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Privacy and Identity Management in Social Media
Authors: Smala Simone , Al-Shehri Saleh
Published: January 2013

Social networking media are becoming more widespread as educational learning sites. For this reason, it is important to investigate how concerns about identity management can interfere with or influence the planned learning processes. This chapter engages initially with current research that investigates the use of social media with a particular focus on issues of identity management. It then provides a close analysis of identity management among student users of dedicated Facebook pages in tertiary education settings, as part of a larger study into contextual language learning and the educational potential of mobile technologies and social media. The study concludes that issues around publically sharing information with classmates (whom you might or might not “befriend” on social media sites), and the exposure that comes with sharing one’s background and potentially contentious political views are probably experienced by students worldwide.
Reengineering The Portal to Texas HistorySM
Authors: Murray Kathleen , Phillips Mark , Hicks William , Weng Neena , Belden Dreanna
Published: January 2013

This case study reports the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History? at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system. This unique system decouples the application development framework from the backend infrastructure, effectively relieving the development and growth constraints inherent in the legacy system. In a novel approach for an academic library, genealogists participated in the user-centered, iterative approach used to prototype, develop, and test the user interface. The resulting system promoted productivity gains by enabling programming staff to work in parallel from specialized areas of expertise. A post-project review process identified a number of lessons learned, including the importance of representing the requirements and priorities of internal and external stakeholders. The review process also informed an application development model that may be useful to other digital libraries.
Information Analysis in Digital Library Environments
Authors: Harrison Lauren
Published: January 2013

This chapter addresses the question of how the analysis of results retrieved from online bibliographic information systems changed over the last 32 years as digital libraries have evolved. It demonstrates that Digital Libraries of the future will enable knowledge discovery by providing direct access to the semantic content of documents through the implementation of text mining tools. To achieve this research with IR systems and text-mining tools, pipeline pilot (Bandy, et al., 2009), I2E (Vellay, 2009), and BioText will need to be conducted by experts in information retrieval not just subject scientific specialists.
Building for Success?
Authors: Petras Vivien , Stiller Juliane , Gäde Maria
Published: January 2013

In the cultural heritage field, heterogeneous materials and multicultural, multilingual user groups and their varying needs pose a challenge for information system design and its evaluation alike. Cultural heritage information systems can be evaluated from a system-centric or a user-centric perspective. This chapter discusses evaluation methods in digital libraries with a particular focus on cultural heritage collections and their distinctive features, interaction patterns, and challenges. It describes state-of-the-art evaluation methods illustrating them with examples from Europeana, the European portal for access to digital library, museum, and archive collections, and other projects from within the cultural heritage domain.
Creating an Online Image Database
Authors: Perry Claudia A. , Valero Walter E.
Published: January 2013

The concept of experiential learning is particularly useful when students are required to create database entries as part of an ongoing, real-life, online experience. A METRO grant in 2005 resulted in an opportunity to use students to create a CONTENTdm database, which, with the continued software support from METRO, has continued and evolved until the present. This case study chapter describes the experience of both faculty and students in the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies course entitled “Introduction to Digital Imaging.” Sections include a review of related literature, the background, technical issues, and implications for teaching, project procedures and workflow, successes and lessons learned, challenges, next steps, and emerging trends. Of particular interest is the use of out of copyright postcards and the metadata that has resulted from intensive student study and evaluation of the data contained on these cards. Those contemplating a digitization project of their own will be able to learn much about best practices, project planning, management, and the advantages/disadvantages of the CONTENTdm software.
Capturing Semantics of Web Page using Weighted TAG- Tree for Information Retrieval
Authors: Priya R. Vishnu , Vadivel A.
Published: January 2013

Web pages are highly dynamic and it’s difficult to retrieve the relevant web pages in top 10 search results. This is based on some ranking mechanism incorporated retrieval system. The Retrieval system is designed for ranking the relevant web pages for user query. Usually, the retrieval system considers many techniques for ranking such as link based, connectivity based and keyword based techniques. The authors’ rank the web pages using the keywords and its associated TAGs. Based on the importance of each TAGs, weights are assigned and the semantics of the page is captured. In addition, the semantic information is represented in compact tree form, which supports both incremental and interactive mining with refined retrieval. From the experimental result, the authors have observed that the performance of the proposed approach is encouraging compared to the recently proposed approach.
Customers’ Perception of Service Quality in a Training Institute
Authors: Maheswaran S. , Ghosh Manimay
Published: January 2013

