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Irreconcilable differences found in Jesus' "Sea-Walk" narrative imply that it was not based on eyewitness testimony, and therefore must have been founded on some other system of proof. The Christian Gospels confirm that the evangelists envisioned Jesus as the "Anointed-One" and "Son of God" whom had ascended into ouranos, "heaven," a word that also referred to the realm where the deified constellations existed. Circumstantial evidence indicates that the Gospel authors had two celestial forms of history authentication at their disposal. From Greece came the belief in katasterismos, i.e., that the constellations depicted tableaux of miraculous earthly events that had been transferred onto the stars. And from Mesopotamia came the belief that the constellations depicted divine, cuneiform "writing" which imparted inviolable truth through wordplay encrypted in each star-god's name or epithet. While learning the Greek language the evangelists had presumably encountered the pre-Christian, Classical myths which stated that Orion could "walk upon the sea." The article demonstrates that this supernatural feat was founded on astronomical knowledge: when plotted on a star map Orion depicts a deified Man whose outstretched legs convey the idea that he was "walking" upon a celestial "Sea" delineated by the eight, contiguous, aquatic constellations (Dolphin, Goatfish, Southern Fish, Water-pourer, Twin-Fishes, River, Sea Serpent, and Ship). Moreover, wordplay encrypted in the cuneiform titles of Orion yield "Son of God" and "Anointed-One,"- terms that accord precisely with the evangelists' conception of Jesus' identity. We argue that these semantic correlations inspired the evangelists to envision Orion as the embodiment of Jesus and ascribe the constellation's astronomically based sea-walking ability to the founder of Christianity. The article goes on to demonstrate that the setting of Jesus' Sea-Walk miracle corresponds with the celestial landscape surrounding Orion, and that wordplay encrypted in the cuneiform titles of Orion's stellar Sea-Walk tableau correspond with the common themes found in Jesus' Sea-Walk miracle as well as the stories' jarring incongruities.

In a recent article the author has shown that Pegasus' appearance in Greek astronomy - as a Flying Horse severed at the navel - displays a one-to-one correlation with wordplay encrypted in its older, Mesopotamian title as the "Field". The current article expands on this idea, demonstrating that additional wordplay encrypted in the cuneiform terms for the Mesopotamian "Field" constellation embodied in the Pegasus Square and an adjacent star-figure imparted the words: "Medusa ('Ruling'), Perseus, cut-off, her, skull, leaped-forth, Chrysaor ('Golden-Sword'), the horse, named, Pegasus ('Springs'), because, he-was-born, near, the springs, of, the god, Ocean", - words which mirror the creation story of Pegasus in Theogony lines 280-282. Additional puns expose the celestial identity of the Greek god Ocean, while simultaneously disclosing why he was incongruously identified as a "River" in Greek mythology. Cuneiform literature confirms that the Mesopotamian astronomer was a "writer" whose overarching precept held that the constellations comprised a sacred "text" that imparted inviolable wisdom through the medium of wordplay. Archaeological and textual data insinuates that this Mesopotamian celestial conviction was transmitted directly into the Hellenic cultural sphere in the eight century BC. And circumstantial evidence implies that the first author to mention Pegasus, Hesiod, was directly or indirectly familiar with this Mesopotamian astronomical arcana prior to writing Theogony. The author's conclusion argues that the aforementioned Mesopotamian celestial esoterica allowed Hesiod, or someone collaborating with him, to decipher the strand of puns that explained Pegasus' mythical "Birth" story, which he then rendered into Greek as lines 280-282 of Theogony.

Background: Transient positivity for hepatitis B core antibody (Anti‐HBc) following intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) and subcutaneous immunoglobulin exposure is a well‐described phenomenon. The aim of this study was to retrospectively review Hepatitis B viral screening practices in IVIG recipients in a hematology specific cohort at a single center. Methods: Electronic databases were analyzed to identify all hematology patients who received IVIG from September 2022 to March 2022 at a single Irish center (n = 43). The proportion of patients that had a baseline anti‐HBc tested prior to IVIG receipt was assessed as well as the proportion of patients that developed a transiently positive anti‐HBc following IVIG exposure. Data were also collected relating to signal cut‐off ratios in patients with detectable anti‐HBc post‐IVIG. Results: 58.1% of patients had at least one serological hepatitis B viral test sent prior to IVIG exposure. Anti‐HBc was the least common serological investigation performed prior to IVIG exposure (21% of recipients). A positive or equivocal "low level antibody" was identified in 15% of recipients and this was proven to be transient in all cases. Conclusion: The minority of hematology patients had a baseline anti‐HBc assessed prior to IVIG exposure. All patients in this study had the potential to require further immunosuppressive therapies, which could be limited by a misleading anti‐HBc result. We therefore advocate for baseline anti‐HBc testing to be performed prior to IVIG exposure in hematology patients and for cautious interpretation of anti‐HBc results taking into account signal cut‐off ratios post‐IVIG exposure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moiré superlattices in twistronic heterostructures are a powerful tool for materials engineering. In marginally twisted (small misalignment angle, θ) bilayers of nearly lattice-matched two-dimensional (2D) crystals moiré patterns take the form of domains of commensurate stacking, separated by a network of domain walls (NoDW) with strain hot spots at the NoDW nodes. Here, we show that, for type-II transition metal dichalcogenide bilayers MoX2/WX2 (X=S, Se), the hydrostatic strain component in these hot spots creates quantum dots for electrons and holes. We investigate the electron/hole states bound by such objects, discussing their manifestations via the intralayer intraband infrared transitions. The electron/hole confinement, which is strongest for θ < 0.5°, leads to a red-shift of their recombination line producing single-photon emitters (SPE) broadly tuneable around 1 eV by misalignment angle. These self-organized dots can form in bilayers with both aligned and inverted MoX2 and WX2 unit cells, emitting photons with different polarizations. We also find that the hot spots of strain reduce the intralayer MoX2 A-exciton energy, enabling selective population of the quantum dot states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]