the glorious prophetic parables, as part of the islamic parables, contain the expressions so impressive and delightful that indicate the splendid eloquence of the blessed prophet. these parables _ which have strong context, novel concept, and firm style, and originated from a dynamic and profound thought and have many advantages _ indicate that the blessed prophet spoke in perfect eloquence and...

Odor naming is difficult for people, but recent cross-cultural research suggests this difficulty is culture-specific. Jahai speakers (hunter-gatherers from the Malay Peninsula) name odors as consistently as colors, and much better than English speakers (Majid & Burenhult, 2014). In Jahai the linguistic advantage for smells correlates with a cultural interest in odors. Here we ask whether sub-cu...

Many problems, like feature selection, involve evaluating objects while ignoring the relevant underlying properties that determine their true value. Generally, an heuristic evaluating device (e.g. filter, wrapper, etc) is then used with no guarantee on the result. We show in this paper how a set of experts (evaluation function of the objects), not even necessarily weakly positively correlated w...

Introduction As we commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the death of Andreas Vesalius, our thoughts may turn to another sixteenth-century figure who made an epoch-making contribution to medicine: to Paracelsus.1 At first glance, they seem as much alike as fire and water. Their life and work had its setting in different cultural milieus. The tempestuous character of the German reformati...