Fate in Tamil Tradition

Tamil IT ! : Interactive Speech Translation in Tamil

The Tamil IT! (Interactive Translation) speech translation system is intended to allow unsophisticated users to communicate across the Tamil ↔ English language barrier, without strong domain restrictions, despite the error prone nature of current speech and translation technologies. Achieving this ambitious goal depends in large part on allowing the users to interactively correct recognition an...

Tradition in Nordic architecture

Paradoxically, in the globalized world, contemporary architecture is represented as an illustration of the contemporary rupture between the rigor of structural geometry and the turgid corpulence of imagination. Moreover in times of cultural globalization local specificities dissolve. Nevertheless, there are trends, cultural traits, and influences of critical or intellectual tradition that persist.

Liquids in tamil

Tamil is unusual among the world’s languages in that some of its dialects have five liquids. This paper focuses on the articulatory characterization of these sounds, with the ultimate goal of modeling their production dynamics and articulatory-acoustic mappings. Articulatory data were o b tained using different techniques: palatography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and magnetometer (EMMA)....

Beyond Tradition

Azazel in Early Jewish Tradition

The term" Azazel," which appears four times in the prescriptions for the Day of Atonement (Lev 16:8, 10, 26), has elicited much debate. Although many scholars have identified Azazel with a demonic figure to whom the sin-laden scapegoat was dispatched, the term remains undefined in the biblical text. This article will attempt to demonstrate that two noncanonical Jewish works, 1 Enoch and the Apo...