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Anderson, Christian J. "Beginning at the beginning: Reading missio Dei from the start of the Bible." Missiology: An International Review 45, no. 4 (October 2017): 414–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091829617728533.
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While Missiological hermeneutics have pointed to the missio Dei concept as key to the entire Biblical narrative, these readings have described God’s mission activity as commencing after the entrance of sin, rather than at the beginning of the Bible. This article argues that a mission hermeneutic ought to begin with the Bible’s opening chapters, where humanity’s vocation in the narratives of Genesis 1 and 2 need not be treated as a separate “creation mandate,” but as involvement in the missio Dei. Iranaeus’ theology provides a precedent for thinking that God’s perfecting work was still at an early stage when sin entered creation; and G. K. Beale’s reading of Eden as a garden sanctuary to be expanded gives at least one exegetical avenue for seeing the creation narratives as continuous with the mission entrusted to Abraham’s descendants. Missio Dei participation, then, is inherent to humanity, and sin’s origins can be framed as a refusal to embrace it.
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Cohen, Ian J., and Abigal M. Rymer. "Cross-NASA divisional relevance of an Ice Giant mission." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 378, no. 2187 (November 9, 2020): 20200222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0222.
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Robotic space exploration to the outer solar system is difficult and expensive and the space science community works inventively and collaboratively to maximize the scientific return of missions. A mission to either of our solar system Ice Giants, Uranus and Neptune, will provide numerous opportunities to address high-level science objectives relevant to multiple disciplines and deliberate cross-disciplinary mission planning should ideally be woven in from the start. In this review, we recount past successes as well as (NASA-focused) challenges in performing cross-disciplinary science from robotic space exploration missions and detail the opportunities for broad-reaching science objectives from potential future missions to the Ice Giants. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Future exploration of ice giant systems’.
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Lucas Martínez, Néstor, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega, Jesús Rodríguez-Molina, and Zhaoyu Zhai. "Proposal of an Automated Mission Manager for Cooperative Autonomous Underwater Vehicles." Applied Sciences 10, no. 3 (January 25, 2020): 855. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10030855.
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In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the use of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for ocean interventions. Typical operations imply the pre-loading of a pre-generated mission plan into the AUV before being launched. Once deployed, the AUV waits for a start command to begin the execution of the plan. An onboard mission manager is responsible for handling the events that may prevent the AUV from following the plan. This approach considers the management of the mission only at the vehicle level. However, the use of a mission-level manager in coordination with the onboard mission manager could improve the handling of exogenous events that cannot be handled fully at the vehicle level. Moreover, the use of vehicle virtualization by the mission-level manager can ease the use of older AUVs. In this paper, we propose a new mission-level manager to be run at a control station. The proposed mission manager, named Missions and Task Register and Reporter (MTRR), follows a decentralized hierarchical control pattern for self-adaptive systems, and provides a basic virtualization in regard to the AUV’s planning capabilities. The MTRR has been validated as part of the SWARMs European project. During the final trials we assessed its effectiveness and measured its performance. As a result, we have identified a strong correlation between the length of mission plan and the time required to start a mission ( ρ s = 0.79 , n = 45 , p 0.001 ). We have also identified a possible bottleneck when accessing the repositories for storing the information from the mission. Specifically, the average time for storing the received state vectors in the relational database represented only 18.50% of the average time required for doing so in the semantic repository.
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Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth. ""Perennially New": Santa Barbara and the Origins of the California Mission Garden." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69, no. 3 (September 1, 2010): 378–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2010.69.3.378.
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Elizabeth Kryder-Reid examines the origins of California's mission gardens and explores their reception and their contribution to cultural memory. The evidence presented in "Perennially New": Santa Barbara and the Origins of the California Mission Garden shows that the iconic image of the mission garden was created a century after the founding of the missions in the late eighteenth century, and two decades before the start of the Mission Revival architectural style. The locus of their origin was Mission Santa Barbara, where in 1872 a Franciscan named Father Romo, newly arrived from a posting in Jerusalem, planted a courtyard garden reminiscent of the landscapes that he had seen during his travels around the Mediterranean. This invented garden fostered a robust visual culture and rich ideological narratives, and it played a formative role in the broader cultural reception of Mission Revival garden design and of California history in general. These discoveries have significance for the preservation and interpretation of these heritage sites.
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Coyle, Laura. "Right from the Start." Public Historian 40, no. 3 (August 1, 2018): 292–318. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2018.40.3.292.
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Before opening, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture established a program to create digital collection records and surrogates, which play a critical role in collection care, collection accessibility, and enhancing the meaning of collections. The program is off to a good start because it supports the museum’s mission, the museum has established a dedicated “Digi Team,” the program has leadership buy-in and financial support, and other Smithsonian units have been generous with time and expertise. Also explored in this article are digitization program activities and results, the impact of digitization, and plans for the future.
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Nieto-Peroy, Cristóbal, and M. Reza Emami. "CubeSat Mission: From Design to Operation." Applied Sciences 9, no. 15 (August 1, 2019): 3110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app9153110.
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The current success rate of CubeSat missions, particularly for first-time developers, may discourage non-profit organizations to start new projects. CubeSat development teams may not be able to dedicate the resources that are necessary to maintain Quality Assurance as it is performed for the reliable conventional satellite projects. This paper discusses the structured life-cycle of a CubeSat project, using as a reference the authors’ recent experience of developing and operating a 2U CubeSat, called qbee50-LTU-OC, as part of the QB50 mission. This paper also provides a critique of some of the current poor practices and methodologies while carrying out CubeSat projects.
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Njuguna, Daniel. "Transforming Discipleship." Ecclesial Futures 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 26–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/ef11885.