SERVQUAL (Service Quality) model is being used to measure the service quality in almost every service sector globally. However, little research exists on its usage in evaluating the performance of the training sector despite its significant role in many developing economies. This article examines the performance of a very reputed training institute in India using SERVQUAL instrument. The first objective of the study was to check whether the customers were satisfied with the service of the institute. The second objective was to measure the gap between perception and expectations. Two expectation levels of the customers were studied – adequate (or minimum) and desirable (or maximum). The result of this study suggests that the training institute surpassed the minimum expectation level of its customers but fell short of the maximum expectation levels. The key dimension where the institute is lacking in terms of providing quality service is “assurance” and therefore the institute needs to revisit and improve the items considered under this dimension.
Data Mining and Business Intelligence Dashboards
Authors: Jamalpur Bhavana , Sharma S. S. V. N
Published: January 2013

Today, the most successful companies are those that can respond quickly and flexibly to market changes and opportunities. A detailed understanding and knowledge is required to analyze the business environment at different levels. This can be achieved by implementing value added information throughout the organization. There has been an increased demand in the development of IT that performs data manipulation operations to report and analyze the data. While sifting through all that data, organizing it, and then using it to make the business run more profitably has become a bigger challenge. Decision markers can use such information to implement business strategies that best meet the needs of the ultimate customer. Making use of that information is all the more urgent.
A Hybrid System Composed of Neural Networks and Genetic Algorithms
Authors: Mihaela Dumitrescu
Published: January 2013

Neural networks are known for their ability to recognize patterns of noisy, complex data and to estimate a nonlinear relationship between them. But the design of neural networks is very complex because it works on the principle of “black box.” The application of genetic algorithms in neural networks with hybrid systems can improve a network’s ability to make predictions. Hybrid systems involve the use of combined techniques, issues and different models in order to achieve the overall performance better than those offered by each solution considered separately. Projections made by hybrid systems have smaller errors and constructed systems are able to automatically select the variables necessary to function effectively. This is possible due to the principle of selective biological function of genetic algorithms. They select from a large population of neural networks the best generations, made their exchange of elements and even mutations to get the most advanced networks. For an evolving and performance changes economic environment are necessary tools that can help make faster optimal decisions and increase the business efficiency.
P2P Networks with IP Based Communication
Authors: Koneru Anupriya , Prasad MHM Krishna
Published: January 2013

P2P communities can be seen as truly Distributed Computing applications in which group members communicate with one another to exchange information. The authors consider security issues in Peer to Peer Networks. For secure exchange of data between the group members the authors present a cryptography protocol and an Identity mechanism which can able to check even the Trust of the Peers based on the available reputation information. The authors are encapsulating the reputations of both the provider and the requester. So the requester cannot (gainfully) maliciously abort the transaction in the middle. In other words, the requester cannot take the service from the provider and then logoff without giving a recommendation to the provider.
Designing Scalable Location Based Games that Encourage Emergent Behaviour
Authors: Lund Kate , Lochrie Mark , Coulton Paul
Published: January 2013

In general location based games have failed to achieve wide scale adoption that many predicted and the only such game that can truly claim wide scale success is Geocaching. Arguably this is partially due to fact that the majority of these games draw their inspiration directly from video games rather than the way users engage with public spaces. The authors present the design rationale behind the development of a Location Based Game, Big Game Huntr that was created specifically with player engagement with space at its heart. Presented are the lessons learnt from transitioning this game from being event based to one in which global participation could be facilitated.
Ambient Media Culture
Authors: Lugmayr Artur
Published: January 2013

Ambient media is a new form of media, which deals with media objects that mediate information throughout the natural environment of people. In ambient media environments, the media becomes part of daily life activities and environments – similar to location based services, where the physical world has a virtual digital overlay providing digital services for the consumer on a specific location. As any new media environment, also ambient media environments enable a new form and way of communication and impact on human culture. This article should provide a first starting point for discussing the wide topic of ambient media, and introduce aspects that relate to the development of an ambient media culture. The article shows different notions and discussions from a media cultural perspective, that impacts on ambient media environments. It compiles the results of the discussions that took place during the 2nd meeting of the Nordic network “The Culture of Ubiquitous Information” in Helsinki on the 19th January 2011. It shall lead to an initial discussion of this aspect and provide new ways of thinking how ubiquitous computation will impact human culture and which impact theories of Martin Heidegger or Katherine Hayles have in this context.
A Generalized 2-D Model for Fully Bounded Chaotic Attractors and Chaotic Seas
Authors: Elhadj Zeraoulia
Published: January 2013

The aim of this paper is to present a fully bounded 2-D model for chaotic attractors or chaotic seas. The relevance of this result is that there are some specific examples of bounded chaotic attractors or chaotic seas. There is no rigorous proof of this property for a general form of mappings.
Investigating Power Reduction for NoC-Based Spiking Neural Network Platforms using Channel Encoding
Authors: McDonnell Neil , Carrillo Snaider , Harkin Jim , McDaid Liam
Published: January 2013

