61 research outputs found
A Strategy for Developing Team-Based Outreach Ministry Through Sabbath School Action Units
The goal of this doctoral project is to move the church from an inward to an outward focus by utilizing ministry teams called Sabbath School Action Units as the primary vehicles for local outreach; these teams will do ministry under the leadership of the lay leaders who are coached by pastoral staff members. The purpose of this study is to involve all church members in God‘s mission, using their spiritual gifts through the team ministry.
This doctoral project consists of three parts. The first part will examine the ministry context, which includes both the needs of the community and the capacity of the church to meet the needs. The felt needs of the people in the community are various, including cultural issues like language barriers and a generation gap; family issues such as divorce and parenting; physical and mental health problems such as loneliness and addiction, financial instability; and issues regarding legal status. The second part seeks to establish the biblical and theological foundation of “team ministry,” which is one of the most effective ways of ministry for the church. The third part deals with the specific strategies for implementation of the team ministry. The discussion will include how to clarify the ministry vision, how to select and train team leaders, how to recruit team members, and how to conduct outreach ministry.
Because the transition from an inward to an outward focused church takes considerable time, patience and persistence are needed for both leaders and team members. A pilot project will be operated before extending the team ministry to the whole congregation. For more effective transition, ministry team-centered church governance will be suggested instead of committee-based church governance.
Theological Mentor: Kurt Fredrickson, Ph
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Impurities, Quantum Interference and Quantum Phase Transitions in s-wave superconductors
We study the effects of quantum interference in impurity structures
consisting of two or three magnetic impurities that are located on the surface
of an s-wave superconductor. By using a self-consistent Bogoliubov-de Gennes
formalism, we show that quantum interference leads to characteristic signatures
not only in the local density of states (LDOS), but also in the spatial form of
the superconducting order parameter. We demonstrate that the signatures of
quantum interference in the LDOS are qualitatively, and to a large extent
quantitatively unaffected by the suppression of the superconducting order
parameter near impurities, which illustrates the robustness of quantum
interference phenomena. Moreover, we show that by changing the interimpurity
distance, or the impurities' scattering strength, the s-wave superconductor can
be tuned through a series of first order quantum phase transitions in which the
spin polarization of its ground state changes. In contrast to the single
impurity case, this transition is not necessarily accompanied by a -phase
shift of the order parameter, and can in certain cases even lead to its
enhancement. Our results demonstrate that the superconductor's LDOS, its spin
state, and the spatial form of the superconducting order parameter are
determined by a subtle interplay between the relative positions of the
impurities and their scattering strength
Monovalent Ion Condensation at the Electrified Liquid/Liquid Interface
X-ray reflectivity studies demonstrate the condensation of a monovalent ion
at the electrified interface between electrolyte solutions of water and
1,2-dichloroethane. Predictions of the ion distributions by standard
Poisson-Boltzmann (Gouy-Chapman) theory are inconsistent with these data at
higher applied interfacial electric potentials. Calculations from a
Poisson-Boltzmann equation that incorporates a non-monotonic ion-specific
potential of mean force are in good agreement with the data.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Oscillatory spin-orbit torque switching induced by field-like torques
Deterministic magnetization switching using spin-orbit torque (SOT) has
recently emerged as an efficient means to electrically control the magnetic
state of ultrathin magnets. The SOT switching still lacks in oscillatory
switching characteristics over time, therefore, it is limited to bipolar
operation where a change in polarity of the applied current or field is
required for bistable switching. The coherent rotation based oscillatory
switching schemes cannot be applied to SOT because the SOT switching occurs
through expansion of magnetic domains. Here, we experimentally achieve
oscillatory switching in incoherent SOT process by controlling domain wall
dynamics. We find that a large field-like component can dynamically influence
the domain wall chirality which determines the direction of SOT switching.
