In the valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, ca 1800 years ago, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimentary rock of the region. They measured 53 and 35 meters in height and the Great one figured as the tallest representation of a standing Buddha worldwide. In March 2001 the Taleban militia demolished the colossal statues, as they were considered an insult to Islam. After the de...

Musical Platonists identify musical works with abstract sound structures but this implies that they are not created but only discovered. Jerrold Levinson adapts Platonism to allow for creation by identifying musical works with indicated sound structures. In this paper I explore the similarities between Levinson’s view and Kit Fine’s theory of qua objects. Fine offers the theory of qua objects a...

Nell’opera di Cicerone si possono riconoscere tre modalità approccio alle statue antropomorfe degli dèi. La prima intende la statua come un’oggettivazione della divinità. seconda associa strettamente all’entità divina, e contempla nascita un’entità animata. terza concentra sulla questione teologica pensare gli dèi, nella loro immortalità, a partire da un oggetto materiale. Questo contributo mis...

This article explores some of the recent debates over statues, memorials and cultures commemoration in New Zealand. These 'statue wars' are particularly focused on explorers, military men, colonial governors, even Queen Victoria herself, figures who seen as being deeply implicated production persistent inequalities pain that has resulted from colonialism empire. My analysis focuses city Tūranga...

salinity is one of the major environmental stresses that limit plant growth and productivity. glasswort (salicornia herbacea l.) is one of the native halophytic plants of iran that widely spread in salt areas. the purpose of this study was to determine the physiological and growth responses of s. herbacea to salinity stress. plastic pods (15 cm diameter, 20 cm height) with the silica sand bed w...

In conventional DEA, measures are classified as either input or output. However, in some real cases there are variables whose status is not known as input or output before assessment. These variable are known as flexible measures. One of the most important economic dimensions for ensuring the success of a company is the efficiency with which it uses its resources. Therefore, centering on Asses...

Bouayad-Agha et al. (2012) issued a content determination challenge in which researchers were asked to create systems that can automatically select content suitable for a first paragraph in a Wikipedia article from an RDF knowledge base of information about people. This article is a description of the system built at the University of Aberdeen. Our working assumption is that the target text sho...