Recent focus has been placed on exploring the possibility to switch from parallel to serial data links between NoC routers in order to improve signal integrity in the communication channel. However, moving streams of data between the parallel path of the internal router and external serial-channel links between them consumes additional power. One challenge is encoding the data and minimise the switching activity of data in the serial links in order to reduce the additional power dissipation; while under real-time and minimal hardware constraints. Consequently, proposed is a novel low area/power decision circuit for NoC channel encoding which identifies in real-time packets for encoding and extends the existing SILENT encoders/decoders to further minimise power consumption and demonstrates the power performance savings of the decision circuit and modified (en)decoders using example test traffic with the EMBRACE NoC router, a mixed signal spiking neural network (SNNs) embedded platform.
Compensating Resource Fluctuations by Means of Evolvable Hardware
Authors: Kaufmann Paul , Glette Kyrre , Platzner Marco , Torresen Jim
Published: January 2013

The evolvable hardware (EHW) paradigm facilitates the construction of autonomous systems that can adapt to environmental changes and degradation of the computational resources. Extending the EHW principle to architectural adaptation, the authors study the capability of evolvable hardware classifiers to adapt to intentional run-time fluctuations in the available resources, i.e., chip area, in this work. To that end, the authors leverage the Functional Unit Row (FUR) architecture, a coarse-grained reconfigurable classifier, and apply it to two medical benchmarks, the Pima and Thyroid data sets from the UCI Machine Learning Repository. While quick recovery from architectural changes was already demonstrated for the FUR architecture, the authors also introduce two reconfiguration schemes helping to reduce the magnitude of degradation after architectural reconfiguration.
Automatic Machine Code Generation for a Transport Triggered Architecture using Cartesian Genetic Programming
Authors: Walker James Alfred , Liu Yang , Tempesti Gianluca , Timmis Jon , Tyrrell Andy M.
Published: January 2013

Transport triggered architectures are used for implementing bio-inspired systems due to their simplicity, modularity and fault-tolerance. However, producing efficient, optimised machine code for such architectures is extremely difficult, since computational complexity has moved from the hardware-level to the software-level. Presented is the application of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) to the evolution of machine code for a simple implementation of transport triggered architecture. The effectiveness of the algorithm is demonstrated by evolving machine code for a 4-bit multiplier with three different levels of parallelism. The results show that 100% successful solutions were found by CGP and by further optimising the size of the solutions, it’s possible to find efficient implementations of the 4-bit multiplier. Further analysis of the solutions showed that use of loops within the CGP function set could be beneficial and was demonstrated by repeating the earlier 4-bit multiplier experiment with the addition of a loop function.
Multi-View Human Body Pose Estimation with CUDA-PSO
Authors: Mussi Luca , Ivekovic Spela , Nashed Youssef S.G. , Cagnoni Stefano
Published: January 2013

The authors formulate the body pose estimation as a multi-dimensional nonlinear optimization problem, suitable to be approximately solved by a meta-heuristic, specifically, the particle swarm optimization (PSO). Starting from multi-view video sequences acquired in a studio environment, a full skeletal configuration of the human body is retrieved. They use a generic subdivision-surface body model in 3-D to generate solutions for the optimization problem. PSO then looks for the best match between the silhouettes generated by the projection of the model in a candidate pose and the silhouettes extracted from the original video sequence. The optimization method, in this case PSO, is run in parallel on the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) and is implemented in Cuda-C™ on the nVidia CUDA™ architecture. The authors compare the results obtained by different configurations of the camera setup, fitness function, and PSO neighborhood topologies.
Key Challenges of E-Government Adoption in Less Developed Countries
Authors: Al Sharief Raja Yahya
Published: January 2013

The Government of Saudi Arabia has given a great attention to the e-Government program and the transformation process that leads to the successful implementation of such program in Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, in recent years e-Government has been the favourable theme for numerous studies and reports. Yet, there is a lack of systematic empirical evidence regarding the key challenges for the e-Government implementation in less developed countries in general and in Saudi Arabia in particular. Consequently, this paper is an exploratory attempt that seeks to analyse the key challenges for implementing e-Government project in Saudi Arabia, as well as to establish the main obstacles to the deployment of such new technology and the associated causes and possible solutions to avoid potential drawbacks and overcome all problems. Using a sample of 50 experts, the author found that trust is the first factor inhibiting wider adoption of e-Government application in Saudi Arabia. The results of this study have major implications for policy makers, as they suggest the notion that the e-Government applications will not work without building a solid trust foundation with citizens.
Developing and Implementing a Model for Selecting Videos for City Marketing
Authors: Hsu Pi-Fang , Tsai Chia-Wen , Doong Sheng-Weng
Published: January 2013

