Having understood that most attractive programming paradigms introduced recently in declarative symbolic programming languagesneed not be provided at the detriment of one another, we also believe that they can and should coexist with the more conventional state-effecting style of explicit control and data processing of imperative programming. To this end, we language designers must provide thre...

abstract “wisdom of islamic art” is relatively a full of application, prevalent and concurrently ambiguous combination, that, despite the studies conducted on it, still no clear meaning of it is at hand. due to the existence of this confusion in the meaning, sometimes the wisdom of islamic art, despite the distinction that exists, is considered equal to “philosophy of islamic art.” as the appli...

Vulnerable, threatened, and degraded. This is the status of Earth’s biodiversity, upon which we all rely. Humanity demanding too much from nature while at same time deteriorating natural world. Unprecedented rates ecosystem degradation species decline set stage for anticipated twice delayed 15th Conference Parties to UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) (COP-15), rescheduled later this y...

The millenarian promise of restoring mankind to its original God-like perfection-the underlying premise of the religion of tech­ nology-was never meant to be universal. It was in essence an elitist expectation, reserved only for the elect-the "happy few," in Robert Sins heimer's felicitous (Shakespearean) phrase. Half the species, women, were expressly excluded (see appendix), and so too were t...