Act Properly: Rāmānuja and Luther on Works

Learning to Act Properly: Predicting and Explaining Affordances from Images

We address the problem of affordance reasoning in diverse scenes that appear in the real world. Affordances relate the agent’s actions to their effects when taken on the surrounding objects. In our work, we take the egocentric view of the scene, and aim to reason about action-object affordances that respect both the physical world as well as the social norms imposed by the society. We also aim ...

Current Issues and Trends in Luther Studies

Bad for Business: Luther Against the Papacy

This paper analyzes Martin Luther’s criticism of increasingly corrupt church practices, including, the papacy’s granting of indulgences, the promotion of pilgrimage, the preservation and exploitation of relics, the cult of saints, and the belief in saintly intercession. I will examine how Luther’s critiques of these practices were expressed in the religious propaganda that circulated during thi...

Clarence Luther Herrick on the Organization of the Motor Cortex

INTRODUCTION In 1889-90 the young energetic chairman of the Biology Department at the University of Cincinnati was facing a dilemma. He was already recognized nationally for his research in geology (about 24 papers in this area since 1877) and had, in 1885, established a scientific journal that was rapidly gaining an international reputation. However, his new line of scientific endeavor, that b...

on semihypergroups and hypergroups

in this thesis, first the notion of weak mutual associativity (w.m.a.) and the necessary and sufficient condition for a $(l,gamma)$-associated hypersemigroup $(h, ast)$ derived from some family of $lesssim$-preordered semigroups to be a hypergroup, are given. second, by proving the fact that the concrete categories, semihypergroups and hypergroups have not free objects we will introduce t...