described in this book. In this field there have been a larger number of founders than permanent educational foundations. Dealing with maladjusted children has been a particularly personal matter, undertaken by people with their own therapeutic methods; they have attracted a group of followers, not infrequently exploited them crassly in terms of financial return and hours of work, and evolved m...

In this Letter, we investigate the reduced-order synchronization of uncertain chaotic systems. Based upon the parameters modulation and the adaptive control techniques, we control the response system to be the drive system even though their orders are different and their parameters are unknown. The techniques are successfully applied to two examples: generalized Lorenz system (fourth order) and...

Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) greatly contributed to the discussion of religious feeling and knowledge in attempting to characterize the experience of the “holy” as disclosed and distinctive in all religions. This article will first analyze his fundamental theory of the “numinous” experience, and then examine the notion of the “numen,” the object and source of the numinous experience, which he claims...