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Is It Truly 'Anything That Shoots?' Blasting Open the Black Box of Firearm Socialization
No full textThe full text of this item is not available at this time because the author has placed this item under an embargo until May 16, 2026.Firearms in the United States have become salient in academia over the past few decades. An area with limitations, however, is early firearm socialization and its impact on adult firearm outcomes. It is assumed firearm culture is a miasma individuals embody via merely being in its presence; however, this process of internalization is catalyzed by early firearm socialization. With the Guns in American Life survey, a national survey of 3,103 U.S. adults, this study utilized different forms of firearm socialization, including passive socialization, indirect socialization, and direct socialization to evaluate adult firearm ownership and firearm policy attitudes. All forms of early firearm socialization a) increased the likelihood that a participant owned a firearm and b) were positively associated with the number of firearms owned. When adjusting for all variables, the effects for passive and indirect socialization weakened while direct socialization remained stable. Direct firearm socialization was associated with less support for restrictive firearm policies and more support for firearm carry policies. Passive socialization was associated support for both policies while indirect socialization was only associated with more support for firearm carry policies. The effects of direct socialization weakened after adjusting for the number of firearms owned. There is evidence the association between direct socialization and restrictive firearm policy attitudes was mediated by the number of firearms owned. Additional studies are needed to reaffirm these findings, see the effects over a longer period of time, and place more emphasis on the context of firearm socialization experiences.Sociolog
Calvin on deification: a reply to Carl Mosser and Jonathan Slater
No full textAbstractCalvin scholars have disputed whether Calvin had the concept of deification. Carl Mosser was eager to find deification in Calvin's theology. On the other hand, Jonathan Slater was earnest to deny deification in Calvin's thought. Calvin distinguishes between divine essence and divine kind. According to Calvin, we will be partakers of the divine kind, but not of the divine essence. We will be like God, but we will not be God. For Calvin, righteousness and immortality are called divine righteousness and divine immortality because God is its author. They are gifts from God, not God's own essence. Calvin says that we are God's offspring, but in quality, not in essence, inasmuch as he, indeed, adorned us with divine gifts. On the other hand, although Slater argues that Calvin's position is that believers share in what is Christ's according to his human nature, in accordance with Calvin, all the actions which Christ performed to reconcile God and man refer to the whole person, and are not to be separately restricted to only one nature. In this article, I find that Calvin distinguishes between divine essence and divine kind, in other words, essential and non-essential or central and peripheral.</jats:p
The maintenance, reestablishment, and initiation of the secretory function of hamster seminal vesicles by injection of the male sex hormone, 1950
No full textFigural Reading in the Epistle to the Hebrews: A Dialogue with Augustine and Calvin
No full textDoctor of Philosophy in the Department of ReligionThis exercise in constructive Christian theology presents the relation between the testaments as a critical problematic for the figural reading of the Old Testament. The project consists of two parts, the first focusing on Augustine and Calvin, and the second primarily on the Epistle to the Hebrews.
The first part provides a typological comparison between Augustine and Calvin on the continuity and discontinuity of the testaments (chapters 1-2), the people of God across the testaments (chapter 3), and the purpose of Scripture in redemptive history (chapter 4). Augustine defines the unity of the testaments according to a sign-referent framework whereby the Old Testament signifies the New. Calvin, on the other hand, locates this unity in the one covenant, grounded in Christ across the testaments. Since Augustine thinks the grace of the New Testament was veiled before the time of Christ, he asserts the necessity of interpreting the Old Testament according to two levels of meaning: the literal and the spiritual. Since Calvin thinks both the Old and New Testaments reveal the knowledge of God, he restricts interpretation to the literal sense, though this sense can have multiple referents: Israel, Christ, the church, and the eschaton. Each figure struggles to account for Israel and the Old Testament saints. For Augustine, the saints belonged to the New Testament as they mediated the Old. Calvin alternately identifies Israel as the church during Old Testament times, and the Old Testament saints as redemptive-historical aberrations.
