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The Theology of the Land in Amos 7-9
No full textThis thesis aims to give an account of Amos' specific contribution to the Old
Testament's theology of land. It seeks to explore the theme of land as a key aspect of
the background to Amos' prophecy, and also of the book's overall theology of the
relationship between YHWH, Israel, and the world. In Amos, the language about land
is extensive, including terms and ideas such as Zion, Carmel, YHWH's bringing of
Israel into the land, references to various sanctuaries and places, harvest and famine,
other geographical indications, the relationship between the northern kingdom and
Judah, and references to the land of other nations.
The topic of land, however, has often been studied incidentally to other
themes, but less often as a theological topic in its own right. This thesis shows how
deeply embedded the topic of land is in Amos, and argues this by showing its relation
to other theological themes, including Zion, the covenant-election tradition, Israel,
creation, salvation, Sabbath, justice, and eschatology. That is, the study of land in
Amos has wider dimensions. The study is therefore set in a wide context in the Old
Testament, and raises questions about the relation of Amos to other important
theological traditions about land.
The study is essentially theological analysis. The argument will follow an
essentially synchronic reading. It will also employ textual, literary and historical
criticism, and the thesis analyzes carefully the text of Amos 7-9 for its literary
coherence and inner relationships. It attempts to demonstrate what theological
assumptions are made about the land in each section in Amos 7-9, and the relationship
of Amos' land-theology to other Old Testament theological traditions. While the
findings are set in the context of the book as a whole, the study focuses on this one
section of the book, chapters 7-9, in order to explore the topic in close detail
The impact of mobile disarticulated shells of Cerastoderma edulis on the abrasion of a cohesive substrate
No full textAn annular laboratory flume was used to investigate the effect of mobile cockle shells on the erosion of a cohesive sediment bed. A standard clay bed was created and shells of differing sizes placed upon it. Flow in the flume was increased in increments and the onset of motion and transport pattern of the cockles was monitored. The release of bed material to the water column was monitored and compared to releases in the absence of shells (due only to the flow). The shells moved in traction; firstly as surface load (dragging) and then by rolling. The motion of the shells was found to be directly related to their motion settling rate in still water. The fluid induced stresses were unable to cause any detectable erosion of the bed. The addition of even single shells induced significant erosion. The erosion was found to be the result of abrasion rather than corrosion, as the shells never entered into saltation. There was a linear increase in erosion rate with increasing shell size, and an exponential increase in the suspended sediment concentration with time. The presence of large numbers of cockle shells in areas such as Southampton water and Lymington have suggested that the processes investigated here may be responsible for the erosion regimes in these areas
WELFARE MEASUREMENT UNDER THREATS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES
No full textWelfare measures under threats of environmental catastrophes are studied using the "parable" apparatus of Weitzman and Lofgren [22]. The occurrence probability of the catastrophic event is driven (at least partly) by anthropogenic activities such as natural resource exploitation. Without external effects, the green NNP is a genuine welfare measure vis-à-vis a particular parable economy. Often, however, the occurrence hazard constitutes a public bad, treated as an externality by agents who ignore their own contribution to its accumulation. In such cases the green NNP, although accounting for the event hazard rate per se, fails to properly internalize future effects on the hazard rate of current economic activities and as a result overestimates welfare. The bias term associated with the green NNP is derived and expressed in a simply and interpretable form.green NNP, environmental catastrophes, hazard rate, uncertainty, Environmental Economics and Policy,
RESOURCE EXPLOITATION, BIODIVERSITY LOSS AND ECOLOGICAL EVENTS
No full textWe study the management of a natural resource that supports ecosystems as well as human needs. The reduction in the resource base introduces a threat of occurrence of catastrophic ecological events, such as the sudden collapse of the national habitat that lead to severe loss of biodiversity. The event occurrence conditions involve uncertainty of various types, and the distinction among these types affects the optimal exploitation policies. When uncertainty is due to our ignorance of some aspects of the underlying ecology, the isolated equilibrium states characterizing optimal exploitation for many renewable resource problems become equilibrium intervals. Events triggered by genuinely stochastic environmental conditions maintain the structure of isolated equilibria, but the presence of event uncertainty shifts these equilibrium states relative to their position when occurrence conditions are known with certainty.ecosystem, resource management, event uncertainty, biodiversity, extinction, Resource /Energy Economics and Policy,
The Power of Suggestion: Inertia in 401(k) Participation and Savings Behavior
No full textIn this paper, we analyze the 401(k) savings behavior of employees in a large U.S. corporation before and after an interesting change in the company 401(k) plan. Before the plan change, employees were required to affirmatively elect participation in the 401(k) plan. After the plan change, employees were automatically and immediately enrolled in the 401(k) plan unless they made a negative election to opt out of the plan. Although none of the economic features of the plan changed, this switch to automatic enrollment dramatically changed the savings behavior of employees. We have two key findings. First, 401(k) participation is significantly higher under automatic enrollment. Second, the default contribution rate and investment allocation chosen by the company under automatic enrollment has a strong influence on the savings behavior of 401(k) participants. A substantial fraction of 401(k) participants hired under automatic enrollment exhibit what we call default' behavior--sticking to both the default contribution rate and the default fund allocation even though very few employees hired before automatic enrollment picked this particular outcome. This default' behavior appears to result both from participant inertia and from many employees taking the default as investment advice on the part of the company. Overall, these results are consistent with the notion that large changes in savings behavior can be motivated simply by the power of suggestion.' These findings have important implications for the optimal design of 401(k) savings plans as well as for any type of Social Security reform that includes personal accounts over which individuals have some amount of control. They also shed light more generally on the importance of both economic and non-economic factors in the determination of individual savings behavior.
