Allan Hugh Cole Jr. ed., From Midterms to Ministry: Practical Theologians on Pastoral Beginnings.

By HUGH AUCHINCLOSS , JR . , JEFFREY

The idiotype network hypothesis proposed by Jerne (1) has led to considerable interest in whether physiologic immunoregulation is accomplished by the interaction of receptor molecules and anti-receptors directed at unique idiotypic determinants. Another issue of importance, related to mechanistic questions, is whether exogenously administered anti-receptor antibodies might be used to manipulate...

Protestant Pastoral Ministry at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Viewing ordained ministry as “a troubled profession” is not new. In his 1956 book, The Purpose of the Church and Its Ministry, H. Richard Niebuhr referred to the ministry as “The Perplexed Profession.” Niebuhr attributed the problem primarily to the lack of “a clear-cut, generally accepted conception of the office of the ministry” which he thought, at the time was emerging. Unfortunately, histo...

Ruthenium polypyridyl phototriggers: from beginnings to perspectives.

Octahedral Ru(II) polypyridyl complexes constitute a superb platform to devise photoactive triggers capable of delivering entire molecules in a reliable, fast, efficient and clean way. Ruthenium coordination chemistry opens the way to caging a wide range of molecules, such as amino acids, nucleotides, neurotransmitters, fluorescent probes and genetic inducers. Contrary to other phototriggers, t...

Numerical extraction of Cole-Cole impedance parameters from step response

In this paper we propose a numerical method to extract the four parameters (Ro, R∞, C, and α) that characterize a single-dispersion Cole-Cole impedance model from its step response, based on modelling the step response using fractional calculus, without requiring direct measurement of the real and imaginary impedance parts. MATLAB simulations using Cole-Cole impedances of fruit tissues with α <...

Theologians meet to reflect on India's moral issues