Psychiatry and its History, .ed. by GEORGE MORA and JEANNE L. BRAND, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1970, pp. xviii, 283, $9.00. In 1967 a workshop was held at Yale University on the Methodological Problems involved in the study of the History of Psychiatry. Despite the immediate suspicion aroused by any meeting concemed with Methodology, a subject which all too often conceals a total ign...

"Based on the Conventional Figurative Language Theory (Dobrovol’skij and Piirainen 2005a), this paper aims to analyse, from a linguo-cultural perspective, symbolism of jade in Chinese culture language, focusing its phraseological units metaphors. For purpose, first all, we briefly explore history China, as well ideograms uses throughout history. Then, I focus analysing cultural connotations uni...

diversion, which is discussed briefly in the science of usul al-fiqh in the chapter on the absolute and qualified, while playing a notable role in different chapters of jurisprudence, is of varieties. surveying the concept of diversion and its varieties, the present essay expounds its effects and results and emphasizes its important role in the process of inferring juristic precepts

The evolutionary history of a set of species is usually described by a rooted phylogenetic tree. Although it is generally undisputed that bifurcating speciation events and descent with modifications are major forces of evolution, there is a growing belief that reticulate events also have a role to play. Phylogenetic networks provide an alternative to phylogenetic trees and may be more suitable ...

The aims of this chapter are two-fold: first and primarily, to identify and to summarize the development of an important but hitherto unnoticed tradition in 19th-<:entury methodological thought, and secondly, to suggest that certain aspects of the history of this tradition give us a new perspective from which to assess certain strains in contemporary philosophy of science. In Part I below, I at...

This article is deals with the history modular arithmetic, based on the rest classes calculus system «Restklassenarithmetik» (RCCS), or Modular Arithmetic, regarding its creation and development in the USSR. Characteristics of the USSR first modular super-computers: “Т-340А”, “К340А”, “Diamond (Алмаз)” and “5E53” and their development history are briefly considered. A brief analysis of the weak...