Historical narratives and collective memory are relevant to claims regarding community, territory, identity related the Kashmir conflict. They have been central in shaping India's national imaginary mobilizing support for New Delhi's policies region. The article analyzes how topos of "paradise on earth" has informed trajectories Indian state transforming, under Modi government, into a call acti...

Scholars and policy-makers have expressed concerns about the crediting of coauthors in research publications. Most such problems fall into one of two categories, excluding deserving contributors or including undeserving ones. But our research shows that there is no consensus on "deserving" or on what type of contribution suffices for co-authorship award. Our study uses qualitative data, includi...

A system for diagnosing troubles encountered in large scale industrial refrigeration units with screw compressors, is presented by introducing the concept "probable state" of a component. The diagnosis process is implemented by examining the expert methods of trouble-shooting, accordingly generating the abstract representations of the units. The proposed system is readily utilized and tested, s...

Introduction MR data acquisition and image reconstruction are typically formulated using Fourier transform (FT) theory, i.e., the classical k-space relationship. However, in dynamic MR imaging (e.g., 2D Cartesian sampling) it takes a few milliseconds from collecting one k-space phase-encode (PE) line to the next, i.e., sampling in the PE direction is time-sequential and not instantaneous [1]. H...

In the Jewish Antiquities (I, 1, 3), when paraphrasing passage of Genesis 2, 10–15, Flavius Josephus notes that four rivers springing in paradise are Phison (Φεισὼν), which passes through India and is called Ganges by Greeks, Euphrates Tigris, flow into Red Sea, finally Geon, crosses Egypt Nile Greeks. Starting from Josephus’ comments, this research focuses on various interpretations passage, p...

t ferdous al-hekma (paradise of wisdom) is one of the oldest medical texts in the islamic world written in arabic in 850 ad by ali ibn raban tabari. he was a persian physician who moved from tabaristan (mazandaran province of modern day iran) to samarra during the reign of the abbasid caliph al-mutawakkil (847-861 ad). we studied the book of ferdous al-hekma fil-tibb, in an attempt to comprehen...