From its beginning, a critical part of Christianity has been the gathering of people worshipping together. By virtue of this activity, the “place” where they worship has become endowed with a symbolic form. Historically, when believers build their places of worship they have searched for a physical form capable of expressing this symbolic form. This form simultaneously reflects the specific cha...

Leveraging client upload capacity through peerassisted content distribution was shown to decrease the load on content providers, while also improving average distribution times. These benefits, however, are limited by the disparity between client upload and download speeds, especially in scenarios requiring a minimum distribution time (MDT) of a fresh piece of content to a set of clients. Achie...

For most people the world consists of a multitude of things, objects, or entities, such as rocks, animals, and humans. All of these are then ordered in terms of higher and lower: animals are higher than rocks, humans are higher than animals, and those who believe in angels would say that angels are higher than humans. This kind of thinking and perception of reality is hierarchical because in a ...

In this project, a multilevel inverter was designed and implemented to operate a stand-alone solar photovoltaic system. The proposed system uses selective harmonics elimination pulse-width modulation (PWM) in the multilevel inverter to convert DC voltage from battery storage to supply AC loads. In the PWM method, the effectiveness of eliminating low-order harmonics in the inverter output voltag...

Contemporary angelology is primarily an apologetic response to the negation of existence angelic reality by liberal Protestantism. Bulgakov’s teaching about angels, on other hand, arose as indispensable part theological system. The orthodox author defines angels created ideas reality. As with Plato, every thing has its own idea, so Bulgakov it angel. are therefore closely related earthly world ...

results in the first step, holy quran helps people avoid depression and in this regard introduces factors such as “sincerity”, “resistance”, “virtue”, “trust in god”, “belief”, “good deeds” and etc. as grief protection factors. a bunch of holy quran verses, with precise and meticulous look, point to the causes of grief such as “punishment of sins in this world and the hereafter”, “financial and...

play an important role here, as in many other aspects of everyday life. In medicine, amulets were used to gain longevity, cure certain problems (e.g., madness, alcoholism, leprosy, headache, and bedwetting), ward off epidemics, guarantee fertility or sterility, and bring pregnancy to a safe conclusion; in other areas, they served to protect against weapons, cancel the effects of other amulets, ...