Pyramids touch us in many ways. According to a popular definition which most of us will understand, a pyramid is a stone structure with a flat (usually) square base and with sloping sides that meet at the top, especially built by the ancient Egyptians as a tomb or by the Aztecs and Mayas as a platform for a temple, raised for edification. Then there are food pyramids that propose to solve the o...

in islam, the world and hereafter life, plurality and unity, and inner and outer part each has its own place. islamic spirituality as an inner knowledge finds connection with islamic social idea. the purpose of which is a kind of social education and human life edification in all aspects, because, in view of the gnostics, the outer and inner worlds have longitudinal relationship.the mystics in ...

Роботу присвячено дослідженню структури концепту EDUCATION в англомовному медіадискурсі. Наразі у вітчизняній науці не було здійснено ґрунтовних досліджень стосовно EDUCATION, зокрема його функціонування саме текстах англомовного медіадискурсу, що й зумовило актуальність цієї роботи. Мета та завдання статті полягає поглибленні наявних підходів до поняття концепту, аналізі медіадискурсу. Предмет...

In order to show the achievements of eminent monks who made great contributions spread and establishment Buddhism in China, Huijiao (慧皎) compiled Gaosengzhuan (高僧傳, Biographies Eminent Monks) set up ten subjects, Shike (十科); meaning rules for translating. The subjects served as an important framework its significance a general history Buddhism. This was further confirmed by Xu-Gaosengzhuan (續高僧...

Equity is defined as a correlation between person’s merits and their remuneration. This article deals with social labor equity, regarding it subjective assessment of the ratio wages to employees’ physical and/or intellectual effort. The aims determine academic teaching staff pay equity. An empirical study semi-formalized expert research method was carried out 86 four Russian universities. A ser...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease and dementia are growing medical and social problems in aging societies. Appropriate knowledge of cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline risk factors (RFs) are critical for global CVR health preventive intervention. Many epidemiological studies use case definition based on data collected/measured in a single visit, a fact that can overestimate prevalence ...

Trafficking natural objects and trafficking cultural objects have been treated separately both in regulatory policy and in criminological discussion. The former is generally taken to be 'wildlife crime' while the latter has come to be considered under the auspices of a debate on 'illicit art and antiquities'. In this article we study the narrative discourse of high-end collectors of orchids and...

Welcome reader, we are excited to present to you four articles in this issue themed around the Semantics of People and Culture. Now that we've piqued your interest with a provocative special issue title, an explanation of what we mean by it is in order. VISION As you'll well appreciate, the original Semantic Web advocacy article put forth by Berners-Lee, Hendler, and Lassila (2001) proved catal...