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Bevans’ concept of transforming discipleship foregrounds a fundamental symbiotic relationship between discipleship and mission. The interplay between both practices is central to the wider debate of contemporary church social engagement under missio Dei. He explains that the notion of baptism and theosis embedded in the idea of transforming discipleship points to a concrete transformation of the human experience and condition. This forms the premise of this article in exploring how Christian practices of discipleship and mission articulate a process of human becoming and participation in the life and mission of God that centres on a critical engagement with lived reality. This understanding offers a consistent framework of fostering a mutual relationship between local churches and communities in the poorer urban context, which often face the twin challenge of church and social decline. It questions a simplistic binary correlation between the practices of discipleship and mission. Such correlation often leads to a seeming dichotomy in Christian practices, with mission being portrayed as a means of achieving a quantitative outcome and discipleship a qualitative one. Instead, the focus of this article is to elucidate how discipleship and mission are interwoven, that both start with God and are integral to the actualisation of God’s salvific plan in the world.
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Kunimoto, Michelle, Evan Tey, Willie Fong, Katharine Hesse, Avi Shporer, Michael Fausnaugh, Roland Vanderspek, and George Ricker. "Quick-look Pipeline Light Curves for 5.7 Million Stars Observed Over the Second Year of TESS’ First Extended Mission." Research Notes of the AAS 6, no. 11 (November 11, 2022): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/2515-5172/aca158.
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Abstract We present High-Level Science Products (HLSPs) containing light curves from MIT's Quick-Look Pipeline (QLP) from the second year of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS’) first Extended Mission (Sectors 40–55; 2021 July–2022 September). In total, 12.2 million per-sector light curves for 5.7 million unique stars were extracted from 10 minutes cadence Full-Frame Images (FFIs) and are made available to the community. As in previous deliveries, QLP HLSPs include both raw and detrended flux time series for all observed stars brighter than TESS magnitude T = 13.5 mag. Starting in Sector 41, QLP also produces light curves for select fainter M dwarfs. QLP has provided the community with one of the largest sources of FFI-extracted light curves to date since the start of the TESS mission.
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Willson, Richard C. "Irradiance Observations of SMM, Spacelab 1, UARS, and ATLAS Experiments." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 143 (1994): 54–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100024532.
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Detection of intrinsic solar variability on the total flux level was made using results from the first Active Radiometer Irradiance Monitor (ACRIM) experiment, launched on the Solar Maximum Mission (SMM) in early 1980. ACRIM I, specifically designed to start the high precision total solar irradiance database as part of the U.S. Climate Research Program, produced high precision results throughout the 9.75 years of the Solar Maximum Mission. The second ACRIM experiment was flown aboard the Space Shuttle as part of the NASA/ESA Spacelab 1 Mission in late 1983. Its primary function has been to provide a comparison with ACRIM I that could be used to relate its observations with future satellite solar monitors, should they and ACRIM I fail to overlap in time. The second ACRIM satellite solar monitoring experiment (ACRIM II) has provided high precision total solar irradiance observations since its launch as part of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) mission in late 1991 and continues at present. The shuttle ACRIM instrumentation has been flown on the ATLAS 1 and 2 missions in 1992 and 1993, providing comparisons with the UARS/ACRIM II.
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Ryan, Charlotte, Michael Anastario, and Karen Jeffreys. "Start Small, Build Big: Negotiating Opportunities in Media Markets." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 10, no. 1 (February 1, 2005): 111–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/maiq.10.1.wx7xq57702764v72.
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We track the strategic choices of Rhode Island Coalition against Domestic Violence (RICADV), a statewide collective actor working in one media market to expand opportunities to promote its mission. We reconstruct an organizational life history describing how RICADV built its communications capacity and deepened internal and external relations, thereby increasing media standing with Rhode Island journalists. To measure growth in media standing quantitatively, we analyze print coverage of three comparable clusters of domestic violence murders occurring in Rhode Island between 1996 and 2002. Over this interval, RICADV rose from invisibility to become Rhode Island reporters' foremost source for background information on domestic-violence murders. Also, the use of language identifying these murders as domestic violence increased sixteen-fold. Stressing dialogic and relational approaches, we conclude that despite restricted access to corporatized media markets, intentional collective actors can negotiate and expand media opportunities by strategically selecting mission-relevant media projects that match their existing resources and networks.
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Sokolov, A. V. "Year of Culture in the Age of Informatization." Bibliotekovedenie [Library and Information Science (Russia)], no. 1 (February 28, 2014): 16–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.25281/0869-608x-2014-0-1-16-22.
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On the need of implementation by the Russian libraries of the important and responsible mission of humanization of the modern society and its adaptation to the conditions of information civilization, as well as on the need to use the Year of Culture as start of realization of this mission.
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H. R. H. "Editorial Note: “Mission Accomplished? Or a New Agenda?”." Nationalities Papers 20, no. 2 (1992): iii—iv. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905999208408229.
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In 1989, with the start of this series—so many momentous events ago—there existed a Soviet Union and, within it, there had been Soviet republics (all socialist!). The entirety was imperially presided over by Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Chairman of the Communist Party and President of the USSR.
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Lawler, A. "U.S.-Russian space science. Joint mission gets off to slow start." Science 267, no. 5196 (January 20, 1995): 323. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.7824926.
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Hoel, Virginia. "The Norwegian Seamen’s Mission in two North Sea ports 1864–1920: A national ‘home’ in an international maritime world." International Journal of Maritime History 27, no. 4 (November 2015): 811–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0843871415610290.
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This study illuminates how the the identity and functioning of the Norwegian Seamen’s Mission was influenced by developing national sentiments in the period from the start of the Mission in 1864, until the aftermath of World War I c. 1920. The central hypothesis that the Mission must be understood within the broader cultural, political and economic context of Norway in the 19th century, was confirmed on the basis of extensive research of the correspondence between the pastors of the Mission working in the field and its headquarters in Bergen, Norway.
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Roldán, Juan Jesús, Víctor Díaz-Maroto, Javier Real, Pablo R. Palafox, João Valente, Mario Garzón, and Antonio Barrientos. "Press Start to Play: Classifying Multi-Robot Operators and Predicting Their Strategies through a Videogame." Robotics 8, no. 3 (July 9, 2019): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/robotics8030053.
