Although in some sense narrative approaches in practical theology have been developed only recently, one could claim that there is a long and intrinsic history of their relationship. Religious practices that form the core material for theological reflection in practical theology are often directly related to narratives. In one way or another human stories are connected with stories of and about...

these days, due to growing the e-commerce sites, access to information about items is easier than past. but because of huge amount of information, we need new filtering techniques to find interested information faster and more accurate. therefore recommender systems (rs) introduced for solving this problem. although several recommender approaches have proposed, collaborative filtering (cf) appr...

Tinnitus has been considered an auditory phantom percept. Recently a theoretical multiphase compensation mechanism at a cortical level has been hypothesized linking auditory deafferentation to tinnitus. This Bayesian brain model predicts that two very different kinds of tinnitus should exist, depending on the amount of hearing loss: an auditory cortex related form of tinnitus not associated wit...

Is there a single principle by which neural operations can account for perception, cognition, action, and even consciousness? A strong candidate is now taking shape in the form of “predictive processing”. On this theory, brains engage in predictive inference on the causes of sensory inputs by continuous minimization of prediction errors or informational “free energy”. Predictive processing can ...

The main task of this thesis is to develop multi-scale approaches to model electron transport in molecular device. At the single molecular level, both elastic and inelastic electron-tunneling processes have been treated simultaneously using first principles methods. By comparing with experiments, the mechanism for conductance switching observed in Pd-dithiolated oligoaniline-Pd molecular juncti...

While region-based image alignment algorithms that use gradient descent can achieve sub-pixel accuracy when they converge, their convergence depends on the smoothness of the image intensity values. Image smoothness is often enforced through the use of multi-scale approaches in which images are smoothed and downsampled. Yet, these approaches typically use fixed smoothing parameters which may be ...

2 1 Abstract 2 3 Insight is provided into the use of objective Bayesian methods for estimating 4 climate sensitivity by considering their relationship to transformations of variables in the 5 context of a simple case considered in a previous study, and some misunderstandings 6 about Bayesian inference are discussed. A simple model in which climate sensitivity (S) 7 and effective ocean heat diff...

This chapter presents a philosophical synthesis of a range of work relating psychoanalysis and neuroscience. The overall argument is (1) material in these and related fields can usefully be integrated via the notion of representation; (2) the appropriate notion of representation is a biological one common both to psychoanalysis and the Holmholtz/Bayes tradition in neuroscience; and consequently...