This contextualised study illuminates the oft-misunderstood aspects of Richard Baxter's ecclesiology: purity, unity, and liberty. In doing so, it sheds further light on the nature of seventeenth-century English Puritanism, and the quest for the true church and the corresponding conflicts between the Laudians and Puritans.
Church Ethics and Its Organizational Context is the first book to provide a broadly interdisciplinary approach to understanding the leadership crisis in the Catholic Church in the wake of the sex abuse scandal and how it was handled. Well-known scholars, religious clergy, and laymen in the trenches of church formation and leadership come together from the disciplines of organizational behavior, theology, sociology, history, and law, to foster the creation of a new code of ethics that is both ecclesial and professional. Touching on issues of governance, authority, accountability, and transparency, this volume goes on to specifically explore whether and how professional ethics can shape the identity and actions of Church leaders, ministers, and their congregations. While evoked by the sex scandal in the Church, the essays in this book raise questions that have implications far beyond this current issue, to much broader issues such as the role of professionalism in ethics and what it means for an organization to engage in moral action.
Designed to effectively prepare pediatric cardiology fellows and practitioners for board certification and recertification, Pediatric Cardiology Board Review, Third Edition, provides easy access to more than 1,200 board-style questions. Based on the popular Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology Review course and edited by Drs. Benjamin W. Eidem, Bryan C. Cannon, Jonathan N. Johnson, Anthony C. Chang, Frank Cetta, Robert E. Shaddy, and Paul Kantor, it covers all the latest advances in the diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease, provides full explanations for every question, and helps you make the most of your study time.
Integrated analysis of tissue histology with the genome-wide array and clinical data has the potential to generate hypotheses as well as be prognostic. However, due to the inherent technical and biological variations, automated analysis of whole mount tissue sections is impeded in very large datasets, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), where tissue sections are collected from different laboratories. We aim to characterize tumor architecture from hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) stained tissue sections, through the delineation of nuclear regions on a cell-by-cell basis. Such a representation can then be utilized to derive intrinsic morphometric subtypes across a large cohort for prediction and molecular association. Our approach has been validated on manually annotated samples, and then applied to a Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) cohort of 377 whole slide images from 146 patients. Further bioinformatics analysis, based on the multidimensional representation of the nuclear features and their organization, has identified (i) statistically significant morphometric sub types; (ii) whether each subtype can be predictive or not; and (iii) that the molecular correlates of predictive subtypes are consistent with the literature. The net result is the realization of the concept of pathway pathology through analysis of a large cohort of whole slide images.
Aimed at students and professionals, this book covers every major aspect of petroleum: the origin of fossil hydrocarbons and their chemical/physical properties; discovering hydrocarbon reserves; recovering oil, gas, and bitumen; purifying gas; the chemical and physical characterization of crude oil; refining crudes into fuels and lubricants; and converting simple chemicals into solvents, polymers, fibers, rubbers, coatings, and myriad other products, including pharmaceuticals. Readers will learn how the industry operates, from "upstream" exploration and production, "midstream" transportation to "downstream" refining, and manufacturing of finished products. The book also contains unique chapters on midstream operations, learnings from major accidents, and safety/environmental laws and regulations. It builds on the authors' previous books and teaching material from a highly rated course that is taught at the Florida A&M University/Florida State University (USA).
This book is an introductory book on improving the quality of a process or a system, primarily through the technique of statistical process control (SPC). There are numerous technical manuals available for SPC, but this book differs in two ways: (1) the basic tools of SPC are introduced in a no-nonsense, simple, non-math manner, and (2) the methods can be learned and practiced in an uncomplicated fashion using free software (eZ SPC 2.0), which is available to all readers online as a downloadable product. The book explains QC7 Tools, control charts, and statistical analysis including basic design of experiments. Theoretical explanations of the analytical methods are avoided; instead, results are interpreted through the use of the software.
1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "dark age for democracy." Most scholarship on South Korea's democracy movement and civil society has focused on the "student revolution" in 1960 and the large protest cycles in the 1980s which were followed by Korea's transition to democracy in 1987. But in his groundbreaking work of political and social history of 1970s South Korea, Paul Chang highlights the importance of understanding the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in this oft-ignored decade. Protest Dialectics journeys back to 1970s South Korea and provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the numerous events in the 1970s that laid the groundwork for the 1980s democracy movement and the formation of civil society today. Chang shows how the narrative of the 1970s as democracy's "dark age" obfuscates the important material and discursive developments that became the foundations for the movement in the 1980s which, in turn, paved the way for the institutionalization of civil society after transition in 1987. To correct for these oversights in the literature and to better understand the origins of South Korea's vibrant social movement sector this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the emergence and evolution of the democracy movement in the 1970s.
Refined over the centuries, this collection of exercises is designed to build up a person's internal energy to a level at which disease cannot enter the body. The exercises derive from ancient Chinese practices.
This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.
A program designed for the American high school student, Zhen Bang! welcomes students to the world of Chinese language and culture with a design that is colorful, inviting, and engaging. Students will enjoy talking about their lives, family, friends, school, home, eating, shopping, and more in paired and group communicative activities. -- *Aligns with the National Standards. -- *Incorporates 21st century skills and tools to help students learn the Chinese language and its cultural setting. -- *Presents lively dialogues, a sequential presentation of structure, illustrated vocabulary, and a step-by-step approach to reading and writing Chinese characters. -- *Integrates rich culture throughout the text. -- *Utilizes native-speaking teens for all audio and video. -- *Enriches learning with technology that speaks to today's students. -- With Zhen Bang!, students will discover that learning Chinese is easy and teachers will find that their students are on a path to life-long fluency. " -- Publisher
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