scholarly journals Crossing the Threshold of Cyborgization

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 54-65
Author(s):  
Anton Grinin ◽  
◽  
Leonid Grinin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Artificial Material ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Big History

Cyborgization is a hot topic these days. This is an intriguing process that is the subject of many futuristic novels and which at the same time takes place right before our eyes. In the present article we discuss the development of cyborgization, its place in Big History, its background and future directions, as well as the problems and risks of this interesting process. The authors are concerned about the question of whether the time will come when a person will mainly or completely consist not of biological, but of artificial material. The article also touches upon other problems and risks associated with future scientific and technological progress.

History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early Medieval England

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 13-26
Author(s):  
Brandon W. Hawk
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Medieval England ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early English

Literature written in England between about 500 and 1100 CE attests to a wide range of traditions, although it is clear that Christian sources were the most influential. Biblical apocrypha feature prominently across this corpus of literature, as early English authors clearly relied on a range of extra-biblical texts and traditions related to works under the umbrella of what have been called “Old Testament Pseudepigrapha” and “New Testament/Christian Apocrypha." While scholars of pseudepigrapha and apocrypha have long trained their eyes upon literature from the first few centuries of early Judaism and early Christianity, the medieval period has much to offer. This article presents a survey of significant developments and key threads in the history of scholarship on apocrypha in early medieval England. My purpose is not to offer a comprehensive bibliography, but to highlight major studies that have focused on the transmission of specific apocrypha, contributed to knowledge about medieval uses of apocrypha, and shaped the field from the nineteenth century up to the present. Bringing together major publications on the subject presents a striking picture of the state of the field as well as future directions.

Features of optative modality in Macedonian language (with emphasis on the functionalities of independent da-construction)

2020 ◽  
pp. 301-323
Author(s):  
Natalya I. Kikilo ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Natural Context ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Text Types ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ritual Context

In the Macedonian literary language the analytic da-construction used in an independent clause has a wide range of possible modal meanings, the most common of which are imperative and optative. The present article offers a detailed analysis of the semantics and functions of the Macedonian optative da-construction based on fiction and journalistic texts. The first part of the article deals with the specificities of the optative as a category which primarily considers the subject of a wish. In accordance with the semantic characteristics of this category, optative constructions are used in those discourse text types where the speakers are explicitly designated (the most natural context for the optative is the dialogue). The analysis of the Macedonian material includes instances of atypical usage of the optative da-construction, in which the wish of the subject is not apparent and thereby produces new emotional tonalities perceptible to the reader of a fiction/journalistic text. The study describes Macedonian constructions involving two different verb forms: 1) present tense form (da + praes) and 2) imperfective form (da + impf). These constructions formally designate the hypothetical and counterfactual status of the optative situation, respectively. Thus, the examples in the analysis are ordered according to two types of constructions, which reflect the speaker’s view on the probability of the realisation of his/her wish. Unrealistic wishes can be communicated through the present da-construction, while the imperfective construction denotes situations in which the wish can be realised in the future. The second part of the article is devoted to performative optative da-constructions, which express formulas of speech etiquette, wishes and curses. The analysis demonstrates that these constructions lose their magical functions, when used outside of the ritual context, and begin to function as interjections.

Gravity Models in International Trade: An Exploration in Econo-Physics

2021 ◽  
pp. 227797872198992
Author(s):  
Iman Pal ◽  
Saibal Kar
Keyword(s):  
Pattern Recognition ◽  
International Trade ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Gravity Models ◽  
Scientific Applications ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Trade Patterns ◽  
Pattern Recognition Techniques ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Jel Classifications

