al-mansour mohammad ibn-e abi amer was the mighty chamberlain of hisham (moayyad), the omavite caliph of andalusia (caliphate 366-399). his period is simultaneous with the beginning of the moslems' military weakness and the anarchic circumstances in the rule of moslems over andalusia, as the christians dared to transgress the borderlines of, andalusia, and plunder and kill people there. al...

There is a long liberal political tradition of marshalling arguments aimed at convincing Christians that distinctively Christian reasons for issuing coercive laws are not sufficient to justify those laws. In the first part of this paper I argue that the two most popular of these arguments, attributable to Locke, will not reliably convince committed biblical Christians, nor, probably, should the...

Previous studies on the influence of mass media students’ academics are common, but none relating to private missionary schools with core values such as these has been rigorously evaluated. To determine medium accessible students, examine purpose usage and academic performance triangulated research design was adopted use quantitative data through questionnaire qualitative in-depth interview. Th...

This paper estimates the empirical relationship between cocaine and heroin prices and drug-related hospital ED admissions for 21 U.S. cities. These outcomes bypass some of the problems with self-reports and directly measure a component of healthcare costs associated with heavy drug usage. The price elasticity of the probability of a cocaine and heroin episode is estimated at -0.27 and -0.10, re...

This paper will give an in-depth discussion of Jesus’ expression “I am Alpha and Omega” (Apocalypse of John = Revelation 1.8) and its influence on the Manichaean writings, on the one hand, and the reason for the division of Mani’s Living Gospel into twenty-two chapters, corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Manichaean alphabet, on the other. The pape...

ASSISTments is a web-based math tutor designed to address the need for timely student assessment while simultaneously providing instruction, thereby avoiding lost instruction time that typically occurs during assessment. This article presents a quasi-experiment that evaluates whether ASSISTments use has an effect on improving middle school students’ year-end test scores. The data was collected ...

Empirical studies of user activity, based on data collected from the systems with which users interact, present technical challenges related to the transformation of data streams to a form suitable for analysis. In this paper we discuss the particular challenges confronted during a study of user interruption behaviour based on low-level “keystroke” data and the ways in which these challenges we...

the historian-theoretician christian norberg-schulz, examining the development of his ideas across 30 years. while norberg-schulz started out with intentions in architecture (1963), a work that was clearly influenced by structuralist studies, he soon shifted to a phenomenological approach with existence, space and architecture (1971), and then with genius loci (1980) and the concept of dwelling...