This thesis aims to investigate how evangelical Christians and their Protestant forebears, labeled early orthodox Protestants, have dealt with the classic puzzle of New Testament criticism known as the Synoptic Problem. The particular theories considered are the Independence Hypothesis, the Augustinian Hypothesis, the Two-Gospel Hypothesis, the Two-Source Hypothesis, and the Farrer Hypothesis. Starting with John Calvin and continuing to modern-day, consideration is given to the various hypotheses provided by early orthodox Protestant and evangelical biblical scholars throughout the centuries. Special attention is given to major evangelical contributors to the subject since 1950. In addition, a chapter is devoted to the role ecclesiology has played in evangelical consideration of the synoptic problem. After considering the opinions offered over almost half a millennium, the thesis notes how arguments have changed, and how they have remained the same.

This thesis answers the question How might an understanding of shame in the church inform approaches to ministerial praxis? It is methodologically a creative piece of practical theology which begins and ends with an autoethnographic reflection, drawing on the metaphor of landscape. The practical theology methodology involved the following stages: noticing; reflexivity; describing, naming; focusing; investigating; analysing; evaluating; theorizing, synthesizing; and responding, while drawing on insights from a mixed methods approach to qualitative research. The empirical research involved an anonymous online survey (261 respondents) to church leaders, church members and theological educators and two representative focus groups. Shame is defined phenomenologically using a range of disciplines; a review of literature relevant to shame and ministerial praxis is included. The unique contribution this thesis makes is twofold. Firstly, the development of an empirically underpinned typology of shame in the church which has six domains: personal, relational, communal, structural, theological and historical facilitating the identification of shame which is often a hidden phenomenon. Secondly, identifying specific approaches to ministerial praxis which help mitigate such shame including a shame examen to assist conscientization. The final chapter discusses the author’s learning about shame, ministerial praxis, doing theology and theological education.

Emballator Växjöplast AB arbetar med att utveckla och tillverka kapsyler till världens ledande varumärken. De arbetar ständigt med utveckling och design av kapsyler för att skapa identitet, funktion och försäljning. Detta har lett till att företaget idag är Nordens största kapsyltillverkare. Dagens sortiment av 28mm barnskyddande kapsyler består av två varianter, öppen mynning eller insatspropp. De tillverkas i materialet polyoximetylen eller i polypropen i kombination med en liner. Båda materialen har god kemikalieresistans. De förslutningar detta projekt innefattar är de klassiska ”tryck och vrid”. Barnskyddande förslutningar har höga krav på sig och ska klara av kemikalieinspektionens tillsyn gällande barnskydd. Samtliga av företagets kapsyler är godkända, trots det finns ett problem på förpackningar som kommer ut till kund där barnskyddet inte är tillräckligt. Detta kan leda till reklamation hos företaget och utgör en risk att barn kan få i sig innehållet. För tre år sen ställdes ett test av Emballator Växjöplast AB, detta test har analyserats i detta projekt. Det går att konstatera att taket på kapsyler som är i direktkontakt med innehållet sväller, och därmed delvis tappar sin funktion då taket når ytterhättan. Då en liner används som barriär mellan vätskan och kapsylen sker ingen betydande svällning. Den idé vi valt att vidareutveckla är en kombination med liner, även till de kapsyler med insatspropp. Med detta sätt kommer samtliga kapsylkombinationer ha liner i sig. Utifrån de resultat vi hittills kunnat se kommer risken att kapsylerna sväller minska. Förslutningarna kommer då samtidigt bli tätare så vätska inte når gängorna, vilket gör att öppningsmomentet påverkas mindre. Även öppningsmomentet är ett problem idag då det i vissa fall är för lågt vid första öppningstillfället hos konsument. Ur det ekonomiska perspektivet ser vi att det skulle bli lönsamt att använda polypropen tillsammans med en liner till samtliga kapsyler. Denna idé skulle dessutom reducera antalet kapsyler. Användning av en liner till kapsyler i polyoximetylen är idag uteslutet för det skulle bli mycket dyrt och därför inte vara ett alternativ för kund.

