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Theology of the Divine Call and Intentional Interim Ministry in the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod

This study will first survey the development of interim ministry and its purpose and use in congregations. Second, this study will review the Lutheran Confessions regarding the call to the Office of the Holy Ministry and the implications for interim ministry. In order to hone our understanding, Luther\u27s writings will also be examined. Pertinent to understanding what was confessed by the Reformers is what was practiced by the Reformers; therefore, the history of two important pastors and one exemplary situation of the Reformation era will be examined. The author believes these situations to be instructive at least as a parallel to intentional interim ministry. Third, the doctrinal and historical writings of The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and volumes of pastoral theology will be examined. Here significant questions will be encountered that must be seen in historical context. A fourth matter of important consideration will be the current principles and practices of supplying a pastor for a Missouri Synod congregation when the office of the pastor is vacant and the way in which intentional interim ministry compares to these. Finally, growing out of this study, recommendations and suggestions for interim ministry in the Missouri Synod will be offered by the author

The Effects of Low-Level Ethanol Blends in 4-Stroke Small Non-Road Engines

Small Non-Road Engines (SNRE\u27s) abound in numbers and are used daily by consumers and businesses alike. Considering the atmosphere of change looming in the air regarding alternative fuels, this particular engine classification will also be affected by any change in standardization of fuels. This body of research attempts to address possible ways SNRE\u27s can change their operational characteristics after being fueled by specific yet differing fuels. These characteristics will be contrasted against blends of ethanol with gasoline, from 0% ethanol to 20% ethanol, run on test engines to determine patterns, if any, of these characteristics. Topics include: materials compatibility, engine longevity/durability, engine performance, emissions characteristics, operational temperatures, engine oil characteristics, and inspection of engines. These parameters will be used to compare the effects of low-level blends of ethanol with gasoline has on these particular SNRE\u27s

Major Trends in Operating Systems Development

Operating systems have changed in nature in response to demands of users, and in response to advances in hardware and software technology. The purpose of this paper is to trace the development of major themes in operating system design from their beginnings through the present. This is not an exhaustive history of operating systems, but instead is intended to give the reader the flavor of the dif ferent periods in operating systems\u27 development. To this end, the paper will be organized by topic in approximate order of development. Each chapter will start with an introduction to the factors behind the rise of the period. This will be fol lowed by a survey of the state-of-the-art systems, and the conditions influencing them. The chapters close with a summation of the significant hardware and software contributions from the period

Supramolecular control of selectivity in transition-metal catalysis through substrate preorganization

Supramolecular chemistry exploits multiple weak intermolecular interactions to assemble nano-sized molecular architectures, providing new possibilities for (transition metal) catalyst development. In this Perspective we focus on the application of such weak (directional) interactions between a substrate molecule and a (bifunctional) catalyst for structural preorganization prior to the catalytic reaction. As we discuss, such effects together with the confinement properties of the nano-space of the 'active sites' play a crucial role for the exceptional selectivities and activities of natural enzymes. We will elaborate on the application of such supramolecular strategy to the more traditional transition-metal catalysis, and we will compare it with the traditional substrate preorganization methods. Subsequently, literature examples of such bifunctional catalyst systems will be described in which the function of weak interactions was carefully designed a priori, as well as, the serendipitously found catalysts in which the presence of supramolecular effects was recognized post factum. The discussed examples demonstrate the power of the strategy for the control of selectivity in various types of metal catalyzed reactions, and the observation of the serendipitous findings can help to generate new leads for more efficient catalyst design

Introduction to Lattices and Its Applications in Compute-and-Forward Strategy

The Compute-and-Forward (CF) strategy was proposed as a physical layer network coding (PNC) framework by Nazer and Gastpar in 2011. CF exploits interference to obtain higher rates between users in a network. This thesis focuses on studying the application of the lattice network coding (LNC) for CF strategy using maximum-likelihood (ML) decoding through four influential papers in the area.Masteroppgave i informatikkINF399MAMN-PROGMAMN-IN