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In this article, I propose to take up and give new relevance an intuition that W. James developed in Pragmatism: « things tell a story». proposition as literally possible: physical entity, living being, technical object, would stories by themselves, the materiality of their existence, very bodies. The not be about how humans relate more-than-human realities, but they matrix things. called for c...

The history of celestial mechanics is first briefly surveyed, identifying the major contributors and their contributions. The Ptolemaic and Copernican world models, Kepler’s laws of planetary motion and Newton’s laws of universal gravity are presented. It is shown that the orbit of a body moving under the gravitational attraction of another body can be represented by a conic section. The six or...

Folk literature has many different genres. They are folktales, myths, worships, beliefs, rituals, proverbs, idioms and performing arts. found that the ideas in songs stories presented folk aimed at reconstructing history so they theorized them. The of helps to reconstruct grassroot people advance identity politics. Narrative also have such characteristics but mythological narratives can an impa...

Previous research has indicated that memories can be modified in conjunction with one’s attitudes, in particular, political beliefs. The current study extended this finding by focusing on the relationship between differing religious beliefs and false memories for news events. We predicted that religious people would be more inclined to remember fabricated news events positively depicting religi...

The order in which user stories are implemented can have a significant influence on the overall development cost. The total cost of developing a system is non commutative because of dependencies between user stories. This paper presents a systematic and lightweight method to identify dependencies between user stories, aiding in the reduction of their impact on the overall project cost. Initial ...

Since prehistoric times, humankind has always wondered how its own existence came to be, and kept this question on the agenda continued search for an answer. One of central themes all three monotheistic religions is genesis humanity, tale Adam Eve frequently been topic oral written literature. This story expressed in various ways narratives, sometimes literally figuratively. Examples narrative ...

In this paper, necessary and sufficient conditions are stated for the Craig-Sakamoto equation det(I − sA − tB) = det(I − sA)det(I − tB) to hold for all scalars s, t ∈ C. Moreover, spectral properties for matrices A and B that satisfy this equation are investigated.

The concept of development as freedom can be seen as an expansion process of real freedoms people enjoy, associated with their freedom of choices in social, political and economical spheres. Certain international agencies propose that Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allow this development to be reached more efficiently and quickly. While there are success stories galore, there is...

When was the last time you read a newspaper and was bombarded with articles you would rather not see? Current news media shows massive number of news every day. But from tragedies to happy stories, people might want to choose to read only those articles that fit their current mood. The purpose of this project is to present the Magnet News, a Web tool in which users can choose if they want to se...