scholarly journals Karl Barth’s doctrine of creation: Convergence and divergence with African Christology

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Ngwena
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Contributory Factor ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
The Common ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Doctrine Of Creation ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
The Web

This article explores the intersection between Karl Barth’s doctrine of creation and African Christology seeking to elicit similarities as well as differences. It argues that this intersection is contested and open to different understanding and interpretation. The common goal amongst the two doctrines is that they derive from biblical teachings about creation and the creator. However, there is also divergence between the doctrines. Barth’s point of departure in his doctrine of creation maintains the Covenant of God to humanity which is not extended to all creation. African Christology’s point of departure, on the other hand, maintains that the relations between God, humanity and all life-forms are sacred because of its intrinsic value and sacramental nature. From an African perspective, creation is mutually related and interconnected to the web of life. All life forms hold intrinsic value. It is argued that African Christology implicates Barth’s Christological focus as something that reveals Barth’s doctrine of creation as anthropocentric.Contribution: The article promotes a multi-disciplinary approach to eco-theology by exploring the intersection between Karl Barth’s doctrine of creation and an African Christological perspective on ecology. It implicates Christian anthropocentrism as a contributory factor to ecological degradation and suggests that African Christology is an important resource for developing a remedial eco-theology

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING YOGASUTRA: A FRAMEWORK FOR ECOLOGICAL VIRTUE ETHICS

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (7) ◽  
pp. 270-279
Author(s):  
P.S. Sreevidya
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

This is an endeavor to seek the possibilities of the application of ethical principles of yoga in present day of ecological issues. The relevance of this research paper is evident from the fact that ecological issues are not only scientific but also an ethical and this research paper is reliable and informative in the extent that it seeks to challenge the existing relationship between human beings and nature with the description of the present crisis of ecology as a crisis of human-nature relationship. To talk of ecological issues signifies that most of the issues may occur because of the attitude and behavior patterns of man towards environment. The confluence of ethical principles of yoga and ecology offer profoundly relevant response to the ecological issues and brings forth an ecological virtue ethics, which care for all natural entities with main focus of the relationship between man and environment. It offer systematic framework for understanding the traits of character and types of action that cause problems for environment. Yoga approach on ecology is intrinsic in nature, which includes moral expansionism that tries to expand outward from human centered ethics towards animals and sentient life in general. All life forms of plants and animals are interrelated and have an intrinsic value. Ethical principles of yoga give greater importance to the attitude of the mind rather than on postulation of the elaborate theories of what is right and wrong.  So the virtues of yoga ethics would be used as a remedy towards changing an attitude of the common man towards his environment.

Hemorrhoidal Laser procedure (HeLP) and Hemorrrrhoidal Laser procedure + mucopexy (HeLPexx) and other Emerging Technologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Giamundo
Keyword(s):  
Laser Treatment ◽  
Dentate Line ◽  
Mucosal Prolapse ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Superior Rectal Artery ◽  
Doppler Probe ◽  
The Common ◽  
Probe Set

Background: Minimally-invasive treatments for hemorrhoids should be encouraged as they cause low morbidity, reasonable discomfort and quicker return to work. According to the “vascular theory” hemorrhoidal disease is mainly caused by blood overflow into hemorrhoidal plexus deriving from the superior hemorrhoidal arteries. Introduction: Many different procedures have been described in the literature with the common goal of reducing the blood flow into the hemorrhoidal piles. ‘HeLP’ (Hemorrhoids Laser Procedure) is a novel form of dearterialization to treat patients suffering from symptomatic hemorrhoids. Methods: The procedure consists of the closure of the terminal branches of the superior rectal artery approximately 2-3 cm above the dentate line by means of laser shots originated by a diode laser platform. The arteries, at that level, have variable location and distribution. Therefore, a doppler probe set at the frequency of 20MHz helps identifying the arteries that would be missed otherwise. The laser beam is well tolerated by patients. For this reason, anesthesia is not required in most cases and the procedure allows a quick return to daily activities. In case of concomitant severe mucosal prolapse, the laser treatment can be combined with suture mucopexy. Three to six running sutures allow a complete lifting of hemorrhoidal piles, securing long-term resolution of symptoms. Results and Conclusions: ‘HeLP’ is indicated in patients with symptomatic hemorrhoids where conservative treatment failed and when mucosal prolapse is scarce or not symptomatic. The addition of mucopexy to laser treatment (HeLPexx) contributes to overall resolution of symptoms when mucosal prolapse is an issue, Emborrhoid is another novel, ‘hi-tech’ form of selective dearterialization used in selected case of hemorrhoids where main symptom is bleeding. It is generally used in cases where surgery is contraindicated due to severe concomitant diseases.