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One of the active challenges in multi-robot missions is related to managing operator workload and situational awareness. Currently, the operators are trained to use interfaces, but in the near future this can be turned inside out: the interfaces will adapt to operators so as to facilitate their tasks. To this end, the interfaces should manage models of operators and adapt the information to their states and preferences. This work proposes a videogame-based approach to classify operator behavior and predict their actions in order to improve teleoperated multi-robot missions. First, groups of operators are generated according to their strategies by means of clustering algorithms. Second, the operators’ strategies are predicted, taking into account their models. Multiple information sources and modeling methods are used to determine the approach that maximizes the mission goal. The results demonstrate that predictions based on previous data from single operators increase the probability of success in teleoperated multi-robot missions by 19%, whereas predictions based on operator clusters increase this probability of success by 28%.
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Than, U. Kyaw. "What Mission Is: Our Understanding of Mission as a Factor for Unity or Division." Missiology: An International Review 18, no. 4 (October 1990): 439–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182969001800404.
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Drawing on insights from Buddhism and personal experience in Japanese-occupied Burma during World War II, the author brings an understanding of mission to the work of the third person of the Trinity. Faithfulness in mission implies recognition of being enlisted in God's design for the redemption of the world. Christ's ministry on earth was characterized from start to finish by the in-filling of the Holy Spirit. For the church, the eschatological community, mission is the most urgent activity, as history is drawing to a close with the imminent return of Christ. There is also urgent need for the church to express its missionary obedience in unity and not in confusing and scandalous division in the midst of a world, which, though unbelieving, is desperately seeking the way out of its predicament.
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Gregory, William P. "Pope Francis’s Effort to Revitalize Catholic Mission." International Bulletin of Mission Research 43, no. 1 (December 19, 2018): 7–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2396939318795374.
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From the start of his pontificate, Pope Francis has pursued a reform of the Catholic Church aimed at revitalizing Catholic engagement in mission. He has pursued this reform in three areas. He has sought, first, to clarify to all Christians the nature of their task; second, to motivate all Christians to carry out this task; and third, to correct a recurring set of countermissionary attitudes and practices within the church that damage the church’s missionary efforts.
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Dommanget, J., and O. Nys. "The Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple Stars (CCDM) - First Edition." Symposium - International Astronomical Union 166 (1995): 395. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0074180900228714.
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The Hipparcos mission required the realisation of an Input Catalogue giving the positions of 100.000 stars (single or components of double and multiple systems) to an accuracy better than 1″5. At the start of this work (1981) no specific catalogue of double and multiple stars provided these data. The only general data base on double stars available to us, giving positions to ±1′, was the Index (1961,0) updated at the USNO by C. E. Worley till 1976,5 and of which a copy was communicated by P. Muller of the Observatoire de Meudon. It has then been decided to reformat this Catalogue in such a way as to allow the introduction of all necessary information for the mission. This permitted a correct cross-identification with the Hipparcos Input Catalogue (of finally 118.000 stars). It was later called: the Catalogue of the Components of Double and Multiple stars (CCDM). Since then, it has been developed and its aim remains to furnish the best accurate locations and descriptions of the double and multiple systems on the sky for all double and multiple star research.
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Tinetti, Giovanna, James Y.-K. Cho, Caitlin A. Griffith, Olivier Grasset, Lee Grenfell, Tristan Guillot, Tommi T. Koskinen, et al. "The science of EChO." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 6, S276 (October 2010): 359–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921311020448.
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AbstractThe science of extra-solar planets is one of the most rapidly changing areas of astrophysics and since 1995 the number of planets known has increased by almost two orders of magnitude. A combination of ground-based surveys and dedicated space missions has resulted in 560-plus planets being detected, and over 1200 that await confirmation. NASA's Kepler mission has opened up the possibility of discovering Earth-like planets in the habitable zone around some of the 100,000 stars it is surveying during its 3 to 4-year lifetime. The new ESA's Gaia mission is expected to discover thousands of new planets around stars within 200 parsecs of the Sun. The key challenge now is moving on from discovery, important though that remains, to characterisation: what are these planets actually like, and why are they as they are?In the past ten years, we have learned how to obtain the first spectra of exoplanets using transit transmission and emission spectroscopy. With the high stability of Spitzer, Hubble, and large ground-based telescopes the spectra of bright close-in massive planets can be obtained and species like water vapour, methane, carbon monoxide and dioxide have been detected. With transit science came the first tangible remote sensing of these planetary bodies and so one can start to extrapolate from what has been learnt from Solar System probes to what one might plan to learn about their faraway siblings. As we learn more about the atmospheres, surfaces and near-surfaces of these remote bodies, we will begin to build up a clearer picture of their construction, history and suitability for life.The Exoplanet Characterisation Observatory, EChO, will be the first dedicated mission to investigate the physics and chemistry of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. By characterising spectroscopically more bodies in different environments we will take detailed planetology out of the Solar System and into the Galaxy as a whole.EChO has now been selected by the European Space Agency to be assessed as one of four M3 mission candidates.
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Kee, Daisy Mui Hung, Syahidatul A’fifah Mohd Rusdi, Siti Sarah Mokhtar, Siti Aisyah Muhamad Ridzuan, and Siti Aishah Amni Abdullah. "How Grab Becomes One of the Greatest Start-ups in South-East Asia." International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality in Asia Pasific 4, no. 1 (February 20, 2021): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.32535/ijthap.v4i1.1023.
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Headquartered in Singapore, Grab is a multinational ride-hailing company in Southeast Asia. Grab's service has been classified by the Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) under what they defined as Transportation Network Company (TNC). They use cloud-based mobile technology to provide ride-hailing and logistics, food delivery, paying bills, and others. The study aims to analyze how Grab becomes one of the greatest start-ups in South-East Asia. This study began with gathering information about Grab's factors in start-ups while operating towards their mission. Grab's mission is to solve people's problems to drive Southeast Asia forward and deliver a positive social impact for hundreds of millions of people. Grab has served helpful services for users as they had mastered the super apps.
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Baik, Chung-Hyun. "A Critical Analysis of the Concept of Missio Dei. Suggestions for a Trinitarian Understanding." Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 63, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 329–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/nzsth-2021-0019.
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Abstract This paper investigates the concept of missio Dei at Willingen and beyond, and identifies its most remarkable feature which regards God as the initiator and subject of mission, thereby redefining missio ecclesiae with three striking characteristics: first, all places of the world including both the immediate neighborhood and the uttermost parts of the earths; second, all spheres of life such as society, politics, economy and culture; and finally, all events of the time such as catastrophes in the history. In so doing, this paper clearly discovers that missio Dei is here approached primarily in a differentiation from or a sharp contrast to missio ecclesiae from the start, and that, for that reason, the concept of missio Dei at Willingen and beyond has not been fully trinitarian, though it often mentions the triune God. And it also discovers that it goes further either toward an emphasis on culture on the one hand, or toward that on the world on the other hand. Such being the case, this paper suggests that it is necessary to consider the implications of the doctrine of the Trinity for mission more fully to reconfigure the concept of missio Dei. Due to some limits, this paper does not deal with this issue full-fledgedly, but intends to suggest a couple of guidelines for doing so. First, we need to approach missio Dei quite differently, that is, primarily not in relation to missio ecclesiae but in relation to processio Dei, that is, the procession of the triune God. Second, noting that, since the early church, missio Dei has been understood primarily in relation to processio Dei, we need to keep in mind that we could not discuss missio more fully without dealing with processio, and vice versa. If we have these two guidelines in mind, the concept of missio Dei would be much more abundant and fruitful. Further studies on some particular implications of the doctrine of the Trinity for mission need to be done in missiology and also theology in general in the near future.
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Wijaya, Inthannia Elvaretha, and Perminas Pangeran. "Business Model Innovation and Its Implications for Indonesian Batik’s Start-up Development." International Journal of Multicultural and Multireligious Understanding 7, no. 9 (November 5, 2020): 370. http://dx.doi.org/10.18415/ijmmu.v7i9.2122.
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Business Model Innovation is the key to develop and improve the company's strategy to survive and sustain. Nevertheless, the existing Batik communities often find it difficult to innovate their business model. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nine components of the business model canvas, in Batik communities, Giriloyo and Kricak Kidul village, Yogyakarta. Second, develop an innovation on business model, Ruby Batik start-up. The evaluation research method used was descriptive qualitative case study approach. The data were collected through questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The analytical model used the CIPP (Context, Input, Process, Product). The results showed that nine components of the business model canvas of the batik communities, Giriloyo and Kricak Kidul, Yogyakarta were still less and need improvement and innovation. Innovation of the business model canvas component became the development basis of social entrepreneurship business model, Rubi Batik start-up. The startup business model development, Rubi Batik, was directed to the commercial mission and social impact mission.
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Huang, Hao, Zhong Xing Tang, and Chao Han. "Low-Thrust Fuel-Optimal Rendezvous Mission to Near Earth Asteroids." Advanced Materials Research 816-817 (September 2013): 778–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.816-817.778.
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Indirect method combined with homotopy approach is used to solve low-thrust fuel-optimal problem. To start the homotopy progress, pseudospectral method is used to solve energy-optimal problem to generate the initial guess. The proposed approach is applied to Earth to a near earth asteroid rendezvous mission. The performance of such approach is demonstrated through simulation.
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Wijaya, Fanny, Mariana Wibowo, and M. Taufan Rizqy. "Konsep “Entrepreneur’s Dream” pada Desain Interior Inkubator Bisnis dan Teknologi Universitas Kristen Petra." Gondang: Jurnal Seni dan Budaya 4, no. 2 (December 4, 2020): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.24114/gondang.v4i2.19073.
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The interior design of the Petra Christian University Business and Technology Incubator aims to provide a forum for the people of East Java, especially start-up companies, students, lecturers and the outside community to start their start-ups and to develop the creative economy in East Java. The current interior of IBT Petra still uses former classrooms. So that it still does not accommodate the activities and needs of its users to work optimally and creatively. In order to solve the problem formulation, the Design Thinking 101 method is used, which consists of 3 main stages, namely Understand (Collecting and Analyzing Data), Explore (Looking for ideas for problem solving) and Materialize (Testing and developing designs). Then an IBT interior design was produced with the concept of Entrepreneur's Dream, which applies the vision, mission and goals of a startup, namely innovative, grow, caring, global into its interior design that can help realize the vision and mission. The resulting scope includes creative co-working space, exhibition space, store, office, event space, makerspace and café.
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Sonea, Cristian. "Missio Dei – the contemporary missionary paradigm and its reception in the Eastern Orthodox missionary theology." Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu 9, no. 1 (April 25, 2017): 70–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ress-2017-0006.
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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to analyse the reception of the missio Dei paradigm in the Eastern Orthodox theology of mission. We will start with a short presentation of the genesis of the concept, and we will continue with its reception in the Protestant and Roman Catholic theology, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox thinking. The paper attempts to demonstrate that the contemporary way to understand the missionary theology and practice is in accordance with the Orthodox traditional missionary theology. At the same time, the article emphasizes the fact that the reception of missio Dei is connected with the view that different ecclesiastical bodies have about church itself. The conclusion includes some practical remarks about ways of applying the concept in the contemporary ecumenical missiology and in the field of spiritual missiology.
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Getley, A. K., B. Carter, R. King, and S. O’Toole. "The detectability of binary star planetary and brown dwarf companions from eclipse timing variations." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 504, no. 3 (April 29, 2021): 4291–301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab1207.
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we determine the detectability of eclipsing binary star companions from eclipse timing variations using the Kepler mission data set. Extensive and precise stellar time-series photometry from space-based missions enable searches for binary star companions. However, due to the large data sets and computational resources involved, these searches would benefit from guidance from detection simulations. Our simulations start with and benefit from the use of empirical Kepler mission data, into which we inject third bodies to predict the resulting timing of binary star eclipses. We find that the orbital eccentricity of the third body and the orbital period of the host binary star are the key factors in detecting companions. Target brightness is also likely to be a factor in detecting companions. Detectable third body masses and periods can be efficiently bound using just two equations. Our results enable the setting of realistic expectations when planning searches for eclipsing binary star planetary and brown dwarf companions. Our results also suggest the brown dwarf desert is real rather than observational selection.
