Species spreading beyond their native ranges are important study objects in ecology and environmental sciences research on biological invasions is thriving. Along with an increase the number of publications, field experiencing diversity methods applied questions asked. This development has facilitated upsurge information invasions, but it also creates conceptual practical challenges. To provide...

The question of the origin of Islamic mysticism has been one of the major concerns of many researchers in the field of mysticism in the recent decades. Some have maintained that Islamic mysticism is an imported product: a combination of Eastern spiritual traditions or a mixture of Manichaeism and Alexandrian philosophy. However, in order to find out the real origin of Islamic mysticism, the bes...

Our image sequence interpretation process, which generates conceptual descriptions of the behaviour of vehicles in real-world traac scenes, essentially treated only a single vehicle (the agent) so far. Simultaneous behaviours of other vehicles in the scene have been formulated only relative to the agent. The approach discussed in this contribution allows us to quantify occurrences and thus to g...

We discuss a range of in vitro and in vivo approaches to deep lexical acquisition, and evaluate a representative sample of each in learning lexical items for a precision grammar. Evaluation focuses particularly on determining the effectiveness of each method at the token and type level, and over the four basic word classes of English. Each method is shown to have particular strengths and weakne...

The ‘omnivore’ hypothesis currently dominates the academic literature on social patterning of taste. It argues that cultural elites no longer resemble traditional stereotype an elitist snob. Instead, they are more likely to be ‘omnivores’ with broad tastes encompassing both elite and popular forms. omnivore has inspired than two decades research debate, without a clear resolution. In this artic...