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In any event, the implication is that Sihon would have met Moses only during Iron II or the early Persian age, and only in Uterary imagination. Narratives of this encounter kept developing over the decades, picking up features of later times. At some point in this process the mnemonic point crystallised that the fall of the city was proverbial a model capable of being re-applied to new incidents and situations. 

An ideal pharmacokinetic model of the percutaneous absorption process should be capable of describing not only the time course of penetration through skin and Into blood (or receptor fluid In a diffusion cell), but also the time course of disappearance from the skin surface and accumulation (reservoir effect) of penetrant within the skin membrane. Neither Pick s Plrst Law of Diffusion nor a simple kinetic model considering skin as a rate limiting membrane only Is satisfactory, since neither can account for an accumulation of penetrant within skin. To resolve this dilemma, we have analyzed the In vitro time course of absorption of radiolabeled benzoic acid (a rapid penetrant) and paraquat (a poor penetrant) through hairless mouse skin using a linear three compartment kinetic model (Figure 5). The three compartments correspond to the skin surface (where the Initial dose Is deposited), the skin Itself (considered as a separate compartment), and the receptor fluid In the diffusion cell. The Initial amount deposited on the skin surface Is symbolized by XIO, and K12 and K23 are first order rate constants. 

A major area of theoretical interest has been on solvent effects, and several techniques have been applied to the calculation of NLO properties. " The most common (and simplest) method is the reaction field model, where the solute molecule is in a cavity of solvent, which is treated as a uniform dielectric medium. Cavity approaches are problematic. How do you pick the cavity size How do you pick the cavity shape How do you model stronger, specific interactions (such as hydrogen bonding) The work of Willetts and Rice " illustrated the inability of reaction field models to adequately treat solvent effects even though they tried both spherical and ellipsoidal cavities. Mikkelsen et al. attempted to provide specific interactions with their solvent model by explicitly including solvent molecules inside the cavity. These and related issues need to be addressed further if computational chemists are to develop truly useful procedures capable of including solvent effects in NLO calculations. Recent work by Cammi, Tomasi, and co-workers " has attempted to address these issues within the polarized continuum model (PCM) and have included studies of frequency-dependent hyperpolarizabilities. 

Many equations, either empirical or derived from models, are available to represent excess thermodynamic properties as a function of the liquid mole fraction and of a number of adjustable parameters for use in Equations 4.3 and 4.4 (Prausnitz, Lichtenthaler, and Gomes de Azevedo 1999). In the treatment of our experimental data, we have examined the capability of many of these equations to fit data with the smallest number of parameters and with the least standard deviation of the O.F. (Lepori et al. 1998). For the majority of systems, either binary or ternary, examined by us in the course of about two decades, the rational form (Myers and Scott 1963) of the Redlich-Kister (RK) expression (Redlich and Kister 1948), and the Wilson (Wilson 1964) equation in the extended form (Novtik, MatouS, and Pick 1987), have resulted in the most appropriate representations of and For ternary systems, the excess functions can be expressed as the sum of a contribution (subscript B), which depends only on the parameters of the three binary systems, and a ternary contribution (subscript T), which involves additional parameters. 

The objective here is not to pick the correct model, but rather to pick one which is capable of reproducing all the observed phenomena while introducing as few extra parameters as possible. All candidate models must be designed to compute the overall modulus of a composite from the individual moduli of the components, which are usually represented as a matrix phase and a dispersed phase. For example, the Kerner model (24) describes the elastic behavior of a suspension of spheres, while the Halpin... 

Von Neumann s kinematic model. The system is comprised of a control unit governing the actions of a constructing unit, capable of producing any automaton according to a description provided to it on a linear tape-like memory structure. The constructing unit picks up the parts it needs from an unlimited pool of parts and assembles them into the desired automaton. The project was far from being finished and remained an abstract model when von Neumann died (Stevens, 2009). 

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