THE TWELFTH CHAPTER OF THE APOCALYPSE DESCRIBES A HEAVENLY WOMAN clothed with the sun and crowned with twelve stars. Together with the Bride of Christ and the Whore of Babylon, she is one of three symbolic women who appear in the visions of John of Patmos. A fourth woman, apparently an influential teacher in the church in Thyatira, is regarded by John as a false prophet, a “Jezebel” (Rev 2:20)....

Flexible, light weight and low cost electroactive coating has been fabricated by the dispersion of inorganic ferroelectric submicron particles in a polyurethane matrix. BaTiO3 particles have a mean diameter of 300 nm. The poling process and the influence of volume fraction of BaTiO3 on the piezoelectric activity of the coating have been reported. This spray coating has been realized on 1.6× 1.6...

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“Yesterday the S&P500 went up by 3%”. Is this number telling all the story if half the stocks went up 5% and half went down 1%? Surely one can do a little better and give two figures, the average and the dispersion around this average, that two of us have recently christened the variety [1]. Call ri(t) the return of asset i on day t. The variety V(t) is simply the root mean square of the stock ...

Religious beliefs and practices are prevalent and important to people in many countries around the world. For example, Gallup polls indicate that 96% of persons living in the US believe in God, over 90% pray, 69% are church members, and 43% have attended church, synagogue, or temple within the past 7 days (Princeton Religion Research Center, 1996). Despite advances in education, communication, ...

introduction        gāthic texts are a collection of religious songs of zarothustra who lived about 1200 bc. of the seventy two hāts (stanzas) of yasna (one of the five chapters of avesta), seventeen hāts belong to five gāthas. these seventeen hāts have been classified into five categories based on their syllabic meter and the number of the song: 1) ahunavaiti, 2) ushtavaiti, 3)spanta.mainyu, ...

An array of Tunisian lifeworlds in 2016.