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Molecular cloning and expression of a fungal immunomodulatory pretein, FIP-five, from Flammulina velutipes
No full textWalter E. Oberer Retirement Luncheon
No full textDean Oberer was emeritus of law and former dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law. He received the Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award in 1991 and was particularly noted for his scholarship in labor law and was co-author of a book, "Cases and Materials on Labor Law: Collective Bargaining in a Free Society.
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textAs human beings, we all desire safety and security. We like to feel that we know what to expect, whether it be how things are supposed to work or what people are like. With this knowledge, we believe that we can maintain a level of order in our lives. Yet sometimes, we can become so set in our ways that we develop what Ignatius would call disordered attachments to what otherwise would be good and holy things. When we become so attached to these structures that we hold on to them for dear life, we are no longer free to allow God's grace to enter into our lives. However, as we enter more deeply into this Lenten season, God comes to shake things up a bit, to encourage us to be free of such attachments, to let go of our preconceived notions of God, of ourselves, and of others. |In today's first reading, Naaman felt that he knew exactly how things worked with God. He becomes frustrated that he cannot be cured of his leprosy simply by Elisha invoking God's name. With silver talents, gold pieces, and festal garments in hand, Naaman expects Elisha's prayer to work like a magic formula to cure him. When presented with a different path from the one he anticipated, that is to wash in the Jordan, he becomes angered. Naaman acts as if he knows better, that other rivers would clean him better than the Jordan. For him, the Jordan was too normal, too mundane to be a source of God's grace. Yet, he allows himself to be convinced, to let go of his preconceived notions, and is ultimately cured of his leprosy.|Then in the Gospel, we again see how people are set in their ways and so refuse to receive Jesus, the son of the carpenter. Not only are they unable to see Jesus in a new light, they are not open to hearing his words. Jesus' mere suggestion that God's grace could be active in the lives of outsiders like Naaman the Syrian and the widow of Zarephath infuriates the people in the synagogue. Yet our God is a God of surprises, whose grace is active in our lives and in the lives of those around us in ways that we often do not notice or expect. During this Lent, God calls us to be open and attentive, to see God's grace with new eyes and to hear God's Word with new ears. In doing so, we will encounter the presence of our living God in unexpected ways
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full textAs we enter into this New Year, we recall the resolutions that we made and the hopes we have for 2015. At times these promises can seem quite fleeting. The busyness of life as normal can overwhelm us as we bear the weight of work, study, and other duties. Yet, if we pause for a moment, we might remember how way back during Advent, we were all called to prepare the way of the Lord. We prepared ourselves to receive the refulgence of God's glory and the very imprint of God's being, as we hear Jesus described in the first reading from Hebrews. We opened our hearts to receive Jesus and with him the graces we needed to strengthen our faith, to renew our hope, to enkindle our love. Once we prepared the way for Jesus to enter into our hearts, we celebrated his birth at Christmas.|All that can seem like a distant memory now that we are back into our old routine. It was a pleasant break – or at least it was some sort of break – from the normal. In today's Gospel, Simon and Andrew, James and John, were also living their normal lives as fishermen. Like us during Advent, they may very well have taken time from their busy routines to prepare the way of the Lord when they heard of John the Baptist. But by the time Jesus came by, the hopes for the coming Messiah were seemingly put aside and they were definitely back to their old routine. Nonetheless, upon hearing the mighty words of Christ's call, each one of them immediately chooses to leave behind the nets of his normal life to follow the path of Jesus.|So, perhaps this Gospel is an invitation for each of us to revisit the ways in which we prepared for the coming of the Lord and the hopes we have for this year. In order to see those hopes to fulfillment, we cannot merely go back to living life as normal. If we expect the fulfillment of the words of the psalmist that the heavens proclaim God's justice and that all peoples see God's glory, we must not allow ourselves to go back to life as it was before we opened our hearts to Jesus. For Jesus says to each of us, the time of fulfillment is here. So, we must ask ourselves what nets we need to leave behind to be free to walk with Jesus, to be open to the transformative power of God's love and mercy, and to trust in the power of God's grace active in our lives