This study develops a model for selecting videos for city marketing. First, Modified Delphi Method was used to find suitable criteria to evaluate videos of city marketing. Next, Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) was used to determine the relative weights of the criteria. A local government in Taiwan is used as an example of how videos for city marketing can be selected with this model. Furthermore, this study found that there is a gap in the weights of criteria identified between operators and governments. Finally, this study used sensitivity analysis to survey the criterion weight of the degree of influence with an alternative hierarchy, making it applicable for academia and commerce.
Data Perturbation Analysis for IS Project Management Based on a Single Time Estimate
Authors: Arsham Hossein
Published: January 2013

The Critical Path Method (CPM) is the most widely used tool for project management; however, it requires three estimates for the duration of each activity as its input. This is too much uncertain input requirement from the managers, making the critical path (CP) unstable causing major difficulties for the manager. A linear programming formulation of the project network is proposed for determining a CP, based on making one estimate for the duration of each activity. Upon finding the CP, data perturbation analysis (DPA) is performed using the constraints of the dual problem. This DPA set of uncertainties provides the manager with a tool to deal with the simultaneous, independent, or dependent changes of the input estimates that will preserve the current CP. The proposed procedure is easy to understand, easy to implement, and provides useful information for the manager. A numerical example illustrates the process.
Evaluation of GALS Methods in Scaled CMOS Technology
Authors: Krstic Miloš , Fan Xin , Grass Eckhard , Benini Luca , Kakoee M. R. , Heer Christoph , Sanders Birgit , Strano Alessandro , Bertozzi Davide
Published: January 2013

In this paper the authors present the concept and evaluation results of a complex GALS ASIC demonstrator in 40 nm CMOS process. This chip, named Moonrake, compares synchronous and GALS synchronization technology in a homogeneous experimental setting: same baseline designs, same manufacturing process, same die. The chip validates GALS technology for both point-to-point and network-centric on-chip communications, demonstrating its potentials for different applications. The design analysis, measurement and test results confirm the potential of GALS approach for the scaled technologies, showing the significant benefits in respect to area, power, and EMI when it comes to the complex system implementation. Furthermore, 91% of the tests performed on the GALS network-on-chip test structures completed successfully, validating the timing robustness of new area and latency-efficient synchronization schemes and proving that the design flow for GALS synchronization technology can be implemented by means of mainstream industrial tools.
On-Chip Measurement and Compensation of Timing Imbalances in High-Speed Serial NoC Links
Authors: Höppner Sebastian , Walter Dennis , Ellguth Georg , Schüffny René
Published: January 2013

This paper presents techniques for measurement and compensation of timing variations in clock and data channels of source-synchronous high-speed serial network-on-chip (NoC) links. Timing mismatch measurements are performed by means of asynchronous sub-sampling. This allows the use of low quality sampling clocks to reduce test hardware overhead for integration into complex MPSoCs (Multiprocessor System-on-Chip) with multiple NoC links. The effect of clock jitter on the measurement results is evaluated. Delay mismatch is compensated by tunable delay cells. The proposed technique enables compensation of delay variations to realize high-speed NoC links with sufficient yield. It is demonstrated at NoC links as part of an MPSoC in 65 nm Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor technology, where the calibration significantly reduces bit-error-rates of a 72 GBit/s (8 GBit/s per lane) link over 4 mm on-chip interconnect.
Classes of Attacks for Tactical Software Defined Radios
Authors: da Silva Fabrício A. B. , Moura David F. C. , Galdino Juraci F.
Published: January 2013

This survey presents a classification of attacks that Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant Software Defined Radios (SDR) can suffer. This paper also discusses how attack mitigation strategies can impact the development of a SCA-compliant software infrastructure and identifies several research directions related to SDR security. The SCA standard was originally proposed by the Joint Tactical Radio System program (JTRS), which is a program for the development of military tactical radios sponsored by the US Department of Defense. The classification presented in this paper is based on attack results on the radio set, which can also be associated with the adversary’s objectives when planning an intrusion. The identification of classes of attacks on a radio, along with the associated threats and vulnerabilities, is the first step in engineering a secure SDR system. It precedes the identification of security requirements and the development of security mechanisms. Therefore, the identification of classes of attacks is a necessary step for the definition of realistic and relevant security requirements.
Benefits and Barriers in Mining the Healthcare Industry Data
Authors: Wang John , Zhou Bin , Yan Ruiliang
Published: January 2013

The authors’ paper addresses the applications of data mining within the healthcare industry. Healthcare data are seen as one of the more rewarding and most difficult of all data to analyze. Proper data mining techniques provide the methodology and technology to transform the voluminous amounts of data into useful information for decision making. Data mining can be utilized to help find cures for existing diseases, uncovering patterns for genetic diseases and the causes of new diseases across the globe. By implementing data mining techniques the industry is finally gaining control over the inadequacy of readily available records. Data mining has been used in patient care, healthcare plans, and administration. By utilizing these methods, hospitals and healthcare insurance providers alike are able to save millions of dollars, administration headaches, and most importantly, countless lives.
A Novel Methodology for Configuring a Job Satisfaction Matrix
Authors: Yousefpoor Narges , Meisel Steven
Published: January 2013

