(v. t.)To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the...
This article will discuss the meaning(s) of rituals among Sri Lankan Tamil Hindus in Denmark with special focus on the second generation. It will use Roy A. Rappaport's theory on ritual both as communication and as a basic social act, but it will also, in line with Jan Assmann and ...
Identifying the number, meaning, nature, and relation of spontaneously used stereotype dimensions is a highly relevant research question. We contrasted two models that address these questions. The stereotype content model (SCM; Conclusion People infer groups' warmth/communion (C) from perceived self-...
A model that can predict the likelihood of a fake tweet which might have been written by a machine in a given set of tweets while also validating the same on news articles scraped from the internet - Understanding-Machine-vs-Human-Generated-Text-in-News/
very rare and precious God-given human life in this world. In short, the Upanishads are meant to provide us the very essence and the meaning of life. Dear reader, here we partly conclude the information on Vedas in short. It is an attempt to provide a gross picture or idea of Hindu ...
“existential” in this chapter, is most relevant for the context of cosmopolitanism. It focuses on being-in-the-world rather than motives, actions, objects or meaning. Existential understanding requires a particular epistemology, which this chapter explores in some detail. Finally, the ethical ...
CNNs provide the benefit that their learned features are translationally equivariant, meaning that image features can be recognized regardless of their position in the image. This makes such models useful for processing images with multiple similar features, and robust against variation in position or ...
The termDalitis a recent invention. In the past, they were calledachootor untouchables. During the Indian freedom struggle, Gandhi attempted to alleviate untouchability by referring to them asharijans(meaning the children of God). This imposition of a label was resisted by Dr. Ambedkar, aDalitsoc...
He demonstrated this through what he called metaphysics, meaning the study of ultimate realities, beyond cosmology and beyond theology. Theologies differ (are there many gods, as in Hinduism, or only one, as in the Abrahamic religions?), but metaphysical principles do not. Eventually one hopes ...
The German term Föhn originated most probably during Roman times. When the Romans conquered the territories north of the Alps in the first century BC, they found this stormy, warm, and dry mountain wind. From home, they knew a similar wind, the “favonius” (meaning “the favorable”),...