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Effect of cell residence time variance on the performance of an advanced paging algorithm [PDF]

arXiv, 2009
The use of advanced sequential paging algorithms has been suggested as a means to reduce the signaling cost in future mobile cellular networks. In a proposed algorithm (Koukoutsidis and Theologou, 2003), the system can use the additional information of the last interaction cell combined with a mobility model to predict the short-term location ...
arxiv  

Theological Ethics of Life: A New Volume by the Pontifical Academy for Life

Journal of Moral Theology, 2022
_Etica Teologica Della Vita: Scrittura, Tradizione, Sfide Pratiche_ (Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges) brings together the papers presented at an interdisciplinary study seminar organized by the Pontifical Academy ...
Roberto Dell'Oro, M. Therese Lysaught
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Making beautiful babies: Performative parenting, parental determinism, and personhood in Côte d'Ivoire

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract According to the notion of “parental determinism,” parents are paradoxically imagined as both powerful actors and in need of expert guidance and supervision. Subsequent research in different world regions problematizes the links between parental competence, child development, and societal ills.
Konstanze N'Guessan
wiley   +1 more source

Motherhood amidst reprimands and advice: Parenting and class in Rio de Janeiro

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract The article explores how the moralization of women mothers in contemporary Brazil reinforces structural inequalities. The analysis focuses on two forms of communication: reprimands and advice directed from experts toward mothers or circulated between mothers of young children in two different social contexts in the city of Rio de Janeiro ...
Laura Lowenkron, Camila Fernandes
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Artificial Intelligence and Theology

Theological Librarianship
This bibliographic essay provides a starting point for theological librarians to engage the history, anthropology, ethics, theology of artificial intelligence.
Brady Alan Beard
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What exactly is a family man? Performing and precluding respectable fatherhood in Dominica

Ethos, EarlyView.
Abstract How does a father come to be regarded as a “family man” in the Caribbean? By tracking the stories and strivings of various Dominican men who seek recognition as dedicated fathers, this essay unfolds complex answers to this seemingly simple question.
Adom Philogene Heron
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Karl Barth's Anti‐Ideological Theology: A Reconsideration of Barth's Approach to Philosophy

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Barth's approach to borrowing from philosophical figures and schools is underwritten by several convictions that made such an approach intelligible. These convictions entailed that (1) Barth had no firm commitment to a philosophical school; (2) Barth's use of philosophy and philosophical terminology displays a pragmatic though principled ...
Kimlyn J. Bender
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The Soul in Preaching

Religions
What happened to the human soul in contemporary theories of preaching? The field of homiletics shows a wide variety of themes, approaches, perspectives, and theologies. Somewhere between the social critique, in postcolonial and post-human approaches, and
Theo Pleizier
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Preparation for Grace in Puritanism: An Evaluation from the Perspective of Reformed Anthropology

Diligentia: Journal of Theology and Christian Education, 2019
The Puritans’ doctrine on the preparation for grace, whose substance was an effort to find and to ascertain the true marks of conversion in a Christian through several preparatory steps which began with conviction or awakening, proceeded to humiliation ...
Hendra Thamrindinata
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Reading the Creed in the Light of Pentecost: An Eastern European Pneumatic Reflection

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Reading the Creed through pneumatic lenses is essential for understanding both humanity's eschatological destiny in the likeness of the Trinity and the consistently triune economy of salvation. In light of this assertion, the essay highlights aspects of the Creed's explicit and implicit pneumatology, offering a reflection from an Eastern ...
Daniela C. Augustine
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