Full-flow fluid filter

Etched-disk filter was developed with fluid passageways in configuration which allows relatively unrestricted flow of fluid and has stagnation areas for collection of impurities. In addition, filter housing without center post was developed to improve flow characteristics

Bridging the Digital Divide: Digital Technology and Church

The proliferation of digital technology provides churches with more paths for reaching a broader audience to facilitate and foster spiritual engagement across members and non-members of the church. Digital technology brings a significant change in how we communicate and commune. The digital revolution is opening doors for quick forms of communication, interaction, and response. Digital technology provides semiotic resources through digital platforms, websites, social media, videos, and images which facilitate and foster multimodal communication. These digital technology semiotic resources offer a dimension of technology that is still underutilized in many sectors of life, including the church. The ministry context of this project focuses on the proliferation of digital technology, which provides churches with more paths for reaching a broader audience to facilitate and foster spiritual engagement and communication across members and non-members of the church. The main objective of this project ( The Virtual Sanctuary ) aims to improve digital discipleship and foster a more robust digital community of fellowship and communication in the 21st-century church. This project, The Virtual Sanctuary website, is an interdisciplinary multimedia platform that is solution-based and addresses the opportunity to close the digital technology gap in churches. The key objective of this project is to deliver a multimedia platform that is a discipleship model for using digital interactive content to foster and facilitate spiritual engagement in churches. The Virtual Sanctuary website benefits church leaders with tips, best practices, resources, marketing strategies, and training for best connecting the church through digital technology in several ways but not limited to 1) being all-inclusive and supporting various learning types (visual, auditory and kinesthetic), 2) increasing engagement and providing more variety of digital content for users, 3) housing and incorporating training materials for E-learning content including webinars, podcasts, training videos, asynchronous/synchronous online courses, and digital slide-based courses

The charge asymmetry from Pomeron-Odderon interference in hard diffractive pi+pi- -electroproduction

The interference of Pomeron and Odderon amplitudes gives rise to a charge asymmetry in the diffractive electroproduction of a pi+pi- -pair. We calculate this charge asymmetry in perturbative QCD in the Born approximation and on the leading Q^2-level. The numerical evaluation shows a sizeable asymmetry in an experimentally accessible kinematical region. We find a characteristic m_{pi+pi} -dependence mainly dictated by the relevant Breit-Wigner-amplitudes and the corresponding phase-shifts.Comment: 4 pages, 3 .eps-figures; Talk given by Ph.H. at the QCD-N'02 workshop in Ferrara; Typos corrected, one reference adde

“We almost had the whole block\u27s phone number on the wall”: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Informal Helping in a Predominantly Rural Sample

Community psychologists have noted the limitations of professional models of mental health treatment, demonstrating that people are more likely to use informal familial or community support during adversity. However, relatively little is known about the forms and functions of informal help seeking and provision. Semistructured interviews (N = 170), in which a sample of predominantly rural‐dwelling adolescents and adults described significant life experiences, were coded for instances of receiving help. Codes thematically categorized the type of adversity, role of the helper, and nature of the help received. Most participants (67.64%) reported the presence of at least one informal helper; only 8.82% of participants discussed receiving professional help. Chi‐square analyses suggested that the nature of the help received varied by the types of helper and adversity being experienced and that different helpers were more likely to aid with particular adversities. The presence of a nonfamilial, nonprofessional helper was associated with higher posttraumatic growth, generativity, and perceived social support

Generalized Parton Distributions in Full Lattice QCD

We present recent results on generalized parton distributions from dynamical lattice QCD calculations. Our set of twelve different combinations of couplings and quark masses allows for a preliminary study of the pion mass dependence of the transverse nucleon structure.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures; Talk presented by Ph.H. at Light-Cone 2004, Amsterdam, 16 - 20 Augus

Generalized parton distributions of the pion in chiral quark models and their QCD evolution

We evaluate Generalized Parton Distributions of the pion in two chiral quark models: the Spectral Quark Model and the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model with a Pauli-Villars regularization. We proceed by the evaluation of double distributions through the use of a manifestly covariant calculation based on the alpha representation of propagators. As a result polynomiality is incorporated automatically and calculations become simple. In addition, positivity and normalization constraints, sum rules and soft pion theorems are fulfilled. We obtain explicit formulas, holding at the low-energy quark-model scale. The expressions exhibit no factorization in the t-dependence. The QCD evolution of those parton distributions is carried out to experimentally or lattice accessible scales. We argue for the need of evolution by comparing the Parton Distribution Function and the Parton Distribution Amplitude of the pion to the available experimental and lattice data, and confirm that the quark-model scale is low, about 320 MeV.Comment: 25 pages, 15 figures, added discussion of the end-point behavio