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Missional Interim Ministry Processes a Case Study
A case study of conducting an interim missionally. Presents theological and theoretical bases for missional interim processes and description of an actual interim period in which the interim was approached missionally. Units of analyses are environment/context, power/leadership, conflict, organizational restructuring, trust, and conventional interim tasks. Interpretation of data is by time-sequence analysis and explanation building.
Charismatic power yielded to democratic expressions through process of legitimization. Political organizing within congregation was method for power transformation. Goal was communicative action that discerned the mission of God, determined congregation’s calling within that mission, and described congregation’s ministries to carry out its calling.
The Evolution of the Far-UV Luminosity Function and Star Formation Rate Density of the Chandra Deep Field South from z=0.2-1.2 with Swift/UVOT
We use deep Swift UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) near-ultraviolet (1600A to
4000A) imaging of the Chandra Deep Field South to measure the rest-frame far-UV
(FUV; 1500A) luminosity function (LF) in four redshift bins between z=0.2 and
1.2. Our sample includes 730 galaxies with u < 24.1 mag. We use two methods to
construct and fit the LFs: the traditional V_max method with bootstrap errors
and a maximum likelihood estimator. We observe luminosity evolution such that
M* fades by ~2 magnitudes from z~1 to z~0.3 implying that star formation
activity was substantially higher at z~1 than today. We integrate our LFs to
determine the FUV luminosity densities and star formation rate densities from
z=0.2 to 1.2. We find evolution consistent with an increase proportional to
(1+z)^1.9 out to z~1. Our luminosity densities and star formation rates are
consistent with those found in the literature, but are, on average, a factor of
~2 higher than previous FUV measurements. In addition, we combine our UVOT data
with the MUSYC survey to model the galaxies' ultraviolet-to-infrared spectral
energy distributions and estimate the rest-frame FUV attenuation. We find that
accounting for the attenuation increases the star formation rate densities by
~1 dex across all four redshift bins.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in Ap
Methods for Feature Detection in Point Clouds
This paper gives an overview over several techniques for detection of features, and in particular sharp features, on point-sampled geometry. In addition, a new technique using the Gauss map is shown. Given an unstructured point cloud, this method computes a Gauss map clustering on local neighborhoods in order to discard all points that are unlikely to belong to a sharp feature. A single parameter is used in this stage to control the sensitivity of the feature detection
The influence of the electronic structure of adsorbate–substrate complexes on photoisomerization ability
We use time-resolved two-photon photoemission to study two molecular
photoswitches at the Au(111) surface, namely azobenzene and its derivative
tetra-tert-butyl-azobenzene (TBA). Electronic states located at the
substrate–adsorbate interface are found to be a sensitive probe for the
photoisomerization of TBA. In contrast to TBA, azobenzene loses its switching
ability at the Au(111) surface. Besides the different adsorption geometries of
both molecules, we partly attribute the quenching in the case of azobenzene to
a shift of the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) with respect to the
gold d-bands, which renders the hole transfer involved in the
photoisomerization mechanism of TBA inefficient
Resolving the Intracoastal Waterway in a Storm Surge Model Applied for Floodplain Mapping for Northeast Florida
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