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Spectrum of laser emission -- Spectrum of visible light -- Energy of a photon -- Thermal energy -- Population under thermal equilibrium of two levels -- Small-signal gain of a ruby laser amplifier -- Threshold inversion of a laser cavity -- Temporal evolution of the population densities in a three-level system -- Brightness of a diffraction limited beam -- Comparison between the brightness of a lamp and that of an argon laser -- Intensity on the retina of the sun light and of a He-Ne laser beam -- Power spectrum of a wave-train of finite duration -- Coherence time and coherence length of filtered light -- Radiation pressure of a laser beam -- Radiation pressure -- Interaction of Radiation with Atoms and Ions -- Intensity and energy density of a plane em wave -- Photon flux of a plane monochromatic wave -- Number of modes of a blackbody cavity -- Wien's law -- Blackbody cavity filled with a dispersive medium -- Power irradiated by a blackbody emitter -- Average mode energy -- Spontaneous and stimulated emission rates -- Natural broadening -- Doppler broadening -- Temperature of a blackbody with the same energy density of a He-Ne laser -- Spontaneous lifetime and cross section -- Radiative lifetime and quantum yield of the ruby laser transition -- Radiative lifetime of the strongest transition of the Nd: YAG laser -- Transient response of a two-level system to an applied signal -- Gain saturation intensity -- Population inversion of a homogeneously broadened laser transition -- Strongly coupled levels.
The promise and challenge of 3MC research / Improving multinational, multiregional, and multicultural (3MC) comparability using the total survey error (TSE) paradigm / Addressing equivalence and bias in cross-cultural survey research within a mixed methods framework / Innovative sample designs using GIS technology / Within-household selection of respondents / Overview of questionaire design and testing / Ting Yan, Sensitive questions in comparative surveys / Implementing a multinational study of questionnaire design / Using anchoring vignettes to correct for differential response scale usage in 3MC surveys / Conducting cognitive interviewing studies to examine survey question comparability / Setting up the cognitive interview task for non-English speaking participants in the United States / Working toward comparable meaning of different language versions of survey instruments: Do monolingual and bilingual cognitive testing respondents help to uncover the same issues? / Examining the comparability of behavior coding access / How to choose interview language in different countries / Can the language survey administration influence respondents' answers? / Documenting the survey translation and monitoring process / Preventing differences in translated survey items using the survey quality predictor / The design and implementation of mixed-mode surveys / Mixed-mode surveys: Design, estimation, and adjustment methods / Mixed methods in a comparative context: Technology and new opportunities for social science research / Cross-cultural comparability of response patterns of subjective probability questions / Response styles in cross-cultural surveys / Examining translation and respondents' use of response scales in 3MC surveys / Data collection in cross-national and international surveys: Regional case studies / Survey data collection in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA): Challenges, strategies, and opportunities / Survey challenges and strategies in the Middle East and Arab Gulf regions / Data collection in cross-national and international surveys: Latin America and the Caribbean / Survey research in India and China / Best practices for panel maintenance and retention / Collection of biomeasures in a cross-national setting: Experiences in SHARE / Multinational event history calendar interviewing / Ethical considerations in the total survey error context / Linking auxiliary data to survey data: Ethical and legal challenges in Europe and the United States / Organizing and managing comparative surveys / Case studies on monitoring interviewer behavior in international and multinational studies / New frontiers in detecting data fabrication / Comparing nonresponse and nonresponse biases in multinational, multiregional, and multicultural contexts / Geographic correlates of nonresponse in California: A cultural ecosystems perspective / Additional languages and representativeness / Measurement invariance in international large-scale assessments: Integrating theory and method / Approximate measurement invariance / Basic principles of survey data recycling / Survey data harmonization and the quality of data documentation in cross-national surveys / The past, present and future of statistical weights in international survey projects: Implications for survey data harmonization / Prevailing issues and the future of comparative surveys /
