Visionary Differences

Organizational vision is nearly universally accepted as being critically important to a church in any stage of growth or decline. Church plants and church revitalization efforts depend on organizational vision because it provides focus and direction. Organizational vision is also important because it inspires people to participate. Successful church planters and church revitalization leaders excel at casting vision. While church plants and church revitalizations have similarities, leading one is significantly different from leading the other. Likewise, organizational vision is different between a church plant and a church revitalization. This article analyzes the differences between an organizational vision for a church plant and a church revitalization. To accomplish this analysis, provision of a proper definition for organizational vision is central to the task. After a definition and biblical examples of organizational vision are given, methods of how to obtain and cast a vision are discussed. Next, this article shows the benefits that organizational vision has for both church plants and church revitalization efforts. Finally, the differences between the organizational visions for church plants and church revitalizations are analyzed

Build-A-Board

The purpose of this project is to build a single board computer that will be able to run Linux and provide some expansion capabilities in the form of GPIO, USB, etc. This single board computer will have all the components that a fully functional computer has but with a much smaller form factor and overall capabilities

Isolation of the glucose ester of (E)-2,6-dimethyl-6-hydroxyocta-2,7-dienoic acid from Riesling wine

A glycosidic isolate of Riesling wine was separated with multilayer coil countercurrent chromatography (MLCCC). After acetylation and subsequent purification by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the glucose ester of (E)-2,6-dimethyl-6-hydroxyocta-2,7-dienoic acid (linalool-8-carboxylic acid) 1 was identified for the first time as natural wine constituent. The possible role of I as wine aroma precursor is discussed

Isolation of 2-ethyl-3-methylmaleimide N-β-D-glucopyranoside from Riesling wine

A glycosidic isolate of Riesling urine was separated with multilayer coil countercurrent chromatography (MLCCC). After acetylation and subsequent purification by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), the N-beta-D-glucopyranoside of 2-ethyl-3-methylmaleimide (3-ethyl-4-methyl-1H-pyrrole-2,5-dione) 2 was identified for the first time as natural wine constituent. The identification was carried out by mass spectrometry (EI-MS, DCI-MS) as well as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (H-1 NMR, 13C NMR, COSY, HMBC)

A dual-control effect preserving formulation for nonlinear output-feedback stochastic model predictive control with constraints

In this paper we propose a formulation for approximate constrained nonlinear output-feedback stochastic model predictive control. Starting from the ideal but intractable stochastic optimal control problem (OCP), which involves the optimization over output-dependent policies, we use linearization with respect to the uncertainty to derive a tractable approximation which includes knowledge of the output model. This allows us to compute the expected value for the outer functions of the OCP exactly. Crucially, the dual control effect is preserved by this approximation. In consequence, the resulting controller is aware of how the choice of inputs affects the information available in the future which in turn influences subsequent controls. Thus, it can be classified as a form of implicit dual control

Fragmentation and bond strength of airborne diesel soot agglomerates

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The potential of diesel soot aerosol particles to break up into smaller units under mechanical stress was investigated by a direct impaction technique which measures the degree of fragmentation of individual agglomerates vs. impact energy. Diesel aerosol was generated by an idling diesel engine used for passenger vehicles. Both the aerosol emitted directly and aerosol that had undergone additional growth by Brownian coagulation ("aging") was investigated. Optionally a thermo-desoption technique at 280°C was used to remove all high-volatility and the majority of low-volatility HC adsorbates from the aerosol before aging.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>It was found that the primary soot agglomerates emitted directly from the engine could not be fragmented at all. Soot agglomerates permitted to grow additionally by Brownian coagulation of the primary emitted particles could be fragmented to a maximum of 75% and 60% respectively, depending on whether adsorbates were removed from their surface prior to aging or not. At most, these aged agglomerates could be broken down to roughly the size of the agglomerates from the primary emission. The energy required for a 50% fragmentation probability of all bonds within an agglomerate was reduced by roughly a factor of 2 when aging "dry" agglomerates. Average bond energies derived from the data were 0.52*10^-16and 1.2*10^-16J, respectively. This is about 2 orders of magnitude higher than estimates for pure van-der-Waals agglomerates, but agrees quite well with other observations.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Although direct conclusions regarding the behavior of inhaled diesel aerosol in contact with body fluids cannot be drawn from such measurements, the results imply that highly agglomerated soot aerosol particles are unlikely to break up into units smaller than roughly the size distribution emitted as tail pipe soot.</p