Alzheimer disease represents an insidious impairment of intellect and emotional well-being. However, recent advances in biochemical pathology and human genetics offer promise that effective therapeutic agents may soon be developed.

In Chapter XVII of the Commentary on Gospel John, Eckhart comments John 17, 3: «Now this is eternal life: may they know you, only true God, and one you sent, Jesus Christ». The comment begins like this: «If beatitude consists an act intellect or will, it old question. From words above [from John] seems that essentially knowledge intellect». To make his position clear, cites some texts by August...

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Euler’s birth (on April 15), an attempt is made to bring Euler’s genius to the attention of a broad segment of the educated public. The three stations of his life—Basel, St. Petersburg, and Berlin—are sketched and the principal works identified in more or less chronological order. To convey a flavor of his work and its impact on modern science, a sele...

The integration of practice and learning is a key to cultivation of or­ ganizational capability for creating or inheriting intellect. In this paper, firstly we address the critical research issues for collaborative space design to inte­ grate practice and learning. Following the discussion, we have built an ontology which specifies the structure of the collaborative learning, described patterns...