A Time Of Troubles: In Search of the Divine Feminine

A Time Of Troubles: In Search of the Divine Feminine
Author: William Francis Jack
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 440
Release: 2006-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312089431

David Alexander, an American professor of Russian, is called to task about an offhand remark he made concerning Tsar Boris Godunov, an historical figure portrayed as a villain and prince-murderer in history, as well as in literature and opera. David's remark precipitates an academic dispute, and his teaching job is on the line. So is his historical research into Russia's Cult of Sophia, which is part of the religious ideal of The Divine Feminine. His research takes him back to the early 1600's, and he and a Soviet archivist colleague chance upon long-concealed letters written by three Orthodox monks. The hunt is on for the long-suppressed mystical papers to which these monks refer. William Jack has an MA and PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature, with a specialization in Russian literature, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Searching for Life Across Space and Time

Searching for Life Across Space and Time
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2017-10-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309463947

The search for life is one of the most active fields in space science and involves a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including planetary science, astronomy and astrophysics, chemistry, biology, chemistry, and geoscience. In December 2016, the Space Studies Board hosted a workshop to explore the possibility of habitable environments in the solar system and in exoplanets, techniques for detecting life, and the instrumentation used. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.

Foraging Theory Applied to Medical Information Searching

Foraging Theory Applied to Medical Information Searching
Author: Mai Dwairy
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2012-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1477128034

Workload and other constraints prevent General Practitioners from accessing medical evidence for clinical decisions. This problem was studied in New Zealand GPs using Optimal Foraging Theory developed in ecology. GPs' information search strategies were modelled as sequential steps associated with costs and benefits measured from logbooks of actual searches. By consulting the most profitable sources, switching sources when unsuccessful, and double checking, GPs seem close to an optimal trade-off between maximizing search success and information reliability, and minimizing searching time. Subsidised training in information searching and provision of a literature search service are two inferred avenues to access medical evidence.

Search Theory

Search Theory
Author: David V. Chudnovsky
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2023-05-09
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 100094395X

On the solution of an optimal search problem with an exponential detection function. Covers one- and two-sided detection problems by furnishing continuous and discret time strategies; examines two-sided search strategies with solutions in hide and seek games in many discrete and continuous bounded

Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul In the 21st Century

Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul In the 21st Century
Author: Murray Stein
Publisher: Chiron Publications
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2022-12-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1685031196

Do we, like Jung, need to leave the spirit of the time and follow the spirit of the depths, to call out "my soul, where are you?" through the windows of our now post-modern homes? We live in a digital world of incredible virtual inter-connectedness but at the same time fragmented and divided on many levels, including the psychological. The pace of life is rapid and ever accelerating. The spirit of the time is flux: It twitters. There is no sense of coherence in the whole. The guidance of a transcendent North Star is invisible to the naked eye of consciousness. Our existential crisis is not about the individual alone. It infects the entire human world, like the Covid-19 pandemic. Wars between cultural brothers and sisters, increasingly dire effects of climate change, economic disruptions, hunger, migration-these conditions affect everyone on the planet. Is there a spirit of the depths that can take us through this Inferno, perhaps toward the emergence of a meaningful narrative that can stabilize the global community and provide a collective sense of "supreme meaning?" This is the search for soul in the 21st Century.

Brain Informatics

Brain Informatics
Author: Ning Zhong
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2009-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642049540

This volume contains the papers selected for presentation at The 2009 Inter- tional Conference on Brain Informatics (BI 2009) held at Beijing University of Technology, China, on October 22–24, 2009. It was organized by the Web Int- ligence Consortium (WIC) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (IEEE TF-BI). The conference was held jointly with The 2009 International Conference on Active Media Technology (AMT 2009). Brain informatics (BI) has emergedas an interdisciplinaryresearch?eld that focuses on studying the mechanisms underlying the human information proce- ing system (HIPS). It investigates the essential functions of the brain, ranging from perception to thinking, and encompassing such areas as multi-perception, attention,memory,language,computation,heuristicsearch,reasoning,planning, decision-making, problem-solving, learning, discovery, and creativity. The goal of BI is to develop and demonstrate a systematic approach to achieving an integrated understanding of both macroscopic and microscopic level working principles of the brain, by means of experimental, computational, and cognitive neuroscience studies, as well as utilizing advanced Web Intelligence (WI) centric information technologies. BI represents a potentially revolutionary shift in the way that research is undertaken. It attempts to capture new forms of c- laborative and interdisciplinary work. Following this vision, new kinds of BI methods and global research communities will emerge, through infrastructure on the wisdom Web and knowledge grids that enables high speed and d- tributed, large-scale analysis and computations, and radically new ways of sh- ing data/knowledge.

Motion in Games

Motion in Games
Author: Jan Allbeck
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2011-11-08
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3642250904

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Edinburgh, UK, in November 2011. The 30 revised full papers presented together with 8 revised poster papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on character animation, motion synthesis, physically-based character motion, behavior animation, animation systems, crowd simulation, as well as path planning and navigation.

Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents

Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents
Author: Toru Ishida
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0585345074

Autonomous agents or multiagent systems are computational systems in which several computational agents interact or work together to perform some set of tasks. These systems may involve computational agents having common goals or distinct goals. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents focuses on extending real-time search algorithms for autonomous agents and for a multiagent world. Although real-time search provides an attractive framework for resource-bounded problem solving, the behavior of the problem solver is not rational enough for autonomous agents. The problem solver always keeps the record of its moves and the problem solver cannot utilize and improve previous experiments. Other problems are that although the algorithms interleave planning and execution, they cannot be directly applied to a multiagent world. The problem solver cannot adapt to the dynamically changing goals and the problem solver cannot cooperatively solve problems with other problem solvers. This book deals with all these issues. Real-Time Search for Learning Autonomous Agents serves as an excellent resource for researchers and engineers interested in both practical references and some theoretical basis for agent/multiagent systems. The book can also be used as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Marketing Through Search Optimization

Marketing Through Search Optimization
Author: Alex Michael
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750683473

The successful Marketing Manager's tried and tested guide to maximizing and exploiting search engine opportunities.

A Search for Fortune

A Search for Fortune
Author: Hamilton Lindsay-Bucknall
Publisher: London : Daldy, Isbister
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1878
Genre: Australia
ISBN: