Attitudes and Policies of the Lutheran Church Toward the Negro

We believe that when Christian congregations make a distinction among people because of race and bypass Negroes in their program of saving souls a problem of moral theology is involved. Dr. o. P. Kretzmann, president of Valparaiso University, once offered the following steps to aid in solving a problem in moral theology, namely, first, there must be a hard cool appraisal of the situation as it is; secondly, we must turn to the New Testament and look at the divine will; thirdly, we must take the situation and the divine will and bring them together. In this paper we propose to concentrate on the first step, to answer the questions: What is the real situation? What have been and what are the attitudes and policies of The Lutheran Church Toward the Negro

Schöneberger Teil des Situationsplanes von der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Berlin und Umgegend

SCHÖNEBERGER TEIL DES SITUATIONSPLANES VON DER HAUPT- UND RESIDENZSTADT BERLIN UND UMGEGEND Schöneberger Teil des Situationsplanes von der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Berlin und Umgegend / Liebenow, W. (Public Domain) ( -

Concordia String Trio

Kemp Recital Hall Februaiy 2, 2018 Saturday Evening 7:30p.m

A Toolchain for Privacy-Preserving Distributed Aggregation on Edge-Devices

Valuable insights, such as frequently visited environments in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, can oftentimes only be gained by analyzing sensitive data spread across edge-devices like smartphones. To facilitate such an analysis, we present a toolchain for a distributed, privacy-preserving aggregation of local data by taking the limited resources of edge-devices into account. The distributed aggregation is based on secure summation and simultaneously satisfies the notion of differential privacy. In this way, other parties can neither learn the sensitive data of single clients nor a single client's influence on the final result. We perform an evaluation of the power consumption, the running time and the bandwidth overhead on real as well as simulated devices and demonstrate the flexibility of our toolchain by presenting an extension of the summation of histograms to distributed clustering

Guest Artist Recital Series: Boston Public Quartet: Betsy Hinkle, Violin; James Amos, Viola; Emmanuel Feldman, Cello; Joy Cline Phinney, Piano; Marcia Henry Liebenow, Violin; February 16, 2023

Kemp Recital HallFebruary 16, 2023Thursday Evening7:00 p.m

Examining facial masculinity as a cause of backlash against aspiring female leaders

Agency and communality are stereotypically linked with, respectively, masculinity and femininity. These gendered trait associations elicit stereotypic prescriptions for how people should behave. Whether they extend to elicit gendered stereotypic expectations for how people look and specifically how this affects women aspiring to leadership positions is understudied. In the present experiment, I analyzed backlash discrimination through job candidate evaluations. Participants evaluated one of four candidates for the leadership position of Student Policies Manager. I manipulated applicant gender (man or woman) and facial masculinity (lower or higher) between-participants by pairing a picture of the applicant’s face with the leadership role description. People looked at one of four possible faces, either higher or lower in facial masculinity, and evaluated them on list of agentic and communal traits and selected their level of job endorsement for the candidate. Counter to my hypothesis, I found that people endorsed the more masculine female face more for the leadership position than any other face. People evaluated the male and female faces as similarly agentic, but evaluated the female faces as more communal than the male faces overall. These findings show that there may be a shift in gendered expectations for leadership roles, though women are still regarded as more communal despite their agentic leadership aspirations

Approximate factorization for time-dependent partial differential equations

AbstractThe first application of approximate factorization in the numerical solution of time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) can be traced back to the celebrated papers of Peaceman and Rachford and of Douglas of 1955. For linear problems, the Peaceman–Rachford–Douglas method can be derived from the Crank–Nicolson method by the approximate factorization of the system matrix in the linear system to be solved. This factorization is based on a splitting of the system matrix. In the numerical solution of time-dependent PDEs we often encounter linear systems whose system matrix has a complicated structure, but can be split into a sum of matrices with a simple structure. In such cases, it is attractive to replace the system matrix by an approximate factorization based on this splitting. This contribution surveys various possibilities for applying approximate factorization to PDEs and presents a number of new stability results for the resulting integration methods