It was through the concern to meet the needs of the intelligent but under achieving child that the ‘modern’ field of learning disabilities was born. That said, we must keep in mind that it also started with a deep concern for the mentally retarded and a hopeful vision and conviction that fulfillment of the human potential was possible. The aim of this chapter is to provide tentative arguments i...

In this article, I shall review contemporary Chinese studies of Mencius in Taiwan. In order for this review to be more focused, I shall not attempt to include all the books and articles published on Mencius. Instead, I shall focus on material that follows these two approaches: (1) philosophical and (2) intellectual-historical. Contemporary scholars who take the first approach see the Mencius as...

The Mao-Kung Ting is one of the most precious artifacts in the National Palace Museum. Having five-hundred-character inscription cast inside, the Mao-Kung Ting is regarded as a very important historical document, dating back to 800 B.C.. Motivated by revealing the great nature of the artifact and interpreting it into a meaningful narrative, we have proposed an innovative Virtual Exhibition Syst...

Practical Experience has shown that the agglomeration and successful rate of the entrepreneurial activity in the industrial clusters was much higher than non-industrial clusters, the aim of this paper is to contribute to a greater understanding of the process about how the industrial cluster promote the entrepreneurial activities functioning as the incubator of the entrepreneurs and enterprises...

Obituaries have occasionally been used in epidemiological studies, 2 but their use gives rise to methodological problems. We aimed to highlight and investigate these problems in an historical cohort study of British Methodist ministers from two branches of the church. The Primitive Methodists came from a predominantly lower socioeconomic background, whereas the background of Wesleyan Methodists...

This is an introduction to the microscopic techniques of non-rational bulk and boundary conformal field theory which are needed to describe strings moving in non-compact curved backgrounds. The latter arise e.g. in the context of AdS/CFTlike dualities and for studies of time-dependent processes. After a general outline of the central concepts, we focus on two specific but rather prototypical mo...

A coastal fishery brings high productivity and economic profit while supporting cultural norms. However, it also causes environmental degradation and political conflicts, which sometimes collapse a fishery. With the current global shift from capture fisheries to aquaculture, appropriate management is required for social and environmental sustainability. To identify essential factors in coastal ...

although iran-iraq war was an aftermath of different challenges between the two countries after the islamic revolution and of a shift in iran's position in the bipolar world of that day, the factors causing this war were not limited to the mentioned ones. their various disputes and disagreements have old historical backgrounds going back to safavieh ages or even before that. religious, geo...

The early efforts for promotion of public health measures and prevention of fatal epidemic diseases in Iran date back to the second half of the 19th century. Based on historical records, the informal protosanitary councils had existed since the early 1850s, but a new formal health institution called "Sanitary Council", or "Majles-e Hefz al-Sehheh" was founded in 1881. Then, it was reestablished...