The politics of our age constantly call us toward chaotic violence in response to perceived threats. This politics of fear is pushing faith out of the public dialogue and the ethical reflections of our public figures. This worries me as a pastor and priest. All of us who would claim Jesus ...
The monument’s sculpture is composed of groupings of allegorical figures emphasizing sea power and America’s new world-power status. These two ideas were closely linked at the time, popularized by the work of Alfred T. Mahan and put into practice by his disciple Theodore Roosevelt, who was...
The progress in understanding Fe-based superconductors has formed a most intriguing chapter in modern condensed matter physics.1,2,3The existence of nematic order has become well established in Fe-based superconductors and is considered an essential ingredient to understand the mechanism of Fe-based s...
A. Patterson Figures 3 and 4 illustrate the plots produced by plot when given a fitted model as an argument. SIMULATION TOOL – simData The function simData simulates movement data from an HMM, given the parameters provided. Like the pre-processing function prepData, it returns a data frame...
Browse Figures Versions Notes Abstract In the face of escalating credit card fraud due to the surge in e-commerce activities, effectively distinguishing between legitimate and fraudulent transactions has become increasingly challenging. To address this, various machine learning (ML) techniques have been...
The term ‘Fake News’ has only recently entered common parlance, but it has a long history. Lies masquerading as news are as old as news itself, with royalty, governments, public figures and the mainstream media purveying it to manipulate public opinion. In an Orwellian twist those very sam...
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He also collects sketches of shadow puppet figures and scripts, some of which date back to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Dang spends an hour or two each day with his mother and grandfather asking them about shadow puppetry and taking notes, and has noticed that the clothes the old shadow...
[4]. Special household surveys made in Ho Chi Minh City, Thaibinh, and Haiphong in 2005 produced similar figures, showing HIV prevalence among women in general to be 0.6%, 0.1%, and 0.2%, respectively [6]. Particularly, the survey in Haiphong revealed an HIV prevalence among young women...
“The Legacy of Tokugawa Education,” inChanging Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization, ed. Marius B. Jansen (Princeton UP, 1965), 99–131, and Ronald P. Dore,Education in Tokugawa Japan(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965), remain the baseline for discussions on literacy figures ...