The Temple Controversy in Mark

Then they came to Jerusalem. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who were selling and those who were buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves; and he would not allow anyone to carry anything through the temple. He was teaching and saying, “Is it not written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.” And when the chief priests and the scribes heard it, they kept looking for a way to kill him; forthey were afraid of him, because the whole crowd was spellbound by his teaching. (Mk. 11:15–18

Diseño urbano del área central del Municipio de Tisma, Departamento de Masaya

El área central del municipio de Tisma, Masaya, se considera como elemento importante para la ejecución de acciones urbanísticas necesarias para la mejor integración de las zonas, de manera que permita una mejor calidad de vida social y urbana. La presente investigación pretende generar un cambio a la imagen del área central del municipio de Tisma, con el espacio público como escenario principal, el cual incluye la totalidad de los espacios usados libremente en el día a día por el público en general, como las calles, plazas, parques y la infraestructura pública, por lo tanto, se pretende responder a las necesidades primarias de circulación recreación, encuentro y disfrute, conservando la cultura propia del lugar, con todos los conocimientos científicos y técnicos. Para el planteamiento de la propuesta de diseño urbano, se procedió a conocer la situación actual de los servicios públicos, viviendas y condiciones de vida en las que habitan las comunidades de este respectivo sector, también se identificó la necesidad de esta propuesta, que al ser aplicado y ejecutado, generará beneficios para la población del área central del municipio de Tisma, permitiendo optimizar la estructura urbana, haciendo uso de las normativas necesarias para su debida ordenación. De esta manera, se hace sugerencia a ello, para su futura aplicación, permitiendo servir de patrón para otras zonas. Poner en práctica la presente investigación para la mejora del espacio público existente y generar nuevas áreas las cuales permitan el desenvolvimiento de actividades sociales y culturales, al igual que estimular a la comunidad del sector a mantener un orden especifico en cuanto a los lineamientos urbanos, estipulados por las normativas de zonificación, proponer nuevos planes de desarrollo urbano en otros sectores, que presenten falta de servicios o estados deteriorados

GRB941017: A Case Study of Neutrino Production in Gamma Ray Bursts

GRB941017, a gamma-ray burst of exceptional fluence, has recently been shown to have a high-energy component which is not consistent with the standard fireball phenomenology. If this component is the result of photomeson interactions in the burst fireball, it provides new and compelling support for substantial high-energy neutrino fluxes from this and similar sources. In this letter, we consider what impact this new information has on the neutrino spectra of gamma-ray bursts and discuss how this new evidence impacts the prospects for detection of such events in next generation neutrino telescopes

The temple controversy in the four gospels

Thesis advisor: Daniel J. HarringtonThesis advisor: Thomas D. StegmanThesis (STL) — Boston College, 2013.Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry.Discipline: Sacred Theology

TheUnfolding of Your Words (PS 119: 130): The Pedagogy of the Psalms

Thesis advisor: Jane E. ReganHow does one teach Scripture in a way that leads to transformation? To answer that question, this study limits the matter to the Psalter and asks how the Psalms teach and transform in order to capitalize on the dynamics inherent in them. The Psalms here are treated not merely as documents to be studied but as texts to be enfleshed in practice. Utilizing the constructivist framework of transformative learning pioneered by Jack Mezirow, “thickening” that with Robert Kegan’s constructivist-developmentalist subject-object theory, and letting those interface with Walter Brueggemann’s categorization of the Psalter into Psalms of orientation, disorientation, and new orientation, I present the Psalms as holding environments which support and challenge us through transformations throughout our lives. After this, I focus on the extra-rational facets of embodiment, emotions, images, and encounter in the Psalms which enable them to accompany us as we widen our perspectives and paradigms. If we follow the dynamics of the Psalms, what theology, anthropology, and ethics arise? I provide glimpses of answers that can be prophetic in our postmodern culture, and I then suggest ways of practicing the Psalms which take advantage of their transformative elements. To conclude, I return to the broader question with which I began and propose a way of teaching Scripture that is inspired by the importance of the body, emotions, images, and encounter – aspects which are also active in Ignatian contemplation

Real-World Objects Are Not Represented as Bound Units: Independent Forgetting of Different Object Details from Visual Memory

Are real-world objects represented as bound units? Although a great deal of research has examined binding between the feature dimensions of simple shapes, little work has examined whether the featural properties of real-world objects are stored in a single unitary object representation. In a first experiment, we found that information about an object's color is forgotten more rapidly than the information about an object's state (e.g., open, closed), suggesting that observers do not forget objects as entirely bound units. In a second and third experiment, we examined whether state and exemplar information are forgotten separately or together. If these properties are forgotten separately, the probability of getting one feature correct should be independent of whether the other feature was correct. We found that after a short delay, observers frequently remember both state and exemplar information about the same objects, but after a longer delay, memory for the two properties becomes independent. This indicates that information about object state and exemplar are forgotten separately over time. We thus conclude that real-world objects are not represented in a single unitary representation in visual memory.Psycholog

Modeling Visual Working Memory with the MemToolbox

The MemToolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for modeling visual working memory. In support of its goal to provide a full suite of data analysis tools, the toolbox includes implementations of popular models of visual working memory, real and simulated data sets, Bayesian and maximum likelihood estimation procedures for fitting models to data, visualizations of data and fit, validation routines, model comparison metrics, and experiment scripts. The MemToolbox is released under the permissive BSD license and is available at http://memtoolbox.org.Psycholog

Visual Long-Term Memory Has the Same Limit on Fidelity as Visual Working Memory

Visual long-term memory can store thousands of objects with surprising visual detail, but just how detailed are these representations, and how can one quantify this fidelity? Using the property of color as a case study, we estimated the precision of visual information in long-term memory, and compared this with the precision of the same information in working memory. Observers were shown real-world objects in random colors and were asked to recall the colors after a delay. We quantified two parameters of performance: the variability of internal representations of color (fidelity) and the probability of forgetting an object’s color altogether. Surprisingly, the fidelity of color information in long-term memory was comparable to the asymptotic precision of working memory. These results suggest that long-term memory and working memory may be constrained by a common limit, such as a bound on the fidelity required to retrieve a memory representation.Psycholog