Mathers Systematic Theology - Chapter 2

INSPIRATION OF THE SCRIPTURES 2.1 The Inspiration of the Scriptures involves the accurate recording of the revelation. 2.1.1 Central Passages establish the inspiration of the Scriptures. 2.1.1.1 2 Timothy 3:16-1

Model metadata summary report for the Ipswich-Sudbury LithoFrame 10-50 Model

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Use of data from patient records for research : a model for best practice?

In the UK National Health Service (NHS), the registered list and the clinical records of patients are an invaluable resource for the quality assurance of clinical care in General Practice (e.g. audit) and for service development and quality initiatives. These records are also powerful instruments for the conduct of research in primary care. General practitioners are the "guardians" of these demographic and clinical data and, indeed, the use of patient data from these records for research in the past has given us many examples of excellent research which have had a direct impact on the care of our patients and the advice we give them.peer-reviewe

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Geological models provide geologists with a mechanism to express their geological knowledge and concepts in an explicit form. The construction of accurate and defensible 3D geological models requires therefore, not only high quality data such as geological maps and borehole records, but also an understanding of geological processes and features. This is a necessity, particularly in complex geological environments, where the data available is unlikely to be sufficient to describe geological structures alone. Figure 1 shows such an example, where discontinuous lense of clays, silts, sands and peats have been delineated by a geologist using the best available data and conceptualisation of geological processes

Using visualization for visualization : an ecological interface design approach to inputting data

Visualization is experiencing growing use by a diverse community, with continuing improvements in the availability and usability of systems. In spite of these developments the problem of how first to get the data in has received scant attention: the established approach of pre-defined readers and programming aids has changed little in the last two decades. This paper proposes a novel way of inputting data for scientific visualization that employs rapid interaction and visual feedback in order to understand how the data is stored. The approach draws on ideas from the discipline of ecological interface design to extract and control important parameters describing the data, at the same time harnessing our innate human ability to recognize patterns. Crucially, the emphasis is on file format discovery rather than file format description, so the method can therefore still work when nothing is known initially of how the file was originally written, as is often the case with legacy binary data. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd

Shear-flexible finite-element models of laminated composite plates and shells

Several finite-element models are applied to the linear static, stability, and vibration analysis of laminated composite plates and shells. The study is based on linear shallow-shell theory, with the effects of shear deformation, anisotropic material behavior, and bending-extensional coupling included. Both stiffness (displacement) and mixed finite-element models are considered. Discussion is focused on the effects of shear deformation and anisotropic material behavior on the accuracy and convergence of different finite-element models. Numerical studies are presented which show the effects of increasing the order of the approximating polynomials, adding internal degrees of freedom, and using derivatives of generalized displacements as nodal parameters

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This paper summarises the British Geological Survey (BGS) plans for the development of integrated environmental models to address the grand challenges that face society. It describes a vision for an Environmental Modelling Platform (BGS 2009), that will allow integrated models to be built and describes case studies of emerging models in the United Kingdom. After an initial scoping phase (Giles et al. 2010), this activity is now being carried out under the DREAM (Data and Research for Environmental Applications and Modelling) cross-cutting project