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Understanding Face and Shame: A Servant-Leadership and Face Management Model
Clergy can have a negative impact on churches and other individuals when they knowingly or unknowingly attempt to save face, that is, try to protect their standing or reputation. The desire to gain face and the fear of losing face and feeling ashamed will likely permeate clergy’s decision-making processes without even being noticed. This study explores the essence of face and face management and the relationship between face management and two characteristics of servant-leadership—awareness and healing—in both Chinese and American churches through the methodology of hermeneutic phenomenology. Prior to this study, to my knowledge, no hermeneutic phenomenological research of face management has been conducted in a church setting. Through a review of the literature, four areas are explored: face and shame, face management, servant-leadership, and face, shame, and face management within the church. This study obtained approval from the Institutional Review Board and informed consent from the participants. Three Chinese and three American Christian ministers were chosen to complete a question sheet and participate in two semi-structured interview sessions. A first cycle of open coding and second cycle of pattern coding were used during data analysis. Face experiences are discussed in light of eight major themes: body, triggers, becoming, face concepts, strategies, emotions, servant-leadership, and the church. Findings from the study help build a servant-leadership and face management model, which can offer an anchored approach for clergy and pastoral counselors to address face and shame and to develop therapeutic interventions
TIRSPEC : TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager
We describe the TIFR Near Infrared Spectrometer and Imager (TIRSPEC) designed
and built in collaboration with M/s. Mauna Kea Infrared LLC, Hawaii, USA, now
in operation on the side port of the 2-m Himalayan Chandra Telescope (HCT),
Hanle (Ladakh), India at an altitude of 4500 meters above mean sea level. The
TIRSPEC provides for various modes of operation which include photometry with
broad and narrow band filters, spectrometry in single order mode with long
slits of 300" length and different widths, with order sorter filters in the Y,
J, H and K bands and a grism as the dispersing element as well as a cross
dispersed mode to give a coverage of 1.0 to 2.5 microns at a resolving power R
of ~1200. The TIRSPEC uses a Teledyne 1024 x 1024 pixel Hawaii-1 PACE array
detector with a cutoff wavelength of 2.5 microns and on HCT, provides a field
of view of 307" x 307" with a plate scale of 0.3"/pixel. The TIRSPEC was
successfully commissioned in June 2013 and the subsequent characterization and
astronomical observations are presented here. The TIRSPEC has been made
available to the worldwide astronomical community for science observations from
May 2014.Comment: 20 pages, 21 figures, 2 tables. Accepted for publication in Journal
of Astronomical Instrumentatio
Restrictive ID policies: implications for health equity
We wish to thank Synod Community Services for their critical work to develop, support, and implement a local government-issued ID in Washtenaw County, MI. We also thank Yousef Rabhi of the Michigan House of Representatives and Janelle Fa'aola of the Washtenaw ID Task Force, Lawrence Kestenbaum of the Washtenaw County Clerk's Office, Sherriff Jerry Clayton of the Washtenaw County Sherriff's Office, and the Washtenaw ID Task Force for their tireless commitment to developing and supporting the successful implementation of the Washtenaw ID. Additionally, we thank Vicenta Vargas and Skye Hillier for their contributions to the Washtenaw ID evaluation. We thank the Curtis Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work, the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan, and the University of California-Irvine Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and Program in Public Health for their support of the Washtenaw ID community-academic research partnership. Finally, we thank the reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. (Curtis Center for Research and Evaluation at the University of Michigan School of Social Work; National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan; University of California-Irvine Department of Chicano/Latino Studies; Program in Public Health)https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10903-017-0579-3.pdfPublished versio
Deglacial sea level history of the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea margins
Deglacial (12.8–10.7 ka) sea level history on the East Siberian continental
shelf and upper continental slope was reconstructed using new geophysical records
and sediment cores taken during Leg 2 of the 2014 SWERUS-C3 expedition. The
focus of this study is two cores from Herald Canyon, piston core
SWERUS-L2-4-PC1 (4-PC1) and multicore SWERUS-L2-4-MC1 (4-MC1), and a gravity
core from an East Siberian Sea transect, SWERUS-L2-20-GC1 (20-GC1). Cores
4-PC1 and 20-GC were taken at 120 and 115 m of modern water depth,
respectively, only a few meters above the global last glacial maximum (LGM;
 ∼  24 kiloannum or ka) minimum sea level of  ∼  125–130 meters below
sea level (m b.s.l.). Using calibrated radiocarbon ages mainly on molluscs
for chronology and the ecology of benthic foraminifera and ostracode species
to estimate paleodepths, the data reveal a dominance of river-proximal species
during the early part of the Younger Dryas event (YD, Greenland Stadial GS-1)
followed by a rise in river-intermediate species in the late Younger Dryas or
the early Holocene (Preboreal) period. A rapid relative sea level rise
beginning at roughly 11.4 to 10.8 ka ( ∼  400 cm of core depth) is indicated
by a sharp faunal change and unconformity or condensed zone of sedimentation.
