Leveraging Information Technology Within a Roman Catholic Diocese

Parishes within the Roman Catholic Church face many of the same concerns as any other non-profit organization. Dependencies on donations and volunteer help restrict the parish to leverage technology to gain efficiencies. Parishes have an additional concern. Although grouped under a Diocese, this hierarchical structure is not a standard, top-down directive organization. A Roman Catholic Diocese is a subsidiarity . Decisions are made at the lowest level, specifically; decisions on how to operate and administer the parish are given to the pastor or parish director of that parish. Acknowledging that leveraging technology is a way to gain efficiencies, the ability to leverage it in the current construct of the Catholic Church is difficult. Parish staff usually lacks the knowledge or time, or the parish itself lacks the financial resources to leverage new technologies. Assistance from the Diocese Information Technology department as well as from outside organizations like the Diocesan Information System Conference is minimal. Therefore, there must be a change to enable parishes to successfully leverage technology. In looking at other Dioceses within the United States, there are instances where the Diocese has stepped up and led efforts to standardize and/or consolidate services in order to gain efficiencies at both the Diocesan level and the parish level. It takes teamwork and salesmanship to implement changes. However, both the Diocese and the parishes can benefit

Equivalence of glass transition and colloidal glass transition in the hard-sphere limit

We show that the slowing of the dynamics in simulations of several model glass-forming liquids is equivalent to the hard-sphere glass transition in the low-pressure limit. In this limit, we find universal behavior of the relaxation time by collapsing molecular-dynamics data for all systems studied onto a single curve as a function of $T/p$, the ratio of the temperature to the pressure. At higher pressures, there are deviations from this universal behavior that depend on the inter-particle potential, implying that additional physical processes must enter into the dynamics of glass-formation.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

Small-Energy Rotational Transitions in Slow-Neutron Scattering by Water

A model which treats one rotational degree of freedom as hindered and the other as free and all translational degrees of freedom as hindered has been employed to calculate neutron differential scattering cross section of water in the region of small-energy transfers. The distribution is found to be sensitive to the presence of free-rotation transitions. It is suggested that such transitions present additional complexities in the study of molecular center-of-mass motions from high-resolution scattering data.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/86122/1/PhysRev.131.2547-RKO.pd

Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development

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