Götter und Ziele: Spirituelles Streben als sinnvolle Tätigkeit

Götter und Ziele: Spirituelles Streben als sinnvolle TätigkeitReligion als menschliche Aktivität erschafft Sinn und Bedeutung im Leben indem es Ziele und Wertesysteme bereitstellt. Diese Ziele haben das Potenzial, alle Bereiche des menschlichen Lebens zu erfassen. Ein Ansatz, der Religion nun vor dem Hintergrund solcher Ziele untersucht, stellt einen generellen verbindenden Rahmen zur Verfügung, um die Dynamik von Religion im menschlichen Leben zu untersuchen. Dazu wird im Folgenden ein empirischer Zugang zu Spiritualität und Religion vorgestellt. Außerdem wird mit Hilfe der Motivationstheorie eine Erklärung für spirituelles Streben versucht, sowie die Evolutionspsychologie als Erklärungsansatz mit einbezogen.Religion as a domain of human activity invests existence with meaning by establishing goals and value systems. These goals potentially pertain to all aspects of a persons' life. A goals approach rooted in personal strivings provides a general unifying framework to capture the dynamic aspect of religion in people’s lives. Empirical research on the measurement of spirituality and religion through personal strivings is described. The origins of spiritual strivings in motivational needs theory and in an evolutionary psychology rooted in solutions to adaptive problems faced by our ancestors are discussed

Queen of the Virtues? Gratitude as Human Strength

Gratitude is held in high esteem by virtually everyone, at all times, in all places. From ancient religious scriptures through modern social science research, gratitude is upheld as a desirable human characteristic with a capacity for making life better for oneself and for others. Aside from a few harsh words from a small handful of cynics, nearly every thinker has viewed gratitude as a sentiment with virtually no downside

PURPOSEFUL ACTION AND THE STRIVING FOR THE SACRED

Religion invests human existence with meaning by establishing goals and value systems that potentially pertain to all aspects of a persons' life. A goals approach rooted in personal strivings provides a general unifying framework to capture the dynamic aspect of religion in people's lives. Empirical research on the measurement of spirituality and religion through personal strivings is described. The origins of spiritual strivings in motivational needs theory and in an evolutionary psychology rooted in solutions to adaptive problems faced by our ancestors are discusse

Challenges and Potential Solutions to Develop and Fund NASA Flagship Missions

Large, strategic "Flagship" missions have unique characteristics that lead to challenging developmental difficulties for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) had technical and programmatic challenges that led to significant schedule delays and subsequent cost growth. Although NASA has instituted policies that have reduced cost growth for more "typical" NASA science missions, NASA Flagship missions remain a distinct challenge due to their requirement to provide unprecedented science or tackle bold exploration goals, typically while concurrently developing new technologies. The unique challenges presented by Flagship missions make it extremely difficult to fully predict cost and schedule given that the technical and programmatic advances needed to meet performance requirements are unprecedented. This paper addresses why Flagship missions are unique and proposes a new programmatic approach to develop and fund Flagship missions

Happiness of the very wealthy.

ABSTRACT. The subjective well-being of very wealthy persons was compared with that of a control group who lived in the same geographical area. One hundred persons from Forbes list of wealthiest Americans were queried, as well as 100 control persons selected from telephone directories. The 49 wealthy respondents reported average levels of subjective well-being which were higher than the 62 control group respondents and any subgroup of respondents in a national sample. However, there were unhappy wealthy people and the average level of this group was only modestly higher than for other groups. None of the respondents believed that money is a major source of happiness. When the major sources of happiness mentioned by the two groups were coded for Maslow's needs, it was found that the wealthy group more often mentioned seN-esteem and self-actualization and less frequently mentioned physiological and security needs

The Fire INventory from NCAR (FINN): A High Resolution Global Model to Estimate the Emissions from Open Burning

The Fire INventory from NCAR version 1.0 (FINNv1) provides daily, 1 km resolution, global estimates of the trace gas and particle emissions from open burning of biomass, which includes wildfire, agricultural fires, and prescribed burning and does not include biofuel use and trash burning. Emission factors used in the calculations have been updated with recent data, particularly for the non-methane organic compounds (NMOC). The resulting global annual NMOC emission estimates are as much as a factor of 5 greater than some prior estimates. Chemical speciation profiles, necessary to allocate the total NMOC emission estimates to lumped species for use by chemical transport models, are provided for three widely used chemical mechanisms: SAPRC99, GEOS-CHEM, and MOZART-4. Using these profiles, FINNv1 also provides global estimates of key organic compounds, including formaldehyde and methanol. Uncertainties in the emissions estimates arise from several of the method steps. The use of fire hot spots, assumed area burned, land cover maps, biomass consumption estimates, and emission factors all introduce error into the model estimates. The uncertainty in the FINNv1 emission estimates are about a factor of two; but, the global estimates agree reasonably well with other global inventories of biomass burning emissions for CO, CO2, and other species with less variable emission factors. FINNv1 emission estimates have been developed specifically for modeling atmospheric chemistry and air quality in a consistent framework at scales from local to global. The product is unique because of the high temporal and spatial resolution, global coverage, and the number of species estimated. FINNv1 can be used for both hindcast and forecast or near-real time model applications and the results are being critically evaluated with models and observations whenever possible

