Liberty and Equality in British Methodist Thought: From John Wesley to the Present Day.

From its genesis the Methodist movement, which would become the Methodist Church, has had a deep concern for the values and ideas of liberty and equality that comes from its theology and practice; sharing the gospel message amongst the poor and disadvantaged. However, there have been times when the Methodist Church has struggled to develop a theological ethic on human rights that is fully integrated with its theology. Through an exploration of the teachings of John Wesley, the Eighteenth Century leader of the Methodist societies, and particularly those that concerned liberty and the anti-slavery movement and the American Revolution, it is possible to determine key theological tenets in his thought: Wesley’s teaching is that all people have been endowed with liberty by their creator; the liberty of conscience being preeminent among these. Furthermore, that all people should have the integrity of their liberty respected, slavery being an afront to this principle. That in God’s salvation love, being for all people, is recognised when we conceive of people being made by the creator in the natural and political image of God. From this starting point, in Wesley’s theology, it is then possible to explore one of the most significant issues of liberty and equality, or rights, in the 20th century, connected with the 18th century struggles: Racism in society, that permeates into the Church. In examining the Methodist Church’s response to racism, it can be determined to what extent it has endeavoured to implement a radical theological ethic. Moving into the 21st century, examining recent commitments by the Methodist Conference to forge an ‘inclusive church’, with new resources such as the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Toolkit, it can be confidently stated that there is a commitment to engaging with a theological approach to liberty and equality issues, that can draw much from our Wesleyan theology, practice and heritage

Letter from John D. Speirs

Letter concerning a position in mathematics or history at Utah Agricultural College

Letters between John D. Speirs and William Kerr\u27s secretary

Letters concerning a position in mathematics or history at Utah Agricultural College

Letters between John D. Speirs and W. J. Kerr

Letters concerning a position in mathematics, history, or english at Utah Agricultural College

Development of welding techniques and filler metals for high strength aluminum alloys second quarterly report, 1 oct. - 31 dec. 1964

Welding techniques and filler metals for high strength aluminum alloys evaluated by bulge test progra

Electrostatic electron cyclotron instabilities near the upper hybrid layer due to electron ring distributions

A theoretical study is presented of the electrostatic electron cyclotron instability involving Bernstein modes in a magnetized plasma. The presence of a tenuous thermal ring distribution in a Maxwellian plasma decreases the frequency of the upper hybrid branch of the electron Bernstein mode until it merges with the nearest lower branch with a resulting instability. The instability occurs when the upper hybrid frequency is somewhat above the third, fourth, and higher electron cyclotron harmonics, and gives rise to a narrow spectrum of waves around the electron cyclotron harmonic nearest to the upper hybrid frequency. For a tenuous cold ring distribution together with a Maxwellian distribution an instability can take place also near the second electron cyclotron harmonic. Noise-free Vlasov simulations are used to assess the theoretical linear growth-rates and frequency spectra, and to study the nonlinear evolution of the instability. The relevance of the results to laboratory and ionospheric heating experiments is discussed

Characterisation of materials with hyperelastic microstructures through computational homogenisation and optimisation methods.

The constitutive modelling of microheterogeneous materials is a subject of considerable practical and theoretical interest. Among many approaches computational homogenisation is particularly powerful and versatile. This is based on the numerical estimation of the mechanical response of a volume element representing the material's microstructure. This thesis is concerned with computational homogenisation and its particular use in characterising materials with hyperelastic microstructures through an optimisation based methodology. Details of a finite element implementation of the computational homogenisation procedure are presented. These are derived from a variational treatment of the homogenisation problem. Examples of the application of the method to hyperelastic microstructures are reported. Next a procedure to provide a convenient characterisation of the behaviour of composite material is considered. This consists of adopting a conventional explicit model to approximate the macroscopic mechanical behaviour. Parameters of the model are chosen by established optimisation methods so that the macro model best fits the calculated homogenised response of a model of the microstructure. The optimisation based methodology is applied to the problem of modelling the constitutive behaviour of artery walls

Numerical simulation of unconstrained cyclotron resonant maser emission

When a mainly rectilinear electron beam is subject to significant magnetic compression, conservation of magnetic moment results in the formation of a horseshoe shaped velocity distribution. It has been shown that such a distribution is unstable to cyclotron emission and may be responsible for the generation of Auroral Kilometric Radiation (AKR) an intense rf emission sourced at high altitudes in the terrestrial auroral magnetosphere. PiC code simulations have been undertaken to investigate the dynamics of the cyclotron emission process in the absence of cavity boundaries with particular consideration of the spatial growth rate, spectral output and rf conversion efficiency. Computations reveal that a well-defined cyclotron emission process occurs albeit with a low spatial growth rate compared to waveguide bounded simulations. The rf output is near perpendicular to the electron beam with a slight backward-wave character reflected in the spectral output with a well defined peak at 2.68GHz, just below the relativistic electron cyclotron frequency. The corresponding rf conversion efficiency of 1.1% is comparable to waveguide bounded simulations and consistent with the predictions of kinetic theory that suggest efficient, spectrally well defined radiation emission can be obtained from an electron horseshoe distribution in the absence of radiation boundaries.Publisher PD

Foehn winds in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctic: The origin of extreme warming events

Foehn winds resulting from topographic modification of airflow in the lee of mountain barriers are frequently experienced in the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDVs) of Antarctica. Strong foehn winds in the MDVs cause dramatic warming at onset and have significant effects on landscape forming processes; however, no detailed scientific investigation of foehn in the MDVs has been conducted. As a result, they are often misinterpreted as adiabatically warmed katabatic winds draining from the polar plateau. Herein observations from surface weather stations and numerical model output from the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) during foehn events in the MDVs are presented. Results show that foehn winds in the MDVs are caused by topographic modification of south-southwesterly airflow, which is channeled into the valleys from higher levels. Modeling of a winter foehn event identifies mountain wave activity similar to that associated with midlatitude foehn winds. These events are found to be caused by strong pressure gradients over the mountain ranges of the MDVs related to synoptic-scale cyclones positioned off the coast of Marie Byrd Land. Analysis of meteorological records for 2006 and 2007 finds an increase of 10% in the frequency of foehn events in 2007 compared to 2006, which corresponds to stronger pressure gradients in the Ross Sea region. It is postulated that the intra- and interannual frequency and intensity of foehn events in the MDVs may therefore vary in response to the position and frequency of cyclones in the Ross Sea region