Thesis (Th. M.)--Reformed Theological Seminary, Jackson, Miss., 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 229-237).

Thesis (M.A.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2005. / Thesis advisor: Briann Greenfield. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History." Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

Submitted by Caroline Xavier (caroline.xavier@pucrs.br) on 2017-06-30T18:14:55Z No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_ALESSANDRO_DONADIO_MIEBACH_COMPLETO.pdf: 1281224 bytes, checksum: eb05f082f89f64204057af3c69a116f4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-30T18:14:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 TES_ALESSANDRO_DONADIO_MIEBACH_COMPLETO.pdf: 1281224 bytes, checksum: eb05f082f89f64204057af3c69a116f4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / This study analyzes the presence of the Goodwin growth cycle (or Goodwin model) in the Brazilian economy for the period between 1947 and 2013. The analysis is carried out through a wage share time series obtained from the sources from the Brazilian economy and a series for the level of capacity utilization. Obtaining wage share time series contemplates the division of mixed incomes between labor income and capital income. The analysis for the presence of Goodwin cycles is made through a qualitative evaluation, the procedures of Harvie (2000) and Pichardo (2015). In addition, dummy variables are used to identify the dynamics between the wage share and the level of capacity utilization corresponding to different periods in the history of the Brazilian economy. The periods are defined according to the current socioeconomic characteristics of Brazilian society. The results indicate the presence of mechanisms of the type associated with the Goodwin model for different moments in the Brazilian economy. However, the Goodwin cycle is only observed for the period between 1998 and 2009. / Este estudo analisa a presen?a do ciclo de crescimento de Goodwin (ou modelo de Goodwin) na economia brasileira para o per?odo 1947-2013. A an?lise ? efetuada atrav?s de uma s?rie para a parcela salarial, obtida a partir das fontes dispon?veis para a economia brasileira, e uma s?rie para o n?vel de utiliza??o da capacidade instalada. A obten??o da s?rie para a parcela salarial contempla a divis?o dos rendimentos mistos entre remunera??o do trabalho e remunera??o do capital. A an?lise para a presen?a de ciclos de Goodwin ? efetuada atrav?s de uma avalia??o qualitativa dos procedimentos de Harvie (2000) e de Pichardo (2015). Adicionalmente, utilizam-se vari?veis dummy, com vistas a identificar as din?micas entre a parcela salarial e o n?vel de utiliza??o da capacidade instalada correspondentes a distintos per?odos da economia brasileira brasileira. Os per?odos s?o definidos de acordo com as caracter?sticas socioecon?micas vigentes na sociedade. Os resultados indicam a presen?a de mecanismos consistentes com o modelo de Goodwin, em distintos momentos, na economia brasileira. Entretanto o ciclo de Goodwin somente ? observado no per?odo 1998-2009.

The Goodwin Hall building on the Virginia Tech campus is the most instrumented building for vibration monitoring. It houses 225 hard-wired accelerometers which record vibrations arising due to internal as well as external activities. The recorded vibration data can be used to develop real-time applications for monitoring the health of the building or detecting human activity in the building. However, the lack of infrastructure to handle the massive scale of the data, and the steep learning curve of the tools required to store and process the data, are major deterrents for the researchers to perform their experiments. Additionally, researchers want to explore the data to determine the type of experiments they can perform. This work tries to solve these problems by providing a system to store and process the data using existing big data technologies. The system simplifies the process of big data analysis by supporting code re-usability and multiple programming languages. The effectiveness of the system was demonstrated by four case studies. Additionally, three visualizations were developed to help researchers in the initial data exploration. / Master of Science / The Goodwin Hall building on the Virginia Tech campus is an example of a ‘smart building.’ It uses sensors to record the response of the building to various internal and external activities. The recorded data can be used by algorithms to facilitate understanding of the properties of the building or to detect human activity. Accordingly, researchers in the Virginia Tech Smart Infrastructure Lab (VTSIL) run experiments using a part of the complete data. Ideally, they want to run their experiments continuously as new data is collected. However, the massive scale of the data makes it difficult to process new data as soon as it arrives, and to make it available immediately to the researchers. The technologies that can handle data at this scale have a steep learning curve. Starting to use them requires much time and effort. This project involved building a system to handle these challenges so that researchers can focus on their core area of research. The system provides visualizations depicting various properties of the data to help researchers explore that data before running an experiment. The effectiveness of this work was demonstrated using four case studies. These case studies used the actual experiments conducted by VTSIL researchers in the past. The first three case studies help in understanding the properties of the building whereas the final case study deals with detecting and locating human footsteps, on one of the floors, in real-time.

