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Dealing with Doctrinal Issues in the Church: Part 4
Controversial issues have the potential of splitting the church. To avoid this danger, church leaders need to exercise much care and, at the same time, show firmness when dealing with these issues
Dealing with Doctrinal Issues in the Church: Part 1
This series of articles suggests some ground rules for dealing with a potentially divisive theological issue. We begin by looking at the history of doctrinal controversy, both at the beginning of the Christian church and the inception of the Adventist movement, and by learning from the first Christian disciples and from our Adventist pioneers
Dealing with Doctrinal Issues in the Church: Proposal for Ground Rules
We believe in the unity of the church. The church comprises of people from all walks of life and from various backgrounds. While the membership of the church culturally diverse we must preserve its unity under God’s leadership. Unity should not necessarily mean uniformity in the Seventh-day Adventist church. Rather it means oneness of faith, purpose, and practice in Jesus Christ
Recent Developments in Precision Electroweak Physics
Developments in precision electroweak physics in the two years since the
symposium are briefly summarized.Comment: Update on recent developments, prepared for the publication of the
Proceedings of Alberto Sirlin Symposium, New York University, October 2000.
10 pages, 1 figur
The effects of auditory contrast tuning upon speech intelligibility
We have previously identified neurons tuned to spectral contrast of wideband sounds in auditory cortex of awake marmoset monkeys. Because additive noise alters the spectral contrast of speech, contrast-tuned neurons, if present in human auditory cortex, may aid in extracting speech from noise. Given that this cortical function may be underdeveloped in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss, incorporating biologically-inspired algorithms into external signal processing devices could provide speech enhancement benefits to cochlear implantees. In this study we first constructed a computational signal processing algorithm to mimic auditory cortex contrast tuning. We then manipulated the shape of contrast channels and evaluated the intelligibility of reconstructed noisy speech using a metric to predict cochlear implant user perception. Candidate speech enhancement strategies were then tested in cochlear implantees with a hearing-in-noise test. Accentuation of intermediate contrast values or all contrast values improved computed intelligibility. Cochlear implant subjects showed significant improvement in noisy speech intelligibility with a contrast shaping procedure
Progress in noncommutative function theory
In this expository paper we describe the study of certain non-self-adjoint
operator algebras, the Hardy algebras, and their representation theory. We view
these algebras as algebras of (operator valued) functions on their spaces of
representations. We will show that these spaces of representations can be
parameterized as unit balls of certain -correspondences and the
functions can be viewed as Schur class operator functions on these balls. We
will provide evidence to show that the elements in these (non commutative)
Hardy algebras behave very much like bounded analytic functions and the study
of these algebras should be viewed as noncommutative function theory
Classical and quantized aspects of dynamics in five dimensional relativity
A null path in 5D can appear as a timelike path in 4D, and for a certain
gauge in 5D the motion of a massive particle in 4D obeys the usual quantization
rule with an uncertainty-type relation. Generalizations of this result are
discussed in regard to induced-matter and membrane theory.Comment: 26 pages, in press in Class. Quant. Gra
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