Insights from Communication Theories that Inform Ministry with Pre-Christian Hispanics in the USA

This article discerns insights from three communication theories to inform ministry with pre-Christian Hispanics in the USA. Pearce’sCoordinated Management of Meaning theory speaks of the coconstruction of social realities in diverse circumstances. Christians have experienced what it is to be diverse and yet through Jesus’ love be able to co-construct an identity that focuses on our shared commitmentto Him and His purposes. Combining our experience with insights from Pearce would equip us to contribute to the process of identity construction that Hispanics engage in. Baxter and Montgomery\u27s Relational Dialectics Theory could guide congregations in helping families plot a course through the complexities of relationships. Finally, Hammerback and Jensen\u27s theory of Reconstitutive Rhetoric helps us undersland the value of inviting pre-Christian Hispanics to embrace a new identity that not only tells them how to act but also who to be

Offer them life!: investigating the implications of a life-based evangelistic vision

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Insights from Communication Theories that Inform Ministry with Pre-Christian Hispanics in the USA

This article discerns insights from three communication theories to inform ministry with pre-Christian Hispanics in the USA. Pearce’sCoordinated Management of Meaning theory speaks of the coconstruction of social realities in diverse circumstances. Christians have experienced what it is to be diverse and yet through Jesus’ love be able to co-construct an identity that focuses on our shared commitmentto Him and His purposes. Combining our experience with insights from Pearce would equip us to contribute to the process of identity construction that Hispanics engage in. Baxter and Montgomery\u27s Relational Dialectics Theory could guide congregations in helping families plot a course through the complexities of relationships. Finally, Hammerback and Jensen\u27s theory of Reconstitutive Rhetoric helps us undersland the value of inviting pre-Christian Hispanics to embrace a new identity that not only tells them how to act but also who to be

^1H{^(19)F} NOE NMR Structural Signatures of the Insulin R_6 Hexamer: Evidence of a Capped HisB10 Site in Aryl- and Arylacryloyl-carboxylate Complexes

New and improved insulin: ^1H{^(19)F} NOE NMR difference spectra for CF_3-substituted aromatic carboxylates bound at the HisB10 sites of the R_6 human insulin (HI) hexamer show strong NOEs between the CF_3 groups and the LeuB6, AsnB3, and PheB1 sidechains. The NOEs and structural modeling establish that these carboxylates form closed complexes with the HisB10 site capped by the PheB1 rings

Roaming Narratives:New Architectural Methods for Remaking the City

Who is the city for? With public space under increasing pressure from market-led ideologies and development practices, questions of identity are urgent. We are developing architectural methods to engage people in writing the city’s future and form new urban narratives. This is in part a response to existing opportunistic practices of city-branding that have co-opted the notion of narrative for place making, its marketing and investment. Until city making provides people with a meaningful role in determining an area’s transformation, regeneration is often experienced as a process done to collective life rather than with it. Perhaps there is another way? To establish a new framework for urban projects we need new architectural methods that work with collective life. In this paper we present our ongoing fieldwork that is developing a range of peripatetic practices for architecture and urbanism. We identify the limitations of existing methods and then explain how practices of collective movement inscribe new patterns of use and behaviour, providing emergent modes of remaking the city. This is a reciprocal relationship as collective life in turn becomes restructured. Using field notes and documentary photography, we will draw on three bodies of ongoing work in peripatetic practice spanning twenty-five years: nightwalking, wastelanding, and collective nightwalking. We then discuss what collective movement affords in relation to the identity of place. This is area development that is slow, accretive, inclusive and plural in its nature. Practising from a place outwards our approach is action-based to empower people through ownership and sense of belonging, understanding the continuous evolution of identity. We conclude with how peripatetic practices are able to respond to the ephemeral city and may lead to a more sustainable form of regeneration than many existing approaches and removes a high degree of the risk of failure inherent to these

Talk on the Wild Side:Moving Beyond Storytelling in Cities

When we arrive in urban situations they often have a problematic narrative through the palimpsest of their development. What we are exploring is how to change this story, inclusively and positively, to help people rewrite the future of their places on the eve of city-scale regeneration projects. We employ narrative in two ways. Firstly, through mining archives and oral histories, locals collect and recount stories and shape the collective walks we take through lost parts of the city. Secondly, as an action-based method of walking the city collectively, communities and urbanists begin to cowrite a new story of the city. Our practice is concerned with how the future of places can be meaningfully rewritten through collaborative engagement with different communities and stakeholders. The crux of who the narrative is for and how it empowers them is essential. Here, we are actively exploring novel ways in which narratives can go beyond existing opportunistic practices of city-branding or simple interpretations, by using creativity to bring places to life in a way that encourages community ownership and empowerment. We are engaged in developing a new paradigm for city-making that centres on the unknown and unseen in the context of Glasgow. How do we capture the fleeting, seemingly ineffable, lost elements of the city and bring them into a narrative that communities can work with? This paper presents dispatches from our ongoing action-research concerning how we write and rewrite the city illustrating how and why such narratives are vital and for who. Before introducing our narrative urbanism approach, we will explain the development of our collaborative practice, combining our individual urban narrative and inscriptive practices of nightwalking (Dunn, 2016) and wastelanding (Dubowitz, 2010) to enable a different way of writing the city with its people. Together, we are now drawing professionals and experts who see the city anew together with citizens, who previously had not been engaged, on nightwalks through areas of the city that are lost and about to be transformed. We are using our narrative method of collective nightwalking to meaningfully involve people in writing the city’s future. Collective walking that creates a new narrative can help us profoundly reconnect with our surroundings and experience, in a powerful and visceral way, and co-write new narratives that exist beyond the daytime. This happens through three stages. Firstly, for people in a neighbourhood to develop a sense of engagement for themselves; secondly, by having done so they develop a collective sense of place through time; and thirdly the process contributes toward empowerment of these citizens to become activists about it. Having unpacked our narrative urbanism practice we will conclude with a discussion on its implications for revelation and the poetics of future city-making

Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS) real-time controller preliminary architecture

The Narrow Field Infrared Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS) is the first light Adaptive Optics (AO) system for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). A critical component of NFIRAOS is the Real-Time Controller (RTC) subsystem which provides real-time wavefront correction by processing wavefront information to compute Deformable Mirror (DM) and Tip/Tilt Stage (TTS) commands. The National Research Council of Canada - Herzberg (NRC-H), in conjunction with TMT, has developed a preliminary design for the NFIRAOS RTC. The preliminary architecture for the RTC is comprised of several Linux-based servers. These servers are assigned various roles including: the High-Order Processing (HOP) servers, the Wavefront Corrector Controller (WCC) server, the Telemetry Engineering Display (TED) server, the Persistent Telemetry Storage (PTS) server, and additional testing and spare servers. There are up to six HOP servers that accept high-order wavefront pixels, and perform parallelized pixel processing and wavefront reconstruction to produce wavefront corrector error vectors. The WCC server performs low-order mode processing, and synchronizes and aggregates the high-order wavefront corrector error vectors from the HOP servers to generate wavefront corrector commands. The Telemetry Engineering Display (TED) server is the RTC interface to TMT and other subsystems. The TED server receives all external commands and dispatches them to the rest of the RTC servers and is responsible for aggregating several offloading and telemetry values that are reported to other subsystems within NFIRAOS and TMT. The TED server also provides the engineering GUIs and real-time displays. The Persistent Telemetry Storage (PTS) server contains fault tolerant data storage that receives and stores telemetry data, including data for Point-Spread Function Reconstruction (PSFR)

Thirty Meter Telescope Narrow Field InfraRed Adaptive Optics System Real-Time Controller Prototyping Results

Prototyping and benchmarking was performed for the Real-Time Controller (RTC) of the Narrow Field InfraRed Adaptive Optics System (NFIRAOS). To perform wavefront correction, NFIRAOS utilizes two deformable mirrors (DM) and one tip/tilt stage (TTS). The RTC receives wavefront information from six Laser Guide Star (LGS) Shack- Hartmann WaveFront Sensors (WFS), one high-order Natural Guide Star Pyramid WaveFront Sensor (PWFS) and multiple low-order instrument detectors. The RTC uses this information to determine the commands to send to the wavefront correctors. NFIRAOS is the first light AO system for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT). The prototyping was performed using dual-socket high performance Linux servers with the real-time (PREEMPT_RT) patch and demonstrated the viability of a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware approach to large scale AO reconstruction. In particular, a large custom matrix vector multiplication (MVM) was benchmarked which met the required latency requirements. In addition all major inter-machine communication was verified to be adequate using 10Gb and 40Gb Ethernet. The results of this prototyping has enabled a CPU-based NFIRAOS RTC design to proceed with confidence and that COTS hardware can be used to meet the demanding performance requirements

Dynamic Light Scattering in Biomedical Applications:feature issue introduction

The feature Issue on "Dynamic Light Scattering in Biomedical Applications" presents a compilation of research breakthroughs and technological advancements that have shaped the field of biophotonics, particularly in the non-invasive exploration of biological tissues. Highlighting the significance of dynamic light scattering (DLS) alongside techniques like laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), diffusing wave spectroscopy (DWS), and laser speckle contrast imaging (LSCI), this issue underscores the versatile applications of these methods in capturing the intricate dynamics of microcirculatory blood flow across various tissues. Contributions explore developments in fluorescence tomography, the integration of machine learning for data processing, enhancements in microscopy for cancer detection, and novel approaches in optical biophysics, among others. Innovations featured include a high-resolution speckle contrast tomography system for deep blood flow imaging, a rapid estimation technique for real-time tissue perfusion imaging, and the use of convolutional neural networks for efficient blood flow mapping. Additionally, studies delve into the impact of skin strain on spectral reflectance, the sensitivity of cerebral blood flow measurement techniques, and the potential of photobiomodulation for enhancing brain function. This issue not only showcases the latest theoretical and experimental strides in DLS-based imaging but also anticipates the continued evolution of these modalities for groundbreaking applications in disease detection, diagnosis, and monitoring, marking a pivotal contribution to the field of biomedical optics. [Abstract copyright: © 2024 Optica Publishing Group.