Reflecting with God: connecting faith and daily life in small groups

Title: Reflecting with God: connecting faith and daily life in small groups. Author: Johnson, Abigail Reflecting with God 124 p. Publisher: Herndon, Va : Alban Inst, 2004

Implications of Different Bases for a VAT

Analyzes options for a value-added tax: a low rate on a broad base to meet deficit reduction targets; a high rate on a narrow base that excludes items disproportionately consumed by lower-income households; or a broad base with a targeted rebate

Reducing the Deficit by Increasing Individual Income Tax Rates

Estimates impact on debt-to-GDP ratio of raising all individual income tax rates, including the capital gains tax; raising the top three rates and leaving capital gains rate unchanged; and raising the top two rates and leaving capital gains unchanged

Methodology for Distributing a VAT

Proposes a revised methodology for analyzing the distributional effects of a value-added tax - the economic burden placed on households of different income levels and demographics - as well as on government revenues and spending and capital

Using a VAT for Deficit Reduction

Examines implications of imposing a value-added tax, compared with increasing individual income tax rates (including capital gains tax), such as the distribution of the tax burden on households, distortions on economic decisions, and government costs

Marine geophysical investigations in the Norwegian-Greenland sea between the latitudes of 62ºn and 74ºn

The Durham University 1977 marine geophysical cruise (R.R.S.Shackleton 977) in the southern Norwegian-Greenland Sea included a survey of the Jan Mayen block between the latitudes of 67ºN and 69.5ºN and a traverse of the Norway Basin. Reduced bathymetric, gravity and magnetic data are presented. The gravity and magnetic data are interpreted using direct inversion techniques. Most of the multichannel seismic data is not yet processed, but drawings of the monitor records and a short processed section are included, together with a description of the processing system. In addition, a detailed review is given of published geophysical data from the southern Norwegian-Greenland Sea and a compilation of marine magnetic anomalies is presented. The principal results are as follows. The Jan Mayen raicrocontinental fragment is about 90 km wide and extends from about 65ºN to 70ºN. Contrary to previous inferences, there is little evidence of pre-Tertiary sediment beneath the block. The crust thickens (to about 16-20 km) passing from the Norway Basin to the Jan Mayen block. A revision of anomaly correlations and identifications in the Norway Basin is presented and the nature of the magnetic source layer is analysed. The central fan shaped anomaly pattern was formed from the end of anomaly 20 time (-43 Ma) to about anomaly 7 time (-27 Ma) as the Jan Mayen block rotated 27.4º anticlockwise relative to Norway about a near pole (64.9ºN, 12.3ºW). Complementary spreading took place about the newly formed Kolbeinsey axis, such that Jan Mayen rotated 29º anticlockwise relative to Greenland (about a pole at 71.1ºN, 16.4ºW). Bathymetric and structural evidence is adduced in favour of this scheme and the implications with respect to the structure and the evolution of the Jan Mayen block are discussed. It is suggested that the anticlockwise reorientation of spreading between Greenland and Norway, which occurred when spreading ceased in the Labrador Sea, caused compressional stresses across a major transform fault at the southern end of the Norway Basin and led to the fission of Jan Mayen from Greenland

A healing story: A family systems view of the intertwining of family stories with the biblical narrative

God\u27s covenant with Abraham embodied a promise of a great family beginning with a son being born to Sarah in her old age. Abraham is considered a man of great faith. What drove Abraham\u27s faith? Was it an altruistic desire to serve God or was it a strong desire to have a family or an intertwining of both‘? This thesis proposes to examine how emotional family process shapes our faith and how faith development shapes our ‘families’. Every family has a story to tell. ln the introduction I share my family story. The focus of chapter one is how God\u27s story is intertwined with the story of the human family through the promise of God\u27s covenant Chapter two illustrates how the implicit story, the family emotional process, interferes with the explicit story of the church, the Gospel. Chapter three reviews Murray Bowen\u27s theory of family systems. Edwin Friedman and Peter Steinke have applied Bowen theory to the congregational family. The results of their work are reflected upon. Chapter four explores ways to intertwine the explicit story of the church and the implicit story of the family emotional process in a more life enhancing manner by reconsidering the way we do our rituals and tell our stories

Signaling pathways as linear transmitters

One challenge in biology is to make sense of the complexity of biological networks. A good system to approach this is signaling pathways, whose well-characterized molecular details allow us to relate the internal processes of each pathway to their input-output behavior. In this study, we analyzed mathematical models of three metazoan signaling pathways: the canonical Wnt, MAPK/ERK, and Tgfβ pathways. We find an unexpected convergence: the three pathways behave in some physiological contexts as linear signal transmitters. Testing the results experimentally, we present direct measurements of linear input-output behavior in the Wnt and ERK pathways. Analytics from each model further reveal that linearity arises through different means in each pathway, which we tested experimentally in the Wnt and ERK pathways. Linearity is a desired property in engineering where it facilitates fidelity and superposition in signal transmission. Our findings illustrate how cells tune different complex networks to converge on the same behavior