Preface -- The contributors -- Introduction : Moral reasoning in the medical context -- Bioethics : nature and scope -- Sources of bioethical problems and concerns -- Challenges to ethical theory -- Moral theories and perspectives -- Religious ethics -- "Rights-based" approaches -- Communitarian ethics -- Feminist ethics -- Virtue ethics -- Nonmoral considerations -- Modes of moral reasoning -- Foundations of the health professional-patient relationship -- Section 1 : Autonomy, paternalism, and medical models -- The Hippocratic oath -- The refutation of medical paternalism / Beneficence today, or autonomy (maybe) tomorrow? -- Commentary / Commentary -- Jean-Claude Chevrolet -- Why doctors should intervene / Four models of the physician-patient relationship / Section 2 : Informed consent and truth-telling -- Antihypertensives and the risk of temporary impotence : a case study in informed consent / Informed consent -- must it remain a fairy tale? / Errors in medicine : nurturing truthfulness / Bioethics in a different tongue : the case of truth-telling / Offering truth /
Euler's Formula for Polyhedra, and Related Topics -- Regular Polyhedra Deltahedra Polyhedra without Diagonals The n-dimensional Cube and the Tower of Hanoi The Four-color Problem and the Five-color Theorem The Conquest of Saturn, the Scramble for Africa, and Other Problems The Search for Perfect Numbers -- Prime Numbers and Factorization Euclidean Perfect Numbers Primes and Their Distribution Factorization Techniques Non-Euclidean Perfect Numbers Extensions and Generalizations What is Area? -- Rectangles and Grid Figures Triangles Polygons Polygonal Regions Area in General Pathology Some Exotic Geometries -- Spherical Geometry Absolute Geometry More History -- Saccheri, Bolyai, and Lobachevsky Hyperbolic Geometry Analytic Geometry -- A Reminder Finite Arithmetics Finite Geometries Application Circles and Quadratic Equations Finite Affine Planes Finite Projective Planes Ovals in a Finite Plane A Finite Version of Poincare's Universe Excerpts from Euclid Games -- Some Tree Games The Game of Hex The Game of Nim Games of Chance Matrix Games Applications of Matrix Games Positive-sum Games Sharing Cooperative Games What's in a Name? -- Place Notation for the Base b Some Properties of Natural Numbers Related to Notation Fractions: First Comments Farey Fractions Egyptian Fractions The Euclidean Algorithm Continued Fractions Decimal Fractions
Convictions of biblical preaching / A definition of biblical preaching / A weekly dose of compressed dignity: how a sermon gives worth to the soul / Overfed, underchallenged: a message must do battle for the will / Theology of powerful preaching: nine beliefs at the heart of biblical preaching / Preaching that raises our sights: what sort of preaching, what sort of preacher, can raise the bar for low jumpers? / Leading and feeding: how preaching and leadership intersect / John 3:16 in the key of C: why true preachers are worship leaders / Growing in your preaching: the call to preach demands our very best / Spiritual formation through preaching: four components of preaching that changes lives / Preaching life into the church: how God uses the ministry of his word to create and strengthen his body / My theory of homiletics: three ideas shape my approach to preaching / Staying on the line: what it means to go above or below the exacting line of truth / History of preaching: assessing today's preaching in light of history / A cup running over: why preachers must find deep satisfaction in Christ / The patented preacher: every preacher is a limited edition of one / I prayed for my preaching: and got answers I didn't expect / How does unction function? Probing the mystery of "the anointing" in a sermon / Squeaky clean: essential areas of focus for the preacher who wants to do right / Required reading: why establish a reading plan? / Rightly dividing the preaching load: the benefits of developing a preaching team, and how one church is seeing it work / Preaching through personal pain: if you have a crisis, should your sermons discuss it? / A prophet among you: what it means to be God's minister / Burning clean fuel: check the motives and emotions that energize your preaching / Backdraft preaching: you've got to reignite the flames Sunday after Sunday / Why I pace before I preach: understanding the weekend panic / Preaching to convulse the demons: helping people find the hand of Jesus / Holy expectation: how can we handle dynamite and not expect it to explode? / Preaching to everyone in particular: how to scratch where people niche / The power of simplicity: lives are changed when we merely read, explain, and apply / View from the pew: how to hold the attention of the easily distracted / Preaching to ordinary people: many feel like overwhelmed failures / Why serious preachers use humor: discernment for light moments with weighty purpose / Connect hearers through dialogue: a two-way street can be paved with gold / Self-disclosure that glorifies Christ: transparent preaching aims to reveal the light, not the window / How to be heard: mastering five overlooked