International Journal of Control Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393989 Improved robust H∞ control for neutral systems via discretised Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional Fernando O. Souza a; Reinaldo M. Palhares a; Valter J. S. Leite b a Department of Electronics Engineering, Federal University ...

In this paper I argue that J. L. Schellenberg’s Divine Hiddenness Argument is committed to a problematic implication that is weakened by research in cognitive psychology on affective forecasting. Schellenberg’s notion of a nonresistant nonbeliever logically implies that for any such person, it is true that she would form the proper belief in God if provided with what he calls “probabilifying” e...

What types of attributions and appraisals predict gratitude to God (GTG)? After preregistering key hypotheses, we did an Internet survey 1078 U.S. adults focused on a recent positive event. Even when controlling religiousness belief, GTG was strongly related divine for the event, which seemed more plausible seen as powerful loving attribution made event seem meaningful. In addition these cognit...

Conrad and Lieber, and two on Western Europe by Nutton and Touati. It is introduced by Conrad and Wujastyk, organizers of a conference on contagion at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in 1993, on which the volume is based. The book is particularly useful in presenting a global picture of the notion of contagion in various pre-modern societies by first looking at the terms that...

Tim Whitmarsh, Cambridge, UK Were the atheoi atheists? Religious scepticism and Greek polytheism It is a truism that there are few exact ancient equivalents to the modern atheist, who denies all and any possible supernatural power. To reach that position, one has to have both a rigid, identifiable line of differentiation between the natural and the supernatural, and a more or less coherent conc...

This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118 interviews with Muslims and Druze. Both the Muslims and Druze in this study attribute supernatural dimensions to sacred trees which are directly related to ancient, deep-rooted pagan traditions. The...