This paper outlines a model of human development to
help guide contemplative practice in parenting and
facilitate prayerful understanding of parent-child
development with a focus upon one's own parent-child
relationship.
The model draws from the tree of life symbolism
represented by the cross and the spiral and further
elaborated through...
Many important application problems in engineering can be formalized as nonlinear
optimization tasks. However, numerical methods for solving such problems
are brittle and do not scale well. For example, these methods depend critically
on choosing a good starting point from which to perform the optimization search.
In high-dimensional spaces, numerical...
Recreational impacts on the subalpine-alpine ecosystems of Mount Rainier National
Park have developed over the past century, and today pose a major problem for park
managers. Field data were collected during the summer of 1987 in the Paradise meadows
area in order to describe visitor impacts on social trails (trails...
