Book Review: I. New Testament: Die Entstehung des Neuen Testaments

Revue Des Livres Book Review

In the preface to his new book Laws, Theories and Patterns in Ecology, Walter Dodds tells us that his own search for general principles in ecology started over “a pitcher or two” with a colleague and that he hoped the book would provide a “fruitful topic for discussion among ecologists”. It was precisely in that spirit that a group of ecologists at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies got to...

Ueber die Wirkung des neuen Tuberkulins TR auf Gewebe und Tuberkelbacillen

Aus Anlass der Neuen Wasserbauhalle des IWW

In the following article, two problems are discussed that show the flavor of numerical analyses being performed at the Institute of Aerodynamics. Details of the aeroacoustics problem, i.e., the investigation of the noise generated by a slat-wing configuration, and of the biomedical flow problem, i.e., the computation of the flow field in the human nasal cavity, can be found in the publications ...

New Testament Use of the Old Testament

The present writer has counted 224 direct citations introduced by a definite formula indicating the writer purposed to quote. To these must be added seven cases where a second quotation is introduced by the conjunction “and,” and 19 cases where a paraphrase or summary rather than a direct quotation follows the introductory formula. We may further note at least 45 instances where the similarity ...

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Background: The need for fast and accurate scoring functions has been driven by the increased use of in silico virtual screening twinned with high-throughput screening as a method to rapidly identify potential candidates in the early stages of drug development. We examine the ability of some the most common scoring functions (GOLD, ChemScore, DOCK, PMF, BLEEP and Consensus) to discriminate corr...