Religion and…

The question is asked whether Moral Majority is a threat or a challenge. The answer, I believe, is that it is both. The less intelligently we respond to the challenge, the greater is the threat.The concern is about a cluster of organizations and movements representing an alliance between religion and the New Right in American politics. Moral Majority and its leader, Jerry Falwell, are simply the most visible part of the phenomenon. I am persuaded that the religious New Right represents a deep and long-term change in American religion, culture, and politics. Moral Majority and other organizations may not be around five years from now, but the change they represent will be with us for a long time.

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Vivid Imagers Are Better at Detecting Salient Changes

Journal of Individual Differences ◽

10.1027/1614-0001.27.4.218 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 218-228 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Paul Rodway ◽

Karen Gillies ◽

Astrid Schepman

Keyword(s):

Individual Differences ◽

Change Detection ◽

Visual Imagery ◽

Detection Task ◽

Level Of Detail ◽

Detection Accuracy ◽

Change Detection Task ◽

Term Change ◽

High Level

This study examined whether individual differences in the vividness of visual imagery influenced performance on a novel long-term change detection task. Participants were presented with a sequence of pictures, with each picture and its title displayed for 17 s, and then presented with changed or unchanged versions of those pictures and asked to detect whether the picture had been changed. Cuing the retrieval of the picture's image, by presenting the picture's title before the arrival of the changed picture, facilitated change detection accuracy. This suggests that the retrieval of the picture's representation immunizes it against overwriting by the arrival of the changed picture. The high and low vividness participants did not differ in overall levels of change detection accuracy. However, in replication of Gur and Hilgard (1975) , high vividness participants were significantly more accurate at detecting salient changes to pictures compared to low vividness participants. The results suggest that vivid images are not characterised by a high level of detail and that vivid imagery enhances memory for the salient aspects of a scene but not all of the details of a scene. Possible causes of this difference, and how they may lead to an understanding of individual differences in change detection, are considered.

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Enhancing the power generation of Rhodopseudomonas palustris-based MFC

International Journal of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics ◽

10.3233/jae-209444 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 64 (1-4) ◽

pp. 1261-1268

Author(s):

Shu Otani ◽

Dang-Trang Nguyen ◽

Kozo Taguchi

Keyword(s):

Activated Carbon ◽

Rhodopseudomonas Palustris ◽

Ozone Treatment ◽

Maximum Power Density ◽

On Demand ◽

Long Time ◽

Dry Conditions ◽

Carbon Sheet ◽

Uv Ozone

In this study, a portable and disposable paper-based microbial fuel cell (MFC) was fabricated. The MFC was powered by Rhodopseudomonas palustris bacteria (R. palustris). An activated carbon sheet-based anode pre-loaded organic matter (starch) and R. palustris was used. By using starch in the anode, R. palustris-loaded on the anode could be preserved for a long time in dry conditions. The MFC could generate electricity on-demand activated by adding water to the anode. The activated carbon sheet anode was treated by UV-ozone treatment to remove impurities and to improve its hydrophilicity before being loaded with R. palustris. The developed MFC could generate the maximum power density of 0.9 μW/cm2 and could be preserved for long-term usage with little performance degradation (10% after four weeks).

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Ageing of thermal insulation materials. Determination of the long-term change in thermal resistance of closed-cell plastics (accelerated laboratory test methods)

10.3403/01884824u ◽

2015 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Keyword(s):

Laboratory Test ◽

Thermal Resistance ◽

Thermal Insulation ◽

Test Methods ◽

Insulation Materials ◽

Closed Cell ◽

Term Change

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Charlemagne’s Health in ‘Old Age’: Did It Affect Carolingian Military Strategy?

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med.2019.01.01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 11-53

Author(s):

Bernard S. Bachrach

Keyword(s):

Old Age ◽

The Political ◽

Military Strategy ◽

The West ◽

Long Time

During the first thirty-three years of his reign as king of the Franks, i.e., prior to his coronation as emperor on Christmas day 800, Charlemagne, scholars generally agree, pursued a successful long-term offensive and expansionist strategy. This strategy was aimed at conquering large swaths of erstwhile imperial territory in the west and bringing under Carolingian rule a wide variety of peoples, who either themselves or their regional predecessors previously had not been subject to Frankish regnum.1 For a very long time, scholars took the position that Charlemagne continued to pursue this expansionist strategy throughout the imperial years, i.e., from his coronation on Christmas Day 800 until his final illness in later January 814. For example, Louis Halphen observed: “comme empereur, Charles poursuit, sans plus, l’oeuvre entamée avant l’an 800.”2 F. L. Ganshof, who also wrote several studies treating Charlemagne’s army, was in lock step with Halphen and observed: “As emperor, Charlemagne pursued the political and military course he had been following before 25 December 800.”3

