A novel method to assess the complex Education process has been devised. The technique involves the quantification of Learning Outcome, which has hitherto been largely subjective and cumbersome despite the technological advance in learning and teaching aids. The new technique presents an objective assessment in a mathematical form. The approach is an innovated Metric Suit based on a measure of ...

WISDOM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST Every culture, ancient and modern, has developed its own wisdom, and recorded much of it in literature. Such wisdom can be based on human experience from which people learn what is in life and how to deal with it. There are written storehouses of wisdom from many different cultures in which human experiences are crystallized and typically abstracte...

Science is an "endless frontier," and opportunities for transformative discovery abound. The young scientist will profit by paying mind to two forms of balance: the contrast between depth and breadth in training, and the contrast between hypothesis-driven research and random inquiry into the unknown.

Simple text classification algorithms perform remarkably well when used for detecting famous quotes in literary or philosophical text, with f-scores approaching 95%. We compare the task to topic classification, polarity classification and authorship attribution.

In this paper, I am concerned with the relationship of the book of Daniel and the biblical wisdom literature. The study draws its impetus from the belief of von Rad that apocalyptic is the "child" of wisdom (1965, II, pp. 304-15). My intent is to test von Rad's claim by a study of wisdom terminology in Daniel in order to determine whether, in fact, that book has its roots in the wisdom traditio...