Consequently, under nanosecond current pulses, the magnetization switches
alternatively between the two stable states. By utilizing this oscillatory
switching behavior we demonstrate a unipolar deterministic SOT switching scheme
by controlling the current pulse duration
MATE: Masked Autoencoders are Online 3D Test-Time Learners
We propose MATE, the first Test-Time-Training (TTT) method designed for 3D
data. It makes deep networks trained in point cloud classification robust to
distribution shifts occurring in test data, which could not be anticipated
during training. Like existing TTT methods, which focused on classifying 2D
images in the presence of distribution shifts at test-time, MATE also leverages
test data for adaptation. Its test-time objective is that of a Masked
Autoencoder: Each test point cloud has a large portion of its points removed
before it is fed to the network, tasked with reconstructing the full point
cloud. Once the network is updated, it is used to classify the point cloud. We
test MATE on several 3D object classification datasets and show that it
significantly improves robustness of deep networks to several types of
corruptions commonly occurring in 3D point clouds. Further, we show that MATE
is very efficient in terms of the fraction of points it needs for the
adaptation. It can effectively adapt given as few as 5% of tokens of each test
sample, which reduces its memory footprint and makes it lightweight. We also
highlight that MATE achieves competitive performance by adapting sparingly on
the test data, which further reduces its computational overhead, making it
ideal for real-time applications.Comment: Minor fix in citation
YAF2 promotes TP53-mediated genotoxic stress response via stabilization of PDCD5
AbstractProgrammed cell death 5 (PDCD5) plays a crucial role in TP53-mediated apoptosis, but the regulatory mechanism of PDCD5 itself during apoptosis remains obscure. We identified YY1-associated factor 2 (YAF2) as a novel PDCD5-interacting protein in a yeast two-hybrid screen for PDCD5-interacting proteins. We found that YY1-associated factor 2 (YAF2) binds to and increases PDCD5 stability by inhibiting the ubiquitin-dependent proteosomal degradation pathway. However, knocking-down of YAF2 diminishes the levels of PDCD5 protein but not the levels of PDCD5 mRNA. Upon genotoxic stress response, YAF2 promotes TP53 activation via association with PDCD5. Strikingly, YAF2 failed to promote TP53 activation in the deletion of PDCD5, whereas restoration of wild-type PDCD5WT efficiently reversed the ineffectiveness of YAF2 on TP53 activation. Conversely, PDCD5 efficiently overcame the knockdown effect of YAF2 on ET-induced TP53 activation. Finally, impaired apoptosis upon PDCD5 ablation was substantially rescued by restoration of PDCD5WT but not YAF2-interacting defective PDCD5E4D nor TP53-interacting defective PDCD5E16D mutant. Our findings uncovered an apoptotic signaling cascade linking YAF2, PDCD5, and TP53 during genotoxic stress responses
Suppressive effects of Schizandra chinensis Baillon water extract on allergy-related cytokine generation and degranulation in IgE-antigen complex-stimulated RBL-2H3 cells
Schizandra chinensis Baillon is a traditional folk medicine plant that is used to treat and prevent several inflammatory diseases and cancer in Korea, but the underlying mechanisms involved in its anti-allergic activity are not fully understood. This study was designed to investigate mechanisms of anti-allergic activity of a Schizandra chinensis Baillon water extract (SCWE) in immunoglobulin E (IgE)-antigen complex-stimulated RBL2H3 cells and to assess whether gastric and intestinal digestion affects the anti-allergic properties of SCWE. Oxidative stress is an important consequence of the allergic inflammatory response. The antioxidant activities of SCWE increased in a concentration-dependent manner. RBL-2H3 cells were sensitized with monoclonal anti-dinitrophenol (DNP) specific IgE, treated with SCWE, and challenged with the antigen DNP-human serum albumin. SCWE inhibited β-hexosaminidase release and expression of interleukin (IL)-4, IL-13, and tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) mRNA and protein in IgE-antigen complex-stimulated RBL2H3 cells. We found that digested SCWE fully maintained its antioxidant activity and anti-allergic activity against the IgE-antigen complex-induced activation of RBL-2H3 cells. SCWE may be useful for preventing allergic diseases, such as asthma. Thus, SCWE could be used as a natural functional ingredient for allergic diseases in the food and/or pharmaceutical industries
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