huntington's disease (hd) is thought to be due to genetically-programmed degeneration of neurons in certain areas of the brain. this degeneration causes uncontrolled movements, loss of intellectual faculties, and emotional disturbances. it is along time since the disease started tormenting human beings, and to date, conventional medications have failed to slow down the progression of hd. althou...

love and its transformative power have long been at the center of islamic sufism. for sufi writers profane love, perceived as the love of worldly beloved, was the first step on the path toward the union with the divine. farid al-din ‘attar (1145-1221) was one of the most significant authors to espouse and articulate profane love as a representation of both earthly and heavenly love. 'attar’s us...

The prevailing paradigm of medieval manufacturing presumes guilds monopolized markets for durable goods in late-medieval England. The sources of the monopolies are said to have been the charters of towns, charters of guilds, parliamentary statutes, and judicial precedents. This essay examines those sources, demonstrates they did not give guilds legal monopolies in the modern sense of the word, ...

There are two reasons why medieval logic is of interest to modern logician: One is to see how similar it is to modern logic and the other is to see how different it is. We study three 13th-century works on modal logic and give two examples their views of modal logic differ from modern views of the same: the nature of modality and the truth conditions for modal sentences. Because of the differen...

This paper deals with several lexicographic problems arising from the choice of hypernyms in the Dictionary of Medieval Scientific French (Créalscience database). The generic names used by medieval scholars indicate categorizations which differ from modern classifications. We examine some cases selected from the medieval domain of natural sciences where we can notice a conceptual discrepancy be...

In a parity judgment task, the ERPs at parietal electrode sites become more negative as more mental rotation has to be executed. This article provides a review of the empirical evidence regarding this amplitude modulation. More specifically, experiments are reported that validate both the functional relationship between mental rotation and the amplitude modulation as well as the temporal relati...