Beginning the Mission Work in Alaska by the Presbyterian Church

"The Presbyterian Church is indebted to the late Rev. A. L. Lindsley, D. D., pastor of the First Prebyterian Church, Portland, Oregon, for eighteen years, for opening mission work in Alaska.

Non-Traditional Church Involvement as a Life-Course Turning Point: Qualitative Interviews with Religious Offenders

This research project conducted and then analyzed qualitative interviews from former and current addicts and criminal offenders who are voluntarily participating in the Christian faith at the same non-traditional, Protestant church. An abridged case study of this church is also provided for background and context. Life-course theory and grounded theory are utilized. Both the offenders and this church were chosen in an attempt to better understand how the offenders’ involvement at this house of worship, along with their faith in general, have impacted them. Obtaining the perspectives of the offender is essential for three reasons. First, qualitative research conducted in the fields of criminal justice and criminology is not as abundant or wide ranging in specific subject matter compared to quantitative studies. Second, the qualitative research knowledge as to what addicts and offenders actually perceive as impacting their criminal trajectories is limited. Most research on the impact of religiosity on crime and deviance fails to account for the viewpoints of offenders through qualitative research. Third, in order for faith-based organizations to discover if they are helping offenders become more law-abiding, particular focused must be made on the FBOs that appear to be attracting offenders and addicts organically. The concept of religiosity pertains to how devout a person or group may be, both in rate and behavior, for whichever particular faith in a higher entity that they worship. Religiosity is comprised of multiple aspects of worshiping a higher-being, including but not limited to physical and spiritual adherence to the central tenets of a particular religion. Additionally, and by extension, increasing rates of religious involvement and commitment have been touted as a mechanism to aid people in desisting from crime and deviance, as well as helping to prevent the engagement into criminal activity or substance abuse. The themes identified in this project support the inverse relationship between criminal offending and religiosity, and the positive relationship between religiosity and prosocial behavior like volunteerism. Offenders want a non-judgmental church home that delivers sermons which relate Biblical scripture to modern-day societal struggles. Religiosity and salvation were identified as turning points within Life-Course Theory

Spectroscopy in theory and practice

Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University, 1938. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE AND AGRIBUSINESS

Agribusiness,

Did racial representation change at our outpatient sports medicine clinic during the COVID-19 Pandemic?

Introduction/Objective • COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) • Increased infection, hospitalization, and death rates1,2 • Black Americans unequal access to outpatient care vs. White Americans 3 • Inequity worsened during the COVID-19 Pandemic 4 • Maine population: 94.25% “White;” 1.42% “Black” 5 • July 2020 COVID cases: 66.8% “White;” 22% “Black” 6 • Did this disparity reflect in in our sports medicine clinic?https://knowledgeconnection.mainehealth.org/lambrew-retreat-2021/1006/thumbnail.jp

Assessing risks of invasion through gamete performance: farm Atlantic salmon sperm and eggs show equivalence in function, fertility, compatibility and competitiveness to wild Atlantic salmon

Adaptations at the gamete level (a) evolve quickly, (b) appear sensitive to inbreeding and outbreeding and (c) have important influences on potential to reproduce. We apply this understanding to problems posed by escaped farm salmon and measure their potential to reproduce in the wild. Farm Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) are a threat to biodiversity, because they escape in large numbers and can introgress, dilute or disrupt locally adapted wild gene pools. Experiments at the whole fish level have found farm reproductive potential to be significant, but inferior compared to wild adults, especially for males. Here, we assess reproductive performance at the gamete level through detailed in vitro comparisons of the form, function, fertility, compatibility and competitiveness of farm versus wild Atlantic salmon sperm and eggs, in conditions mimicking the natural gametic microenvironment, using fish raised under similar environmental conditions. Despite selective domestication and reduced genetic diversity, we find functional equivalence in all farm fish gamete traits compared with their wild ancestral strain. Our results identify a clear threat of farm salmon reproduction with wild fish and therefore encourage further consideration of using triploid farm strains with optimized traits for aquaculture and fish welfare, as triploid fish remain reproductively sterile following escape

An Experimental Study of Auctions Versus Grandfathering to Assign Pollution Permits

We experimentally study auctions versus grandfathering in the initial assignment of pollution permits that can be traded in a secondary spot market. Low and high emitters compete for permits in the auction, while permits are assigned for free under grandfathering. In theory, trading in the spot market should erase inefficiencies due to initial mis-allocations. In the experiment, high emitters exercise market power in the spot market and permit holdings under grandfathering remain skewed towards high emitters. Furthermore, the opportunity costs of “free” permits are fully “passed through.” In the auction, the majority of permits are won by low emitters, reducing the need for spot-market trading. Auctions generate higher consumer surplus and slightly lower product prices in the laboratory arkets. Moreover, auctions eliminate the large “windfall profits” that are observed in the treatment with free, grandfathered permit allocations.market-based regulation, emissions trading, allocation, auctions, grandfathering, climate policy, windfall profits

An Experimental Analysis of Auctioning Emissions Allowances under a Loose Cap

The direct sale of emissions allowances by auction is an emerging characteristic of cap-and-trade programs. This study is motivated by the observation that all of the major implementations of cap-and-trade regulations for the control of air pollution have started with a generous allocation of allowances relative to recent emissions history, a situation we refer to as a “loose cap.” Typically more stringent reductions are achieved in subsequent years of a program. We use an experimental setting to investigate the effects of a loose cap environment on a variety of auction types. We find all auction formats studied are efficient in allocating emissions allowances, but auction revenues tend to be lower relative to competitive benchmarks when the cap is loose. Regardless of whether the cap is tight or loose, the different auction formats tend to yield comparable revenues toward the end of a series of auctions. However, aggressive bidding behavior in initial discriminatory auctions yields higher revenues than in other auction formats, a difference that disappears as bidders learn to adjust their bids closer to the cutoff that separates winning and losing bids.auction, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, allowance trading, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, RGGI, cap and trade

Bostonia. Volume 17

Founded in 1900, Bostonia magazine is Boston University's main alumni publication, which covers alumni and student life, as well as university activities, events, and programs

Back Again to Dear Old Ireland and You

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