Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Ministry (Book Review)

Reviewed Title: Rienstra, Debra, and Ron Rienstra. Worship Words: Discipling Language for Faithful Ministry. Engaging Worship Series. Eds. Clayton J. Schmit and Todd E. Johnson. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009. 286 pages. ISBN-978-0-8010-3616-3

Application of reduced-set pareto-lipschitzian optimization to truss optimization

In this paper, a recently proposed global Lipschitz optimization algorithm Pareto-Lipschitzian Optimization with Reduced-set (PLOR) is further developed, investigated and applied to truss optimization problems. Partition patterns of the PLOR algorithm are similar to those of DIviding RECTangles (DIRECT), which was widely applied to different real-life problems. However here a set of all Lipschitz constants is reduced to just two: the maximal and the minimal ones. In such a way the PLOR approach is independent of any user-defined parameters and balances equally local and global search during the optimization process. An expanded list of other well-known DIRECT-type algorithms is used in investigation and experimental comparison using the standard test problems and truss optimization problems. The experimental investigation shows that the PLOR algorithm gives very competitive results to other DIRECT-type algorithms using standard test problems and performs pretty well on real truss optimization problems

Behind the Mask: 40 Quarantine Poems from Humboldt County

David Holper and Anne Fricke. Poems in Humboldt County. September 20, 2020. Table of Context: L.F. Allen, Refugee R. Allen, Raptured G. Bee, The Morning of April 7th after COVID-19 M. Bickford, The Following S. Bigham, Weathering the Storm L. Birdsong, No More Doing To Be Done S. Bloch-Welliver, White Fog S. Brooks, Virulent W. Butler, Personal neuroses and pandemic D.N. Chinn, In the Shadow of Waiting L. Crist, An Introvert Laments D. Collins, Meet me on the Corner T. Fitzmaurice, April 18, 2020 J. Floss, The Trouble with Pebble M. Franco, Do What You Love A. Fricke, Rehearsal may be Over S. Gallidorfer, Alone in Quarantine M. Genger, Blame S. Gibson, What I did not know I needed in 5 parts K. Harris, Cherry Sutra K. Hellium, Surrender D. Holper, Bord for En I. Jewett, Pandemic D. Kearns, Greaving our Whole Family Z. Levinson, Psalm for Surreal Ceremony J. Marak, Distancing J. Martien, Prayer P. McCutcheon, Gaia\u27s Rage K. Nunes-Siciliani, This Wasn\u27t Supposed to be a Love Poem V. Peloso, Latex Gloves W. Schmit, I Startle Osprey J. Shermis, Dreams of Light J. Suskin, The Choice of Service N. Tarpey, A Lot on Her Plate D. Tisdell, What Covid Took from Me I. Unsinger, Connection Failure R. Lenning, Grapefruit in a Global Pandemic A. Veronese, The Ceiling Stares Back (but never answers) J. Williams, Lost in Calamity A. Wood, Covide

J Immigr Minor Health

BackgroundImmigrants to the United States from countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB) who have abnormal chest radiographs but negative sputum cultures during pre-immigration screening (TB Class B1) have a high risk of being diagnosed with TB disease within 1 year of arrival.MethodsUsing 2010\u20132014 national surveillance data, we compared proportions of Class B1 Filipino immigrants who received a diagnosis of TB disease within 1 year of arrival to Hawaii to proportions in other U.S. states (not including Hawaii) using chi-squared tests.ResultsIn Hawaii, 40/1190 (3.4%) of Class B1 Filipino immigrants to Hawaii received a diagnosis of TB disease within 1 year of arrival compared with 220/16,035 (1.4%) nationwide (P < .01).ConclusionsDuring 2010\u20132014, the percentage of recent Class B1 Filipino immigrants in Hawaii with TB disease diagnosed within 1 year of arrival was over twice that as nationwide.20192020-12-01T00:00:00ZCC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHS/United States30806953PMC6710158886

A Public-Domain Personality Item Bank For Use With The Raymark, Schmit, and Guion (1997) PPRF

Presented is the development of a repository of work-related personality items that may be used to assess job-related traits identified by the Personality-Related Position Requirements Form (PPRF: Raymark, Schmit, & Guion, 1997). Analyses of the item pool administered to a sample (n = 412) of trade apprentices showed evidence to support the12 work-related Big 5 sub-dimensions identified by the PPRF. A smaller validity study (n = 47) suggested that personality dimensions identified as job-related by the PPRF were related to important job-related outcomes

Theology, News and Notes - Vol. 48, No. 02

Theology News & Notes was a theological journal published by Fuller Theological Seminary from 1954 through 2014.https://digitalcommons.fuller.edu/tnn/1143/thumbnail.jp

Social Impact Bonds: A Research Anthology

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are pay-for-success arrangements that can be used to address a variety of public health issues, ranging from asthma to infant mortality. SIBs are used as financing mechanisms to raise upfront funding from private investors for social and public health preventative interventions. They function by leveraging the anticipated savings of prevention as a source for potential financial rewards for the intervention’s investors. In a SIB arrangement, rewards are due if and only if the intervention succeeds in reaching predetermined benchmarks, thereby shifting the financial burden of success to the investors. Since the world’s first SIB launched in 2010, SIBs have been discussed as a way to raise funds for public health initiatives. The following articles and resources were collected through April 2014 using online databases and resources, including WestlawNext™ for legal publications. No material created before 2010 (the year the world’s first SIB started) was collected. The results were narrowed to those resources included here on the basis of their relevance to public health, law, and policy in states, tribes, localities, and territories. Articles were also selected to account for the different perspectives, roles, and responsibilities of parties involved in SIBs, existing and potential applications of SIBs, and issues raised by SIBs. Given that SIBs are new instruments that are still being studied and explored, this anthology should not be considered to be exhaustive.Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Preventio

Public Health Law and Policy Innovations: Social Impact Bonds

Social impact bonds (SIBs) are pay-for-success arrangements that can be used to address public health issues such as asthma and infant mortality. SIBs are used as financing mechanisms to raise upfront funding from private investors for social and public health preventative interventions. They function by leveraging the anticipated savings of prevention as a source for potential financial rewards for the intervention’s investors

Poverty reduction and rural finance: From unsustainable programs to sustainable institutions with growing outreach to the poor

Only relief achieves short-term poverty reduction, but is ineffective in the long run. Sustainable poverty reduction can only be attained through well-designed long-term development measures. For example, Indonesia is considered one of the most successful countries with regard to poverty reduction. Between 1970 and 1996, it reduced poverty from 60% to 11.5% of its population, a time span of a quarter century during which local financial institutions expanded rapidly. The Asian financial crisis led to a set-back, but also became the departure point for a more sustainable institutional system. (Getubig, Remenyi and Quinones 1997:89; Seibel and Schmidt 1999:8-10) All our experience tells us: there is no short-cut to sustainable poverty reduction and development; and certainly none outside a solid, prudentially regulated institutional framework. --

Site Index Curves for Loblolly and Slash Pine Plantations in the Post Oak Belt of East Texas

Stem analysis data collected from dominant and codominant trees growing in loblolly (Pinus taeda L.) and slash pine (Pinus elliottii Engelm.) plantations were used to develop site index curves. These data were collected from loblolly and slash pine plantations growing in the Post Oak Belt of East Texas. The height prediction curves were based on the Chapman-Richards function and will provide an indication of site productivity based on plantation age. South. J. Appl. For. 15(2):97-100