Horrendous evil describes the anthropological view of excessive evils which devastate and dehumanise both victim and perpetrator, casting doubt as to whether life is worth living. Divine exultation and divine agony are viewed from the perspective of divinity, whose initial creation brought God pleasure and its fall an offence so deep that, though he considered its total destruction, God instead...

This paper addresses shifts in governance and the re-framing of citizenship discourse in the People’s Republic of China during the 1990s. Drawing upon a Sinicized Marxist-Leninism, public intellectuals and propagandists have sought to represent citizens’ rights primarily as socio-economic beneŽ ts of China’s reform agenda delivered by the Communist Party. This materialist articulation of citize...

Vila na Rede is an Inclusive Social Network (ISN) system developed as a product of e-Cidadania's Project, with the objective of being accessible to a broad variety of users, including those less familiar with technology or with low literacy skills. Different features were incorporated into Vila na Rede in order to provide its users with scaffolding learning support that helps them profit more f...

Vila na Rede is an Inclusive Social Network (ISN) system developed as a joint effort with Brazilian communities. As a product of e-Cidadania's Project, it has inherited the objective of being accessible for the widest variety of users, including those less familiar with technology or with low literacy levels. In this direction, different features were incorporated into Vila na Rede in order to ...

Este artigo apresenta uma análise da rede de coautoria do Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados (SBBD) que em 2010 completou 25 anos de existência, consolidando-se como o maior e mais importante evento da América Latina para apresentação e discussão de resultados de pesquisa relacionados à área de bancos de dados. Para isso, coletamos dados bibliográ cos de todas as suas 25 edições e apresentam...

We examined experiencing divine love as an indicator of affective spiritual growth in a prospective cohort of 200 patients surviving cardiac surgery. These patients previously completed two-wave preoperative interviews when standardized cardiac surgery data were also collected. The information included left ventricular ejection fraction, New York Heart Association Classification, baseline healt...

The handiwork and the glory of God displayed by the heavens and the firmament have been called General Divine Revelation. In this category one may also include the constitution of human personality, for man himself is a creation of God and in some sense bears the marks of his Creator. This “light of nature and the works of creation and providence do so far manifest the goodness, wisdom, and pow...

We present a specialization inheritance mechanism for a strongly typed object-oriented language, called Enhanced Strict Inheritance (ESI). It is a mechanism of classi cation in which the subclassing relation between classes re ects the subtyping relationship between the corresponding types. The de nition of ESI is based on a covariant rede nition rule for methods. ESI is modeled via the &ESI-ca...

In this work, we present the development of radial basis function circuits in CMOS technology. Two one-dimensional circuits, namely RBF1 and RBF2, are proposed for radial basis function realization, and their functionality is demonstrated by SPICE simulations and by their implementation with commercial MOSFET array integrated circuits. Multidimensional capability is demonstrated by the implemen...