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Chloe T. Sun, Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora

Chloe T. Sun, <i>Attempt Great Things for God: Theological Education in Diaspora</i>

ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD: THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN DIASPORA. By Chloe T.Sun. Theological Education Between the Times. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020. Pp. 142. Paper, $19.99.

Religious Studies ReviewVolume 48, Issue 1 p. 112-112 Short Reviews of Recent Publications: Theology ATTEMPT GREAT THINGS FOR GOD: THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION IN DIASPORA. By Chloe T. Sun. Theological Education Between the Times. G rand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2020. Pp. 142. Paper, $19.99. First published: 28 April 2022 https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.15628Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume48, Issue1Georges Bataille and the SacredMarch 2022Pages 112-112 RelatedInformation

“Every Nigga Is a Star”: A Critical Reflection on the Fifth Anniversary of Moonlight

“Every Nigga Is a Star”: A Critical Reflection on the Fifth Anniversary of <i>Moonlight</i>

Building a People’s History of West Oakland

Building a People’s History of West Oakland

Collective stupidity: influences on decision-making in knowledge-based companies

PurposeEven the smartest organizations believe that “good enough is never good enough.” Highly intelligent people may be able to do important things individually; still, it is their accumulated brainpower that allows them to do great things. Collective intelligence means when a group of people do things that seem intelligent. On the other hand, when intelligent people are gathered or hired in an organization, they tend toward collective stupidity and slow-wittedness. Therefore, the purpose of the present study is to develop a model of the factors affecting and affected by collective stupidity.Design/methodology/approachThis study was conducted using a mixed-method approach and in two phases: qualitative and quantitative. First, in the qualitative phase and in order to achieve new findings, semi-structured interviews with experts from 12 knowledge-based companies were used to design a conceptual model and formulate the hypotheses. At the end of the qualitative phase, the conceptual model and relationships between variables were drawn. Then, in the quantitative phase, by running structural equation modeling, the antecedents and consequences of collective stupidity derived from the qualitative phase findings were analyzed and the research hypotheses were tested in 110 industrial knowledge-based companies.FindingsThe results of the qualitative phase revealed that individual, group and organizational factors were the antecedents of collective stupidity, with individual factors having three dimensions, collective ones including two dimensions and organizational ones focusing on the characteristics of managers/companies. It was also found that collective stupidity had individual consequences in three dimensions and organizational consequences in five dimensions; and one-sidedness, non-strategic thinking, organizational injustice and weakness in the management of key personnel were extracted as mediators. The results of the quantitative phase confirmed the research model and showed that individual factors and organizational consequences had the lowest (0.037) and highest (1.084) effect sizes on collective stupidity, respectively.Research limitations/implicationsThe study of the phenomenon in a particular context and the difficulty of generalizing the findings to other situations, the small size of the study population due to the disproportionate number of experts to the total staff in the qualitative phase, and the limited participation of experts due to the negative nature of the issue in the quantitative phase. Taking advantage of the diversity of experts' mental abilities through equipping the organization with tools for recognizing collective stupidity, improving collective decision-making, enhancing the efficiency of think tanks and organizational prosperity in the age of knowledge economy, preventing damage to the body of knowledge of the company and reducing social loafing can be the main operational implications of this study.Originality/valueUsing a mixed-method approach for analyzing the antecedents and consequences of collective stupidity in this study and examining such a phenomenon in a knowledge-based organizational context and its implementation in a developing country can be among the innovations of the present research. By following a few studies conducted in this field in addition to the organizational pathology of the phenomenon using a fundamental method, this study obtained deep results on how to make the maximum use of experts’ capacities. This was to the extent that in all of the three sections, i.e. the antecedents and consequences of collective stupidity, a new factor emerged.

\u201cEven though they insult us, the delivery they give us is the greatest thing\u201d: a qualitative study contextualizing women\u2019s experiences with facility-based maternal health care in Ethiopia

