Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece, The wind in the willows, contains a classic description of a religious experience as Ratty and Mole come face-to-face with the Piper at the Gates of Dawn. This chapter draws on Happold’s identification of seven characteristics of mystical experience, as amplified by the Francis-Louden Mystical Orientation Scale, to test whether Ratty and Mole’s experience can be p...

In this article, we intend to put forward several problems related to the design of man-machine multimodal dialogues. We will not take into account every man-machine multimodal dialogue but only those in which the user is in front of a computer system in order to perform a given task, as opposed to for example a dialogue dedicated to the interrogation of a database [Carbonell 89]. In such a dia...

Arabis stellari var. japonica is an ornamental plant of the Brassicaceae family, and is widely distributed in South Korea. However, no information is available about its molecular biology and no genomic study has been performed on A. stellari. In this paper, the authors report the complete chloroplast genome sequence of A. stellari. The plastome of A. stellari was 153,683 bp in length with 36.4...

A close look at the writings of the Middle Eastern and North African scholars who lived in the Middle Ages (roughly between A.D. 476-1500) reveals an immense body of theoretical knowledge pertaining to the humanities, and behavioral and social sciences. A partial list of the scholars who wrote on these issues includes names such as Abu Yusuf (8th century), Abul-Fadl Al-Dimishgi (9th century), A...

What are neural nets? The biological model: The human brain The components of a neural net What they can and where they fail The learning process What means "learning" refering to neural nets? Supervised and unsupervised learning Forwardpropagation Backpropagation Selforganization

We examined microsatellite variation in two diploid, outcrossing relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana, Arabis petraea and Arabis lyrata. The primer sequences were derived from A. thaliana. About 50% (14 loci) of the A. thaliana primers could successfully amplify microsatellites in the related species. Analysis of microsatellite structure in the related species showed that there had been large chan...

The present article aims to explore Rumi’s ontological approach Being and World which is deeply impressed by mystical doctrines practices of Islamic Sufism the writings his contemporary philosopher Ibn 'Arabi. Rumi finds all components creation as a manifestation unique manifestations God, in God has manifested much talents creators. In Rumi's view, existence mirror constantly manifesting. univ...

Centre de Référence de Médecine et de Réanimation Néonatale de l’Hôpital d’Enfants de Rabat, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Ibn Sina, Avenue Ibn Rochd, Agdal, Rabat, Maroc, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Nutrition et Alimentation URAC 39, Université Ibn Tofail-CNESTEN, RDC-Nutrition AFRA/AIEA, Maroc, Equipe de Recherche en Santé et Nutrition du Couple Mère-Enfant, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharm...