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Perfect matchings and perfect squares
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A, 1994 The author investigates (perfect) matchings of a large class of graphs with 4-fold rotational symmetry. It is proved by mostly combinatorial arguments that the number of such matchings is always a square or double a square. This result has an interesting application to tilings by dominoes.
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Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics
Ethos, EarlyView.Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
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Why does history matter to the science studies disciplines? : a case for giving the past back its future [PDF]
, 2011 Science and technology studies (STS) has perhaps provided the most ambitious set of challenges to the boundary separating history and philosophy of science since the 19th century idealists and positivists.
Fuller, Steve, Steve Fuller
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Individual and Social Perfection in Islamic Thought
Current Perspectives in Social SciencesThe notion of individual and social perfection varies according to civilization. Variability in this sense is to be regarded as a characteristic feature of every civilization.
Mizrap Polat
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New education and school work: horizon and polarities of an educational vision
Teoría de la Educación: Revista Interuniversitaria, 2018 In this article the authors revisit the main principles and key concepts of the New Education and point out the importance of developmental psychology and of the need to allow children to mature (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) as well as to promote their ...
Alberto FILIPE ARAÚJO +1 more
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Hyperspectral tomographic diffractive microscopy: Development and applications
Journal of Microscopy, EarlyView.Abstract Tomographic Diffractive Microscopy (TDM) provides label‐free three‐dimensional imaging of transparent samples with resolution surpassing confocal limits. At IRIMAS, successive instrumental developments since 2009 have enhanced TDM capabilities through transmission, reflection, isotropic, polarisation‐sensitive, and dual‐view configurations ...
Leonardo Pestana Legori +4 more
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Code and Creed: The Construction of AI‐Islamic Discourse in Singapore's Media Landscape
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how Singapore's mainstream media shapes public understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in Islamic contexts through analysis of newspaper coverage from 1989 to 2024. Drawing on computational analysis of over 620,000 articles from The Straits Times and The Business Times, we develop the concept of “double mediation” to ...
Reza Shaker
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La funzione sociale dell’opinione pubblica e il processo di civilizzazione in John Stuart Mill [PDF]
Storia e Politica, 2022 In the first part of my paper, I reconstruct the complex judgment on the process of civilization formulated by Mill starting from the essay Civilization.
Mauro Simonazzi
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Temporal validity as meta-science
Research & Politics, 2023 The “credibility revolution” has forced quantitative social scientists to confront the limits of our methods for creating general knowledge. As a result, many practitioners aim to generate valid but local knowledge and then synthesize and apply that ...
Kevin Munger
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International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Research on the relationship between computing and the meaning of human life flourishes proportionally to the increasing digitalization of our world. More and more, reflections on ethics and politics, spiritual values and religious experiences, beliefs,
Prof. Dr. Daniel Burgos +3 more
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