The analysis of halakha (Jewish Law) in a historical and academic setting is often perceived as a challenge to Orthodox Judaism. This challenge arises as historians study the rich and varied history of halakha, they ...

This study explores the connection between masculinity and power for men and women in romantic relationships. 54 men and 68 women from Yeshiva University filled out surveys with masculinity and power measures taken from ...

We take motion for granted. As you flipped the cover page to this paper or scrolled down on your computer screen by moving a computer mouse, you probably did not calculate the exact trajectory of your hand and think about ...

The phase behavior of protein solutions is not yet well understood. The inability to predict protein phase behavior inhibits progress in many biophysical problems such as the crystallization of proteins for structure ...

In certain respects, much of the history of scientific thought can be viewed as the search for unifying theories. This quest is most explicit in the field of elementary particle physics, but even in general, the process ...

The major challenges faced by breast cancer clinicians are metastasis and drug resistance, which cause a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Tumor cells can detach and give rise to micro metastases, which usually go ...

Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer worldwide. In the United States, a woman has a one in eight chance of developing invasive breast cancer in her lifetime and a one in thirty-five chance of dying of ...

Proteins are composed of chains of interlinking peptides, and the backbone of each peptide consists of a carbon-oxygen double-bond (C=O), or a carbonyl group. When a protein is excited by infrared radiation at the ...

One of the most catastrophic times in the tragedy filled history of Eastern European Jewry was the middle of the seventeenth century. In 1648-1649, immediately after the Thirty Years’ War, there was a Cossak uprising led ...

One familiar concept from geometry is that of flat spaces such as lines and planes. By analogy, we can consider higher-dimensional analogues, as well as the 0-dimensional equivalent, which is easily shown to be a point.1 ...