Translations and interpretations of baptizontes (Mt 28:19–20) in some Ghanaian mother tongue translations of the Bible

Scholars have written on Jesus’ command to make disciples, but little work has been done on the translation of baptizontes. Using the mother-tongue biblical hermeneutics approach, this article analyses the translation of baptizontes in 12 Ghanaian mother tongue Bibles. The findings are that the various Ghanaian mother tongue translations of Matthew 28:19 render baptizontes variedly, to suit the indigenous Bible readers. Translators sometimes use religiocultural words and phrases that express a similar idea in their contexts to translate the word. Thus, Bible translation always involves interpretation. Translators sometimes coin their own words or consult mother tongue speakers for information in order to render words and phrases that are difficult to translate. This article has added an African (Ghanaian) interpretation of baptizontes in Matthew 28:19. This fits into the overall aim of the journal to promote African theology.Contribution: This article makes a contribution to the Special Collection ‘Africa Platform for NT Scholars’ on the Ghanaian (African) interpretations of baptizontes in Matthew 28:19–20.

Growth of Sobolev norms for the Maxwell–Dirac and Dirac–Klein–Gordon systems in R 1 + 1

We obtain the growth of Sobolev norms of the solution to the Maxwell–Dirac equations in R 1 + 1 by applying elementary techniques. In particular, we estimate L ∞ bound of the solution by making use of a local energy conservation. The similar idea can be applied to the Dirac–Klein–Gordon equations.

An Effective Model of Endogenous Clocks and External Stimuli Determining Ciradian Rhythms

Circadian endogenous clocks of eukaryotic organisms are an established and rapidly developing research field. To investigate and simulate in an effective model the effect of external stimuli on such clocks and their components we developed a software framework for download and simulation. The application is useful to understand the different involved effects in a mathematical simple and effective model. This concerns the effects of Zeitgebers, feedback loops and further modifying components. We start from a known mathematical oscillator model, which is based on experimental molecular findings. This is extended with an effective framework that includes the impact of external stimuli on the circadian oscillations including high dose pharmacological treatment. The external stimuli framework defines a systematic procedure by input-output-interfaces to couple different oscillators. With a similar idea the issue of singularity points of circadian clocks is modeled and related to different model approaches. Tables explain modifications for specific organisms and by different modules. The mathematical framework and formalism is generic and allows to study in general the effect of external stimuli on oscillators and other biological processes. For an easy replication of each numerical experiment presented in this work and an easy implementation of the framework the corresponding Mathematica files are fully made available. They can be downloaded at the following link: https://www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/bioinfo/computing/circadian/.

On the interaction of species capable of explosive growth

In the classical Lotka-Volterra population models, the interacting species affect each other's growth rate. We propose an alternative model, in which the species affect each other through the limitation coefficients, rather then through the growth rates. This appears to be more realistic: the presence of foxes is not likely to diminish the fertility of rabbits, but will contribute to limiting rabbit's population. Both the cases of predation and of competition are considered, as well as competition in case of periodic coefficients. Our model becomes linear when one switches to the reciprocals of the variables. In another direction we use a similar idea to derive a multiplicity result for a class of periodic equations.

Perceived onboard passengers’ experience: Flight attendants’ point of view

BACKGROUND: Cabin research is mostly based on passenger reports. However, it is also important to consider the perceptions of flight attendants as onboard service providers, since they can convey a complementary view shedding light on important aspects related to passenger experience. OBJECTIVE: This study seeks to analyze flight-attendants’ perception regarding passengers’ inflight activities and experience. METHODS: Twenty-eight flight attendants were interviewed on more than twenty-three inflight activities that were extracted from a brainstorming session. A survey was designed based on these activities and was distributed to flight attendants. RESULTS: Overall, flight attendants perceived the activities ‘resting/relaxing’, ‘sleeping’ and ‘using the restroom’ for comfort as the most important activities to passengers, while activities ‘talking to neighbors’ and ‘thinking and observing’ were the least important ones. Interesting was the fact that flight attendants scored satisfaction of some activities higher then passengers. CONCLUSIONS: Flight attendants had a similar idea on importance of activities of passengers, but they valued some activities as more satisfactory.

