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We describe the design and development of an adaptive spectrometer that actively manages dynamic range mismatch between source signals and the spectrometer's detector. The introduction of an inexpensive digital micromirror array yields performance improvements compared to a traditional device. Simulation results are presented that indicate real-world scenarios in which the adaptive spectrometer will yield superior performance. Experimental results from a first-generation prototype adaptive spectrometer confirm the expectations of the simulations. OCIS codes: 120.6200, 300.6190.

We have measured the heat capacity of an optically trapped, strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms. A precise addition of energy to the gas is followed by single-parameter thermometry, which determines the empirical temperature parameter of the gas cloud. Our measurements reveal a clear transition in the heat capacity. The energy and the spatial profile of the gas are computed using a theory of the crossover from Fermi to Bose superfluids at finite temperatures. The theory calibrates the empirical temperature parameter, yields excellent agreement with the data, and predicts the onset of superfluidity at the observed transition point., Strongly interacting, degenerate atomic Fermi gases (1) provide a paradigm for strong interactions in nature (2). In all strongly interacting Fermi systems, the zero-energy scattering length is large compared with [...]

THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION: METHODS. By Elaine Graham, Heather Walton, and Frances Ward. London: SCM, 2005. Pp. 247. $29.99. Theological reflection has been the term of reference for the practical end of [...]

Graham has taken on one of the major challenges in pastoral care and counseling: how to move from a narrow, psychological framework to a broader, systemic framework. He states the [...]

PARTICIPATING IN GOD: A PASTORAL DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. By Paul S. Fiddes. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2000. Pp. viii + 312. $29.95. Making relevant connections between church doctrine and [...]

CIRCLES OF DIGNITY: COMMUNITY WISDOM AND THEOLOGICAL REFLECTION. By James R. Cochrane. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1999. Pp. xxvi + 214. $21. Ever since the theological reflections of basic Christian communities in [...]

SUFFERING DIVINE THINGS: THEOLOGY AS CHURCH PRACTICE. By Reinhard Hutter. Translated from the German by Doug Stott. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2000. Pp. xviii + 314. $25. The relationship of Church, [...]

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: HISTORY, THEORY, ACTION DOMAINS. By Gerben Heitink. Translated from the Dutch by Reinder Bruinsma. Studies in Practical Theology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Pp. xix + 358. $45.00. Practical [...]

A MATURE FAITH: SPIRITUAL DIRECTION AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN A THEOLOGY OF PASTORAL CARE AND COUNSELING. By Daniel J. Louw. Louvain Theological and Pastoral Monographs. Louvain: Peeters, 1999. pp. ix + [...]

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: AN INTRODUCTION. Richard R. Osmer. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. Pp. x + 246. $24. Over the past few decades, practical theologians have formulated a new consensus about [...]

FOR LIFE ABUNDANT: PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, AND CHRISTIAN MINISTRY. Edited by Dorothy C. Bass and Craig Dykstra. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2008. Pp. vii + 372. $26. The meaning [...]

PRACTICAL THEOLOGY: 'ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN.' By Terry A. Veling. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 2005. Pp. xx + 280. $24. Practical theology has occupied an amorphous place in [...]

G. R. Evans. Cambridge, New York, and Oakleigh, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. 233. $54.95. Although many churches feel they are in the winter of ecumenism, Evans believes it [...]

When Sigisbert Kraft was elected bishop of the Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany in 1986, he took as his motto 'Christus Spes,' from the first letter to [...]

By Stephen Pattison. Cambridge Studies in Ideology and Religion. New York: Cambridge University, 1994. Pp. xiii + 273. Pattison here weaves together three themes: liberation theology, pastoral care, and the [...]

By Leroy T. Howe. Nashville: Abingdon 1995. Pp. 187. $16.95. Pastoral care is frequently criticized for replacing its theological basis with one from psychology or another human science. Howe addresses [...]