The purpose of this study was to determine the development 4-D pictorial riddle-based poster media as teaching materials for religious education courses in Hindu Religious Education Study Program; find out whether is feasible or not be used based on assessment material experts, learning practitioners and experts; knowing interest student outcomes after using media. This type research refers 4D ...

1550 Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 18, No. 9, September 2012 “A elephant, a ponderous house / A melon strolling on two tendrils” is how Sylvia Plath described herself in “Metaphors.” In addressing her physical condition, the poet was acknowledging the psychological toll of changes to the female body during pregnancy, which she termed “a riddle in nine syllables.” The imm...

INFLAMMATION of the uveal tract, which comprises the iris, ciliary body and choroid, is the cause in 8.3% of cases of blindness in the fourth decade of life and in 2.5% of all cases of blindness in Britain (Sorsby 1956). In other words, about 2,500 of the 100,000 registered blind people in this country were blinded by uveitis and its complications, and this was particularly so in young people i...

First, a brief historical trace of the developments in confirmation theory leading up to Goodman’s infamous “grue” paradox is presented. Then, Goodman’s argument is analyzed from both Hempelian and Bayesian perspectives. A guiding analogy is drawn between certain arguments against classical deductive logic, and Goodman’s “grue” argument against classical inductive logic. The upshot of this anal...

A recent observational study in a large cohort of critically ill patients confirms the association between hyperlactatemia and mortality. The mechanisms regulating the rates of lactate production and clearance in critical illness remain poorly understood. During exercise, hyperlactatemia clearly results from an imbalance between oxygen delivery and energy requirements. In critically ill patient...

The controversy that results seems to stem not from different definitions of "consciousness," as some of the participants suggest, but rather from a lack of agreement upon the meaning of "explain." Transcripts of a hypnoanalytic treatment session and of Beck's movie, "Unconscious Motivation," are used by Lewis R. Wolberg to illustrate "Hypnotic Phenomena." Marcel Monnier summarizes the changes ...

In this work we review some of the theoretical efforts and experimental evidences related to Dark matter and Dark energy problems in the universe. These dilemmas show us how incomplete our knowledge of gravity is, and how our concepts about the universe must at least be revised. Mainly on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) fifth year data indicates that more than 90% of the total e...

INFLAMMATION of the uveal tract, which comprises the iris, ciliary body and choroid, is the cause in 8.3% of cases of blindness in the fourth decade of life and in 2.5% of all cases of blindness in Britain (Sorsby 1956). In other words, about 2,500 of the 100,000 registered blind people in this country were blinded by uveitis and its complications, and this was particularly so in young people i...

S. Kuznets's study that the average propensity to consume is a constant value were nexpected because they denied one of the basic provisions of the Keynesian theory. This fact was called "the riddle of Kuznets".  F. Modigliani and M. Friedman, using the hypothesis of the life cycle and the concept of constant income, proposed two options that explain its solution. But models should not explain,...

A riddle is a question or statement with double veiled meanings, followed by an unexpected answer. Solving challenging task for both machine and human, testing the capability of understanding figurative, creative natural language reasoning commonsense knowledge. We introduce BiRdQA, bilingual multiple-choice answering dataset 6614 English riddles 8751 Chinese riddles. For each riddle-answer pai...