The attentive power of the soul. This power investigates and perceives whatever is transacted in man; and says, I understand, I think, I opine, I am angry, I desire. This attentive part of the soul, also, passes through all the rational, irrational, and vegetable or physical powers. In short, this power is the one of the soul, which follows all the other powers and energizes together with them....

Faith-based initiatives for lifestyle change show promise in helping to promote healthy behaviors in African American communities. It has been suggested that faith communities and programs within faith communities can influence health care practices and health care planning especially in high risk, minority populations. African American individuals are more likely to attend and participate in f...

This article stresses the main lines of Thomas Aquinas's philosophy on the nature of the body-soul union. Following Aristotle, Aquinas sees the soul as a 'principle of life' which is intimately bound to a body. Together they form a non-contingent composition. In addition, the distinctive feature of the human soul is rationality, which implies that a human needs a mind to be what it is. However,...

This paper describes the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Machine Translation (MT) systems developed by IOIT for the evaluation campaign of IWSLT2013. For the ASR task, using Kaldi toolkit, we developed the system based on weighted finite state transducer. The system is constructed by applying several techniques, notably, subspace Gaussian mixture models, speaker adaptation, discriminativ...

The article is written in connection with the comprehensive exhibition project “Blagovestnov. Prophecies of Present” (April 28 – October 2, 2022). In a carefully thought-out author`s space exposition works by Alexey Blagovestnov, corresponding member Russian Academy Arts, from Pereslavl Museum-Reserve and private collections were combined wooden sculpture XVIII-XIX centuries collection Rostov K...

Various models of personhood exist within Christianity. These often involve a particular understanding of the human soul. We believe that three common assumptions about the soul are incorrect and may lead to errors in Christian praxis. These assumptions are that the soul (1) is instantaneously created at the moment of fertilization, (2) is immaterial and pure and somehow better than the body, a...