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Counseling and Confession: The Role of Confession and Absolution in Pastoral Counseling
Reviewed Book: Koehler, Walter J. Counseling and Confession: The Role of Confession and Absolution in Pastoral Counseling. [S.l.]: Concordia, 1982
Experience and Faith: The Significance of Luther for Understanding Today\u27s Experiential Religion
Reviewed Book: Hordern, William Edward. Experience and Faith: The Significance of Luther for Understanding Today\u27s Experiential Religion. [S.l.]: Augsburg Publishing House, 1983
Rough solutions of the Einstein Constraint Equations on Asymptotically Flat Manifolds without Near-CMC Conditions
In this article we consider the conformal decomposition of the Einstein
constraint equations introduced by Lichnerowicz, Choquet-Bruhat, and York, on
asymptotically flat (AF) manifolds. Using the non-CMC fixed-point framework
developed in 2009 by Holst, Nagy, and Tsogtgerel and by Maxwell, we establish
existence of coupled non-CMC weak solutions for AF manifolds. As is the case
for the analogous existence results for non-CMC solutions on closed manifolds
and compact manifolds with boundary, our results here avoid the near-CMC
assumption by assuming that the freely specifiable part of the data given by
the traceless-transverse part of the rescaled extrinsic curvature and the
matter fields are sufficiently small. The non-CMC rough solutions results here
for AF manifolds may be viewed as extending to AF manifolds the 2009 and 2014
results on rough far-from-CMC positive Yamabe solutions for closed and compact
manifolds with boundary. Similarly, our results may be viewed as extending the
recent 2014 results for AF manifolds of Dilts, Isenberg, Mazzeo and Meier, and
of Holst and Meier; while their results are restricted to smoother background
metrics and data, the results here allow the regularity to be extended down to
the minimum regularity allowed by the background metric and the matter, further
completing the rough solution program initiated by Maxwell and Choquet-Bruhat
in 2004.Comment: 82 pages. Version 2 has minor changes reflecting comments and minor
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Tolerance of four spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) varieties to weed harrowing
We investigated the tolerance to weed harrowing of four spring barley varieties and examined the possible interactions between varietal weed suppressive ability and two nutrient levels. Tolerance was defined as the combined effect of crop resistance (ability to resist soil covering) and crop recovery (the ability to recover in terms of yield). The weed harrowing strategy was a combination of one pre- and one post-emergence weed harrowing. In terms of yield, the four varieties responded significantly differently to weed harrowing and the response depended on nutrient level. At the lower nutrient level, weed harrowing caused an increase in yield of 4.4 hkg ha-1 for a strong competitor (cv. Otira), while there was no effect on yield at the higher nutrient level. For a weaker competitor (cv. Brazil), weed harrowing caused no change in yield at the lower nutrient level, whereas yield decreased by 6.0 hkg ha-1 at the higher nutrient level. There were marked differences between the weed suppressive ability of the four varieties when not harrowed, with less pronounced but significant differences when harrowed. Weed harrowing did not change the weed suppressive ability of a variety. Varieties that are tall at post-emergence harrowing and have increased density after pre-emergence harrowing, are the ones that benefit most from weed harrowing
A Bose-Einstein Approach to the Random Partitioning of an Integer
Consider N equally-spaced points on a circle of circumference N. Choose at
random n points out of on this circle and append clockwise an arc of
integral length k to each such point. The resulting random set is made of a
random number of connected components. Questions such as the evaluation of the
probability of random covering and parking configurations, number and length of
the gaps are addressed. They are the discrete versions of similar problems
raised in the continuum. For each value of k, asymptotic results are presented
when n,N both go to infinity according to two different regimes. This model may
equivalently be viewed as a random partitioning problem of N items into n
recipients. A grand-canonical balls in boxes approach is also supplied, giving
some insight into the multiplicities of the box filling amounts or spacings.
The latter model is a k-nearest neighbor random graph with N vertices and kn
edges. We shall also briefly consider the covering problem in the context of a
random graph model with N vertices and n (out-degree 1) edges whose endpoints
are no more bound to be neighbors
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