What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Early Christianity and the Second Sophistic

What Has Culture to do with SPI?

This paper addresses cross-cultural issues in Software Process Improvement (SPI). Cultural factors, which may have a bearing on successful adoption and implementation of Software Quality Management Systems, were identified during a field-study in five countries. A self-assessment model, called CODES, has been developed for use by organisations developing software in different parts of the world...

The Standard Metre: Has It Anything to Do With The Contingent A Priori

Mary in Early Christianity and Islam

This article explores the life and importance of Mary in Islam and Christianity, aiming at clarifying the criteria for which Mary has been revered in each tradition. It will be shown that Mary in Christianity is almost merely important because she was the mother of Jesus, while the Muslim reverence for her is based on her own noble characteristics. From the Muslim perspective, even if Mary had ...

RNA splicing: What has phosphorylation got to do with it?

Many pre-mRNA splicing factors are phosphorylated in vivo, but the role of this modification has been unclear. Recent observations suggest that phosphorylation modulates protein-protein interactions within the spliceosome, thereby contributing to dynamic structural reorganization of the spliceosome during splicing.

What is in a text, what isn't, and what this has to do with lexical semantics

This paper queries which aspects of lexical semantics can reasonably be expected to be modelled by corpus-based theories such as distributional semantics or techniques such as ontology extraction. We argue that a full lexical semantics theory must take into account the extensional potential of words. We investigate to which extent corpora provide the necessary data to model this information and...