fundamentals of clear communication / Opening the closed American mind: preaching to skeptics / Turning an audience into the church: transforming consumers into the committed / Preaching to change the heart: Paul's example is bold, courageous proclamation / Preaching truth, justice, and the American way: on cultural myths and biblical authority / Preaching morality in an amoral age: how can you blow the whistle when people don't believe there are rules? / Cross-cultural preaching: how to connect in our multicultural world / Connecting with postmoderns: what to adopt, what to adapt, what to oppose in postmodernism / Preaching amid pluralism: elevating Christ in a culture that sees all religions as equal / Connecting with non-Christians: how to analyze an audience when preparing for evangelistic preaching / How to translate male sermons to women: and connect with what may be the largest half of your congregation / He said, she heard: adapting to gender / Connecting with men: how to preach to the tattooed / Creating a singles-friendly sermon: how to preach to 49 percent of today's adults / Preaching to preschoolers: a children's sermon is a time to feed their imaginations, not their egos / Hispanic-American preaching / African-American preaching / Asian-American preaching / Work wins? How your message can restore their soul / One sermon, two messages: how to deliver one sermon at two completely different services / The playful preacher: using humor and irony / What authority do we have anymore? How to bridge the credibility gap /
Immortal invisible Come thou almighty king This is my father's world The God of Abram praise Holy, holy, holy Dear Lord and father of mankind Eternal father strong to save Praise God from whom all blessings flow O for a thousand tongues to sing All creatures of our God and King Hark ten thousand harps and voices Praise to the Lord the almighty What child is this O come, o come, Emmanuel The first Noel Silent night Angels we have heard on high Hark the herald angels sing O come all ye faithful O sacred head Were you there When I survey the wondrous cross God of our fathers We plow the fields together Now thank we all our God For the beauty of the earth Amazing grace Jesus lover of my soul Just as I am Blest be the tie that binds Saviour like a shepherd lead us Rock of ages I need thee every hour Abide with me O God our help in ages past Jesus Christ is risen today All hail the power of Jesus' name Crown him with many crowns Fairest Lord Jesus Onward Christian soldiers Battle hymn of the Republic
Introduction Life of Bede Ecclesiastical History -- Preface. To the most glorious king Ceolwulf. Bede, the servant of Christ and Priest Book I -- Of the Situation of Britain and Ireland, and of their ancient inhabitants How Caius Julius Caesar was the first Roman that came into Britain How Claudius, the second of the Romans who came into Britain, brought the islands Orcades into subjection to the Roman empire; and Vespasian, sent by him, reduced the Isle of Wight under the dominion of the Romans How Lucius, king of Britain, writing to Pope Eleutherus, desired to be made a Christian How the Emperor Severus divided from the rest by a rampart that part of Britain which had been recovered Of the reign of Diocletian, and how he persecuted the Christians The Passion of St. Alban and his companions, who at that time shed their blood for our Lord How, when the persecution ceased, the Church in Britain enjoyed peace till the time of the Arian heresy How during the reign of Gratian, Maximus, being created Emperor in Britain, returned into Gaul with a mighty army How, in the reign of Arcadius, Pelagius, a Briton, insolently impugned the Grace of God How, during the reign of Honorius, Gratian and Constantine were created tyrants in Britain; and soon after the former was slain in Britain, and the latter in Gaul How the Britons, being ravaged by the Scots and Picts, sought succour from the Romans, who coming a second time, built a wall across the island; but when this was broken down at once by the aforesaid enemies, they were reduced to greater distress than before How in the reign of Theodosius the younger, in whose time Palladius was sent to the Scots that believed in Christ, the Britons begging assistance of Aetius, the consul, could not obtain it. [446 a.d.] How the Britons, compelled by the great famine, drove the barbarians out of their territories; and soon after there ensued, along with abundance of corn, decay of morals, pestilence, and the downfall of the nation How the Angles, being invited into Britain, at first drove off the enemy; but not long after, making a league with them, turned their weapons against their allies How the Britons obtained their first victory over the Angles, under the command of Arnbrosius, a Roman How Germanus the Bishop, sailing into Britain with Lupus, first quelled the tempest of the sea, and afterwards that of the Pelagians, by Divine power. [429 a.d.] How the same holy man gave sight to the blind daughter of a tribune, and then