Inside Alpha

Inside Alpha
Author: James Heard
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2012-06-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 172524554X

UK church attendance hemorrhaging and one course is hailed as the most effective tool for "turning back the tide." From small beginnings in the early 1970s, Alpha has grown to become a global success. Churches from across the denominational spectrum have enthusiastically seized upon the course, seeing it as the remedy for declining church attendance. Inside Alpha explores such claims through richly grounded qualitative research on six Alpha courses. It assesses Alpha's primary aim of converting non-churchgoers and its longer-term goal of spiritual maturity (Colossians 1:28-29). It questions whether the Alpha program is as successful as it claims at uniting evangelism and discipleship, mission and spiritual formation. This is an invaluable study for those--in the academy and the church--who have an interest in ecclesiology and mission. How exactly is one to understand conversion? What is it to "be Christian"? How does ambiguity and doubt fit within one's journey of faith? The importance of this work is in discovering--through an engagement with Alpha--how people might appropriately be initiated into and discipled within the Christian faith in contemporary culture.

Alpha Film Series

Alpha Film Series
Author: Nicky Gumbel
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-12-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781938328831

The Alpha Film Series includes fifteen episodes (30 minutes each), an introduction to the Alpha weekend (10 minutes), two required team training sessions on how to lead an Alpha small group, and how to lead prayer ministry (30 minutes).

Megachurches and Social Engagement

Megachurches and Social Engagement
Author: Mark J. Cartledge
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-06-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004402659

This book is the first detailed academic study of megachurches in the UK. In particular, it explores the nature and significance of social engagement by megachurches in the context of London. The research contains empirical case studies of two Anglican and three African diaspora Pentecostal churches. As well as exploring the range of social engagement activities provided by these churches, the study offers explanations in term of theological motivations and the influence of globalisation. Subsequently, the book outlines the importance of the findings for the relationship between church and society in the contemporary context, addressing the implications for social policy and practice. The book advances discussions in public theology, megachurch studies, Pentecostal and Charismatic studies and ecclesiology.

Electroencephalography

Electroencephalography
Author: Ernst Niedermeyer
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 1342
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9780781751261

Established in 1982 as the leading reference on electroencephalography, Drs. Niedermeyer's and Lopes da Silva's text is now in its thoroughly updated Fifth Edition. An international group of experts provides comprehensive coverage of the neurophysiologic and technical aspects of EEG, evoked potentials, and magnetoencephalography, as well as the clinical applications of these studies in neonates, infants, children, adults, and older adults. This edition includes digital EEG and advances in areas such as neurocognition. Three new chapters cover the topics of Ultra-Fast EEG Frequencies, Ultra-Slow Activity, and Cortico-Muscular Coherence. Hundreds of EEG tracings and other illustrations complement the text.

The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace

The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace
Author: Dr Dariusz Jemielniak
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2014-09-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1472423909

In The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace, Dr Jemielniak has collected research-based chapters providing deep, interdisciplinary insight into knowledge professions, addressing issues of professional identity, emotion, power and authority, trust and indoctrination, and management behaviour. This leads to an examination of issues related to time and work scheduling and its bearing on play, family, symbolic sacrifices, and employee burn-out. In particular, it delves into the identity shifts between knowledge workers and managers, nepotism and turnover intentions among knowledge workers, the implementation of engineering projects, coordination problems in offshore production systems, leadership in virtual teams, decision support systems; taking into account the moral aspects of consequences, netnography as a tool for studying knowledge work, and innovative networks in the aviation industry. The accounts and studies in this book come from management, organization studies, sociology, and anthropology of work perspectives and are fully international in scope. They highlight the scale of the serious changes in occupational roles and to the meaning of work that is taking place in knowledge-intensive environments and give a pointer to what might constitute good and bad management practice in knowledge-intensive companies.

Research Methods and Design in Sport Management

Research Methods and Design in Sport Management
Author: Damon P. S. Andrew
Publisher: Human Kinetics
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2011
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073607385X

This text explains research design, implementation, analysis and assessment criteria with a focus on specific procedures unique to sport managament.

Neurophysiology in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia

Neurophysiology in Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
Author: Davide Vito Moretti
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
ISBN: 2889199304

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia are the most common neurodegenerative disorder. Since the number of individuals with AD and dementia is expected to increase considerably in the near future, reliable treatment and diagnosis are critical. EEG and neurophysiological technique could be used as a cost-effective screening tool for early detection and diagnosis in the Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) stage. The aim in neurophysiology research is to develop signal processing methods that improve the specificity for diagnosing dementia; we wish to discover signal features that not only significantly differ in AD patients, but also allow us to reliably separate AD patients and control subjects. This approach is valuable for clinical purposes (as diagnostic tool for dementia), and it also more fundamentally contributes to a better understanding of brain dynamics of MCI patients. Finally, the development of neurophysiological biomarker could be useful in monitoring pharmacological treatments. The main focus of this special issue will be on the most recent developments and ideas in the field of EEG and neurophysiology which will enable us to extract features that improve the specificity for diagnosing AD and dementia.

Recent Advances in Parkinsons Disease

Recent Advances in Parkinsons Disease
Author:
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2010-08-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0444536248

This first volume starts with an overview on current perspectives in genetic research and on the molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration. This is followed by a selection of hot topics in pathophysiological research, from molecular studies to system-level investigations based on in vivo electrophysiological recordings and neurocomputational methods. - Complete overview of hot topics and approaches to current PD research, from molecules, to brain circuits, to clinical and therapeutic applications - Leading authors review the state-of-the-art in their field of investigation, and provide their views and perspectives for future research - All chapters include comprehensive background information and are written in a clear form that is accessible also to the non-specialist

Creative Compounding in English

Creative Compounding in English
Author: Réka Benczes
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2006-11-08
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 902729318X

Metaphorical and metonymical compounds – novel and lexicalised ones alike – are remarkably abundant in language. Yet how can we be sure that when using an expression such as land fishing in order to speak about metal detecting, the referent will be immediately understood even if the hearer had not been previously familiar with the compound? Accordingly, this book sets out to explore whether the semantics of metaphorical and metonymical noun–noun combinations can be systematically analysed within a theoretical framework, where systematicity pertains to regularities in both the cognitive processes and the products of these processes, that is, the compounds themselves. Backed up by recent psycholinguistic evidence, the book convincingly demonstrates that such compounds are not semantically opaque as it has been formerly claimed: they can in fact be analysed and accounted for within a cognitive linguistic framework, by the combined application of metaphor, metonymy, blending, profile determinacy and schema theory; and represent the creative and associative word formation processes that we regularly apply in everyday language.