A history of Portland, Maine, for junior high schools

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A DISCOURSE OF THE TRANSIENT AND PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY

PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF MR. CHARLES C. SHACKFORD, IN THE HAWES PLACE CHURCH IN BOSTON, MAY 19, 1841. Parker\u27s controversial sermon is an essential document in the history of American Unitarianism and Transcendentalism. In it, he applies the lessons gleaned from the higher criticism of the Bible to the history of organized Christianity in a reinterpretation of the persona of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. As might be expected, Parker valorizes the Spirit over the variety of religious forms promulgated at different times by different Christian sects, and presentizes the Gospel message in a way that many conventional Christians found horrifying

A DISCOURSE OF THE TRANSIENT AND PERMANENT IN CHRISTIANITY

PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF MR. CHARLES C. SHACKFORD, IN THE HAWES PLACE CHURCH IN BOSTON, MAY 19, 1841. Parker\u27s controversial sermon is an essential document in the history of American Unitarianism and Transcendentalism. In it, he applies the lessons gleaned from the higher criticism of the Bible to the history of organized Christianity in a reinterpretation of the persona of the historical Jesus of Nazareth. As might be expected, Parker valorizes the Spirit over the variety of religious forms promulgated at different times by different Christian sects, and presentizes the Gospel message in a way that many conventional Christians found horrifying

Communication about noxious weeds among property owners in Teton County, Wyoming

2013 Spring.Includes bibliographical references.A survey, conducted in cooperation with the Teton County Weed & Pest District, was mailed to property owners (n = 414) in Teton County (Jackson Hole), Wyoming, to explore how and why this audience seeks information about noxious weeds. Prior to the survey, a model was developed based on concepts and relationships adapted from the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model (Griffin, Dunwoody, & Neuwirth, 1999). High levels of concern about the risk posed by weeds, coupled with a low perceived knowledge, were correlated with the need for information about this topic. Consistent with the RISP model, the likelihood of seeking information was highly correlated with perceived social pressure to be informed about invasive plants. However, information need as measured here, which varied from the approach used in the RISP model, was negatively correlated to information seeking, suggesting that self-identity, or a sense of duty to others or the community, might better explain information seeking. Perceived knowledge was related to a higher frequency of controlling weeks (defined as 3 or more times a year), whether the respondent worked in a weed-related industry, and membership (versus non-membership) in a conservation organization. Concern was mostly explained by frequency of controlling weeds. Perceived social pressure to be informed was driven by owning a larger parcel (>1 acre), by working in a weed-related industry, and by membership in a conservation organization. A higher frequency of controlling weeds was the best predictor of information seeking, while owning more than 1 acre, working in a weed-related industry, and membership in a conservation organization were predictors of information sharing. No statistically significant differences were discerned based on gender. Property owners, who were notably older (mean age of 58 years) and better educated (73.3% completed college) than the American population as a whole, indicated brochures and websites as the tools they prefer for learning and sharing information about weeds. Little support was found for using social media, such as Facebook, for spreading the word about weeds among property owners. Participants did report a strong willingness, however, to share information with family, friends, and neighbors, suggesting social networks do have potential for disseminating information about invasive plants. Property owners expressed a need to know more about control options other than herbicides and for help with identification. While they had only a moderate concern about weeds in general, property owners did express a high level of concern for the negative impacts weeds pose to desirable vegetation. Practical implications for communicating about noxious weeds with property owners are discussed

The role of electron-screening deformations in solar nuclear fusion reactions and the solar neutrino puzzle

Thermonuclear fusion reaction rates in the solar plasma are enhanced by the presence of the electron cloud that screens fusing nuclei. The present work studies the influence of electron screening deformations on solar reaction rates in the framework of the Debye-Huckel model. These electron-ion cloud deformations, assumed here to be static and axially symmetric, are shown to be able to considerably influence the solar neutrino fluxes of the pp and the CNO chains, with reasonable changes in the macroscopic parameters of the standard solar model (SSM) . Various known deformation sources are discussed but none of them is found strong enough to have a significant impact on the SSM neutrino fluxes.Comment: Revised version (14 RevTeX pages, 3 ps figures). Accepted for publication in Nuclear Physics

Ultraviolet and Optical Observations of OB Associations and Field Stars in the Southwest Region of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Using photometry from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) and photometry and spectroscopy from three ground-based optical datasets we have analyzed the stellar content of OB associations and field areas in and around the regions N 79, N 81, N 83, and N 94 in the LMC. We compare data for the OB association Lucke-Hodge 2 (LH 2) to determine how strongly the initial mass function (IMF) may depend on different photometric reductions and calibrations. We also correct for the background contribution of field stars, showing the importance of correcting for field star contamination in determinations of the IMF of star formation regions. It is possible that even in the case of an universal IMF, the variability of the density of background stars could be the dominant factor creating the differences between calculated IMFs for OB associations. We have also combined the UIT data with the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey to study the distribution of the candidate O-type stars in the field. We find a significant fraction, roughly half, of the candidate O-type stars are found in field regions, far from any obvious OB associations. These stars are greater than 2 arcmin (30 pc) from the boundaries of existing OB associations in the region, which is a distance greater than most O-type stars with typical dispersion velocities will travel in their lifetimes. The origin of these massive field stars (either as runaways, members of low-density star-forming regions, or examples of isolated massive star formation) will have to be determined by further observations and analysis.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figures (19 PostScript files), tabular data + header file for Table 1 (2 ASCII files). File format is LaTeX/AASTeX v.502 using the emulateapj5 preprint style (included). Also available at http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~joel/papers.html . To appear in the February 2001 issue of the Astronomical Journa

Accelerating Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models using incidence data

We consider the case of performing Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic compartment models, using incomplete time course data consisting of incidence counts that are either the number of new infections or removals in time intervals of fixed length. We eschew the most natural Markov jump process representation for reasons of computational efficiency, and focus on a stochastic differential equation representation. This is further approximated to give a tractable Gaussian process, that is, the linear noise approximation (LNA). Unless the observation model linking the LNA to data is both linear and Gaussian, the observed data likelihood remains intractable. It is in this setting that we consider two approaches for marginalising over the latent process: a correlated pseudo-marginal method and analytic marginalisation via a Gaussian approximation of the observation model. We compare and contrast these approaches using synthetic data before applying the best performing method to real data consisting of removal incidence of oak processionary moth nests in Richmond Park, London. Our approach further allows comparison between various competing compartment models

Development and Validation of the Microbiology for Health Sciences Concept Inventory

Identifying misconceptions in student learning is a valuable practice for evaluating student learning gains and directing educational interventions. By accurately identifying students’ knowledge and misconceptions about microbiology concepts, instructors can design effective classroom practices centered on student understanding. Following the development of ASM’s Curriculum Guidelines in 2012, we developed a concept inventory, the Microbiology for Health Sciences Concept Inventory (MHSCI), that measures learning gains and identifies student misconceptions in health sciences microbiology classrooms. The 23-question MHSCI was delivered to a wide variety of students at multiple institution types. Psychometric analysis identified that the MHSCI instrument is both discriminatory and reliable in measuring student learning gains. The MHSCI results correlated with course outcomes, showing the value of using the instrument alongside course level assessments to measure student learning. The MHSCI is a reliable and efficient way to measure student learning in microbiology and can be used both as a faculty development tool and an effective student assessment tool