Islam is regarded to pay attention to the characteristics of urban life which can be practiced on the urban settings. Not surprisingly, Islam has made a great focus on the form and design of cities and prescribed detailed and elaborate regulations for individual and communal life. Seen from other way round, the penetration of Islam into various regions such as Iran, Europe, and Africa had an un...

1188 Our sensory system is constantly bombarded with inputs, but owing to the brain's fi nite processing power, we are forced to pay attention to only a tiny proportion of these inputs at any given time. In a new study, Richard Davidson and colleagues report that intensive training in meditation can alter the way in which the brain allocates attentional resources to important stimuli, allowing ...

Sowohl die kausale (Causation) als auch die effektuative Entscheidungslogik (Effectuation) werden von Entrepreneuren in verschiedenen Entscheidungssituationen angewandt. Instrumente zur Erfassung, Analyse und Bewertung von kausalem bzw. effektuativem Entscheidungsverhalten sind jedoch unterrepräsentiert. Obgleich bereits agentenbasierte Simulationsansätze zur Erforschung von Causation und Effec...

John D. Norton

Levin and Rappaport (1995, henceforth L&R) argue that the distribution of the English causative alternation is predicted by the internal/external causation distinction. For L&R this distinction is represented in lexical conceptual structure. In this paper I argue that representing this distinction in the syntax, rather than in the lexicon, allows a crosslinguistically more satisfying theory of ...