The paper outlines a text analytic project in progress on a corpus of entries in the historical burgh and council registers from Aberdeen, Scotland. Some preliminary output of the analysis is described. The registers run in a near-unbroken sequence form 1398 to the present day; the early volumes are a UNESCO UK listed cultural artefact. The study focusses on a set of transcribed pages from 1530...

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Basti is one of the five procedures of panchakarma in Ayurveda. Classically, it is advocated in the diseases of vata. It is mainly of two types viz. asthapana and anuvasana. According to the classical texts basti administration is done with the help of animal bladder (bastiputaka) and specially prepared metal/wooden nozzle/catheter (bastinetra), the whole assembly is called as bastiyantra. Nowa...

Currently, there is a certain discrepancy between the theory of public administration and declarations in this area to real state affairs modern state. The purpose study search for origins texts Hebrew Bible, as well compare principles with biblical ones order demonstrate relevance politically oriented an ancient religious monument. Comparative analysis, retrospective system method were used sc...

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Unlike data mining, text mining has received only limited attention in legal circles. Nevertheless, interesting legal stumbling blocks exist, both with respect to the data collection and data sharing phases, due to the strict rules of copyright and database law. Conflicts are particularly likely when content is extracted from commercial databases, and when texts that have a minimal level of cre...

The first Noble Truth of Buddhism asserts that all is suffering. In this context, the word “all” means all conditioned things, that is to say, all worldly things. Hence anything that perpetuates the cycle of rebirth in this world can be considered antithetical to liberation and subject to condemnation. A number of Buddhist sūtras, meditation manuals, and doctrinal texts, probably written before...

Learners, particularly lifelong learners, often find it difficult to determine the scope of their expertise. Formative feedback could help them do so. To use this feedback productively, it is essential to then suggest to them the remedial actions they need to overcome the gaps in their knowledge. This paper presents the design considerations of a support tool that aims at providing formative fe...

1 Introduction Although many legal experts thought this would be impossible we are very close in creating an algorithm for automated norm analysis from legal texts. This algorithm makes use of invariant linguistic structures at the syntactical level that characterises specific normative expressions in natural language. Since the algorithm has not been realised and tested completely jet, we will...