A low molecular weight hydrogel with unusual gel aging

We describe a dipeptide hydrogel with unusual aging characteristics. Over time, a transformation from a turbid gel to a transparent gel occurs which is initiated from the air–water interface. Here, we investigate this transition and discuss the implications of this aging on the bulk properties of the gel

Automatic Methods for Hiding Latency in Parallel and Distributed Computation

In this paper we describe methods for mitigating the degradation in performance caused by high latencies in parallel and distributed networks. For example, given any dataflow type of algorithm that runs in T steps on an n-node ring with unit link delays, we show how to run the algorithm in O(T) steps on any n-node bounded-degree connected network with average link delay O(1). This is a significant improvement over prior approaches to latency hiding, which require slowdowns proportional to the maximum link delay. In the case when the network has average link delay dave, our simulation runs in O(√daveT) steps using n/√dave processors, thereby preserving efficiency. We also show how to efficiently simulate an n × n array with unit link delays using slowdown Õ (d&frac23ave) on a two-dimensional array with average link delay dave. Last, we present results for the case in which large local databases are involved in the computation

Breaking the ice with a gutted rooster: reflections on a messy day one

Based on an experience in an MBA Human Resource Management classroom, this paper traces the process of my reflection on an icebreaker discussion of ‘‘best’’ and ‘‘worst’’ student jobs. I indicate how I developed second thoughts about the way in which I handled the discussion, concerned that making light of messy jobs might encourage the class of future managers to do the same. The journey includes the input of a fellow colleague who helped spur me to articulate more clearly – for myself and for my students – that which I am willing to profess as a management professor. In noting how I came up short in relation to my human relations training and my own personal values, I hope the paper prompts discussion of private and public reflection, helping sharpen the connections between espoused and expressed values in the classroom and beyond

An emancipatory family theology: towards a contextual model of inner-city family pastoral care in the Caribbean

This study explores pastoral care for Caribbean families within inner-city communities. It utilises a Caribbean theological methodology which, like other theologies of liberation, is praxis centred and contextual. As such, the thesis begins with a socio-historical background to the region and to the patterns of family present there. Moreover, this research takes as its aims the development of a contextual family theology and a model of family pastoral care. The study is presented as illustrating the movement, in Caribbean theology, from a critical mode to a more constructive and strategic mode.Using Jamaica, the largest of the English speaking Caribbean islands, as a unit of research, it makes use of a qualitative case study approach to explore the perceptions of family in an inner-city community in Kingston, Jamaica. The data collected, with the help of focus groups and individual interviews, allowed for a comparison of family experiences and perspectives between residents and people attending churches in the community. From this data, information was obtained about family in general, family life in the case study community, views on the Church and perceptions of God's vision of families compared with the Church's response to them.The thesis demonstrates how these insights were brought into dialogue with others from theological and non-theological sources. Arising from this conversation, it then proposed a contextual family theology. This theological framework adopts an emancipatory paradigm, which is central to Caribbean theological methodology. Moreover, it laid the foundation for a model of inner-city family pastoral care, which the study went on to outline.The thesis is set out in five chapters. The first chapter, Chains and Freedom, gives a background to the Caribbean and of family life in inner-city communities. Chapter two, Moments in Theology: A Methodologyfor a Contextual Theology, explores the theological methodology that underpins this study. It outlines an interpretation of Caribbean theological methodology and discusses the details of the case study approach used as part of the analysis of the context. The third chapter, Let the People Speak, is a presentation of the findings from the case study. In the fourth chapter, Freedom to Be...An Emancipatory Family Theology, a theological framework for families and praxis with them in the Caribbean is presented. Finally in chapter five, The Whole Church for all Families, a model of family pastoral care for inner-city families is offered. It ends with a call for the churches in the region to embrace the need to see family ministry as a current mission priority for the well-being of Caribbean people and the advancement of their societies. To this end, some areas for further research in family pastoral theology are identified

Generalised Fibonacci Sums In Words

In the November 2004 Kickshaws, Dave Morice noted that, in the word HOW, the sum of the ordinal values of H and O equaled that of W (8+15=23); and similarly for subtraction in WHO 23-8=15

Saint Joan Playbill

Providence College Department of Theatre, Dance & Film Harkins Hall Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw April 27-May 1, 1977 Director, John Garrity Set and Lighting Designer, Carl Gudeninus Costume Designer, Susan Fuller Stage Manager, Patricia White Theatre Arts Program Director, R.L. Pelkington, O.P. Cast: A Steward - Ray Lamore, Robert de Baudricourt - Joe Menino, Joan - Mary Lou Mayce, Bertrand de Poulengey - Steven Jacober, Monseigneur de la Trémouille - Robert Perry, The Archbishop of Rheims - Arthur DeCaprio, Gilles de Rais (Bluebeard) - Dave Desjardins, Page - Michael Grady, Captain La Hire - Mike Alfano, The Dauphin - David Barbour, Duchess de la Tremouille - Catherine Wolfe, Ladies in Waiting - Alicia Dickson & Eileen Rausch, Dunois, Bastard of Orleans - Nicholas Walker, Page to Dunois - Mike O\u27Neill, Richard de Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick - John Cunningham, O.P., John de Stogumber, Chaplain - Peter Thomson, Peter Cauchon, Bishop of Beauvais - Joe Menino, The Inquisitor - Steven Jacober, D\u27Estivet - Robert Perry, Brother Martin Ladvenu - Daniel Foster, The Executioner - Dave Desjardins, An English Soldier - Dave Wilson, A Woman of the Present - Angela Davishttps://digitalcommons.providence.edu/saintjoan_pubs/1001/thumbnail.jp