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Justification by Faith : Richard Baxter\u27s Influence upon John Wesley
No full textThe original article was published with the wrong author, Floyd T. Cunningham. Joseph W. Cunningham is the correct author. The Journal and Article has been modified to reflect the correct author
Justification by Faith : Richard Baxter\u27s Influence upon John Wesley
No full textCorrection In our Spring 2009 issue we published an essay, \u27Justification by Faith : Richard Baxters Influence upon John Wesley. Due to an editing error, the essay was mistakenly attributed to Floyd T. Cunningham, president of Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary. We apologize to Dr. Cunningham for the inconveniences this mistake has caused.
We also apologize to Dr. Joseph W Curmingham of Eureka College who is the correct author of the essay. In order to emphasize this correct attribution, we are republishing the essay in this issue with Dr. Joseph W Cunningham listed as the author.
-TerryC Muck Editor
The DOI number is the same as the original article, which has been corrected
Multi-view clustering for mining heterogeneous social network data
No full textPaper presented at the Workshop on Information Retrieval over Social Networks, 31st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR'09), Toulouse, France, April 6-9, 2009Uncovering community structure is a core challenge in social network analysis. This is a significant challenge for large networks where there is a single type of relation in the network (e.g. friend or knows). In practice there may be other types of relation, for instance demographic or geographic information, that also reveal network structure. Uncovering structure in such multi-relational networks presents a greater challenge due to the difficulty of integrating information from different, often discordant views. In this paper we describe a system for performing cluster analysis on heterogeneous multi-view data, and present an analysis of the research themes in a bibliographic literature network, based on the integration of both co-citation links and text similarity relationships between papers in the network.Science Foundation IrelandConference detailshttp://ecir09.irit.fr/access.ph
Defining indigenous plants: some problematic species from Norfolk Island
No full textDefining indigenous species may at first appear straight forward; most botanical texts provide similar definitions. The consistent requirement of such definitions is the lack of human intervention in the occurrence of the species within the area under consideration. Islands around the world have been invaded by plant species brought to their shores by humans. They are also places where self-introduced species can be continually arriving, as they have done for millennia. Scrutiny of the situation on Norfolk Island (1200 km east of Australia) finds that the distinction between indigenous and introduced taxa is sometimes unclear. There is also inconsistency regarding the acceptance of self-introduced species as indigenous. This paper explores these issues and notes that they are more important than idle botanical curiosity, because control of introduced (weed) species is a major area of activity in managing protected natural areas
The Effects of Dispersal on Macroecological Patterns
No full textEcologists have long sought to uncover the mechanisms behind large-scale, macroecological patterns in the distribution and abundance of species. Macroecological patterns are often attributed to the dynamics of dispersal (e.g. dispersal limitation or widespread dispersal). However, few studies actually measure dispersal to determine if dispersal rates are commensurate with the observed macroecological patterns. In this dissertation, I use population genetic analyses across many species to obtain community-level estimates of dispersal rates for two different ecological systems: birds on islands and trees in tropical rainforests. These independent estimates of dispersal then allow me to determine if macroecological patterns in these two systems can be attributed to dispersal dynamics.In chapter two, I explore the contrasting macroecological patterns of two groups of Lesser Antillean birds. The groups' differing macroecological patterns could be due to differences in dispersal, but other authors have advocated different mechanisms. Population genetic analyses show that the two groups do differ significantly in rates of inter-island dispersal, indicating that dispersal dynamics can explain their contrasting macroecological patterns.
In chapter three, I turn my attention to tropical tree communities. In contrast to studies of birds on islands, studies of trees in tropical rainforests may suffer from misidentification of individuals in the field. Using a phylogenetic approach, I determine errors rates in identification, and then assess the effect of these errors on macroecological patterns and other ecological analyses of tropical tree communities. I find that error rates are substantial, but that they have little effect on macroecological patterns. In contrast, species-level ecological analyses can be dramatically affected by these errors.In chapter four, I return to the influence of dispersal on macroecological patterns, this time in tropical tree communities. One notable macroecological pattern in Amazonian tree communities is a high correlation in the relative abundances of species shared across communities, which could indicate high rates of dispersal between communities. However, population genetic analyses show that dispersal is severely limited between communities. Thus, some factor besides dispersal, such as differences in competitive ability or susceptibility to disease, must be driving species to achieve similar relative abundances in geographically separated communities. In contrast, I show that dispersal limitation is the likely cause of another macroecological pattern frequently observed in tropical tree communities: the decline in the compositional similarity of communities with distance. However, this is not steady-state dispersal limitation in an equilibrium framework as is conventionally thought. Instead, the dispersal limitation appears to be historical in nature, which implies a heretofore unnoticed role for historical contingency in the assembly of Amazonian tree communities.</p
IMAGING CALCINEURIN DYNAMICS IN YEAST: DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A NOVEL PROBE OF CALCINEURIN ACTIVITY
No full textCalcineurin (Cn) is a highly conserved calcium-responsive phosphatase