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The Spread of Pollutants from Harbour Sludge Depots

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.1984.0096 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 16 (3-4) ◽

pp. 623-633

Author(s):

M Loxham ◽

F Weststrate

Keyword(s):

Time Scales ◽

Molecular Diffusion ◽

Near Field ◽

Parameter Analysis ◽

Migration Patterns ◽

Long Time ◽

Dilution Effects ◽

Short Time ◽

Harbour Sludge

It is generally agreed that both the landfill option, or the civil techniques option for the final disposal of contaminated harbour sludge involves the isolation of the sludge from the environment. For short time scales, engineered barriers such as a bentonite screen, plastic sheets, pumping strategies etc. can be used. However for long time scales the effectiveness of such measures cannot be counted upon. It is thus necessary to be able to predict the long term environmenttal spread of contaminants from a mature landfill. A model is presented that considers diffusion and adsorption in the landfill site and convection and adsorption in the underlaying aquifer. From a parameter analysis starting form practical values it is shown that the adsorption behaviour and the molecular diffusion coefficient of the sludge, are the key parameters involved in the near field. The dilution effects of the far field migration patterns are also illustrated.

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The Many Faces of Socioeconomic Change

10.1093/oso/9780198723349.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

John Toye

Keyword(s):

Socioeconomic Development ◽

Adam Smith ◽

First Century ◽

Social Progress ◽

Long Time ◽

The Face ◽

Scientific Expertise ◽

The Many ◽

Century Development

This book provides a survey of different ways in which economic sociocultural and political aspects of human progress have been studied since the time of Adam Smith. Inevitably, over such a long time span, it has been necessary to concentrate on highlighting the most significant contributions, rather than attempting an exhaustive treatment. The aim has been to bring into focus an outline of the main long-term changes in the way that socioeconomic development has been envisaged. The argument presented is that the idea of socioeconomic development emerged with the creation of grand evolutionary sequences of social progress that were the products of Enlightenment and mid-Victorian thinkers. By the middle of the twentieth century, when interest in the accelerating development gave the topic a new impetus, its scope narrowed to a set of economically based strategies. After 1960, however, faith in such strategies began to wane, in the face of indifferent results and general faltering of confidence in economists’ boasts of scientific expertise. In the twenty-first century, development research is being pursued using a research method that generates disconnected results. As a result, it seems unlikely that any grand narrative will be created in the future and that neo-liberalism will be the last of this particular kind of socioeconomic theory.

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Social Cohesion, Breaks, and Transformations in Italy, 535–600

10.1093/oso/9780198777601.003.0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Walter Pohl

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Late Antique ◽

Religious Context ◽

Ancient Society ◽

Complex Process ◽

Term Change ◽

Two Generations ◽

Classical Culture

When the Gothic War began in Italy in 535, the country still conserved many features of classical culture and late antique administration. Much of that was lost in the political upheavals of the following decades. Building on Chris Wickham’s work, this contribution sketches an integrated perspective of these changes, attempting to relate the contingency of events to the logic of long-term change, discussing political options in relation to military and economic means, and asking in what ways the erosion of consensus may be understood in a cultural and religious context. What was the role of military entrepreneurs of more or less barbarian or Roman extraction in the distribution or destruction of resources? How did Christianity contribute to the transformation of ancient society? The old model of barbarian invasions can contribute little to understanding this complex process. It is remarkable that for two generations, all political strategies in Italy ultimately failed.

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Enhanced Seasonal Exchange of CO2 by Northern Ecosystems Since 1960

Science ◽

10.1126/science.1239207 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 341 (6150) ◽

pp. 1085-1089 ◽

Cited By ~ 221

Author(s):

H. D. Graven ◽

R. F. Keeling ◽

S. C. Piper ◽

P. K. Patra ◽

B. B. Stephens ◽

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Keyword(s):

Boreal Forests ◽

Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽

Ecosystem Models ◽

The North ◽

Ecological Changes ◽

Term Change ◽

Major Shift ◽

Underlying Mechanisms ◽

Global Carbon

Seasonal variations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Northern Hemisphere have increased since the 1950s, but sparse observations have prevented a clear assessment of the patterns of long-term change and the underlying mechanisms. We compare recent aircraft-based observations of CO2 above the North Pacific and Arctic Oceans to earlier data from 1958 to 1961 and find that the seasonal amplitude at altitudes of 3 to 6 km increased by 50% for 45° to 90°N but by less than 25% for 10° to 45°N. An increase of 30 to 60% in the seasonal exchange of CO2 by northern extratropical land ecosystems, focused on boreal forests, is implicated, substantially more than simulated by current land ecosystem models. The observations appear to signal large ecological changes in northern forests and a major shift in the global carbon cycle.

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