coming to St. Aiban, there received of his relics, and left other relics of the blessed Apostles and other martyrs. [429 a.d.] How the same holy man, being detained there by sickness, by his prayers quenched a fire that had broken out among the houses, and was himself cured of his infirmity by a vision. [429 a.d.] How the same Bishops brought help from Heaven to the Britons in a battle, and then returned home. [430 a.d.] How, when the Pelagian heresy began to spring up afresh, Germanus, returning to Britain with Severus, first restored bodily strength to a lame youth, then spiritual health to the people of God, having condemned or converted the heretics. [447 a.d.] How the Britons, being for a time at rest from foreign invasions, wore themselves out by civil wars, and at the same time gave themselves up to more heinous crimes How the holy Pope Gregory sent Augustine, with other monks, to preach to the English nation, and encouraged them by a letter of exhortation, not to desist from their labour. [596 a.d.] How he wrote to the bishop of Aries to entertain them. [596 a.d.] How Augustine, coming into Britain, first preached in the Isle of Thanet to the King of Kent, and having obtained licence from him, went into Kent, in order to preach therein. [597 a.d.] How St. Augustine in Kent followed the doctrine and manner of life of the primitive Church, and settled his episcopal see in the royal city. [597 a.d.] How St. Augustine, being made a bishop, sent to acquaint Pope Gregory with what had been done in Britain, and asked and received replies, of which he stood in need. [597-601 a.d.] How Pope Gregory wrote to the bishop of Aries to help Augustine in the work of God. [601 a.d.] How the same Pope sent to Augustine the Pall and a letter, along with several ministers of the word. [601 a.d.] A copy of the letter which Pope Gregory sent to the Abbot Mellitus, then going into Britain. [601 a.d.] How Pope Gregory, by letter, exhorted Augustine not to glory in his miracles. [601 a.d.] How Pope Gregory sent letters and gifts to King Ethelbert. [601 a.d.] How Augustine repaired the church of our Saviour, and built the monastery of the blessed Peter the Apostle; and concerning Peter the first abbot of the same How Ethelfrid, king of the Northumbrians, having vanquished the nations of the Scots, expelled them from the territories of the English. [603 a.d.] Book II -- Of the death of the blessed Pope Gregory. [604 a.d.] How Augustine admonished the bishops of the Britons on behalf of Catholic peace, and to that end wrought a heavenly miracle in their presence; and of the vengeance that pursued them for their contempt. [Circ. 603 a.d.] How St. Augustine made Mellitus and Justus bishops; and of his death. [604 a.d.] How Laurentius and his bishops admonished the Scots to observe the unity of the Holy Church, particularly in the keeping of Easter; and how Mellitus went to Rome How, after the death of the kings Ethelbert and Sabert, their successors restored idolatry; for which reason, both Mellitus and Justus departed out of Britain. [616 a.d.] How Laurentius, being reproved by the Apostle Peter, converted King Eadbald to Christ; and how the king soon recalled Mellitus and Justus to preach the Word. [617-618 a.d.] How Bishop Mellitus by prayer quenched a fire in his city. [619 a.d.] How Pope Boniface sent the Pall and a letter to Justus, successor to Mellitus. [624 a.d.] Of the reign of King Edwin, and how Paulinus, coming to preach the Gospel, first converted his daughter and others to the mysteries of the faith of Christ. [625-626 a.d.] How Pope Boniface, by letter, exhorted the same king to embrace the faith. [Circ. 625 a.d.] How Pope Boniface advised the king's consort to use her best endeavours for his salvation. [Circ. 625 a.d.]
Contributors -- Foreword / Preface -- Methodological issues / The history of reading research / Current traditions of reading research / Design and analysis of experiments / Ethnographic approaches to reading research / Building and testing models of reading processes / Assessment in reading / Part 2. Basic Processes : the state of the art / Models of the reading process / Word Recognition / A schema-theoretic view of basic processes in reading comprehension / Listening and reading / The structure of text / Metacognitive skills and reading / Directions in the sociolinguistic study of reading / Social and motivational influences on reading / Understanding figurative language / Individual differences and underlying cognitive processes / Instructional practices : the state of the art / Early reading from a developmental perspective / Beginning reading instruction : from debate to reformation / Word identification / Research on teaching reading comprehension / Studying / Readability / Classroom instruction in reading / Managing instruction . Wayne Otto, Anne Wolf and Roger G. Eldridge -- Oral reading / Author index -- Subject index.
Chicago, Illinois : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2017.
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