Late in January of this year, the Milwaukee Public Museum inaugurated its own exhibit of the Dead Sea Scrolls with an interesting nuance: the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue would have as their concern not only the Scrolls themselves, but also Biblical writings as such plus ancient archaeological artifacts, the full title of the exhibit and its accompanying catalogue being Dead Sea Sc...

Gompertz's empirical equation remains the most popular one in describing cancer cell population growth in a wide spectrum of bio-medical situations due to its good fit to data and simplicity. Many efforts were documented in the literature aimed at understanding the mechanisms that may support Gompertz's elegant model equation. One of the most convincing efforts was carried out by Gyllenberg and...

Single-cell migration is a key process in development, homeostasis, and disease. Nevertheless, the control over basic cellular mechanisms directing cells into motile behavior in vivo is largely unknown. Here, we report on the identification of a minimal set of parameters the regulation of which confers proper morphology and cell motility. Zebrafish primordial germ cells rendered immotile by kno...

The main line of defense that exists to eliminate foreign agents falls on phagocytic cells (neutrophils, dendritic cell, and macrophages), it does so through phagocytosis, a complex cellular mechanism occurs after the recognition binding ligand by receptors. Macrophages are part diverse lineage innate immune cells. Once macrophage receptor binds its ligand, coordinated intracellular signaling c...

Angels among Us: The Use of Old Testament Passages as Inspiration for Temple Themes in the Dead Sea Scrolls

the establishment and survival of seedlings is one of the main objectives of forest management which ensures continues production. the aim of this article is the investigation of dead trees effect on beech and hornbeam seedlings in masal's forests. for this reason, 30 dead trees were selected, and the control trees were selected in four aspects around the dead trees. they were the same as ...

Despite significant advances in our understanding or renal tubular cell function, the in vivo handling of E. coli by renal tubules has not been previously investigated. The present studies were, therefore, designed to study this aspect of nephron function. Live and dead E. coli and vehicle alone were microinjected into the proximal tubular lumen of a single nephron of rats, and the microinjecte...

Effective data prefetching requires accurate mechanisms to predict both “which” cache blocks to prefetch and “when” to prefetch them. This paper proposes the DeadBlock Predictors (DBPs), trace-based predictors that accurately identify “when” an L1 data cache block becomes evictable or “dead”. Predicting a dead block significantly enhances prefetching lookahead and opportunity, and enables placi...

The problem of planning in partially observable environments can be regarded as a search problem in belief space where beliefs express the collection of states that are deemed possible. In this paper we address the problem that arises when one of the possible states is a dead-end: a state from which the goal cannot be reached. In such situations, no contingent plan exists, and yet, such situati...