similarity between cultures, languages and arts is natural. literary genres are also related to each other. it is obvious that if literary works are to be concerned with a subject or particular theme, this convergence will be further and clearer. the sacred defense literature, which is a spiritual literature, came to the fore both in poetry and prose more than other literary types. due to its c...

In this paper, we intend to propose a novel pathway for achieving systems thinking—a prerequisite for strategic management—in the context of collaborative governance. This novel pathway, namely an interpretive-emergent-holistic approach, is grounded in complex adaptive systems framework and aimed at leveraging the computational power of today’s information technology in providing rigorous, syst...

The curse of dimensionality associated with the Hilbert space of spin systems provides a significant obstruction to the study of condensed matter systems. Tensor networks have proven an important tool in attempting to overcome this difficulty in both the numerical and analytic regimes. These notes form the basis for a seven lecture course, introducing the basics of a range of common tensor netw...

We describe an approach to image interpretation which uses a dynamically determined interaction of prediction and observation. We provide a representational mechansim, built on our geometric modeling scheme which facilitates the computational processes necessary for image interpretation. The mechanism implements generic object classes and specializations of models, enables case analysis in reas...

Traditional simulation of a target architecture by interpreting object code can be improved by translating the object code to an intermediate format. This approach is called interpretive translation. Despite a substantial performance improvement over traditional interpretation, a large part of the overhead is unnecessary. An alternative approach is block translation, where one or more simulated...

Archaeology is a visually rich discipline with a long history of utilising images across a variety of contexts within its practice. However, due to the often unavoidably subjective nature of visual interpretation, fundamental issues with its application remain problematic and largely unresolved. Furthermore, in recent years the rising dominance of digital techniques for archaeological threedime...