Aadhaar, as duly noted on this blog, has the same meaning as Al Qaeda, that is, ‘the base’..which is another word for a ‘the foundation’. But it is also a pun on a more obviously ominous word –‘data-base.’ A data-base of human beings, that is. These sorts of cogitations...
Together with Willoughby D. Miller, Jenkins developed the first toothpaste containing disinfectants. He named it Kolynos – a combination of two Greek words,Kolyo nosos(κωλύω νόσος), meaning “disease prevention”. Numerous attempts to produce the toothpaste by pharmacists in Europ...
In contrast,human language is open-ended and productive, meaning that it allows humans to produce a vast range of utterances from a finite set of elements, and to create new words and sentences.This is possible because human language is based on a dual code, in which a finite number of e...
This paper aims to frame certain fundamental aspects of the human mind (content and meaning of mental states) and foundational elements of brain computation (spatial and temporal patterns of neural activity) so as to enable at least in p... GA Ascoli - 《Isrn Neuroscience》 被引量: 9发表:...
I am now a excited child looking at goodies everywhere I see, everything I read, everyone I meet and in every one of my transactions with “idham sarvam”. As a child I had the habit of writing down whatever I have understood in the classroom even if it comes to repeating what is ...
can affect the meaning-making process. However, it is difficult to find low-anxiety environments for beginners to practice a language that they are still not yet that familiar with. To address this, Mango Languages embedded advanced pronunciation training in the form of its voice comparison ...
gwek5(Cantonese)/yuètái kòngxì(Mandarin), the 'platform gap'. This version is somewhat more informative than the bald English version. But 'platform gap' is still not immediately clear in its meaning. A Chinese speaker hearing the phrase could interpret it as some kind of gap in the ...
Mahathma Gandhi’s grandson Dr.Anand Gokani has said that the best way to regain Gandhian values is to clear our mind. He was speaking in a national seminar organizedy the Gandhian chair history department of Calicut University on Gandhi-yestetday,today and tomorrow. ...
She laughed and said, “Appa, it’s only eleven o’clock in the night, not midnight.” Then it dawned on me. I remembered my daughter-in-law, Ligia, telling my wife that morning something about daylight saving time coming into force in the Eastern Time Zone (EST) where Elkridge, MD ...