A HS-SPME method coupled to GC-MS was developed and applied for the qualitative and semiquantitative characterization of distilled gin volatile fraction. Sampling, chromatographic conditions, and method performances were evaluated, and the developed method was applied as a comparative study of some of the most popular commercial London Dry Gins and other gins with geographic denominations. Duri...

The paper presents a nancial market model that generates stochastic volatility using a minimal set of factors. These factors, formed from transformations of square root processes, model the dynamics of di erent denominations of a benchmark portfolio. Benchmarked prices are assumed to be local martingales. Numerical results for the pricing and hedging of basic derivatives on indices are describe...

We use Wisconsin Longitudinal Study data (n=2,678) to assess the effects of religious denomination and ideology on end-of-life treatment preferences in two hypothetical terminal illness scenarios: physical pain and severe cognitive impairment. We found no statistically significant differences when comparing traditionally defined religious denominational groups (i.e., conservative, moderate, and...

Many Christian churches seek to be places of belonging, yet present barriers inclusion. The research focuses on disability and belonging in members the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church North America. Data from SDA Global Survey (2017–2018) were used measure attendance, perceived care, sense being needed. Results: Differences leadership, “feeling cared for” observed. findings this study sugges...

This article explores the undocumented history of theological institutions belonging to Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (LCSA) which contributed South African education. The establishment these was initially managed by mission societies LCSA and later regional leadership. development created necessity for centralised training since 1910. Due political landscape Africa, education adversely af...

Objective. This article examines the black-white gap in confidence in education in the United States and how the gap has changed over time. Method. The study uses ordinal logit regression on General Social Surveys (1974–2002). Results. Whites have less confidence in education, partly because whites tend to have higher levels of education, income, and conservatism, and are more likely to be affi...

This study examines the relationship between priestly and prophetic functions and social services sponsored by the Black Church. Faith Factor 2000 Project data for seven African American denominations are used to study the role of the contemporary Black Church in addressing economic and social problems that affect the African American community. Results from bivariate and negative binomial anal...

This volume includes chapters written by a number of different authors, and is edited by staff of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and The World Bank. Doris Buddenberg is Country Representative of UNODC in Kabul, Afghanistan; William A. Byrd is Advisor in the World Bank's South Asia Region. The views, findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this volume do not...

This paper lashes out processes and methods of coinage used to set up a bilingual thematic lexicon (French-Yambetta). Yambeta is a not very known Cameroonian language. The cultural approach suggested by Marcel Diki-Kidiri and the others (2008) has enabled on one hand to analyze the conceptual content of the agricultural terms in French in order to specify what they refer to indeed; and on the o...

Thanks to their broad international acceptance and availability in high denominations, there is widespread concern that Euro banknotes may provide an attractive new currency for criminal transactions. With this in mind, the European Central Bank has proposed to embed small, radio-frequency-emitting identification (RFID) tags in Euro banknotes by 2005 as a tracking mechanism for law enforcement ...