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Kuboda, Takashi. "Special Issue on Advanced Space Robotics." Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics 12, no. 4 (August 20, 2000): 333. http://dx.doi.org/10.20965/jrm.2000.p0333.
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Toward the turn of the century, several missions to explore deep space such as the moon, Mars, asteroids, and comets are being planned for scientific observation. Recently, many researchers have studied and developed lunar or planetary rovers for unmanned planet surface exploration. Microrover missions have received much attention. In July 1997, NASA/JPL succeeded in the Mars Pathfinder mission and the Sojourner rover moved over the Martian surface gathering and transmitting voluminous amounts of data back to the Earth. NASA plans to send robots to Mars in 2003 and 2005 Missions. In Japan, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) launched the Nozomi, a Mars's orbiter. ISAS plans to send Lunar-A spacecraft with penetrators to the moon and is also promoting the MUSES-C mission for asteroid sample return. ISAS and the National Space Development Agency (NASDA) are cooperatively promoting the SELENE mission, whose major objectives are to acquire scientific data on lunar origin and evolution, and to develop technology for future lunar exploration. NASDA launched the ETS-VII satellite in 1997 for rendezvous docking and orbital robotics experiments. The International Space Station (ISS) is under construction by international cooperation. We will shortly start robotics activities onboard the Japanese Experimental Module (JEM) named KIBOU for the ISS. Space robotics including Al is a key technology for planetary exploration. Space robotics is expected to support space activities, such as external vehicular activities (EVA) and internal vehicular activities (IVA) for future space utilization. Future space projects will require space robotics technology to construct, repair and maintain satellites and space structures in orbit. This special issue on advanced space robotics introduces updated mission results and advanced research activities of space organizations, institutes, and universities, although it does not include all. We hope that this special issue will be useful to readers as an introduction to advanced space robotics in Japan, and that more robotics and Al researchers and engineers will become interested in space robotics and participate in space missions. We thank those researchers who have contributed their advanced research activities to this special issue, and deeply appreciate their earnest efforts.
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Markowitz, Anna J., Daphna Bassok, and Jason A. Grissom. "Teacher-Child Racial/Ethnic Match and Parental Engagement With Head Start." American Educational Research Journal 57, no. 5 (January 7, 2020): 2132–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831219899356.
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Parental engagement is central to Head Start’s two-generation mission. Drawing on research linking teacher-child racial/ethnic match to educational outcomes, the present study explores whether teacher-child match increases parental involvement in Head Start activities designed to support children and families. Using data from the 2006 and 2009 waves of the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey, we estimate the relationship between teacher-child racial/ethnic match and parental involvement both across and within Head Start centers. Findings suggest that match enhances parental engagement and decreases student absences, particularly among Hispanic families, suggesting that family engagement may be one potential mechanism by which racial/ethnic match improves educational outcomes. Findings also have implications for policies that reduce the diversity of the Head Start workforce.
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Praczyk, Tomasz. "Architecture of Software for Biomimetic Autonomous Underwater Vehicle." Applied Mechanics and Materials 817 (January 2016): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.817.104.
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Autonomous underwater vehicles are vehicles that are entirely or partly independent of human decisions. In order to obtain operational independence, the vehicles have to be equipped with a specialized software. The main task of the software is to move the vehicle along a trajectory with collision avoidance. Moreover, the software has also to manage different devices installed on the vehicle board, e.g. to start and stop cameras, sonars etc. In addition to the software embedded on the vehicle board, the software responsible for managing the vehicle on the operator level is also necessary. Its task is to define mission of the vehicle, to start, stop the mission, to send emergency commands, to monitor vehicle parameters, and to control the vehicle in remotely operated mode.The paper presents architecture of the software designed for biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicle (BAUV) that is being constructed within the framework of the scientific project financed by Polish National Center of Research and Development.
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Sharma, Aman, Bhuvanesh Kumar Sharma, Prakash Singh, Sunil Mishra, and Ameer Hussain. "Digital Adoption of Start-Ups With E-Governance Systems." International Journal of Electronic Government Research 18, no. 1 (January 1, 2022): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijegr.314573.
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This study aims to encourage the adoption intention of independent digitalization with e-governance among small investment start-ups. The study also analyzed the start-ups' adoption intention for digitalization by testing the significance of benefits and sacrifices associated with the digital platforms of e-governance. The current study also analyzed the moderating effect of digital support and awareness on digital adoption. The study's findings will also help the government in drafting policies to address the factors that positively impact the perceived value of digital adoption by developing a digital support system and further scaling up digital literacy, especially for start-ups. Overall, the study's findings will help the government understand the present status of start-ups' digitalization growth in India and the success rate of the Digital India mission. So, the e-governance system can be further strengthened accordingly.
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Rajulu, Sudhakar L., Glenn K. Klute, and Robert P. Wilmington. "Evaluation of Crew Capabilities to Handle and Stabilize Heavy Masses in Microgravity." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 38, no. 10 (October 1994): 583–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193129403801009.
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One of the purposes of NASA's Shuttle missions is to deploy and retrieve satellites. Some of these missions require extravehicular activities (EVAs). During EVAs, crew members wear pressurized suits for protection from hazardous conditions and use a Remote Manipulator System (RMS) to transfer heavy objects from one location to another. Prior to the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission (STS-61), concerns were raised whether crew members would be able to hold onto the modules if the RMS started or stopped unexpectedly. An experiment was conducted to measure the handle forces during such a scenario and to determine whether these forces and moments were well within the capabilities of the crew. Four subjects participated in the study. Mockups were built to represent the characteristics of the actual unit and tests were conducted at the Precision Air Bearing Facility (PABF) which simulates a nearly friction-free environment. Force plates were attached to the mockups to monitor forces and moments during the test. Controlled translation and rotation tasks were also conducted to compare the results with those of sudden RMS run start/stop tasks. The results from this study showed that the forces and moments exerted by subjects during sudden stopping and starting conditions were well within the capabilities of the crew members. This study thus provided quantitative data for NASA to be assured of a safe and successful mission.
