Kingdom Graph: Mengapa Gereja-Gereja di Iran Dan Tiongkok Berkembang Pesat walau dalam Tekanan atau Aniaya

Among the Pentecostal / Charismatic circles, a distinctive hermeneutic understanding has developed, which Menzies wrote in his book: This story is our story. This means an understanding that the story of the early church that we read in the Acts of the Apostles is also the story of the churches today in various places, which also experienced various pressures and persecutions. This is especially so in Iran and China, but what is strange is that the seeds of God's Word, which seemed to fall on rocky ground, did not immediately die out, but instead found unique ways to grow. This article notes some things that churches in other places need to listen to and learn about their tenacity and perseverance and zeal. In the second part, the authors present a graph model to understand church growth as an endogenous process. We hope that these observations and mathematical models are useful for church leaders in developing a more dynamic ecclesiology.

Interpretation of the Geological Romance of Kendari Bay Using Landsat 5 TM

Kendari Bay is part of Kendari City. Kendari Bay is a city landmark in addition to its economic and environmental functions.. The condition of Kendari Bay is experiencing a fairly high sedimentation problem, so that it begins to cause problems with land availability and space utilization patterns in the Kendari Bay area. The endogenous process of dynamic earth activities is a part that needs to be considered in managing that problems. This study aims the geological conditions of Kendari Bay by using remote sensing as a form of studying the geological conditions of Kendari Bay. Using Landsat 5 TM imagery in 1990, it was used to see the natural geological conditions of Kendari Bay, using the false color composite method and interpretation of photo images visually and validated through field observations. Landsat image processing and interpretation using Quantum GIS, resulted in Kendari bay can be divided into several physiography, namely coastal zone, estuary zone, fluvial zone, plain zone, hill zone, and mountain zone (Head land). The physiography can be seen from the geological characteristics such as the lithology which is composed of alluvial deposits to limestone. The results of interpretation of composite color images and validation of direct observation data in the field show a qualitative suitability.

Drivers of convergence: The role of first- and second-nature geography

The analysis of regional convergence often stays at the level of documentation, with limited attention placed on the drivers of convergence/divergence dynamics. This article offers a systematic analysis of this, examining the role of first-nature (location, proximity, physical geography) and second-nature geography (economic structure, agglomeration, economic potential) in accounting for regional synchronicity in growth trajectories (stochastic convergence). Utilising historical data for Greece at the prefectural level and up-to-date time-series econometric techniques, we test for the presence of stochastic convergence in the country over three decades prior to the crisis; identify the pairs of regions which exhibit co-movement in their growth dynamics; and examine the covariates of this. Our results unveil a picture of limited-only and cluster-like convergence, driven predominantly by factors related to accessibility, sectoral specialisations, labour market dynamism, market potential and selected locational characteristics. This supports two propositions: (a) convergence is an endogenous process, related to shared and incongruent characteristics of regions; and, by implication, (b) regional disparities are structural (in the sense that they are linked to economic and spatial structure) and thus require targeted policies in order to be addressed.

Extraordinary Partisanship

This chapter addresses the question of what kind of a political agent could bring about a supranational separation of constituent and constituted powers in the EU. Given that an endogenous process of change seems unlikely, it asks which exogenous forces could trigger the establishment of a higher-level constituent power. In particular, the chapter engages with the idea that transnational partisanship could function as a vehicle for constituent power in the EU. It argues that the model of networked constituent power, according to which cross-border deliberation between members of like-minded parties should initiate and guide intergovernmental treaty making at the EU level, is unconvincing because it relies on establishes parties, which must be regarded as quasi-constituted powers. By means of a rational reconstruction of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025, the chapter then develops an alternative model of extraordinary partisanship. An extraordinary partisan association ‘co-opts’ regular parliamentary elections to acquire a mandate for a project of constitutional change. Such an organization could enable citizens from various member states to promote an opening up of the EU polity for the exercise of constituent power.

Market dominance and endogenous decline: the contribution of historical analysis

The advances in economic and social history over the past years enabled me to empirically test assumptions about the long-run development of markets. The review by Geoff Hodgson of the resulting book, The Invisible Hand?, is lucid but incomplete. I argue that the rise to dominance of factor markets, followed by that of financial markets, took place already in several early cases, and that all market economies, through an endogenous process, saw the accumulation of wealth and, next, the translation of this wealth into political leverage, creating a feedback loop with negative outcomes which is very hard to break.

