This paper examines Chán master Jìngxi?’s preface to the original Z?táng jí in one scroll, which was presented him by Jìng and Yún at Zh?oqìng monastery Quánzh?u around mid-tenth century. Building on a recent TEI-based edition, it offers an annotated translation comprehensive analysis of preface, with special attention its structure, linguistic features, issues intertextuality. The essay focuse...

Preface by the Editors to special thematic volume dedicated memory of Jakub Kloc-Konkołowicz.

The conference series Machines, Computations and Universality (MCU) explores computation in the setting of various discrete models, such as Turing machines, register machines, cellular automata, tile assembly systems, rewriting systems, molecular computing models and neural models, and in the setting of analog and hybrid models, including BSS machines, signal machines and quantum computing, to ...

As information modeling takes a more prominent role in organizations and the implications become more widespread, researchers, practitioners and academicians alike will need to have access to the most up-to-date research and practice in information modeling techniques and applications. The chapters in this book address the timely topics of unified modeling language, enterprise resource planning...

This Special Issue of the Journal of Computer Security comprises of three papers presented at the 13th IFIP 11.3 Working group conference on Database Security, which was held in Seattle, Washington, in July 1999. The primary objective of this annual conference is to disseminate original research results and development efforts in the area of database security, and to provide a platform for rese...

Preface A writer keeps surprising himself... he doesn't know what he is saying until he sees it on the page. It is often said that the preface is the most read part of a thesis. If this is true, what is the contribution of distributing a thesis to the progress of science? Why does NWO 1 pay for printing it? Let us first try to answer the question why the preface is thought to the most read part...

This preface to the Special Issue titled “Climate Change Dynamics and Modeling: Future Perspectives” presents eight articles, largely focused on a range of interdisciplinary issues related climatic changes [...]

Welcome to another issue of Seminars in Thrombosis and Hemostasis (STH). This is published under the “banner” “Maintaining hemostasis preventing thrombosis coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) : Part II”; this being second such issue. The first was 2020 has proved very popular with STH readership.[1] [2] COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Believed originate from...