T he concept of limbo will be familiar to Catholic Christians. Traditionally, limbo was seen as place for the souls of infants dying before they had a chance to be baptised. It was a resting place that was neither heaven nor hell (fig. 1) [1]. The concept of a place that is neither heaven nor hell is also familiar to patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Prior to the discovery of...

“...the whole world had one language one common speech for all people. The people of the earth became skilled in construction and decided to build a city with a tower that would reach to heaven. By building the tower they wanted to make a name for themselves and also prevent their city from being scattered. God came to see their city and the tower they were building. He perceived their intentio...

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away.'

Associating certain forms and designs in Islamic Arts with the promised Heaven may be widely observed in the works of many historians and critics of the field. It is believed that Islamic Art has been derived from the imagination of the Paradise as depicted in Holy Quran. To express this meaning in technical words it should be said that the main concept in Islamic Arts has been the gardens of h...

The invasion of ecosystems by non-native species is a major driver of biodiversity loss worldwide. A critical component of effective land management to control invasion is the identification and active protection of areas at high risk of future invasion. The Appalachian Trail Decision Support System (A.T.-DSS) was developed to inform regional natural resource management by integrating remote se...

In Pericles, fire incinerates two pairs of villains: Antiochus and Daughter are struck by “fire from heaven” in scene 8, and Cleon and Dionyza are burned in their palace in scene 22.1 The shocking events are welcome news for the play’s hero, though he need not have traveled as often nor as far to encounter such fire. Shortly after the play’s probable date of composition, in late 1608, fire from...

A key question which will face elds of inquiry as diverse as philosophy, law, and even theology in the coming decades is that of machine agency. Simply put, at what point does the responsibility, legal or moral, for an act of a machine inhere in the machine itself instead of its (human) designers and builders? We examine in this context a selection of cognitive architectures for an arti cial ge...

Motivated by applications in online dating and kidney exchange, we study a stochastic matching problem in which we have a random graph G given by a node set V and probabilities p(i, j) on all pairs i, j ∈ V representing the probability that edge (i, j) exists. Additionally, each node has an integer weight t(i) called its patience parameter. Nodes represent agents in a matching market with dicho...