BackgroundGlobally, amidst increased utilization of facility-based maternal care services, there is continued need to better understand women’s experience of care in places of birth. Quantitative surveys may not sufficiently characterize satisfaction with maternal healthcare (MHC) in local context, limiting their interpretation and applicability. The purpose of this study is to untangle how contextual and cultural expectations shape women’s care experience and what women mean by satisfaction in two Ethiopian regions.MethodsHealth center and hospital childbirth care registries were used to identify and interview 41 women who had delivered a live newborn within a six-month period. We used a semi-structured interview guide informed by the Donabedian framework to elicit women’s experiences with MHC and delivery, any prior delivery experiences, and recommendations to improve MHC. We used an inductive analytical approach to compare and contrast MHC processes, experiences, and satisfaction.ResultsMaternal and newborn survival and safety were central to women’s descriptions of their MHC experiences. Women nearly exclusively described healthy and safe deliveries with healthy outcomes as ‘satisfactory’. The texture behind this ‘satisfaction’, however, was shaped by what mothers bring to their delivery experiences, creating expectations from events including past births, experiences with antenatal care, and social and community influences. Secondary to the absence of adverse outcomes, health provider’s interpersonal behaviors (e.g., supportive communication and behavioral demonstrations of commitment to their births) and the facility’s amenities (e.g., bathing, cleaning, water, coffee, etc) enhanced women’s experiences. Finally, at the social and community levels, we found that family support and material resources may significantly buffer against negative experiences and facilitate women’s overall satisfaction, even in the context of poor-quality facilities and limited resources.ConclusionOur findings highlight the importance of understanding contextual factors including past experiences, expectations, and social support that influence perceived quality of MHC and the agency a woman has to negotiate her care experience. Our finding that newborn and maternal survival primarily drove women’s satisfaction suggests that quantitative assessments conducted shortly following delivery may be overly influenced by these outcomes and not fully capture the complexity of women’s care experience.

The Loneliest Number

Should a bipolar person go on medication if doing so limits their ability to do “great things?” In this work of psychological fiction, Irena is a bipolar piano player that fled, years ago, from an eastern bloc country. Her troubled relationship ended, and her partner died shortly after their breakup. This put her in a deep depression and sent her to therapy for years where she was treated with medication for being bipolar. One day, her dead ex comes to her and tell her she should enter a world renowned piano competition with a $400,000 prize. Her therapist reminds her about her stage fright that ended her career, but Irena insists. She practices, and wins the competition and the money. She decides to move to New York and leaves the $400,000 prize money as a thank you gift to her therapist.

Making the most of your career connections: how to make and maintain your network

We are repeatedly told about the power of networking, and the phrase ‘It's not what you know, it's who you know’ springs to mind. To some of us, networking comes naturally, but to others it can fill them with dread. The great thing is, all of us can improve our networking game in a way that doesn't have to feel difficult and forced. This article explains how both parties can walk away from an interaction feeling glad that they bumped into one another, and provides some tips and tricks to make the most of and maintain your network.

The future of conferences.

The future of conferences.

Rev. of Taking Children: A History of American Terror by Laura Briggs

Adoption & Culture Vol. 10, Issue 2 (2022) Copyright © 2022 by The Ohio State University Reviews Rev. of Taking Children: A History of American Terror LAURA BRIGGS, U of California P, 2020 240 pp. $24.95 (hardback) ISBN: 9780520343672; and Legitimating Life: Adoption in the Age of Globalization and Biotechnology SONJA VAN WICHELEN, Rutgers UP, 2019 207+xii pp. $34.95 (paperback) ISBN: 9781978800519 By John McLeod When I first accessed my adoption records six years ago and read through the paperwork with a tremulous eye, I learned a great many things about the earliest days of my life in 1969. Among the surprises that lay in wait was my designation, in one formal document, as “illegitimate.” This was not necessarily news: we had always known I was conceived and born to a single mother. Rather, the surprise was the use of this word in a quasi-official capacity, on a formal document, as an explanatory lever that was already crafting my adoptability in principle and cleaving me from my birthmother. It was a salutary lesson, post-dated forty-five years or so, of the social and discursive constitution of adoption’s validity, which is always needed for its contracting. There may never be in essence an unimpeachable reason for rendering a child adoptable, but the adoption machine both requires and produces reasons, upheld by national and international institutions, in order to legitimate its objectives. Discourses of legitimation often cloak vested interests in the guise of what’s “natural” or “best,” but can never fully conceal the politics they work so hard to hide. “Fine word—legitimate!” spits Edmund acidly in Shakespeare’s King Lear (1606), keenly aware of the confection of his branded baseness. To be sure, the base fiction of my illegitimacy was certainly required to uphold the “humanitarian” placing of me in acceptable new company as the certified son of upwardly-mobile, heterosexual, married white parents. With a paradoxical logic so often definitive of adoption’s design, these very dynamics of legitimation made me a problem to be solved and provided the ready-made solution. The adoption machine both designated me as illegitimate and rescued https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2802-3525 2 ADOPTION & CULTURE 10.2 me from shame by legitimating me via a sanctioned family unit. The plague of custom did its work, readily assisted by the laws and moral precepts of the time. In different ways, and for different reasons, Laura Briggs and Sonja van Wichelen concern themselves with with the legitimation work required to enable both the surrendering of children and the resolving of adoption contracts. Each focuses on the organizations—ranging from governments and judiciaries to adoption agencies to biomedical institutions—that concretize and realize the wider discursive construction , always highly political, of a child’s vulnerability to being taken. Briggs addresses vulnerable racialized and minoritized communities in the US and Latin America whose children have been forcibly removed thanks to the actions of welfare officers, the police and medical professionals, Homeland Security, and more besides, as part of the aggressive manipulation of judicial process at both state and federal levels by politicians and their powerful supporters. Van Wichelen explores the international legal conventions, policies, professions, and agencies that direct and deliver the transcultural adoption of children today usually by white adopters in the Global North. Both are conscious of the indebtedness of contemporary child surrender and adoption contracts to the dismal history of inequality, oppression, and family-breaking in which minoritized and marginalized peoples have severely suffered. For Briggs, in the US today the brutal taking of children from asylum seekers and precarious migrants at the southwest border has deep roots in the nation’s longstanding assault on family relations suffered especially by Native Americans, African Americans, and Latinx peoples. Van Wichelen’s inquiry into contemporary adoption in an international frame repeatedly points to the complicity of contemporary adoption practice in the neocolonial dispensation of the global world system, thinly veiled by a residual investment in a freshly laundered humanitarianism that has yet to be fully shaken off. While very different books for several reasons, when read together Briggs’s and van Wichelen’s work combine to offer a laser-sharp critique...

