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George MacLeod’s open-air preaching: performance and counter-performance
No full textStuart Blythe uses the methodology of performance to analyse George MacLeod’s open-air preaching. He points out that MacLeod’s preaching was derived from a theology of the incarnation, and an understanding of the paradoxes and dichotomies of common human life. This preaching, Blythe suggests, was also a counter-performance in the context of outlooks and ideologies inimical to the gospel. The paper raises interesting issues related to preaching as performance, and the further question as to whether or not the life and work of the Church as a whole might now be better understood as a counter-performance.Publisher PD
Advances in Neuroimaging and Monitoring to Defend Cerebral Perfusion in Noncardiac Surgery
No full textNoncardiac surgery conveys a substantial risk of secondary organ dysfunction and injury. Neurocognitive dysfunction and covert stroke are emerging as major forms of perioperative organ dysfunction, but a better understanding of perioperative neurobiology is required to identify effective treatment strategies. The likelihood and severity of perioperative brain injury may be increased by intraoperative hemodynamic dysfunction, tissue hypoperfusion, and a failure to recognize complications early in their development. Advances in neuroimaging and monitoring techniques, including optical, sonographic, and magnetic resonance, have progressed beyond structural imaging and now enable noninvasive assessment of cerebral perfusion, vascular reserve, metabolism, and neurologic function at the bedside. Translation of these imaging methods into the perioperative setting has highlighted several potential avenues to optimize tissue perfusion and deliver neuroprotection. This review introduces the methods, metrics, and evidence underlying emerging optical and magnetic resonance neuroimaging methods and discusses their potential experimental and clinical utility in the setting of noncardiac surgery
Redemption in the work of Francis Stuart
No full textThe idea of redemption is central to an understanding of the work
of Francis Stuart. Through an examination of its development and
expression, it is possible to demonstrate the integrity of his work and
its distinctive qualities. Such a demonstration is necessary because
Stuart's writing has been subjected to comparatively little scholarly
inquiry, although reviews of his work, especially that produced since
1949, suggest that it is impressive and important.
First, a general background to Stuart's work, a discussion of the
special problems associated with reading it, and a summary of his corpus
is provided. This indicates that the idea of redemption is important to
his earliest writing. The state of redemption is shown to be a
necessary apotheosis for Stuart's outcast heroes; it involves spiritual
suffering through which may be found a sense of reintegration and a
higher reality. This is expressed through interrelated themes such as
those of gambler, artist and ordinary man; mystic and criminal; sacred
and profane love; and spirituality and the mundane. The nature of the
redemptive experience is further elaborated by distinctive, complex
motifs, especially the hare, the ark and the woman-Christ. Their
recurrence provides an important element in the unity of Stuart's work.
Because Stuart's idea of the outcast raises important biographical
questions, an examination of the relationship between Stuart's life and
his work is made. Finally, the way in which the idea of redemption
exists in the language structures of Stuart's novels is examined, with
especial reference to his most recent work, The High Consistory. The
thesis shows that the development of the these of redemption
demonstrates the integrity of Stuart's work
John Stuart Mill’s projected science of society: 1827-1848
No full textThe purpose of the thesis is to examine John Stuart Mill’s political thought from
about 1827 to 1848 as an exercise in intellectual history. It focuses, first, on Mill’s view,
formulated by the late 1830s, that contemporary society was ‘civilized’, and second, on
his project of a science of society, which he aspired to develop in the late 1830s and
early 1840s.
By the late 1830s, Mill came to the view that his contemporary society was a
‘commercial society or civilization’, dominated by the middle, commercial class. The
first part of my thesis, constituted by Chapters 2-4, discusses the way in which Mill
formed his notion of civilization, and what he meant by the term ‘civilization’. Mill paid
attention to the implications of the rise of the middle class, and regarded such
phenomena of contemporary society as the corruption of the commercial spirit and
excessive social conformity as an inevitable consequence of the rise of the middle class.
