vague belief, however, exists that the disease was first introduced by Indian labourers who came to build pagodas (Buddhist temples) at Pagan. On the other hand, there is every probability that epidemics occasionally spread from southern China where cholera was described by the very name it now bears, over two thousand years before the Christian era (Maxwell, 1929). A systematic record showing ...

Veneration of the planet Venus under the guise of the goddess Inanna is ubiquitous in the earliest temples yet excavated in Mesopotamia. At Uruk, the oldest urban site in the entire Near East, offerings to Inanna/Venus far outnumber those of any other deity. In strata conventionally dated to ca. 3000 BCE (Uruk IV-III), Inanna is already associated with various symbols that would become conspicu...

Computing the partial Schur form of a matrix is a common kernel in widely used software for solving eigenvalues problems. Partial Schur forms and Schur vectors also arise naturally in deeation techniques. In this paper, error bounds are proposed which are based on the Schur form of a matrix. We show how the bounds derived for the general case simplify in special situations such as those of Herm...

Editor’s introduction: This succinct presentation by one of the world’s great scholars of Mongolian Buddhism summarizes the challenges that Buddhism has faced and continues to face in Mongolia. Amid historical reconsideration and revisionism – and continuing propaganda – it is important to acknowledge and understand, as Dr. Wallace conveys, the enormity of repression faced by Buddhism, as Mongo...

Exploring metacognitive strategy use during note-taking for students with learning disabilities Joseph R. Boyle, Sonia M. Rosen & Gina Forchelli a Department of Psychological, Organizational, & Leadership Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA b Rosen, School of Education, Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA, USA c Department of Psychological, Organizational, & Leadership Studies, T...

We construct a unique geocoded dataset on temples, dynasties and battles in medieval India and propose a test to identify the motive for observed temple desecrations in that period. We test two competing historical narratives of temple desecrations. The first focuses on the idea of iconoclasm, i.e. destruction of religious sites and imagery deemed heretical, as embedded in Islamic theology. The...

One of the most crucial texts for the futurist interpretation of prophecy concerning Israel is the vision of the prophet Ezekiel in chapters 40-48. In this text the prophet presents God’s instructions for the construction of a new Temple to be built as part of the promise of Israel’s divine restoration. The concern of the exiles, as exemplified by Daniel’s prayer, was for a literal rebuilding o...

Jianbing Qi,1 Guenadiy Lazarov,1 Xuejun Wang,1 Li Li,2 Lorenzo M. Narducci,3 A. Marjatta Lyyra,1 and Frank C. Spano4 1Department of Physics, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 2Department of Modern and Applied Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 10084 3Department of Physics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 4Department of Chemistry, Temple University...

1Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan 2Research Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan 3Institute for Genomics and Evolutionary Medicine, Temple University 4Department of Biology, Temple University 5Center for Excellence in Genome Medicine and Research, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, S...

Dr. Manchikanti is Medical Director of the Pain Management Center of Paducah, Paducah, KY, and Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. Dr. Falco is Medical Director of Mid Atlantic Spine & Pain Physicians, Newark, DE; Director, Pain Medicine Fellowship Program, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA; and Adjunct Associate Pr...