The latest fad in Continental philosophy is an unexpected one. Goodbye to Lacan and Derrida and even Deleuze. Hello to the Apostle Paul. Atheist philosophers like Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek have coopted Paul to their own agendas, and in their wake Jewish thinkers like Jacob Taubes and radically orthodox Christian theologians (the usual suspects) have given fresh attention to the apostle. Of ...

We prove that any (real or complex) analytic horizontally conformal submersion from a three-dimensional conformal manifold (M, cM ) to a twodimensional conformal manifold (N, cN ) can be, locally, ‘extended’ to a unique harmonic morphism from the H(eaven)-space (H, g) of (M, cN ) to (N, cN ). Moreover, any positive harmonic morphism with two-dimensional fibres from (H, g) is obtained this way.

This paper investigates the architectural turn of largest Buddhist cave complex in late-medieval Dunhuang (in Northwest China) with a focus on contemporaneous exterior structures. The structures include timber facades that cover caves’ antechambers cut out from vertical cliff, timber-structured ante-halls ground, and earthen shrines pagodas cliff top. These structures, albeit mostly non-extant,...

In the continuing transformation of U.S. agriculture, North Carolina finds itself on the front edge of change. Between 1989 and 1998, the number of hogs in the state's pork industry quintupled---and so has the amount of hog waste that must be disposed of. Now the state has engaged private and public resources in a rapid search for better ways for handling hog waste. A technology review panel ha...

‘‘Living in harmony with nature” is the slogan of the Chinese government’s campaign against the environmental crisis and has become the target of many mega eco-city projects which have emerged in China during the last decade. A number of papers in Chinese journals attribute this slogan to the government’s revival of the Confucian ecological vision, combined with western technology. This paper f...

A cephalosomatic anastomosis (CSA; also called HEAVEN: head anastomosis venture) has been proposed as an option for patients with neurological impairments, such as spinal cord injury (SCI), and terminal medical illnesses, for which medicine is currently powerless. Protocols to prepare a patient for life after CSA do not currently exist. However, methods used in conventional neurorehabilitation ...

In a survey of Chinese attitudes toward near-death experiences (NDEs), 197 respondents were read a hypothetical description of an NDE and asked to choose from a range of explanations and social reactions that might approximate their own. Fifty-eight percent of respondents believed that NDEs were probably hallucinations or dreams. Less than nine percent believed the NDE was evidence of life afte...

The Semantic Web provides models and abstractions for the distributed processing of knowledge bases. In Software Engineering endeavors such capabilities are direly needed, for ease of implementation, maintenance, and software analysis.Conversely, software engineering has collected decades of experience in engineering large application frameworks containing both inheritance and aggregation. This...