The ability to classify occupants in a building has far-reaching applications in security, monitoring human health, and managing energy resources effectively. In this work, gender and weight of walkers are classified via machine learning or pattern recognition techniques. Accelerometers mounted beneath the floor of Virginia Tech's Goodwin Hall measured walkers' gait. These acceleration measurements serve as the inputs to machine learning techniques allowing for classification. For this work, the gait of fifteen individual walkers was recorded via fourteen accelerometers as they, alone, walked down the instrumented hallway, in multiple trials. These machine learning algorithms produce an 88 % accurate model for gender classification. The machine learning algorithms included are Bagged Decision Trees, Boosted Decision Trees, Support Vector Machines (SVMs), and Neural Networks. Data reduction techniques achieve a higher gender classification accuracy of 93 % and classify weight with 64% accuracy. The data reduction techniques are Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM), Q-DEIM, and Projection Coefficients. A two-part methodology is proposed to implement the approach completed in this thesis work. The first step validates the algorithm design choices, i.e. using bagged or boosted decision trees for classification. The second step reduces the walking data measured to truncate accelerometers which do not aid in increasing characteristic classification. / Master of Science

From Chapter 1: It was shortly after receiving his Master of Arts degree at Cambridge that Goodwin was converted, by his own report, recorded by his son Goodwin's conversion gives us remarkable insight into the spiritual condition of the early seventeenth century and William HaIler cites it as "worthy in its way to be compared to the most notable self-revelations of the Puritan soul "[1] Born on the 5th of October, 1600 in the Norfolk village of Rolesby and reared in Yarmouth, the eldest son of Richard and Catherine Goodwin came to Christ's College, Cambridge in 1613, at twelve years old, where he learned the Heidelberg Catechism and Ursinus' Commentary It was also a time when the Dutch church was in convulsions over the Arminian controversy With the memory of Perkins, deceased ten years, lingering in everyone's minds, Richard Sibbes - Perkins's successor - was preaching at Trinity Church, and his famous sermons attracted those who were dissatisfied with the embellished rhetoric of others Most notable among them was Dr Senhouse, an Arminian orator [2] At fourteen, Goodwin eagerly anticipated Easter, when he would receive his first Communion and he prepared earnestly for it by attending Sibbes' lectures and reading Calvin's Institutes ("and 0 how sweet was the reading of some Parts of that Book to me1") [3] In addition, he had many fine examples of godly and learned tutors As Whitsunday approached, Goodwin felt, "I should be so confirm'd that I should never fall away," but much to his surprise and embarrassment, he was too young Alas, when the day arrived, his tutor kindly kept him from receiving the Supper [4].

The American author Jane Goodwin Austin published 24 novels and numerous short stories in a variety of genres between 1859 and 1892. Austin’s most popular works focus on her Pilgrim ancestors, and she is often lauded as a notable scholar of Puritan history who carefully researched her subject matter; however, several of the most common myths about the Pilgrims seem to have originated in Austin’s fiction. As a writer who saw her work as her means of entering the public sphere and enacting social change, Austin championed women and religious diversity. The range of Austin’s oeuvre, her coterie of notable friendships, especially amongst New England elites, and her impact on American myth and culture make her worthy of in-depth scholarly study, yet, inexplicably, very little critical work exists on Austin. This dissertation provides the most comprehensive biography of Austin to date, compiled largely from archival sources, and examines two of her novels, the 1865 Dora Darling: Daughter of the Regiment, one of the only Civil War-era adventure novels featuring a young girl who engages directly in the war, and the 1889 Standish of Standish, a carefully researched novel of the first few years of the Pilgrim’s Plymouth settlement, based on primary sources, popular culture, and family lore.

