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Rationale and Model for Advisories in the Middle School
This project is intended to show the need, practical application, and appropriateness to the curriculum of an advisory program for the middle school child which includes counselling, value clarification, work with communication skills, and social and moral development. Learning activities will be included to meet the defined objectives and an evaluation of strengths and problems at the administrative level will be considered
Correspondence - 1966 - John R. Woodard, Jr.
A correspondence from John R. Woodard Jr. to Roland Leath about James M. McManaway.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/first-baptist-shelby-james-mcmanaway/1000/thumbnail.jp
The Third Way: A Study of Economic Justice in the Writings of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II).
Pope John Paul II, born Karol Wojtyla, has written extensively about the human person and how that person acts in the world. Beginning with Wojtyla\u27s doctoral dissertation presented at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Catholic mystic St. John of the Cross and continuing through the most recent best seller, Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Christian personalism has pervaded Wojtyla\u27s writings, encyclicals, and public utterances. Wojtyla\u27s perspective on economic justice, as shaped by his Christian personalism, is the subject of this dissertation. A systematic investigation of Wojtyla\u27s theory of economic justice reveals a third way of economic life. Grounded in a particular interpretation of human nature influenced, as it is, by both the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church and the twentieth century phenomenologist Max Scheler, Wojtyla moves towards proclaiming an economic reality based upon love (agape). Love will then form the basis for an ethical evaluation of economic behavior. In the end, Wojtyla wishes to create a certain shared solidarity based upon a common human condition. In his discussion of economic justice he believes it is also possible to speak both of the universal transcendent reality that does not change and the relative demands of justice in the world
Amplitude modulation of solar p-modes by surface magnetic fields
Context.It is known from Doppler velocity measurements that the amplitudes of solar p-modes are modulated by strong photospheric magnetic field.
Aims.The aim of this paper is to investigate amplitude modulation by model surface magnetic fields.
Methods.Linearised magnetohydrodynamics equations, in the absence of gravity, are used to derive the inhomogeneous wave equation which is then solved using the Born Approximation.
Results.The amount of modulation depends on the plasma beta, the distance from the magnetic region and the wavenumber. It is also found that the direction of observation could also have an effect on the amount of modulation. Finally, the applicability of the findings to the observational data suggests that the modulation depends on the properties of the magnetic field region and measuring it is an un-contaminating probe for the magnetic field
Meridional Circulation and Global Solar Oscillations
We investigate the influence of large-scale meridional circulation on solar
p-modes by quasi-degenerate perturbation theory, as proposed by
\cite{lavely92}. As an input flow we use various models of stationary
meridional circulation obeying the continuity equation. This flow perturbs the
eigenmodes of an equilibrium model of the Sun. We derive the signatures of the
meridional circulation in the frequency multiplets of solar p-modes. In most
cases the meridional circulation leads to negative average frequency shifts of
the multiplets. Further possible observable effects are briefly discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figures, submittted to Solar Physics Topical Issue
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Helioseismology of Sunspots: A Case Study of NOAA Region 9787
Various methods of helioseismology are used to study the subsurface
properties of the sunspot in NOAA Active Region 9787. This sunspot was chosen
because it is axisymmetric, shows little evolution during 20-28 January 2002,
and was observed continuously by the MDI/SOHO instrument. (...) Wave travel
times and mode frequencies are affected by the sunspot. In most cases, wave
packets that propagate through the sunspot have reduced travel times. At short
travel distances, however, the sign of the travel-time shifts appears to depend
sensitively on how the data are processed and, in particular, on filtering in
frequency-wavenumber space. We carry out two linear inversions for wave speed:
one using travel-times and phase-speed filters and the other one using mode
frequencies from ring analysis. These two inversions give subsurface wave-speed
profiles with opposite signs and different amplitudes. (...) From this study of
AR9787, we conclude that we are currently unable to provide a unified
description of the subsurface structure and dynamics of the sunspot.Comment: 28 pages, 18 figure
Subsurface Supergranular Vertical Flows as Measured Using Large Distance Separations in Time-Distance Helioseismology
As large--distance rays (say, 10\,-\,) approach the solar surface
approximately vertically, travel times measured from surface pairs for these
large separations are mostly sensitive to vertical flows, at least for shallow
flows within a few Mm of the solar surface. All previous analyses of
supergranulation have used smaller separations and have been hampered by the
difficulty of separating the horizontal and vertical flow components. We find
that the large separation travel times associated with supergranulation cannot
be studied using the standard phase-speed filters of time-distance
helioseismology. These filters, whose use is based upon a refractive model of
the perturbations, reduce the resultant travel time signal by at least an order
of magnitude at some distances. More effective filters are derived. Modeling
suggests that the center--annulus travel time difference
in the separation range \,-\, is insensitive to the
horizontally diverging flow from the centers of the supergranules and should
lead to a constant signal from the vertical flow. Our measurement of this
quantity, 5.1 \pm 0.1\secs, is constant over the distance range. This
magnitude of signal cannot be caused by the level of upflow at cell centers
seen at the photosphere of 10\ms extended in depth. It requires the vertical
flow to increase with depth. A simple Gaussian model of the increase with depth
implies a peak upward flow of 240\ms at a depth of 2.3\Mm and a peak
horizontal flow of 700\ms at a depth of 1.6\Mm.Comment: Solar Physics; 15 pages, 6 figure
A New Class of Four-Dimensional N=1 Supergravity with Non-minimal Derivative Couplings
In the N=1 four-dimensional new-minimal supergravity framework, we
supersymmetrise the coupling of the scalar kinetic term to the Einstein tensor.
This coupling, although introduces a non-minimal derivative interaction of
curvature to matter, it does not introduce harmful higher-derivatives. For this
construction, we employ off-shell chiral and real linear multiplets. Physical
scalars are accommodated in the chiral multiplet whereas curvature resides in a
linear one.Comment: 18 pages, version published at JHE
Triad representation of the Chern-Simons state in quantum gravity
We investigate a triad representation of the Chern-Simons state of quantum
gravity with a non-vanishing cosmological constant. It is shown that the
Chern-Simons state, which is a well-known exact wavefunctional within the
Ashtekar theory, can be transformed to the real triad representation by means
of a suitably generalized Fourier transformation, yielding a complex integral
representation for the corresponding state in the triad variables. It is found
that topologically inequivalent choices for the complex integration contour
give rise to linearly independent wavefunctionals in the triad representation,
which all arise from the one Chern-Simons state in the Ashtekar variables. For
a suitable choice of the normalization factor, these states turn out to be
gauge-invariant under arbitrary, even topologically non-trivial
gauge-transformations. Explicit analytical expressions for the wavefunctionals
in the triad representation can be obtained in several interesting asymptotic
parameter regimes, and the associated semiclassical 4-geometries are discussed.
In restriction to Bianchi-type homogeneous 3-metrics, we compare our results
with earlier discussions of homogeneous cosmological models. Moreover, we
define an inner product on the Hilbert space of quantum gravity, and choose a
natural gauge-condition fixing the time-gauge. With respect to this particular
inner product, the Chern-Simons state of quantum gravity turns out to be a
non-normalizable wavefunctional.Comment: Latex, 30 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys. Rev.
Recent Developments in Helioseismic Analysis Methods and Solar Data Assimilation
MR and AS have received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 307117
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