the present article aims at drawing inferences from the holy verses of the qur’ān that are useful in cognitive treatment of depression disorder. the lawful inference of these doctrines takes place on the basis of verbal contexts of speech such as emphatic words and conventional meaning of the words as well as allegorical interpretation (ta’wīl) of speech on the basis of the rule for the biparti...

The Remembrance Agent (RA) is a program which augments human memory by displaying a list of documents which might be relevant to the user’s current context. Unlike most information retrieval systems, the RA runs continuously without user intervention. Its unobtrusive interface allows a user to pursue or ignore the RA’s suggestions as desired. The Remembrance Agent Most of a desktop computer’s t...

Instead of arguing whether or not Sayyid ʿAlī Muḥammad Shīrāzī (the Bāb, 1819–1850) and his writings are Islamic, this paper suggests that they simultaneously Islamic post-Islamic. The Bāb’s Qayyūm al-asmāʾ, written at the outset Bābī movement in 1844, can be understood as a commentary on Quran, original divine revelation. Although Bāb gradually disclosed identity to public, status (associated ...

Last night there was an earthquake a few hundred miles away from where I am writing this in California, but it was strong enough to wake me. For a minute or so I could feel the building flapping and rocking and the furniture shaking and moving around the room. This was followed by a deep silence, but I could not go back to sleep, and there is nothing like lying in bed after an earthquake has fa...

This paper describes a project carried out by the authors to design and evaluate a mobile guide with visual content for a large and significant war memorial in Melbourne called 'The Shrine of Remembrance'. A practical intention was to display items from extensive, but currently unseen, archives of historic materials, including architectural drawings, iconic postcards, film of past ceremonies of...

Remembrance of recent events is a major problem for individuals with dementia. Consequently, this article explores the process of acceptance and integration of a digital photograph diary (DPD) as a tool for remembrance of and conversations about daily life events. A design for multiple case studies was used. Seven couples, in which one individual in the couple had Alzheimer's disease, tested th...

Developmental theories suggest that children initially conceptualize God in concrete, anthropomorphic terms. In contrast, recent research has found that from early on, children recognize God as a being radically different from humans. Previous research has been limited to studies of Christian children. The present study questioned children and adults raised in a religious tradition (Church of J...