The South Asian American diasporic writer, Jhumpa Lahiri has been widely acclaimed by the first-world intellectuals for her truthful representations of diasporic experience. In recent years, however, some scholars have drawn upon Gayatri Spivak’s notion of “Native Informant” to interrogate the controversial canonization of Lahiri in the West, and point instead to her disavowed participation in ...

Courts have established that when an eyewitness to an event under litigation, who has suffered loss of memory as the result of a physical blow, thereafter recovers his memory following yet another physical blow, the witness is competent to testify to the event.' Moreover, courts generally hold that an eyewitness's memory can be refreshed-in or out of court-by use of any device which will get th...

The study of Genocchi numbers, it is claimed, goes back to Euler. In what sense that is true is somewhat unclear, but during the last two or three decades the Genocchi numbers have been studied by Dumont and some collaborators [2–7]. In recent years there has been a flurry of activity in this field, viz. [1, 9–13]. The Genocchi numbers are cousins to the Euler numbers which count the alternatin...

We introduce and test a crowdsourcing technique for creative problem solving. In total, 1853 workers from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk produced 468 ideas for solving the 2010 oil spill problem in the Gulf of Mexico. In our technique, one crowd generated initial ideas, another crowd evaluated the creativity of these ideas, and yet another crowd combined pairs of ideas produced by the previous crowd....

- the papar starts with a definition of the term 'science' by which it is meant the empirical science. then, the question is formulated whether the notion of the religious science is meaningful or meaningless. epistemologically spkeaking, three standpoints are considered, that is,unitarianism, cotradictory pluralism, interactional pluralism. after defining them, with the views of the ...