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Detection of Pathogens in Water Using Micro and Nano-Technology
aims to promote the uptake of innovative micro and
nano-technological approaches towards the development of an
integrated, cost-effective nano-biological sensor useful for
security and environmental assays. The book describes the concerted
efforts of a large European research project and the achievements
of additional leading research groups. The reported knowledge and
expertise should support in the innovation and integration of often
separated unitary processes. Sampling, cell lysis and DNA/RNA
extraction, DNA hybridisation detection micro- and nanosensors,
microfluidics, together also with computational modelling and risk
assessment can be integrated in the framework of the current and
evolving European regulations and needs. The development and uptake
of molecular methods is revolutionizing the field of waterborne
pathogens detection, commonly performed with time-consuming
cultural methods. The molecular detection methods are enabling the
development of integrated instruments based on biosensor that will
ultimately automate the full pathway of the microbiological
analysis of water. Editors: Giampaolo Zuccheri, University of
Bologna, Italy and Nikolaos Asproulis, Cranfield University, UK
The emission rates of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from individual
onsite septic systems used for the management of domestic
wastewater were determined in this study. A static flux chamber
method was used to determine the emission rates of methane, carbon
dioxide, and nitrous oxide gases from eight septic tanks and two
soil dispersal systems. A technique developed for the measurement
of gas flow and concentration at clean-out ports was used to
determine the mass flow of gases moving through the household
drainage and vent system. There was general agreement in the
methane emission rates for the flux chamber and vent system
methods. Several sources of variability in the emission rates were
also identified. The septic tank was the primary source of methane,
whereas the soil dispersal system was the principal source of
carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions. Methane concentrations
from the soil dispersal system were found to be near ambient
concentrations, similarly negligible amounts of nitrous oxide were
found in the septic tank. All emissions originating in the soil
dispersal system were discharged through the building vent as a
result of natural, wind-induced flow. The gaseous emission rate
data were determined to be geometrically distributed. The geometric
mean and standard deviation (sg) of the total atmospheric emission
rates for methane, carbon dioxide, and nitrous oxide based on
samples from the vent system were estimated to be 10.7 (sg = 1.65),
335 (sg = 2.13), and 0.20 (sg = 3.62) g/capita*d, respectively. The
corresponding total anthropogenic CO2 equivalence (CO2e) of the GHG
emissions to the atmosphere, is about 0.1 tonne CO2e/capita*yr.
Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are
contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities
and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This
interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of
what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox
theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have
emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence
of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living
discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in
Tradition when surrounded by something like the "secular"? These
essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the
understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean,
they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in
motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not
relativistic. Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis,
Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver
Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelic, Nadieszda Kizenko,
Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver
Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist-all three categories are
contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities
and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This
interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of
what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox
theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have
emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence
of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living
discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in
Tradition when surrounded by something like the "secular"? These
essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the
understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean,
they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in
motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not
relativistic. Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis,
Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver
Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelic, Nadieszda Kizenko,
Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver
Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and
patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental
experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John
Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological
perspective of human beings as "priests of creation" in addressing
the current ecological crisis. Given the critical and urgent
character of the global crisis and by adopting a clear line of
argumentation, Zizioulas describes a vision based on a
compassionate and incarnational conception of the human beings as
liturgical beings, offering creation to God for the life of the
world. He encourages the need for deeper interaction with modern
science, from which theology stands to gain an appreciation of the
interconnection of every aspect of materiality and life with
humankind. The result is an articulate and promising vision that
inspires a new ethos, or way of life, to overcome our alienation
from the rest of creation.
Based on a constructive reading of Scripture, the apostolic and
patristic traditions and deeply rooted in the sacramental
experience and spiritual ethos of the Orthodox Church, John
Zizioulas offers a timely anthropological and cosmological
perspective of human beings as "priests of creation" in addressing
the current ecological crisis. Given the critical and urgent
character of the global crisis and by adopting a clear line of
argumentation, Zizioulas describes a vision based on a
compassionate and incarnational conception of the human beings as
liturgical beings, offering creation to God for the life of the
world. He encourages the need for deeper interaction with modern
science, from which theology stands to gain an appreciation of the
interconnection of every aspect of materiality and life with
humankind. The result is an articulate and promising vision that
inspires a new ethos, or way of life, to overcome our alienation
from the rest of creation.
Christ came to save us from sin and death. But what did he save us
for? One beautiful and compelling answer to this question is that
God saved us for union with him so that we might become "partakers
of the divine nature" (1 Pet 2:4), what the Christian tradition has
called "deification." This term refers to a particular vision of
salvation which claims that God wants to share his own divine life
with us, uniting us to himself and transforming us into his
likeness. While often thought to be either a heretical notion or
the provenance of Eastern Orthodoxy, this book shows that
deification is an integral part of Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and many
Protestant denominations. Drawing on the resources of their own
Christian heritages, eleven scholars share the riches of their
respective traditions on the doctrine of deification. In this book
, scholars and pastor-scholars from diverse Christian expressions
write for both a scholarly and lay audience about what God created
us to be: adopted children of God who are called, even now, to "be
filled with all the fullness of God" (Eph. 3:19).
Nikos Nissiotis (1924-1986) was one of the foremost and formative
intellectuals of the ecumenical movement in the twentieth century.
As professor of philosophy and psychology of religion at the
University of Athens, director of the Bossey Institute, and
Chairman of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of
Churches, he interpreted the Orthodox spiritual tradition for a
Western audience and highlighted the role of Christian thought in
the modern world. This collection of his most fundamental and
significant articles - some of which have been largely inaccessible
until now - includes an introduction by the editors to the
ecumenical and theological legacy of this exceptional thinker.
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