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An Examination of the Salvation Teachings of Eastern Orthodoxy and Southern Baptist Protestantism
A green dot on a watch face; a bracelet with plastic beads in red, yellow, green, white, and black; the dozens of Christian T-shirts ranging from humorous to gory: these are the images which come to mind when I think about salvation at Ouachita Baptist University, Arkadelphia, Arkansas. The green dot several students wore to lure others into asking, Why do you have a green dot on your watch? The reply was, I am wearing it to remind me to tell others about what Jesus has done for them. Have you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Savior? Ah! The foot was in the door! The bearer of the green dot had an opportunity to witness. The beaded bracelet is worn for a similar reason. Each color represents a step in the salvation process. The trinket can be used to explain salvation to unbelievers in an organized way, taking the person through the explanations of sin, savior and heaven with color symbolism. The T-shirts are definitely the most marvelous Ouachita-salvation phenomena. One can read a good chunk of the gospels and Paul\u27s epistles on the T-shirts of Ouachita students if one sits in the cafeteria long enough. I am exaggerating. There are more T-shirts bearing Christian messages (especially lessons or verses pertaining to salvation) than I have ever seen in any other place at one time. Their popularity is undeniable.
All these outward symbols and slogans signify a concern among Ouachita students with salvation. Salvation is a public preoccupation which revolves around the longed-for conversion of the lost to the saved. The preoccupation is manifested in publicity which over and over avian announces the salvation story and always ends with the poignant question: Are you saved?
Ouachita students are not alone in their preoccupation. Southern Baptists are a people preoccupied with the saving of souls. Southern Baptist church services frequently close with an alter call, an invitation to the lost to come forward and experience salvation.
After spending a summer with Russian Orthodox friends, I began to wonder if the Eastern Orthodox Christians shared the same beliefs about salvation as Southern Baptist Christians do. Does the Eastern Orthodox church (officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church) with all its incense and iconography, its use of both the empty cross and the crucifix, its kissing of the priest\u27s hand and its Lord-have-mercy chanting work against the salvation story depicted with green dots, colorful beads, and cotton T-shirts? Do Southern Baptist Christians and Eastern Orthodox Christians work to proclaim the same salvation or do they hold different beliefs, proclaim different messages?
Despite the vast differences in the outward appearance of a Southern Baptist church service and an Eastern Orthodox one and the differences in the way Southern Baptists and Eastern Orthodox Christians witness, ultimately, I found the two denominations to hold many of the same beliefs concerning salvation. However, the specific points in which Eastern Orthodox salvation teachings and Southern Baptist teachings differ are significant ones
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Early Recognition of Burn- and Trauma-Related Acute Kidney Injury: A Pilot Comparison of Machine Learning Techniques.
Severely burned and non-burned trauma patients are at risk for acute kidney injury (AKI). The study objective was to assess the theoretical performance of artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) algorithms to augment AKI recognition using the novel biomarker, neutrophil gelatinase associated lipocalin (NGAL), combined with contemporary biomarkers such as N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), urine output (UOP), and plasma creatinine. Machine learning approaches including logistic regression (LR), k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), and deep neural networks (DNN) were used in this study. The AI/ML algorithm helped predict AKI 61.8 (32.5) hours faster than the Kidney Disease and Improving Global Disease Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria for burn and non-burned trauma patients. NGAL was analytically superior to traditional AKI biomarkers such as creatinine and UOP. With ML, the AKI predictive capability of NGAL was further enhanced when combined with NT-proBNP or creatinine. The use of AI/ML could be employed with NGAL to accelerate detection of AKI in at-risk burn and non-burned trauma patients
Unbound states of 32Cl and the 31S(p,\gamma)32Cl reaction rate
The 31S(p,\gamma)32Cl reaction is expected to provide the dominant break-out
path from the SiP cycle in novae and is important for understanding enrichments
of sulfur observed in some nova ejecta. We studied the 32S(3He,t)32Cl
charge-exchange reaction to determine properties of proton-unbound levels in
32Cl that have previously contributed significant uncertainties to the
31S(p,\gamma)32Cl reaction rate. Measured triton magnetic rigidities were used
to determine excitation energies in 32Cl. Proton-branching ratios were obtained
by detecting decay protons from unbound 32Cl states in coincidence with
tritons. An improved 31S(p,\gamma)32Cl reaction rate was calculated including
robust statistical and systematic uncertainties
Temperature Affects Hatching Success of Cocoons in the Invasive Asian Earthworm Amynthas agrestis from the Southern Appalachians
Invasive Asian earthworms are increasingly common in the eastern USA where they are a major cause of terrestrial ecosystem disturbance. Among these, Amynthas agrestis (Crazy Worm, Alabama Jumper, and other common names) has been shown to alter above- and belowground food webs. Life-history traits of these earthworms are largely unknown, particularly in their invaded range. Here, we sought to answer questions about temperature effects on hatching success for cocoons of this species, using specimens collected from the southern Appalachian Mountains. We conducted 2 experiments investigating the effects of incubation temperature and the effect of varying the duration of cold temperature on hatching success. Of the temperatures tested, we found that cocoons hatched with greatest success at 10 °C, but our tests indicate a long duration at that temperature may be needed to result in an increase in hatching success. These results indicate that temperature and the duration of temperature exposure affect hatching success in this species. While our results contribute to the growing body of knowledge about the life-history traits of invasive Asian earthworms in the eastern US, more research is needed to provide a finer-resolution understanding of the optimum level and duration of temperatures for hatching success of A. agrestis
Direct reaction measurements with a 132Sn radioactive ion beam
The (d,p) neutron transfer and (d,d) elastic scattering reactions were
measured in inverse kinematics using a radioactive ion beam of 132Sn at 630
MeV. The elastic scattering data were taken in a region where Rutherford
scattering dominated the reaction, and nuclear effects account for less than 8%
of the cross section. The magnitude of the nuclear effects was found to be
independent of the optical potential used, allowing the transfer data to be
normalized in a reliable manner. The neutron-transfer reaction populated a
previously unmeasured state at 1363 keV, which is most likely the
single-particle 3p1/2 state expected above the N=82 shell closure. The data
were analyzed using finite range adiabatic wave calculations and the results
compared with the previous analysis using the distorted wave Born
approximation. Angular distributions for the ground and first excited states
are consistent with the previous tentative spin and parity assignments.
