Mainstream economic thought and practice has resulted in widespread socioeconomic disparity and environmental devastation in all corners of the world, unmitigated by a multi-billion dollar development industry informed by these same economic models. To reverse this trend, the dominant forms of economic thought and practice must be reunited with ethics that are more caring of the human-nature ba...

Beginning in the first century AD, Buddhist texts underwent a series of translations during a period of nearly 1300 years. The identification of the translator, textual apocrypha, and translation style in Buddhist texts are always important issues. This study proposes an approach to find the most discriminative features that characterize the different Buddhist translation texts or other transla...

Eastern Buddhist thoughts were spread from India to China where, after evolution and internalization, they became part of nuclear Chinese concepts. Since it is claimed that Buddhist thoughts are theories to explain world phenomena and human thoughts and behavior, it is worthy to study them. Western management science classifies management activity elements into decision-making activities, mecha...

For comparing RNA rings or hairpins with reference or random ring sequences, circular versions of distances and distributions like those of Hamming and Gumbel are needed. We define these circular versions and we apply these new tools to the comparison of RNA relics (such as micro-RNAs and tRNAs) with viral genomes that have coevolved with them. Then we show how robust are the regulation network...

This article is concerned with the question of whether Pāli Buddhism endorses vegetarianism and therefore whether a good Buddhist ought to abstain from eating meat. A prima facie case for vegetarianism will be presented that relies upon textual citation in which the Buddha stipulates that a good Buddhist must encourage others not to kill. The claim that the Buddha endorses vegetarianism, howeve...

cognitive science has found out that languages typically make use of conceptual metaphors to concretize abstract meanings. conceptual metaphor explains a target domain which is abstract via a source domain which is concrete. in other words, conceptual metaphor compares an abstract domain with a concrete one and thus makes it understandable for listeners/readers. this article studies the concept...

Recent improvements in the capabilities of low frequency radio telescopes provide a unique opportunity to study thermal and non-thermal properties of the cosmic web. We argue that the diffuse, polarized emission from giant radio relics traces structure formation shock waves and illuminates the large-scale magnetic field. To show this, we model the population of shockaccelerated relativistic ele...