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Protestantism and Evangelical churches in Colombia: popular religious practice and belief system

open access: yesmethaodos.revista de ciencias sociales, 2014
In this article we tackle the phenomenon of Protestantism in Colombia. In this, we seek to realize the belief system, seen as a relationship of who pretends to the authority, accompanied by an asymmetrical position opposite the believers and ...
Absalón Jiménez Becerra
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In Search of the English Sabbat: Popular Conceptions of Witches’ Meetings in Early Modern England

open access: yesJournal of Early Modern Studies, 2013
This article explores the evidence for belief in the witches’ sabbat in early modern England. England is generally thought of as a country where the concept of the sabbat did not exist, and it was certainly largely absent from elite thinking on ...
James Sharpe
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Classification of Message Spreading in a Heterogeneous Social Network [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Nowadays, social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn become increasingly popular. In fact, they introduced new habits, new ways of communication and they collect every day several information that have different sources.
A. Aregui   +9 more
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Inference in Belief Network using Logic Sampling and Likelihood Weighing algorithms

open access: yesAdvances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal, 2013
Over the time in computational history, belief networks have become an increasingly popular mechanism for dealing with uncertainty in systems. It is known that identifying the probability values of belief network nodes given a set of evidence is not ...
K. S. JASMINE   +3 more
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Prospects for a Postsecular Heritage Practice: Convergences between Posthumanism and Popular Religious Practice in Asia

open access: yesReligions, 2019
By failing to document popular belief in the supernatural attributes of religious sites and by drawing up conservation management plans that fail to attend to such beliefs, current heritage regimes effectively perform a secular translation of them.
Denis Byrne
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The Chronic Dependence of Popular Religiosity upon Dysfunctional Psychosociological Conditions

open access: yesEvolutionary Psychology, 2009
Better understanding the nature, origin and popularity of varying levels of popular religion versus secularism, and their impact upon socioeconomic conditions and vice versa, requires a cross national comparison of the competing factors in populations ...
Gregory Paul
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Young and older adults’ gender stereotype in multitasking

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
In the present study, we investigated discrepancies between two components of stereotyping by means of the popular notion that women are better at multitasking behaviors: the cognitive structure in individuals (personal belief) and the perceived ...
Tilo eStrobach, Alesia eWoszidlo
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From the Neutrino to the Edge of the Universe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Two recent findings necessitate a closer look at the existing standard models of Particle Physics and Cosmology. These are the discovery of Neutrino oscillation, and hence a non zero mass on the one hand and, on the other, observations of distant ...
B.G. Sidharth   +21 more
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Reflection on the Spread of Chinese Popular Religion: A Case-Study of the Han Yu Belief in the Chaozhou Region

open access: yesReligions
Han Yu 韓愈 was a prominent literatus in the Tang dynasty and an influential figure in the history of Chaozhou culture. From the Song dynasty, the Neo-Confucian teachings became popular, and Han Yu was revered as a significant pioneer; hence, his position ...
Guoping Li
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Equivalence between belief propagation instability and transition to replica symmetry breaking in perceptron learning systems

open access: yesPhysical Review Research, 2022
The binary perceptron is a fundamental model of supervised learning for nonconvex optimization, which is a root of the popular deep learning. The binary perceptron is able to achieve a classification of random high-dimensional data based on the marginal ...
Yang Zhao   +3 more
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