Induced Abortion in the Contemporary Penitential Praxis of the Catholic Church. How to be an Instrument of New Hope

The aim of this paper is to consider how a priest could contribute to the healing of those who are burdened with the crime of induced abortion. The response of the Catholic Church towards this issue, throughout the centuries, deserves to be discussed on the basis of some relevant facts. The topic concerns not only moral theology and canon law but it is also the object of research of modern psychology. A confessor, confronted with procured abortion, should reflect seriously on which type of penance will be a real spiritual medicine for his penitent. This study would like to present some examples. It reflects the actual status quo in some selected dioceses concerning the forum internum. The paper will conclude with some proposals to address such situations.The aim of this paper is to consider how a priest could contribute to the healing of those who are burdened with the crime of induced abortion. The response of the Catholic Church towards this issue, throughout the centuries, deserves to be discussed on the basis of some relevant facts. The topic concerns not only moral theology and canon law but it is also the object of research of modern psychology. A confessor, confronted with procured abortion, should reflect seriously on which type of penance will be a real spiritual medicine for his penitent. This study would like to present some examples. It reflects the actual status quo in some selected dioceses concerning the forum internum. The paper will conclude with some proposals to address such situations

The Beginnings of Hospice Care in the Czech Republic

The aim of this paper is to review the situation in communist and post-revolutionary Czechoslovakia in the area of palliative care. It will familiarize readers with the enormous efforts of two big personalities in the history of Czech health care: Marie Opatrná and Marie Svatošová, who tried to change the old and inconvenient Soviet health care system and make the care of terminal and dying people more human. At the end, it will present some challenges which the current Czech hospice care is confronted with

Search engines optimalization

Předmětem této bakalářské práce je zhodnotit a dokázat, že optimalizace webových prezentací pro internetové vyhledávače je účinná a má význam pro úspěch podnikání.The subject for this bachelor project is to comment, review and to show, that optimalization of web presentations for search engine, has very effective value and importace for successful business.

The footbridge Jesípek – application of radar interferometry for dynamic response evaluation

Recent advances in radar systems have led to the development of radar interferometry (RI) methods for contactless vibration monitoring of large-scale structures, i.e. bridges, water tower reservoirs, and factory chimneys. Interferometric radars are devices capable to measure with 200 Hz sampling frequency and relative movement precision of 0.1 mm up to 0.01 mm. The major part of this paper describes an in-situ footbridge experiment near Hradec Králové. Radar interferometry devices were deployed along with ordinary techniques compounded by accelerometers, wiring, and acquisition station. Experiment was focused on the evaluation of basic dynamic structural properties such as natural frequencies and mode shapes. A lot of attention was also given to the result comparison of these measurement methods. Test results have confirmed the applicability of RI for bridge vibration monitoring

Arbitrarily Tunable Phase Shift in Low-Frequency Multiphase Oscillator

A special electronically tunable multiphase oscillator with arbitrarily and continuously adjustable phase shifts is introduced. Our design assumes to set the phase around the asymptotical limit of 180.. These features cannot be easily achieved in a standard way, i.e., any simple single-phase oscillator supplemented by a first-order adjustable all-pass (AP) section (shifter). The proposed design uses an electronically linearly tunable quadrature oscillator with a frequency range from 0.98 up to 12.54 kHz. It also offers multiples of 45. as the initial setting of the phase shift tuning region. The example of operation shows the adjustment of the phase shift at a specific frequency (10 kHz) within the range of +/- 45 degrees. and around -180 degrees, -135 degrees, and -90 degrees. This variability is not available in standard cases without the use of several AP sections. The current value of the phase shift of the presented oscillator is electronically controlled and does not influence the oscillation frequency and condition of oscillation. Output levels of produced signals are not influenced by this tuning process and are in the range of several hundreds of mV. Two applications of the oscillator are proposed. The first one focuses on low-bitrate modulation systems [phase shift keying (PSK)] while in the second one, our circuit represents a source of phase-adjustable signals in acoustic experiments. Discrete passive elements and active devices (special multipliers having current output terminals, unity-gain differential voltage buffers) fabricated in 0.35 mu m I3T25 ON Semiconductor 3.3 V CMOS process are used in experimental verification

CMOS Current Feedback Operational Amplifier-Based Relaxation Generator for Capacity to Voltage Sensor Interface

This paper presents a simple relaxation generator, suitable for a sensor interface, operating as a transducer of capacitance to frequency/period. The proposed circuit employs a current feedback operational amplifier, fabricated in I3T25 0.35 m ON Semiconductor CMOS process, and four passive elements including a grounded capacitor (the sensed parameter). It offers a low-impedance voltage output of the generated square wave. Additional frequency to DC voltage converter offers output information in the form of voltage. The experimental capacitance variation from 6.8 nF to 100 nF yields voltage change in the range from 21 mV to 106 mV with error below 5% and sensitivity 0.912 mV/nF evaluated over the full range of change. These values are in good agreement with simulation results obtained from the Mathcad model of frequency to DC voltage transducer passive circuit

Asking Questions: an Innovative Way to Interact with Oral History Archives

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Integrated Building Cells for a Simple Modular Design of Electronic Circuits with Reduced External Complexity: Performance, Active Element Assembly, and an Application Example

This paper introduces new integrated analog cells fabricated in a C035 I3T25 0.35-m ON Semiconductor process suitable for a modular design of advanced active elements with multiple terminals and controllable features. We developed and realized five analog cells on a single integrated circuit (IC), namely a voltage differencing differential buffer, a voltage multiplier with current output in full complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) form, a voltage multiplier with current output with a bipolar core, a current-controlled current conveyor of the second generation with four current outputs, and a single-input and single-output adjustable current amplifier. These cells (sub-blocks of the manufactured IC device), designed to operate in a bandwidth of up to tens of MHz, can be used as a construction set for building a variety of advanced active elements, offering up to four independently adjustable internal parameters. The performances of all individual cells were verified by extensive laboratory measurements, and the obtained results were compared to simulations in the Cadence IC6 tool. The definition and assembly of a newly specified advanced active element, namely a current-controlled voltage differencing current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CC-VDCCTA), is shown as an example of modular interconnection of the selected cells. This device was implemented in a newly synthesized topology of an electronically linearly tunable quadrature oscillator. Features of this active element were verified by simulations and experimental measurements