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Harry Potter and the search for a church : spiritual community and sacrificial love in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series.

Anderson, Dianna E.

Examining the Harry Potter series through the lens of late Baptist theologian Stanley Grenz and his theories on community as it reflects the triune God, the themes of love and sacrifice in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series ...

A Healing God Comes to Rome: Aesculapius and the Effects of the Arrival of His Cult

Kim, Jaehyun

The importation of Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of medicine, into Rome was a monumental event in Roman history. In order to comprehend the implications of the arrival of Aesculapius as well as the importance of his ...

Hearing between the lines: the audience as fellow-worker in Luke-Acts and its literary milieu.

Maxwell, Kathy Reiko.

The audience, and its varying levels of participation, is a vital element for the communication of a story. The stories of Jesus Christ as told in the gospels, and of the early Church as found in Acts, rely on the audience ...

Hegel, Kojeve, Marx, and Yoder: An Examination of Christianity and Social Justice

Faus, Benjamin D.

In the Phenomenology of Spirit G.W. F. Hegel puts forth a number of ideas on man’s relationship with the world. In his chapter on the “Dialectic of Subject,” specifically, Hegel looks at the ability of self-consciousness ...

He was ours: Lyndon Baines Johnson and American identity.

Briscoe, Dolph, IV.

President Lyndon B. Johnson challenged his fellow citizens to build a Great Society based on traditional conceptions of American identity. Johnson's cultivation of a personal identity as a Texan, rather than a southerner, ...

Hierarchical stability based model selection for clustering algorithms.

Yin, Bing, 1985-

We present an algorithm called HS-means, which is able to learn the number of clusters in a mixture model based on the hierarchical analysis of clustering stability. Our method extends the concept of clustering stability ...

High-performance liquid chromatographic methods for quantitative assessment of degradation products and extractives in pretreated lignocellulose.

Chen, Shou-Feng. (Amsterdam : Elsevier B. V.Washington, D.C. : American Chemical Society., )

Long-term economic, national security, and environmental concerns have motivated research into renewable fuels from lignocellulosic biomass. Among energy alternatives, biomass-derived ethanol represents one of the more ...

High-throughput analysis of emerging and historical pollutants in biological matrices.

Subedi, Bikram. (, )

The Deepwater Horizon Gulf Spill highlighted key deficiencies associated with our ability to analyze contaminants in biological tissue in a timely manner. These deficiencies in laboratory capacity and preparedness ...

Hispanic assimilation: are we there yet?

McMahon, Debbie L.

Hispanics made up 15% of the population in 2005 and the Census predicts that 25% of this country’s population will be Hispanic by 2050 (Sullivan, 2007). 70% of the nation’s growth during the last decade has been immigrants, ...

Hispanic assimilation to American health insurance.

Jamal, Sheri K.

Policy makers, insurance companies, physicians, healthcare administrators, and especially patients have acknowledged the need for healthcare reform. Some economists speculate high healthcare costs arise from charging ...

An historical reconstruction of Edomite treaty betrayal in the sixth century B.C.E. based on Biblical, epigraphic, and archaeological data.

Dykehouse, Jason C.

This study seeks to reconcile all relevant categories of data around a basic thesis of Edomite treaty betrayal of Judah in the sixth-century B.C.E. Preliminary discussions include the sixth century as the origin for the ...

The history of African Americans in Fort Worth, Texas, 1875-1980.

Marvel, Heather M.

African American urban histories in the United States typically focus on larger cities in the nation such as Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. Despite the low amount of scholarly works looking at Texas cities, the ...

Honor, not sainthood : interpreting scandals and personal flaws in presidential homes, museums and libraries.

Gray, Troy.

The inauguration of President Barack Obama as President of the United States underscored the reality of the different kinds of men who occupied the Oval Office. In many cases, these men have been put on a high pedestal ...

How Churches and Nonprofits Are Meeting the Spiritual and Physical Needs of the People of East Africa

Larsen, Matthew

Everyone has needs. Whether we are struck by physical or spiritual hunger, poverty and brokenness, we all must have something or someone come and meet our needs. Ultimately, our physical and spiritual needs reflect our ...

How to make large, void-free dust clusters in dusty

Land, Victor; Goedheer, Willem Jan (IOP publishing, )

Collections of micrometer-sized solid particles immersed in plasma are used to mimic many systems from solid state and fluid physics, due to their strong electrostatic interaction, their large inertia, and the fact that ...

Human Biological Variation and the Application of Personalized Medicine

Horton, Katherine

Multidisciplinary advances have progressed the idea that medical therapy may be tailored to the genetics of an individual patient through personalized medicine. The concepts of race, ethnicity, and ancestry have been ...

Humane Authority: Looking to pre-Qin Philosophy for an Alternative to Chinese Hegemony in the South China Sea

Strickland, Jared

Within the field of international relations, many look to China’s aggressive behavior in the South China Sea and predict a bellicose future. Some say China is destined for revisionist ambitions and hegemonic desires, as ...

Humanized mice to test vaccination against influenza virus via dendritic cells.

Yu, Chun-I, 1975-

Critical to the development of human vaccines is the availability of in vivo models of the human immune system that permit testing of vaccine efficacy. Here,we used NOD-SCID-β²m-/- immunodeficient mice which, when engrafted ...

Humor and Leader-Member Exchange : how can a leader use different types of humor to create in-groups and out-groups?

Ford, Jacob S.

Leader Member Exchange theory has significance describing the dyadic relationship between leaders and members, but it fails to explain what communicative acts a leader can use to create high-quality exchanges with members. ...

Hydrodynamic and kinetic modelling of complex radio-frequency plasmas

Goedheer, Willem Jan; Land, Victor; Venema, Jan (IOP publishing, )

In this paper hydrodynamic and kinetic approaches to model low-pressure capacitively coupled complex radio-frequency discharges are discussed and applied to discharges under micro-gravity. Complex plasmas contain dust ...

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