Examines the readership of the contemporary best-selling series Left Behind, drawing on a qualitative study of readers. Rapture Culture asks what role an anti-worldly theory like dispensationalism ...plays in contemporary evangelicalism when evangelicals have gained increasing social and political power. The book argues that apocalyptic stories are a form of social relationship. They shape identity not only through agreement and a sense of belonging, but also through disagreement and dissent. The most urgent message of the rapture for readers of Left Behind is that the end of time could come soon, and therefore a decision about personal salvation is necessary. While it is true that the Left Behind series plays on readers’ fears, the primary fear is not so much a social or political fear as a personal one—a fear that the reader himself or herself might be left behind. The primary purpose of the Left Behind series is to promote evangelism. Readers feel convicted by the books of the need to tell their loved ones about Christ and to seek the conversion of others. In addition, the story of rapture and tribulation provides a lens through which readers can interpret the chaotic and sometimes disconcerting events of the world. The popularity of the Left Behind series and its diffusion into mainstream culture leads the book to conclude with the suggestion that evangelicalism is wrongly understood as a “subculture” and instead needs to be conceived as a broad and fluid part of dominant popular culture in the United States. Rapture Culture urges its readers to take seriously both the fears and the desires about social life present in the testimonies of Left Behind’s readership and to consider popular fiction reading as a complex and dynamic act of faith in American Protestantism.
In this essay we talk about environments and agencies and how they are, adversely, in the mainstay of the current idea of transdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transgression in university ...doing that tends to be disciplinary, monocratic and conservative, because, strictly speaking, the so-called academic requires a conceptualization of knowledge in the simulacrum of having a 'research object'. Thus, we want to emphasize that epistemic practice is colonized and its power is given to those who have power and therefore we dare to walk under labyrinths, in the cracks, between blurs of things not established, sometimes denied but potent in creativity and also imaginative. We start from a proper and appropriate reflexive perspective and tend to present provocations that can contribute to the already well-established discussion of thinking about human and non-human relations. To this end, we review the thought of Tim Ingold, a British anthropologist who has made an important contribution to this discussion in contemporary times. Finally, we highlight essayistic dynamics to think about a relationship between epistemology and the concept of agency, taking as a challenge to reflect on how environments are continually in formation due to the activities of human and non-human creatures; the evolution of form is a situated activity of these beings; and that it is in the entanglements of experience, notes, sketches and imagination that we understand the environment. Keywords: agencies; experience; entanglements; Tim Ingold. Neste ensaio falamos em ambientes e agencias e como eles se encontram, adversamente, no esteio da ideia corrente de transdisciplinaridade, multidisciplinaridade e transgressao em fazer universitario que tende a ser disciplinar, monocratico e conservador, pois, a rigor, o dito academico exige uma conceitualizacao do saber, no simulacro de se ter um 'objeto de pesquisa'. Assim, nos queremos destacar que o fazer epistemico e colonizado e seu poder e dado a quem tem poder e, portanto, ousamos caminhar sob labirintos, nas frestas, entre borroes de coisas nao estabelecidas, as vezes negadas, mas potentes em criatividade e tambem imaginativas. Partimos de uma perspectiva reflexiva propria e apropriada e tendemos a apresentar provocacoes que possam contribuir com a discussao ja bem estabelecida do pensamento sobre as relacoes humanas e nao-humanas. Para tanto, passamos em revista o pensamento de Tim Ingold, antropologo britanico que tem contribuido de forma importante para essa discussao na contemporaneidade. Finalmente, destacamos a dinamica ensaistica para pensar uma relacao entre a epistemologia e o conceito de agencia, tomando como desafio refletir sobre como os ambientes estao continuamente em formacao devido as atividades das criaturas humanas e nao-humanas; a evolucao da forma e uma atividade situada destes seres; e que e nos emaranhados da experiencia, notas, rascunhos e imaginacao que compreendemos o ambiente. Palavras-chaves: agencias; experiencia; emaranhados; Tim Ingold.
In this essay we talk about environments and agencies and how they are, adversely, in the mainstay of the current idea of transdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and transgression in university ...doing that tends to be disciplinary, monocratic and conservative, because, strictly speaking, the so-called academic requires a conceptualization of knowledge in the simulacrum of having a 'research object'. Thus, we want to emphasize that epistemic practice is colonized and its power is given to those who have power and therefore we dare to walk under labyrinths, in the cracks, between blurs of things not established, sometimes denied but potent in creativity and also imaginative. We start from a proper and appropriate reflexive perspective and tend to present provocations that can contribute to the already well-established discussion of thinking about human and non-human relations. To this end, we review the thought of Tim Ingold, a British anthropologist who has made an important contribution to this discussion in contemporary times. Finally, we highlight essayistic dynamics to think about a relationship between epistemology and the concept of agency, taking as a challenge to reflect on how environments are continually in formation due to the activities of human and non-human creatures; the evolution of form is a situated activity of these beings; and that it is in the entanglements of experience, notes, sketches and imagination that we understand the environment.
