Abu Ali Hossein Ebn Abdullah Ben Ali Ben Sinna entitled as Shayhk-o-Rayeis in the East and well known in the west by the name of Avicenna was born in a place called Afsharneh near the city of Bokhara in 980 AD but resided in the city of Balkh. He was five years old when his father took him to the city of Bokhara to study Holy Quran where his extraordinary memory became apparent and he memorized...

Most of the literary theorists and critics of classical antiquity who are still studied today – Plato, Aristotle, ‘Longinus’, and a few others – are Greeks. The Romans, who by reputation came late to literature and lacked a theoretical cast of mind, are not generally accorded a prominent place in the development of this discourse. Indeed, few surviving Roman texts address as their main topic th...

Ann Jurecic is assistant professor in the Department of English at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where she teaches courses in writing as well as literature and medicine. Her book Illness as Narrative is forthcoming from University of Pittsburgh Press. Her work has appeared in the journals Literature and Medicine, Pedagogy, and Biography as well as in College English, and she serves as book...

Intelligent industrial and mobile robots may be considered proven technology in structured environments. Teach programming and supervised learning methods permit solutions to a variety of applications. However, we believe that to extend the operation of these machines to more unstructured environments requires a new learning method. Both unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning are pote...

This paper presents research on how public librarians in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden view the importance of social reading related professional roles. Previous findings from a questionnaire administered to are analysed depth order identify trends that can be further investigated subsequent qualitative study. The previous broadly show variation activities roles at country level. A detail...