mission, people who are chosen for a blessing because the mission of God is to bless his creation. As God selected Abraham as His messenger through whom to communicate the light to the world, he had no doubt and had confidence that the source of blessing was leading him. The local church in Tondano, Indonesia will have the same blessing as what Abraham had before and the servants of God in like manner must go forth to sow.
Keywords: Mission, blessing
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The Absence and Influence of Genesis 48 (the Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh) in the <i>Book of Jubilees</i>
No full text While scholars have acknowledged the literary dependence of Jubilees 31 (the blessing of Levi and Judah) on Genesis 48 (the blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh), little work has been done to understand the purpose of this intentional intertextuality. This article examines the literary influence of Genesis 48, the effect of its absence, and the altered roles of Levi, Judah, and Joseph in Jubilees in order to determine why the author made the literary decision to pattern one scene of blessing after the other. This article suggests that the author's decision to omit Genesis 48 and to present not one but two similar scenes of blessing in its place is part of a larger strategy to negotiate the interpretive problem of the prominent status given to Joseph's sons in Genesis 48. By replacing Ephraim and Manasseh with Levi and Judah, but allowing Joseph to receive the double portion of land, the author of Jubilees reflects an interpretive tradition, also found in the Targums, Genesis Rabbah, and the Testaments of the Patriarchs, that understands the inheritance of Jacob to be threefold and distributed three ways—the birthright to Joseph, the priesthood to Levi, and the kingship to Judah. </jats:p
sj-docx-1-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 – Supplemental material for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function by Cynthia E. Burke, Phillip C. McKegg, Alison L. Wong, Genaro A. DeLeon, Jayesh Gupta, Kathleen Healey, Blessing Enobun, Nathan N. O’Hara, Robert V. O’Toole, Raymond A. Pensy, Christopher G. Langhammer and W. Andrew Eglseder in HAND</p
sj-docx-2-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 – Supplemental material for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function by Cynthia E. Burke, Phillip C. McKegg, Alison L. Wong, Genaro A. DeLeon, Jayesh Gupta, Kathleen Healey, Blessing Enobun, Nathan N. O’Hara, Robert V. O’Toole, Raymond A. Pensy, Christopher G. Langhammer and W. Andrew Eglseder in HAND</p
sj-docx-3-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 – Supplemental material for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-3-han-10.1177_15589447221109631 for Association of Radial Head Fracture Treatment With Long-Term Function by Cynthia E. Burke, Phillip C. McKegg, Alison L. Wong, Genaro A. DeLeon, Jayesh Gupta, Kathleen Healey, Blessing Enobun, Nathan N. O’Hara, Robert V. O’Toole, Raymond A. Pensy, Christopher G. Langhammer and W. Andrew Eglseder in HAND</p
Deformation density studies of ring systems. 2. The deformation density of the diazirine ring in the X-ray structure of 3-[(p-Nitrophenoxy) methyl]-3-chlorodiazirine
No full textThe crystal structure and electron density of 3-[(p-nitrophenoxy)methyl]-3-chlorodiazirine have been analyzed using single crystal X-ray diffraction at 208 K with Mo K alpha radiation to a resolution of sin(theta(max))/lambda = 1.126 Angstrom(-1). A total of 10 440 measured reflections gave 7742 unique reflections with R(m) = 0.026. A multipole atomic density model was fitted to these reflections to give an R(F) = 0.0311. The deformation density of the phenyl portion of the compound is as expected. The dynamic deformation density of the diazirine ring, however, suggests that the bonding in the three-membered ring is a combination of the classical severely-strained cr bonding system with a significant contribution of a a donation from the N=N to an sp(2) carbon. This observation is placed in the context of similar proposals for the bonding in cyclopropanes.PT: J; CR: ALLEN FH, 1987, J CHEM SOC PERK T 2, S1 BAERT F, 1982, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR A, V38, P143 BATTAGLIA R, 1980, Z NATURFORSCH B, V35, P719 BLESSING R, ACA T, P26 CAMERON TS, 1992, J AM CHEM SOC, V114, P1889 CAMERON TS, 1994, J AM CHEM SOC, V116, P1211 CREMER D, 1985, J AM CHEM SOC, V107, P3800 CREMER D, 1985, J AM CHEM SOC, V107, P3811 DEWAR MJS, 1979, J AM CHEM SOC, V101, P783 DOMENICANO A, 1975, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR B, V31, P221 DUNITZ JD, 1983, HELV CHIM ACTA, V66, P123 HANSEN NK, 1978, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR A, V34, P909 HIRSHFELD FL, 1991, CRYST REV, V2, P169 LINDEN A, 1988, J ORG CHEM, V53, P1085 LIU MTH, 1986, J CHEM SOC PERK T 2, P211 SCHMIDT MW, 1990, QCPE B, V10, P52 SEILER P, 1988, HELV CHIM ACTA, V71, P2100 SMITH VH, 1977, ISRAEL J CHEM, V16, P87 SOUHASSOU M, 1992, J AM CHEM SOC, V114, P2371 STEINER T, 1993, ACTA CRYSTALLOGR A, V49, P379 STEVENS IDR, 1990, J CHEM SOC P2, P661 STEWART RF, 1969, J CHEM PHYS, V51, P4569 WALSH AD, 1949, T FARADAY SOC, V45, P179 WIBERG KB, 1987, J AM CHEM SOC, V109, P985; NR: 24; TC: 4; J9: J AMER CHEM SOC; PG: 7; GA: NV421Source type: Electronic(1
