Editorial Introduction Romanisation in Comparative Perspective

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Text, Tradition, and Reason in Comparative Perspective: an Introduction

In the fall of 2004, the Program in Jewish Law and Interdisciplinary Studies of Cardozo School of Law organized an international conference on the competing claims to authority of text, tradition, and reason in both law and religion. The conference was predicated on the view that legal and religious traditions share a common interpretive structure and face common dilemmas over how to integrate ...

Editorial Perspective

It has become a somewhat popular academic exercise to question a newly accepted standard of care by comparing it to a less complicated and more historic predecessor. This attempt by Al Humadi of performing a meta-analysis of a technical aspect of laminoplasty, namely, if screw and plate fixation improves outcomes, follows in this vein. The results presented were met with significant questions b...

Logic in India - Editorial Introduction

The most remarkable feature of Indian formal logic (as it was reflected by the most advanced system of Indian logic, by Navya–Nyaya) is clearly a close connection of a logical formalism to a linguistic material . . . A common characteristic of Indian knowledge on all stages of its existence was a consistent intentionalism, whereas European logic was still a predominantly extentional one. Import...

Editorial: Introduction and Motivations

If you google for “open system” you get plenty of information about security services and consulting firms, as well as IT companies and industries. They explain about firewalls, vpn, intrusion detection, security standards, violations, protection of corporate assets, anti-spam, anti-virus, authentication, service and maintenance, proxy, and audits. Their mission is “to build and foster relation...