The Equipping Church Overview

What is God’s Mission in the World? How does human work connect to God’s work? What does this mean for people’s daily work? How can we equip our people for God’s work in the world? Equipping churches have a vision of God at work where their people work Equipping churches actively hunt for examples and resources Equipping churches connect daily work to worship Equipping churches address the opportunities and challenges their people face at work Equipping churches invest resources in equipping people for daily work Equipping churches create structures to sustain this ministry Equipping churches empower and collaborate with people in the congregation to lead the ministry Equipping churches release and support their people for work outside the church Equipping churches encourage everyone to take responsibility Equipping churches include daily work as part of their compassion/outreach/service ministries Conclusions About Equipping Churche

Ethics at Work Overview

Systematic Presentation of Ethics Definitions Different Approaches to Ethics The Command Approach in Practice What are God\u27s rules? Is there a command for every occasion? Looking for guiding principles From guiding principles to one clear command Three balancing principles The Consequences Approach The Bible and consequences The Character Approach Which Virtues? Will the real Jesus please stand up? Putting it all together Solving major moral dilemmas Everyday moral choices Making ethical decisions in a fallen world Conclusions Narrative (Case) Presentation of Ethics The Command Approach What Are Wayne\u27s Obligations According to Law? A Rule for Every Occasion? Larger Principles? A Single Principle or Command? Three Balancing Principles The Consequences Approach The Bible and Consequences Measuring the Good What is good? Good for Whom? Can the good be calculated? Good in what context? The Character Approach Determining What is Virtuous How Does Character Shape Wayne\u27s Decision? How Does Character Develop and Grow in Our Lives? Developing the Character of Jesus in the World of Work Putting it All Together Major Moral Dilemmas Everyday Moral Choice

The New Zealand diplomatic service : a bureaucratic elite

This thesis uses a modified social background approach to elite analysis as a basis for examining the New Zealand Diplomatic Service. The approach is conventional in that it draws heavily on data about the social origins (class, demographic etc.) of diplomats but is somewhat unorthodox in that it also examines diplomats' continuing interactions with, and attitudes to other groups in society. Throughout the study the emphasis is on a comparative analysis, with data on diplomats being related in particular to data on the New Zealan' d population as a whole, other New Zealand bureaucrats and to overseas Foreign Services. The thesis can be divided into roughly four parts. In the first two chapters the subject is introduced and the approach used herein outlined and defended. These chapters also give a brief outline of elite theory and comparable overseas studies in order to point up the type of elite features which it is useful to look for in the New Zealand context. Secondly, the thesis examines features of the Service (e.g. age, sex and educational characteristics) that are known for the whole group. Following on from this chapters 4 and 5 use responses to a mail questionnaire to investigate aspects of diplomats' social background which are not available as a data resource in any other form. Prominent among these is an examination of the social class origins of diplomats, their continuing social and occupational interactions and their subjective assessment of their occupation and other groups they come in contact with. In the final chapter the data is synthesised to show that the Diplomatic Service, while not conforming well to any particular model of elite analysis, is in any usual sense of the term an elite group

A flexible framework for offline effectiveness metrics

The use of offline effectiveness metrics is one of the cornerstones of evaluation in information retrieval. Static resources that include test collections and sets of topics, the corresponding relevance judgments connecting them, and metrics that map document rankings from a retrieval system to numeric scores have been used for multiple decades as an important way of comparing systems. The basis behind this experimental structure is that the metric score for a system can serve as a surrogate measurement for user satisfaction. Here we introduce a user behavior framework that extends the C/W/L family. The essence of the new framework - which we call C/W/L/A - is that the user actions that are undertaken while reading the ranking can be considered separately from the benefit that each user will have derived as they exit the ranking. This split structure allows the great majority of current effectiveness metrics to be systematically categorized, and thus their relative properties and relationships to be better understood; and at the same time permits a wide range of novel combinations to be considered. We then carry out experiments using relevance judgments, document rankings, and user satisfaction data from two distinct sources, comparing the patterns of metric scores generated, and showing that those metrics vary quite markedly in terms of their ability to predict user satisfaction

Near infrared spectroscopy for the assessment of peripheral tissue oxygenation in pulmonary arterial hypertension

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterised by increased pulmonary vascular resistance and results in increased morbidity and mortality due to right heart failure and a progressive decline in cardiac output [1, 2]. The latter disturbs oxygen delivery to the periphery and may lead to pathological changes in tissue oxygenation. The balance between global oxygen supply and demand is reflected in mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO2), an index that is generally reduced in patients with PAH [3]. SvO2 at baseline is one of the strongest predictors of survival in PAH [4–6]; this is also true for changes in SvO2 during follow-up [5]. Cut-off values of 60% [7] and 65% [5] have been used to distinguish between prognostic groups suggesting that these may be suitable treatment goals. SvO2 is measured invasively in the pulmonary artery, where venous blood mixes after circulating through the superior and inferior vena cava, coronary sinuses and the right-heart chambers

OpenSep: A generalizable open source pipeline for SOFA score calculation and Sepsis-3 classification

EHR-based sepsis research often uses heterogeneous definitions of sepsis leading to poor generalizability and difficulty in comparing studies to each other. We have developed OpenSep, an open-source pipeline for sepsis phenotyping according to the Sepsis-3 definition, as well as determination of time of sepsis onset and SOFA scores. The Minimal Sepsis Data Model was developed alongside the pipeline to enable the execution of the pipeline to diverse sources of electronic health record data. The pipeline\u27s accuracy was validated by applying it to the MIMIC-IV version 1.0 data and comparing sepsis onset and SOFA scores to those produced by the pipeline developed by the curators of MIMIC. We demonstrated high reliability between both the sepsis onsets and SOFA scores, however the use of the Minimal Sepsis Data model developed for this work allows our pipeline to be applied to more broadly to data sources beyond MIMIC

Ultra weak photon emission—a brief review

Cells emit light at ultra-low intensities: photons which are produced as by-products of cellular metabolism, distinct from other light emission processes such as delayed luminescence, bioluminescence, and chemiluminescence. The phenomenon is known by a large range of names, including, but not limited to, biophotons, biological autoluminescence, metabolic photon emission and ultraweak photon emission (UPE), the latter of which shall be used for the purposes of this review. It is worth noting that the photons when produced are neither ‘weak’ nor specifically biological in characteristics. Research of UPE has a long yet tattered past, historically hamstrung by a lack of technology sensitive enough to detect it. Today, as technology progresses rapidly, it is becoming easier to detect and image these photons, as well as to describe their function. In this brief review we will examine the history of UPE research, their proposed mechanism, possible biological role, the detection of the phenomenon, and the potential medical applications