Since Taiwan government allowed resident of China visiting Taiwan from July 2008, they have been made over one hundred billion NT dollars profit. The tourism industries also invested over one hundred and sixty billion NT dollars, including travel industry, hotel industry and entertainment industry. The main purpose of foreigners visiting Taiwan is shifting from business to travel as well, and it count up to 58% in 2011. In the meanwhile, B&Bs (bed and breakfast) industry plays an crucial role in the impetus of local cultural development. Different from typical hotel industry, B&Bs give tourists more than just a place to stay, instead, they provide a place which full of local cultural and characteristics to enjoy. The first B&Bs in the world can be traced back to world war two, and the industry in Taiwan has grown rapidly in recent years due to economic growth and society development. The number of legal B&Bs raised from 109 in 2003 to 3261 in 2011. Aside from their own unique characteristics, the reason of their survival in this kind of competitive environment is the chief objective of this thesis. The study attempts to discover the main success factors of these leading specific B&Bs in Taiwan. Through deeply semi-structural interviews with these B&B hosts, this study obtained authentic information. Based on interview outline and recording file recorded in interviews, researcher typed down the scripts of interviews. Thereat, in the basis of research outcomes, researcher acquired the conclusion of this study. Furthermore, researcher addressed research suggestions related to future studies.

Workshop "Netz- und Service-Infrastrukturen" Ein Backupsystem für das Backup inhomogener Umgebungen. Das komplette Betriebssystem wird gesichert, und kann wiederhergestellt werden. Haupteinsatz derzeit im Root-Lab, um eine Mehrfachnutzung der Rechner des Labors sicherzustellen.

This thesis examines the texts of Paul's letters which historically have been used to support the doctrine of universalism. Section One: Chapter I discusses Paul's judgement terminology (wrath, destruction and death) and concludes with a sociological study of group boundaries. These terms portend annihilation or hell because they contain no sense of eschatological reformation. Group boundaries confirm the exclusive nature of Pauline belief that there exist two classes of people, insiders who look forward to a glorious salvation with Christ, and outsiders who will be destroyed in the eschaton. Chapter II considers the possibility that a person might compensate for his sins by some form of postmortem remedial suffering; this is deemed unlikely. Chapter III examines the tension between grace and works and whether Paul would permit an unbeliever to be saved on the basis of his works. Paul requires a profession of faith to be saved, with one exception: Gentiles who earnestly seek after God. Section Two: Chapter I shows that salvation in Rom. 11:26, 32 is better understood as corporate mercy than individual salvation. Collectives (Jews and Gentiles), not individuals are promised salvation. Chapter II reads 1 Cor. 15:22 restrictively; only those who belong to Christ will be made alive. Reasons for this conclusion are derived from the context and from the possibility that Paul expected a resurrection of only the righteous. Section Three: Chapter I examines Rom. 8:19-23 and its Jewish background, the Renovation of nature. The text itself limits salvation to certain sectors of the cosmos. This agrees with the essential element of the Jewish Renovation which is a removal of the wicked. Chapter II investigates Eph. 1:10 and Phil. 2:10 f. Both texts set Christ up as divine ruler of the cosmos, but neither implies that cosmic lordship imparts saving benefits. The passages are better understood in terms of cosmic conquest than cosmic salvation. Chapter III argues that the cosmic scope of the reconciliation in Col. 1:20 is curtailed in the Pauline redaction of the hymn as well as elsewhere in Colossians. Conclusion: Paul's judgement terminology and his use of insider/outsider language strongly support particularism. This conclusion is sustained by the universalist texts themselves which often fit into particularist themes.

This thesis presents a measurement of the effective B0s decay width, ΓFS, from a single exponential fit to the flavour-specific decay channel B0s → D-s π +. This measurement is based on an integrated luminosity of 340 pb-1 recorded by LHCb in 2011 at a center of mass energy of 7TeV. The dataset is divided into two exclusive selections. B0s → D-s (( ϕ →K-K+) π-)π + only has a significant background contribution arising from combinatorial background, and the modelling of this is determined entirely by the data. B0s → D-s ((K-K* (892)0 → K+ π-))π + has a larger contribution from combinatoric and mis-identified background and provides an alternative measurement. A simultaneous fit for the effective B0s decay width is performed to both the datasets leading to the result: ΓFS = 0:668 ± 0:017 ± 0:031 ps-1 The result is then combined with information from the LHCb B0s → J/ψØ analysis leading to an improved measurement of the average B0 s decay width: Γs = 0:666 ± 0:010 ± 0:031 ps-1

This thesis explores the identity of translation as its power of reference through an analysis of transformations of biblical narrative from their written form to audio-visual versions made for television. The central problematic of translatability between word and image is examined through the "translation strategies" used by producers and translators. These strategies reveal the philosophical binarisms that underpin an assumption of source and target texts as autonomous entities. The polarities of binary thinking are implicit in a perception of translation as a representation of a prior text The language of representation that is central to theories of representational equivalence raises the question to what does representation refer. This question forms the focus for a critique of the epistemology and ontology of representation and its artificial separation of language and vision, or word and image in our perceptual experience of the world. The criticism is essential to an exploration of the referential power of translation understood in semiotic and narrative terms as its ground of interpretation. This exploration describes the symbolic or semiotic value of translations, or the contexts in which they acquire contemporary coherence and significance. The central descriptive part of the thesis employs three conceptions of context: the context of texts themselves as narratively and semantically coherent units; their cultural contexts, or the irreducible intertexuality on which they depend for the recognition and interpretation of their significant features; and the social and economic conditions which underpin the work of production and provide the social contexts within such works circulate. In rejecting the notion that translations are an image, however impure, of an antecedent text, my thesis excludes a notion of conventional limits to translation based on structuralist conceptions of semantic or narrative form as the principal carriers of meaning. It concludes that the limits of translation are defined by its possibilities.

