the idea of relation between religions is one of important subjects in comparative religion, philosophy of religion and new theology. in this respect, from one hand the theory of plurality and diversity of religions, and on the other hand globalization, which is one of outcomes of our modern world, has lead human beings on some new attitudes about relation of religions like: exclusivism, plural...

In this set of lecture notes we focus on the point-value representation obtained by looking at a particular set of points, the nth roots of unity. In the field of complex numbers C, there are exactly n different solutions to the equation x = 1. We call these solutions the n-th roots of unity. One of these roots of unity is ωn = cos(2π/n)+ i sin(2π/n), and this is called the principal nth root o...

The growth of the Internet has not only greatly simplified the access to existing sources of information but also motivated the creation of numerous new sources. Paradoxically, this growth has made difficult the tasks of finding, extracting, and aggregating relevant information. Gateways, protocols like Object Database Connectivity (ODBC), and standards like eXtensible Markup Language (XML) are...

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a Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, 20 avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Correspondence to Kent Buse (e-mail: [email protected]). Recent increases in resources for achieving the goal of universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support have given renewed impetus to the longer-standing political commitment for achieving targets in sexual and reproductive health an...

How many times have we heard this phrase or others like it?. The advantages of working together as a team are perfectly demonstrated. Almost no one denies the fact that two (or more) heads are better than one. But teamwork has its dark spots, because within the group usually there is diversity of characters that can disturb the harmony that should reign within the team. If these differences are...

We introduce a new Partition of Unity Method for the numerical homogenization of elliptic partial differential equations with arbitrarily rough coefficients. We do not restrict to a particular ansatz space or the existence of a finite element mesh. The method modifies a given partition of unity such that optimal convergence is achieved independent of oscillation or discontinuities of the diffus...

We extend the language of the classical syllogisms with the sentenceforms “At most 1 p is a q” and “More than 1 p is a q”. We show that the resulting logic does not admit a finite set of syllogism-like rules whose associated derivation relation is sound and complete, even when reductio ad absurdum is allowed.

Despite a burst of work in the past decade or so, some of it by us, there is still no general agreement on what unified consciousness is. This despite increasing recognition of its importance. Once more into the breach! When one experiences a noise and, say, a pain, one is not conscious of the noise and, separately, of the pain. One is conscious of the noise and pain together, as aspects of a s...