IoT Enabled Health Care System

One of the greatest things to have occured recently to the industry is the use of IoT in healthcare. IoT meets new requirements with its own set of advantages, including enabling real-time monitoring, offering more developed and efficient methods to collect patient data, and tracking patients' and staff members' actions. IoT plays a vital role in healthcare. The healthcare sector is now fully digital thanks to the internet of medical things, smart devices, information systems, and cloud services. The Industry 4.0 version of healthcare is named Healthcare Industry 4.0, or Health 4.0 in short. Health 4.0 is based on new technologies to deliver enhanced and value-added healthcare services to the patients. Our lives have become significantly more pleasant as a result of the advancements made in digital healthcare services, which have made treatment more accessible and simple. Now a days the healthcare sector is mostly dependent on IoT and most healthcare sectors are moving towards IoT.

**DEADLINE EXTENDED** Nominate a female pharmacy professional for our Women to Watch 2022 list

The Pharmaceutical Journal is once again launching a nationwide search to find women in the pharmacy profession who are achieving great things and deserve greater recognition. We want to identify female role models within the pharmacy profession who can inspire others, as well as encourage the future generation of female pharmacy professionals to be brave […]

The Artistic picture in the sunset garden diwan by Ghazi Abdul Rahman Al- Gosaibi: الصورة الفنية في ديوان حديقة الغروب لغازي عبد الرحمن القصيبي

The poet "Ghazi bin Abdul Rahman Al- Gosaibi" is considered one of the figures of Saudi literature in particular, and Arab literature in general. I tried to reach in this book the literary depth, which made with Mina Al- Qusaibi broadcast his book the juice of an experience that was not a little in literature, and the same is true that the exploration of the literary depths that we discussed in this book, did not come to Al- Qusaibi that he is only a poet, but that he combined politics And literature, and this is what brings us to the beautiful literary eras, when the poet combined literature and politics, for example: to be a minister, or a prince, in the Abbasid era, for example, and a poet at the same time. When you stand with the Diwan of Sunset Garden, you can stand with Al- Qusaibi's biography, as if he wanted to summarize the stations of his life, and his lost companions, and he is fully aware that, today, he laments those who lose his comrades, and tomorrow he laments. In this research, we found out how political life played a major role in making Al- Gosaibi see things that the public did not see. Had it not been that he came out for us with a literary- political book he called "In My Humble Opinion", which is not the field of our research now, but the follower of Al- Qusaibi's production knows how much he had a view of life different from that of the ordinary human being. As for the title of the Diwan, Al- Gosaibi combined two opposites with it. It is as if he wanted to summarize great things in himself, through this title, as he came at the beginning “The Garden” and it is known to us that the garden denotes greenery and psychological comfort; As it bears a natural divine beauty, it restores calm to the human soul. As for “sunset” it indicates the end, indicates the end of the day, and comes after sunset the night, and the worries and pain that the poets endured since the pre- Islamic era. As for Al- Qusaibi: He tried to say through the title of the Diwan: His condition is like that of the owner of any house who takes care of him and makes him in the best condition, and takes care of his garden, but at the end he sits in this garden waiting for his day.

The Micro-district … A Smart, Sustainable Vision In The Architecture Of Headquarters Buildings

People spend about 70-80% of their time indoors. When it comes to employees who averagely start working from the age of 21 until the age of retirement, 60; more or less. Almost 8 to 9 hours per day is the average of working hours. According to Bahrain’s labour market regulatory authority, that makes it 40 to 45 hours per week (5 days of work). Thus, it exerts a significant impact upon the lives of a great number of people. Today the power that we must unleash is the power of innovation. Human beings, their ideas, inventions, dreams, and connections, are the capital of the future. Because where great minds go today, great things will happen tomorrow. “Micro smart district” is the point of the research that aims to introduce design guidelines for the smart workplace in headquarters’ buildings and create intimates and intelligent ways in a comfortable environment.