Busting Myths in Compound Handling Practices for Assay Developers

2021 ◽  
pp. 247263032110233
Author(s):  
Rosalia Gonzales ◽  
Travis Mathewson ◽  
Jefferson Chin ◽  
Holly McKeith ◽  
Lane Milde ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Collaborative Relationship ◽  
Sample Handling ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
The Common ◽  
Recommended Practices ◽  
Handling Practices ◽  
The One

Since the advent of modern-day screening collections in the early 2000s, various aspects of our knowledge of good handling practices have continued to evolve. Some early practices, however, continue to prevail due to the absence of defining data that would bust the myths of tradition. The lack of defining data leads to a gap between plate-based screeners, on the one hand, and compound sample handling groups, on the other, with the latter being the default party to blame when an assay goes awry. In this paper, we highlight recommended practices that ensure sample integrity and present myth busting data that can help determine the root cause of an assay gone bad. We show how a strong and collaborative relationship between screening and sample handling groups is the better state that leads to the accomplishment of the common goal of finding breakthrough medicines.

THE ESSENCE AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF SELF-COMMUNICATION DISCOURSE AS AN INTERNAL DIALOGUE

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-81
Author(s):  
I. A. Shapoval ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Differentiation Of Self ◽  
Mental Content ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Internal Dialogue ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Common

The paper presents the interdisciplinary analysis of the determinants of the system of self-communication discourse and internal dialogue as the forms of objectivation of human mental content focused on some actions for meeting some objectives. The author describes discourse as integration of communication and language processes in self-understanding and personal identity. Contextually determined and dynamic self-communication discourse, as a way of acquirement of new senses and confirmation of old ones, verbalizes current personal values. The study results reveal the characteristics and relations of the internal dialogue discourse determinants within the human objectivity–subjectivity continuum. Discourse determinants prescribe its context and rules and include the prototype place and agents with their motives and objectives. Self-positions manifested in Self and Non-Self (Other Self) binary self-predications form the core pair of agents. The modality of a person’s attitude to own Self-positions makes their communications a dialogue or a monologue on the boundary of their sub-territories as a discourse prototype place. The degree of discourse agency, its closeness within the prototype place, or transgression openness depends on the complexity and differentiation of Self-concept and ego boundaries functionality. The frustration of meta-necessity to keep self-confidence and self-acceptance by reassessment and reformation of interrelations of Self-positions determines the motives and objectives of self-communication. The common goal of self-organization is implemented through the internal dialogue in the form of institutionalization, verification, and integration of their Self-predications. Status-role characteristics of agents and functionality of discourse prototype place determine the specificity of its motives and objectives according to the systemic effects of Self-organization.

THE DALAI LAMA AND ACADEMIC RESEARCH TO THE 85TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 14TH DALAI LAMA

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Alla M. Shustova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Single Atom ◽  
Altered States ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Dalai Lama ◽  
Buddhist Meditation ◽  
Fundamental Knowledge ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Universe

The article is dedicated for the 85th anniversary of His Holiness Dalai Lama the 14th Tenzin Gyatso and considers his contribution to establishing the dialogue between academic research and spirituality. It depicts main points of Dalai Lama’s way in science, the results of which he described in his book ‘The Universe in a Single Atom. How Science and Spirituality Can Serve Our World’. In this book His Holiness tried to explain the possibility of reaching a unified vision of the world, based not only on science but also on spirituality. Dalai Lama is sure of the necessity of the dialogue between science and Buddhism; he believes that there are certain points, where science and Buddhist philosophy come very close to each other, and may form a good base for such a dialogue. It is for example non-theistic character of both science and Buddhism, the similarity of their methods of cognition, along with the common goal of attaining the truth. Dalai Lama raises one important question: Should there be a place for ethics in science? Giving the positive answer, he then proves it expressly. For several decades Dalai Lama has been undertaking active efforts to facilitate the dialogue between science and spirituality. Recently Russian scholars have also joined this process. By Dalai Lama’s initiative two big conferences were held under the aegis of the program “Fundamental knowledge: dialogues of Russian and Buddhist scholars”. As a result of these meetings the joint Russian and Buddhist research center was organized in South India to study the altered states of conciseness, basing on various types of Buddhist meditation.

scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTORY REVIEW ABOUT DEFENCE MANAGEMENT: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 30-35
Author(s):  
P. Balathandayutham ◽  
V. Muralidharan
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
The Common ◽  
Acquisition Management ◽  
The Military ◽  
Term Management ◽  
Actual Control ◽  
Introductory Review

The concept of management refers to the process to plan, to organize, to staff, to direct and to control the activities in any organization for achieving the common goal in a very systematic manner. Further, the term management refers to both a method of science art to empower individuals and to make an institution more efficient and effective when compared to the state without the manager and the management. As a process of the institution, the management lies amidst the policy formation for and the actual control and command of the forces in the military sector. management covers elements like management of the resources of sector, management of the personnel in the field and acquisition management.

