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A sociological history of Christian worship
No full textIn this book the 2000-year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts. Beginning with the Biblical material the author provides a broad survey of changes over 2000 years of the Christian church, together with a series of case studies that highlight particular elements of the worship, or specific theoretical applications. Stringer does not simply examine the mainstream traditions of Christian worship in Europe and Byzantium, but also gives space to lesser-known traditions in Armenia, India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Offering a contribution to the ongoing debate that breaks away from a purely textual or theological study of Christian worship, this book provides a greater understanding of the place of worship in its social and cultural context.--From publisher description
A sociological history of Christian worship
No full textIn this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts. Beginning with the Biblical material the author provides a broad survey of changes over 2000 years of the Christian church, together with a series of case studies that highlight particular elements of the worship, or specific theoretical applications. Stringer does not simply examine the mainstream traditions of Christian worship in Europe and Byzantium, but also gives space to lesser-known traditions in Armenia, India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Offering a contribution to the ongoing debate that breaks away from a purely textual or theological study of Christian worship, this book provides a greater understanding of the place of worship in its social and cultural context
A Sociological History of Christian Worship
No full textIn this book the 2000 year history of Christian worship is viewed from a sociological perspective. Martin Stringer develops the idea of discourse as a way of understanding the place of Christian worship within its many and diverse social contexts. Beginning with the Biblical material the author provides a broad survey of changes over 2000 years of the Christian church, together with a series of case studies that highlight particular elements of the worship, or specific theoretical applications. Stringer does not simply examine the mainstream traditions of Christian worship in Europe and Byzantium, but also gives space to lesser-known traditions in Armenia, India, Ethiopia and elsewhere. Offering a contribution to the ongoing debate that breaks away from a purely textual or theological study of Christian worship, this book provides a greater understanding of the place of worship in its social and cultural context.</jats:p
D-SEED I.
No full textIt is an audiovisual film that presents a musical compilation of five artists accompanied by sculptural objects and is one of the other outputs of the ntity.one.Default platform. The ntity.one.Default platform has been a collectively curated platform connecting the independent electronic scene and visual art for two years. The audio-visual D-SEED I focuses on materiality, especially fabric, in sculptural objects. The haptic and tactile perception of art is the axis of interest in the artistic activity of the authors of these sculptural objects. Their creations outline a surreal world that is partly influenced by the reflection of the climate crisis we are facing. Michaela Rožnovská sculptural objects, in collaboration with Martin Dominik Kratochvíl, make imaginations of new animals on earth visible, based on abstracted shapes of plants or the simplest organisms living on this planet. They present themselves as heirs of our culture, mythology and religion. The sound side of the whole audiovisual film is created from a compilation of five performers - RLUNG, Thistle, Natálie Pleváková, sees_pod, timmi. The resulting sound mix is the work of the author sees_pod (Martin Dominik Kratochvíl). The whole compilation is composed of ambient surfaces, field recordings and processing. The whole is then built as a collage of constantly changing situations and emotions. At the moment when it may seem to the viewer that something identifiable emerges from the changing mixture, the composition turns into something else
D-SEED I.
No full textIt is an audiovisual film that presents a musical compilation of five artists accompanied by sculptural objects and is one of the other outputs of the ntity.one.Default platform. The ntity.one.Default platform has been a collectively curated platform connecting the independent electronic scene and visual art for two years. The audio-visual D-SEED I focuses on materiality, especially fabric, in sculptural objects. The haptic and tactile perception of art is the axis of interest in the artistic activity of the authors of these sculptural objects. Their creations outline a surreal world that is partly influenced by the reflection of the climate crisis we are facing. Michaela Rožnovská sculptural objects, in collaboration with Martin Dominik Kratochvíl, make imaginations of new animals on earth visible, based on abstracted shapes of plants or the simplest organisms living on this planet. They present themselves as heirs of our culture, mythology and religion. The sound side of the whole audiovisual film is created from a compilation of five performers - RLUNG, Thistle, Natálie Pleváková, sees_pod, timmi. The resulting sound mix is the work of the author sees_pod (Martin Dominik Kratochvíl). The whole compilation is composed of ambient surfaces, field recordings and processing. The whole is then built as a collage of constantly changing situations and emotions. At the moment when it may seem to the viewer that something identifiable emerges from the changing mixture, the composition turns into something else
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
Příprava a charakterizace fosfolipidových biomembrán
No full textUniversita Karlova v Praze Přírodovědecká fakulta. Katedra biochemie Příprava a charakterizace fosfolipidových biomembrán Preparation and Characterization of Supported Phospholipid Biomembranes Souhrn disertační práce RNDr. Martin Beneš Školitelé: Doc. RNDr. Jiří Hudeček, CSc. Doc. Martin Hof, Dr. rer. nat. DSc. Prof. Wim Th.Hermens Praha 2008 2 3 Obsah Seznam publikací včleněných do disertační práce .........................................4 Úvod ...............................................................................................................5 Cíle disertační práce........................................................................................8 Výsledky..........................................................................................................9 Literatura .......................................................................................................14 Seznam publikací autora v časopisech..........................................................16 Prezentace na konferencích...........................................................................18 4 Seznam publikací včleněných do disertační práce I. Beneš, M., Billy, D., Hermens, W. and Hof, M.: Muscovite (mica) allows for the characterisation of supported bilayers by ellipsometry and confocal fluorescence...Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science, Department of Biochemistry Preparation and Characterisation of Supported Phospholipid Biomembranes Summary of PhD thesis RNDr. Martin Beneš Supervisors: Doc. RNDr. Jiří Hudeček, CSc. Doc. Martin Hof, Dr. rer. nat. DSc. Prof. Wim Th.Hermens Prague 2008 2 3 CONTENT List of publications included in the PhD thesis .............................. 4 Introduction ..................................................................................... 5 Objectives of the PhD thesis............................................................ 8 Results.............................................................................................. 9 References...................................................................................... 14 Publications of the author.............................................................. 16 Proceedings of scientific meetings and communications.............. 18 4 List of publications included in the PhD thesis I. Beneš, M., Billy, D., Hermens, W. and Hof, M.: Muscovite (mica) allows for the characterisation of supported bilayers by ellipsometry and confocal fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. Biol.Chem. 2002 383, 337-341. II. Benda, A., Beneš, M., Mareček, V., Lhotský, A., Hermens, W.T., and Hof. M.: How to determine diffusion...Katedra biochemieDepartment of BiochemistryFaculty of SciencePřírodovědecká fakult
Continuous Compliance scripts and data
No full textThis file contains the scripts and data used in the open-source portion (sections 6 and 7) of the paper "Continuous Compliance" by Martin Kellogg, Martin Schäf, Serdar Tasiran, and Michael D. Ernst, which appeared in Automated Software Engineering (ASE) 2020. Please contact the first author if you have any questions, concerns, or problems regarding this dataset - we would be happy to help you
A study of Neanderthal physiology, engetics and behaviour
No full textThe general context of Neanderthal existence in Europe and Southwest Asia is assessed from a physiological perspective, based on studies of living populations experiencing certain roughly analogous circumstances. Various aspects of the fossil, archaeological, and paleoenvironmental records relevant to the discussion of energy balance among the Neanderthals were investigated. Within living populations exposed to cold climate, subsisting on energy deficient diets, or participating in strenuous exercise regimes, various metabolic and physiological responses are evident. These relate to an attempt to maintain energy balance under such stresses, and are mediated by the action of thyroid hormones. It is proposed that the Neanderthals, who endured similar conditions, must have adapted to a low level of circulating active thyroid hormones in the face of an energy imbalance (negative) and sacrificed linear growth (of the legs/limbs primarily) as an energy sparing mechanism, so that other more essential body functions could be maintained to enable survival. Given that the Neanderthal physique was skeletally robust and highly muscled (and that a significant degree and frequency of trauma is evident) it logical that they were engaging in very specific and stressful activity patterns. The Neanderthal physique would have prohibited certain activities but facilitated others. It is clear that modem athletes who share these attributes take part in power and speed events, involving intermittent bursts of high intensity exercise, rather than more stamina orientated ones. This information is used, in conjunction with archaeological and paleoenvironmental evidence, to develop a theory of the daily subsistence practices of the Neanderthals, involving the ambushing of game in a closed environment. Such start-stop activities in a cold environment would have had a bearing on metabolism and energy balance, but also exerted pressure on thermoregulatory mechanisms. In light of this a new theory is developed to explain the evolution of the Neanderthals' exceptional cranial capacity and morphology. The elongated and unflexed basicranium is proposed to have arisen in order to accommodate an expanded cavernous sinus at the base of the brain. This would have provided a mechanism for regulating brain temperature under oscillating periods of heavy physical exertion and rest in a cold environment. The points outlined here are made with reference to previously suggested notions of ecogeographic patterning of body morphology and differential mobility at the time of the 'transition'. Finally, the aspects of Neanderthal existence discussed are placed in a broad ecological and evolutionary context alongside the contemporaneous Early Anatomically Modem Humans (EAMH)
Rent - seeking trade policy : a time series approach
No full textUsing a time-series approach, the author analyzes the relationship between the extent of rent-seeking trade policy and both political and economic variables. For rent-seeking trade policy, the indicator he uses is the number of foreign-trade regulations passed each year for the benefit of a single firm or industry. The author uses data from Uruguay for 1925-83. Uruguay, which experienced an impressive economic decline, is an outstanding example of a rent-seeking society. After being a wealthy economy in midcentury, it suffered almost complete stagnation, which led to social and policital disintegration by the end of the 1960s. Three decades of restrictive regulations on foreign trade had created a nearly closed economy by the end of the 1960s. It was worth analyzing whether policymakers'great receptiveness to demands for protection could account for Uruguay's decline. Over the period 1925-83, the author finds almost 4,000 laws, decrees, and administrative resolutions that create, maintain, or modify a foreign-trade regulation for the benefit of a single firm or industry. About half of them explicitly identify the petitioner - usually a firm or guild. Since the size of the Uruguayan economy changed over the period studied, the author scales the annual number of regulations by output or exports to measure the extent of rent-seeking trade policy. The author shows that the extent of rent-seeking trade policy increased with discretionary policies and under dictatorship. (In the period studied, there were two stages of democracy - until 1932 and from 1943-72 - and two stages of dictatorship.) He also shows that rent-seeking trade restrictions increased under import-substitution strategies and, more unexpectedly, under active export promotion. This suggests that discretionary power leads to wasteful distribution, whether it is used to support inward- or outward-oriented policies. Finally, the author analyzes the correlation between innovations in the trade policy indicator and innovations in the growth rates of output and exports, with a lag of up to 20 years. Surprisingly, he finds a positive correlation with output growth rates after two or three years. But the correlation becomes negative some years later, particularly in the case of exports. The short-run positive impact on growth rates, together with the surprisingly long time lag before the negative impact, may account for policymakers'receptiveness to demands for protection.Trade Policy,Achieving Shared Growth,TF054105-DONOR FUNDED OPERATION ADMINISTRATION FEE INCOME AND EXPENSE ACCOUNT,Economic Theory&Research,Environmental Economics&Policies
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