that is crucial for many cellular pathways, especially those that control the
response to outside stimuli. Misregulation of Cn has been associated with
pathological conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, Down Syndrome, and
Alzheimer’s Disease. Previous studies of Cn and its downstream effectors have
largely relied on assays that lack single-cell or temporal resolution. Herein, I
describe my efforts to develop a fluorescent probe based on a truncated version
of the Cn-responsive transcription factor Crz1 and use it to investigate Cn-Crz1
activation dynamics in single cells in real time. Crz1 activates its own
transcription as well as transcription of Cn regulators, thus participating in
multiple feedback loops. The truncated version of Crz1 used for the probe does
not bind DNA and is therefore inert with regards to feedback. Using this probe,
I reveal a new phenomenon of Cn activity in the absence of stimulation named
“flickering.” Flickering is a low level of Cn activation that stimulates brief probe
translocation in steady-state conditions. I also use the probe to investigate
feedback loops involved in Cn regulation. The vacuolar calcium transporters
Pmc1 and Vcx1 are both necessary to maintain cytosolic calcium concentration
and prevent hyperactivation of Cn in both stimulating and non-stimulating
conditions. The putative Cn chaperone Rcn1p is needed for normal Cn activity
both before and after signaling. My studies present a new way to measure Cn
activation which can be applied to clinical and basic study of this crucial
signaling factor
The Only Such Polish Novel of the 20th Century: On Aniela Gruszecka’s Przygoda w nieznanym kraju
No full textThe article proposes an interpretation of Aniela Gruszecka’s Przygoda w nieznanym kraju [Adventure in an unknown country] of 1933 as the first Polish Sapphic novel. The author of the article draws attention to the poetics of the novel. It narrates the story of two women – their acquaintance, unrequited love, rejection and reconciliation, following Virginia Woolf’s style: the main persona observes and analyses her developing feelings. This open and friendly reflection on non-heterosexuality is particularly interesting in the context of Polish culture, which is only today recovering the queerstory, until recently silent (even more so about female) homosexuality.Joanna Głuszek zmarła przedwcześnie 14 stycznia 2023 roku w wieku 32 lat. Była absolwentką filologii polskiej i kulturoznawstwa, doktorantką na Wydziale Filologicznym Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku, aktywistką i woluntariuszką, współorganizatorką pierwszego Marszu Równości w Białymstoku.Wydział Filologiczny, Uniwersytet w BiałymstokuAlley Henry (2006), „Mrs. Dalloway” and Three of Its Contemporary Children, „Papers on Language and Literature”, Vol. 42, No. 4, s. 401–412.Araszkiewicz Agata (2000), Dotknięcie ciała. Literacka strategia Anieli Gruszeckiej, w: Krytyka feministyczna. Siostra teorii i historii literatury, red. G. Borkowska, L. 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No full textTABLE OF CONTENTS
Perfecting One Another: Friendship and the Moral Implications of Wesley\u27s Small Groups Daniel Castelo
Whitefield, Whittier, and the Poetic Bridge to the Issue of Slavery Samuel J. Rogal
Science and Theology in Conversation: Emergence Theories of Consciousness and Entire Sanctification Nathan Crawford
Justification by Faith: Richard Baxter\u27s Influence on John Wesley *Joseph W. Cunningham
A Response to Professor Kenneth Collins William Abraham
Power: Its Origin and Abuse Ruth Anne Reese
The Future of Christianity in China: An Internal Reflection Yalin Xin
A Wesleyan Theology of Governance for Seminaries Kenneth J. Collins
Book Notes Kenneth J. Collins
*The original article was published with the wrong author, Floyd T. Cunningham. Joseph W. Cunningham is the correct author. The Journal and Article has been modified to reflect the correct author
Reliability of trans-generational genetic mark-recapture for enumerating Pacific salmon
No full textThesis (M.S.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2023As Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) continue to decline across much of their range, it is imperative to further develop reliable tools to quantify trends in population abundance. Estimating the number of spawning adult Pacific salmon (escapement) is a fundamental but challenging objective for fishery managers. Escapement monitoring of Pacific salmon typically requires intensive sampling across the return migration, often in remote locations, and is subject to changing environmental conditions that can reduce data quality. Alternative methods that increase the efficiency, accuracy, and precision of escapement monitoring are desirable, particularly during times of shrinking budgets for fisheries management. With the advent of high-throughput genotyping, biologists can combine molecular pedigree information with life-history data to make robust inferences about the size of wild populations using trans-generational genetic mark-recapture (tGMR). Minimally invasive genetic samples 'mark' adults and 'capture' juveniles, then multi-locus genotypes are used to identify parent-offspring pairs ('recaptures'), provided that these kinship relationships can be identified and that certain mark-recapture assumptions such as an equal probability of capture and a closed population are met. Our project aimed to help optimize the emerging tGMR methodology by comparing tGMR estimates to a traditional mark-recapture project for Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) from the Chilkat River in southeast Alaska. We further identified potential biases arising from violations of the equal probability of capture and closed population assumptions using an individual-based simulation model to evaluate the accuracy and precision of tGMR under varying demographic and sampling scenarios. We leveraged empirical values to parameterize simulations exploring the influence of age-specific reproductive success and sampling selectivity on tGMR estimates. Finally, we determined how adult sampling location and timing can impact tGMR estimates by comparing adult samples collected from the mainstem of the Chilkat River in June from samples collected in the upriver tributaries in August. Our assessment of the reliability of tGMR informs this method's potential for accurate and precise monitoring of populations
An exploratory view: attitudes of black teenage mothers toward familial relationships, 1980
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