This thesis deals with the conversation between the interpretations of Paul‘s letters and modern European thought. It is a narrative of an oft-neglected relationship; but, more than that, it tries to push this negotiation further than where it is now. Thus, in this project, I intend to play with the many possibilities that poststructuralist theory provides for alternative interpretations of biblical texts, and to uncover the ways that the Bible can offer new solutions to the challenges of modern thought. My study will focus on three issues: power, religion, and gender. I believe that the debates around these three topics have been crucial to the European self-definition. Besides, Paul has been present in the European discourse on politics, law, and sexuality. His letters have been interpreted only based on a certain kind of normativity at the expense of many alternative readings. The reception of Paul, in turn, provided some ground for further discussions on European identity. In chapter one, I draw on the complications of physical portraits of Paul to indicate the problems in offering a finalized clear picture of his message. Obsession with portraying the Apostle is not dissimilar to the recurrent reference to him in the works of European intellectuals since the Enlightenment. Paul has thus been involved in the construction of European identity. This does not mean that he has always conformed to what Europe wants. Rather, he has challenged the binary identities that European normativity has built. It is precisely in these moments that the arbitrariness of European discourse is betrayed. Relying on Judith Butler‘s theories on gender normativity, I try to spot the ways that identity was established through the reiteration of modern categories that may be far from what the text says. In the following chapters, I investigate three passages that signal Paul‘s challenge to modern normative identities. In the next chapter, I deal with the interpretation of Romans 13, where Paul tells the Roman Church to be subjected to political authorities. This chapter has troubled the interpreters because it is far from what is expected from Paul – promotion of justice in face of brutal regimes. I demonstrate that the readers of Romans 13 lost touch with Paul‘s ethos soon after his death. Relying on Hans Blumenberg‘s description of ―secularization by eschatology‖ at the time of the composition of the New Testament toward the end of the first century CE – i.e. the relegation of the end matters to the transcendental –, I argue that Paul was preaching in the context of what I call the ―daily messianic‖. My formulation of the ―daily messianic‖ consists of what continental philosophers, from Martin Heidegger to Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben see as a rupture within the worldly (i.e. ―secular‖) matters. This mode, which had subsumed Paul‘s discourse, was permeated by ―care‖ and ―anxiety; it was beyond calculation or metaphysical description; it was where the distinction between the body and the soul did not make sense; and it was directed toward justice. When the expectation of the parousia lost its immediacy, imminence, and immanence, Paul‘s words lost their messianic significance. No wonder, then, that with very few exceptions like the Jewish philosopher Jacob Taubes, the interpreters have read first and last parts of the chapter (vv. 1-7 on political subjection and vv. 11-14 on eschatology respectively) separately. In chapter three, I discuss the Incident at Antioch (Gal 2:12-14), where, according to Paul‘s report, Peter led others to Judaize while he could not do that himself all the time. The interpretation of this passage has been fraught with presuppositions regarding Paul‘s attitude toward Judaism. I show that the nineteenth century Protestant readings of Paul influenced philosophers, like Nietzsche and Freud, so that the supersession of ―guilt-inducing‖ Judaism by Christianity gave way to the supersession of ―guilt-ridden religion‖ by modernity. This picture has not changed substantially, as I argue, whether for biblical scholars (even the New Perspective theologians) or for the philosophers of the ―turn to religion‖ – Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, or Jacques Derrida. In my alternative interpretation, I emphasize that because Paul‘s radical Jewishness has often been neglected, he has been taken as some sort of ―Lutheran Jewish‖ man. Read this way, the conflict between Paul and Peter is like any everyday argument between two rabbis. Paul mentions the story, however, in order to establish his authority as a true apostle. The fourth chapter is about the reception of 1 Corinthians 11:5-16, on women‘s veiling during prayer and prophecy. My survey of the reinterpretations of the passage in modern times shows that Paul‘s veiling injunction has often been construed to subdue the categories that at different points in history could not constitute the standard European identity. It has been assumed that the veil belonged to the ―Jewish‖, the ecstatic ―Greek‖, the exotic ―Oriental‖, or that it has been instituted to silence ―liberationist‖ women or to foreclose the possibility of homosexuality (or cross-dressing). In this manner, the veil has been forcefully discarded from the European stage. No wonder, then, that its resurgence functions as a threat to some European states. In this chapter, with the help of poststructuralists, I question some of the assumptions about the veil, femininity, subjectivity, and the ethnic other. According to my alternative interpretation, there is no need to reinterpret Paul‘s commandments by othering certain groups or by projecting the encounter between West and its others to the Corinthian correspondence. Paul might have used the veil as a means for integrating women into the church by their inclusion in the ―masculine‖ order. In conclusion, in response to the claim that modern Europe emerged as a gradual parting of ways between biblical scholarship and secular philosophy, I argue in my work that the conversation between the two has persisted, despite its fluxes throughout history. When this mutual relationship is acknowledged, it can even be pushed to its limits to, on the one hand, read the Bible through the possibilities that poststructuralist theory provides and, on the other, make informed interventions in continental philosophy.

