Stability, an indispensable element of usefulness and greatness. An address delivered before the alumni of Rutgers College, July 14, 1840 ...

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A lecture on the usefulness of lyceums : considered in connexion with the influence of the country and age in which we live ... delivered in Boston before the American Institute of Instruction, August 1831 /

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Love to souls the mainspring of ministerial usefulness. A sermon, preached at the ordination of the Rev. Lyman Colman [i.e. Coleman], as pastor of the Congregational Church, and Society in Belchertown, Mass. Oct. 19, 1825. ...

Pages [29]-32 contain "Right hand of fellowship, by William C. Fowler, pastor of the Congregational church in Greenfield, Mass."

Reflections upon learning : wherein is shewn the insufficiency thereof, in its several particulars : in order to evince the usefulness and necessity of revelation /

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A mighty means of usefulness; a plea for intercessory prayer,

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The Young man's Sunday book : a practical exhibition of doctrines, duties, and principles, adapted to improve the taste, to excite the reflection, and to promote the piety, usefulness, and happiness, of the young.

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Helps to a life of holiness and usefulness;

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A discourse, delivered at Francestown, N. H. on the last Sabbath in July, 1838, in commemoration of the character and usefulness of Rev. Moses Bradford, first pastor of the Congregational church in that place; who died at Montague, Mass., on the fourteenth day of June, 1838.

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'Slippage' is not a dirty word: Considering the usefulness of Giddens' notion of knowledgeability in understanding the possibilities for teacher education

The attempt to understand the relationship between messages intended and messages received has been an enduring issue in teacher education. For the past three decades researchers have made forays into understanding this enduring issue, and in the process have drawn on various explanatory frameworks, one of them being socialisation. In this paper we work with Giddens' structuration theory as well as his concept of knowledgeability as analytical frameworks for understanding the relationship between messages intended (by the teacher educator) and messages received (by the student-teachers). Our discussion is informed by the findings of a study that investigated student-teachers' interpretations of the pedagogical process of a physical education teacher education course. Data generated from conversations with, and observations of, the student-teachers indicated that there was considerable “slippage” between the teacher educator's critical pedagogy inspired intentions and what was understood by the student-teachers.

Exploring the usefulness of a consumer activity index in the sponsorship-linked marketing context

Despite the now well developed use of sponsorship-linked marketing, there have been few methodological advances in the measurement of sponsorship constructs and outcomes. This paper offers a preliminary development of an activity index for use in the sponsorship marketing context. The activity index seeks to capture the consumer's extended experience with sport (rugby) and considers the relationship of this overall experience to sponsorship-related outcomes of interest. Initial development of the index, based on a convenience sample of 108 people visiting a sports centre, shows promise.

The usefulness of spatial pattern analysis in understanding the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, with particular reference to plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease

Discrete, microscopic lesions are developed in the brain in a number of neurodegenerative diseases. These lesions may not be randomly distributed in the tissue but exhibit a spatial pattern, i.e., a departure from randomness towards regularlity or clustering. The spatial pattern of a lesion may reflect its development in relation to other brain lesions or to neuroanatomical structures. Hence, a study of spatial pattern may help to elucidate the pathogenesis of a lesion. A number of statistical methods can be used to study the spatial patterns of brain lesions. They range from simple tests of whether the distribution of a lesion departs from random to more complex methods which can detect clustering and the size, distribution and spacing of clusters. This paper reviews the uses and limitations of these methods as applied to neurodegenerative disorders, and in particular to senile plaque formation in Alzheimer's disease.

Static Analysis of Usefulness States in Transition P Systems

Transition P Systems are a parallel and distributed computational model based on the notion of the cellular membrane structure. Each membrane determines a region that encloses a multiset of objects and evolution rules. Transition P Systems evolve through transitions between two consecutive configurations that are determined by the membrane structure and multisets present inside membranes. Moreover, transitions between two consecutive configurations are provided by an exhaustive non-deterministic and parallel application of evolution rules. But, to establish the rules to be applied, it is required the previous calculation of useful, applicable and active rules. Hence, computation of useful evolution rules is critical for the whole evolution process efficiency, because it is performed in parallel inside each membrane in every evolution step. This work defines usefulness states through an exhaustive analysis of the P system for every membrane and for every possible configuration of the membrane structure during the computation. Moreover, this analysis can be done in a static way; therefore membranes only have to check their usefulness states to obtain their set of useful rules during execution.