When John Down was 18 years old, he had some kind of mystical experience. He met a girl that appeared so peculiar, that he felt sorry for her and, consciously or unconsciously, would spend his whole life searching for this phenomenon. He decided to study Medicine, became the director of the largest “Asylum for Idiots” in England and wrote articles and books about the thing that fascinated him s...

This paper describes a computational model for creativity in which surprise plays a central role. There is no doubt that creative products, being unexpected and unpredictable products, cause surprise. In order to make those products surprising and supported by recent evidences from neuroscience, which say emotions are biasing devices in decision-making, we defend that decisions made during the ...

Humanities Computing is an emergent field. The activities described as ‘Humanities Computing’ continue to expand in number and sophistication, yet no concrete definition of the field exists, and there are few academic departments that specialize in this area. Most introspection regarding the role, meaning, and focus of ‘‘Humanities Computing’’ has come from a practical and pragmatic perspective...

Abstract Since Kenya's independence in 1963, ethnicity has been an important factor Kenyan politics and everyday life. While recent research shown that ethnic favouritism impacted the allocation of educational resources past, so far, no systematic conducted on how teachers exacerbate, mitigate or countervail political culture favouritism. As agents socialisation, teachers’ attitudes behaviour c...

This essay examines the initiation ceremonies to which new recruits were often subjected in late medieval universities. These theatricalised and ritualised violence, playing with metaphors symbols toying fine line between representation reality. Why draw quite such attention notion that one was de-bestialising a student (in case of Heidelberg, Avignon, others), re-clothing country bumpkin Siena...

The politics of the people are often identified with their lives in state. This understanding gave rise to a prolonged discourse on relationship between state and religion. purpose this study is study, analyze interpret from fiqh studies related interpretation Nahdlatul Ulama's political behavior. research literature or revive using descriptive analytical methods. Data collection carried out by...

Abstract Complicated tribological behavior occurs when human fingers touch and perceive the surfaces of objects. In this process, people use their exploration style with different conditions, such as contact load, sliding speed, direction, angle orientation between object surface consciously or unconsciously. This work addressed interlaboratory experimental devices for finger active passive tac...

This article examines the role of stylistic convergence in process artistic symbols interaction. The main task present research is dedicated to study novels by J. R. Fowles because his books are filled with deep philosophical content. methods included a definition analysis word representing symbol; contextual and interpretation, generalization, as well method quantitative calculation actualizat...