Several strands of the static and dynamic theoretical constructs and the empirical applications in the subject of economics owe substantially to the well-known principles of physical sciences. The present article explores as to how the development of the popular gravity models in international trade can be traced back to Newton’s law of gravitation, and to both Ohm’s Law and Kirchhoff’s Law of current electricity, as well as to the pattern recognition techniques commonly deployed in scientific applications. In addition to surveying these theoretical analogies, the article also offers numerical applications for observed trade patterns between India and a set of countries. JEL Classifications: F41, F42, C61, F47

scholarly journals A Comparative Study of Target Tracking Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmaa Ez-Zaidi ◽  
Said Rakrak
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Target Tracking ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Intense Research

Wireless sensor networks have been the subject of intense research in recent years. Sensor nodes are used in wide range of applications such as security, military, and environmental monitoring. One of the most interesting applications in wireless sensor networks is target tracking, which mainly consists in detecting and monitoring the motion of mobile targets. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of target tracking approaches. We then analyze them according to several metrics. We also discuss some of the challenges that influence the performance of tracking schemes. In the end, we conduct detailed analysis and comparison between these algorithms and we conclude with some future directions.

Perplejidad ante el almacenamiento geológico del dióxido de carbono

2014 ◽  
pp. 225-245
Author(s):  
José Francisco ALENZA GARCÍA
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Controversial Issue ◽  
Geological Storage ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The Subject

LABURPENA: Teknologiak aurrera egin ahala ingurumenean sortzen diren arriskuen kudeaketa juridikoa erronka zaila izaten da legegilearentzat. Ikusi besterik ez dago zer ahultasun dituen karbono dioxidoaren biltegiratze geologikoari buruzko abenduaren 29ko 40/2010 Legeak, arlo horretako arautegi nagusia denak. Lan honetan, ahultasun horietako batzuk lantzen dira: adibidez, gaiari buruzko berariazko lege bat egin beharra, eskumenen arazoa, instalazio igorle handiek CO2 biltegiratzeko obligaziorik ez izatea, eta Administrazio publikoei erantzukizuna transferitzearen erregulazioa. RESUMEN: Los retos juridicos de la gestion de los riesgos ambientales derivados del avance tecnologico no siempre encuentran una adecuada respuesta por el legislador. Una buena muestra de ello son las inconsistencias que presenta la regulacion del almacenamiento geologico del dioxido de carbono en nuestro pais llevada a cabo, fundamentalmente, por la Ley 40/2010, de 29 de diciembre, de almacenamiento geologico de dioxido de carbono. En este trabajo se analizan alguna de ellas como la necesidad de elaborar una ley especifica sobre la materia, la controvertida cuestion competencial, la ausencia de imposicion obligatoria del almacenamiento de CO2 a las grandes instalaciones emisoras y la regulacion de la transferencia de responsabilidad a las Administraciones publicas. ABSTRACT: The legal challenges of the enviromental risks management that derive from the technological progress do not always find a suitable answer in the legislator. A good example of it are the inconsistencies in the regulation of the geological storage of carbon dioxide in our country, specialy, by Act 40/2010 of December 29th of geological storage of carbon dioxide. In this work some of those are analyzed as for example the need to draft a specific act on the subject, the controversial issue of competences, the lack of a compulsory imposition to store CO2 to the large emitting facilities and the regulation of the transfer of liabilities to the public administrations.

CURRENT CHALLENGES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTH DEVELOPMENT

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 354-363
Author(s):  
Reham Ershaid Sami NUSAIR ◽  
Omar Jamil Ahmad MUQEDI
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Development ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Healthy Development ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Sustainable Health ◽  
Shed Light

Health has become one of the most important concerns in the field of development in various societies, as it is one of the most important factors contributing to achieving sustainable development, because healthy development represents an important element in the process of social and economic development, where real development cannot be achieved without improving health conditions. This study aims to identify the concept of sustainable health development, and the factors that contribute to achieving it, and its future directions, as well as an add value research related to health service facilities and the challenges that prevent achieving sustainability. The two researchers adopted the descriptive approach and deductive analysis of sustainability indicators, by reviewing many scientific sources related to the subject of the study in order to shed light on the sustainable design of health care services