Regional sea level at this time was about 108 m b.s.l. at the 4-PC1 site
and 102 m b.s.l. at 20-GC1. Regional sea level near the end of the YD was
up to 42–47 m lower than predicted by geophysical models corrected
for glacio-isostatic adjustment. This discrepancy could be explained by
delayed isostatic adjustment caused by a greater volume and/or geographical
extent of glacial-age land ice and/or ice shelves in the western Arctic Ocean
and adjacent Siberian land areas
SDHDF: A new file format for spectral-domain radio astronomy data
Radio astronomy file formats are now required to store wide frequency
bandwidths and multiple simultaneous receiver beams and must be able to account
for versatile observing modes and numerous calibration strategies. The need to
capture and archive high-time and high frequency-resolution data, along with
the comprehensive metadata that fully describe the data, implies that a new
data format and new processing software are required. This requirement is
suited to a well-defined, hierarchically-structured and flexible file format.
In this paper we present the Spectral-Domain Hierarchical Data Format (`SDHDF')
-- a new file format for radio astronomy data, in particular for single dish or
beam-formed data streams. Since 2018, SDHDF has been the primary format for
data products from the spectral-line and continuum observing modes at
Murriyang, the CSIRO Parkes 64-m radio telescope, and we demonstrate that this
data format can also be used to store observations of pulsars and fast radio
bursts.Comment: Supplementary material (SDHDF definition):
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2213133724000192-mmc1.pd
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The Middle Way: East Asian masters students’ perceptions of critical argumentation in U.K. universities.
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Intercultural ethics: questions of methods in language and intercultural communication
This paper explores how questions of ethics and questions of method are intertwined and unavoidable in any serious study of language and intercultural communication. It argues that the focus on difference and solution orientations to intercultural conflict has been a fundamental driver for theory, data collection and methods in the field. These approaches, the paper argues, have created a considerable consciousness raising industry, with methods, trainings and ‘critical incidents’, which ultimately focus intellectual energy in areas which may be productive in terms of courses and publications but which have a problematic basis in their ethical terrain.
Dieser Artikel untersucht wie ethische und methodische Fragen nicht nur ineinander greifen, sondern in keiner ernstzunehmenden Studie ueber Sprache und interkulturelle Kommunikation ausgelassen werden duerfen. Es wird hier argumentiert, dass der Schwerpunkt auf Verschiedenheit und Problemorientierung im interkulturellen Konflikt einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf theoretische Entwicklungen, Datenerhebung und Methoden in diesem Bereich hatte. Dieser Artikel legt auch dar, wie diese Ansaetze eine betraechtliche ‘Bewusstseinsbildungs – Branche' erzeugt haben, mit Methoden, Trainings, und ‘kritischen Interaktionssituationen’, welche letztendlich allen intellektuellen Arbeitseifer auf Bereiche konzentriert hat, die zwar ertragreich sind in Bezug auf Kurse und Publikationen, jedoch eine problematische Grundlage im ethischen Bereich aufweisen
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