Laura Hassan, "Ash'arism encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation "
English | ISBN: 1463207190 | 2020 | 329 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This study of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī's (d. 631/1233) teachings on creation offers close analysis of all of his extant works of falsafa and kalām. Some of these were not known to previous scholars, yet they bear witness to key facets of the interaction between the historically inimical traditions of Hellenic philosophy and rational theology at this important intellectual moment. Al-Āmidī is seen to grapple with the encounter of two paradigms for the discussion of creation. On the one hand, Ibn Sīnā's metaphysical concept of necessity of existence is the basis of his doctrine of the world's pre-eternal emanation. On the other, for the mutakallimūn, the physical theory of atomism bolsters the view that God created the world from nothing. This study is of interest to scholars of Ibn Sīnā and Ash'arism alike, as it advances our understanding of the ongoing tradition of rational theology in the Islamic world, long past Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's (d. 505/1111) famous attack on the philosophers.
Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services - AIMS 2021: 10th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2021, Virtual Event, December 10-14, 2021, Proceedings by Yi Pan
English | PDF | 2022 | 123 Pages | ISBN : 3030960323 | 5.5 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2021, held as a virtual conference as part of SCF 2021, during December 10-14, 2021.
Arctic Maritime Logistics: The Potentials and Challenges of the Northern Sea Route
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030922901 | 309 Pages | PDF | 10 MB
The modern shipping industry has reached maturity; market demand and landscape shifts force industry agents to find new pathways to successful development. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) as a new pathway between Europe and Asia brings both opportunities and challenges to global logistics systems. These circumstances make commercial exploitation of the route a subject of intense focus in many countries actively involved in sea transportation.
Applying Fractals in Astronomy by André Heck
English | PDF | 1991 | 212 Pages | ISBN : 3540543538 | 11.8 MB
'Fractal geometry addressesitselfto questions that many people have been asking themselves. It con cerns an aspect of Nature that almost everybody had been conscious of, but could not address in a formal fashion. ' 'Fractal geometry seems to be the proper language to describe the complezity of many very compli cated shapes around us.
Angiogenesis: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology, 2441) by Andrew V. Benest
2022 | ISBN: 1071620584 | English | 443 pages | EPUB | 108 MB
This detailed book builds on the foundation of lymphatic protocols with tools to aid in the interpretation of large datasets created by angiogenesis research. For example, this includes protocols to explore how transcriptional phenotyping can be achieved, both in terms of exploring tissue-specific heterogeneity to the use of database mining of existing datasets. Similarly, bioinformatic techniques run alongside protocols for transcript analysis, cell biology, pathology, as well as physiological and developmental angiogenesis models. Written for the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Charles L. Griswold, David Konstan, "Ancient Forgiveness: Classical, Judaic, and Christian"
English | 2011 | pages: 276 | ISBN: 0521119480 | PDF | 1,0 mb
In this book, eminent scholars of classical antiquity and ancient and medieval Judaism and Christianity explore the nature and place of forgiveness in the pre-modern Western world. They discuss whether the concept of forgiveness, as it is often understood today, was absent, or at all events more restricted in scope than has been commonly supposed, and what related ideas (such as clemency or reconciliation) may have taken the place of forgiveness. An introductory chapter reviews the conceptual territory of forgiveness and illuminates the potential breadth of the idea, enumerating the important questions a theory of the subject should explore. The following chapters examine forgiveness in the contexts of classical Greece and Rome; the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Moses Maimonides; and the New Testament, the Church Fathers, and Thomas Aquinas.
Analyzing Dependent Data with Vine Copulas: A Practical Guide With R by Claudia Czado
English | EPUB | 2019 | 244 Pages | ISBN : 3030137848 | 18.6 MB
This textbook provides a step-by-step introduction to the class of vine copulas, their statistical inference and applications. It focuses on statistical estimation and selection methods for vine copulas in data applications. These flexible copula models can successfully accommodate any form of tail dependence and are vital to many applications in finance, insurance, hydrology, marketing, engineering, chemistry, aviation, climatology and health.
All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference by Larry Wasserman
English | PDF | 2004 | 446 Pages | ISBN : 1441923225 | 23.3 MB
This book is for people who want to learn probability and statistics quickly. It brings together many of the main ideas in modern statistics in one place. The book is suitable for students and researchers in statistics, computer science, data mining and machine learning.
After Brexit and Other Essays
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1529217091 | 300 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
'Being more like America again and less like Europe is the heart of the UK model of capitalism ... ut there are many respects in which Britain remains unlike America despite its strong appeal to the British political class ...' In 'After Brexit' Andrew Gamble sets out the economic models and external relationships that Britain has pursued since the Second World War and examines the choices it now faces as it adjusts to life outside of the European Union. This volume brings together this essay with some of Andrew Gamble's most important and influential writings on British politics and political economy from the last forty years. They reflect on many of the issues that animate British politics, from the relative decline of the economy and the reshaping of the welfare state to the transformation of the Conservative and Labour parties and the changing constitutional order with the devolution of power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. The volume is introduced by the author and includes his notes on each of the essays as well as an epilogue, which considers their original context and what has changed since. Taken together, the essays in this volume are testament to the acuity of one of Britain's foremost political thinkers and provide rich insight into debates and ideas that continue to influence British politics and Britain's place in the world. A companion volume of Andrew Gamble's essays, The Western Ideology and Other Essays, focusing on political ideas and ideologies, is also available from Bristol University Press.
Michael McEachrane, Paul Gilroy, "Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe"
English | 2014 | pages: 284 | ISBN: 0415897432 | PDF | 1,5 mb
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies of imperialism squarely in a Nordic context. How has a nation as peripheral as Iceland been shaped by an identity of being white? How do Black Norwegians challenge racially conscribed views of Norwegian nationhood? What does the history of jazz in Denmark say about the relation between its national identity and race? What is it like to be a mixed-race black Swedish woman? How have African Diasporans in Finland navigated issues of race and belonging? And what does the widespread denial of everyday racism in Nordic societies mean to Afro-Nordics?