Many-electron theory of resonant charge transfer: Role of surface states in He and He+ scattering off Si(100)
No full textA many-electron theory of resonant charge transfer, originally formulated for the scattering of an atom with an empty valence orbital from a surface, is extended to treat the case where the valence orbital is initially occupied by one or two electrons. The scattering of He and He+ from the Si(001) surface is investigated. The interaction is assumed to be with the narrow band of surface states, and not the much wider bulk band. As a result, considerable oscillations are found in the ionization and/or neutralization probabilities as a function of the incident energy.PT: J; CR: AMOS AT, 1989, ADV CHEM PHYS, V76, P335 AMOS AT, 1989, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V71, P449 BLOSS W, 1978, SURF SCI, V72, P277 BRAKO R, 1981, SURF SCI, V108, P253 BURROWS BL, 1984, Q APPL MATH, V42, P73 BURROWS BL, 1990, J PHYS A-MATH GEN, V23, P1101 BURROWS BL, 1991, SURF SCI, V253, P365 CHADI DJ, 1975, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B, V68, P405 HAGSTRUM HD, 1954, PHYS REV, V96, P336 HAGSTRUM HD, 1961, PHYS REV, V122, P83 HERMAN F, 1963, ATOMIC STRUCTURE CAL IHM J, 1980, PHYS REV B, V21, P4592 MUDA Y, 1980, SURF SCI, V97, P283 MUDA Y, 1988, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V33, P388 MUDA Y, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P7048 PAULING L, 1935, INTRO QUANTUM MECHAN ROBERTS N, 1990, SURF SCI, V236, P112 SOUDA R, 1985, SURF SCI, V150, L59 SOUDA R, 1986, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V15, P114 SOUDA R, 1986, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V15, P138 SOUDA R, 1986, SURF SCI, V176, P657 SULSTON KW, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P9121 SULSTON KW, 1988, SURF SCI, V197, P555 SULSTON KW, 1989, SURF SCI, V244, P543 WEAKLIEM PC, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, L219 WEISENDANGER R, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, P1; NR: 26; TC: 4; J9: PHYS REV B; PG: 11; GA: HZ245Source type: Electronic(1
Pseudo-state theory of surface ion neutralization
No full textThe theory of resonant charge transfer is refined to deal with the overlap between the ion orbital and substrate orbitals, to introduce new numerical methods for estimating the interaction and most significantly to construct pseudo-states to model realistic densities of states for substrates.PT: J; CR: ADURU S, 1988, SURF SCI, V205, P269 AMOS AT, 1989, ADV CHEM PHYS, V76, P335 AMOS AT, 1989, SOLID STATE COMMUN, V71, P449 BLOSS W, 1978, SURF SCI, V72, P277 BRAKO R, 1981, SURF SCI, V108, P253 BURROWS BL, 1984, Q APPL MATH, V42, P73 BURROWS BL, 1990, J PHYS A-MATH GEN, V23, P1101 CHADI DJ, 1975, PHYS STATUS SOLIDI B, V68, P405 HERMAN F, 1963, ATOMIC STRUCTURE CAL HOFFMAN AJ, 1953, DUKE MATH J, V20, P37 IHM J, 1980, PHYS REV B, V21, P4592 MUDA Y, 1980, SURF SCI, V97, P283 MUDA Y, 1988, NUCL INSTRUM METH B, V33, P388 MUDA Y, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P7048 MURRELL JN, 1985, CHEM BOND SULSTON KW, 1988, CHEM PHYS, V124, P411 SULSTON KW, 1988, PHYS REV B, V37, P9121 SULSTON KW, 1988, SURF SCI, V197, P555 WEAKLIEM PC, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, L219 WEISENDANGER R, 1990, SURF SCI, V232, P1 WILKINSON JH, 1965, ALGEBRAIC EIGENVALUE; NR: 21; TC: 5; J9: SURFACE SCI; PG: 10; GA: GB311Source type: Electronic(1
U NURSING COLLEGE ANNOUNCES LINDA AMOS LEADERSHIP FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
No full textA new enrichment program for graduate students in the University of Utah College of Nursing-the Linda K. Amos Leadership Fellowship Program-will be initiated Fall semester 2002. The program is designed to give the selected fellow an individualized mentorship and learning opportunity in leadership in nursing and health care with Amos, associate vice president for health sciences and former nursing college dean. The fellow selected will r
THE CRIMES OF THE NATIONS IN AMOS 1-2
No full textIn the oracles against the nations in Amos 1-2, several acts of the nations are condemned as “transgressions” or “crimes”. The text mentions “threshing” one’s enemy, deportations and slave trade, acting in wrath and anger, expanding one’s territory by conquest, ripping open pregnant women, and desecrating corpses. Although these are clearly acts of violence, they are viewed as legitimate in some contexts. Gods and kings are practising them. It depends on the perspective. The author of Amos 1-2 sides with the victims and identifies the perspective of the victims with God’s perspective. This lays solid ground for the Book of Amos, in which the social violence of the powerful against the weak and vulnerable in Israelite society is judged in the same way as a crime against God
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