In the first part of Summa theologiae St. Thomas Aquinas analyzes cognition in God, angels and human beings; he does that by comparing juxtaposing them. On one side, questions concerning divine cognition, such as identity substance, its nondiscursivity, scope or future contingents are considered articles dedicated to angels. other proper characteristics on soul, active intellect, lack inborn in...

In this paper we present a registration method for cerebral vascular structures in the 2D MRA images. The method is based on bifurcation structures. The usual registration methods, based on point matching, largely depend on the branching angels of each bifurcation point. This may cause multiple feature correspondence due to similar branching angels. Hence, bifurcation structures offer better re...

They say that ideology is like breath: you never smell your own.1 And so I was not surprised to see my book The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity described as ‘ideological’ by reviewers who strike me as black pots in glass houses casting the first stone. By the same token, it is not easy for an author to defend himself against such an accusation: ‘I am not ideologi...

1 Alors The obligation for discourse to be coherent often leads to establishing causal or intentional connections between the various facts and events the discourse relates. The use of alors can make such connections explicit. The use of puis signals that no such dependency exists between the two sentences it combines. Nevertheless uses of puis do not necessarily create incoherency. Consider th...