The second part of the thesis, constituted by Chapters 5-9, examines Mill’s
projected science of society. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Mill attempted to
develop a new science of society whose subject-matter was the nature and prospects of
commercial, civilized society. This aspiration culminated in A System of Logic,
published in 1843. In examining Mill’s projected science, I pay particular attention to
the fact that he conceived new sciences of history and of the formation of character,
both of which were indispensable in his project, although he failed to give a complete
account of these sciences. My thesis shows that the implications of his interest both in
history and in the formation of character are more significant than Mill scholars have
assumed
How does grid-resolution modulate geomorphic processes: data
No full textIn many locations, our ability to study the processes which shape the Earth are greatly enhanced through the use of high resolution digital topographic data. However, although the availability of such datasets has markedly increased in recent years, many locations of significant geomorphic interest still do not have high resolution topographic data available. Here, we aim to constrain how well we can understand surface processes through topographic analysis performed on lower resolution data. We generate digital elevation models from point clouds at a range of grid resolutions from 1 to 30 meters, which covers the range of widely used data resolutions available globally, at three locations in the United States. Using these data, the relationship between curvature and grid resolution is explored, alongside the estimation of the hillslope sediment transport coefficient (, in m yr) for each landscape. Curvature, and consequently , values are shown to be generally insensitive to grid resolution, particularly in landscapes with broad hilltops and valleys. Curvature distributions, however, become increasingly condensed around the mean, and theoretical considerations suggest caution should be used when extracting curvature from landscapes with sharp ridges. The sensitivity of curvature and topographic gradient to grid resolution are also explored through analysis of one dimensional approximations of curvature and gradient, providing a theoretical basis for the results generated using two dimensional topographic data. Two methods of extracting channels from topographic data are tested. A geometric method of channel extraction that finds channels by detecting threshold values of planform curvature is shown to perform well at resolutions up to 30 meters in all three landscapes. The landscape parameters of hillslope length and relief are both successfully extracted at the same range of resolutions. These parameters can be used to detect landscape transience and our results suggest that such work need not be confined to high resolution topographic data. A synthesis of the results presented in this work indicate that although high resolution (e.g., 1 m) topographic data does yield exciting possibilities for geomorphic research, many key parameters can be understood in lower resolution data, given careful consideration of how analyses are performed. Data sourced from OpenTopography.org.See README.tx
A photovoltaic training facility on the Murdoch University engineering and energy building's north east roof
No full textMurdoch University’s School of Engineering and Energy is expanding its facilities to include a, total of 8.2kWp, Photovoltaic (PV) Training Facility. This facility has incorporated four types of PV modules and equipment, including mono-crystalline, poly-crystalline, amorphous, and copper indium gallium selenide thin film modules; isolated, high frequency isolated, and transformerless inverters; AC and DC test points; emergency stop button system and other safety devices; a battery bank, and power meters.
These facilities will provide a versatile educational resource for students to analyse the behaviours of a wide variety of PV technologies.
This project has examined the process of writing an Invitation To Offer (ITO), reviewing the ITO with recommendations for future engineering projects, and detailing changes in the design of the systems as the project developed.
A recommendation has been detailed in this project for the inclusion of a PV monitoring station, which should monitor environmental parameters at the PV site.
A manual and simulated performance ratio (PR) of all PV systems has been examined in this project. The manual estimate calculated a PR of 0.739 over the period of a year. For the simulated PR, PVSYST software was programmed and calculated a yearly PR of 0.745. This modelling indicates that the system performance would be comparable to similar systems in Perth
sj-pdf-2-hpi-10.1177_11207000211038550 – Supplemental material for Which hip morphology measures and patient factors are associated with age of onset and symptom severity in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-2-hpi-10.1177_11207000211038550 for Which hip morphology measures and patient factors are associated with age of onset and symptom severity in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome? by Nicholas J Murphy, Laura E Diamond, Kim L Bennell, Alexander Burns, Edward Dickenson, Jillian Eyles, Camdon Fary, Stuart M Grieve, Damian R Griffin, Young Jo Kim, James M Linklater, David G Lloyd, Robert Molnar, Rachel L O’Connell, John O’Donnell, Sunny Randhawa, Parminder J Singh, Libby Spiers, Phong Tran, Tim Wrigley and David J Hunter in HIP International</p
sj-pdf-1-hpi-10.1177_11207000211038550 – Supplemental material for Which hip morphology measures and patient factors are associated with age of onset and symptom severity in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome?
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-hpi-10.1177_11207000211038550 for Which hip morphology measures and patient factors are associated with age of onset and symptom severity in femoroacetabular impingement syndrome? by Nicholas J Murphy, Laura E Diamond, Kim L Bennell, Alexander Burns, Edward Dickenson, Jillian Eyles, Camdon Fary, Stuart M Grieve, Damian R Griffin, Young Jo Kim, James M Linklater, David G Lloyd, Robert Molnar, Rachel L O’Connell, John O’Donnell, Sunny Randhawa, Parminder J Singh, Libby Spiers, Phong Tran, Tim Wrigley and David J Hunter in HIP International</p
Right ventricular energetics and power in pulmonary regurgitation vs. stenosis using four dimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance
No full textLSDDrainageDensity v1.0
No full text<p>This software contains all the routines necessary to analyse drainage density of a landscape from digital elevation models. It can be used to reproduce the results of Clubb et al., 2016.</p>
<p>Software is part of the Edinburgh Land Surface Dynamics Topographic Tools package. For more information on download and installation please see our website.</p>
<p>Citation: Clubb, F. J., S. M. Mudd, M. Attal, D. T. Milodowski, and S. W. D. Grieve (2016), The relationship between drainage density, erosion rate, and hilltop curvature: Implications for sediment transport processes, J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surf., 121, 1724–1745, doi:10.1002/2015JF003747.</p>
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