There have been numerous attempts to make a contribution to the conversation about how we can make the world a better place. These cover a full range of approaches including scientific, political, economic, social, new age consciousness and so on. Many of these attempts focus on the value of seeing the world through the lens, discipline, doctrine or ideology of a particular approach, and thus a...

1. Kali: This "Devourer of Time" is worshipped as the very essence of the Brahman or the Supreme Self. Kali is regarded as the Supreme Deity of Kalikula systems 2. Tara: The Goddess who Saves, Guides and Protects. She offers the ultimate knowledge necessary for salvation. This Mahavidya is also known as Neel Saraswati 3. Lalita Tripura-Sundari: The Goddess, also known as Shodashi, is the One Wh...

This book is a revision of the author’s doctoral dissertation supervised by Paul D. Hanson. The main task of the book is to make an “exhaustive study of justice (misspa at) in the book of Isaiah that is sensitive to both literary and historical [and theological] concerns” (9). Intersecting through the entire book of Isaiah, this term is carefully examined in each occurrence for its correlated a...

The optimal power flow based on available transfer capability proposed for contingent power systems. Generally, in power systems cost is the main objective. But in some areas cost is less importance such as under an emergency state of partial blackout. At that time transmission security is main objective. So, for transmission security, ATC is very useful. Maximizing ATC implies to reduce the pr...

Universities are occupied by management, a regime obsessed with 'accountability' through measurement, increased competition, efficiency, 'excellence', and misconceived economic salvation. Given the occupation's absurd side-effects, we ask ourselves how management has succeeded in taking over our precious universities. An alternative vision for the academic future consists of a public university...

The modern sociology of religion is founded on the fundamental tension between Weber’s and Durkheim’s approaches to religion. In this article, I want to use the tension between Weber and Durkheim to address fundamental problems in understanding religious modernity, both in the modern West and in contemporary Africa. Weber sought to explain differences in the social effects of the world religion...

When we look at an ordinary textbook of history of psychology, we read that the history of the discipline begins in the 19th century, usually with Wundt – sometimes with Fechner, seldom with Herbar; and that before that there was the long philosophical past, Bacon, Descartes, and Locke. Sometimes we find some mention of the Greek philosophy, but between Aristotle and the philosophers of the 16t...

3 "I believe that what may be called classic social analysis is a definable and usable set of traditions; that its essential feature is the concern with historical social structures; and that its problems are of direct relevance to urgent public issues and insistent human troubles. "-C. Wright Mills (1959) 4 Acknowledgments I wish to thank my colleagues, particularly Drs. David Newcomb and Lill...

Ten simple rules for successfully completing a graduate degree in Latin America Ernesto Ruelas Inzunza*, Gabriela I. Salazar-Rivera1☯, Magdiel Láinez1☯, Marı́a Guadalupe Ruiz-Gómez1☯, Carlo A. Domı́nguez-Eusebio1☯, Griselda Cristóbal-Sánchez2☯, Issaac A. Teodosio Faustino3☯, Edel Pérez-López, Meagan L. Campbell, Marcus Vinicius Merfa, Ivonne Tatiana Latorre Beltrán, Fernanda Armas, Claudio MotaVa...

Many properties of a projective algebraic variety can be encoded by convex cones, such as the ample cone and the cone of curves. This is especially useful when these cones have only finitely many edges, as happens for Fano varieties. For a broader class of varieties which includes Calabi-Yau varieties and many rationally connected varieties, the Kawamata-Morrison cone conjecture predicts the st...