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The relationality of the Holy One of Israel in the book of Isaiah
This dissertation explores the ways that “the Holy One of Israel” is used in the book of Isaiah to depict Yahweh, the powerful and unapproachable God, in his personal relationship with Israel. It investigates the actions and character of Yahweh as the Holy One of Israel and the nature and purpose of Yahweh’s holiness as reflected in the Holy One of Israel’s treatment of Israel. It considers how Yahweh seeks to manifest his holiness in the midst of rebellion through righteous actions. In particular, it examines how the Holy One of Israel rebukes, redeems, and restores Israel, despite her rebellious disposition and actions. This research affirms that Israel’s relationship with the Holy One is not contrived, but comes out of a genuine experience, as evidenced by Yahweh’s desire to empower Israel to live righteously. When God and his people act righteously, the Holy One has manifested his holiness.
This thesis demonstrates that the Holy One of Israel is a relational God who has the spiritual and sanctifying power to transform unrighteous people to live righteously. Therefore, the prophet Isaiah calls Israel to return to the Holy One of Israel who, though he rebukes his people, does so in order to restore them, and transform them into “oaks of righteousness” (Isa 61:3). Thus the Isaianic use of the special epithet reminds Israel of the immanence of Yahweh who belongs to Israel, and it connotes: “the Holy One of Israel, the powerful righteous redeemer is with you.”https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdissertations/1562/thumbnail.jp
Did Fiji’s Budget Deficit Support Private Investment? Some Empirical Evidence:1982-2011
Ever since the two coups in 1987, Fiji’s domestic investment climate has continued to remain uncertain. Aside from the lingering effects of these two coups, their re-occurrences of coups in 2000 and 2006 resulted in further setbacks. Against this background, government has been pushing hard to promote public expenditure not only to make up for the deficiency caused by private investment but also for promoting growth enhancing public infrastructure investment in the face of stagnant revenues. This paper looks at the relationship between the resultant budget deficits and private investment in a multivariate framework. The study findings are that budget deficits as such did not support private investment. The paper indicates the need for further research in regard to components of public expenditure
Solar Neutrinos with Three Flavor Mixings
The recent 71Ga solar neutrino observation is combined with the 37Cl and
Kamiokande-II observations in an analysis for neutrino masses and mixings. The
allowed parameter region is found for matter enhanced mixings among all three
neutrino flavors. Distortions of the solar neutrino spectrum unique to three
flavors are possible and may be observed in continuing and next generation
experiments.Comment: August 1992 (Revised) PURD-TH-92-
Knowledge management and human trafficking: using conceptual knowledge representation, text analytics and open-source data to combat organized crime
Globalization, the ubiquity of mobile communications and the rise of the web have all expanded the environment in which organized criminal entities are conducting their illicit activities, and as a result the environment that law enforcement agencies have to police. This paper triangulates the capability of open-source data analytics, ontological knowledge representation and the wider notion of knowledge management (KM) in order to provide an effective, interdisciplinary means to combat such threats, thus providing law enforcement agencies (LEA’s) with a foundation of competitive advantage over human trafficking and other organized crime
Electron correlation resonances in the transport through a single quantum level
Correlation effects in the transport properties of a single quantum level
coupled to electron reservoirs are discussed theoretically using a
non-equilibrium Green functions approach. Our method is based on the
introduction of a second-order self-energy associated with the Coulomb
interaction that consistently eliminates the pathologies found in previous
perturbative calculations. We present results for the current-voltage
characteristic illustrating the different correlation effects that may be found
in this system, including the Kondo anomaly and Coulomb blockade. We finally
discuss the experimental conditions for the simultaneous observation of these
effects in an ultrasmall quantum dot.Comment: 4 pages (two columns), 3 figures under reques
An Analytical Study on the Multi-critical Behaviour and Related Bifurcation Phenomena for Relativistic Black Hole Accretion
We apply the theory of algebraic polynomials to analytically study the
transonic properties of general relativistic hydrodynamic axisymmetric
accretion onto non-rotating astrophysical black holes. For such accretion
phenomena, the conserved specific energy of the flow, which turns out to be one
of the two first integrals of motion in the system studied, can be expressed as
a 8 degree polynomial of the critical point of the flow configuration.