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Geyer, M., R. Kistner, P. Heller, G. Kolb, and P. Cordeiro. "Identification of international solar thermal project opportunities. Reports from the IEA solarPACES START mission." Le Journal de Physique IV 09, PR3 (March 1999): Pr3–201—Pr3–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/jp4:1999330.
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Temi, Pasquale, Pamela M. Marcum, Erick Young, Joseph D. Adams, Sybil Adams, B. G. Andersson, Eric E. Becklin, et al. "THE SOFIA OBSERVATORY AT THE START OF ROUTINE SCIENCE OPERATIONS: MISSION CAPABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE." Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 212, no. 2 (May 28, 2014): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/212/2/24.
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Gaviraghi, Giorgio, and Pier Marzocca. "An Asteroid Starship Proposal." International Journal of Space Technology Management and Innovation 2, no. 2 (July 2012): 40–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijstmi.2012070103.
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The instant asteroid starship is a reference plan for a manned interstellar mission, developed in the wake of the 100YSS program sponsored by DARPA and NASA. This plan consists of a full conceptual design that considers most of the requirements for a manned interstellar mission, including systems and subsystems, strategies, and motivation. For resource utilization, safety considerations, and immediate start of activities, a captured asteroid is engineered as a space settlement. In this article, basic aspects of this plan are summarized; the development is part of a larger effort, sponsored by the group Star Voyager, which should culminate in a reference starship design.
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Harris, Paula. "Calling Young People to Missionary Vocations in a “Yahoo” World." Missiology: An International Review 30, no. 1 (January 2002): 33–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/009182960203000103.
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Despite a possibly fruitful context for missionary recruitment, in the midst of fast-moving cultural change, North American missionary numbers are dropping steadily. The primary factor correlating with the development and implementation of long-term missionary commitments is a previous short-term mission experience. There are many obstacles to missionary recruitment, but high quality short-term mission programs can help young missionaries identify and work through the obstacles to a missionary vocation. The missionary community needs to develop more effective recruitment methods and can helpfully start with young people's cultural expectations as we provide spiritual guidance into missionary vocations.
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Etzkowitz, Henry. "The European Entrepreneurial University." Industry and Higher Education 17, no. 5 (October 2003): 325–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000003773007256.
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The European entrepreneurial university is based on the teaching mission of the university, whereas US academic entrepreneurship is typically an extension of the research mission. Recognizing that the European professoriate has traditionally been more removed from entrepreneurship than its US counterpart, some European universities have organized programmes to train students to develop start-up firms. Nevertheless, given similar goals of encouraging science-based regional development, and increasing the returns to the university from its research and other activities, it can be expected that European and US universities will adopt each other's entrepreneurial formats in coming years.
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Pesina, Evgeniya. "Russian Bogatyrs: Mission Impossible. Social Function of Giftedness." Social Phenomena 10, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 34–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.47929/2305-7327_2020.02_34-40.
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The article examines the role of gifted people and their place in the Russian society. The prospects of individual-centered approach to conceptualizing giftedness are analyzed. As giftedness has social nature, so the hypothesis is advanced that to define this concept one should start by identifying the function that gifted people are called to perform in society. It is noted that this function is not reflected clearly in contemporary social consciousness; therefore its traces should be sought at deeper levels of collective consciousness, viz. in the ancient epic literature. This task is performed by means of analysis of an epic tale plot – the struggle of a bogatyr (an epic hero) with a grotesque creature (the text "Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin [Serpent]"). The resemblance between bogatyrs’s characteristic traits and the modern idea of gifted people is demonstrated. The conclusions are drawn about the subjective activity of bogatyrs, their function in the social reality and the connection of epic tale character to the modern concept of giftedness.
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Naß, A., K. Di, S. Elgner, S. van Gasselt, T. Hare, H. Hargitai, I. Karachevtseva, et al. "PLANETARY CARTOGRAPHY AND MAPPING: WHERE WE ARE TODAY, AND WHERE WE ARE HEADING FOR?" ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-3/W1 (July 25, 2017): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-3-w1-105-2017.
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Planetary Cartography does not only provides the basis to support planning (e.g., landing-site selection, orbital observations, traverse planning) and to facilitate mission conduct during the lifetime of a mission (e.g., observation tracking and hazard avoidance). It also provides the means to create science products after successful termination of a planetary mission by distilling data into maps. After a mission’s lifetime, data and higher level products like mosaics and digital terrain models (DTMs) are stored in archives – and eventually into maps and higher-level data products – to form a basis for research and for new scientific and engineering studies. The complexity of such tasks increases with every new dataset that has been put on this stack of information, and in the same way as the complexity of autonomous probes increases, also tools that support these challenges require new levels of sophistication. In planetary science, cartography and mapping have a history dating back to the roots of telescopic space exploration and are now facing new technological and organizational challenges with the rise of new missions, new global initiatives, organizations and opening research markets. The focus of this contribution is to summarize recent activities in Planetary Cartography, highlighting current issues the community is facing to derive the future opportunities in this field. By this we would like to invite cartographers/researchers to join this community and to start thinking about how we can jointly solve some of these challenges.
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Sundar, Kaushik, Ajay Panwar, Dileep R. Yagaval, Vikram Huded, and P. N. Sylaja. "Mission Thrombectomy 2020 (MT2020)—India’s Biggest Healthcare Challenge Yet." Journal of Stroke Medicine 3, no. 2 (December 2020): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2516608520984276.
