American Societies Impact on American Deaf Culture

A brief summary of where Deaf Culture is affected by the hearing American culture

A scalable software framework for solving PDEs on distributed octree meshes using finite element methods

Tracking particle motion in inertial flows (especially in obstructed geometries) is a computationally daunting proposition. This is further complicated by that fact that the construction of migration maps for particles (as a function of particle location, flow conditions, and particle size) requires several thousands of simulations tracking individual particles. This calls for the development of an efficient, scalable approach for single particle tracking in fluids. We bring together three distinct elements to accomplish this: (a) a parallel octree based adaptive mesh generation framework, (b) a variational multiscale (VMS) based treatment that enables flow condition agnostic simulations (laminar or turbulent)~\cite{Bazilevs07b}, and (c) a variationally consistent immersed boundary method (IBM) to efficiently track moving particles in a background octree mesh~\cite{Xu:2015ig}. This project builds on our existing codes for adaptive meshing (\dendro) and finite elements (\talyfem). We present our adaptive meshing framework that is tailored for the immersed boundary method and experiments demonstrating the scalability of our code to over 1k compute nodes

Revising the Pastoral Theology Program at Shepherds Theological Seminary in Cary, North Carolina

This project sought to revise the Pastoral Theology program at Shepherds Theological Seminary in Cary, North Carolina. Chapter 1 presents the history and ministry context of Shepherds Theological Seminary and the goals of this project. Chapter 2 provides exegesis of three passages of Scripture (1 Tim 3:1-7; 1 Tim 4:6-16; 2 Tim 2:1-6) to show that the pastor must possess a variety of traits and skills. In addition, one key adjective related to pastoral competency and nineteen key Greek words related to pastoral ministry are observed and categorized in relationship to pastoral competencies. Chapter 3 examines the theory and practice of competency-based models with an emphasis on Christian theological education and hypothetical pastoral competencies. Chapter 4 describes the implemented project, carefully recounting the goals, methodology employed, and results of the research. Chapter 5 evaluates the efficacy of the project based on completion of the specified goals