The purpose of this research is to provide a job satisfaction matrix for further clarification of the interrelationships between individual emotional exhaustion, job properties, and organizational factors of job satisfaction. Job satisfaction was evaluated through the use of a novel, fuzzy rule-based algorithm. Interviews were conducted to generate data on the effective factors of job satisfaction. Following interview analysis and using categories suggested by the interview data, questionnaires were generated offering linguistic choice to support the qualitative aspect of job satisfaction. A stratified sampling technique was employed to find a sample of interviewees for the questionnaires. The job satisfaction matrix provides further clarification of the interrelationships between individual factors and is track-able in time intervals for identifying the dissatisfaction factors. The research demonstrated that by using the weighted scores of the data, strategies could be suggested to fill the gaps between ideal and reported satisfaction outcomes.
Enabling Folksonomies for Knowledge Extraction
Authors: García-Silva Andrés , Cantador Iván , Corcho Oscar
Published: January 2013

Folksonomies emerge as the result of the free tagging activity of a large number of users over a variety of resources. They can be considered as valuable sources from which it is possible to obtain emerging vocabularies that can be leveraged in knowledge extraction tasks. However, when it comes to understanding the meaning of tags in folksonomies, several problems mainly related to the appearance of synonymous and ambiguous tags arise, specifically in the context of multilinguality. The authors aim to turn folksonomies into knowledge structures where tag meanings are identified, and relations between them are asserted. For such purpose, they use DBpedia as a general knowledge base from which they leverage its multilingual capabilities.
Image (of God) as ethical injunction: A social-scientific perspective
Authors: Van Staden P.
Published: January 2013

Taking cognizance of the fact that language - especially metaphorical language - can be expressive of deeplying cultural or religious symbol sets in man, the study explores the  possible original content of the syntagma εἰΚὼν ΤΟῦ θεΟῦ in both the Old and the New Testament. It is argued that there is a definite shift in the symbol set of which the concept (metaphor) 'image of God' is expressive. Whilst the Old Testament usage of the term probably attests to the conviction that humankind is part of the genus God and may even resemble him physically, the New Testament substitutes Jesus Christ for man as the primary carrier of the 'image of God'. Humankind in general does not reflect that image any more. It is only to be found in those who through faith in Jesus Christ regain the image of God. Our thesis is that the concept of 'image' is to be regarded as much an ethical injunction as it is an ontological state-ment. The faith of adherents to the community of believers finds expres-sion in distinctive behavior - that is, in conduct that clearly identifies them as reflecting the image of God.
Insights and models from medical anthropology for understanding the healing activity of the Historical Jesus
Authors: Pilch John J.
Published: January 2013

This essay sketches a basic introdution to medical anthropology as a key to understanding and interpreting  the healing activity of the historical Jesus described in the gospels. It presents select literature, leading experts, fundamental concepts, and insights and models of special value to biblical specialists. Only a cross-cultural discipline like medical anthropology allows the investigator to  interpret texts and events from other cultures with respect for their distinctive cultural contexts in order to draw more appropriate conclusions and applications in other cultures. Applications to biblical texts are not included in this essay but may be found in other articles published by the author and listed in the bibliography.
'n Ondersoek na die teologiese relevansie van die metaforiese spreke in Hooglied
Authors: Basson M. M.J.
Published: January 2013

An inquiry into the problem of theological relevance, posed by the metaphors in the Song of Songs. Of the six basic scholarly approaches to the Song of Songs, the literary approach is today most widely accepted. This approach still however does not give all the answers to  the problem of an evasive theological relevance, posed by the metaphors in the Song of Songs. This article argues that a certain perspective on metaphors will open up new ways of understanding the  Song. When this perspective is coalesced with narratology, results are reached that will certainly enhance this celebrated poem.
Die deuntjie draal': Op die spoor van Koos du Plessis
Authors: Boshoff P. B.
Published: January 2013

'The melody lingers on': On the trail of Koos du Plessis. The angst experienced by Du Plessis assumes the form of a problem on which he ponders in his poetry.The questions that he poses differ in form only from the bewilderment experienced by the narve. The poetic art of the singer and the faltering intimations of the despondent heart are two languages that express the same human anxiety. The truth of both languages lies therein that the one can develop into the other. This article listens from a Christian viewpoint. Themes that are dealt with are wandering, the goldy Other, past and future, anxiety, waiting, dreaming and temptation.
Kerk, volk en owerheid in die 1858-grondwet van die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek
Authors: Dreyer W. A.
Published: January 2013

