This study purposes to present the meaning of 1 Cor 7:29-31 in its original literary context and then to contrast that meaning with its application in The Acts of Paul and Thecla. This contrast is the basis for a critique of Dennis Ronald MacDonald's theory that The Acts of Paul preserve aspects of Pauline teaching which should be considered on a level with the Pastoral Epistles; MacDonald impl...

This has been a brilliant composite of talks, representing an almost Gordon conference matrix, and I am honored to be a part of it. I am not personally acquainted with you, Nancy Bolton, but my congratulations for keeping your husband on the straight-and-narrow for these many years. I am sure it has been a challenge, and I praise your stalwart efforts. I do not honestly cast myself in the perso...

In this paper, we give a decomposition of the moonshine module V ♮ with respect to an extremal Type II code over Z2k for an integer k ≥ 2. Then we obtain automorphisms of V ♮, some 4A and 2B elements of the Monster with respect to the decomposition. We give examples of such a decomposition for some k and give the McKay-Thompson series for a 4A element.

Karin E Johnson research associate, Chris Tachibana scientific editor and writer, Gloria D Coronado senior investigator, Laura M Dember professor of medicine, Russell E Glasgow associate director, Susan S Huang associate professor and medical director of epidemiology and infection prevention , Paul J Martin medical director , Julie Richards project manager , Gary Rosenthal professor , Ed Septim...

In the study of natural language quantification, much recent attention has been devoted to the investigation of verification procedures associated with the proportional quantifier most (e.g. Hackl, 2009; Lidz, Pietroski, Hunter and Halberda, 2011; Solt, 2011; Kotek, Sudo, Howard and Hackl, 2011; Pietroski, Lidz, Hunter, Odic and Halberda, 2012; Kotek, Sudo, Howard and Hackl, 2012). The aim of t...

The fish abundance index over an ocean region is defined here to be the integral of expected catch per unit effort (CPUE), approximated by the sum of expected CPUE over grid squares. When trawl surveys are done within grid squares selected according to a probability sampling design, several other sources of variation such as the fish population dynamics and the catching process are also involve...

Kurt Z. Long, Jose Ignacio Santos, Jorge L. Rosado, Catalina Lopez-Saucedo, Rocio Thompson-Bonilla, Maricela Abonce, Herbert L. DuPont, Ellen Hertzmark, and Teresa Estrada-Garcia Department of Nutrition and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, and University of Texas Medical School and School of Public Health, Houston; Hospital Infantil de Mexico F...

In this paper, the reduced dierential transform method is investigated fora nonlinear partial dierential equation modeling nematic liquid crystals, itis called the Hunter-Saxton equation. The main advantage of this methodis that it can be applied directly to nonlinear dierential equations withoutrequiring linearization, discretization, or perturbation. It is a semi analytical-numerical method t...