Two puzzles on the nominative particle ga in Japanese

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-243
Author(s):  
Noriko Kawasaki
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Conversational Implicature ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Nominative Case ◽  
Semantic Account ◽  
The Subject

Abstract Back in the 1970s, Kazuko Inoue observed that some active sentences in Japanese allow a prepositional subject. Along with impersonal sentences pointed out by S.-Y. Kuroda, such examples suggest that the nominative subject is not an obligatory element in Japanese sentences. While this observation supports the hypothesis that important characteristics of the Japanese language follow from its lack of (forced-)agreement, Japanese potential sentences require the nominative ga on at least one argument. The present article argues that the nominative case particle ga is semantically vacuous even where a ga-marked phrase is indispensable or the ga-marked phrase is construed as exhaustively listing. Stative predicates require a ga-marked phrase because they can ascribe a property to an argument only by function application. The exhaustive listing reading arises by conversational implicature when the presence of a ga-marked phrase signals that a topic phrase is being avoided. The discussion leads to a semantic account of subject honorification whereby the honorification only concerns the semantic content of the predicate, and does not involve agreement with the subject. It is also shown that sentences with a prepositional subject allow zibun only as a long-distance anaphor, which indicates that they do lack a subject with the nominative Case.

On the Alleged Truth About Lies in Plato’s Republic

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 93-106
Author(s):  
Daniel A. Dombrowski
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject

The purpose of the present article is to explicate and criticize the most detailed philosophical appreciation of the ‘noble’ and other lies in Plato on a Straussian basis: Carl Page’s instructive 1991 article titled ‘The Truth about Lies in Plato’s Republic’. I carefully summarize and criticize Page’s sober, scholarly approach to the subject matter in question. Ultimately I reject his attempt to justify the ‘noble’ and other lies told by both Plato and contemporary government leaders.

A New Version of the Peregrinus

PMLA ◽  
1919 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-129
Author(s):  
Karl Young
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Gospel Of Luke ◽  
The Subject

The more recent discussions of the dramatic manifestations within the liturgy of Easter-tide have given fair consideration to a type of play,—Peregrinus,—centering in a dramatization of the appearence of Christ to the two disciples at Emmaus, as recounted in the Gospel of Luke. Although the importance of this post-Resurrection play has been sufficiently evident, the limited number of the extant texts has suggested that it was closely restricted in its distribution and development. Recent researches, however, have given promise of substantial future additions to this branch of knowledge. Since the date of the last comprehensive surveys of the subject, one complete new text has been discovered, together with a mutilated fragment of another text. The purpose of the present article is the communication of an additional version, considerably more extended in dramatic content than any of the versions published hitherto.

scholarly journals APPROACH TO RATIONAL CALCULATION OF SUPERELEVATION IN DUAL GAUGE TRACK

Transport ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 699-706 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inesa Gailienė ◽  
Martynas Gedaminskas ◽  
Alfredas Laurinavičius
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
Geometrical Parameter ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Rail Wear ◽  
Calculation Methodology ◽  
Rational Calculation ◽  
The Subject

One of the technical possibilities to solve a gauge crossing is to install a dual gauge. This solution has several advantages and disadvantages discussed in this paper. Lack of experience of maintenance and lack of standards for the design of dual track are among the most important disadvantages. The wheel and rail interface on track curves is more difficult than in straight sections. Therefore, the subject of the present article is a geometrical parameter of dual gauge track, i.e., the rail superelevation, which has an impact on the wheel–rail interaction at curves and influences the value of uncompensated acceleration, occurring when a train passes a curve, and, consequently, the intensity of rail wear. The objective of the present article is to analyse the features of dual gauge track and the superelevation calculation methodology considered, to present the approach to rational calculation of superelevation for dual gauge track of Šeštokai–Mockava (Lithuania–Poland) using several calculation versions as well as to make recommendations for the calculation of superelevation.

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