Garrett compares the civil covenant option with the Catholic vision of marriage. He offers an overview of covenant marriage legislation in general and highlights some differences between the three ...versions of the law currently in effect. He opens with a brief discussion of the church's understanding of marriage and continues by examining areas of convergence and tension between the civil covenant laws and the relevant canonical legislation found in the church's Code of Canon Law. He also proposes that church officials should promote civil covenant marriage in those jurisdictions where it is available and encourage the adoption of the legislation elsewhere. Finally, he suggests that support for the legislation is consistent with goals outlined by Leo XIII in Arcanum and more recently by both John Paul II and the American bishops.
ABSTRACT**: This paper tests the crowding‐out hypothesis for a balanced panel of nonprofit performing arts organizations between 1998 and 2003. This research uses a number of model specifications ...and estimating techniques to appropriately capture the relationship between government grants and private donations. Under alternative specifications, the relationship between government grants and private donations suggests crowding‐in between $0.14 and $1.15. The crowd‐in relationship does change according to art type: symphony orchestras and music companies experience a modest crowd‐in while dance and ballet companies experience a small crowd‐out. Although the crowd‐in falls to zero under the strictest condition, there is a lack of evidence of crowd‐out for nonprofit performing arts organizations as a group.
Utopia More, Thomas; Harp, Jerry; Miller, Clarence H
02/2014
eBook
Saint Thomas More'sUtopiais one of the most important works of European humanism and serves as a key text in survey courses on Western intellectual history, the Renaissance, political theory, and ...many other subjects. Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this masterful translation. In a new afterword to this edition, Jerry Harp contextualizes More's life andUtopiawithin the wider frames of European humanism and the Renaissance."Clarence H. Miller's fine translation tracks the supple variations of More's Latin with unmatched precision, and his Introduction and notes are masterly. Jerry Harp's new Afterword adroitly places More's wonderful little book into its broader contexts in intellectual history."-George M. Logan, author ofThe Meaning of More's "Utopia""Sir Thomas More'sUtopiais not merely one of the foundational texts of western culture, but also a book whose most fundamental concerns are as urgent now as they were in 1516 when it was written. Clarence H. Miller's wonderful translation of More's classic is now happily once again available to readers. This is the English edition that best captures the tone and texture of More's original Latin, and its notes and introduction, along with the lively afterward by Jerry Harp, graciously supply exactly the kinds of help a modern reader might desire."-David Scott Kastan, Yale University
A mail survey of New Hampshire and Vermont households shows that although user fees are widely accepted, they may substantially reduce participation in resource-based recreation by those earning less ...than $30,000 per year. For example, 23% of low-income respondents indicated that they had either reduced use or gone elsewhere as a result of recent fee increases, while only 11% of high-income users had made such changes. A conjoint analysis also suggests that low-income respondents are much more responsive to access fees than high-income respondents. And we find that a $5 daily fee for use of public lands would affect about 49% of low-income people as compared to 33% of high-income respondents. We conclude that potential impacts of this magnitude highlight several critical problems in the design of recreation fee programs.
Dissociation energy of the HCN⋯HF dimer Sexton, Thomas More; Van Benschoten, William Zeller; Tschumper, Gregory S.
Chemical physics letters,
June 2020, 2020-06-00, Volume:
748
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
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•Discrepancy in experimental gas-phase dissociation energies resolved by computation.•Computed anharmonic vibrational frequencies closely match experimental fundamentals.•Computed ...vibrationally corrected geometry and dipole moment match experimental data.
Three different experimental dissociation energies (D0) have been reported for the simple HCN⋯HF hydrogen bonded dimer, but none agree to within their error bars (4.42±0.26,4.96±0.05, and 5.63±0.03 kcal mol−1). To help resolve this disagreement, the geometry, dipole moment, fundamental vibrational frequencies, and D0 of the HCN⋯HF complex are computed with the CCSD(T) and MP2 methods and quintuple-ζ quality basis sets, including anharmonic corrections from second-order vibrational perturbation theory. Our best estimate of D0 = 5.56 kcal mol−1 lies within 0.07 kcal mol−1 of the largest experimental values, suggesting that neither of the older and smaller values based on equilibrium transition intensity measurements are reliable.
