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The Book of Daniel and manticism: a critical assessment of the view that the Book of Daniel derives from a mantic tradition
No full textThis dissertation examines the consensus view that is based on Hans-Peter
Müller's 1969 and 1972 articles: Daniel was a mantic wise man in the Mesopotamian
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court, and this was the self-understanding or aspiration of the maskilim of Dan 11:33, 35,
12:3, 10, who wrote the book. Chapter 1 reviews the arguments that make the mantic connection and Chapter 2 concludes that a direct connection with the Danes of Aqht, Ezek, and Jub, and with the angel in 1 Enoch should be rejected. There is evidence that the
tradition of a priest in Ezra 8: 2 and Neh 10: 7, and found also in the superscription to
the Old Greek of Bel, and 4 Ezra 12:10-11, and suggested the name.
Chapter 3 concludes that the portrayal of the court diviners in Dan 1-6 is wholly
negative and includes both the diviners, and the essence of the professions, i. e., the
ability to interpret a divine revelation. The critique is conveyed through the story line,
explicit criticisms, irony, and humour. Chapter 4 concludes that Daniel, the interpreter
of dreams and the writing on the wall, is distinguished from every other character and role. In the final form of Dan, Daniel as the divinely assisted each time he interprets, just as when he receives help from an interpreting angel in Dan 7-12.
Chapter 5 demonstrates that the portrayal of Daniel as the divinely assisted
interpreter makes sense of the reinterpretation of old prophecies against the Assyrians
as prophecies against Antiochus IV Epiphanes. Hab 2:2-4 and Isa 52-53 were also
understood as predictions about the maskilim themselves. Comparisons are then made
with the Teacher of Righteousness, the writers of the Hodayot, and with three Essenes
portrayed by Josephus. These too were portrayed as divinely assisted interpreters
Book Reviews
No full textDays of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez. Reviewed by Rolando J. Romero. The Human Motor: Energy, Fatigue, and the Origins of Modernity by Anson Rabinbach and Bodies and Machines by Mark Seltzer. Reviewed by Jamie Owen Daniel. Describing the Boundaries of an Impossible Society by Christopher Lane Outside in the Teaching Machine by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. Reviewed Rosemary Weatherston
Photoproduction of vector mesons in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb interactions with ALICE
No full textCross section measurements for vector meson production in ultra-peripheral collisions provide important insight into nuclear gluon distributions, the production mechanisms of vector mesons and a better understanding of the early stages of heavy ion collisions. With data collected during LHC \mbox{Run 1}, \mbox{ALICE} measured vector meson production in ultra-peripheral Pb-Pb collisions at TeV. Detector upgrades and improved triggers before LHC \mbox{Run 2} will be discussed. These improvements have allowed a much higher statistics data set to be collected for ultra-peripheral collisions at TeV. The new data allow for more differential studies to be performed and to probe nuclear gluon distributions at lower values of Bjorken . The most recent \mbox{ALICE} measurements of vector meson production for , J/, and (2S) mesons will be presented along with comparisons to the latest available models
Energy dependent Hanbury Brown - Twiss interferometry and the freeze-out eccentricity of heavy ion collisions at STAR
No full textMcCook family photograph
No full textPhotograph showing a family portrait of the McCook sons and daughter. The back of the photograph reads: "Thought this would be interesting - showing the John McCook sons in civilian dress. Left to right - Roderick Sheldon McC. John J. McC. Anson G. McC. Hand in pocket Mary Gertrude McC. (oldest sibling of 5 bros) Henry Christopher McC. (seated) Seated- Eward Woody McC. Notes by Wm. McCook Knox." Although scholars disagree on the exact number of McCooks who fought in the Civil War, it appears that Daniel McCook and eight of his nine sons took up arms for the North, as did his brother, John McCook, and his five sons. Individually, the two families were known as the Tribe of Dan and the Tribe of John. Together, they came to be referred to as the "Fighting McCooks."