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Large vessel occlusion has a disproportionately large contribution to overall mortality and morbidity from stroke. The Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology in the year 2016 announced the launch of Mission Thrombectomy 2020 (MT2020), with the aim of increasing access to stroke thrombectomy globally. Despite 4 years since the start of MT2020, India is falling short in acute stroke therapy including thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy (MT). Access to timely MT leads to substantial mitigation of adverse stroke outcomes. This in turn leads to an enormous health benefit in that population. MT as a treatment is unevenly and unfairly distributed and increasing access to it is in need of strategies targeting political, economic, and environmental factors. Such strategies are slowly being adopted. In this article, we attempt to look at the major hurdles we face in improving acute stroke care in our country and we also explore options to address them.
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M’fundisi-Holloway, Naar. "Discipleship, mentorship and training which empowers African women for ministry in the diaspora." Ecclesial Futures 3, no. 1 (May 31, 2022): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.54195/ef12150.
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Various factors contribute to people migrating from the global south to the west. In addition to factors like war, economics and education, some migrate because they feel called to engage in ministry in the west. At the heart of mission in the diaspora are women who either start ministries on their own or with their spouses. This paper is informed by narratives provided by these women collected through interviews to outline the challenges of engaging in ministry in the diaspora and the type of discipleship, mentorship and training they would require to enable their ministries to flourish. It also shows how in addition to reliance on the Holy Spirit to guide their ministries, these women adopt an entrepreneurial approach in accessing mentorship from local diaspora networks. This paper contributes to the broader discussion around discipleship and mentorship which prepares missionaries for mission in diaspora contexts, also referred to as Reverse Mission.
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Hartropp, Andrew, and Oddvar Sten Ronsen. "Evangelism Lost? A Need to Redefine Christian Integral Mission." Mission Studies 33, no. 1 (March 2, 2016): 66–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15733831-12341434.
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This article proposes a clarification of the integral mission concept and a change in the way the relationship between social action and evangelism is understood in practical integral mission operations. The idea of “primacy” of evangelism has been under fire: if evangelism is given “primacy”, then everything else is “secondary”. The “ultimacy” of evangelism concept has been suggested as a solution: evangelism should ultimately not be left undone. The main flaw of the “ultimacy” concept is that it has no time element.In order to rectify these weaknesses, the “anticipation of evangelism” is proposed. “Anticipation” incorporates the view that social action creates a bridge for evangelism, and also takes care of the widespread concern that evangelism should not ultimately be left out or left undone. Anticipation also requires that the evangelism component in integral mission is brought onto the table right from the start of the planning of social action programs. The “anticipation” of evangelism concept can help to ensure better practical guidance in the execution of Christian integral mission as the evangelism component is anticipated at the planning stage and included at the implementation stage. This should ensure that integral mission programs do not end up in social action only.
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Sutton, Stephen J. "Securing a System of Systems: Start with the Threats that Put the Mission at Risk." INSIGHT 14, no. 2 (July 2011): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/inst.201114215.
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Jirapong, Korapin, Karina Cagarman, and Laura von Arnim. "Road to Sustainability: University–Start-Up Collaboration." Sustainability 13, no. 11 (May 29, 2021): 6131. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13116131.
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Considerations on sustainability have growing attention not only for scholars and businesses, but also for almost everyone. However, accomplishing sustainable progress is complicated and cannot be completely reached by single individuals or organizations. Consequently, entrepreneurs striving for sustainable change might search for collaborations with universities to overcome their resource and technology constraints. A quantitative research method was employed to explore the value of such collaborations. Data were gathered via questionnaires, between February and March 2020, from entrepreneurs/start-ups that are spin-offs of the ten leading higher education institutions in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany). Correlation and logistic regression disclosed that start-ups with different sustainability goals employed dissimilar formats of collaboration with universities. Ecological-oriented entrepreneurs tend to utilize all three forms of university–start-up collaboration. On the contrary, social-driven start-ups are not likely to adopt any kind of collaboration with universities. While ventures with economical SDGs are prone to employ product and prototype development along with support from professors. The study extends the knowledge about the search for collaborations of start-ups when pursuing different SDGs. In the practical domain, this research can encourage entrepreneurs to cooperate with universities in order to achieve their sustainable goals beyond incubation and acceleration. Additionally, it can also trigger universities to supply resources for supporting start-ups, especially social-driven ventures, to facilitate them to accomplish sustainability as well as to reach the third mission of universities in terms of supporting society.
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Lieske, J. H. "Galilean Satellites and the Galileo Space Mission." International Astronomical Union Colloquium 165 (1997): 13–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0252921100046327.
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AbstractThe Galileo spacecraft arrived at Jupiter in December 1995 to start its two-year mission of exploring the Jovian system. The spacecraft will complete eleven orbits around Jupiter and have ten more close encounters with the outer three Galilean satellites, after the initial close approach to Io on December 7, 1995. Since the Io encounter occurred closer to Io than originally designed, the spacecraft energy change was greater than nominally planned and resulted in an initial spacecraft orbital period about 7 days less than that designed in the nominal tour. A 100-km change in the Io-encounter distance results in an 8-day change in initial period of the spacecraft. Hence the first Ganymede encounter was moved forward one week, and the aim points for the first two Ganymede encounters were altered, but all other encounters would occur on their nominal dates and at the nominal altitudes. This was accomplished without expending spacecraft fuel and resulted in the first Ganymede flyby occurring on June 27, 1996 rather than the nominally scheduled July 4.Earth- and spacecraft-based data were employed in developing ephemerides in support of the Galileo space mission. An analysis of CCD astrometric observations from 1992–1994, of photographic observations from 1967–1993, of mutual event astrometric data from 1973–1991, of Jovian eclipse timing data from 1652–1983, of Doppler data from 1987–1991, and of optical navigation data from the Voyager spacecraft encounter in 1979, produced the satellite ephemerides for the Galileo space mission.
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Glover, Frederick J. "Friends, Foes and Partners: The Relationship between the Canadian Missionaries and Korean Christians in North-eastern Korea and Manchuria from 1898 until 1927." Studies in World Christianity 23, no. 3 (December 2017): 194–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/swc.2017.0192.
