Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalisher (1795–1874), best known for his proto-national thinking and advocacy of settlement in the Land Israel third quarter 19th century, was crowned a preeminent ”Precursor Zionism”. However, halakhic teachings, which have never been properly researched, represent fount perspectives that help refine our understanding ideological activist program. This article focuses on Mozna...

The Slavic-Russian translation of the Euchologion Great Church, made at end 14th century by scribes from circle Metropolitan Cyprian, contains a large layer exotic vocabulary. purpose this article is to describe specifics adaptation Greek vocabulary, borrowings, in within framework influence, which are known South Slavic translations century. describes differences concerning degree their morpho...

The publication presents a fragment of story by Philip Šōʕra (Arabic: Aš-Šāʕir) in the Maʕ lūla dialect Modern Western Aramaic. Maaloula is Syrian city same name, located 55 km northeast Damascus. one three settlements which dialects modern Aramaic continue to be used as living language. focuses on capture radical Islamists during Civil War and killing several local residents. available corpus ...

Using the frequency of keywords is a classic approach in formal analysis text, but has drawback glossing over relationality word meanings. Word embedding models overcome this problem by constructing standardized and continuous "meaning space" where words are assigned location based on relations similarity to other how they used natural language samples. We show embeddings commensurate with prev...

A growing popular literature has created a "New Perception" of animal agriculture by depicting commercial animal production as 1) detrimental to animal welfare, 2) controlled by corporate interests, 3) motivated by profit rather than by traditional animal care values, 4) causing increased world hunger, 5) producing unhealthy food, and 6) harming the environment. Agricultural organizations have ...

In a Harvard Law Review foreword published in 2000, and entitled ‘The Document and the Doctrine’, Professor Akhil Reed Amar argued –putting it bluntly – that the Constitution of the United States of America ‘has often proved more enlightened and enlightening than the case law glossing it’.1 Professor Amar acknowledged, of course, that the Constitution has to be interpreted by the Supreme Court,...

This paper describes the creation of annotation standards for glossing sign language corpora as part of the Digging into Signs project (2014-2015, http://www.ru.nl/sign-lang/projects/digging-signs/). This project was based on the annotation of two major sign language corpora, the BSL Corpus (British Sign Language) and the Corpus NGT (Sign Language of the Netherlands). The focus of the gloss ann...

Basic epilepsy teachings assert that seizures arise from the cerebral cortex, glossing over infratentorial structures such as the cerebellum that are believed to modulate rather than generate seizures. Nonetheless, ataxia and other clinical findings in epileptic patients are slowly but inevitably drawing attention to this neural node. Tracing the evolution of this line of inquiry from the obser...

This empirical study reports on a cross-linguistic analysis of the overarching issue of L1 lexicalization regarding two (non)-interventionist approaches to vocabulary teaching. Participants were seventy four juniors at the Islamic Azad University, Roudehen Branch in Tehran. The investigation pursued (i) the impact of the provided (non)-interventionist treatments on both sets of (non)-lexicalize...

Evolutionary biologists have developed several indices, such as selection gradients (β) and the opportunity for sexual selection (I(s) ), to quantify the actual and/or potential strength of sexual selection acting in natural or experimental populations. In a recent paper, Klug et al. (J. Evol. Biol.23, 2010, 447) contend that selection gradients are the only legitimate metric for quantifying se...