Daniel McCook, the patriarch of the Tribe of Dan, lived in Carrolton, Ohio, before the Civil War. He received a commission as major and lost his life in the Battle of Buffington Island in 1863. George McCook, Dan's son, was a brigadier-general and served as an Ohio Attorney -General before the Civil War. Other members of the Tribe of Dan included Latimer, Robert, Alexander, Daniel Jr., Edwin Stanton, Charles Morris, and John James.
The Tribe of John included the family patriarch, John McCook. A doctor in Steubenville before the war, he served as a volunteer surgeon during the Civil War. Other members of the Tribe of John included Edward, Anson, Henry, John James, and Roderick. All members of the Tribe of John survived the Civil War. Fourteen of the McCooks became officers. Four of them died in service to their country. The Fighting McCooks' dedication to the Union war effort made them well known in the North
University of Nebraska College of Medicine Class of 1992
No full textSharon Wegman Alfaro, Sandra Marie Dostal Allbery, Lisa A Allen-Khalil, Joel Robert Atchison, Stephanie Lynn Shipley Barry, Erick Matthew Bendorf, Douglas Alan Boon, Erick James Boyd, Kevin Anthony Brewton, Larry Lee Brown, Curtis Ross Burhoop, Mark James Butler, James Andrew Cervantes, John Burton Chace, Kenneth JohnCheloha, Paul Eli Christensen, MarkYiu Chu, Jude Thomas Cook, Suzanne Joleen Gibson Cornwall, Robert Arthur Cusick, Nancy Jane Miller Davis, Christopher Robert Delp, Henrylohn Dethlefs, IV, Michael Dean DeWald, Royce Kent Dexter, John Kelly DiBaise, Jeffrey Rhodes Dillow, Rhett J. Eckmann, Lorraine Lynn Edwards, Sheila Jo Sternberg Ellis, Bradley Francis Emanuel, Jane Marie Eskildsen, Joseph John Fanciullo, Tony Padilla Feliz, Anna Marie Felty-Duckworth, Greg Allan Gillham, Dana Rene Matzke Govaerts, Valencia Marie Darien Green, Candace Gaswick Grier, Michael Martin Grubb, Sylvia Cortez Gutierrez, Paul Youngjin Hahn, John Williams Hansen, Mark Allan Hartman, Brian Edward Hass, Russell G. Hilliard II, Julie K.C. Hingorani, Gregory Alan Hirz, David John Hoeft, Bradley Forrest Hupp, Philip Michael Jacobs, Amy K. Stranik Jespersen, Howard Aaron Kader, David Michael Keller, Jr., Denise Marleen Kendall, Jonathan Taylor Ketzler, Michele A Krieger, Elizabeth Waldman Lane, Michael Joseph Lane, Joseph Don Liewer, Mikel Wun-Chin Lo, Daniel Francis Maixner, Chad Leroy McCance, Mark O. McCorkindale, Daniel Joseph McGowan, Terry Dwain Melendez, Roger Micheel Menze, David Andrew Minnick, Douglas Marlon Monasebian, Ronald Ray Morrison, Jeffrey A. Munro, Michael Allen Myers, James Lee Ockner, Gregory Paul O\u27Donnell, James Ken Okamoto, Todd Alan Pankratz, Brian Philip Perry, Paul Floyd Petersen, Joseph Vernon Petty, III, Daniel Patrie Pflieger, Mark W. Plautz, Jay Thomas Pohl, Michael Charles Prescher, Mark Layne Pudwill, Anne Elizabeth Rader, Curtis Daniel Reimer, Savita G. Gupta Ries, Allinson Macaulay Rose, Ann Bernadette Keltgen Russell, Douglas Alan Russell, Ardith A. Ryberg, Steven John Saathoff, Christopher John Schaffer, Daniel Edwin Schiefelbein, Karla Marie Stelling Schlimgen, Mark Robert Schlimgen, Leanna Jean Scott-Timperley, Robert James Singer, Sandra Jo Snider, Susan Leigh Dinzole Speaks, Kevin JoHannas Spence, Julie Ann Hidy Spencer, Douglas Jeffrey States, Todd W. Stull, Kenton Richard Sullivan, Lisa Marie Trumler Sullivan, Michael Patrick Thompson, Eva Tollefsen, Jeffrey Everett Tomjack, Joel Allen Travis, Michael Christopher Tushla, James Frederick Van Brocklin, Juvencio Navarro Velasquez, Scott Lee Vonderfecht, Michael Charles Wadman, Marc Anson Weitzel, Madeline Jennifer Woods West, Renee Rochelle Minor West, Paul Christian Wibbels, Lawrence Paul Widman, Michael John Wilczewski, Bernard Joseph Wilson, Jr., Granger Bradford Wong, Robert James Zadalis, Mark Duane Zeilerhttps://digitalcommons.unmc.edu/comclass/1073/thumbnail.jp