Church, people and government in the  1858 constitution of the South African Republic During the years 1855 to 1858 the South African Republic in the Transvaal created a new constitution. In this constitution a unique relation-ship between church, people and government was visible. This relationship was influenced by the Calvinist confessions of the sixteenth century, the theology of W ά Brakel and orthodox Calvinism, the federal concepts of the Old Testament and republican ideas of the Netherlands and Cape Patriots. It becomes clear that the history of the church in the Transvaal was directly influenced by the general history of the South African Republic.
Die kerk van die Woord
Authors: Boshoff P. B.
Published: January 2013

The church proclaiming the Word. The theme of the church is treated from the perspective of the theology of the Word. 1 Corinthians 5:19 is analyzed in the process. Divine revelation is discussed in the light of its being in the nature of an once-and-for-all event. This leads one to an understanding of the church in which the church best acquits itself of its task in public worship. The task of the church and the relationship between church and being a Christian are then considered.
Die kerk as gebeure: 'n Dogmatiese perspektief
Authors: Koekemoer J. H.K
Published: January 2013

The church as an event: A perspective from Systematic Theology. This article argues that, over against the idea of the church as an institu-tion, the church should be characterized as an event that does not live from the being and will of Jesus Christ as historical figure, but from the existence of the present Christ. The present Christ is the constitutive factor of the church. The church is determined by the present Christ, called by him into life and maintained by him. This characterizes the church also as a waiting church.
Nadenke oor die kerkbegrip: Enkele perspektiewe op grond van die Deuteronomistiese geskiedenis
Authors: Breytenbach A. P.B
Published: January 2013

Reflecting on the concept church: Some perspectives from Deutero-nomistic history. This article seeks to explain why and how the Old Testament and Deuteronomistic history in particular are essential in our theological reflection on the concept of church. The main trends in the theology of the Deuteronomistic history are discussed, namely that YHWH is a unique, sovereign and almighty God who elected Israel and made a covenant with them. His steadfast love and preparedness to forgive, as well as his judgement on those who disobey him, serve as an appeal to Israel to honor and obey him in absolute loyalty. The article concludes with the notion that the very existence of the religious community is totally de pendatil on the grace and love of God, and that its members are therefore committed to him and to one another with the prophetic word as their hope for the future.
Implikasies van die kommunikatiewe handelingsteorie vir In prakties-teologiese perspektief op die ekklesiologie
Authors: Dreyer T. F.J.
Published: January 2013

A practical theological perspective on ecclesiology as seen from the viewpoint of communicative action theory. From a practical theological perspective, this article disputes the trend in present ecclesiastical thought, abstracting a model depicting the practical functioning of the church, which is based on a single biblical metaphor. The body-of-Christ metaphor is commonly used as a church model. The eagerness to implement this construct is inspired by a paradigm shift and the incorporation of the communicative actions theory at the level of metatheory. The hypothesis of this research is that, once the matrix of this metatheory has been clearly identified, it must be ap-plied to the aspects of church life. All the biblical metaphors shedding light on the functioning of the church need reinterpretation within the framework of a postmodern society and symmetrical communicative patterns. This way of constructing an ecclesiastical perspective, would lead to a more balanced church praxis.
Die kerk
Authors: Oberholzer J. P.
Published: January 2013

The church. This survey of biblical material on the church proceeds from the view-point that the identity of the church of God can be treated only as an existential question, asking 'who is the church?' and 'who am I?' at the same time. The article shows that, of the various images used in the New Testament to describe the church, virtually every one forms the basis of a call to a holy and dedicated life. At the same time these images, with the exception of the body image, unite the churches of the Old and New Testament in such a way that the church of Christ is shown to be heir and new creation at the same time. Two prominent features appear: the call to a holy life and acceptance of the universality of the church, emanating from the will and being of the Lord himself, and guided by his Holy Spirit.
Die menslikheid van en die verskeidenheid in die kerk
Authors: Van Aarde Andries
Published: January 2013

The human character of the church and diversity within the church. In the ecumenical symbols of catholic Christianity the church is described as one, holy, catholic and apostolic. These notions correlate with the manner in which the one and only God interacts with humankind, as reported in Scripture. Holiness does not presuppose that the church consists of people who assume themselves to be in a timeless and spaceless heavenly kingdom, but that it consists of human beings, in a right relationship with God, who existentially live the values of God's kingdom. Catholicity presupposes the diversity of the church with regard to humankind, time, locality and culture. The catholic church, however, finds its identity not in plurality, but in its unity which transcends all diversity. This unity is the work of God's Spirit, encompassing the multiple witnesses of the prociaimers of the Jesus-event by empowering people in various ways at different times and places and letting them confess multifariously that Jesus Christ is Lord.
Jesus and politics in contemporary scholarship
Authors: Borg Marcus J.
Published: January 2013

