Loving Without Destroying: A Study of Welfare Work In The Inner City, Considering the Problem of Freedom with a Special Reference to Dostoevsky\u27s The Legend of the Grand Inquisitor

Church leaders today are saying that the future of the church is being decided in the inner city. If the church is able to rise above itself, to meet the challenge of the inner city, they aver, there is hope that it might also be able to meet the challenge of its existence in other geographic and intellectual realms as well. It is in the inner city that the church meets the problems of existence head-on. It is there that reality is met. It is there that the church cannot hide behind pious words or statements by committees. The church faces the issues which have been raised by society in their crassest forms. Either the church meets them and answers them, or it dies. This research project comprises an examination of some of the ways that the church can meet the problems raised, the questions asked, the realities bared in the inner city. How do you love people without destroying them with that love? Many people do not know how to love. To them, loving is showing sympathy or pity to people in adverse situations. The church has been guilty of this also

Integrating climate change with human land use patterns: archaeology of Butte Lake Northeast

Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2013This research explores the effects of climate change throughout the Holocene by investigating a multi-component site at Butte Lake, Alaska. This research combines expectations generated from ethnographic models to evaluate site use conditioned by environmental constraints within the theoretical framework of human behavioral ecology. Analysis of lithic materials, faunal remains, and site structure are evaluated to determine site type by occupational component. The results of this research show that a period of low effective moisture during the early Holocene (9000 to 5000 cal BP), as well as a period of both low temperature and increased effective moisture associated with the Neoglacial (3500 to 1500 cal BP) had considerable impacts on the habitability of the site. This research also shows that a period of relatively abundant productivity associated with the Medieval Optimum (1500 to 750 cal BP) may have resulted in extensive trade with, and/or local occupation by Eskimo (Ipiutak/Norton) inhabitants. Most importantly, analysis has shown a sharp distinction between site use associated with the early and middle Holocene occupations, and the specialized and discrete activity loci associated with caribou processing during the late Holocene occupations, likely affected by both climate and water levels at Butte Lake during these respective periods

Influence of high-dose aprotinin treatment on blood loss and coagulation patterns in open-heart surgery

Intraoperative administration of the proteinase Inhibitor aprotinin causes reduction in blood loss and homologous blood requirement in patients undergoing cardiac surgery. To ascertain the blood-saving effect of aprotinin and to obtain further information about the mode of action, 40 patients undergoing primary myocardial revascularization were randomly assigned to receive either aprotinin or placebo treatment. Aprotinin was given as a bolus of 2 X 105 kallikrein inactivator units (KIU) before surgery followed by a continuous infusion of 5 X 105 KIU/h during surgery. Additionally, 2 X 105 KIU were added to the pump prime. Strict criteria were used to obtain a homogeneous patient selection. Total blood loss was reduced from 1,431 +/- 760 ml in the control group to 738 +/- 411 ml in the aprotinin group (P < 0.05) and the homologous blood requirement from 838 +/- 963 ml to 163 +/- 308 ml (P < 0.05). In the control group, 2.3 +/- 2.2 U of homologous blood or blood products were given, and in the aprotinin group, 0.63 +/- 0.96 U were given (P < 0.05). Twenty-five percent of patients in the control group and 63% in the aprotinin group did not receive banked blood or homologous blood products. The activated clotting time as an indicator of inhibition of the contact phase of coagulation was significantly Increased before heparinization in the aprotinin group (141 +/- 13 s vs. 122 +/- 25 s) and remained significantly Increased until heparin was neutralized after cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). The concentration of the thrombin-antithrombin III complex was significantly decreased at the end of CPB in the aprotinin group, indicating less thrombin generation in the aprotinin-treated group. The total concentration of the fibrinogen-fibrin split products (FSP) and the split products of the cross-linked fibrin (D-dimers) were also significantly reduced due to attenuated proteolytic activities of thrombin and plasmin. The results of the fibrin plate assay revealed higher fibrinolytic activity during CPB in the control group. The results demonstrate the beneficial effect of high-dose aprotinin treatment on blood loss and homologous blood requirement. This effect can be attributed to the inhibition of the contact phase of coagulation and the consequently reduced thrombotic and fibrionolytic activity during and after CPB

For an indeterministic ethics. The emptiness of the rule in dubio pro vita and life cessation decisions

It is generally claimed that there exist exceptional circumstances when taking human life may be approved and when such actions may be justified on moral grounds. Precise guidelines in the medical field for making such decisions concerning patients who are terminally ill or have irreparable injuries incompatible with a bearable life, are difficult to establish. Recommendations that take the particular logical form of a rule, such as "in dubio pro vita", "when in doubt favour life") have been suggested and in some countries incorporated into legal texts (Germany). We claim here that such a rule is of no value since it is open-ended and always allows for doubt, and a decision to employ measures that would support human life could always be argued to be a valid choice. Preservation of this rule could be encouraged, but giving it the force of law may put physicians at risk, as they may be challenged for choosing to terminate life in otherwise ethically and medically uncontroversial circumstances

AN AGENT-BASED COOPERATIVE MECHANISM FOR INTEGRATED PRODUCTION AND TRANSPORTATION PLANNING

This paper presents a decentralized cooperative economic scheduling mechanism for a supply chain environment. For this purpose, we design autonomous agents that minimize the production or transportation costs and outsourcing costs incurred by the external execution of a task. The decentralized cooperative scheduling approach comprises two parts: the individual optimization an agent\u27s local schedule and the cooperative contract optimization, either by outsourcing the task or by (re-)contracting the release time and due time with the contract partners aiming to maximize their total profits. A negotiation mechanism based on trust accounts is employed to protect the agents against systematic exploitation by their partners

The Evolving Law of Employee Noncompete Agreements: Recent Trends and an Alternative Policy Approach

Businesses increasingly rely on employee non-compete agreements to protect their assets and forestall competition by former employees, a trend that will likely continue given the ascendancy of the information economy and the fundamental changes taking place in the post-industrial employment relationship. The proper balance between and among the competing interests of employers, employees and society implicated by post-employment restraints will continue to be an important public policy issue. This paper analyzes recent developments in the law of employee non-compete agreements and proposes an alternative framework to judge the enforceability of post-employment restraints on competition. Under our proposed policy framework, employee non-compete agreements designed to prevent the exploitation of the former employer’s customer relationships would be enforceable under a modified common law reasonableness standard. Trade secrets, however, would no longer be deemed a protectible interest justifying a covenant not to compete. Employers could prevent competition by a former employee only under the inevitable disclosure doctrine, which we contend provides a more balanced and fair resolution of the competing interests of employers and employees with regard to trade secrets and post-employment competition. By substituting a carefully framed injunction based on demonstrated necessity (inevitability) for the enforcement of a non-compete agreement based only on the potential for trade secret misappropriation, the proposed framework would support a climate of employee mobility while providing businesses an adequate level of protection for their trade secrets