Thesis advisor: Boyd Taylor Coolman / Richard of St. Victor is known primarily for two arguments from his book On the Trinity. The first is that the relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit can be understood from the logic of love, which tends toward sharing with others. The second is that a divine person (persona) is an “individual existence of a divine nature,” a revision of the definition of personhood given centuries earlier by Boethius. Fewer contemporary theologians are familiar with the third major innovation Richard makes in this work. In his description of love among the trinitarian persons, Richard organizes the three loving divine persons according to three modes of loving: gratuitous love (amor gratuitus) identical with the Father, owed love (amor debitus) identical with the Holy Spirit, and love mixed from both (amor permixtus) identical with the Son. The most striking—because the most apparently problematic—part of this scheme is the nomination of amor debitus, owed love, as a mode of loving proper to the Trinity. Presenting the apparently contradictory combination of owing and loving as a love proper to God as God, the conundra raised by Richard’s use of this phrase were interpreted away by his scholastic readers in a way that buried the potential of his insight for discussions about the nature of love called divine. My dissertation analyzes the meaning of amor debitus to reframe and re-present Richard’s arguments in On the Trinity with Richard’s radical claim about the nature of intra-trinitarian love in clearer view. I argue that the notion of owed love represents a class of experience which is distinct both from the obligation of a command (typically associated with debitum) and from the freedom of an unaffected choice (typically associated with amor). Amor debitus fuses the quality of the command or commanding conditions with a freedom that is not intrinsic to these prior conditions, but does not leave them behind. Richard’s link between owed love as a personal property in the Trinity and as the norm of human love for God gives Richard a fresh approach to the idea that “God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit” (Rom. 5:5), and therefore also to the longstanding Christian claim that human love is owed to God, ordered to neighborly service, and free. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2024. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

No / This article briefly outlines the convergence vs. divergence debate before describing research into the potential impact of national culture on the transfer of ''best practice operations management'' to hotels in St. Lucia. The main focus of the paper is on the findings of fieldwork, which supports the contention that national culture does potentially create a barrier to the successful transposition of approaches developed elsewhere. In the case of St. Lucia high uncertainty avoidance and leanings towards high power distance appeared to hinder the adoption of teamworking, empowerment and communication. In addition, attitude towards time and punctuality also mitigated against the provision of a reliable service as and when required. However, with training and supportive HR practices, the end results achieved by International Chains did demonstrate the value of operating ''people friendly'' policies in line with ''best practice''. This article briefly outlines the convergence vs. divergence debate before describing research into the potential impact of national culture on the transfer of ''best practice operations management'' to hotels in St. Lucia. The main focus of the paper is on the findings of fieldwork, which supports the contention that national culture does potentially create a barrier to the successful transposition of approaches developed elsewhere. In the case of St. Lucia high uncertainty avoidance and leanings towards high power distance appeared to hinder the adoption of teamworking, empowerment and communication. In addition, attitude towards time and punctuality also mitigated against the provision of a reliable service as and when required. However, with training and supportive HR practices, the end results achieved by International Chains did demonstrate the value of operating ''people friendly'' policies in line with ''best practice''.

In this article I would like to attract attention to the personality of Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer. As a brilliant virtuoso violinist, known in Russia since 1817, conductor of the French theatre in St. Petersburg since 1835, inspector of all Emperor theatres since 1841 and conductor of the Philharmonic and Concert societies, Ludwig Maurer was an advocate of the classic inheritance.

The problem investigated in this paper is the unlikely friendship of Swift and Bolingbroke. The purpose is to assess the reaction of Swift to the ethics of Bolingbroke. Under examination are the conflicting opinions of these men in regard to morals, money, and ethics. Chapter I contains immoral actions of Bolingbroke. Chapter II shows Swift's manner of life and his reaction to Bolingbroke's immorality. Chapter III gives Swift's attitude to money, Bolingbroke's attitude, and Swift's reaction to Bolingbroke's opinion. Chapter IV contains Bolingbroke's ethical philosophy. And Chapter V reveals Swift's religious views and his reaction to Bolingbroke's ethics. The conclusion is that Swift disapproved of Bolingbroke's ethics, but did not break with him on account of them.

In 2009, the Archdiocese of New Orleans went through a reorganization that resulted in the closure of numerous parishes under its direction. This thesis will look at how one of the parishes closed during this reorganization, St. Henry’s, had already faced, and survived, numerous attempts at closure. A study of these previous attempts reveals that internal church politics were often on display and the driving force behind the decisions. Using documents from the Archdiocesan Archives of New Orleans, this thesis looks at the history and leadership of St. Henry’s parish, and examines how the survival of a church often has more to do with the personalities of those in leadership positions and less to do with the propagation of faith.

