The association of twins with health-giving powers is widespread in mythology, folklore, and religion. The Ashvins of the Rig-Veda, the classical Dioscuri, and the early Christian saints Cosmos and Damian are among the many examples of twins divinely empowered in the area of health and fertility. A characteristic set of attributes of twins recurs in different mythologies of wide distribution. I...

Can humans acquire knowledge of ultimate reality, even significant or comprehensive knowledge? I argue that for all we know we can, and that is so whether ultimate reality is divine or non-divine. My strategy involves arguing that we are ignorant, in the sense of lacking public or shared knowledge, about which possibilities, if any, obtain for humans to acquire knowledge of ultimate reality. Th...

Terror management theory posits that one’s self-esteem and worldview operate jointly to manage mortality concerns. Accordingly, past research shows that mortality salience (MS) increases selfenhancement and worldview defense. The current research is the first to examine MS effects when self-enhancement threatens to undermine aspects of the worldview, in this case the credibility and status of w...

On October 8, 2009, WorldView-2 joined its sister satellites, WorldView-1 and QuickBird, in orbit. WorldView-2 is a remote-sensing satellite principally used to capture high-resolution images of the earth. The images provided by the satellite can be used for applications such as mapping, land planning, disaster relief, exploration, defense and intelligence, visualization and simulation of envir...

The article examines the ideas of environmentalism in works and statements His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I. ecological concept "Green Patriarch" reveals relations between religion environment. cause environmental crisis is recognized as a spirituality. It argued that utilitarian logic ethics are not enough to change human behavior towards environment – thinking requires anot...

The advent of hyperspectral remote sensing has provided new opportunities for species mapping. However, the high dimensionality of hyperspectral data limits the application of parametric classifiers for species mapping because of the demand for a large number of training samples. This situation could change with the arrival of new spaceborne multispectral sensors such as WorldView-2 and RapidEy...