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At the start of the 1920s the Korean Christian community in Hamgyeong Province and Manchuria had little control over the financial and educational policies of the Canadian Presbyterian missionaries. By the end of the decade the Presbyteries determined how the home funds would be spent on evangelical work and Korean church leaders sat on a Joint Board with the Canadians to aid in the management of the mission. The Canadian decision to share power with the Koreans was made out of necessity. Throughout the 1920s, students, elders, ministers and a large segment of the laity vigorously, sometimes violently, advocated for a transformation of mission policies. The Canadians became extremely fearful and concluded that to save the mission they would have to reform their methods. In the literature published on the mission, the ‘positive side’ of the story, namely the Canadian ability to empathise with the Koreans and their denouncements of the Japanese colonial regime in 1919 as well as 1920, has been emphasised. This article focuses on the less seemly nature of the Canadian–Korean relationship. It will examine the temporal factors that contributed to the Korean acceptance of missionary authority before 1919, their rejection of it in the 1920s and the attempts of the Canadians to bring order back to the mission compounds. The ultimate purpose of this study is to demonstrate that the Korean Christians were active agents who through their protests during the 1920s came to assume a prominent position within the mission.
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Skran, Claudena. "Refugee entrepreneurship and self-reliance: the UNHCR and sustainability in post-conflict Sierra Leone." Journal of Refugee Studies 33, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 268–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fez102.
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Abstract Entrepreneurship has been advocated as a path to self-reliance for refugees, but little scholarship has been produced about refugee entrepreneurs operating in their country of origin during reintegration. In 2003–04, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) implemented a group of ‘entrepreneurial ventures’ in urban and peri-urban locations in Kambia, Sierra Leone. Fifteen years later, 20 per cent of these ventures were still operating—a figure comparable with the success of start-ups in the United States. This paper examines the reasons for the sustainability of some ventures and the limited lifespan of others, using five interrelated metrics: ownership, management, mission and activities, financing and physical capital. It will be argued that, in the start-up phase, the UNHCR had a positive impact on the formation of entrepreneurial ventures by negotiating rules about property rights and credit, and by adopting a bottom-up approach to promote innovation among returnees. In the transition phase, however, the UNHCR’s planned handover to other UN agencies as part of the 4 R’s process largely failed because of inadequate attention to transition funding. In the mature phase, refugee enterprises survived if they could secure property rights to their facilities and adapt their management structures, activities and financing, while still preserving their social missions.
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Oliva, Mirela. "The Experience of Prophecy and the Metaphysics of Providence in Aquinas." Religions 13, no. 10 (October 2, 2022): 921. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13100921.
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This paper discusses the active role of the prophet within divine providence, namely her understanding of the prophetic message and her use of prophecy. I focus on Aquinas’ account of prophecy and I adopt two methods: the phenomenological method that describes the experience of prophecy and the metaphysical method that starts from the divine attribute of goodness and works through the order of divine providence. In Aquinas’ view, prophecy is a personal mission that the prophet receives to fulfill God’s plan for humankind. This mission involves the prophet’s mental operations and practical engagement. I start with the metaphysics of providence and then describe the prophetic experience. Finally, I address the issue of judgment in the understanding of the prophetic message and the use of prophecy.
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Moik, Bernhard, Vito Bobek, and Tatjana Horvat. "India’s National Smart City Mission: Analysis of Project Dimensions Including Sources of Funding." Mednarodno inovativno poslovanje = Journal of Innovative Business and Management 13, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.32015/jibm/2021.13.1.50-59.
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The term smart city is defined, and based on India's National Smart City Mission, it is explained what an emerging country can do to start making its cities smarter. Thereby the goals and the program's implementation are analyzed, how it works, and how cities can participate. Moreover, Bhubaneswar and Pune are investigated regarding their smart city plans, goals, and first outcomes. Furthermore, challenges the program faced until now are mentioned and learnings for other emerging market cities on what went well in India and on what does not yet work out that well in the program.
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Rajendran, Parvathy, Kah Wee Lim, and Kuan Theng Ong. "Power Management Strategy by Enhancing the Mission Profile Configuration of Solar-Powered Aircraft." International Journal of Aerospace Engineering 2016 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/9345368.
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Solar energy offers solar-powered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) the possibility of unlimited endurance. Some researchers have developed techniques to achieve perpetual flight by maximizing the power from the sun and by flying in accordance with its azimuth angles. However, flying in a path that follows the sun consumes more energy to sustain level flight. This study optimizes the overall power ratio by adopting the mission profile configuration of optimal solar energy exploitation. Extensive simulation is conducted to optimize and restructure the mission profile phases of UAV and to determine the optimal phase definition of the start, ascent, and descent periods, thereby maximizing the energy from the sun. In addition, a vertical cylindrical flight trajectory instead of maximizing the solar inclination angle has been adopted. This approach improves the net power ratio by 30.84% compared with other techniques. As a result, the battery weight may be massively reduced by 75.23%. In conclusion, the proposed mission profile configuration with the optimal power ratio of the trajectory of the path planning effectively prolongs UAV operation.
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Del Gottardo, Ezio, and Salvatore Patera. "Spin-offs of the Third Mission and social innovation: the case study of the research–training–intervention project of Geodata Ltd." Research on Education and Media 8, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rem-2016-0014.
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Abstract As a result of enactment of Law 297/1999, many Italian universities could improve the opportunities in applied research, activating spin-offs and start-ups in conformity with those regulations. This is a new challenge in the universities’ mission: universities are capable (and therefore they are asked) to generate not only new knowledge and competent professional profiles, but also to make a new effort in implementing the “third mission” for promoting social innovation. Considering this background, we present a research project - a training intervention named “Participatory culture, personal branding and organisational wellness” - by Espéro Pvt, a spin-off of the University of Salento, for Geodata Engineering Ltd., located in Turin, Italy. Presented below are the theoretical framework (learning organisation, empowerment evaluation and organisational wellness) and the methodology, as well as the first results.