Private sector approaches to effective family planning
No full textEven if per-user costs are controlled or reduced, the rising demand for family planning services will far outstrip governments'and donors'financial resources in most parts of the developing world. This"resource gap"lies at the heart of donor-sponsored initiatives to involve the private sector in family planning, but there are other equally good arguments for doing so. Governments and donors are often unaware of how much the private sector (especially the commerical sector) already participates - and could participate - in family planning. The author discusses why the private sector should be involved in planning, how the private sector should be defined, what the experience has been so far with private sector involvement, and what might be expected in the future. To support family planning in the private sector, the author recommends that donors: (1) expand the total family planning market to help satisfy existing and future unmet needs for contraception; and (2) shift current users from subsidized to more nearly self-supporting outlets - without compromising coverage, equity, or quality of care. The kinds of private sector activities that donors should support depend in part on which contraceptive methods are to be emphasized. Nonclinical systems, for example, are the most efficient way to distribute supply methods (for example, oral contraceptives and condoms), as long as medical backup is available for women who suffer side effects or who wish to switch to another method. These systems of distribution free up scarce resources in clinical facilities and the time of limited medical personnel for the resupply of contraceptives. However, if sterilization is to be emphasized, a close link with existing hospital infrastructure is necessary. Nonclinical distribution favors commercial systems in urban and periurban settings and community-based distribution systems (either public or private) where commercial networks break down. Price subsidies might be considered in areas served by commercial systems, but where consumers cannot afford prevailing commercial prices. The author discusses a wide range of experiences in providing both"supply"methods and clinical methods, such as sterilization (including tubal ligation). Roving sterilization camps have proved effective in Nepal and Thailand, for example, where demand for the procedure was high; they may have backfired in other areas, such as India. Mobile clinic vans have been tried in such countries as Colombia andGuatemala, but their effectiveness and cost-efficiency have not been carefully analyzed. Among the topics the author covers: when to subsidize goods and services, when to introduce new subsidized nongovernmental organization outlets, which regulations may inhibit the expansion of private family planning efforts, how to foster demand for private sector family planning goods and services, and how to promote the private supply of such goods and services.Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Health Economics&Finance,Gender and Health,Adolescent Health
