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British East India Company Chaplains and their Encounters with Hindus and Muslims in India, 1785-1813
This thesis investigates the writings and activities of several chaplains who were employed for the British East India Company (EIC) between 1785 and 1813 by focusing on their encounters with Hindus and Muslims in India. The four chaplains chosen for my research (Revs. David Brown, William Tennant, Claudius Buchanan, and Henry Martyn) sought to spread Protestant Christianity throughout British India. However, instead of evangelizing to Hindus and Muslims, these chaplains more often engaged in alternative forms of interreligious encounter that allowed them to closely interact with and learn about India’s religious culture without going against the EIC’s policy which prohibited missionary activity in its territory prior to its 1813 Charter Renewal.
Building on the research of other historians of Christianity and interreligious relations in British India, as well as focused studies of the chaplains, this thesis analyzes primary documents written by these chaplains to understand their thoughts on Christian missions, evangelism, and their encounters with Hindus and Muslims in India. I have categorized their encounters into three of the most prominent kinds that appear in their writings, and also form the focus of this thesis’ body chapters: Anglo-Indian schooling, proto-ethnographic writing about Hinduism, and Bible translation into Indian languages.
From these findings, I argue that while the chaplains had little success in their own time converting non-Christian Indian people, their writings still shed helpful light on interreligious relations in British India and British Protestant perceptions of India’s religious culture around the early nineteenth century. These findings remain significant for historians today when critically examining the history of Christianity and interreligious relations more broadly by showing how even though the chaplains’ imperial context shaped and constrained their encounters, it did not ultimately determine the more complex, mutual or occasionally collaborative nature of their interactions with Hindu and Muslim people in British India
Developing and implementing Assertive Community Treatment:Towards the Evidence-Based Best Practice
On the Origin of the Early Solar System Radioactivities. Problems with the AGB and Massive Star Scenarios
Recent improvements in stellar models for intermediate-mass and massive stars
are recalled, together with their expectations for the synthesis of radioactive
nuclei of lifetime Myr, in order to re-examine the origins
of now extinct radioactivities, which were alive in the solar nebula. The
Galactic inheritance broadly explains most of them, especially if -process
nuclei are produced by neutron star merging according to recent models.
Instead, Al, Ca, Cs and possibly Fe require
nucleosynthesis events close to the solar formation. We outline the persisting
difficulties to account for these nuclei by Intermediate Mass Stars (2
M/M). Models of their final stages now
predict the ubiquitous formation of a C reservoir as a neutron capture
source; hence, even in presence of Al production from Deep Mixing or Hot
Bottom Burning, the ratio Al/Pd remains incompatible with
measured data, with a large excess in Pd. This is shown for two recent
approaches to Deep Mixing. Even a late contamination by a Massive Star meets
problems. In fact, inhomogeneous addition of Supernova debris predicts
non-measured excesses on stable isotopes. Revisions invoking specific low-mass
supernovae and/or the sequential contamination of the pre-solar molecular cloud
might be affected by similar problems, although our conclusions here are
weakened by our schematic approach to the addition of SN ejecta. The limited
parameter space remaining to be explored for solving this puzzle is discussed.Comment: Accepted for publication on Ap
Efeito da adubação no crescimento de mudas de Eugenia uniflora L.