The second part draws upon this typological comparison to consider the Epistle to the Hebrews with reference to its depiction of redemptive history (chapter 5), its appropriation of the Psalms (chapter 6), and its overarching vision of Scripture (chapter 7). Hebrews locates the discontinuity between the testaments in the establishment of Christ as high priest, and the continuity in a common people and a common hope for an eternal inheritance. The author interprets the Psalms neither according to two levels of meaning, nor within an expansive literal sense, but as a living word of address whereby God speaks directly to his people. Old Testament locutions retain their illocutionary force, but adopt new valence in light of Christ. The authority of Scripture, then, rests not in some historically reconstructed sense, but in God's self-communicative act in the redemptive-historical present.</p
Thickness distribution optimization in flat panels for damage tolerance using genetic algorithms: an emperical study on search heuristics
No full textTraditional design methods are generally unsuitable for optimally designing organic shapes made possible by additive manufacturing. In this study, a simple Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimisation routine was developed for a relevant engineering design problem – the optimisation of thickness distribution for a crenelated fuselage skin panel. The basis for this optimisation is the damage tolerance behaviour of the panel in the presence of a fatigue crack. The results demonstrated that crossover and mutation are inherently more similar than expected, thus questioning whether it is not more important to design a set of search heuristics through better understanding of the fitness space, rather than the application of a flawed, nature-inspired standard crossover and random mutation. Through these insights, this research contributed to ongoing research in understanding GAs, which, if better understood, could assist engineers in finding improved designs of additively manufactured components.Aerospace Engineerin
"Have you really read Job? Read him, read him again and again" : Kierkegaard, Vischer, and Barth on the book of Job
No full textThis thesis explores the reception history of the book of Job, particularly in Søren
Kierkegaard’s Three Upbuilding Discourses and Repetition, Wilhelm Vischer’s “Hiob, ein
Zeuge Jesu Christi,” and Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. It examines the hermeneutical
presuppositions of these three scholars and how the scholars themselves fit into the history
of interpretation, showing that they use a post-critical allegorical interpretation in order to
explore the freedom of God and humanity.
Chapter one offers a defense of using reception history in biblical studies. By
walking through Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories on great time and the chronotope, it argues that
great texts continue to live and grow even after their completion and canonization. During
this “afterlife,” their meaning expands as more readers participate in their interpretations.
Chapter two examines the afterlife of the book of Job in the hands of Christian exegetes,
focusing on allegory and freedom in the interpretations by Gregory the Great, Thomas
Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Immanuel Kant. Chapter three looks at the
unusual and rich interpretations of Job by Kierkegaard—the autonymous upbuilding
discourse on Job’s response to his suffering in the prologue and the novella Repetition as an
interpretation of the dialogue between Job and his friends. Chapter four examines the
interpretation of the book of Job in Vischer’s mini-commentary. Vischer sees the character
of Job as one whose devotion to God goes beyond the laws that God purveys and the
doctrine that seeks to explain God. Referring specifically to the works of Kierkegaard and
Vischer, Karl Barth’s work on Job—the focus of chapter five—sees the book of Job as
illustrative of Jesus Christ’s relationship to God and humanity. All three scholars
incorporated allegory while ruminating on the freedom of God in the book of Job. The final
chapter evaluates their interpretations while addressing their similarities and differences
Three consecutive cytosolic glycolysis enzymes modulate autophagic flux
