A Theological Study of Baptism and the Lord\u27s Supper as Expressed at the Hanover Convention of the Lutheran World Federation

The study which here presents the theology of Baptism and the Lord’s Supper expressed at the Hannover Convention of the Lutheran World Federation is an outgrowth of the writer\u27s concern to know what was said on theological matters by members of the Lutheran World Federation assembled in their first official convention as a federation of Lutherans

Efectos en el derecho internacional a causa de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania

La presente investigación se llevó a cabo bajo el objetivo de determinar los efectos en el derecho internacional a causa de la guerra entre Rusia y Ucrania. Se realizó mediante una metodología básica de diseño interpretativo, hermenéutico y de enfoque cualitativo, con una participación de 8 especialistas en el campo de estudio de la gestión política; utilizando técnicas como la entrevista, el análisis documental y bibliográfico; e instrumentos como la guía de entrevista, discursos políticos, artículos, entre otros. Como resultados se encontró que los entrevistados destacaron la importancia estratégica e histórica del territorio en conflicto entre Rusia y Ucrania y su influencia en la dinámica del conflicto, denotando que la invasión sin justificación legal ha llevado a reconsiderar la respuesta a este tipo de agresiones, resultando en la aplicación de sanciones internacionales más severas. En conclusión, se identificó la Importancia estratégica e histórica del territorio en conflicto, debido a su ubicación geográfica y la presencia de grupos que buscan independencia o anexión a la Unión Soviética, lo cual ha llevado a tensiones entre Rusia y Estados Unidos, especialmente con la expansión de la OTAN, lo que ha contribuido al conflicto actual.TrujilloEscuela de PosgradoPolíticas Publicas y Gobernabilidad DemocráticaDerecho público y privadoFortalecimiento de la democracia, ciudadanía y cultura de pazReducción de las desigualdade

Ein Forschungsprojekt der Gemeinschaft der Katholischen Männer Deutschlands und der Männerarbeit der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland

Die Gemeinschaft der Katholischen Männer Deutschlands (GKMD) und die Männerarbeit der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland haben zum zweiten Mal eine große repräsentative Befragung unter Deutschlands Männern in Auftrag gegeben. Nach zehn Jahren war es an der Zeit, genauer danach zu fragen, was aus jenen „Männern im Aufbruch“ geworden ist, die in der ersten empirischen Männerstudie im Jahre 1998 vorgestellt wurden. Mit der vorliegenden Studie, die wiederum von Rainer Volz und Paul M. Zulehner wissenschaftlich betreut wurde, erfolgt nun die Umwandlung der Querschnittsstudie des Jahres 1998 zu einer Längsschnittstudie, die die Entwicklungen im Leben der Männer und ihrer Einstellungen in den letzten zehn Jahren auf einer soliden empirischen Basis nachzeichnet. Dies drückt sich auch im Titel des vorliegenden Berichts- und Kommentarbandes „Männer in Bewegung. Zehn Jahre Männerentwicklung in Deutschland“ aus

Local tuning of Rydberg exciton energies in nanofabricated Cu2O pillars

Funding: This work was supported by the EPSRC through grant No. EP/S014403/1, by The Royal Society through RGS\R2\192174, and by the Leverhulme Trust through grant No. RPG-2022-188. A.S.P. acknowledges the PhD scholarship from University of St Andrews and Macquarie University and the support of Sydney Quantum Academy, Sydney, NSW, Australia for The SQA Supplementary Scholarship. S.K.R. acknowledges the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Incentive Grant RIG009823. T.V. acknowledges support through the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems (CE170100009). The authors acknowledge the support of EPSRC Capital for Great Technologies Grant EP/L017008/1 and the EPSRC Strategic Equipment Resource Grant EP/R023751/1 for the use of the FIB equipment for the fabrication of the pillars.Rydberg excitons in Cu2O feature giant optical nonlinearities. To exploit these nonlinearities for quantum applications, the confinement must match the Rydberg blockade size, which in Cu2O could be as large as a few microns. Here, in a top-down approach, we show how exciton confinement can be realised by focused-ion-beam etching of a polished bulk Cu2O crystal without noticeable degradation of the excitonic properties. The etching of the crystal to micron sizes allows for tuning the energies of Rydberg excitons locally, and precisely, by optically induced temperature change. These results pave the way for exploiting the large nonlinearities of Rydberg excitons in micropillars for making non-classical light sources, while the precise tuning of their emission energy opens up a viable pathway for realizing a scalable photonic quantum simulation platform.Peer reviewe