Researchers worldwide are taking advantage of novel, commercially available, technologies, such as ion mobility mass spectrometry (IM‐MS), for metabolomics and lipidomics applications in a variety of ...fields including life, biomedical, and food sciences. IM‐MS provides three main technical advantages over traditional LC‐MS workflows. Firstly, in addition to mass, IM‐MS allows collision cross‐section values to be measured for metabolites and lipids, a physicochemical identifier related to the chemical shape of an analyte that increases the confidence of identification. Second, IM‐MS increases peak capacity and the signal‐to‐noise, improving fingerprinting as well as quantification, and better defining the spatial localization of metabolites and lipids in biological and food samples. Third, IM‐MS can be coupled with various fragmentation modes, adding new tools to improve structural characterization and molecular annotation. Here, we review the state‐of‐the‐art in IM‐MS technologies and approaches utilized to support metabolomics and lipidomics applications and we assess the challenges and opportunities in this growing field.
The Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins has become a popular culture phenomenon, selling an astonishing 40 million copies to date. These novels, written by two well-known ...evangelical Christians, depict the experiences of those left behind in the aftermath of the Rapture, when Christ removes true believers, leaving everyone else to suffer seven years of Tribulation under Satan's proxy, Antichrist.
In Marks of the Beast , Shuck uncovers the reasons behind the books' unprecedented appeal, assessing why the novels have achieved a status within the evangelical community even greater than Hal Lindsey's 1970 blockbuster The Late Great Planet Earth . It also explores what we can learn from them about evangelical Christianity in America.
Shuck finds that, ironically, the series not only reflects contemporary trends within conservative evangelicalism but also encourages readers—especially evangelicals—to embrace solutions that enact, rather than engage, their fears. Most strikingly, he shows how the ultimate vision put forth by the series' authors inadvertently undermines itself as the series unfolds.
•Improving PV-TEG efficiency by tackling metal surface and air gap thermal challenges.•Proposing mathematical modeling for predictive performance evaluation of PV-TEG systems.•Investigating the ...effectiveness of PGS as a TIM in PV-TEG systems.•Assessment of three cooling approaches: natural air, forced air, and forced water.•Bent PGS configuration proves most effective in reducing PV panel temperature to enhance power generation.
PV-TEG systems utilize waste heat by using TEGs under PV panels. TEGs improve the efficiency of PV and generates more energy. However, rough metal surfaces at contact points reduce the system's thermal efficiency and create air gaps. This paper employs a mathematical model based on principles of thermal resistances and energy conservation. The proposed model is built using MATLAB R2020a. The paper assessed the effectiveness of a Pyrolytic Graphite Sheet (PGS) as a Thermal Interface Material (TIM) in PV-TEG systems and three cooling approaches. The investigation explores two configurations (parallel and bent) of PGS and five TIM materials. The results indicate that bent PGS is the most effective. It lowers the temperature of the PV panels to 18.99 ℃, 19.95 ℃, and 20.74 ℃. As a result, the power increased to 0.606 W, 0.639 W, and 0.667 W. Additionally, the efficiency improves to 1.66 %, 1.75 %, and 1.82 % with natural air, forced air, and forced water cooling, respectively. The results show that PGS can improve PV-TEG system performance and solve thermal issues with metal surfaces and air gaps.
As the Republican Party prepares for crucial mid-term elections in November, host Anne McElvoy asks Senator Tim Scott what the GOP now stands for as it deals with the fallout from the 2020 election. ...The party’s only African-American senator discusses racial discrimination, police reform and Donald Trump’s chances. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Bài báo trình bày kết quả nghiên cứu chế tạo mô hình máy lấy tim hạt sen tươi. Tim sen có nhiều công dụng trong y học nhưng nó có vị đắng, cần phải loại ra trước khi chế biến hạt sen. Mô hình hoạt ...động của máy được thiết kế dựa trên nguyên lí đột để loại bỏ tim sen ra khỏi hạt sen. Kết quả nghiên cứu cho thấy, máy đạt hiệu suất hơn 90% hạt có thể lấy tim; trong đó 83,6% hạt được lấy sạch tim sen, với năng suất máy 3 – 5 kg/h. Với các kết quả đạt được của nghiên cứu, việc ứng dụng máy đột tim sen vào trong khâu loại bỏ tim sen thay cho việc lấy tim sen thủ công sẽ mang lại nhiều lợi ích đáng kể cho việc sản xuất, không chỉ tiết kiệm thời gian sản xuất mà còn giảm được chi phí nhân công.
Vietnam and Beyond: Tim O’Brien and the Power of Storytelling is a comprehensive, in-depth study of one of the most thought-provoking writers of the Vietnam war generation. This volume breaks away ...from previous readings of O’Brien’s development as a trauma artist and an outspoken chronicler of the American involvement in Vietnam: its thematic, rather than chronological, approach contextualizes O’Brien’s work beyond the confines of war literature. The necessary exploration of O’Brien’s recurrent engagement with the conflict in Vietnam leads to a thorough discussion of the writer’s revision of key American (and western) ideas and concerns: the association between courage, heroism and masculinity, the celebration of the pioneering spirit in the frontier narrative, the sense of superiority in the encounter with foreign civilizations, the fraught relationship between power and truth, or reality and imagination, and the attempt and the right to speak about unspeakable events. All these themes, as Ciocia illustrates, highlight O’Brien’s compelling preoccupation with the role and the ethical responsibility of the storyteller. With his clear privileging of ‘story-truth’ over ‘happening-truth’, O’Brien makes a bold, serious investment in the power of fiction, as testified by his formal experimentations, metanarrative reflections and sustained meditations on matters such as individual agency, moral accountability and authenticity. Approached from this fresh perspective, O’Brien emerges as a figure deserving to find a wider audience and demanding renewed scholarly attention for his remarkable achievements as a contemporary mythographer, an acute observer of the human condition and a sharp critic of American culture.