Andrea Ordanini (2006) previously examined the extent to which the selection into the music industry - direct or agency - impacts an artist's success in the Italian music charts. It looks as if the ...observations that are explaining the differences in success between the Indy artists and Major artists are Italian Indy artists, and because so many of the Italian Indy artists are solo (non-bands), it is difficult to establish that it is the signing-mechanism that is driving success rather than the solo status of the artist that is driving success. Ultimately, it cannot be established that it is the Indy-first status alone that drives success, as the non-Italian Indy bands (and solo acts) do not find greater success on the Italian music charts.
The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English
masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work
as its principal model, the History determined the ...historical reputation of an
English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that
reputation. George M. Logan has produced a scholarly yet
accessible edition of the History, designed to make More's exhilarating work fully
accessible to 21st-century readers. More's text is presented here with modern
English spelling and punctuation, and with full annotation of linguistic
difficulties and the historical background. The text is preceded by a general
introduction, a chronology, and suggestions for further reading. An appendix
reprints passages from key sources and analogues, enabling the reader to see how
More worked with his English sources and classical models, and finally how
Shakespeare worked with More.
Abstract
This is a surgical technique video of selective posterior callosotomy (SPC), a novel surgical procedure to alleviate refractory epileptic drop attacks.1 Departing from traditional approaches ...aiming the anterior half or the entire callosum, SPC sections the posterior half of the callosum sparing prefrontal connectivity.1 Drop attacks are generalized epileptic seizures characterized by sudden falls.1 These seizures are often seen in diffuse brain pathology associated with generalized or multifocal epilepsies, whose electroencephalogram (EEG) “fingerprint” is bilaterally synchronous epileptic discharges.1 Sectioning the callosum to control drop attacks follows the rationale that the rapid synchronization of discharges between motor and premotor regions of both hemispheres is the basis.1 The standard approach to callosotomies always contemplated the anterior fibers of the callosum.2 Literature reports that anterior sections lead to unsatisfactory control of drop attacks, and results are improved when extended into a total callosotomy.2,3 This evidence coupled with diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) findings showing that motor and premotor fibers actually cross through posterior half of the callosum led us to hypothesize that selective section of the posterior half of the callosum would section all relevant motor fibers and control drop attacks to a similar extent to total callosotomies, with the advantage of sparing prefrontal interconnectivity3 and no split-brain syndrome. Both our series, one retrospective, followed by a new prospective study have confirmed SPC to be a safe procedure, leading to complete or greater than 90% control of epileptic falls in 85% of patients.1 The video presented here was recorded during a selective posterior callosotomy performed on a 13-yr-old girl who had hundreds of uncontrollable drop attacks per day. Falls were completely controlled with significant gains in psychomotor development and cognition, after 5 yr of follow-up. The patient provided signed consent to the surgical procedure, video acquisition, photo acquisition, and storage at operations, and the publication of this material.
The optimised structures, electronic dissociation energies and harmonic vibrational frequencies of microhydrated halide ions have been probed with the MP2 and CCSD(T) quantum mechanical (QM) ...electronic structure techniques as well as with the 2-body:Many-body QM:QM method (2b:Mb CCSD(T):MP2) in which the 1- and 2-body interactions are computed at the CCSD(T) level of theory while all higher-order contributions are captured at the MP2 level of theory. In general, the accuracy and efficiency of the 2b:Mb approach previously demonstrated for neutral, homogeneous HF and H
O clusters extends to these negatively charged heterogeneous systems. Results indicate the MP2 method struggles to provide a reliable description of the vibrational frequencies for hydrated fluoride clusters even though it performs well for the other hydrated halides (chloride, bromide and iodide). Consequently, the accuracy of the 2b:Mb CCSD(T):MP2 approach for fluoride clusters is poorer than the other halides, and MP2 is not a recommended low-level method for high-accuracy frequency analyses of hydrated fluoride complexes with the 2b:Mb method or related QM:QM approaches.