scholarly journals An Investigation of User Privacy and Data Protection on User-Side Storage

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (09) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Thamer Al-rousan
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Web Browsers ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Degree Of Protection ◽  
Sql Database ◽  
Protection Mechanisms ◽  
The Common ◽  
Storage Technologies

Along with the introduction of HTML5, a new user storage technologies; particularly, Web SQL Database, Web Storage, and Indexed Database API have emerged. The common goal of these storage technologies is to overcome the limitations of legacy of user-side storage mechanisms. All these technologies have many privacy and security concerns, and the main threat is user tracking. In this context, this study investigates the usage of these technologies and to find out which one of these technologies is primarily used by user trackers, and to calculate their frequency in context of 3rd-party tracking code. The result exposes that the adoption of Web Storage most commonly used amongst the three storage technologies. Motivated by the investigation results, this study examines the degree of protection which the popular web browsers supply to prevent privacy violations. The result reveals that the protection mechanisms that are provided by web browsers are almost the same, and in many occasions privacy violations do exist

Dialogic and Direct Instruction: Two Distinct Models of Mathematics Instruction and the Debate(s) Surrounding Them

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (11) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Charles Munter ◽  
Mary Kay Stein ◽  
Margaret S. Smith
Keyword(s):  
State Standards ◽  
Student Thinking ◽  
Instructional Models ◽  
Common Goal ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
The Common ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Background Context

Background/Context Which ideas should be included in the K–12 curriculum, how they are learned, and how they should be taught have been debated for decades in multiple subjects. In this article, we offer mathematics as a case in point of how new standards-related policies may offer an opportunity for reassessment and clarification of such debates. Purpose/Objective Our goal was to specify instructional models associated with terms such as “reform” and “traditional”—which, in this article, we refer to as “dialogic” and “direct”—in terms of perspectives on what it means to know mathematics, how students learn mathematics, and how mathematics should be taught. Research Design In the spirit of “adversarial collaboration,” we hosted a series of semi-structured discussions among nationally recognized experts who hold opposing points of view on mathematics teaching and/or learning. During those discussions, the recent consensus regarding what students should learn—as represented by the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM)—was taken as a common goal, and additional areas of agreement and disagreement were identified and discussed. The goal was not to reach consensus but to invite representatives of different perspectives to clarify and come to agreement on how they disagree. Findings/Results We present two instructional models that were specified and refined over the course of those discussions and describe nine key areas that distinguish the two models: (a) the importance and role of talk; (b) the importance and role of group work; (c) the sequencing of mathematical topics; (d) the nature and ordering of mathematical instructional tasks; (e) the nature, timing, source, and purpose of feedback; (f) the emphasis on creativity (i.e., authoring one's own learning; mathematizing subject matter from reality); (g) the purpose of diagnosing student thinking; (h) the introduction and role of definitions; and (i) the nature and role of representations. Additionally, we elaborate a more nuanced description of the ongoing debate, as it pertains to particular sources of difference in perspective. Conclusions/Recommendations With this article, we hope to advance ongoing debates in two ways: (a) discrediting false assumptions and oversimplified conceptions of the “other side's” arguments (which can obscure both the real differences and real similarities between different models of instruction), and (b) framing the debates in a manner that allows for more thoughtful empirical investigation oriented to understanding learning in the discipline.

A Review of the Common DDoS Attack: Types and Protection Approaches Based on Artificial Intelligence

2021 ◽  
pp. 08-14
Author(s):  
Nafea ali majeed .. ◽  
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Khalid Hameed Zaboon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Web Applications ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Cyber Attack ◽  
Ddos Attacks ◽  
Ddos Attack ◽  
Test Characteristics ◽  
Global Force ◽  
The Common ◽  
Evaluation Techniques ◽  
The Web

Recently, the technology become an important part of our live, and it is employed to work together with the Medicine, Space Science, Agriculture, and industry and more else. Stored the information in the servers and cloud become required. It is a global force that has transformed people's lives with the availability of various web applications that serve billions of websites every day. However, there are many types of attack could be targeting the internet, and there is a need to recognize, classify and protect thesis types of attack. Due to its important global role, it has become important to ensure that web applications are secure, accurate, and of high quality. One of the basic problems found on the Web is DDoS attacks. In this work, the review classifies and delineates attack types, test characteristics, evaluation techniques; evaluation methods and test data sets used in the proposed Strategic Strategy methodology. Finally, this work affords guidance and possible targets in the fight against creating better events to overcome the most dangers Cyber-attack types which is DDoS attacks.

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