Christianity and Time

Christianity has no one theory of time. But there are several constraints that Christian conceptions of time should meet, among which are the following three. First, Christianity arose within a fundamental monotheistic assumption that the world is created by God, and therefore time must be related to dive creation somehow. Second, Christianity arose in response to the person of Jesus of Nazareth who was supposed from the earliest times to have been historically decisive so that time needs to be understood in part in terms of history. Third, Christianity carries on always in the conceptual world of the cultures it engages, currently that of late-modern science, and therefore now it must come to terms with time as defined by physical cosmology as well as other sciences. Conceptions of time in Christianity thus need to be understood historically in relation to the historically developing conceptions of God and creation, of the meaning and significance of Jesus Christ, and of physical cosmology

A scattering of orders

A linear ordering is scattered if it does not contain a copy of the rationals. Hausdorff characterised the class of scattered linear orderings as the least family of linear orderings that includes the class $\mathcal B$ of well-orderings and reversed well-orderings, and is closed under lexicographic sums with index set in $\mathcal B$. More generally, we say that a partial ordering is $\kappa$-scattered if it does not contain a copy of any $\kappa$-dense linear ordering. We prove analogues of Hausdorff's result for $\kappa$-scattered linear orderings, and for $\kappa$-scattered partial orderings satisfying the finite antichain condition. We also study the $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$-scattered partial orderings, where $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$ is the saturated linear ordering of cardinality $\kappa$, and a partial ordering is $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$-scattered when it embeds no copy of $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$. We classify the $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$-scattered partial orderings with the finite antichain condition relative to the $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$-scattered linear orderings. We show that in general the property of being a $\mathbb{Q}_\kappa$-scattered linear ordering is not absolute, and argue that this makes a classification theorem for such orderings hard to achieve without extra set-theoretic assumptions

The self-understandings and everyday lives of gay men in Hainan

PhD ThesisDrawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Hainan, People’s Republic of China (PRC), especially 30 semi-structured interviews, this thesis explores the self-understandings and everyday lives of men who recognised themselves as gay, homosexual, tongzhi (comrade), and/or ‘in the scene’ (quanneiren). Given the choice of field site, this thesis is one of a handful of sociological studies to explore the lives of non-heterosexual people in the PRC outside of major urban centres, and potentially the first to do so in a region that has historically been considered ‘marginal’. As such, an exploratory approach is taken in engaging with a range of concepts and contexts that participants saw as central to their self-understandings and everyday lives. Specifically, this thesis explores the ways in which participants constructed and experienced ‘the scene’ (quan) as a framework of social-sexual belonging, perceived internet technologies as having deeply impacted their everyday lives, and narrated their lives as dis/oriented towards certain futures. These issues can be seen as complexly intertwined; they are drawn together in this thesis under an overarching concern for the ways in which participants negotiated understandings of themselves, in relation to others, within socio-cultural and material contexts of emergent social-sexual possibilities and pervasive pressures to marry and have children. In exploring these issues, this thesis draws upon a range of sociological and anthropological perspectives.Economic and Social Research Counci

Morphology and Distribution of Certain British Carboniferous Foraminifera

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Tubing analysis and selection process for the frame of the IXA walker

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2010.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.A thorough analysis and test of the frame for a walker was conducted in order to select the optimal size tubing for the walker. Initially a rough first order bending analysis was completed to make an initial decision on tubing size. Finite element analysis was done on the tubing selected to confirm the theory of the first order analytical model, and to determine the expected deflection. A test rig was then built with a 1:1 scale frame in order to test the actual deflection of the frame. Weights were used to measure the deflection for masses varying from 0 lbs to 150 lbs. The results of the complete analysis and testing show that a 1.5" outer diameter by 1.26" inner diameter tube will optimally meet the deflection and weight requirements of the walker. The experimental results are within 5% error of the expected deflection from the finite element analysis, while the quick first order analysis was within 7% of the results from the finite element analysis.by Lucas Cummings.S.B

A harmonic method for predicting shallow-water tides

The development of an objective technique for identifying significant hidden frequencies in the spectrum makes it possible to accurately predict shallow-water tides by harmonic methods. For Anchorage, Alaska, the 114 constituents used include frequencies in every species (cycles per day) from 0 to 12. The larger set of constituents improved the predictions in times of high and low waters, range of tide, and shape of curve. The stationary characteristics of some of the added constituents have been tested with three years of Philadelphia data

09. Literary and Bible Training School

The Cummings collection includes items pertaining to his time at the Literary and Bible Training School (now Trevecca Nazarene University) in Nashville, Tennessee, from which he graduated in 1909. There are examination papers he wrote on homiletics and theology, along with the catalog for the 1909-10 academic year. All items are posted here as a single PDF; additional information is provided in the User Guide.https://mds.marshall.edu/cummings_melvillehomer/1008/thumbnail.jp