Acemoglu Meets Lucas: Institutions, Human Capital and Economic Growth

This paper proposes a reinterpretation of Lucas endogenous growth model (1988), once we add an institutional component as one of its determinants. Firstly, the paper develops a theoretical model that links human capital and institutions. Our modelling strategy establishes the human capital accumulation function as being derived from an endogenous process in which the institutional performance is a booster for the economy’s growth. The essay uses a 40–country panel data of the years 2000, 2005 and 2010 and implements a Pooled Ordinary Least Squares (POLS) analysis – alongside instrumental variables (IV) – aiming to validate empirically the model proposed. We verify that Lucas’ model overestimates the human capital contribution as we evaluate the significant impact that economic and political institutions have on the capability of human capital foment growth. Additionally, our estimations also suggest that human capital is, effectively, institutionally driven and works as a channel for the institutions.

Evaluation of the Technological Competences Through Dissemination of Knowledge in Technological Incubators with Faph

Unlike the industrial economy that valued vertical integration, the knowledge economy stimulates and values the formation of interorganizational alliances and business arrangements built in networks. Competitiveness shifts from a one-way, individual and endogenous process within firms to an open, multidirectional, collaborative and networked process. In this context, the objective of this study is to evaluate the technological competences (using the SECI model of knowledgeconversion) present in technological incubators, through fuzzy multi-criteria methods. A hybrid mathematical methodology will be used with the integration of the Fuzzy Delphi (FDelphi) and Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP) methods. The FDelphi will serve to raise and validate the critical factors (criteria/subcriteria) present to evaluate technological competencies in technological incubators. The FAHP method will be applied to calculate the relative weights of the selected criteria/subcriteria that affect the problem in question. Regarding the results, the following criteria were obtained: C4 (Socialization-38%), that is, the way in which the employees of an incubator share the knowledge, the second one that stood out the most was C1 (External acquisition of knowledge-28%) sources from which employees acquire tacit and/or explicit knowledge of the incubator's external environment. This proposal is expected to improve the competitiveness of technology incubators by assessing technological skills and disseminating knowledge.

Covering Layers on Granite Buildings of Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: When Observable Characteristics and Lab Characterization Do Not Match

Illustrated glossaries on stone pathologies help to describe deterioration forms in built heritage without resorting to any laboratory analyses. In this way, terms such as crust, deposit, and soiling which according to ICOMOS-ISCS: Illustrated Glossary on Stone Deterioration Patterns may include exogenic material, a patina which results from ageing of the material in an endogenous process, and a film included under the broad term of a coating layer in the glossary, can be macroscopically identified on site. However, a definition on the basis of characteristics only observable with the naked eye (without further analysis in the laboratory) is certainly complicated, and if in addition, the case studies are on granitic rock (a major building stone used across Europe), the picture becomes even more complicated. The intention of this brief report is to engender an open, constructive debate about the casuistry of the covering layers on granite (a poorly reactive and less porous rock) and the difficulty of using the ICOMOS nomenclature on them.

Let’s Talk: What FinReg Can Learn from New Governance (and Vice Versa)

Lauren Edelman’s Working Law: Courts, Corporation, and Symbolic Civil Rights (2016) is remarkably relevant to the study of financial regulation. In particular, three factors that Edelman identifies as contributing to legal endogeneity and symbolic compliance—ambiguous law, a lack of clear outcome measures, and the presence of legal intermediaries—are especially salient in this context. It has long been recognized that powerful financial institutions and the lawyers, lobbyists, and other agents who serve them have the ability to influence the law ex ante, through political lobbying. Edelman’s work reinforces the point that they may also do so ex post through an endogenous process of interpretation, implementation, and, ultimately, enshrinement of symbolic compliance with ambiguous law.

Artistic Creativity

Creativity is viewed as the ultimate outcome of multiple evolutions nested within the human brain at the level of its genes, its cells, its neuronal networks, its cognitive architecture, and through its epigenetic sociocultural interactions. The creative experience is an endogenous process that makes incoming and/or internally generated information globally available to multiple brain systems through a distributed network, which Changeux and colleagues have long established as the global neuronal workspace (GNW) of neurons with long-range axons, particularly dense in prefrontal, parietotemporal, and cingulate cortex. Creation proceeds from the internal production of transitory patterns of neurons or pre-representations. Within the Darwinian framework, the brain’s spontaneous activity is a source of “epigenetic” diversity which preexists in the brain in its interaction with the outside world. It contributes to a synthesis within the neuronal workspace of external perceptions, internal memories, and stored emotions. The combinatorial access of the GNW to a broad diversity of representations is a unique kind of ignition process, one that can be called esthetic ignition. The creative act itself involves the selection of pre-representations according to a set of stored, innate rules of art such as novelty, parsimony, and harmony. This artistic process describes the creation and contemplation of visual art according to a neuroaesthetic analysis which reveals the neural origins of aesthetic pleasure and artistic creation.