As A Symbolical Language Treasure: Folk Narratives

Folk Psychological Narratives (Preface)

Crossing Boundaries: the Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Folk Narratives

It is one of the paradoxes of folk narrative research that the t r ans l a t ion and the t r a n s c u l t u r a l adap ta t ionof folklore texts have received so Httle attention so far. This lack of scholarly interest is surprising insofar äs folkloristics and ethnology, from their beginnings in the late 18th Century, had a keen interest in o ther cultures — and they bcgan with translations. I...

Natural Language Processing with Thought Treasure

When the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was held in 1956, the creation of an intelligent computer seemed to be just around the corner. Since then, the number of researchers in the field has grown to over 10,000 and the number of pages in the biennial proceedings of the international joint conference on artificial intelligence to 2074. And here we are, over 40 years...

Symbolical Algebra as a Foundation for Calculus:D. F. Gregory’s Contribution

Duncan Farquharson Gregory (1813–1844) was a mathematician and founder of the Cambridge Mathematical Journal. His 1841 Examples of the Processes of the Differential and Integral Calculus was an extensive revision of Peacock’s 1820 textbook of a similar title. Among the new material in Gregory’s version is an exposition of symbolical algebra, prominently featuring the method of “separation of sy...

Marine Sponges as a Drug Treasure

Marine sponges have been considered as a drug treasure house with respect to great potential regarding their secondary metabolites. Most of the studies have been conducted on sponge's derived compounds to examine its pharmacological properties. Such compounds proved to have antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, antimalarial, antitumor, immunosuppressive, and cardiovascular activity. Although, t...