Saicho's mahayana-sila as Seen in His Precept Consecration

Qoheleth's World and Life View as Seen in His Recurring Phrases

WITHIN the scope of Old Testament ethical problems falls the viewpoint of Qoheleth, or the Preacher, of Ecclesiastes. A superficial reading of the book reveals a man who definitely has a negative viewpoint of life in its many facets. If indeed the book is a unity, composed by one wise man, then the theme of pessimism or cynicism becomes a suggested option. But the ethical questions arising from...

The Possibility of Go`s Being Seen« as Viewed by Ayatollah Ma`refat in His Commentary with an Emphasis on Semiotic Approach

The issue of the possibility of God`s being seen at the resurrection is disputed by the scholars of Imamiyyah, Mu'tazilites and Ash'arites. This is due to differences found in the acceptance of the different semantic aspects of the "God`s being seen". Ayatollah Ma'refat has discussed this issue in his al-Tafsir al-Athari al-Jama'i and al-Ta'mhid and, having analyzed the text and the documentati...

Masterly inactivity: A forgotten precept.

A Precept - Driven Learning Algorithm

Machine learning is an attempt at devising mechanismsthat machines can use to learn, rather than being explicitlyprogrammed for, real-world applications. The goal oflearning systems is to generalize. Generalization is basedon the set of critical features the system has available.Training set learners typically extract critical featuresfrom a random set of examples drawn ...

Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen seen through his own eyes. A review of his memoirs.

In the course of the century which has elapsed since the discovery of the leprosy bacillus in 1873 by C. H. Armauer Hansen (1841-1912 ), several biographers and medical historians have stressed the importance of this event. 2 The life span of C. H . Armauer Hansen covers a period when bacteriology was a growing specialty in medical science. Earlier suggestions that certain diseases might be ass...