Spectroscopic factors extracted from the differential cross sections are
similar to those found for the one neutron states beyond the benchmark
doubly-magic nucleus 208Pb.Comment: 22 pages, 7 figure
Reactions of a Be-10 beam on proton and deuteron targets
The extraction of detailed nuclear structure information from transfer
reactions requires reliable, well-normalized data as well as optical potentials
and a theoretical framework demonstrated to work well in the relevant mass and
beam energy ranges. It is rare that the theoretical ingredients can be tested
well for exotic nuclei owing to the paucity of data. The halo nucleus Be-11 has
been examined through the 10Be(d,p) reaction in inverse kinematics at
equivalent deuteron energies of 12,15,18, and 21.4 MeV. Elastic scattering of
Be-10 on protons was used to select optical potentials for the analysis of the
transfer data. Additionally, data from the elastic and inelastic scattering of
Be-10 on deuterons was used to fit optical potentials at the four measured
energies. Transfers to the two bound states and the first resonance in Be-11
were analyzed using the Finite Range ADiabatic Wave Approximation (FR-ADWA).
Consistent values of the spectroscopic factor of both the ground and first
excited states were extracted from the four measurements, with average values
of 0.71(5) and 0.62(4) respectively. The calculations for transfer to the first
resonance were found to be sensitive to the size of the energy bin used and
therefore could not be used to extract a spectroscopic factor.Comment: 16 Pages, 10 figure
New -ray Transitions Observed in Ne with Implications for the O(,)Ne Reaction Rate
The O(,)Ne reaction is responsible for breakout
from the hot CNO cycle in Type I x-ray bursts. Understanding the properties of
resonances between and 5 MeV in Ne is crucial in the
calculation of this reaction rate. The spins and parities of these states are
well known, with the exception of the 4.14- and 4.20-MeV states, which have
adopted spin-parities of 9/2 and 7/2, respectively. Gamma-ray
transitions from these states were studied using triton--
coincidences from the F(He,)Ne reaction measured
with GODDESS (Gammasphere ORRUBA Dual Detectors for Experimental Structure
Studies) at Argonne National Laboratory. The observed transitions from the
4.14- and 4.20-MeV states provide strong evidence that the values are
actually 7/2 and 9/2, respectively. These assignments are consistent
with the values in the F mirror nucleus and in contrast to previously
accepted assignments
Erratum: Measurement of d+ Be 7 cross sections for big-bang nucleosynthesis (Physical Review Letters (2019) 122 (182701) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.182701)
The cross sections of nuclear reactions between the radioisotope Be7 and deuterium, a possible mechanism of reducing the production of mass-7 nuclides in big-bang nucleosynthesis, were measured at center-of-mass energies between 0.2 and 1.5 MeV. The measured cross sections are dominated by the (d,a) reaction channel, towards which prior experiments were mostly insensitive. A new resonance at 0.36(5) MeV with a strength of ωγ=1.7(5) keV was observed inside the relevant Gamow window. Calculations of nucleosynthesis outcomes based on the experimental cross section show that the resonance reduces the predicted abundance of primordial Li7, but not sufficiently to solve the primordial lithium problem. (Figure Presented)
Key Ne states identified affecting -ray emission from F in novae
Detection of nuclear-decay rays provides a sensitive thermometer of
nova nucleosynthesis. The most intense -ray flux is thought to be
annihilation radiation from the decay of F, which is destroyed
prior to decay by the F(,)O reaction. Estimates of
F production had been uncertain, however, because key near-threshold
levels in the compound nucleus, Ne, had yet to be identified. This
Letter reports the first measurement of the
F(He,)Ne reaction, in which the placement of two
long-sought 3/2 levels is suggested via triton--
coincidences. The precise determination of their resonance energies reduces the
upper limit of the rate by a factor of at nova temperatures and
reduces the average uncertainty on the nova detection probability by a factor
of 2.1.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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