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The Numerical Connection between Map and its Differential Equation: Logistic and Other Systems
Authors: de Lima Marcos Roberto , Claro Fábio , Ribeiro Wallace , Xavier Sérgio , López-Castillo A. 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The logistic map, in this article, is used to show the propagation of the numerical error for numerically solved logistic ODE's. When this equation is solved numerically (discretization procedure) the solution shows a chaotic behavior by varying the control parameter (integration step-size). However, the logistic ODE dx/dt = (k − 1)x − kx
2 also has an analytical solution, i.e., not presenting the signature of chaos. The connection between the two limits, analytical solution and chaos, allows us to establish a region of acceptability for the numerical error. Therefore the limits of the numerical process can be found in between the limits of the analytical and chaotic solutions.
This study can be extended to any other ODE or map. For example, there is a similar numerical connection between the chaotic bi-dimensional Cat Map with its respective integrable ODE, which has an analytical solution.
Our discussion applied to those particular systems is generic, that is, the solutions obtained from the numerical discretization can be more instable than those obtained from the continuous procedure. The important point is to find a compromise between the step-size and the propagation length in order to obtain the best numerical solution since the instabilities can be unavoidable.
Switching Design for the Asymptotic Stability and Stabilization of Nonlinear Uncertain Stochastic Discrete-time Systems
Authors: Rajchakit Grienggrai 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
This paper is concerned with asymptotic stability and stabilization of nonlinear uncertain stochastic switched discrete time-delay systems. The system to be considered is subject to interval time-varying delays, which allows the delay to be a fast time-varying function and the lower bound is not restricted to zero. Based on the discrete Lyapunov functional, a switching rule for the asymptotic stability and stabilization for the nonlinear uncertain stochastic discrete time-delay system is designed via linear matrix inequalities. Numerical examples are included to illustrate the effectiveness of the results.
Second-Order Slip Effects on Heat Transfer of Nanofluid with Reynolds Model of Viscosity in a Coaxial Cylinder
Authors: Zhu Jing , Yang Dan , Zheng Liancun , Zhang Xinxin 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The present work makes an analysis on the effects of second-order velocity slip and temperature jump boundary conditions for third-grade nanofluid over a coaxial cylinder. In the modeling of blood-based nanofluids containing metal or metal oxide nanoparticles, the viscosity is approximated to second-order Maclaurin’s series for the first time and the effective density is handled to a combination of temperature and nanoparticles volume fraction. The governing equations are transformed into a dimensionless system of nonlinear differential equations and solved by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The accuracy and efficiency of the HAM solutions are verified by

ℏ

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-curves and residual error curves using package BVPh2.0. The physical interpretations are illustrated by graphs and tables. The results revealed that the Nusselt number increases with an increase of nanoparticle volume fraction. The second-order velocity slip has a significant weakened effect on the skin friction. In addition, the Brownian motion and thermophoresis movement are collaborating to increase the temperature profile.
Investigation into the Spall Strength of Cast Iron
Authors: Plume Gifford , Rousseau Carl-Ernst 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The spall strength of cast iron has been investigated by means of planar plate impact experiments conducted in a vacuum. A single stage gas gun was utilized to drive projectiles to velocities between 100 and 300 m/sec, resulting in low to moderate shock loading of the cast iron specimens. Measurement of the stress histories were made with the use of commercial manganin stress gauges that were imbedded between the back face of the cast iron specimen and a low impedance backing of polycarbonate. Spall strength values were calculated utilizing the measured peak stress and minimum stress pullback signals captured in the stress history. Spall Strength values were found to vary between 0.98 and 1.45 GPa for the cast iron tested. Post-Mortem analysis of recovered specimen has provided insight into the evolution of spall failure in cast iron and shed light on the varying nature of the spall strength values calculated. It was determined that the lower bound of strength values was associated with small scale micro-failure, while the upper bound values corresponded to complete spall fracture.
On the Energy of Dynamic Fractures
Authors: Xia Kaiwen , Liu Cangli , Kanopoulos Patrick 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The validity of the constant propagation fracture energy postulation for dynamic fracture is discussed. As shown from existing direct and indirect experimental results, this assumption may not represent the physical reality. For spontaneous fractures, the fracture energy was shown to increase linearly with the crack length, and for dynamic fractures driven by known amplitude impulsive loading (generated by planar impact), the fracture energy was not a constant either. Despite of its phenomenogical origin, the Broberg's theory developed for self-similar crack growth works well for both spontaneous fractures and dynamic fractures produced by well defined dynamic loading. In this theory, the fracture energy is not a constant. Furthermore, with given far-field loading or equivalent far-field loading, the crack speed is uniquely determined by a strength-like material parameter. This parameter is related to the cohesive strength as proposed by H. J. Gao for hyperelastic materials in the crack-tip process zone. It is proposed in this work that the strength-like parameter (or equivalently the constant fracture speed) is a better material parameter to describe the dynamic fracture propagation process for most dynamic fractures.
The diverse and contested diaconate: Why understanding this ministry is crucial to the future of the Church
Authors: Orton Andrew 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The diaconate has attracted widespread renewed interest in the contemporary context, whilst being the focus of considerable international ecumenical, social and theological debate. This article shows how the deacon’s role embodies many of the pressing issues facing churches across the world today, particularly through its position as a ministry at the interface between church and wider society. These issues include debates over the nature of ministry, the relationship between different lay and ordained ministries, issues of gender, status and power, and how churches should relate to wider society. To explore these issues, the article draws on research into the diaconate in one particular denomination, the Methodist Church in Britain, and sets this in a wider comparative ecumenical and historical context. The resulting analysis shows how it is crucially important for churches to reflect internationally on diverse experiences and understandings of deacons’ ministry, and own collectively the inherent challenges that this ministry can present. Deacons are shown to have a liminal ministry that through its very existence and practice can challenge understandings of status and power that can exist between different groups such as those who are lay and ordained, those in the church and those in the wider community. Reflecting on this liminal ministry can help churches as they seek to make connections between worship, mission and service, by enabling the whole Church to put their faith into practice in their everyday lives as they engage with wider society. This is especially important in terms of reflecting carefully on the Church’s response to those who are suffering, disadvantaged or marginalised.
Humility: Empirical Psychological Research in Dialogue with Practical Theology – Part II
Authors: Wolfteich Claire E. , Keefe-Perry Callid , Sandage Steven , Paine David R. 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
This article reports on the current status and key findings of a growing body of empirical research on humility; argues for further interdisciplinary, collaborative research between empirical psychology and practical theology; and outlines several generative future research trajectories. Scientific studies of humility could be quite relevant to practical theology, particularly informing research on spiritual formation, intercultural competence, theological education, leadership development, and clinical care. At the same time, we argue for increased attention to theology and spirituality in psychological research on humility, particularly given the strong role of religious and spiritual traditions/communities in promoting humility as a virtue and recent feminist practical theological critiques of humility constructions. Engagement between social scientists and theologians enables sharper reflection upon the moral values implicit in the expanding body of empirical research on humility. Such collaborative, interdisciplinary work is essential in shaping research-based interventions in clinical and religious practice.
Making sense of terms of address in European languages through the Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM)
Authors: Wierzbicka Anna 
Published: February 2021

AbstractBuilding on the author’s earlier work on address practices and focusing on the French wordsmonsieurandmadame, this paper seeks to demonstrate that generic titles used daily across Europe have relatively stable meanings, different in different languages, and that their semantic analysis can provide keys to the speakers’ cultural assumptions and attitudes. But to use these keys effectively, we need some basic locksmith skills. The NSM approach, with its stock of primes and molecules and its mini-grammar for combining these into explications and cultural scripts, provides both the necessary tools and the necessary techniques. The unique feature of the NSM approach to both semantics and pragmatics is the reliance on a set of simple, cross-translatable words and phrases, in terms of which interactional meanings and norms can be articulated, compared, and explained to linguistic and cultural outsiders. Using this approach, this paper assigns intuitive, intelligible and cross-translatable meanings to several key terms of address in French and English, and it shows how these meanings can account for many aspects of these terms’ use. The paper offers a framework for studying the use of terms of address in Europe and elsewhere and has implications for language teaching, cross-cultural communication and education.
Partial word knowledge: Frontier words in the L2 mental lexicon
Authors: Zareva Alla 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The study set out to examine the partial word knowledge of native speakers, L2 advanced, and intermediate learners of English with regard to four word features from Richards' (1976) taxonomy of aspects describing what knowing a word entails. To capture partial familiarity, the participants completed in writing a test containing low and mid frequency content words, accompanied by a word knowledge scale. The analysis showed that there were three distinctive patterns of partially familiar vocabulary but their distribution across the three groups was quite different, which indicated that partial knowledge was linked to different word features across the three proficiency groups. It was also of interest to explore whether the participants maintained similar associative connections for their frontier words and whether a word association task would capture partial familiarity. Overall, participants' associative domains for frontier words did not reveal any consistent associative behavior that would distinguish between proficiency groups.
Advances in genetic diagnostics for hereditary hearing loss
Authors: Idan Natali , Brownstein Zippora , Shivatzki Shaked , Avraham Karen B. 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
Hereditary hearing loss affects a significant proportion of the hearing impaired, with genetic mutations estimated to be responsible for its etiology in over 50% of this population. The methods for molecular diagnostics are changing as a result of the transition from linkage analysis to next generation sequencing to identify the genes responsible for hearing loss in affected families. In this review, we summarize the attitudes of the hearing impaired towards genetic testing, the latest techniques for identifying mutations, and provide a comprehensive list of the mutations found in the Israeli Jewish hearing-impaired population.
Central Bank Liquidity Management and the Signal Extraction Problem on the Money Market / Die Liquiditätssteuerung der Notenbank und das Signal-extraktionsproblem am Geldmarkt
Authors: Bindseil Ulrich 
Published: February 2021

Summary
Understanding the factors determining overnight rates is crucial both for central bankers and private market participants, since, assuming the validity of the expectation theory of the term structure of interest rates, expectations with regard to this “monadic” maturity should determine longer term rates, which are deemed to be relevant for the transmission of monetary policy. The note proposes a simple model of the money market within a two-day long reserve maintenance period to derive relationships between the relevant quantities, expectations concerning these quantities for the rest of the reserve maintenance period, and overnight rates. It is argued that a signal extraction problem faced by banks when observing quantities such as their aggregate reserve holdings and allotment amounts of monetary policy operations is at the core of these relationships. The usefulness of the model is illustrated by applying it to the analysis of three alternative liquidity management strategies of a central bank.
Domestic Fiscal Policy in a Monetary Union: What are the Spillovers? / Fiskalpolitik in einer Währungsunion: Internationale Auswirkungen
Authors: Welsch Heinz 
Published: February 2021

Summary
This paper examines the spillovers of domestic fiscal expansion in a monetary union. Such a policy action leads to cross-country crowding-out effects on the one hand and cross-country multiplier effects on the other. The overall effect is indeterminate a priori. The approach pursued is therefore an empirical one, using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model with a simple representation of the money market. Three groups of parameters are identified as key determinants of the fiscal policy spillover: the elasticities of substitution in foreign trade (being a measure of the degree of trade integration), the interest elasticity of money demand, and the elasticity of wages with respect to the employment situation. For a reasonable range of parameter configurations, the interest rate effect always dominates the multiplier effect. Especially, even with a degree of trade integration four times as high as commonly assumed the overall spillover is (slightly) negative.
“Death-Spectacles” in Quattrocento Life and Laude
Authors: Filocamo Gioia 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
In the fourteenth century a huge change took place in thinking about death: the kingdom of the beyond became full of dreadful suffering. This new mentality derives from the belief in Purgatory that took hold in the twelfth century, but reached its high point only in the fifteenth: the judgement of the dead would take place immediately after death. Prayers and money invested in order to obtain remission of sins encouraged the expansion of a true “economy of death” manageable from earth. The birth of the Observance movement inside the Mendicant Orders may be connected with this new sensibility, in which the faithful are more concerned with their personal salvation. The “death-spectacles” evoked by Girolamo Savonarola became lenses through which to look at life, but even before him many authors of laude – vernacular religious songs mainly composed for civic confraternities – express the same modern thought on death inspired by Holy Scripture, but excluding high poetic models. The common practice of “cantasi come …” – the reuse of music known with a different text now turned to fear of death – confirms the strong contiguity between life and death, read as a true “extension” of life.
“Illustre est Lovanium et Belgium Janssenio”: Textgenetische Analyse von Cornelius Jansenius’ Oratio de interioris hominis reformatione
Authors: De Maeyer Nicolas 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
The present contribution offers an analysis of the Oratio de interioris hominis reformatione (1628), a sermon written by Cornelius Jansenius (1585–1638), professor of exegesis at the university of Leuven, for the introduction of a new monastic rule in the monastery of Affligem (Southern Netherlands). The text was reprinted several times and gained a certain popularity in the seventeenth century, especially through its French translation by Robert Arnauld d’Andilly (1642). This contribution focuses on the historical circumstances which lead to the genesis of the Oratio. By means of introduction, a summary of the text’s content is given, focusing on Jansenius’ presentation of the Augustinian exegesis of 1 John 2:16 on the threefold concupiscence. Our proper analysis of the historical context of the Oratio is threefold. In first instance, we analyze Jansenius’ relations with the different protagonists in the reform of Affligem, which culminated in the introduction of a new monastic rule in 1628. Thereafter, we focus on the history of the Benedictine monastery itself, from its foundation until the seventeenth century. We end our analysis with a close examination of the pronuntiatio of the Oratio on 18 October 1628 and the immediate impact of the text.
Catholic Biblical Studies after Trent: Franciscus Toletus
Authors: Murray Luke 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
This essay studies the figure of Franciscus Toletus and in particular, his biblical hermeneutic. Covering his background, his education, his entry into the Jesuit order, his career at Rome and finally his commentary on the Gospel of John, the essay seeks to introduce the reader to a key figure of Catholic biblical studies in the early modern period.
Enseignantes et cloîtrées: Les ursulines de la congrégation de Bordeaux en Bretagne au XVIIe siècle. A la recherche d’un modèle conventuel
Authors: Aravaca Chantal 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
On 3 December 1563, the fathers of the Council of Trent made provision for the enclosure of nuns: “the Holy Council command all bishops they made it their special care that in all monasteries subjected to their authority the enclosure of nuns be restored wherever it has been violated and that it be preserved wherever it has not been violated”. In 1566, the constitution Circa pastoralis completed that reform and obliged every religious order of women to the enclosure. The communities of nurses or teachers had to make a choice between enclosure or apostolate. Nevertheless, the ursulines successfully adapted their way of life, and continued to teach young girls. Some religious orders drew up plans in order to manage the observance of the rule and the enclosure thanks to an appropriate spatial organization. The ursulines of the Congregation of Bordeaux did not produce such a document, but the architecture of their convents in Brittany reveals that the communities transmitted the plans to each other. This detailed analysis of plans and facades of their convents in Brittany prepares the ground for the history of the architectural practices of a female order that is still little known in France.
Recommendations for the diagnosis of paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria: a German-Austrian Consensus1)
Authors: Schrezenmeier Hubert , Bettelheim Peter , Panse Jens , Schubert Jörg , Höchsmann Britta , Röth Alexander , Nebe Thomas 
Published: February 2021

