Ayatollah Khomeini and Ali Shariati are seen as twin pillars of revolutionary Islam in contemporary Iran. This article contextualizes and compares these radical discourses in three sections. It first problematizes the transformation of Khomeini as a quietist cleric into a revolutionary ayatollah. While Khomeini’s theory of velayat-e faqih was a radical departure from the dominant Shiite traditi...

Rāmānuja was the founder of Visistādvaita Vedānta School, which is one of the three main schools of Vedānta. According to Rāmānuja, the soul (cit), Brahman, and matter (acit) constitute the three principal ontological realities. Rāmānuja provides some proofs for the existence of the soul, which are mostly based on self-consciousness. The relationship of the soul with the matter, on one hand, an...

N. Maleki, D. C. Alsop, W. Dai, C. Hudson, D. Mikulis, J. Han, and J. A. Fisher Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States, School of Optometry, University of Toronto, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology & Vision Science, University of...

M.R. Maleki , H. Ramon, J. De Baerdemaeker, A.M. Mouazen Department of Biosystems, Division of Mechatronics, Biostatistics and Sensors (MeBioS), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 30, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium Department of Agricultural Machinery, College of Agriculture, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, P.O. Box 76169-133, Kerman, Iran Natural Resources Department, School of ...

By Haolei Weng∗, Arian Maleki† and Le Zheng‡ Columbia University∗†‡ We study the problem of estimating a sparse vector β ∈ R from the response variables y = Xβ + w, where w ∼ N(0, σ wIn×n), under the following high-dimensional asymptotic regime: given a fixed number δ, p → ∞, while n/p → δ. We consider the popular class of `q-regularized least squares (LQLS), a.k.a. bridge estimators, given by ...