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Perceptions of pastoral leadership principles and practices within the Church of God (Cleveland, TN)
https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdissertations/1179/thumbnail.jp
Ice Core Collection Experimental Device (ICCED)
The Ice Core Collection Experimental Device (ICCED) is designed for participation in the NASA Microgravity Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) âUnder Ice Sampling Deviceâ challenge. This challenge involves the design, development, and testing of a sampling device that will interface with a submersible vehicle in order to obtain subsurface ice samples in an underwater environment. ICCED is a remotely controlled, underwater drilling device designed to excavate and extract ice cores of 0.5 inches in diameter and 3 inches in length. ICCED consists of a drill connected to a linear slide, which is controlled by a microprocessor and able to cut through ice with the help of attached blades and a servo to power the drill. This device is designed for operation in environments such as those present on the moons of Europa and Enceladus, during which it will be able to drill into an ice surface, collect a sample, and secure the sample inside an insulated module. Development of the device is currently in the prototyping stage. Prototyping will be finished by the end of March, and the team will begin testing the prototype and redesigning, with a final model completed in April. Once final development is completed, the design will be tested in the Johnson Space Centerâs Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory
Spinal muscle activity in simulated rugby union scrummaging is affected by different engagement conditions
Spinal muscle activity in simulated rugby union scrummaging is affected by different engagement conditions
Agricultural Robotics: The Future of Robotic Agriculture
Agri-Food is the largest manufacturing sector in the UK. It supports a food chain that generates over ÂŁ108bn p.a., with 3.9m employees in a truly international industry and exports ÂŁ20bn of UK manufactured goods. However, the global food chain is under pressure from population growth, climate change, political pressures affecting migration, population drift from rural to urban regions and the demographics of an aging global population. These challenges are recognised in the UK Industrial Strategy white paper and backed by significant investment via a Wave 2 Industrial Challenge Fund Investment ("Transforming Food Production: from Farm to Fork"). Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS) and associated digital technologies are now seen as enablers of this critical food chain transformation. To meet these challenges, this white paper reviews the state of the art in the application of RAS in Agri-Food production and explores research and innovation needs to ensure these technologies reach their full potential and deliver the necessary impacts in the Agri-Food sector
The limits of fiction: politics and absent scenes in Susumu Haniâs Bad Boys (FuryĆshĆnen, 1960). A film re-reading through its script
This text proposes an updated analysis of Susumu Haniâs Bad
Boys (1960) through the directorâs theoretical contribution and
the re-reading of his script. This film, made within the limits of
reality and fiction, was instrumental in the cinematic language
of the sixties in Japan. Hani implemented herein a style that he
developed during his earlier decade as a documentary maker
for Iwanami Eiga studios. Hani based his filmmaking method on
a philosophical pragmatism extracted from the practices of an
amateur writing called seikatsu kiroku (life document) that
appeared in the early 1950s. In fact, Bad Boys is a loose
adaptation of Tobenai Tsubasa (Wings that Cannot Fly) an
example of seikatsu kiroku consisting of a compilation of
experiences written by inmates from the Kurihama reformatory.
Hani responded to the demands for a new realism of the time
with this film, which he made collectively with the former
inmates of that reformatory. Additionally, a close analysis of the
script reveals significant âabsent scenesâ of student
demonstrations, which are similar to those Oshima and Yoshida
used in 1960. This fact evidences Haniâs shared concern with
other filmmakers of the time about the necessities of bringing
cinema closer to topical issues