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The Theory of Efficient Breach: Contrasting Halachic and Secular Perspectives
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
The theory of 'efficient breach' permits, and even encourages, contractual breach
that advances economic efficiency. It rejects the notion that breach is a moral failure, and
advocates contractual breach that moves goods ...
Metzitzah B’peh and Nineteenth Century New York: An Analysis of the 1873 New York Board of Health Investigation of Ritual Circumcision.
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
The antiparallel, double helix structure of DNA symbolizes the evolution of the
biblical rite of circumcision, brit milah. Established as a testimony to the eternal covenant
between God and Abraham, the practice has ...
The Effects of a Deterministic Philosophy on Psychological Well-Being: Locus of Control as a Moderator
(Yeshiva College, 2011)
This research addresses whether belief in causal determinism or free will can change a person’s
feelings of well-being, and Locus of Control’s (LoC) role as a modifying factor. This study used
an online survey method, ...
The Effect of Precipitant Chirality on the Crystallization of Lysozyme
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
Protein crystallization has been studied for over 150 years but is still not well
understood. Protein crystals are extremely difficult to grow since protein crystallization is
sensitive to many parameters. In this thesis ...
Where does that Protein’s Active Site Lie? What is its Structure?
(Yeshiva College, 2011-01)
Predicting biological important processes necessitates effective algorithms that model the
biological phenomena that emerge from the organism’s DNA. Our interests are to
improve methodology to identify active sites, the ...
The Visual Propaganda of Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
How much can a historian learn about an era by studying its art? 1 It seems the
consensus used to be: not much. Art and architecture were thought to be tools of the art
historian, useful for discussing developments in ...
Using Molecular Dynamics to Study the Crystallization of Thaumatin
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
We demonstrate that the crystallization system of the protein thaumatin in the presence of
tartrate ions can be studied with GROMACS molecular dynamics simulations. We show that
the OPLS all-atom force field can be used ...
Beyond Words: On Jeremiah's Subversive Use of Deuteronomic Idioms
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
Biblical scholarship has, to date, noted the close resemblance between the
language of the Book of Jeremiah and that of the Book of Deuteronomy. In reacting to
these linguistic commonalities, several theories have been ...
From Adler to Keyishian: Academic Freedom and the Fight for the Rights of Public Employees
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
In the early morning of January 24, 1967, Harry Keyishian was awoken by a
phone call to his home. A friend who worked at the New York Times was ringing to tell
him that the Supreme Court had sided with him and four ...
Ordered Directness and Efficiently Computing Closures
(Yeshiva College, 2011-05)
Implications of the form A→B (read “A implies B”) feature prominently in multiple fields of
mathematics and computers science. In mathematical terms we may define A→B as a
mapping from one set to another. In Database ...