The technique of determining a generating function for an unambiguous context-free language is known as the Schützenberger methodology. For regular languages, Elena Barcucci et al. proposed an approach for inverting this methodology based on Soittola’s theorem. This idea allows a combinatorial interpretation (by means of a regular language) of certain positive integer sequences that are defined...

It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemer...

Faith has always had an intense, but uneasy relationship with development. Donors are currently seeking greater engagement with FBOs. This positive shift needs careful consideration. Faith can be a powerful, but flammable fuel for change. FBOs are highly diverse and complex. Donors need to handle FBOs, but do so with understanding and care. This Viewpoint outlines both the major concerns about ...

Faith-based institutions and organizations represent a longstanding yet underutilized resource for health promotion and disease prevention efforts. The White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and its affiliated office within the Department of Health and Human Services, are the highest-profile markers of federal efforts, but most faith-health partnerships are not federal...

)w hat is common and di fferent in two great thinkers’ views?rationality of faith is one of the most important issues in contemporary philosophy of religion that most philosophers of religion have discussed it . alvin plantinga and richard swinburne with theistic approach have discussed this subject. swinburne with evidentialist approach concludes that religious belief like every another belief...

The article examines the evolution of Western patristics from Augustine to Gregory Great and Isidore Seville in a dual aspect: power discourse power. former draws on truth, “place” which, according Aristotle, is judgment, while latter represents policy pursued by government. this case implemented as spread Christian education. realized form decisions legislative acts authorities, guided Roman t...

Astrometeorology was based on the idea that the position of the planets in relation to each other and to the signs of the zodiac would influence terrestrial weather. Due to this astronomers were asked to prepare “prognosticas“ (weather predictions), which required comprehensive mathematical and astronomical knowledge. Astrometeorology had its heyday during the 16th century, when 213 authors dem...

Critics of Hindutva nationalism see it as either an elite conspiracy or a mass political movement with no necessary relation to the Hindu faith. I focus instead on its ideological deployment, treating it as a modern religious construction of Hinduism that legitimates capitalism—much like Christianity in the 17th and 18th century. I mobilize Slavoj Žižek, Erenesto Laclau, and Louis Althusser’s t...