Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

Hover performance of a twin-rotor test model in terms of rotor overlap sweep, blade collective pitch, and blade tip speedwasexaminedexperimentally.The experimental setup consisted of two three-bladed rotors (tandem rotor configuration) with a diameter of1,220 mm and constant chord of 38 mm, giving a blade aspect ratio of 16.05. The blades were of a rectangular planform with NACA 0012 cross-sect...

We present an algorithm for computing the cumulative distribution function of the Kolmogorov{ Smirnov test statistic D n in the all-parameters-known case. Birnbaum (1952) gives an n-fold integral for the CDF of the test statistic which yields a function deened in a piecewise fashion, where each piece is a polynomial of degree n. Unfortunately, it is diicult to determine the appropriate limits o...

We analyze the long time behavior of transport equations for a class of dissi-pative quantum systems with Fokker-planck type scattering operator, subject to connning potentials of harmonic oscillator type. We establish the conditions under which there exists a thermal equilibrium state and prove exponential decay towards it, using (classical) entropy-methods. Additionally, we give precise dispe...

1 Abstract A well known result from complex analysis allows us, under suitable circumstances , to compute the number of roots of an analytic function, f(z), that lie inside a counterclockwise, simple closed curve, C, by computing the integral, 1 2i Z C f 0 (z) f(z) dz: We employ interval arithmetic and automatic diierentiation to give an automatic and guaranteed bound on the integral. Furthermo...

DocuMENTS AT THE Library ofthe Religious Society of Friends in London' reveal an attempt in 1839 by prominent Quakers to establish "The Southern Retreat" as a counterpart to the already famous Tuke-inspired York Retreat. Though unsuccessful, the effort is interesting in several respects, not the least being the close involvement of Thomas Hodgkin and his relationship with Achille-Louis Foville....

Islamic boarding schools as educational institutions are also responsible forpreparing students to face the demands of times in this modern era. Ofcourse, religious learning, given insight into understandingthe values Pancasila. For reason, focus research is: 1) What isthe process social construction Pancasila for Al-AmienIslamic Boarding School? 2) How ofthe Al-Amien school applied?This study ...