This thesis examines Thomas Goodwin’s (1600–1680) doctrine of union with Christ within his soteriology. It builds upon Michael Lawrence’s historical reassessment which uncovered that, contrary to previous scholarly assumptions, the majority of Goodwin’s treatises were composed during the 1650s and intended to form a grand project defending Reformed soteriology against the new threats of Socinian and radical teachings as well as its traditional opponents, Catholics and Arminians. Goodwin considered this grand project to be his life’s work. It represents the longest exposition of Reformed soteriology composed by an English puritan. However, no modern critical study of the soteriology of his grand project has appeared to date. This thesis, therefore, offers a theological examination in light of his immediate historical context. The study focuses on union with Christ, because Goodwin assumed it occupied a fundamental role in salvation and, therefore, it allows identification of the architectonic structures of his soteriology. The immediate historical context is privileged, because union with Christ (and related loci) was a point of sharp dispute in the 1640s–1650s. By offering a careful examination of this theme in an important individual theologian, this study also aims to make a significant contribution to recent controversy over union with Christ in the post-Reformation period. At stake are two competing visions of the structure of Reformed applied soteriology: some scholars contend that the Reformed tradition granted priority to union with Christ; others contend that priority was granted to justification. The former commonly argue that seventeenth-century divines allowed the priority of union with Christ to be displaced by a causal chain of application; the latter, disputing this claim, argue for continuity within the tradition and that the priority of justification was held alongside broader notions of union with Christ. The main argument of this thesis is a demonstration that Goodwin founded the application of every aspect of salvation upon a ‘real’ union with Christ (i.e., mystical union forged by Christ’s indwelling within the believer) rather than upon a mere ‘relative’ union (i.e., legal union external to the believer). Moreover, Goodwin contended that real union with Christ must involve the indwelling of the uncreated grace of the person of the Holy Spirit. This, he believed, was essential to maintain a trinitarian, federal, high Reformed soteriology in which redemption from the problem of sin is set within a Reformed scheme of christocentric deification. Goodwin’s conception of union with Christ and his high soteriology departed from the views of the conservative majority of seventeenth-century Reformed puritan divines who denied the indwelling of uncreated grace. Instead, his conception often resembled the teachings of antinomians and radicals, though Goodwin remained within the bounds of orthodoxy by repeated application of key theological distinctions. These findings support the view in recent controversy that Reformed applied soteriology was governed by the priority of union with Christ. Yet, neither side accurately construes seventeenth-century views on union with Christ, because disagreement amongst divines over the nature of real union with Christ has not been adequately recognised. Chapter 1 establishes the case for this study from a literature survey. The argument then unfolds in four main chapters. Chapter 2 establishes the nature of real union with Christ embraced by Goodwin. Chapters 3 and 4 demonstrate that Goodwin advocated high doctrines of transformation and forensic justification respectively and determine how each was founded in his conception of real union with Christ. Chapter 5 advances the argument by demonstrating that real union with Christ occupied a fundamental place in his soteriology as a consequence of his conviction that salvation principally consists in participation in Christ and his divine nature. Chapter 6 concludes by assessing the significance of Goodwin’s doctrine of union with Christ in his grand project, in his immediate historical context, and for the recent controversy over union with Christ.