Targeted Proton Delivery in the Catalyzed Reduction of Oxygen to Water by Bimetallic Pacman Porphyrins
No full textA combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the role of proton delivery in determining O_2 reduction pathways catalyzed by cofacial bisporphyrins is presented. A homologous family of dicobalt(II) Pacman porphyrins anchored by xanthene [Co_2(DPX) (1) and Co_2(DPXM) (3)] and dibenzofuran [Co_2(DPD) (2) and Co_2(DPDM) (4)] have been synthesized, characterized, and evaluated as catalysts for the direct four-proton, four-electron reduction of O_2 to H_2O. Structural analysis of the intramolecular diiron(III) μ-oxo complex Fe_2O(DPXM) (5) and electrochemical measurements of 1−4 establish that Pacman derivatives bearing an aryl group trans to the spacer possess structural flexibilities and redox properties similar to those of their parent counterparts; however, these trans-aryl catalysts exhibit markedly reduced selectivities for the direct reduction of O_2 to H_2O over the two-proton, two-electron pathway to H_2O_2. Density functional theory calculations reveal that trans-aryl substitution results in inefficient proton delivery to O_2-bound catalysts compared to unsubstituted congeners. In particular, the HOMO of [Co_2(DPXM)(O_2)]+ disfavors proton transfer to the bound oxygen species, funneling the O−O activation pathway to single-electron chemistry and the production of H_2O_2, whereas the HOMO of [Co_2(DPX)(O_2)]+ directs protonation to the [Co_2O_2] core to facilitate subsequent multielectron O−O bond activation to generate two molecules of H_2O. Our findings highlight the importance of controlling both proton and electron inventories for specific O−O bond activation and offer a unified model for O−O bond activation within the clefts of bimetallic porphyrins
Orange River Colony : Biograpies
No full textJosias Philip Hoffman, First president of the Orange Free State, 1854-1855 (photograph) ; Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff, Second president of the Orange Free State, 1855-1859 (photograph) ; Johannes Henricus Brand, Fourth president of the Orange Free State, 1864-1888 (photograph) ; Francois Willem Reitz, Fifth president of the Orange Free State, 1888-1896 (photograph) ; Sir John Fraser ; View of Bloemfontein (photograph) ; Sir Andries Ferdinand Stockenstrom Maasdorp ; Marthinus Theunis Steyn ; Hon. Justice Archibald Walter Fawkes ; Duke of Westminster (photograph) ; Major Richard Fredrich Wilhelm Albrecht ; Mr. Henry Boase Austin ; Mr. John Anchitel Ashburnham ; Mr. Gustav Baumann ; Christin Laurens Botha ; Mr. Wilhelm Bilse ; Mr. Frank Loseby Brown ; Mr. Steewart Bain ; Mr. A. T. Ball ; Mr. Pieter Jeremias Blignaut ; Mr. Julius Boley ; Mr. Cecil John Bell ; Mr. St. John Cole Bowen ; Mr. Johan David Beyers ; Mr. Ernest James Birrell ; Mr. Walter Charles Beddy ; Mr. Tom Roughead Bretherton ; Hon. Albert Brownie ; Mr. P. de Bell ; Bird's-eye view of Simonstown ; Mr. Colin John Corser ; Mr. Charles Roland Chambers ; Mr. Frederik Reimhardt Cronje ; Mr. Frank Ponsonby Clayton ; Mr. Charles William Champion ; Mr. James Allison Collins ; Mr. Arthur Deale ; Mr. William MacAlister Duncan ; Mr. Charles Davie ; Mr. Hector Daniel ; Mr. Henry Hughes Dickson ; Dr. Ernest Clement Sephton Daniel ; Mr. George Frederick Euvrard ; Mr. Geoffrey William Evans ; Mr. W. Ehrlich ; Mr. Christopher Johannes Esterhuizen ; Hon. David