A close analysis of the text Gen. 2:8–15, pertaining to Garden Eden, shows structural differences between said and others from ancient mythologies that mention or describe a paradise. Likewise, suggests data provided by Bible locate paradise are merely narrative device meant dissipate all doubts as existence garden where God put human beings. Similar other spaces appear in Bible, Eden is, fact,...

In 1971, I spent five months in Ghana, West Africa, collecting data for an MSc thesis, "On the Ecology and Fishery of a Small West African Lagoon". I was puzzled at the time by the behavior of the fishermen who exploited the Sakumo lagoon, near Tema (Fig. 1). Based in a nearby village, they were part-timers or full-timers, but fished in either case rarely more than about 4 hours at a time, then...

Fact verification aims to evaluate the authenticity of a given claim based on evidence sentences retrieved from Wikipedia articles. Existing works mainly leverage natural language inference methods model semantic interaction and evidence, or further employ graph structure capture relation features between multiple evidences. However, previous have limited representation ability in encoding comp...

The Persian Gulf is of great economical, environmental and political importance, and includes around 205 species of fishes that only some of them have been studied parasitologically. From the order Pleuronectiformes ( ray-finned fishes), Psettodes erumei (Psettodidae), Pseudorhombus elevatus (Bothidae) and Brachirus orientalis (Soleidae) were selected for the survey. One hundred and forty eig...