La désintégration Bs->JpsiPhi peut se faire suivant deux processus principaux: l'arbre et les pingouins sous-dominants. Négligée jusqu'à maintenant, la contribution des diagrammes pingouins doit être contrôlée afin d'isoler les effets du Modèle Standard de l'éventuelle présence de Nouvelle Physique dans la mesure de la phase phis. Nous avons étudié le canal Bs->Jpsi K* dans lequel les diagrammes pingouins ne sont pas négligeables par rapport à l'arbre. Avec 3 ,invfb de données enregistrées par LHCb, nous avons mesuré le rapport démbranchement: $BR{Bs->Jpsi K*} = (4.17 pm 0.18 , text{(stat)} pm 0.26 , text{(syst)} pm 0.24 , (f_d/f_s)) 10^{-5}$, où $f_{d(s)}$ est la fraction de production du méson Bd(Bs). Nous avons effectué une analyse angulaire des produits de désintégrations jpsi et K* afin déxtraire les fractions de polarisations et, pour la première fois, l'asymétrie CP en fonction des différents états de polarisations de l'état final. Les asymétries CP directes mesurées sont nulles, comme prédit par le Modèle Standard. Nous avons mesuré: $f_0 =0.497^{+0.024}_{-0.025}(stat) pm 0.025 (syst)$ et $f_|=0.179^{+0.027}_{-0.026} (stat) pm 0.013 (syst)$. Nous avons déterminé les premières contraintes sur les diagrammes pingouins dans la phase phis en utilisant le canal Bs->Jpsi K*. En combinant avec le canal B0->Jpsi rho⁰, la déviation sur la phase phis due aux processus pingouins, est inférieure à 19,mrad pour les trois polarisations. L'effet des processus pingouins est donc suffisamment petit pour que la mesure de la phase phis ($sigma_{phis}=35$,mrad) demeure une des mesures phares de LHCb dans les années à venir, pour rechercher de la Nouvelle Physique. / Within the Standard Model, the decay Bs->Jpsi Phi can occur via two main processes: the predominant tree and the sub-leading penguin. Penguin contributions have been so far ignored. Controlling them is crucial in order to disentangle Standard Model effects from possible New Physics in the measurement of phis. We studied the BsJKbar channel where penguin diagrams are not negligible compared to tree. Using 3 ,invfb of data collected by LHCb, we measured the branching ratio: $BR{Bs->Jpsi K*} = left(4.17 pm 0.18 , text{(stat)} pm 0.26 , text{(syst)} pm 0.24 , (f_d/f_s)right)times 10^{-5}$, where $f_{d(s)}$ is the production fraction of the Bd(Bs) meson. We performed an angular analysis of the decay products jpsi and Kstarzb to extract the polarisation fractions and the first estimate of the polarization-dependent direct CP asymmetry. Our results show no evidence for direct CP violation in Bs->Jpsi K*, as expected in the Standard Model. We measured: $f_0 =0.497^{+0.024}_{-0.025}text{(stat)}pm 0.025 text{(syst)}$ and $f_|=0.179^{+0.027}_{-0.026} text{(stat)}pm 0.013 text{(syst)}$. We determined the first constraints on penguin diagrams in phis phase using the BsJKbar channel. Combining with the B0->Jpsi rho⁰ decays, the shift on phis, due to penguin processes, is below 19,mrad for the three polarizations. The effect of penguin processes is therefore sufficiently small to keep the phis measurement ($sigma_{phis}=35$,mrad) among the top priorities of LHCb for the upcoming years, to search for New Physics.