George Anosi Falck ; Mr. Everard W. Fichardt ; Mr. Stephen Hawksworth Fawkes ; Mr. Wilhelm Gottfried Frohlich ; Mr. Hermann Feldmann ; Mr. John Henry Faustmann ; Mr. Frank Fleck ; Mr. James Faustmann ; Mr. Norman Douglas Farquharson ; Mr. Charles Gustav Fichardt ; Mr. John Grimmer Gibbon ; Mr. Henry Frederick Gill ; Mr. Thomas St. John Grant ; Mr. Ernest Frederick Hendrikz ; Mr. Harry Thomas Ham ; Mr. Samuel George Hill ; Mr Johannes Stephanus Haumann ; Mr. Joseph John Harvey ; Mr. Francis George Hill ; Mr. Isaac Gerhardus Horak ; Mr. J. Hopkinson ; Mr. Albert Edward Hooper ; Mr. Geoffrey Allen Hill ; Mr. Thomas White Hoseason ; Mr. Peter Johannes Ernst Hugo ; Mr. Edward Edmund Adye Hayes ; Mr. Ivan H. Haarburger ; Mr. John Hanna ; Mr. Samuel Jacobus de Jager ; Mr. L. T. F. de Jager ; Mr. Purdon Power de Kock ; Mr. Edmund Frederick Kightley ; Dr. George Kennedy ; Mr. Moritz Leviseur ; Mr. Arthur Ernest Leary ; Mr. William Alfred Koller ; Mr. John Barclay Lloyd ; Mr. David Francois Marais ; Mr. John McDonald ; Mr. James Morris Murray ; Mr. Dirk Hendrik Meiring ; Mr. William Henry Cameron McIntyre ; Mr. Johannes Henricus Meiring ; Mr. Attorney John Miller Titley ; Mr. Charles Edmund Manley ; Major Abercromby Anson Craven Nelson ; Mr. George Andrew Northcroft ; Hon. Jan Hendrik Olivier ; Ockert Jacobus Oosthuizen ; Gilbert Edward Paver ; Mr. Sidney Fawcett Peck ; Dr. Wallace Pomeroy ; Henry Ponting ; Mr. William Partridge ; Mr. Charles Luke Plummer ; Mr. Charles William Rorich ; Mr. Frank Rhodes ; Mr. Attorney Charles J. Reitz ; Mr. Richard Frank Rorke ; Mr. James Wege Robertson ; Mr. Edward Bernard Rosslien ; Mr. Martin Rosendorff ; Mr. S. F. G. Rorich ; Mr. William Sankey Hosty Reid ; Mr. Christopher Reid ; Mr. Alexander Strachan ; Dr. Edmund Symons ; Mr. James Jack Skinner ; Mr. George Schweinsberg ; Mr. William Douglas Savage ; Mr. Henry Guy Supple ; Mr. Thomas Sivell ; Mr. Peter Johannes Snyman ; Mr. Peter Frederick Thomas Truby ; Mr. Thomas Francis Torbet ; Mr. Thomas Sidney Thwaits ; Mr. William Mungeam ; Mr. Peter Cornelius van Zyl ; Mr. Gideon Jacobus van Riet ; Elands Spruit, Waterval Boven (photograph) ; Mr. Philippus Jacobus van der Merwe Olivier ; Knysna Lakes (photograph) ; Mr. Jonkheer Jean Francois van Iddekinge ; Rev. Peter Shalk van Heerden ; Mr. Gerrit Peter Verster ; Mr. Andries van der Merwe ; Mr. Jacobus Petrus van Zyl ; Mr. Johannes Francois Visser ; Mr. Cornelius Johannes Visser ; Mr. James Straaten van Zyl ; Mr. Anthon Diderich Voigt ; Mr. Wallis Harry Brinsley White ; Mr. Henry Welch ; Mr. Evan Eustace Watkeys ; Mr. Leofric Erpe Watt ; Mr. Johannes Mathens Wessels ; Huguenot Relics at French Hoek, Cape Colony (illustration) ; Buffalo River, East London (photograph) ; Panoramic view of Wharf, East London (photograph) ; Gamtoos River, St. Francis Bay (photograph) ; Port Alfred, Kowie River, Cape Colony (photograph)
Electrocatalytic four-electron reduction of oxygen to water by a highly flexible cofacial cobalt bisporphyrin
No full textDicobalt(II) cofacial bisporphyrins anchored by dibenzofuran (DPD) and xanthene (DPX) are efficient electrocatalysts for the four-electron reduction of oxygen to water despite their ca. 4 Å difference in metal–metal distances, suggesting that the considerable longitudinal Pac-Man flexibility of the pillared platforms is the origin for the similar catalytic reactivity of these structurally disparate systems
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