The Grizzly, September 29, 1978

Social changes open Fall term • Student Deans reorganized • Rebuck stresses individuality • News in brief: Lindback award presented to profs; Student dies suddenly; Miller heads Advance Ursinus; Women\u27s council meets; Fields speaks at VPI; Nine faculty appointed; Music director honored; New Alumni Secretary named • Ursinus middle class • Dr. Snyder, interim Dean • Letters to the editor: Damage policy questioned • Life on these American campuses • I. F. picnic: Let\u27s do it again • Good bands are available: Price shouldn\u27t be primary concern • Keith Moon: The life and death of The Who? • Richter welcomes frosh • USGA reports • Danforth fellowships offered • Portrait of the professor: Dr. Roger P. Staiger • Harriers open season • Football: Tough start • Sports profile: Dave Kennedy • Cross country looks strong • Football: Pre-season peek • Field hockeyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1000/thumbnail.jp

Multidecadal observations of the Antarctic ice sheet from restored analog radar records.

Airborne radar sounding can measure conditions within and beneath polar ice sheets. In Antarctica, most digital radar-sounding data have been collected in the last 2 decades, limiting our ability to understand processes that govern longer-term ice-sheet behavior. Here, we demonstrate how analog radar data collected over 40 y ago in Antarctica can be combined with modern records to quantify multidecadal changes. Specifically, we digitize over 400,000 line kilometers of exploratory Antarctic radar data originally recorded on 35-mm optical film between 1971 and 1979. We leverage the increased geometric and radiometric resolution of our digitization process to show how these data can be used to identify and investigate hydrologic, geologic, and topographic features beneath and within the ice sheet. To highlight their scientific potential, we compare the digitized data with contemporary radar measurements to reveal that the remnant eastern ice shelf of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica had thinned between 10 and 33% between 1978 and 2009. We also release the collection of scanned radargrams in their entirety in a persistent public archive along with updated geolocation data for a subset of the data that reduces the mean positioning error from 5 to 2.5 km. Together, these data represent a unique and renewed extensive, multidecadal historical baseline, critical for observing and modeling ice-sheet change on societally relevant timescales

Inventory of Boreal Fire Emissions for North America in 2004: The Importance of Peat Burning and Pyro-Convective Injection

The summer of 2004 was one of the largest fire seasons on record for Alaska and western Canada. We construct a daily bottom-up fire emission inventory for that season, including consideration of peat burning and high-altitude (buoyant) injection, and evaluate it in a global chemical transport model (the GEOS-Chem CTM) simulation of CO through comparison with MOPITT satellite and ICARTT aircraft observations. The inventory is constructed by combining daily area burned reports and MODIS fire hot spots with estimates of fuel consumption and emission factors based on ecosystem type. We estimate the contribution from peat burning using drainage and peat distribution maps for Alaska and Canada; 17% of the reported 5.1 × 106 ha burned were located in peatlands in 2004. Our total estimate of North American fire emissions during the summer of 2004 is 30 Tg CO, including 11 Tg from peat. Including peat burning in the GEOS-Chem simulation improves agreement with MOPITT observations. The long-range transport of fire plumes observed by MOPITT suggests that the largest fires injected a significant fraction of their emissions in the upper troposphere.Earth and Planetary SciencesEngineering and Applied Science

The Grizzly, February 9, 1979

False Alarm Leads To Student Arrest • Annual Report Reveals Enrollment Decline • SFARC Disbandment Questioned • ID Crackdown • USGA Election Results • Career Counseling & Placement Services • Letters to the Editor: Snack shop; Zeta Chi; Food waste angers waitress; Theft precautions cited • Roving Reporter: Forums requirement • Ursinus News In Brief: Soviet relations; Basses needed • An Inside View of Alice Cooper • Audio Corner: Turntables • Al Stewart: England\u27s Answer to Bob Dylan • Sheer Energy • Sport Book Review • New Semester; New Offerings • Grapplers Take Two • Bruins Split • Indoor Bears Off and Running • Men\u27s Swim Goes Under • Gymnasts Revenge Pennhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1012/thumbnail.jp