Lowering the Bar for Creating Model-Tracing Intelligent Tutoring Systems
No full textThe main goal of the work presented here is to allow for the broader dissemination of intelligent tutoring technology. To accomplish this goal, we have two clear objectives. First, we want to allow different types of people to author model-tracing intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) than can now do so. Second, we want to enable an author to create a tutor for software that was not initially designed with an ITS in mind. Accomplishing these two objectives should increase the number of such ITSs that are produced. We have created the first iteration of an authoring system that addresses both objectives. Non-cognitive scientists and non-programmers have used the system to create a tutor, and the system can interface with third-party software that was not originally designed with the ITS.This is a manuscript of a proceeding published as Blessing, Stephen, Stephen Gilbert, Steven Ourada, and Steven Ritter. "Lowering the bar for creating model-tracing intelligent tutoring systems." In Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning Contexts That Work (AIED-2007). The final publication is available at IOS Press through https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.5555/1563601.1563672. Posted with permission.</p
Using ConceptGrid as an easy authoring technique to check natural language responses
No full textConceptGrid provides a template-style approach to check natural language responses by students using a model-tracing style intelligent tutoring system. The tutor-author creates, using a web-based authoring system, a latticestyle structure that contains the set of required concepts that need to be in a student response. The author can also create just-in-time feedback based on the concepts present or absent in the student's response. ConceptGrid is integrated within the xPST authoring tool and was tested in two experiments, both of which show the efficacy of the technique to check student answers. The first study tested the tutor's effectiveness overall in the domain of statistics. The second study investigated ConceptGrid's use by non-programmers and non-cognitive scientists. ConceptGrid extends existing capabilities for authoring of intelligent tutors by using this template-based approach for checking sentence-length natural language input.This is a manuscript of an article published as Blessing, Stephen B., Shrenik Devasani, Stephen B. Gilbert, and Jivko Sinapov. "Using ConceptGrid as an easy authoring technique to check natural language responses." International Journal of Learning Technology 10, no. 1 (2015): 50-70. DOI:10.1504/IJLT.2015.069449. Posted with permission.</p
Empowering nonsmokers to advocate nicotine-replacement therapy to smokers
No full textThis item is available only to currently enrolled UTSA students, faculty or staff. To download, navigate to Log In in the top right-hand corner of this screen, then select Log in with my UTSA ID.Smokers' naïve misconceptions on the safety of nicotine-replacement therapy (NRT) and other forms of smoking cessation have been shown to hinder use and adherence. To dispel these misconceptions and promote the use of NRT, this study provided information on the safety of NRT to college students in either one of two forms: refutation text or scientific evidence in the form of journal abstracts. The author hypothesized participants would find the refutation more convincing that the abstracts, and as a result would display higher willingness and self-efficacy in recommending NRT to a smoking friend. The results confirm the first hypothesis, however ratings on willingness and perceived self-efficacy were not found to be significantly different across groups. While the current study has limitations, it adds to the literature on dispelling NRT misconceptions and calls researchers to further investigate the merits of refutation text as tool for conceptual change.Psycholog
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