Several important features of the narrative character Abraham allude to historical person Sanballat, first Israelite governor Persian province Samaria. The most common and Sanballat are origin in city Haran, a non-Yahwistic name, being related cult moon god Sin, given land Israel as hereditary possession, founding central sanctuary Yahweh on Mount Gerizim, respecting an priest from Jerusalem. T...

BACKGROUND The Abraham general solvation model can be used in a broad set of scenarios involving partitioning and solubility, yet is limited to a set of solvents with measured Abraham coefficients. Here we extend the range of applicability of Abraham's model by creating open models that can be used to predict the solvent coefficients for all organic solvents. RESULTS We created open random fo...

The Influence of Books and Movies addiction to microbiology came early in my boyhood through books and film. First there was the novel Arrowsmith by sinclair Lewis. in the movie adaptation, actor ronald coleman dealt with bubonic plague and quickly became my scientific hero. throughout the years, my paperback copy of this novel has been loaned to many students. next, i became fascinated by paul...