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The prayer book controversy 1927-28
This historical study focuses upon the sixteen months between February 1927, when the revised Prayer Book was presented to the Convocations, and June 1928, when for a second time it was rejected by the House of Commons. The emphasis throughout is upon the narrative of events and upon the societies and persons most closely concerned in those events. Consideration is given to both the ecclesiastical and the secular aspects of the controversy. The study is based upon the papers of Archbishop Randall Davidson, made available at Lambeth Palace Library in the late 1960s, under the Library's forty-year rule for Archbishops' papers. The papers relating to the Prayer Book controversy are as yet unsorted and unindexed and consist of a wide variety of documentary material: significant manuscript material as well as printed material of lesser importance. Further private papers of Davidson, made available in 1974, have tended to confirm and illustrate opinions already formed. Manuscript material in the possession of the Church Society and the General Synod of the Church of England has also been examined. The official reports of debates in Convocation, the National Assembly of the Church of England and Parliament, the reports and opinions in the ecclesiastical and secular press and contemporary literature - in both book and pamphlet form - have helped towards a clarification of the main issues in the controversy. The revision was handicapped by the brief that it was expected to fulfil: the restoration of discipline within the Church of England. Strongly held views were evoked from many different protagonists and the issue became one of the most intense with which the Church has been confronted in the twentieth century. The Book's rejection by parliament enabled the controversy in the Church to subside. But it emphasised the underlying dependence of the Church of England upon the State and the difficulty of seeking satisfactory solution at that time to the problems which were implicit in such dependence
Bjerrum pairing correlations at charged interfaces
Electrostatic correlations play a fundamental role in aqueous solutions. In
this letter, we identify transverse and lateral correlations as two mutually
exclusive regimes. We show that the transverse regime leads to binding by
generalization of Bjerrum pair formation theory, yielding binding constants
from first-principle statistical-mechanical calculations. We compare our
theoretical predictions with experiments on charged membranes and Langmuir
monolayers and find good agreement. We contrast our approach with existing
theories in the strong-coupling limit and on charged modulated interfaces, and
discuss different scenarios that lead to charge reversal and equal-sign
attraction by macro-ions.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
A Digitally Calibrated 12 bits 25 MS/s Pipelined ADC with a 3 input multiplexer for CALICE Integrated Readout
The necessity of full integrated electronics readout for the next ILC ECAL presents many challenges for low power mixed signal design. The analog to digital converter is a critical stage for the system going from the very front-end stages to digital memories. We present here a high speed converter configuration designed to multiplex 3 analog channels through one analog to digital converter. It is a first step for a multiplexed 64 channel design. A CMOS 0.35ÎĽm process is used. The dynamic range is 2V over a 3.3V power supply, and the total power dissipation at 25 MHz is approximately 40mW. An analog power management is included to allow a fast switching into a standby mode that reduces the DC power dissipation by a ratio of three orders of magnitude (1/1000)
The Asymptotic Giant Branches of GCs: Selective Entry Only
The handful of available observations of AGB stars in Galactic Globular
Clusters suggest that the GC AGB populations are dominated by cyanogen-weak
stars. This contrasts strongly with the distributions in the RGB (and other)
populations, which generally show a 50:50 bimodality in CN band strength. If it
is true that the AGB populations show very different distributions then it
presents a serious problem for low mass stellar evolution theory, since such a
surface abundance change going from the RGB to AGB is not predicted by stellar
models. However this is only a tentative conclusion, since it is based on very
small AGB sample sizes. To test whether this problem really exists we have
carried out an observational campaign specifically targeting AGB stars in GCs.
We have obtained medium resolution spectra for about 250 AGB stars across 9
Galactic GCs using the multi-object spectrograph on the AAT (2df/AAOmega). We
present some of the preliminary findings of the study for the second parameter
trio of GCs: NGC 288, NGC 362 and NGC 1851. The results indeed show that there
is a deficiency of stars with strong CN bands on the AGB. To confirm that this
phenomenon is robust and not just confined to CN band strengths and their
vagaries, we have made observations using FLAMES/VLT to measure elemental
abundances for NGC 6752.We present some initial results from this study also.
Our sodium abundance results show conclusively that only a subset of stars in
GCs experience the AGB phase of evolution. This is the first direct, concrete
confirmation of the phenomenon.Comment: 4 pages, to appear in conference proceedings of "Reading the book of
globular clusters with the lens of stellar evolution", Rome, 26-28 November
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Brief behavioural activation for adolescent depression: working with complexity and risk
Given the long-term negative outcomes associated with depression in adolescence, there is a pressing need to develop brief, evidence based treatments that are accessible to more young people experiencing low mood. Behavioural Activation (BA) is an effective treatment for adult depression, however little research has focused on the use of BA with depressed adolescents, particularly with briefer forms of BA. In this article we outline an adaptation of brief Behavioral Activation Treatment of Depression (BATD) designed for adolescents and delivered in eight sessions (Brief BA). This case example illustrates how a structured, brief intervention was useful for a depressed young person with a number of complicating and risk factors
Properties of the Meson at Finite Temperature and Density
The mass shift, width broadening, and spectral density for the meson
in a heat bath of nucleons and pions is calculated using a general formula
which relates the self-energy to the forward scattering amplitude. We use
experimental data to saturate the scattering amplitude at low energies with
resonances and include a background Pomeron term, while at high energies a
Regge parameterization is used. The peak of the spectral density is little
shifted from its vacuum position, but the width is considerably increased due
to collisional broadening. At normal nuclear matter density and a temperature
of 150 MeV the spectral density of the meson has a width of 140 MeV.
Zero temperature nuclear matter is also discussed.Comment: 5 pages revtex4, 3 figur
Microcanonical treatment of black hole decay at the Large Hadron Collider
This study of corrections to the canonical picture of black hole decay in
large extra dimensions examines the effects of back-reaction corrected and
microcanonical emission at the LHC. We provide statistical interpretations of
the different multiparticle number densities in terms of black hole decay to
standard model particles. Provided new heavy particles of mass near the
fundamental Planck scale are not discovered, differences between these
corrections and thermal decay will be insignificant at the LHC.Comment: small additions and clarifications, format for J. Phys.
Upgrading short read animal genome assemblies to chromosome level using comparative genomics and a universal probe set
Most recent initiatives to sequence and assemble new species’ genomes de-novo fail to achieve the ultimate endpoint to produce a series of contigs, each representing one whole chromosome. Even the best-assembled genomes (using contemporary technologies) consist of sub-chromosomal sized scaffolds. To circumvent this problem, we developed a novel approach that combines computational algorithms to merge scaffolds into chromosomal fragments, scaffold verification by PCR and physical mapping to chromosomes. Multi genome-alignment-guided probe selection led to the development of a set of universal avian BAC clones that permit rapid anchoring of multiple scaffold loci to chromosomes on all avian genomes. As proof of principle we assembled genomes of the pigeon (Columbia livia) and peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) to chromosome level comparable, in continuity, to avian reference genomes. Both species are of interest for breeding, cultural, food and/or environmental reasons. Pigeon has a typical avian karyotype (2n=80) while falcon (2n=50) is highly rearranged compared to the avian ancestor. Using chromosome breakpoint data, we established that avian interchromosomal breakpoints appear in the regions of low density of conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) and that the chromosomal fission sites are further limited to long CNE “deserts”. This corresponds with fission being the rarest type of rearrangement in avian genome evolution. High-throughput multiple hybridization and rapid capture strategies using the current BAC set provide the basis for assembling numerous avian (and possibly other reptilian) species while the overall strategy for scaffold assembly and mapping provides the basis for an approach that could be applied to any animal genome
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