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|Jesus challenges us in today's Gospel to strive for the perfection of the children of God, which is to love as God loves - to love all, even our enemies. As I prayed with this scripture, I found myself thinking, "But, I don't have any enemies." I am not a diplomat, nor have I been in a gang, and I have escaped any family feuds. Then, I realized that in many ways, I have created enemies by the barriers I place between others and myself. Sometimes these barriers represent my insecurities about my abilities, my fear of rejection, or my desire to safeguard my reputation. |Although we are all created in God's image and likeness, a people peculiarly God's own - as we hear in today's first reading from Deuteronomy, early in life we all begin to make distinctions between "us" and "them." We often judge ourselves to be more enlightened, more civilized, and more deserving than "those" other people who may be of a different opinion or political leaning, a different background or identity. In so doing, we dehumanize them by building more and more barriers between "us" and "them" to the point where "they" simply become the "enemy." |However, Ignatius describes spiritual consolation as breaking down all barriers, barriers between "us" and "them," and so ultimately between "us" and God. In order to walk in God's ways, we must open our hearts, be vulnerable, and see all as God sees them - as children of God. We must love "them" even when we may disagree with them, even when they seem "undeserving" of our love, even when they may outright reject our love. For this is to love as God loves, it is to love as Jesus loved us upon the cross. Let us pray for the grace to love as God loves this Lent
Daily Reflections (Meditations) on the Scriptures from the Roman Catholic Lectionary.
No full text|All too often, we think of Saint Mary Magdalene, whose memorial we celebrate today, as the "sinful woman," from the Gospel. Even though it is highly debatable whether Mary Magdalene was actually the unnamed "sinful woman," she nonetheless has been labeled this way over the centuries. We rarely focus on how Mary Magdalene was healed by Jesus and how she became a faithful disciple to the Lord. In the same way, we ourselves can fall into the pattern of recalling only our sins and our sinfulness while forgetting how we too have been healed by God and how like Mary Magdalene we strive in the midst of our human frailties to be faithful disciples.|Yet, as we hear in the first reading from Micah, our God is a God who removes guilt and pardons sin. In Mary Magdalene, we find an example of a person who has been healed by Jesus and whose conversion leads her to faithful discipleship. At the same time, she faces the same all too human challenges we do and when beset by grief in the wake of Jesus' Passion, she is cast into a spiritual darkness. In this darkness, she is unable to see Jesus standing right before her. Saint Ignatius Loyola counsels us to be attentive during such times of spiritual darkness so that we do not become overly focused on our sins and lose sight of God's healing power.|Like Mary Magdalene wants to cling to the not-yet-risen Jesus in her grief, we in our moments of spiritual darkness often want to cling to the notion of ourselves as helpless sinners. Through our attachment to these limited notions of ourselves, we do not allow the healing power of Christ's Resurrection to enter deeply into our lives. So, as we seek to expand our vision of who Saint Mary Magdalene truly was, a faithful disciple healed by Jesus, we must also expand our vision of ourselves to see that we are beloved sinners healed by God. In our moments of darkness and doubt, we must cry out like the psalmist to say, "Lord, show us your mercy and love.
Histological evaluation of meniscus repaired with autogenous periosteum and fibrin adhesive system in the dog.
No full textParameter optimization of UWB SRR system performance in weibull clutter environment
No full textThe objective of this paper is to optimize the parameters of non-coherent detectors such as coherent and non-coherent integration number for various non-coherent detectors such as square law detector, linear detector and logarithmic detector in weibull clutter environment for Ultra Wide Band Short Range Radar in Automotive applications. The detection performance of the detectors is analyzed for fixed false alarm probability of 0.001 and simulation has been done in order to verify it. © 2014 SERSC.
Gröbner–Shirshov basis for the Braid group in the Birman–Ko–Lee generators
No full textAbstractIn this paper, we obtain Gröbner–Shirshov (non-commutative Gröbner) bases for braid groups in the Birman–Ko–Lee generators enriched by “Garside word” δ [J. Birman, K.H. Ko, S.J. Lee, A new approach to the word and conjugacy problems for the braid groups, Adv. Math. 139 (1998) 322–353]. It gives a new algorithm for getting the Birman–Ko–Lee normal forms in braid groups, and thus a new algorithm for solving the word problem in these groups
Development of the Gold Binding Polypeptide-Mediated Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Chip
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