Ascetic Monks in the Ryokosoden

The Monks and the Psychiatrist

Benedictine prior Father Gregoire Lemercier thought he was going mad. So he called in a psychiatrist. The psychiatrist soon sorted him out. Father Lemercier was most impressed. He considered that the benefits of Freudian analysis should be bestowed upon the other monks. called in a woman psychiatrist, Professor Frida Zmud, to 'confront monks with the problems of sexuality'. *he group therapy se...

Ascetic convolutional codes

Ascetic convolutional codes contain fewer edge labels than other convolutional codes. This is advantageous in several practical situations. Selecting an ascetic code over a non-ascetic code carries no severe penalty, in terms of trade-off of minimum distance, code rate and complexity.

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

ASCETiC: Adapting Service lifeCycle towards EfficienT Clouds

Reducing energy consumption is increasingly gaining attention in the area of Cloud computing, as means to reduce costs and improve corporate sustainability image. ASCETiC is focused on providing novel methods and tools to support software developers to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint resulting from developing, deploying and running software in Clouds. At the same ti...

Meditation alters perceptual rivalry in Tibetan Buddhist monks

Neuroscientific studies of the mind are likely to benefit from the insights and skills of Tibetan Buddhist monks who have practiced the historic tradition of meditative training over many years — a point made recently at a forum between a selection of Buddhist leaders and distinguished scientists [1]. Perceptual rivalries, such as binocular rivalry [2] and motion induced blindness [3], are bein...