Until recently, and for a variety of reasons, most historical Jesus scholarship has typically seen Jesus as essentially non-political. Recently, this has begun to change, to a large extent because of the fuller description of the social world of Jesus made possible by the use of interdisciplinary models and insights. Seen within the context of a social world described as a peasant, patriarchal and purity society, many of the Jesus traditions reflect both a sharp critique of society and advocacy of an alternative social vision. Jesus' action in the temple (including E P Sanders view of it) is treated as a case study of the difference made by an interdisciplinary understanding of the social context of Jesus' public activity.
The Hebrew terminology for the poor in Psalm 82
Authors: Dickson C. R.
Published: January 2013

The meaning of the Hebrew words for the English term 'poor' continues to be disputed. Two main schools of thought have developed. Some believe the terms refer to literal and material poverty, others that the terms refer to literal-metaphorical poverty. The result has been an impasse. This study suggests that the different Hebrew words for poor should be understood as metaphors for the concept of powerlessness. In addition, the concept of powerlessness is understood to have different perspectives. Psalm 82 is exegeted to provide a basis for this suggestion. The exegesis confirms the contention that poverty is powerlessness.
The vindication of the righteous in Romans 8:31-39: Inference and relevance
Authors: Maartens P. J.
Published: January 2013

This article explores the relevance and inferences of 'suffering righteousness' in the intertextual references within Romans 4, 5 and 8. The primary objective is to determine the contextual implications of the vindication of the Suffering righteous one. The enquiry probes an analysis of the structural context and the underlying code in intertextual references penaining to suffering righteousness in the Psalms, Isaiah 40-55, Wisdom 2-5 and 3:6 and Macc 7:37-38, and investigates the socio-semiotic relations of references in Romans. The article takes the themes of reconciliation and justification to its logical conclusions. 'Vindication' and 'exaltation' in Romans, fulfil the structure of 'suffering righteousness' founded in the Old Testament and cognate literature. The contextual implications of 'suffering righteousness' expressed in such features as 'justification, vindication, exaltation and glorification' rectify the 'status inconsistencies' of its recipients. The variegated semiotic perspectives exercised above contribute to the polymorphous character of the meaning of the text.
Psalm 97: Almal moet bly wees, want Jahwe is Koning
Authors: Prinsloo W. S.
Published: January 2013

Psalm 97: The Lord is king! Let all the world rejoice. In this article, which was presented as a paper at the congress of South African and Dutch Old Testament Scholars, the author first positions himself methodologically in terms of the South African situation. He then proceeds to use Psalm 97 to illustrate the text-immanent method, the method which he elects to apply. The findings reached are that, although this psalm derives much of its content from the remainder of the Old Testament, it nevertheless forms a coherent whole, and it can be described as an anistic poem in which various techniques of poetry are employed. However, Psalm 97 does not contain a clearly demarcated or even symmetrical strophic division. It is a persuasive text which probably dates from the post-exilic period.  Apparently, the main aim of the psalm was to convince the reader/listener that the Lord is in command.
Maaltye as seremonies in die Markusevangelie: 'n Sleutel om J H J A Greyvenstein en A S Geyser se denke oor die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika as volkskerk te evalueer
Authors: Van Eck Ernest
Published: January 2013

Meals as ceremonies in Mark's gospel: A key to evaluate the under-standing of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika as 'peoples church' by J H J A Greyvenstein and A S Geyser This article aims to participate in the current debate regarding the writing of a new church order for the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika, concentrating on Article III of the current church order. In a previous article the understanding of the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk as a 'peoples church' ('volkskerk') by Professors J H J A Greyvenstein and A S Geyser - both New Testament scholars in teaching positions at the University of Pretoria between 1917 and 1961 - was traced. This understanding is now critically evaluated by means of a social-scientific analysis of meals as ceremonies in Mark's gospel. The conclusion reached is that Mark proclaimed - as Greyvenstein and Geyser advocated - the presence and availibility of God as aspects that should ecclesiologically be open to all. Finally, a few remarks are made concerning the continuation of the debate on the new church order for the Nederduitsch Hervomde Kerk van Afrika.
Buite-aardse rasionaliteit: Uitvlug in fantasie of grootste uitdaging ooit aan filosofie en teologie?
Authors: Antonites A. J.
Published: January 2013