No full textAutophagy serves as an important recycling route for the growth and survival of eukaryotic organisms in nutrient-deficient conditions. Since starvation induces massive changes in the metabolic flux that are coordinated by key metabolic enzymes, specific processing steps of autophagy may be linked with metabolic flux-monitoring enzymes. We attempted to identify carbon metabolic genes that modulate autophagy using VIGS screening of 45 glycolysis- and Calvin-Benson cycle-related genes in Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana). Here, we report that three consecutive triose-phosphate-processing enzymes involved in cytosolic glycolysis, triose-phosphate-isomerase (TPI), glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPC), and phosphoglycerate kinase (PGK), designated TGP, negatively regulate autophagy. Depletion of TGP enzymes causes spontaneous autophagy induction and increases AUTOPHAGY-RELATED 1 (ATG1) kinase activity. TGP enzymes interact with ATG101, a regulatory component of the ATG1 kinase complex. Spontaneous autophagy induction and abnormal growth under insufficient sugar in TGP mutants are suppressed by crossing with the atg101 mutant. Considering that triose-phosphates are photosynthates transported to the cytosol from active chloroplasts, the TGP enzymes would be strategically positioned to monitor the flow of photosynthetic sugars and modulate autophagy accordingly. Collectively, these results suggest that TGP enzymes negatively control autophagy acting upstream of the ATG1 complex, which is critical for seedling development. © The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of American Society of Plant Biologists.11Nsciescopu
John Calvin and the Daughters of Sarah: Women in Regular and Exceptional Roles in the Exegesis of Calvin, his Predecessors, and his Contemporaries
No full textCarbon Nanotube-Graphitic Carbon Nitride Hybrid Films for Flavoenzyme-Catalyzed Photoelectrochemical Cells
No full textIn green plants, solar-powered electrons are transferred through sophistically arranged photosystems and are subsequently channelled into the Calvin cycle to generate chemical energy. Inspired by the natural photosynthetic scheme, a photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) is constructed configured with protonated graphitic carbon nitride (p-g-C3N4) and carbon nanotube hybrid (CNT/p-g-C3N4) film cathode, and FeOOH-deposited bismuth vanadate (FeOOH/BiVO4) photoanode for the production of industrially useful chiral alkanes using an old yellow enzyme homologue from Thermus scotoductus (TsOYE). In the biocatalytic PEC platform, photoexcited electrons provided by the FeOOH/BiVO4 photoanode are transferred to the robust and self-standing CNT/p-g-C3N4 hybrid film that electrocatalytically reduces flavin mononucleotide (FMN) mediator. The p-g-C3N4 promotes a two-electron reduction of FMN coupled with an accelerated electron transfer by the conductive CNT network. The reduced FMN subsequently delivers the electrons to TsOYE for the highly enantioselective conversion of ketoisophorone to (R)-levodione. Under light illumination (>420 nm) and external bias, (R)-levodione is synthesized with the enantiomeric excess value of above 83%, not influenced by the scale of applied bias, simultaneously exhibiting stable and high current efficiency. The results suggest that the biocatalytic PEC made up of economical materials can selectively synthesize high-value organic chemicals using water as an electron donor.Accepted Author ManuscriptBT/Biocatalysi
His Majesty's advocate : Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713) and Covenanter resistance theory under the Restoration monarchy
No full textThis thesis is the first to explore the life and political thought of Sir James
Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713). The first part reviews the life of his father, Sir
James Stewart of Kirk field (1608-1681) to 1661, and Goodtrees' own life from birth
to his admission to the Scots bar in 1661. This provides the backdrop of history
necessary to appreciate his contributions as both writer and radical activist.
Particular attention focuses on the conflict between Charles I and Charles II, on the
one hand, and the Church of Scotland, on the other; the National Covenant (1638)
and the Solemn League and Covenant of(1643); the British wars of religion; and
the upheavals following the Restoration in the 1660s, culminating in the Pentland
Rising of 1666.
The next part develops Goodtrees' political philosophy from his two most
important writings. Chapter 3 reviews and interprets Naphtali (1667), a defence of
those who rose at Pentland. Chapter 4 reviews Andrew Honyman's Survey of
Naphtali (1668, 1669), a rebuttal of Naphtali and standard Anglican case for royal
absolutism. Chapter 5 reviews and interprets Goodtrees' Jus Populi Vindicatum, or
The People's Right, to defend themselves and their Covenanted Religion, vindicated
(1669), his rejoinder to Honyman. His Calvinist, covenantal constitutionalism is
shown to be an important link between earlier resistance theorists like John Knox
and Samuel Rutherford and the later Whigs, represented preeminently by John
Locke.
The third part (chapters 6-7) reviews Goodtrees' life and minor writings as radical critic of the Restoration monarchy; a participant in plots among British
exiles in Holland to overthrow it; a member briefly of James's Scottish government
before the Revolution; and lord advocate and churchman pursuing political, legal,
and ecclesiastical reforms afterwards
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