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Replication Data for: Local linear convergence of approximate projections onto regularized sets
No full textData set and algorithms (Matlab) for reproducing numerical experiments in ``Local linear convergence of approximate projections onto regularized sets", D. R. Luke, Nonlinear Analysis 75 (2012) 1531–1546
A Simple Multiresolution Technique for Diffraction Image Recovery
No full textWe describe a Fourier-based multiresolition technique to speed up
algorithms for recovering diffraction images from noisy and
aberrated data. We use this method to achieve a fold
speed up of an adaptive optics algorithm developed by the author
for an early prototype of the James Webb Space Telescope, due to replace
the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011. The technique,
simple and frequently rediscovered, is based on windowed Fourier transforms.
While a natural strategy for our purposes, the method is not
specific to our setting and can be employed in
any application that uses a combination of far field scattering
data and spatially dependent physical constraints
A Simple Multiresolution Technique for Diffraction Image Recovery
No full textWe describe a Fourier-based multiresolition technique to speed up
algorithms for recovering diffraction images from noisy and
aberrated data. We use this method to achieve a fold
speed up of an adaptive optics algorithm developed by the author
for an early prototype of the James Webb Space Telescope, due to replace
the Hubble Space Telescope in 2011. The technique,
simple and frequently rediscovered, is based on windowed Fourier transforms.
While a natural strategy for our purposes, the method is not
specific to our setting and can be employed in
any application that uses a combination of far field scattering
data and spatially dependent physical constraints
Anziano, Luke interview
No full textOral History interview of Luke Anziano. Interview conducted by Russell, Brett at University of Central Florida
The Spirit and the 'other': social identity, ethnicity and intergroup reconciliation in Luke-Acts
No full textThis dissertation investigates the relationship between the Holy Spirit, ethnic identity and the ‘other’ in Luke-Acts. I argue that the Spirit is the central figure in the formation of a new social identity that affirms, yet chastens and transcends ethnic identity. The investigation is informed methodologically by social identity theory (discussed in chapter 2), a branch of social psychology that examines the effects of group membership upon human identity and intergroup relations.
Chapters 3 and 4 investigate the relationship between privileged social identity, the influence of the Spirit and the allocation of group resources to the ‘other’ in Luke 1-4. I conclude that there is an identifiable relationship between the presence of the Spirit and the extension of in-group benefits to the ‘other’.
Chapters 5 through 8 enquire into the role of the Spirit in Acts 1-15. In chapters 5 and 6 I identify the Pentecost narrative as the initial clue to the place of ethnic identity within the Jesus movement and the role of the early community in the formation of an allocentrically oriented social identity. In chapters 7 and 8 attention is directed to the role of the Spirit in both the orchestration of intergroup contact and the identification of those rightly related to God. Luke’s use of ‘ethnic language’ alerts us to the precision with which he approaches this topic. I conclude that Luke is convinced of an inseparable relationship between the Spirit and human identity that robustly affirms ethnicity nested within one’s identity as a member of the Jesus group. The existence of this Spirit-formed identity allows for profound expressions of interethnic reconciliation in Luke-Acts. This conclusion grants a broader role to the Spirit in Luke-Acts than the current scholarly consensus which suggests that Luke views the Spirit as the Old Testament/Second Temple ‘Spirit of prophecy’
A dynamic reading of the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts.
No full textThis study examines the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts through a new perspective: 'dynamic biblical narrative criticism'. Chapter I briefly surveys the past and present issues in the study of the Holy Spirit in Luke and Acts by focusing on three representative scholars: J. D. G. Dunn; R-P. Menzies; M. M. B. - Turner, while noting that their research (including that of other influential scholars) was almost always undertaken by 'historical critical methods', especially 'redaction criticism’. Then I set out my methodology and procedure for the present work. Chapter 2 provides the literary repertoire of the Lukan Holy Spirit by examining the use of ruach or pneuma in the Jewish Bible and concludes that the divine Spirit in the extra text is always characterized as God's own Spirit, revealing his will/purpose by representing his power, activity and presence through his human agents. Chapters 3, 4 and 5 explore the Holy Spirit in Luke-Acts as dynamic biblical narrative. Chapter 3 discusses the relationship between the narrator’s point of view and the Spirit and notes especially that this point of View focuses not only on God and Jesus, but also on the Holy Spirit. References to the Holy Spirit are used to suggest narrative reliability: both the Lukan narrator and reliable characters are positively associated with the 'divine frame of reference', particularly with the Holy Spirit. Chapters 4 and 5 elucidate the Holy Spirit as a literary character through narrative theories of 'character' and 'characterization'. So Chapter 4 analyses the Spirit ill terms of 'character-presentation' and concludes that the Holy Spirit is characterized as God's promised Holy Spirit giving God's power and insight for his ongoing plan to God's human agents and his people in general as anticipated in the literary repertoire. At the same time, however, the Spirit is also characterized in close relation to (the risen) Jesus the Messiah and Lord, and after Jesus’ ascension the Spirit is almost always presented in contexts in which Jesus' witnesses are said to bear witness to the risen Jesus, not only to Jews, but also to Gentiles. Chapter 5 further explores the characterization of the Holy Spirit ill terms of the narrative function of the Spirit in relation to the causal aspect of the plot. It is argued that the major narrative function of the Holy Spirit is to empower and guide individual characters as God's human agents and Jesus' witnesses to seek and save God's people in accordance with the plan of God, while the Spirit also functions as verifying group characters as incorporated into God's people and is employed in relation to the life- situations of believers in settled communities by granting them charismatic gifts or comforting and encouraging them or initiating forms of patriarchal leadership. Chapter 6 summarizes the conclusions of the earlier chapters and briefly draws out implications of the results. of this study: (1) the theological significance of the Lukan presentation of the Holy Spirit and (2) the relationship of the Holy Spirit to (a) the narrator or implied author, (b) the text and (c) the implied reader of Luke-Acts, with final remarks about the legitimacy of Lukan ideology, the power of modem readers and my reading
SAMSARA: reverse communication nonlinear optimization python package
No full textSamsara is a reverse communication nonlinear optimization solver for smooth unconstrained objectives. Samsara is just an oracle that suggests a step (direction and length) using previous information provided to it by the calling routine. It does not execute function evaluations or gradient calculations, but it does build a model of the function being optimized, based on the steps, gradients and function values (if available) passed to it by the user.
This repository contains the Python version of Samsara published in the python package index. To install from a shell command line type: pip install samsar
Online Appendices for Perceptions of Attitudinal Change: The End of History Illusion and Polarization.
No full textOnline Appendices for Perceptions of Attitudinal Change: The End of History Illusion and Polarization
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