The devastating global impact of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) has greatly sensitized the public to the threat of new microbes that are capable of wrecking havoc on the world's population. The HIV virus infects and depletes CD4+ T lymphocytes. However cases have been described with profound CD4+ T cell lymphocytopenia but without evidence of HIV infection, a condition now termed as ...

Natural theology is reading the book of nature, not the book of revelation, for knowledge of God. Natural theology, as a category employed by practitioners, originated within the history of Christianity, as passages from the New Testament such as Romans 1:20 raised the possibility of knowledge about God without revelation. The best-known work of natural theology is William Paley’s (d. 1805 AD) ...

This paper will attempt to sketch a historical outline of ideas relating to revelation by tracing the development of a concept or topos which has preoccupied Western thinkers since antiquity and which became crucial during the Romantic period — the concept of the Daemon, and the general mode or sensibility referred to as the “Daemonic.” In Classical thought, the term “Daemonic” is associated wi...

Although ‘the Lamb’ is the most important designation for Jesus Christ in the book of Revelation, the full significance of this sacrificial metaphor is still uncertain. In recent years, some scholars have given up looking for specific allusions to the OT sacrificial cult. However, little scholarly attention has been given to OT cultic allusions which surround the Lamb in the liturgical setting ...

Revelation policies in an electronic marketplace differ in terms of the level of competitive information disseminated to participating sellers. Since sellers who repeatedly compete against one another learn based on the information revealed and alter their future bidding behavior, revelation policies affect welfare parameters—consumer surplus, producer surplus, and social welfare—of the market....

Electronic reverse-markets such as those hosted by Freemarkets involve geographically dispersed sellers. By the very nature of the market, sellers in any given market-session are uncertain both about the number of opponents they face and their cost-structure. Over the course of several market sessions, sellers can learn about the competitive structure of the market. Their ability to learn i.e.,...

This paper analyzes the impact of a takeover threat on information flows (or communication) within or across firms. We consider a long-term relationship between a firm and a privately informed trading partner, say a buyer. Both parties bargain over a price in each period and a takeover may take place. When takeovers are ruled out, having high bargaining power increases the firm’s likelihood to ...

This paper presents an initial study of the relevant issues on the development of an automated mediation agent. The work is conducted within the ?curious negotiator? framework [1]. The paper demonstrates that mediation is a knowledge intensive process that integrates information revelation and analogical reasoning. The introduced formalism is used to demonstrate how via revealing the appropriat...