a portrait of the artist as a young man portrays stages of spiritual developments of a young artist. based on some mystical backgrounds, particularly aquinas’s mystical aesthetics, and referring to theosophists like bruno and saint augustine, joyce comes to a kind of mystical aesthetics of art. he, accordingly, depicts a young artist whose aesthetic attitude is mystical, encounters epiphany, an...

One of the most important features of health care is to be able to follow a patient’s progress over time and identify events in a temporal order. We describe initial steps in creating resources for automatic temporal reasoning of Swedish medical text. As a first step, we focus on the identification of temporal expressions by exploiting existing resources and systems available for English. We ad...

After a concert of freely improvised music, the most common questions I get are “Was that ‘all’ improvised?” and “How do you do that?” The first question is easily answered with a simple “Yes.” I find the second question is much more difficult and much more interesting to answer in conversation with audience members, but in fact both questions are inextricably intertwined. What is it that happe...

Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), a world traveller and German-language travel fiction writer, cultivated keen interest in religious beliefs practices of the places she visited, believing Romantic notion religion as distilled soul nations well Theosophical presumption that all religions are just particular iterations an underlying universal truth. For this reason, topic was central to both her person...