What does interreligious dialogue look like from different religious perspectives? it do? One way of answering these questions is by examining historical examples “religious dialogue”. These illustrate first-hand the rhetoric dialogue. This article examines three case studies: (1) 2nd-century Rome, Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho; (2) 12th-century Spain, Kuzari Judah Halevi Jew alongside D...

Nearly four decades after Iranian-Egyptian diplomatic relations were severed, the two countries are yet to restore them. This is a result of the predominance of certain negative emotional attachments embedded in Iranian and Egyptian identities, which have clouded their respective attitudes toward one another. Mired in resentment against Arabism, the national component of the Iranian state ident...

Perception of speaker identity is an important characteristic of the human auditory system. This paper describes a subjective test for the investigation of the relevance of four acoustic features in this process: vocal tract, pitch, duration, and energy. PSOLA based methods provide the framework for the transplantations of these acoustic features between two speakers. The test database consists...

Although extant research has highlighted the role of discourse in the cultural construction of organizations, there is a need to elucidate the use of narratives as central discursive resources in unfolding organizational change. Hence, the objective of this article is to develop a new kind of antenarrative approach for the cultural analysis of organizational change. We use merging multinational...

As a theologian working in Western Europe, religious plurality is unavoidable for me. It seems that our context can no longer be identified in terms of secularization. Competing worldviews and complementing religious stories dictate the religious landscape (and increasingly so, due to migration and global communication). The religions present in my country, however, are not monolithic and stabl...

Perception of speaker identity is an important characteristic of the human auditory system. This paper describes a subjective test for the investigation of the relevance of four acoustic features in this process: vocal tract, pitch, duration, and energy. PSOLA based methods provide the framework for the transplantations of these acoustic features between two speakers. The test database consists...

Feature extraction is the main technology in the process of human face recognition system which is widely utilized as the mainstream approach in identity verification system. However, the traditional human face feature extraction algorithm of Eigenface has strict restraint on the light in the original human face image, posing as a hindrance in the practical application. Aiming at this problem, ...

ABSTRACT Unimodal systems have limited information that can be used for identity recognition systems. The multimodal system was created to improve the unimodal system. in this study is combination of face and palms at matching score level. Matching scores done using Weighted Sum Rule method. Extract features from each sample Local Binary Pattern (LBP) Meanwhile, large data dimensions are reduce...