Predictors of readmission and health related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: a comparison of different psychosocial aspects

Psychological distress is common in patients with chronic heart failure. The impact of different psychological variables on prognosis has been shown but the comparative effects of these variables remain unclear. This study examines the impact of depression, anxiety, vital exhaustion, Type D personality, and social support on prognosis in chronic heart failure patients. One hundred eleven patients (mean age 57±14years) having participated in an exercise based ambulatory cardiac rehabilitation program were enrolled in a prospective cohort study. Psychological baseline data were assessed at program entry. Mortality, readmission, and health-related quality of life were assessed at follow up (mean 2.8±1.1years). After controlling for disease severity none of the psychological variables were associated with mortality, though severe anxiety predicted readmission [HR=3.21 (95% CI, 1.04-9.93; P=.042)]. Health-related quality of life was independently explained by vital exhaustion, anxiety and either body mass index (physical dimension) or sex (emotional dimension). As psychological variables have a strong impact on health-related quality of life they should be routinely assessed in chronic heart failure patients's treatmen

Altered paired associative stimulation-induced plasticity in NMDAR encephalitis

Objective: To determine whether neurophysiological mechanisms indicating cortical excitability, long-term potentiation (LTP)-like plasticity, GABAergic and glutamatergic function are altered in patients with anti-N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) encephalitis and whether they can be helpful as markers of diagnostic assessment, disease progression, and potentially therapy response. Methods: Neurophysiological characterizations of patients with NMDAR encephalitis (n = 34, mean age: 28 ± 11 years; 30 females) and age/gender-matched healthy controls (n = 27, 28.5 ± 10 years; 25 females) were performed using transcranial magnetic stimulation-derived protocols including resting motor threshold, recruitment curve, intracortical facilitation, short intracortical inhibition, and cortical silent period. Paired associative stimulation (PAS) was applied to assess LTP-like mechanisms which are mediated through NMDAR. Moreover, resting state functional connectivity was determined using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Results: PAS-induced plasticity differed significantly between groups (P = 0.0056). Cortical excitability, as assessed via motor-evoked potentials after PAS, decreased in patients, whereas it increased in controls indicating malfunctioning of NMDAR in encephalitis patients. Lower PAS-induced plasticity significantly correlated with the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) (r = −0.41; P = 0.0031) and was correlated with lower functional connectivity within the motor network in NMDAR encephalitis patients (P < 0.001, uncorrected). Other neurophysiological parameters were not significantly different between groups. Follow-up assessments were available in six patients and demonstrated parallel improvement of PAS-induced plasticity and mRS. Interpretation: Assessment of PAS-induced plasticity may help to determine NMDAR dysfunction and disease severity in NMDAR encephalitis, and might even aid as a sensitive, noninvasive, and well-tolerated “electrophysiological biomarker” to monitor therapy response in the future.Clinical Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: Identifier: NCT0186557

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Débat sur les perspectives économiques à court terme du 16 octobre 2003

Les prévisions occupent une place particulière dans le débat public en économie. Elles sont généralement considérées comme des prédictions, qualifiées fréquemment d’optimistes ou de pessimistes, comme si elles dépendaient de l’humeur des équipes qui les réalisent. Certes, en un sens, la prévision est un art tant elle dépend des signes précurseurs que nous livre le présent, de l’interprétation des évolutions en cours, de la capacité des économistes de sélectionner les informations pertinentes parmi celles, multiples, dont l’intérêt n’est qu’anecdotique. Mais elle est surtout une science puisqu’elle consiste à déduire des informations dont on dispose sur le présent une vision de l’avenir. Elle ne peut être formulée en dehors d’un cadre général d’interprétation, c’est-à-dire d’une théorie qui met en relation les informations que l’on privilégie et les variables que l’on cherche à prévoir. [Premier paragraphe

Optical Trapping of an Ion

For several decades, ions have been trapped by radio frequency (RF) and neutral particles by optical fields. We implement the experimental proof-of-principle for trapping an ion in an optical dipole trap. While loading, initialization and final detection are performed in a RF trap, in between, this RF trap is completely disabled and substituted by the optical trap. The measured lifetime of milliseconds allows for hundreds of oscillations within the optical potential. It is mainly limited by heating due to photon scattering. In future experiments the lifetime may be increased by further detuning the laser and cooling the ion. We demonstrate the prerequisite to merge both trapping techniques in hybrid setups to the point of trapping ions and atoms in the same optical potential.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure