On 14 February 1901, the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced the opening of the Japan Mission and the selection of Elder Heber J. Grant as its first president. The idea of sending Mormon missionaries to Japan had earlier been entertained by President Brigham Young and several other church leaders and lay members. Until 1854, Japan was closed to western nations and their religious influences. Finally, Commodore Perry forced the Japanese to open their borders and minds to the economic and political entreaties of the United States. In time, other western nations and their Christian theology were admitted into Japan. Aware of their technological inferiority when compared to the West, the Japanese government set out to westernize their nation. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Mormons and the Japanese made a series of positive contacts. On two occasions, plans were made at the highest church levels to send missionaries to Japan. Both ended in failure. Finally, in 1901, the Church again committed its resources and one of its finest leaders, Elder Grant, to open the Japan Mission. After accepting his own calling, Elder Grant began the selection process of his own companions. He chose Horace S. Ensign, Louis A. Kelsch, and a young man from his home ward, Alma O. Taylor. Eighteen-year-old Alma was raised with the best Mormonism had to offer. His parents blessed him with education and position. He was also blessed with a sharp mind and a determined soul. Alma served in Japan for over eight and a half years. During this time he kept detailed journal entries of his experiences and impressions. The body of this thesis is devoted to making his writings available to other scholars and church members interested in the foundational events of the Church in Japan.

OpenAthens is a hosted identity and access management service that provides a streamlined solution for implementing single sign-on authentication. This presentation will outline the steps East Tennessee State University took to configure OpenAthens authentication across the Alma, Primo, and EZproxy platforms. We will give a brief overview of the internal configurations related to LDAP integration, allocating electronic resources, and selectively assigning permissions. Finally, we will share our experiences with OpenAthens including support, vendor adoption, and end user benefits.

Library management systems (LMS) are a big part of the workday for most librarians. Everything from acquisitions, managing e-resources and circulation work is done through these kinds of systems. Umeå university library implemented a new LMS called Alma back in 2018. They moved from a local system to a more complex and advanced cloud-based system. This study has examined how the system has been received through the lens of the Unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT). A survey containing 23 Likert items were answered by librarians at Umeå university’s libraries. The items were grouped under four overhead categories collected from UTAUT: performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions. Afterwards an analysis was made that examined whether age, gender, experience with the system and most used task in Alma had any influence over certain categories. The study shows that age and gender did not influence performance expectancy, but the most common task did with circulation work as an outlier with more negative scoring. Gender did not influence effort expectancy either, but age did where younger people tended to score lower and the age group 42–49 handing out higher scores. The most used task also influenced this factor but experience with the system did not influence the factor in a major way. Facilitating conditions was influenced by age where the age group in the middle once again scored much higher than the youngest group. Experience with Alma also influenced this factor in the sense that less experienced workers scored lower. Most used task in Alma followed the same pattern as the other factors with circulation tasks scoring lower and administration tasks scoring higher. Social influence did not pass the Cronbach’s alpha that was set at 0.7 and showed overall internal low correlation, therefore it was not included in the analysis.

Thesis (M. Sc. (Geology)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020 / The Glentig, Alma and Swaershoek Formations were deposited after the emplacement of the Bushveld igneous complex (BIC). The sediments accumulated in what is termed as the proto-basin of the Waterberg Group. The Glentig Formation is an unconformity bounded formation that is overlain by the Swaershoek and Alma Formations of the Waterberg Group. This study revisited the stratigraphy and put perception on the petrography, lithofacies, provenance, paleoweathering, tectonic setting and source rock characteristics of the lower parts of Waterberg Group (Swaershoek and Alma Formations) and Glentig Formation. The methodologies employed in achieving the aforementioned goals include stratigraphical analysis, petrographical and modal composition analyses, lithofacies analysis and geochemical analysis. In the study area (northeast of Modimolle town), the Glentig Formation lies or bounded between the Swaershoek Formation and Schrikkloof Formation of the Rooiberg Group. The Glentig, Swaershoek and Alma Formations attained a maximum thickness of about 400 m, 300 m and 190 m, respectively. Based on the stratigraphical analysis, the Swaershoek, Alma and Glentig Formations can be correlated. The basis for the correlation rests solemnly on the similarities in the lithological characteristics that can be found in the three formations. Six facies were identified based on lithofacies analysis. The lithofacies are grouped into 2 facies association (FA1 and FA2). The two facies associations are FA1: Conglomerate and massive sandstone, and FA2: Cross-bedded sandstone, and planar cross-bedded sandstone. Sedimentological characteristics of the identified facies associations are interpreted as debris flow, and longitudinal and transverse bars (fluvial channel deposits). Petrography and modal composition analyses indicate that the detrital components of the sandstones are dominated by monocrystalline quartz, vi feldspar and lithic fragments. The sandstones of the Swaershoek, Alma and Glentig Formations can be classified as subarkosic arenite and lithic arkosic arenite. Also, provenance analysis indicates that the sandstones are derived from both felsic igneous provenance and intermediate igneous provenance. The modal composition analysis and geochemical tectonic setting discrimination diagrams show that the sediments are from both the passive and active continental margin tectonic settings. Also, the geochemical data of major and trace elements suggested that the studied formations have been derived from the same provenance source area. The indices of weathering indicated that the studied rocks have been subjected to moderate to the high degree of chemical weathering. / Mining Qualification Authority (MQA)

Les domaines millimétrique et submillimétrique sont des domaines qui permettent de caractériser la physico-chimie des atmosphères planétaires par l'observation des molécules qui les composent. Le télescope spatial Herschel et l'interféromètre ALMA, qui entreront prochainement en service, permettront d'améliorer considérablement notre connaissance des atmosphères planétaires. L'un des principaux objectifs de cette thèse est de développer un modèle d'analyse des observations millimétriques et submillimétriques qui seront effectuées avec Herschel et ALMA. C'est en ce sens que nous détaillons un modèle qui tient compte de la géométrie sphérique des corps observés et des spécificités instrumentales propres aux télescopes utilisés. Dans un premier temps, ce qui a permis notamment de valider notre modèle de transfert radiatif, nous avons étudié l'origine des composés oxygénés dans les atmosphères des planètes géantes. Nous présentons l'analyse d'observations de Saturne et d'Uranus, effectuées avec les télescopes de l'IRAM et du JCMT, pour contraindre les sources de monoxyde de carbone dans ces atmosphères. Nous améliorons ainsi les limites supérieures précédemment publiées et réalisons la première observation du monoxyde de carbone dans l'atmosphère de Saturne dans le domaine submillimétrique. Cette observation prouve l'existence d'une source externe pour ce composé. Nous analysons également des observations récentes de Jupiter, effectuées par le télescope spatial Odin, pour contraindre l'origine externe de l'eau dans la stratosphère de cette planète. Les observations confirment que la chute de la comète Shoemaker-Levy~9 est vraisemblablement la source principale d'eau. Dans un second temps, nous avons appliqué notre modèle à l'étude de la structure thermique et la dynamique de l'atmosphère de Mars, à partir d'observations du monoxyde de carbone. Ces observations sont comparées aux prédictions d'un modèle de circulation générale, ce qui permet de vérifier la validité de ses prédictions et de fournir de nouvelles contraintes observationnelles pour ce type de modélisations. Enfin, nous avons appliqué notre modèle à l'étude des planètes géantes avec le télescope spatial Herschel, dans le cadre du programme-clé de temps garanti du télescope spatial Herschel ``Water and related chemistry in the Solar System''. Nous avons également identifié les améliorations à apporter à notre modèle pour analyser des observations ALMA. / The planetary atmospheres can be characterized by observations carried out in the millimeter and submillimeter wavelength ranges. In a near future, the Herschel Space Observatory as well as the ALMA interferometer will increase our knowledge of the planet atmospheres. One of the main goals of this thesis work consists in developping an analysis tool for millimeter and submillimeter observations, which will be carried out with Herschel and ALMA. The model we have developped takes into account the spherical geometry of the planets and the properties of the telescopes. First, we have studied the origin of oxygen compounds in the atmospheres of the giant planets. We have validated our radiative transfer model from this study. We present the analysis of observations of carbon monoxide in the atmospheres of Saturn and Uranus, which have been carried out with the IRAM and JCMT telescopes, in order to constrain the origin of this compound. We improve existing upper limits and prove the existence of an external source of carbon monoxide in the atmosphere of Saturn from the first observation of this compound at submillimeter wavelengths. We also analyse recent observations from the Odin space telescope of water vapor in the stratosphere of Jupiter to constrain its external source. We confirm that the observed water is probably mostly due to the collision of comet Shoemaker-Levy~9 with the planet. Then, we have used our model in order to study the thermal structure as well as the dynamics of the atmosphere of Mars from carbon monoxide observations. These observations are compared to predictions of a general circulation model to check the consistency of the predictions. They also provide new observational constraints to general circulation models. Finally, we have used our model to study the atmospheres of the giant planets in the frame of the Herschel garanteed time key-program ``Water and related chemistry in the Solar System''. We have also determined the upgrades to implement in our model to analyse ALMA observational data.