Introduction: The Alchemy of War

This chapter asserts that a recurring theme throughout the history of war — although not necessarily always the most prominent one — concerns the efforts of belligerents to somehow limit, minimize or evade the various liabilities associated with its conduct. It argues that vicarious warfare is an extreme form of the strategic alchemy, and contemporary America is its most enthusiastic guild. The chapter then elaborates the symbol of the squared circle in alchemy which represented the elements that would combine to create the philosopher's stone. It employs a similar idea to capture the way actors seek to 'produce' less burdensome wars through reduced costs and requirements, whether in terms of, among other things, blood, treasure, political capital or material resources. In war, this translates into a form of denial with regard to the serious costs that might have to be incurred or the level of investments in material, social, political and even emotional capital required to realize objectives, resulting in a mismatch between ends and means. Ultimately, the chapter charts the emergence of America's general preference to fight its wars: delegating fighting to proxies, limiting the exposure of its own military forces to danger, and operating in the shadows through the use of special forces, covert practices and evolving offensive cyber techniques.

An indirect BIE free of degenerate scales

<p style='text-indent:20px;'>Thanks to the fundamental solution, both BIEs and BEM are effective approaches for solving boundary value problems. But it may result in rank deficiency of the influence matrix in some situations such as fictitious frequency, spurious eigenvalue and degenerate scale. First, the nonequivalence between direct and indirect method is analytically studied by using the degenerate kernel and examined by using the linear algebraic system. The influence of contaminated boundary density on the field response is also discussed. It's well known that the CHIEF method and the Burton and Miller approach can solve the unique solution for exterior acoustics for any wave number. In this paper, we extend a similar idea to avoid the degenerate scale for the interior two-dimensional Laplace problem. One is the external source similar to the null-field BIE in the CHIEF method. The other is the Burton and Miller approach. Two analytical examples, circle and ellipse, were analytically studied. Numerical tests for general cases were also done. It is found that both two approaches can yield an unique solution for any size.</p>

DO INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS INFLUENCE THE FIRM VALUE? (CASE STUDY IN TRADE, SERVICE, AND INVESTMENT SECTOR IN INDONESIA)

The objective of this research is to examine the influence of intellectual capital and intangible assets toward firm value. The use of intellectual capital and intangible assets in this research is very interesting because they represent the similar idea, the ability to generate future benefit. However, intellectual capital is not represented in the presentation of financial statement directly, while the intangible asset is presented in the financial statement. The samples are taken from the trade, service, and investment companies classification which are listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange in from 2015 until 2018. Using the purposive sampling, there are 27 companies put as data for the multiple linear regression. The result of the research shows intellectual capital has positive significant relationship toward firm value, meanwhileintangible assets have negative significant relationship toward firm value. It means the lower intangible assets, the higher firm value is. This might be happened if the company cannot utilize the intangible asset optimally.

Канцэптуальная мапа беларускага маўленчага этыкету

The pragmatics and semantics of speech acts of greeting, farewell, gratitude, forgiveness, wishes, requests, expressions of politeness and congratulations are presented in the form of a mental map (intellectual map or mind map) and described in the article. This map is considered to be a type of concept map or spider diagram. A similar idea of information visualization was found in antiquity, although its usage in educational processes was fi rst recorded in the 1970s as the «idea of the sun’s explosion», as well as Tony Busen’s «radial tree» or «intellectual map» (1974). It was at that time that the idea that such a refl ection of the material increases the effectiveness of learning up to 15% was suggested.

« Almanach des honnêtes gens » (1788) de Sylvain Maréchal, ou penser un calendrier révolutionnaire avant la Révolution

The article presents the history and analyses the form of Almanac des Honnêtes Gens [Almanac of Good People] by Sylvain Maréchal (1750–1803), published a year before the Revolution. This work is pioneering in relation to the revolutionary calendar of 1793 — it proposes a very similar idea of breaking with the Christian calendar and introducing a new system of values and for measuring time in human history. In his Almanac, Sylvain Maréchal replaces the names of saints and patrons of the Catholic Church with those of philosophers, artists, writers, and politicians who, because of their lives and works, deserve eternal memory of their posterity. The idea of “new saints”, symbols of human wisdom and the power of the spirit, anticipates the dechristianisation movement and the idea of a “new time” that was soon to be promoted by the Revolution.