Streambank erosion is a major problem and a major known source of sediment in impaired streams. Stream deterioration is mainly due to the excess sediment in the United States. Many models have been developed to predict streambank erosion and sediment transport in the streams. Determining the most sensitive soil-specific parameters of the CONCEPTS Model for Goodwin Creek, MS was the focus of the study. The Latin Hypercube Oneactor-At-a-Time (LH-OAT) method was used to complete the sensitivity analysis on soil-specific parameters in CONCEPTS. Overall results demonstrate that erodibility and critical shear stress parameters should be determined very carefully and realistic to determine streambank erosion and sediment transport rate more accurately. This sensitivity analysis also shows the minimum effects of suction angle and cohesion on results. In this case, making an assumption in a literal range, or safely ignoring them should not cause a big variation on CONCEPTS results.

Born in 1972, Luis Serrano Alarcón has in a very short period of time, established himself as one of Spain’s most prominent composers. His works are constantly being performed, not only in his home country, but throughout the world. While some of his compositions tend to retain the rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic style typical to Spanish music, many of the works sound as if they were borne more from the Viennese symphonic tradition, both during the time of Haydn and Beethoven, but also during the time of Arnold Schoenberg. As a young boy Alarcón took up piano lessons with a local teacher by the name of Javier Barranco. Through him, Alarcón learned “the music for piano of the great masters of Classicism, Romanticism, and Spanish Nationalism.” In addition he began to study with two other teachers: Jose Cervera Collado and Jose Maria Cervara Lloret. With Collado, Alarcón studied conducting, and with Lloret he studied harmony. As a result of all of this training, Alarcón was drawn toward the symphonic music of the Classical and Romantic periods, especially gravitating toward the music of Beethoven and Brahms. Alarcón’s compositional style has maintained a chameleon-like flexibility as he is able to change styles from one composition to the next with litheness and grace, showing a strong grasp of American jazz as well as flamenco music of his native country in Duende, capturing the sounds of tango from Argentina in Concertango, and of course, in the many examples of his paso dobles. Unlike many of his contemporaries, though, Alarcón’s unique voice seems to emerge through any style he is embracing or any combination of instruments in his orchestration. In terms of style, Symphony for Wind Orchestra (2012) is an entirely different type of composition. It is immediately apparent from the opening tutti strikes, that (like Mozart and many other traditional composers before and after), Alarcón is embracing a iii traditional symphonic style in this composition by utilizing one of its most common symphonic topos. Symphony for Wind Orchestra is an amazing study of the Classical symphony from its earliest beginnings in Mannheim, to its codification at the hands of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, and to its explosion in size and scope at the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century with composers like Brahms, Bruckner, and Mahler. Perhaps more important, though, is his choice of harmonic language and compositional approach. The work is decidedly based upon thematic material that is reminiscent of the Second Viennese School; atonal at times, semi-tonal at others, but consistently manipulated through the operations (transposition, inversion, retrograde, verticalization, and serialization), that were made popular by Arnold Schoenberg, his students, and those who followed them. The genesis of this composition was a consortium of band directors from the Southeastern Conference Band Association, led initially by Tom Verrier, who is Senior Band Conductor and Director of Wind Ensembles at Vanderbilt University. Dr. John Cody Birdwell was a part of the consortium from its onset, but didn’t initially plan on conducting the premiere at his school (the University of Kentucky). Birdwell stated,“...the opportunity to premiere the work sort of ‘landed in our lap.’ I had heard some of Alarcón’s other compositions in recent years, and I knew that this piece was going to be fantastic, so we moved forward without any hesitation.” Clearly with so much positive feedback regarding the work, this document is certainly justified. The goals of this study are to provide some background for the work and its composer, to analyze the work while providing examples of all of its main themes and important figures, and where appropriate, to show how they relate to each other. This document will also create a helpful performance guide for conductors, which should facilitate and contribute to many more performances of this significant work in the future. Along with the harmonic and thematic analysis of the work, this document will also include interviews with the composer, the conductor of the premiere of the work (Dr. John Cody Birdwell), one of the early and staunch supporters of Alarcón’s works (Dr. Tim Reynish), and Javier Enguidanos Morató - another Spanish conductor who recently performed the work.