Being Zen: Pelevin, Buddha, and the Void
Abstract Victor Pelevin, whose rise to popularity coincided with the fall of the Soviet Union, critiques the notion of national identity via the prism of Zen Buddhism. Pelevin embraces the religion’s idea of the volatile self and undertakes the project of spiritually empowering the Russians, by exposing the futility of constructing any national ...
Daniel Taehun Lee
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS A TESTING GROUND FOR KEY THEOLOGICAL QUESTIONS
Abstract Engagement with artificial intelligence (AI) can be highly beneficial for theology. This article maps the landscape of the various ways such engagement can occur. It begins by outlining the opportunities and limitations of computational theology before diving into speculative territory by imagining how robot theologians might think of divine ...
Marius Dorobantu
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Text Data Security and Privacy in the Internet of Things: Threats, Challenges, and Future Directions
In our daily life, Internet‐of‐Things (IoT) is everywhere and used in many more beneficial functionalities. It is used in our homes, hospitals, fire prevention, and reporting and controlling the environmental changes. Data security is the crucial requirement for IoT since the number of recent technologies in different domains is increasing day by day ...
Umair Khadam+6 more
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FoodLogoDet-1500: A Dataset for Large-Scale Food Logo Detection via Multi-Scale Feature Decoupling Network [PDF]
Food logo detection plays an important role in the multimedia for its wide real-world applications, such as food recommendation of the self-service shop and infringement detection on e-commerce platforms. A large-scale food logo dataset is urgently needed for developing advanced food logo detection algorithms.
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The Gospel of Matthew and the Value of "Full Bloom Aspect" for Biblical Interpretation [PDF]
Matthew’s first two chapters provide fertile ground for debate surrounding his four fulfillment quotations. In an age when biblical interpretation often defaults to the authority of the reader or leans heavily on presuppositional systems, Matthew ...
Terrell, Jeff
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Features Fusion for Classification of Logos [PDF]
In this paper, a logo classification system based on the appearance of logo images is proposed. The proposed classification system makes use of global characteristics of logo images for classification. Color, texture, and shape of a logo wholly describe the global characteristics of logo images.
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Developing a Biblical Theology Course at Rock Springs Christian Academy in Milner, Georgia [PDF]
High school students at Rock Springs Christian Academy were taught aChristocentric biblical theology, with the aims of increasing biblical literacy and best hermeneutical practices. Chapter 1 presents the purpose, goals, context, rationale, definitions,
Lenard, Caleb T.
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RESISTING ALTERNATIVE IMAGES: An Ethnography of Visual Disinformation in Brazil
ABSTRACT The battle against disinformation played a key role during the Brazilian presidential elections of 2022. Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro—and, to a much lesser extent, of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva—generated and disseminated deceptive and false “informative content” to influence public opinion.
MIHAI ANDREI LEAHA, ROGER CANALS
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Makeup216: Logo Recognition with Adversarial Attention Representations [PDF]
One of the challenges of logo recognition lies in the diversity of forms, such as symbols, texts or a combination of both; further, logos tend to be extremely concise in design while similar in appearance, suggesting the difficulty of learning discriminative representations. To investigate the variety and representation of logo, we introduced Makeup216,
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Study of the Pre-existence of Christ According to the Jehovah’s Witnesses [PDF]
One of the foundational teaching in the history of Christianity is the existence of Christ. Mostly Christians believed that Christ already exist prior His incarnation. Jesus was with the Father, and Holy Spirit.
Pane, Exson
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