IT is clear from his Tract on Establishing the Vow 立誓願文 that Huisi 慧思 (515–577), the Grand Master of Nanyue, had a profound faith in the Prajñå SËtra and Lotus SËtra. Fortunately for us, it is possible to ascertain Huisi’s view of the Lotus SËtra from Huisi’s Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss in the Lotus SËtra 法華經安樂行義 (hereafter abbreviated as Meaning of the Course of Ease and Bliss). Th...

The current study sought to explore the impact of SFL-oriented register instruction on Iranian EFL learner’ writing performance with a central focus on their English proficiency level. As its secondary aim, the study delved deeply into the learners’ perception of the register-based instruction. To these ends, 50 intermediate and 50 advanced Iranian EFL learners were selected randomly and assign...

This paper considers the problem of rotating a formation of satellites from one orientation to another, using an optimal amount of fuel. The formation is constrained to have the same shape at the beginning and end of a maneuver. However , the shape is unconstrained throughout the maneuver. This implies that to optimize fuel, each spacecraft travels in a straight line, from its beginning to end ...

Embedded processors developed within the past few years have employed novel hardware designs to reduce the ever-growing complexity, power dissipation, and die area. While using a distributed register file architecture with irregular accessing constraints is considered to have less read/write ports than using traditional unified register file structures, conventional compilation techniques can n...

INTRODUCTION Keratoacanthoma (KA) and invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are keratinocytic tumors displaying vascular features, imaged using dermatoscopy. OBJECTIVE Compare the dermatoscopy vascular features of KA to SCC. METHODS This prospective study examined consecutive cases of 100 KA and 410 invasive SCC in a single private practice in Sydney, Australia. Vascular features were reco...