A key sticking point dividing fundamentalists and conservative evangelicals is the question regarding the cessation versus the continuation of New Testament prophecy. Fundamentalists have traditionally argued for the present cessation of New Testament prophecy, 1 whereas a growing number of conservative evangelicals argue for its present continuation. 2 At the heart of the debate are the issues...

We hinge on a panel data of 4660 firms across 79 countries and over 15 years to explore how country, industry, firm effects influence firms' CO2 emissions. Our results show that are the main factor influencing emissions (32.8% total variance), ahead industry (30.6%), country (29.3%), or country-industry (4.0%). These highlight need overhaul current public policy baselines mainly focus environme...

Connecting genotype to phenotype is fundamental in biomedical research and in our understanding of disease. Phenomics--the large-scale quantitative phenotypic analysis of genotypes on a genome-wide scale--connects automated data generation with the development of novel tools for phenotype data integration, mining and visualization. Our yeast phenomics database PROPHECY is available at http://pr...

A comprehensive presentation of simulation techniques is given in terms of a simple (un-timed) automaton model. In particular, we discuss (1) reenements, (2) forward and backward simulations, (3) forward-backward and backward-forward simulations, and (4) history and prophecy relations. History and prophecy relations are new and are abstractions of the history and prophecy variables of Abadi and...

Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) replication has enjoyed a series of performance improvements, but remains costly due to its replicated work. We eliminate this cost for read-mostly workloads through Prophecy, a system that interposes itself between clients and any replicated service. At Prophecy’s core is a trusted sketcher component, designed to extend the semi-trusted load balancer that mediate...

Asking people to predict whether they will undertake a target behavior increases their probability of performing that behavior. Now referred to as the self-prophecy effect, this phenomenon has been demonstrated across several contexts. Although theoretical explanations for the effect have been offered, empirical evidence for proposed accounts is sparse. The current research tests the theoretica...