Explore the Short Video's Technology in E-commerce in India

In this paper, there is description of videos technology has been used widely as well as tried to explore the transform in the structure of selling as well as buying of the product mainly in short videos. With the emergence of the Internet, online procedure are replacing conventional models in our society. Even so, not many recognize the criticality required in E-commerce industry. Video commerce is the next great thing of marketing. It connects to a web page of a dealer selling or giving services rightly from its portal to the consumers. They use a digital shopping cart structure and permit payment by credit card, debit card or electronic fund transfer payments. The E- commerce services helps in decreasing costs in managing orders while also interacting with a broad range of suppliers as well as trading partners. It also requires any type of business transaction in which the parties interconnect electronically rather than by physical exchanges or direct physical contact.

Myles Brand: A Leader Deeply Committed to Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Social Justice

Myles Brand: A Leader Deeply Committed to Diversity, Inclusiveness, and Social Justice&#x0D; Myles Brand will probably always best be remembered as the Indiana University president who fired legendary basketball coach Bobby Knight. It is unfortunate since Brand, as a scholar, president of two major universities, and Executive Director of the NCAA, accomplished a great many things on behalf of students and as an enthusiastic proponent of the educational value of intercollegiate athletics and sport more generally. At all times and in everything he did, Brand exhibited as a leader a deep commitment to diversity, inclusiveness, and social justice. It was especially noticeable and on full display during his time as Executive Director of the NCAA, a position he held from 2002 until his untimely death from cancer in 2009. As this essay illustrates, Brand’s commitment to diversity, inclusiveness, and social justice was made clear through the academic reform movement he helped initiate and in fights to eliminate Native American mascots and other disparaging images, secure more head coaching positions for Blacks, and maintain original Title IX guidelines that had allowed women increasing opportunities to participate in highly competitive athletics. Although not always successful in these efforts, especially in seeing more Blacks hired as head coaches, Brand was largely effective in leading the effort to implement academic reform measures, rid sport of insulting Native American imagery, and guard against those who were

Joseph Smith, Thomas Paine, and Matthew 27:51b–53

Joseph Smith, Thomas Paine, and Matthew 27:51b–53

A machine learning approach for obesity risk prediction

In modern times, obesity has become a significant threat all over the world. Obesity means an unnatural or excessive amount of fat that is present in our bodies. People are constantly moving towards an unhealthy lifestyle, eating excessive junk food, late-night sleep, spend a long time sitting down. Especially, adolescents are being affected because of their unconscious attitudes. It is a medical problem known as a very complex disease. It promotes the spread of complex illnesses, stroke, heart disease, liver cancer. Consequently, as an aware multitude of Bangladesh, we have to move forward to prevent this risk of obesity. The purpose of this paper is to move towards a machine-learning-based pathway for predicting the risk of obesity using machine-learning algorithms. The great thing about this paper is that people will know the risk of obesity and the reasons behind their obesity. We collect more than 1100 data from many varieties of people of different ages and collect information from both are suffering obesity and non-obesity. For this research, we apply nine prominent machine learning algorithms. We used the algorithm of k-nearest neighbor (k-NN), random forest, logistic regression, multilayer perceptron (MLP), support vector machine (SVM), naïve Bayes, adaptive boosting (ADA boosting), decision tree, and gradient boosting classifier, and we have measured the performance of each of these classifications in terms of some prominent performance metrics. From the experimental results, we determine the obesity of high, medium, and low. The Logistic Regression Algorithm achieves the highest accuracy of 97.09% as compared to the other classifiers. In addition, the gradient boosting algorithm gave the poorest accuracy of 64.08% as well as the lowest metric values.

Vaccine Hesitancy Narratives

Vaccine Hesitancy Narratives

A Study on the Laws Governing Facial Recognition Technology and Data Privacy in Malaysia

The advancement of technology in the past decade has led humans to achieve many great things. Among that is facial recognition technology that uses a combination of two techniques which is face detection and recognition that is capable of converting facial images of a person into readable data and connecting it with other data sets which enable it to identify, track or compare it. This study delves into the usage of facial recognition technology in Malaysia where its regulation is almost non-existent. As its usage increases, the invasive features of this technology to collect and connect its data posed a threat to the data privacy of Malaysian citizens. Due to this issue, other countries' laws and policies regarding this technology are examined and compared with Malaysia. This enables the loopholes of the current law and policies to be identified and restructured, which create a clear path on the proper regulations and changes that need to be made. Thus, this study aims to analyse the limitation of law governing data privacy and its concept in Malaysia along with changes that need to be made. This study’s finding shows the shortcoming of Malaysia’s law in governing data privacy especially when it involves complex technology that has great data collection capability like facial recognition.