The small town of Williamson, West Virginia, the "Heart of the Billion Dollar Coal Field" according to the road sign that welcomes incoming visitors was in disarray on a warm, 30°C day in July, 1987. Why? Because a known "AIDS" victim had been swimming in the town pool. The pool manager, a high school teacher, immediately alerted the mayor of Williamson, whom also serves as the town pharmacist....

Peter D. Williamson died in his home in Lyme, New Hampshire on June 4th, 2008 after a courageous year-long battle with lung cancer. With his passing the neurology community lost a compassionate advocate, clinician, researcher and fundraiser in the field of epilepsy and epilepsy surgery. He is survived by his wife Susan, their four children, and six grandchildren. Peter D. Williamson was born in...

A novel numerical computing framework through Lobatto IIIA method is presented for the dynamical investigation of nanofluidic problem with Williamson fluid flow on a stretching sheet by considering thermal slip and velocity. The impact thermophoresis Brownian motion phenomena heat transfer are explored using Buongiorno model. governing non-linear partial differential system representing mathema...

Numerical study of the slip effects and radiative heat transfer on a steady state fully developed Williamson flow of an incompressible Newtonian fluid; between parallel vertical walls of a microchannel with isothermal walls in a porous medium is performed. The slip effects are considered at both boundary conditions. Radiative highly absorbing medium is modeled by the Rosseland approximation. Th...

This article discusses the relationship between the divine promises in the Abraham narrative and the use made by this Old Testament material in the New Testament. It is argued that the New Testament's reinterpretation of the Abrahamic Covenant (e.g. relating the promise of blessing to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and applying the promise of multitudinous descendants to the Christian Church) is fu...

Causality and probability in the sciences Towards the end of the nineteenth century Karl Pearson noted that a prob-abilistic dependence between two variables does not necessarily imply that the two variables are causally connected (Pearson, 1897). This led Pearson, in the third (1911) edition of his book Pearson (1892), to argue that talk of cause and effect should be eradicated from science in...

In a short section of his book Vagueness, Timothy Williamson attempts to resolve a paradox regarding the expansion of Wittgenstein’s ‘family resemblance’ concepts, as they are described in his Philosophical Investigations Williamson contends that certain ‘family resemblance’ concepts such as “game” seem to have the capability to expand through a network of resemblances to become applicable to e...