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Augustine's Just War and Nuclear Weapons: From Hiroshima to Today's Nuclear Arsenal
(2019-05-24)President Truman’s decision to drop two nuclear weapons on Japan to end World War II is one of the most contentious decisions in the 20th century. Those who abhor his decision argue that the use of nuclear weapons is ... -
Augustine's solution to the problem of theological fatalism.
(2011-01-05)In Augustine's dialogue De Libero Arbitrio, his interlocutor Evodius presents an argument for the incompatibility of divine foreknowledge and human freedom, a position we now call "theological fatalism." Since this position ... -
Augustinian Auden : the influence of Augustine of Hippo on W. H. Auden.
(2008-10-28)It is widely acknowledged that W. H. Auden became a Christian in about 1940, but relatively little critical attention has been paid to Auden’s theology, much less to the particular theological sources of Auden’s faith. ... -
The Austin chalk and its petroleum potential : South-Central Texas
(, 2017-10-09)The Austin Chalk Formation (Upper Cretaceous) consists of uniformly bedded lithologies throughout south-central Texas. The lithologies found within the subsurface are technically wackestones to mudstones. These general ... -
Authoritarianism and the Catholic Church in Latin America.
(2010-06-23)This research examines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the military regimes in Latin America in the latter half of the twentieth century. Although prevailing theories explain church behavior regarding ... -
Authority and Inspiration: Jerome’s Precedent in Biblical Translation
(2013-05-23)Until Jerome translated the Latin Vulgate version of the Bible in the late fourth and early fifth centuries, the Scriptures and translations used by the church were based on the Septuagint. Jerome’s preference for the ... -
Authority, unity and truthfulness : the body of christ in the theologies of Robert Jenson and Rowan Williams with a view toward implications for free church ecclesiology.
(2010-10-08)Those within the free church tradition have often appealed to the notion of the invisible church to account for the unity of Christ's Body. A growing number of free church theologians, however, are arguing for the necessity ... -
Authorized readers : scriptural mediation as spiritual formation in Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love.
(2021-05-21)Scholars have long recognized extensive interaction with vernacular biblical material in Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfection and Nicholas Love’s Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ. However, Love’s engagement with ... -
Automated medical image segmentation.
(2017-12-04)Computed Tomography (CT) is one of the most common medical diagnostic imaging techniques. Since the first clinical CT scanner was installed in the 1970s, there are about 30,000 CT scanners installed worldwide. Despite of ... -
Automated sequence homology : using empirical correlations to create graph-based networks for the elucidation of protein relationships.
(2008-10-02)Identification of sequence homology has presented a formidable obstacle despite significant increases in both technological capability and detailed knowledge of genomes and proteomes. While PSI-BLAST remains the popular ... -
Automated systematic generation and exploration of flat direction phenomenology in free fermionic heterotic string theory.
(, 2014-06-11)Any good physical theory must resolve current experimental data as well as offer predictions for potential searches in the future. The Standard Model of particle physics, Grand Unified Theories, Minimal Supersymmetric ... -
Autonomy or Beneficence: An Analysis of End-of-Life Care in Pediatric Patients
(2017-05-23)Autonomy and beneficence are two core principles of biomedical ethics. However, autonomy, the patient’s right to decide what he or she wants regarding medical care, can often conflict with beneficence, what the doctor ... -
Availability of New Releases in Streaming Audio Databases
(2018-03-27)In this study, three streaming audio databases used in music libraries were compared with an extensive list of new classical recordings that is published monthly. Each database was tracked for a separate period of three ... -
Avalon Burning
(2017-05-24)This short novel is the story of a boy and a girl who discover the magical island of Avalon and accidentally destroy it. Yet as with many stories, that is only the surface. Underneath the magic and monsters lies a simple ... -
Ave Maria: Mary and Redemption in Renaissance Paintings of the Visitation
(2016-08-10)This thesis seeks to trace changes in the interpretation of the Visitation narrative from the Gospel of Luke through the study of religious artwork. The research focuses on the Renaissance period of the West between the ... -
Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine: Influences and Implications
Avicenna was a philosopher and physician around the year 1000 in what is modern day Uzbekistan. He was a revolutionary thinker, and had a profound influence on the way medicine was practiced for centuries through his medical ... -
AVID students' perceptions of intelligence : a mixed methods study.
(, 2012-08-08)Students' perceptions of intelligence have been shown to have an effect on learning. Students who see intelligence as something that can be developed, those with a growth mindset, often experience academic success, while ... -
Avoiding the issue: Disengagement coping style and the personality–CWB link
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2016-03-08)The current study positions coping as a motivational framework to understand why Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Agreeableness are related to the performance of organization- and person-directed counterproductive ... -
Awake and Blind: A Novella
(2013-05-24)In my thesis, a fictional narrative, I have created a fantasy story that explores the philosophies of Descartes, Hobbes, and Plato with regard to the question of reality. Awake and Blind follows Liam through a journey when ... -
The awakening of the Freewill Baptists: Benjamin Randall and the founding of an American religious tradition.
(2007-05-23)The last decades of the eighteenth century brought numerous changes to the citizens of colonial New England. As the colonists were joining together in their fight for independence from England, a collection of like-minded ...