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Un peu plus de 150 molécules ont été détectées dans le milieu interstellaire et circumstellaire. Parmi elles, nous dénombrons une soixantaine de molécules complexes composées d'au moins 6 atomes. La chimie du milieu interstellaire, synthétisant des molécules plus ou moins complexes à la surface des grains ou en phase gazeuse, est très différente de celle connue sur Terre. À ce jour, seules l'observation et l'analyse de l'émission des différentes espèces moléculaires permettent de contraindre les modèles de chimie interstellaire.Au cours de cette thèse, j'ai recherché des molécules complexes au sein de la nébuleuse d'Orion Kleinmann-Low qui est la région de formation d'étoiles massives la plus proche de nous. De nombreuses étoiles de faible masse s'y forment également. Je me suis intéressée en particulier à la molécule du formiate de méthyle HCOOCH3 qui est une molécule complexe abondante et qui s'est révélée être un traceur de température et de structure de l'ensemble de la région étudiée. Grâce à des observations millimétriques de hautes résolutions spatiales et spectrales (respectivement de 7’’ à 2’’ et de 2.3 km/s à 0.4 km/s), obtenues avec l'interféromètre du Plateau de Bure de l'IRAM, j'ai réalisé une étude détaillée de l'émission cette molécule oxygénée dans la région du Compact Ridge. Notre étude montre que cette région particulière semble être chauffée par des mécanismes externes tels des chocs. De plus, nos observations en direction du Compact Ridge et de son voisinage tendent à confirmer la désorption suite à un choc du formiate de méthyle, ou d'un de ses précurseurs, formé à la surface des grains interstellaires.J'ai également recherché les deux isomères de formule [C2H4O2] du formiate de méthyle : le glycolaldéhyde et l'acide acétique. Leur étude a montré la difficulté de détecter des molécules peu abondantes dans Orion K-L en raison d'une confusion spectrale importante, mettant ainsi en évidence la nécessité d'observations de hautes résolutions aussi bien spatiale que spectrale pour la recherche de molécules comme le permettra l'interféromètre ALMA. Les limites supérieures de densité de colonne déduites de nos données pour le pré-sucre glycolaldehyde (CH2OHCHO, détecté dans SgrB2) sont très contraignantes pour les modèles de chimie. Nos résultats pourraient permettre une avancée dans la compréhension de l'origine de cette espèce moléculaire. / Over 150 different molecular species have been detected in the interstellar and circumstellar media. Among these, approximatively 60 are complex molecules and contain 6 or more atoms. The interstellar chemical processes that form more or less complex molecules, either on the surface of dust grains or in gas phase, are different from the processes we know on Earth. The only way to constrain chemical models relies on the observation and the analysis of the emission coming from various molecular species.The main goal of my PhD is to look for complex molecules in the nearest star forming region with both high and low mass stars, the Orion Kleinmann-Low nebula. I specially studied the emission of the methyl formate molecule (HCOOCH3) which appeared to be an abundant molecule and a good probe of the temperature and structure of Orion K-L.Using high spectral and spatial resolution millimetre observations (from 7’’ to 2’’ and from 2.3 km/s to 0.4 km/s, respectively) from the IRAM Plateau de Bure Interferometer, I carried out a detailed study of the emission of this O-bearing molecule towards the Compact Ridge component. Our study shows that this region seems to be heated by external mechanisms (e.g. shocks).Moreover, our observations toward the Compact Ridge region and its surroundings tend to confirm that methyl formate or a precursor seems to be formed on grain surfaces and is subsequently desorbed due to shocks.I also looked for the two isomers of methyl formate [C2H4O2] : glycolaldehyde and acetic acid. Owing to strong spectral confusion in the region, it is very difficult to detect low abundance molecules such as these two isomers. In order to lower the confusion level, higher spatial as well as spectral resolutions must be achieved which ALMA will soon allow.We derived upper limits for the column density of glycolaldehyde, a precursor of sugar (CH2OHCHO that has been detected towards SgrB2), these limits provide strong constraints for chemical models.