Eugenia uniflora é uma planta frutífera muito cultivada em pomares domésticos e frequente em seu habitat natural das matas semidecíduas. O objetivo deste trabalho foi verificar qual o efeito da adubação no crescimento de mudas de E. uniflora. Após a coleta e beneficiamento dos frutos, as sementes foram germinadas entre vermiculita e repicadas para tubetes contendo substrato comercial à base de casca de pinus. A adubação foi realizada semanalmente, durante três meses. Foram realizadas quatro avaliações, sendo determinado a altura e o diâmetro do colo das mudas. Na última avaliação as mudas adubadas apresentaram 17,9 cm de altura e 2,3 mm de diâmetro do colo, enquanto que as mudas não adubadas apresentaram 14,7 cm de altura e 1,7 mm de diâmetro do colo, demonstrando que as mudas de pitanga possuem resposta boa à adubação, ao contrário do proposto para espécies secundárias tardias ou climax. Concluiu-se que as mudas de E. uniflora responderam à adubação a partir do segundo mês, apresentando incremento tanto em altura como em diâmetro do colo.Resumo expandido
Elastocapillary network model of inhalation
The seemingly simple process of inhalation relies on a complex interplay
between muscular contraction in the thorax, elasto-capillary interactions in
individual lung branches, propagation of air between different connected
branches, and overall air flow into the lungs. These processes occur over
considerably different length and time scales; consequently, linking them to
the biomechanical properties of the lungs, and quantifying how they together
control the spatiotemporal features of inhalation, remains a challenge. We
address this challenge by developing a computational model of the lungs as a
hierarchical, branched network of connected liquid-lined flexible cylinders
coupled to a viscoelastic thoracic cavity. Each branch opens at a rate and a
pressure that is determined by input biomechanical parameters, enabling us to
test the influence of changes in the mechanical properties of lung tissues and
secretions on inhalation dynamics. By summing the dynamics of all the branches,
we quantify the evolution of overall lung pressure and volume during
inhalation, reproducing the shape of measured breathing curves. Using this
model, we demonstrate how changes in lung muscle contraction, mucus viscosity
and surface tension, and airway wall stiffness---characteristic of many
respiratory diseases, including those arising from COVID-19, cystic fibrosis,
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, and emphysema---drastically
alter inhaled lung capacity and breathing duration. Our work therefore helps to
identify the key factors that control breathing dynamics, and provides a way to
quantify how disease-induced changes in these factors lead to respiratory
distress.Comment: In pres
Closed shells at drip-line nuclei
The shell structure of magic nuclei far from stability is discussed in terms
of the self-consistent spherical Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory. In particular,
the sensitivity of the shell-gap sizes and the two-neutron separation energies
to the choice of particle-hole and particle-particle components of the
effective interaction is investigated.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX, 8 uuencoded figures available upon reques
The additional-mode garden of RR Lyrae stars
Space-based photometric missions revealed a surprising abundance of
millimagnitude-level additional modes in RR Lyrae stars. The modes that appear
in the modulated fundamental-mode (RRab) stars can be ordered into four major
categories. Here we present the distribution of these groups in the Petersen
diagram, and discuss their characteristics and connections to additional modes
observed in other RR Lyrae stars.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, proceedings of the Joint
TASC2-KASC9-SPACEINN-HELAS8 Conference "Seismology of the Sun and the Distant
Stars 2016", to be published in EPJ Wo
Evaluation of design recommendations for the development of wheelchair rugby sports-wear
Currently, wheelchair rugby athletes face the challenges of playing the sport without specifically designed sports-wear kit. A few designs and recommendations have already been proposed by researchers but none have made it to market yet. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a set of design recommendations for the development of wheelchair rugby sports-wear. This was done so that the products to be created are developed in collaboration with their potential users, responding to their particular needs and requirements. The evaluation was done through an online survey, where the athletes were presented with a visual representation of the design recommendations. The results indicate that the people questioned agree with the majority of the proposed designs and would be happy to have these improvements made to their current sports-wear. The most criticised recommendations were for the gloves, as they are the most important part of the kit, so it is important that they are adequate and allow for a good performance
Relativistic mean field study of the properties of Z=117 nucleus and the decay chains of 117 isotopes
We have calculated the binding energy, root-mean-square radius and quadrupole
deformation parameter for the recently synthesized superheavy element Z=117,
using the axially deformed relativistic mean field (RMF) model. The calculation
is extended to various isotopes of Z=117 element, strarting from A=286 till
A=310. We predict almost spherical structures in the ground state for almost
all the isotopes. A shape transition appears at about A=292 from prolate to a
oblate shape structures of Z=117 nucleus in our mean field approach. The most
stable isotope (largest binding energy per nucleon) is found to be the
117 nucleus. Also, the Q-value of -decay and the
half-lives are calculated for the -decay chains of
117 and 117, supporting the magic numbers at N=172 and/ or 184.Comment: 6 Pages and 8 Figure
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