10,000 words on a single picture, and a similar Japanese proverb devalues this to only 100 words. In most languages the current consensus seems to be that a picture is worth 1000 words. Whatever the true worth in words a good picture is capable of conveying (sometimes quite complex) meaning clearly and without the need for language. Show a picture of an elephant to speakers of two different lan...

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” Latin Proverb The aviation community is undergoing a reappraisal of progress made in automated cockpits. This gives the shipping community the opportunity to learn from someone else’s mistakes and successes. Aviation has invested more heavily in automation than shipping, and in some respects can be considered to be ‘ahead’. The re...

Education, a long neglected variable affecting psychological test score, is in search of reemphasis. Some evidence for this has accumulated on the psychological tests constructed and standardized here at the department of Psychiatry, P.G.I., Chandigarh. Tentative norms prepared education wise on WAIS-Verbal section, PGI-Memory Scale, Proverb and Similarity Tests, Psychoticism Questionnaire, and...

Abstract Figurative language processing impairments in autism have been widely demonstrated, and considered a defining feature of autism. Studies this area often consider different types figurative together, less attention has paid to identifying the factors that might contribute difficulties specific language. Here we present preregistered systematic review meta-analysis studies assessing comp...

This is an introduction What does it mean to have a good object design? This book is a tool to help developers and students learn core skills in object-oriented analysis and design (OOA/D). These skills are essential for the creation of well-designed, robust, and maintainable software using object technologies and languages such as Java, C++, Smalltalk, and C#. The proverb "owning a hammer does...

The WHO has indicated that in 2009, the most recent year for which data are available, approximately 250 million people were infected with malaria, and nearly one million of those patients succumbed to their infections. But without Youyou Tu (Institute of Materia Medica, Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences) (Figure 1), many of those 249 million ...

Drawing on the methodology and previous results of Rassi et al. (2014) on the automatic identification of Brazilian Portuguese proverbs, this paper reports on an extension of that experiment, but now focused on the identification of the European Portuguese proverbs and their variants. Based on a large collection of over 56 thousand Portuguese proverbs and their variants, a database of proverb t...

This article is written in memory of Professor Takashi Mizuno who died in May 2000. He had focused a lifetime of research upon development of various antitumor substances from medicinal mushrooms, and is considered one of the 20 century greatest scientist in his field. Mizuno proved that many polysaccharides with antitumor and immunopotentiating qualities were synthesised in cultured mycelia no...

My paper has two parts. First, I talk about the golden rule. After introducing the rule and its global importance, I explain why many scholars dismiss it as a vague proverb that leads to absurdities when we try to formulate it clearly. I defend the golden rule against such objections. Second, I talk about the golden rule in Persia and Islam; I consider Persian sources (Muslim and non-Muslim) an...