levels of knowledge enjoy a significant status in the minds of the majority of western and eastern thinkers; and great thinkers have engaged in detailed discussions in this area. the present research has scrutinized this issue from the viewpoints of two eminent islamic and western thinkers, mullā ṣadrā and spinoza. it claims that although these two scientists belong to different intellectual tr...

Ubaid-Allah Sindhi is among those very few political thinkers and activists of the twentieth-century India who were initially associated with the traditional theological seminaries but their political vision was marked by liberalism and openmindedness. He established a non-communal political party— Mahabharat Sarvrajia Party in 1924 in order to translate his political ideals into practice. The ...

The moon is a very stable reference source that has been used for the space-borne sensors’ radiometric calibration and/or radiometric stability monitoring. In this paper, we present an approach that uses the sensors’ on-orbit lunar observations for their spatial characterization and apply the method to the MODIS instruments that are currently operating onboard NASA EOS Terra and Aqua satellites...

Simultaneous static-mode mass spectrometric measurements of nitrogen, carbon, helium, neon, and argon extracted from the same aliquot of sample by high-resolution stepped combustion have been made for a suite of six lunar basalts. Collecting abundance and isotopic data for several elements simultaneously from the same sample aliquot enables more detailed identification of different volatile com...

A global scheme of Lunar-Earth Information Network is proposed in this paper. It is composed of a lunar-earth Messenger, a lunar Orbiter and a Lunar Probe net, through which an information collection and communication network is formed. Moreover, the triune exploration and project features are described in detail. Keyword: LunarNet, Messenger, Orbiter, Lunar Probes

Many marine populations exhibit high variability in the recruitment of young into the population. While environmental cycles and oceanography explain some patterns of replenishment, the role of other growth-related processes in influencing settlement and recruitment is less clear. Examination of a 65-mo. time series of recruitment of a common coral reef fish, Stegastes partitus, to the reefs of...

Lunar impact craters are important for studying lunar surface morphology because they are the most typical morphological units of the Moon. Impact crater descriptive indices can be used to describe morphological features and thus provide direct evidence for both the current state and evolution history of the Moon. Current description methods for lunar impact craters are predominantly qualitativ...

RATIONALE We report new (87) Rb-(87) Sr isochron data for the Duluth Gabbro, obtained with a laser ablation resonance ionization mass spectrometer that is a prototype spaceflight instrument. The gabbro has a Rb abundance and a range of Rb/Sr ratios that are similar to those of KREEP-rich basalts found on the nearside of the Moon. Dating of previously un-sampled young lunar basalts, which genera...