Extra terrestrial intelligence: Escape in fantasy or greatest challenge to philosophy and theology ever? The concept of extra-terrestrial intelligence was first mooted by philosophers like  Aristotle and Lucretius as well as natural scientists like Huygens and Whewell.  It is  considered whether UFO reports rather than  indicating something real provide a symptom of the  current religious cultural situation in Europe. Should rational life elsewhere in the universe be real, it is argued that biological life would be a neccessary condition.  The divergence and convergence hypotheses are examined.The fundamental prerequisite is the existence of other solar systems with planets other than our own. Insights from biology and astronomy are placed in the context of philosophical discourse.
Anderbereddering: Met Adorno by die hartslag van die postmoderne intellek
Authors: Beukes Johann C.
Published: January 2013

Other illumination: With Adorno at the heartbeat of the post-modern intellect. In this article Adorno's critique of identity thinking and modem systems of thought are exploited within the context of the current debate of modernity. It is argued that the usurpation of the so-called Other (which the author Calls "Anderverdringing") is at the core of modem thought, and that the illumination of the  Other (which the author calls "Ander-bereddering") is at the core of postmodern thought. Habermas' theory of communicative action is used to  bring Adorno's critique of identity thinking to the Jore as a form ofpostmodern critique, exactly in the sense that Adorno's philosophy is essentially Otherilluminating.
Praktiese kerkwees in die nuwe Suid-Afrika
Authors: Dreyer T. F.J.
Published: January 2013

The praxis of the church in the new South Africa. Political and social changes in the new South Africa will impose a new praxis with far reaching  consequences, especially for the Afrikaans speaking churches. Although it is still premature to definethe new praxis the church has to be prepared to accept the challenges. A few studies in this regard have already been published. This paper is an attempt to draw certain guidelines, based on available research done in this area.
Etiek in die nuwe Suid-Afrika
Authors: Van Wyk I. W.C
Published: January 2013

Ethics in the new South Africa This paper was read at a symposium where the calling of the church in the  'New South Africa' was discussed by delegates of twe churches, the Nederduitsch Hervomuie Kerk van Afrika and the Hetvomuie Kerk in Suidelike Afrika. The 'New  South Africa' will oblige the NHKA van Afrika as well as the HKSA to develop a new orientation in ethical mat-ters. The churches will have to concentrate on a wider range of ethical problems that were not in focus in the 'Old  South Africa '. The new situation is going to force White and Black Christians to work together harmoniously. Suggestions are made as to how the churches can concentrate more effectively on ethical questions.
Die verhouding kerk en wereld/kultuur in die lig van die Pauliniese 'asof nie' (ὡς μή)
Authors: Pelser G. M.M.
Published: January 2013

The relationship church and world/culture in light of the Pauline 'as if not' (ὡς μή). In this study the question is posed as to whether Paul was of the opinion that, apart from proclaiming the gospel, the church should be involved in cultural matters and even take the responsibility for furthering cultural causes. The bulk of the study is devoted to Paul's advice to his readers in 1 Corinthians 7:17-24, and especially 7:29-31. Concerning the latter passage, the possibility of Stoic influence on Paul is weighed, and, although such influence is not ruled out altogether, it is argued that Paul's advice should rather be seen against the background of his expectation of the imminent end of the world, as well as his conviction that the believer's union with Christ makes any other relationship or involvement a matter of no consequence. The final conclusion of the study is that although Paul did not advocate ascetism or forbade Christians to take part in worldly matters and institutions, he also did not expect them to play an active role in these things or to promote culture. On this basis, it is concluded that Paul may not be used as support for any argument in favour of a cultural involvement or responsibility on the part of the church.
Dogma en kultuur
Authors: Koekemoer J. H.
Published: January 2013

Dogma and culture. The necessity of a critical interpretation of dogma is evident among two lines. First, by its nature dogma is relative to the Word of God. Second, meanings, understanding and relevancies differ from one cultural setting to another. Dogmas should therefore be reinterpreted into new cultural frameworks. One implication of the recognition of cultural relativity is that it enables us to understand the important reason why theology has always been in a position of reformulation. The recognition of cultural relativity means that theologians recognise the need to be more modest, more open to theological discussion and more aware of cultural idolatry.
Het die kerk 'n politieke verantwoordelikheid? Oor die noodwendigheid en grense van die twee-ryke-Ieer
Authors: Van Wyk I. W.C
Published: January 2013

Does the church have a political responsibility? On the necessity and boundaries of the theory of the two kingdoms. The question is asked whether the Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika has a political responsibility in the new South Africa? It is often heard that the church has no political responsibility - especially in the new circumstances. In defending this  viewpoint, theologians in South Africa argue that they are in line with Luther's theory of the two kingdoms. This article shows that the theory of the two kingdoms is not a unique Lutheran, but also a Calvinist interest. It is further shown that this theory is not only concerned with separating the two kingdoms, but also with bringing these kingdoms into relationship with one another. A plea is made for loyalty towards both the Lutheran and Calvinist traditions. Attention is also given to three new challenges namely democracy, pluralism and Africanisation.