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    Letter from Daniel Hatch to Alden Partridge, 20 February 1828.

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    Regarding the organization of the military department of his academy; discusses the salary and qualifications he would like in a teacher; Partridge should send someone who conforms to these requirements.Part of cover torn away. The author writes from the unincorporated community of Darvills, Virginia in Dinwiddie County

    General Correspondence; H, 1887-1896

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    Letters and telegrams to and from John M. Whitaker from people with surnames beginning with H (Horne, Joseph G.; Hamer, Daniel; A. Hatch; T. F. Howells; C. F. Hull; A. E. Hyde; Louisa Holl

    Translation technique and textual studies in the Old Greek and Theodotion versions of Daniel.

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    This thesis focuses on two separate, but related areas: the analysis of translation technique and the Greek texts of Daniel. Foremost in the research of Translation Technique (TT) in the Septuagint is the need for a model that is appropriate for the analysis of different ancient languages. In recent years there has been an increasing emphasis on the features of literalism in a translation, but it is argued in this thesis that the focus on literalism is inadequate as a methodology for the analysis of TT. The contention of this thesis is that the analysis of TT should incorporate insights from modem linguistic research. Therefore, the main purpose of this thesis is to develop and apply such a model to the Old Greek (CG) and Theodotion (Th)versions of Daniel. The existence of two complete Greek versions of the book of Daniel that are closely related to the same Vorlage (at least in chapters 1-3 and 7-12), furnish ideal examples for the application of the methodology. Unfortunately, it is no straightforward matter to employ the OG of Daniel, because the available critical edition can no longer be regarded as reliable. The most important witness to the OG version of Daniel is Papyrus 967, and large portions of this manuscript have been published since the appearance of the critical edition of the OG of Daniel in 1954. Therefore, in order to analyze and compare the two Greek texts of Daniel, it is necessary to evaluate all of the variants of Papyrus 967 in order to establish a preliminary critical text of OG. Once a critical text is established the proposed methodology for translation technique is applied to selected passages in the OG and Th versions of Daniel. An analysis and comparison of TT in OG and Th makes it possible to: 1) characterize the TT employed by OG and Th in detail; 2) determine Th's relationship to OG, i.e. is it a revision or independent translation; 3) demonstrate how the Greek texts can be employed effectively for textual criticism of the Hebrew Bible. On the basis of the analysis of Th's text it is also possible to determine Th's relationship to the body of works, which exhibit a close formal correspondence to the Masoretic text, known as Kaige-Theodotion

    Ethnic identity, political identity and ethnic conflict: simulating the effect of congruence between the two identities on ethnic violence and conflict

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    This thesis outlines and presents an alternative hypothetical process to the emergence of ethnic conflict. Ethnic conflicts, rather than being dependent upon pre-existing 'ancient hatreds', are instead the result of a congruence between ethnic and political identity which grants individuals the ability to use ethnicity to identify and eliminate political threats. This hypothesis is formed by the examination of three case studies of ethnic conflict: Lebanon, Northern Ireland and Croatia. This hypothesis is then formalised and tested using an agent based simulation in which agent interactions are dependent upon ethnic and political identity and the congruence between the two. As predicted there was a strong positive correlation between how accurately ethnic identity reflected political identity and the level of ethnically motivated violence in the simulation, although the relationship was not linear. Furthermore the effect of a shift in congruence was found to be roughly comparable to the effect of initialising agents with a moderate level of pre-existing ethnic antagonism

    Ancient theology and new philosophies: Pierre-Daniel Huet against Descartes and Spinoza

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    This article analyses Pierre-Daniel Huet's reaction to the doctrines that he believed to favour atheism, Deism, and, generally, irreligion. Descartes and Spinoza, in particular, are guilty, according to Huet, of placing excessive confidence in the discerning power of reason and in the type of certitude it produces, which is incomparable to revealed truth and in no way superior to moral certitude that arises from authority and historical erudition. Huet counters Cartesian philosophy with sceptical fideism and opposes Spinozian exegesis by means of an innovative, although perhaps untimely, adaptation of the doctrine of ancient theology. Against the 'atheist' Spinoza and the cohort of deist thinkers, Huet intends to demonstrate that Moses is the author of the Pentateuch and the divulger of God's message to all peoples, in all times, and that, as a consequence, deist 'natural religion' is a partially corrupted version of the Mosaic doctrine

    Toxicological profile for chlorine (update)

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    "Chemical manager(s)/author(s): G. Daniel Todd, Patricia Ruiz, Larry Cseh, Pam Tucker, John Doyle,.ATSDR, Division of Toxicology and Environmental Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Fernando T. Llados, Daniel J. Plewak, Mario Citra, SRC, Inc., North Syracuse, NY."-- P. ix.Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-208) and index.prepared for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

    Competing models of socially constructed economic man : differentiating Defoe's Crusoe from the Robinson of neoclassical economics

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    Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe has seldom been read as an explicitly political text. When it has, it appears that the central character was designed to warn the early eighteenth-century reader against political challenges to the existing economic order. Insofar as Defoe’s Crusoe stands for "economic man", he is a reflection of historically-produced assumptions about the need for social conformity, not the embodiment of any genuinely essential economic characteristics. This insight is used to compare Defoe’s conception of economic man with that of the neoclassical Robinson Crusoe economy. On the most important of the ostensibly generic principles espoused by neoclassical theorists, their "Robinson" has no parallels with Defoe’s Crusoe. Despite the shared name, two quite distinct social constructions serve two equally distinct pedagogical purposes. Defoe’s Crusoe extols the virtues of passive middle-class sobriety for effective social organisation; the neoclassical Robinson champions the establishment of markets for the sake of productive efficiency

    Malware and Market Share

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    This article presents a game-theoretic model of the interaction between malware creators (hackers) and users. Users select and hackers target information technology platforms based upon each platform’s network externalities and security. In equilibrium, a platform’s market share among users and the distribution of malware across platforms are derived endogenously. In particular, a platform’s relative market share is shown to be the square root of the ratio of its competitor’s vulnerability to its own vulnerability. This provides a useful standard for guiding a platform’s security strategy and for characterizing platform competition on the basis of security. It is also consistent with the longstanding empirical folk wisdom that platform leaders must make increasing investments into cybersecurity in order to maintain market share. © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.School of Economic, Political and Policy Science

    Toxicological profile for chloroethane : (update)

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    prepared by Sciences International, Inc. Under Subcontract to Research Triangle Institute ; prepared for: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry under contract no. 205-93-0606.Chemical manager(s)/author(s): G. Daniel Todd, Carol Eisenmann, Kara B. Altshuler.--p.ixIncludes bibliographical references (p. 129-143
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