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The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) consists of a collection of writings dating from approximately the 13th 3rd centuries BCE. These books were included in the Jewish canon by the Talmudic sages at Yavneh around the end of the first century CE, after the destruction of the Second Temple. However, there are many other Jewish writings from the Second Temple Period which were excluded from the Tanakh; these...

An Introduction to Reading Wallace Stevens as a Poet of the Human Spirit

Wallace Stevens is one of the most perplexing of the major modern poets. His poetry, as even his most ardent admirers agree, is very difficult to follow, and his personal life cuts against the grain of commonplace beliefs about the lives of modern poets. Stevens was neither a bohemian, nor a drunk, nor a professor. In fact he was a successful insurance lawyer in Connecticut, and became a vice p...

Apocrypha: Making P2P Overlays Network-aware

Many distributed systems built on peer-to-peer principles organize nodes in an overlay network, in order to enable communication between nodes. In general, this overlay network may have nothing to do with the location of nodes on the physical network. We propose a generic mechanism called Apocrypha to make any P2P overlay “network-aware”, and thus optimize internode communication. We show how A...

Molecular evolution of odorant-binding protein genes OS-E and OS-F in Drosophila.

The Drosophila olfactory genes OS-E and OS-F are members of a family of genes that encode insect odorant-binding proteins (OBPs). OBPs are believed to transport hydrophobic odorants through the aqueous fluid within olfactory sensilla to the underlying receptor proteins. The recent discovery of a large family of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila raises new questions about the function, dive...

William Wallace (1791-1837).