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Religion and society in the parish of Halifax, c. 1740-1914
No full textMost recent studies of religion and society have focussed on
the period from c. 1880 to 1914, basing their investigations
upon late-Victorian newspaper censuses of churchgoing. This
thesis aims to study the development of religion in its
economic and social context in a large northern industrial
parish over a longer period of time from c. 1740 to 1914. In
religious terms this period extends from the mid-eighteenth
century Evangelical Revival to the decline of organised
religion in the early twentieth century. In economic and
social terms the period is characterised by the transformation
of the parish from a semi-rural, proto-industrial society
dominated by a relatively small but expanding market town, into
a predominantly urban advanced industrial society dominated by
a medium-sized textile manufacturing town and several smaller
urban centres of textile production; supporting a wide
diversity of associated industries and trades, but still
containing within its boundaries sharply contrasting urban and
semi-rural environments.
The thesis aims to assess how religious expression within the
parish of Halifax was affected by the changing economic and
social environment, in particular the urban-industrial
experience, and how religion helped shape the new urbanindustrial
society during the period from the middle of the
eighteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War. It
argues that whilst the pessimistic view of a moribund Georgian
Church of England can no longer be sustained by the Halifax
evidence, the Established Church nevertheless lacked the
logistical resources to respond effectively to the new urbanindustrial
society as it emerged within the parish in the lateeighteenth
and early-nineteenth centuries, providing an
opportunity for the growth of Evangelical Nonconformity,
especially Methodism. It maintains that Evangelical
Nonconformity and an Anglican Church renewed by Evangelical
incumbencies during the period 1790-1827 and reformed as a consequence of national legislation in the 1840s played a vital
role within the expanding urban-industrial society, surviving
the experience of industrialisation and urbanisation and
displaying a remarkable vibrancy, despite underlying downward
trends in churchgoing in the late-Victorian era. It suggests
that the causes of the decline of organised religion during
this period were complex, but related more to the onset of
industrial-urban stagnation and decline than to the experience
of industrial-urban expansion
Recent Results From the EU POF-PLUS Project: Multi-Gigabit Transmission Over 1 mm Core Diameter Plastic Optical Fibers
No full textRecent activity to achieve multi-gigabit transmission over 1 mm core diameter graded-index and step-index plastic optical fibers for distances up to 50 meters is reported in this paper. By employing a simple intensity-modulated direct-detection system with pulse amplitude or digital multi-tone modulation techniques, low-cost transceivers and easy to install large-core POFs, it is demonstrated that multi-gigabit transmission up to 10 Gbit/s over 1-mm core diameter POF infrastructure is feasible. The results presented in this paper were obtained in the EU FP7 POF-PLUS project, which focused on applications in different scenarios, such as in next-generation in-building residential networks and in datacom applications
Quasiparticle Lifetime of the Repulsive Fermi Polaron
No full textWe investigate the metastable repulsive branch of a mobile impurity coupled to a degenerate Fermi gas via short-range interactions. We show that the quasiparticle lifetime of this repulsive Fermi polaron can be experimentally probed by driving Rabi oscillations between weakly and strongly interacting impurity states. Using a time-dependent variational approach, we find that we can accurately model the impurity Rabi oscillations that were recently measured for repulsive Fermi polarons in both two and three dimensions. Crucially, our theoretical description does not include relaxation processes to the lower-lying attractive branch. Thus, the theory-experiment agreement demonstrates that the quasiparticle lifetime is dominated by many-body dephasing within the upper repulsive branch rather than by relaxation from the upper branch itself. Our findings shed light on recent experimental observations of persistent repulsive correlations, and have important consequences for the nature and stability of the strongly repulsive Fermi gas.</p
Inside St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, room with a large wood doorDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKing Concept Old St Mary's Cath. Parish House Bryant, Hamlin C
St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, two-story house with a covered porch and a dormer windowDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKodachrome Slide JR Old St. Mary's Cath Parish House Bryant Facing NW 4 Jun 88F0
St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, two-story house with a covered porch and a dormer windowDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKodachrome Slide JR Old St. Mary's Cath Parish House Bryant S & W Facade 22 Jun 88F0
Garage at St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, garage with a single door on the side and a gable roofDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKodachrome Slide Old St. Mary's Cath Parish House Bryant - Garage Facing NE 9 Jun 88F0
Stairs in St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, staircase with wallpaper on the wallsDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKing Concept Old St Marys Cath. Parish House Bryant, Hamlin Co
Kitchen in St. Mary's Parish House, Bryant SD, Hamlin County
No full text35 mm slide, kitchen with a built-in cabinet and sink, Hoosier cabinetDrawer info: Fall River - Hand; Old St. Mary's Cath. Parish House BryantKing Concept Old St Marys Cath Parish House Bryant, Hamlin Co
Observation of an Orbital Interaction-Induced Feshbach Resonance in <sup>173</sup>Yb
No full textWe report on the experimental observation of a novel interorbital Feshbach resonance in ultracold Yb-173 atoms. This opens up the possibility of tuning the interactions between the S-1(0) and P-3(0) metastable state, both possessing zero total electronic angular momentum. The resonance is observed at experimentally accessible magnetic field strengths and occurs universally for all hyperfine state combinations. We characterize the resonance in the bulk via interorbital cross thermalization as well as in a three-dimensional lattice using high-resolution clock-line spectroscopy. Our measurements are well described by a generalized two-channel model of the orbital-exchange interactions
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