Der Trend zu immer mehr parallelen Recheneinheiten innerhalb eines Prozessors stellt an die Softwareentwicklung neue Herausforderungen. Um die vorhandenen Ressourcen auszulasten und die stetige Steigerung der Parallelität in einen Leistungszuwachs umzusetzen, muss Software von der sequentiellen Verarbeitung in eine hochgradig parallele Verarbeitung übergehen. Diese Arbeit untersucht, wie solch eine parallele Verarbeitung in Bezug auf Relationale Datenbankmanagementsysteme umzusetzen ist. Dazu wird zunächst der gesamte Prozess der Anfragebearbeitung betrachtet und vier Problembereiche identifiziert, die für das Ziel der parallelen Anfragebearbeitung auf Mehrkern-Rechnerarchitekturen maßgeblich sind. Diese Bereiche sind die Hardware selbst, das physische Datenmodell sowie die Anfrageausführung und -optimierung. Diese vier Bereiche werden innerhalb eines Rahmenwerkes betrachtet. Nach einer Einführung, wird sich die Arbeit zunächst mit Grundlagen befassen. Dazu werden die Hardwarebestandteile Speicher und Prozessor betrachtet und ihre Funktionsweise erläutert. Auf diesem Wissen aufbauend, wird ein Hardwaremodell definiert. Es ermöglicht eine von der jeweiligen Hardwarearchitektur unabhängige Softwareentwicklung, ohne den Verlust an Funktionalität und Leistung. Im Weiteren wird das physische Datenmodell untersucht und analysiert, wie das physische Datenmodell eine optimale Anfrageausführung unterstützen kann. Die verwendeten Datenstrukturen müssen dafür einen effizienten und parallelen Zugriff erlauben. Die Analyse führt zur Entwicklung eines neuartigen Indexes, der die datenparallele Abarbeitung nutzt. Gefolgt wird dieser Teil von der Anfrageausführung, in der ein neues Anfrageausführungsmodell entwickelt wird, das auf der Verwendung des Taskkonzepts beruht und eine hohe und sehr leicht gewichtige Parallelität erlaubt. Den Abschluss stellt die Anfrageoptimierung dar, worin verschiedene Ideen für die Optimierung der Ressourcenverwaltung präsentiert werden. / The upcoming generation of many-core architectures poses several new challenges for software development: Software design and software implementation has to change from sequential execution to a highly parallel execution, such that it takes full advantage of the steadily growing number of cores on a single processor. With this thesis, we investigate such highly parallel program execution in the context of relational database management systems (RDBMSs). We consider the complete process of query processing and identify four problem areas which are crucial for efficient parallel query processing on many-core architectures. These four areas are: Hardware, physical data model, query execution, and query optimization. Furthermore, we present a framework which covers all four parts, one after another. First, we give a detailed survey of computer hardware with a special focus on memory and processors. Based on this survey we propose a hardware model. Our abstraction aims to simplify the task of software development on many-core hardware. Based on the hardware model, we investigate physical data models and evaluate how the physical data model may support optimal query execution by providing efficient and parallelizable data structures. Additionally, we design a new index structure that utilizes data parallel execution by using SIMD operations. The next layer within our framework is query execution, for which we present a new task based query execution model. Our query execution model allows for a lightweight parallelism. Finally, we cover query optimization by explaining approaches for optimizing resource utilization on a query local point of view as well as query global point of view.

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Includes Publication list by the author as appendix A. "July 2003." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-324) A stratigraphically detailed taxonomic study of fossil bryozoans within the Late Eocene sediments of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia. These taxa are compared with existing knowledge of fossil and recent faunas in Australia and other regions to enhance understanding of bryozoan evolution and dispersal. Bryozoan taxa and growth forms are used to interpret the palaeoenvironments of the Eocene Vincent Basin.

Includes Publication list by the author as appendix A. / "July 2003." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 308-324) / xi, 324, [36] leaves, 61 leaves of plates : ill (some col.), maps ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / A stratigraphically detailed taxonomic study of fossil bryozoans within the Late Eocene sediments of the St Vincent Basin, South Australia. These taxa are compared with existing knowledge of fossil and recent faunas in Australia and other regions to enhance understanding of bryozoan evolution and dispersal. Bryozoan taxa and growth forms are used to interpret the palaeoenvironments of the Eocene Vincent Basin. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Discipline of Geology and Geophysics, 2003?

Thesis (D. Min.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 2002. / Vita. Includes abstract. Appendix: A ritual of group grieving -- Kairos: a ritual honoring common ground -- Rite for completion of reconciliation of groups -- Rite of reconciliation: a day of atonement -- Reconciliation rite for impasse -- Rituals of transition: a week of farewell for parish closure -- Rite of leavetaking of a church -- Rites for inauguration of a newly consolidated parish -- Rites of reception and memorial of the closed parish with a blessing of the foundation stone ... Includes bibliographical references (leaves 323-337).