Documentary letters of credit have historically been an important and popular method of payment in international trading transactions. In fact, they have been described as the “lifeblood of international commerce.” A number of uniform international practices have developed for their use, many of which are codified in international rules such as Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credi...

This article outlines the description, from Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Psychology, of experience of the Ved — the perception, within the simplest form of human awareness, of the self-interacting dynamics of the unified field, the field of pure consciousness or cosmic psyche. This realization is described by Maharishi as developing through increasingly refined experience of the field of pure ...

‘Veda’ means knowledge. Since we call our earliest period Vedic, this is suggestive of the importance of knowledge and science, as a means of acquiring that knowledge, to that period of Indian history. For quite some time scholars believed that this knowledge amounted to no more than speculations regarding the self; this is what we are still told in some schoolbook accounts. New insights in arc...

In this paper, the authors have compared the efficiency of the Karatsuba multiplier using polynomial multiplication with the multiplier implementing Vedic mathematics formulae (sutras), specifically the Nikhilam sutra. The multipliers have been implemented using Spartan 2 xc2s200 pq208 FPGA device having speed grade of -6. The proposed Karatsuba multiplier has been found to have better efficien...

The capacity for semantic memory-the ability to acquire and store knowledge of the world-is highly developed in the human brain. In particular, semantic memory assimilated through an auditory route may be a uniquely human capacity. One method of obtaining neurobiological insight into memory mechanisms is through the study of experts. In this work, we study a group of Hindu Vedic priests, whose ...