Abstract
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is a rare, life-threatening hematological disease. An acquired mutation in the PIG-A gene in hematopoietic precursor cells leads to a deficiency of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI), a common membrane anchor for certain cell surface proteins. The consequence is a deficiency of the decay-accelerating factor (recognized by antibodies of the cluster CD55) and of the membrane inhibitor of reactive lysis (MIRL, recognized by CD59 antibodies) on the surface of blood cells leading to dysregulation of the complement cascade resulting in characteristic intravascular hemolysis and thromboembolic complications. The analysis of GPI-anchored proteins on blood cells is the recognized diagnostic gold standard. Some aspects of the recently published international guidelines are still a matter of discussion. On the basis of these guidelines, we discussed practical recommendations, which led to the German-Austrian consensus paper presented here. It contains specific proposals for indication of the test, preanalytical aspects, how to perform immunophenotyping, and for result interpretation. We propose a two-step diagnostic approach. Step 1 is a screening and step 2 is a confirmation of the diagnosis. The latter should be restricted to expert laboratories’ experience with PNH. According to this algorithm for a stepwise diagnostic approach, we recommend which antibody panel should be used in which step. The most frequent sources of error and how to avoid them are also summarized. This consensus should support medical laboratories to make an early and correct diagnosis of what is important to therapy and prognosis of the patient. Aspects of economic efficiency and feasibility were also included in our considerations.
Strongly aperiodic logarithmic signatures
Authors: Staszewski Reiner , van Trung Tran 
Published: February 2021

Abstract.
Logarithmic signatures for finite groups are the essential constituent
of public key cryptosystems and . Especially they
form the main component of the private key of .
Regarding the use of , it has become a vital issue to construct
new classes of logarithmic signatures having features that do not share
with the well-known class of transversal or fused transversal logarithmic signatures.
For this purpose Baumeister and de Wiljes recently presented an interesting method
of constructing aperiodic logarithmic signatures for abelian groups.
In this paper we introduce the concept of strongly aperiodic
logarithmic signatures and show their constructions for abelian p-groups
on the basis of the Baumeister–de Wiljes method.
Warum nach dreihundert Jahren immer noch Kant lesen?
Authors: O’Neill Onora 
Published: February 2021

Abstract:
This paper was presented at a symposium entitled “300 Years of Immanuel Kant – The Road to the Jubilee” (300 Jahre I. K. – der Weg zum Jubiläum), held on 6 June 2016 in Berlin. Professor Monika Rüttgers, Beauftragte der Bundesregierung Kultur und Medien (Federal Commissioner for Culture and Media), and the Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (Federal Institute for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe) invited renowned Kant researchers and political representatives to speak on various themes at a meeting that demonstrated the importance and continued relevance of Kant’s thinking. The symposium launched a series of public events in preparation of Kant’s tercentenary in 2024.