Esta tese procura registrar uma história de vida articulada por imagens da literatura apropriadas pela subjetividade no sentido de uma educação do cultivo da alma. Para isso, lanço-me, a partir de alguns trajetos de leitura, a um percurso teórico-analítico de cunho antropoliterário, no qual o texto é compreendido como mito e incorporado à história de vida do leitor como mediador simbólico inter e intrasubjetivo, cuja abertura semântica deve-se justamente à presença da imagem arquetípica segundo noção de James Hillman (1995:10). Os potenciais pedagógicos da literatura são veiculados pelas imagens portadoras do arquétipo como \"janelas de aprendizagem\" (Paula Carvalho) que permitem que o leitor transite do texto à existência e de volta, num circuito que o auxilia a promover a equilibração de polaridades e a elaboração criativa da alteridade representada, em última instância, pelo inconsciente, no sentido da construção da identidade do ego e em direção à individuação. São eixos organizadores: (1) a Arquetipologia Geral no contexto da Teoria Geral do Imaginário, de Gilbert Durand; (2) a noção de imagem no contexto da Psicologia Arquetípica, segundo James Hillman e (3) a noção de Educação Fática em José Carlos de Paula Carvalho. A partir de uma perspectiva hermenêutica que procura a abertura do discursivo rumo ao existencial (Paula Carvalho, 1998:59), recolho imagens de três obras clássicas da literatura, lidas por mim aos treze anos de idade, e que me conduziram na direção da descoberta da imagem essencial - a da educadora -, processo no qual enxergo a finalidade última da educação. As referidas obras lidas à margem da escola tornaram-se especialmente significativas devido à dinâmica proposta pela dimensão escolar oficial, também ela imprescindível para que a experiência com o significado se construísse. Retorno assim a Madame Bovary, de Gustave Flaubert, como exemplo de uma literatura para a formação da sensibilidade heróica; ao Decamerão, de Giovanni Boccaccio, como exemplo de uma literatura para a formação da sensibilidade mística e a O morro dos ventos uivantes, de Emily Brontë, como exemplo de uma literatura para a formação da sensibilidade dramática. / This present study tries to register images of a life history articulated by images of the literature - these latter ones appropriated by the subjectivity towards an education of the soul. Being so, I launch myself, starting from my experiences as a reader, into a theoretical-analytical path based on an anthropo-literary view in which literature is understood as myth and life history, i.e., as inter and intra-subjective symbolic mediator whose semantic openness is due mostly to the presence of the archetypal image - according to James Hillman\'s denomination ( 1995, 10). The pedagogical potentials of the literature are, in this way, transmitted by the images bearing an archetypal meaning that circulates from the text towards the life of the reader, to promote the equilibrium of the polarities, through the creative elaboration of alterity represented by the unconscious, in the construction of the ego´s identity. The thematic axe\'s that organize this study are: 1) The General Archetypology, of Gilbert Durand (1997); 2) the notion of image according to the Archetypal Psychology, of James Hillman (1997b). From an hermeneutic perspective, which looks for an openness that goes from the discourse towards the existential (Paula Carvalho, 1998, 59), I get images from three classical novels, in order to understand themselves in the convergence of life with reading, even guiding me to the direction of the discovery of my own essential image or daimon - in which I recognize the objective of education. The mentioned novels were read apart from school. Nevertheless, they became specially significant in my educational process due to the dynamism proposed by the official schooling dimension - also completely necessary so that this experience with meaning could be built. So, I come back to Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, as an example of a literature that forms the heroic sensibility; to Decameron, by Giovanni Bocaccio, as an example of a literature that forms the mystic sensibility; to O morro dos ventos uivantes, by Emily Brontë, as an example of a literature that forms the dramatic sensibility.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:40:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Aline Ribeiro Fiamenghi.pdf: 2341077 bytes, checksum: e356d81fd0febc68f6ed52f1af356fce (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-05-14 / This research intends to present the concept of "Soul-Making". Its basis resides in the activities of dance improvisation. According to Archetypal Psychology, "soul" is an imaginative possibility, a function of transforming events into experiences and the capacity of recognizing all realities as primarily symbolical or metaphorical. We don't intend to restrict dance experience to psychological ideas, nor explain it. We take dance as our starting-point for its power of "touching us". Dance functions as a means to create metaphors as we understand improvisation in dance like the act of imagining with the body. Dance is a search for encounters, it happens in relation to: image, music and the dancer s intellectual, artistic and corporeal repertoire as much as his connections (relations) among other dancing bodies. We believe that movement, organized as the thought of the body can produce different conscience modalities, beyond the egoic one. We show a working method, developed in two meetings, which we called Improvisation Laboratory. Our purpose was to observe the reverberations of free movements, without any previous technical preparation for the dancers. That is to say, what kind of images were produced and how they have transformed the event into an animic experience / Esta pesquisa trata-se de um trabalho sobre o fazer-alma que tem sua base na improvisação em dança. Na perspectiva da psicologia arquetípica, alma é uma possibilidade imaginativa, a função de transformar eventos em experiências, a capacidade de reconhecer todas as realidades como primariamente simbólicas ou metafóricas. Não tentamos psicologizar a experiência da dança, nem explicá-la, mas partimos da dança por ser algo que toca. Por ela, vemos a possibilidade de metaforizar, pois entendemos que improvisar em dança é imaginar com o corpo. A dança busca encontro, se faz na relação com a imagem, a música, o repertório artístico, intelectual e corporal do dançarino e com outros corpos dançantes. Acreditamos que o movimento, organizado como pensamento do corpo, é uma possibilidade investigativa e imaginativa que produz outras modalidades de consciência, para além da egoica. Apresentamos um método de trabalho, elaborado em dois encontros, nomeado por Laboratório de Improvisação, a fim de observar as repercussões dos movimentos livres, sem preparo prévio nas dançarinas. Ou seja, que imagens foram produzidas e como transformaram o evento numa experiência anímica