Quarterly literature review of the remote sensing of natural resources

The Technology Application Center reviewed abstracted literature sources, and selected document data and data gathering techniques which were performed or obtained remotely from space, aircraft or groundbased stations. All of the documentation was related to remote sensing sensors or the remote sensing of the natural resources. Sensors were primarily those operating within the 10 to the minus 8 power to 1 meter wavelength band. Included are NASA Tech Briefs, ARAC Industrial Applications Reports, U.S. Navy Technical Reports, U.S. Patent reports, and other technical articles and reports

Literature review of the remote sensing of natural resources

Abstracts of 596 documents related to remote sensors or the remote sensing of natural resources by satellite, aircraft, or ground-based stations are presented. Topics covered include general theory, geology and hydrology, agriculture and forestry, marine sciences, urban land use, and instrumentation. Recent documents not yet cited in any of the seven information sources used for the compilation are summarized. An author/key word index is provided

Doctrine of atonement in Coleridge and Maurice

THE PURPOSE of this Thesis is to advocate a return-to a preAnsclinic conception of Atonement theory, and to make an appeal for renewed attention to the Patristic idea of a "Ransom". The Death of Christ is a Ransom - a Price - which God has to pay for the redemption of men.I do not profess to put forward any new discovery in this fully excavated - even over excavated - field of Atonement controversy, every inch of which has been examined and re-examined with a minuteness which itself speaks for the importance of the subject and its vital concern to the human heart; but it is the fact that with Anselm there cane a radical change of emphasis which has more or less coloured tho treatment of the doctrine ever since, and has - as I have been forced to think - introduced a certain obsession or prejudice, a certain biassed point of view that has been too readily accepted in dealing with the Atonement. Anseln gave the death blow to the theory of a "Ransom to the Devil" which prevailed before his tine. That theory has never really raised its head again. It has in most books on the Atonement boon exhumed for a nomont only to be battered with fresh blows and flung into the grave again with renewed contumely. "That hideous theory", Rashdall calls it,- "the coarse mythology of the Ransom theory". And ho says, "Never in the whole history of Christian thought has a doct¬ rine been so decidedly destroyed by criticism and more univorsally abandoned".(Ideas and Ideals.158)I venture to think it is just this universal abandonment of it, this utter refusal to look at what it means and to nako use of (ii) the principle underlying it that has introduced into the doctrine and retained in the doctrine a sense of obscurity and mystery which need not bo there. As an act of God, and an outcone of God'* nature and character, the Atonement is naturally mysterious, hike all the greatest things it ultimately - exit in mysterium. • hut apart from the welcome grandeur of this inevitable and aweinspiring mystery, one fools - in reading the history of the doctrine up to the prosent timo, in tracing the efforts of tho greatest writers to find an explanation of the fact - one cannot resist the impression that there is a difficulty which ought, to yield, there is a sense of baffled effort, to some extent there i3 the fooling of a koy lost, a missing dlaitent that, were it found, would illumine a dark region.I may indicate the Scope of the Thesis as follows I shall first of all deal with the two writers, Coleridge and Maurice, in turn, indicating in each case the various points of their actual teaching 011 the Atonement. I shall then endeavour to show the affinity of their leading principles with that theory to which I wish to call fresh attention, viz,- the Patristic theory of Ransom. This theory itself will then require some description,-and I shall set it forth, briefly, as it appears in the pages of Gregory of hyssa - where we have it in its purest form. Kext will follow - an account of Anselm's refutation of the theory - my own counter criticism of Anselm and of the whole "Satisfaction" idea in Atonement doctrine - criticism of the purely subjective theory of "Moral Influence", showing the defects of that theory as an explanation of the Atonement, and pointing out how essentially the teaching of Coleridge and Maurice is to be distinguished from it. This will be followed, finally, by a constructive summary of the doctrine

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Quasi-periodic pulsations in the gamma-ray emission of a solar flare

Quasi-periodic pulsations (QPPs) of gamma-ray emission with a period of about 40 s are found in a single loop X-class solar flare on 2005 January 1 at photon energies up to 2-6 MeV with the SOlar Neutrons and Gamma-rays (SONG) experiment aboard the CORONAS-F mission. The oscillations are also found to be present in the microwave emission detected with the Nobeyama Radioheliograph, and in the hard X-ray and low energy gamma-ray channels of RHESSI. Periodogram and correlation analysis shows that the 40 s QPPs of microwave, hard X-ray, and gamma-ray emission are almost synchronous in all observation bands. Analysis of the spatial structure of hard X-ray and low energy (80-225 keV) gamma-ray QPP with RHESSI reveals synchronous while asymmetric QPP at both footpoints of the flaring loop. The difference between the averaged hard X-ray fluxes coming from the two footpoint sources is found to oscillate with a period of about 13 s for five cycles in the highest emission stage of the flare. The proposed mechanism generating the 40 s QPP is a triggering of magnetic reconnection by a kink oscillation in a nearby loop. The 13 s periodicity could be produced by the second harmonics of the sausage mode of the flaring loop

Corporate reputation and organisational performance: an Australian study

PURPOSE - To test for a relationship between corporate reputation and financial performance, using Australian data. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH - Econometric modelling. FINDINGS - No causal relationship between corporate reputation and financial performance (in either direction) was found. This is contrary to some findings in other countries. Reputation may not have a significant impact on performance in Australia. There may be weaknesses in the existing measure of reputation, or the finding may be due to unobserved variability in the intervening variable of managerial exploitation of the reputation. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS - The findings may be specific to Australia. In Australia, the linkage between reputation and performance may be too small to be significant in the available sample. It is argued that in corporate practice the link between reputation and performance proceeds via strategy and competitive advantage. Having a reputation resource is not enough; it needs to be managed well and exploited if it is to yield financial results. More work is needed to establish reliable measures of reputation. ORIGINALITY/VALUE - It is the first known study to investigate the link on Australian data. The discussion of the findings raises issues for the measurement and management of reputation