I think that contemporary society is like a great, complex network of attitudes, values, and worldviews, in which everything exists within different cultures and environments. This network keeps changing at every moment, with different parties interacting with each other, so that each experience that we come across can become an exciting source and medium for creation. As for music composition,...

Paradoxically, in the globalized world, contemporary architecture is represented as an illustration of the contemporary rupture between the rigor of structural geometry and the turgid corpulence of imagination. Moreover in times of cultural globalization local specificities dissolve. Nevertheless, there are trends, cultural traits, and influences of critical or intellectual tradition that persist.

Of twentieth-century physiologists, probably only Pavlov has been subjected to as much historical attention as Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952). In addition to a large number of articles and obituaries, Lord Cohen of Birkenhead, Ragnar Granit, and Judith Swazey have written monographs on Sherrington, and E. G. T. Liddell's Discovery of the reflexes (1960) devoted a great deal of space ...

sense in which certain features of a society or culture are important5 and will therefore be prominent in objectifications of that society or culture; rather, the process of choosing emThe extensive literature on inventions of tradition and identity in the Pacific has dealt mostly with reifications that are positively upheld by the people under consideration. This article traces some changes in...

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Dimensionality reduction is one of the widely used techniques for data analysis. However, it is often hard to get a demanded low-dimensional representation with only the unlabeled data, especially for the discriminative task. In this paper, we put forward a novel problem of Transferred Dimensionality Reduction, which is to do unsupervised discriminative dimensionality reduction with the help of...

Hobbes’s account of the individual’s right to resist sovereign authority is nuanced. His allowance for cases in which a sovereign’s command falls outside terms social contract, despite recent reappraisals, cannot rescue him from accusation that his system contradictory. It has been suggested some Hobbesian rights can be transferred whilst others are quarantined, or it institution law, rather th...