We then construct the corresponding Sturm's chain algorithm to calculate the
number of real roots lying within the astrophysically relevant domain of
. This allows, for the first time in literature, to {\it
analytically} find out the maximum number of physically acceptable solution an
accretion flow with certain geometric configuration, space-time metric, and
equation of state can have, and thus to investigate its multi-critical
properties {\it completely analytically}, for accretion flow in which the
location of the critical points can not be computed without taking recourse to
the numerical scheme. This work can further be generalized to analytically
calculate the maximal number of equilibrium points certain autonomous dynamical
system can have in general. We also demonstrate how the transition from a
mono-critical to multi-critical (or vice versa) flow configuration can be
realized through the saddle-centre bifurcation phenomena using certain
techniques of the catastrophe theory.Comment: 19 pages, 2 eps figures, to appear in "General Relativity and
Gravitation
Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome: A Single-institution Experience
Background:Superior mesenteric artery syndrome (SMAS) is a rare disease in adult. SMAS is characterized by acute, or, more commonly, chronic nonspecific symptoms due to duodenal obstruction and severe malnutrition with reduced arterio-mesenteric angle and distance. Surgical treatment may be necessary in most cases with chronic symptoms or when conservative treatment fails in SMAS.Methods:A retrospective chart review was performed on patients who underwent operation for SMAS from January 2008 to August 2020 in Cardinal Tien Hospital. Patients’ clinical presentations, surgical intervention, and outcomes.Results:Data from a total of 14 patients diagnosed with SMAS were analyzed, of which seven were diagnosed with SMAS by abdominal computed tomography and upper gastrointestinal series with water-soluble barium contrast. Six of the confirmed cases underwent surgery, namely, gastric decompression using a nasogastric tube, andcorrection of electrolyte imbalance. The nasoduodenal tube was placed through the obstructed duodenum to provide a high-nutrient fluid supplement. After conservative treatment failure, the patients underwent surgery. Of the six patients, four underwent duodenojejunostomy, one underwent a mini-laparotomy duodenojejunostomy bypass, and the last one underwent Roux-en-Y duodenojejunal bypass with duodenal feeding tube insertion.Conclusion:Patients with SMAS should initially be treated conservative. Surgical intervention should be considered in patients in whom conservative treatments were not effective.Complete resolution of all symptoms may not always be guaranteed after surgical intervention. Laparoscopy is currently widely used. In well-selected patients, minimally invasive or mini-laparotomy duodenojejunostomy is a safe and effective treatment for SMAS. The main advantages of mini-laparotomy duodenojejunostomy over other surgical approaches include half-length surgical incision and a shorter operative time. Duodenojejunostomy is rapidly becoming the standard procedure of this condition, and it has excellent outcomes comparable with those of open surgery
Dispersion of a single hole in the t-J model
The dispersion of a single hole in the t-J model obtained by the exact result
of 32 sites and the results obtained by self-consistent Born approximation and
the Green function Monte Carlo method can be simply derived by a mean-field
theory with d-RVB and antiferromagnetic order parameters. In addition, it
offers a simple explanation for the difference observed between those results.
The presence of the extended van Hove region at (pi,0) is a consequence of the
d-RVB pairing independenct of the antiferromagnetic order. Results including t'
and t" are also presented and explained consistently in a similar way.Comment: LaTex file, 5 pages with 5 embedded eps figure
Goos-H\"{a}nchen-like shifts for Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene barrier
We investigate the Goos-H\"{a}nchen-like shifts for Dirac fermions in
transmission through a monolayer graphene barrier. The lateral shifts, as the
functions of the barrier's width and the incidence angle, can be negative and
positive in Klein tunneling and classical motion, respectively. Due to their
relations to the transmission gap, the lateral shifts can be enhanced by the
transmission resonances when the incidence angle is less than the critical
angle for total reflection, while their magnitudes become only the order of
Fermi wavelength when the incidence angle is larger than the critical angle.
These tunable beam shifts can also be modulated by the height of potential
barrier and the induced gap, which gives rise to the applications in
graphene-based devices.Comment: 5 pages, 5 figure
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