Abstract Chapters 10–15 in Tosefta Soṭah contain the longest, most elaborated aggadic unit Tosefta. It comprises various units that seem to be connected only loosely: biblical righteous figures who brought abundance world (chs. 10–12); revelations and appearances of holy spirit divine echo (ch. 13); effects destruction calamities present 14–15). In this article I argue it forms fact a coherent ...

T his is a closed-book quiz. Quick, now— what percentage of software projects fail? Let me hazard a guess as to your answer. Odds are, you said something like " 70 percent. " Am I right? Now, I want to analyze why you said whatever you said. A friend of mine, Nicholas Zvegintzov (the Chief Guru of software maintenance), likes to say that, if you track down the sources of the things we " know " ...

Planck Spectroscopy Existing spectrometers rely on wavelength-selective optical components such as gratings or prisms. As featured the cover, a new spectroscopic technique–Planck spectroscopy–that does not require any is demonstrated in article number 2100121 by Mikhail A. Kats and co-workers. The technique relies fundamental relationship that relates temperature to spectrum of blackbody radiat...

Tandem computers are employed extensively in heavy volume, OnLine Transaction Processing environments. Tandem systems can be found in 24 of the top 25 US banks; 32 of the top 50 European banks; 250 brokerage and security firms; 60 major insurance companies; and in 40of the world s busiest stock and commodities exchanges. Tandem computers run 75% of all automated teller machine transactions, 66%...